Here’s what you should know about the Sukanya Samridhhi Yojana

SSY is a government-run saving scheme for the girl child. It seeks to provide them with financial security. Roopal's daughter is eligible for an SSY account. The account must be opened before the child turns 10, with a minimum investment of Rs 1,000. Thereafter, she must invest a minimum of Rs 1,000 and a maximum of Rs 1.5 lakh (deduction available u/s 80C) annually. The money in the account can be fully withdrawn only after the girl turns 21. If the money is not withdrawn even after the girl turns 21, it will continue to earn interest.

Roopal seems to like PPF for three things—EEE tax benefit, long-term investment horizon and assured returns (notified by the Government of India), benchmarked to the prevailing market rates. All these benefits remain the same if she were to invest in SSY. However, this is where the similarities end. It is imperative that she is aware of the differences too before she makes a choice. While Roopal will be able to partially withdraw her PPF corpus from the seventh year, such partial withdrawals from SSY will be possible only after her daughter turns 18. Moreover, if she were to open the SSY account now, she would end up with an investment horizon that differs based on the age of the child, while the PPF would allow her to invest for 15 years, further extendable in blocks of 5 years. Having said that, there is a slight interest rate differential in favour of the SSY.

Union government to change 'clerical designations' for its workforce

Designations like Lower Division Clerk and Upper Division Clerk in central government's employee hierarchy may soon become a thing of the past as the Centre has proposed to change their nomenclature.  

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) is considering changing nomenclature of a few posts of Central Secretariat Clerical Service (CSCS) and Central Secretariat Service(CSS), which forms the backbone of administrative work in the central government. 

It is proposed to rename the post of Assistant in CSS as Assistant Section Officer, Similarly, the posts of Upper Division Clerk (UDC) and Lower Division Clerk (LDC) under CSCS have been proposed to be re-christened as Senior Secretariat Assistance and Junior Secretariat Assistance, respectively, as per the DoPT proposal. 

All concerned have been asked to send in their inputs or suggestions on the proposal by September 18, it said. 

The total sanctioned strength of CSS and CSCS is 11,467 and 5,933 respectively. 

Earlier in March, it had decided to replace the 'class' categorisation for specifying the seniority of its employees with new alphabetical groupings. 

The posts under the central government will be denoted as groups A, B, C and D instead of classes I, II, III and IV in the service rules, it had said. 

The Class-I classification is for gazetted officers while Class-II refers to mainly the non-gazetted officers, though there are some gazetted officers in this category too. 

Class-III comprises clerical staff and Class-IV (which is now subsumed in Class III or Group C) includes peons and helps or multi-tasking staff in the government hierarchy. 

The Class-III (Group C) employees have often expressed concern that they are taunted as 'third-class' employees due to the categorisation.

Source:-The Economic Times

One Day General Strike on 2nd September 2015 - Participation of GDS Union

All India Grameena Dak Sevaks Union led by S.S. Mahadavaiah, GS will participate in the oneday General strike on 02.09.2015. Strike notice to that effect has been  served on  Director General, Dept of Posts on 12.08.2015. 

Compliance of Court Orders

The wilful disobedience of any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to a court constitute a contempt of court under the provisions of the contempt of Courts Act, 1971. Further, under Article 215 of the constitution of India, every High Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court including the power to punish for contempt of itself. The statutory provisions are binding on everybody including Central Government, State Governments and all local or other authorities within the territory of India and they are duty bound to obey the court judgment/orders. The Central Government does not maintain any data in this regard. 

This information was given by Union Minister of Ministry of Law & Justice, Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

Source : PIB Release, 13.08.2015

DELIVERY OF HEAVY PARCELS - INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE DEPT.

Government to incur additional expenses due to 7th Pay Commission

Government to incur additional expenses due to 7th Pay Commission : Pay and Allowances of Central Government employees will increase one lakh crore in the current financial year and also projected to increase further due to recommendations of 7th Pay Commission.

“Salary is a big question for even profit-minded private concerns. It is therefore not surprising that the employees of service-oriented Central Government departments are so obsessed about their pays and allowances. For a few central and state government organizations that rake in huge profits, salaries and allowances to their employees is no big issue.”

AIAPC wishes a happy & delightful 69th Independence Day!!!

Today we want to pay tribute to all those freedom fighters without whom it would be impossible to celebrate this delightful day!

Today we also want to pay tribute to those selfless nationalists who offered their lives ever readily to attain freedom for our motherland. We also want to remember and learn from those mothers, those wives, those children who bore through the painful sacrifice of their son, their Suhag (husband), their father to the Mother India just to build a free India for the next generation. If they would have thought about their selfish benefits in return we wouldn't be celebrating this day.

Likewise our AIAPC has gone through many rough days. Only those people remained with AIAPC who never expected anything in return, who didn’t care about the consequences they might have to face. They left their family occasion; they only marched ahead with the flag of truth. They carried the flame of courage and motivated other members and tied them in one garland of hope.

We all know, no one can stand alone and make a mass movement, for this we need the Bond of Unity and we are very Lucky that we have many fighters from every nook and corner of our country who are struggling for this great noble cause day and night.

AIAPC is struggling for recognition, justice.... AIAPC is very near its goal. For any cause; at any cost; we hope that we remain united for ever in future as well.

 

Jai hind, Jai Bharat Mata!

Happy AIAPC recognition in advance!!!
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Finance Ministry again rejected case of GDS inclusion in 7CPC.

It is learnt that Finance Ministry has again rejected case of GDS inclusion in 7CPC. It also learnt that DOP is taking action to form a Bureaucratic Committee under Chairmanship of any retired member of Postal Services Board to study the issue. 

Source :http://postalinspectors.blogspot.in/

MEMBERSHIP VERIFICATION PROCESS- 2015 AND THE HON'BLE JODHPUR COURT INTERIM ORDERS

      To add the All India Association of Postmaster Cadre (AIAPC) for the membership verification process-2015, Writ petition was filed at Jodhpur court and petition numbered 6895/2015.

     Hon'ble Court passed the interim order now dated 06.08.2015, to not to complete the membership verification process-2015 belongs to postmaster cadre, until final outcome of the court orders and the department is now allowed to file a written reply within 3 weeks i.e., within 27.08.2015.    

    Hon'ble court order is produced below.......

PAYMENT OF WEEKLY-OFF TO GDS WHO WORKED IN MTS/POSTMEN POSTS