Thursday, January 14, 2016
REQUEST BY POSTMASTERCADRE WEBSITE TO GIVE DUE CARE FOR COD ARTICLES
Dear Postmaster Cadre friends,
COD revenues are growing in our department day by day and Our entire good future is lying on e-Commerce. But in some offices delay is noticed by the shopping zone company and email request was given to our hon'ble communication minister to dispose the COD parcels with due care as per the norms of our department. The same has been submitted below for your kind information Postmaster cadre association is requesting necessary action in this regard please.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
Honourable Union Minister
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
Government of India
NEW DELHI
Respected Sir,
Sub: India Post - TN & AP Circles -Business Parcel-COD - undue delay in remittances
We request reference to our earlier letter dated 21st November 2015 addressed to your goodself.
We once again introduce ourselves as Shopping Zone India TV Pvt. Ltd., a home shopping TV channel company based in Chennai,catering to around 3 crore households in the four southern states. We are one of the first customers of India Post in South India, using the premium product of India Post viz., BP-COD. In Tamilnadu Circle our bookings are through Mylapore BPC, Chennai & RS Puram BPC, Coimbatore & in A.P. Circle through Krishna Lanka BPC, Vijayawada.
Currently, we dispatch about 1500 parcels everyday on BP-COD basis through India Post, to buyers in the four southern states. Theaverage daily COD value of parcels dispatched through India Post is about Rs. 30 lakhs per day or nearly Rs. 110 crores per year. For the year 2014-15, we shipped a total of over 4 lakh articles through IP BP-COD. Our total payment to India Post for its services in 2014-15 is about Rs. 7 Crores towards shipment charges and COD commission.
Further to our previous letter referred above, we regret to inform that we continue to face undue delay in receiving our COD proceeds for our bookings in Tamilnadu and A.P. Circles. This is seriously hurting our operations. We once again crave the urgent intervention of your goodself to resolve this issue. As on date, the total value of COD overdues for the parcels dispatched till 30th November '15 is Rs. 1.79 Crores. The break-up booking office-wise is as under: -
For shipments made during -
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Chennai Mylapore BPC
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Coimbatore
RS Puram BPC
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Vijayawada
Krishna Lanka BPC
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Total (Rs. Lakhs)
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Dec 13 to Dec '14
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26.48
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14.10
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18.16
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58.74
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Jan' 15 to Nov '15
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5.97
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66.90
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47.36
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120.23
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Overdues-till Nov'15
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32.45
|
81.00
|
65.52
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178.97
|
As may be noted from above, the COD amounts pending from December 2013 up to December 2014 alone is Rs. 0.59 Crores. The amounts due for shipments from Jan '15 to November '15, which also ought to have been cleared by date, is Rs. 1.20 Crores. The aggregate amount pending up to November '15 is hence Rs. 1.79 crores.Since maximum returns invariably occur within 1 month, this is equivalent to the amount pending remittance by India Post or in other words COD overdues.
As mentioned in our previous letter, we have been making repeated complaints to all the concerned authorities. However we regret to inform that the situation is not much different today, even after our previous communication to your goodself. Our grievances remain unresolved.
The overdues are still nearly Rs. 2 crores. Further there continues to be an addition of about Rs. 20 lakhs every month, to unresolved pending deliveries or COD overdues. Monthwise and destination circle-wise details are attached.
We once again submit the following for your kind consideration: -
1. Our parcels are normally delivered by India Post within a week from date of shipment. This means that our COD proceeds should be remitted to us at least within 15 days of shipment (where the customer has taken delivery) or in the case of returns, we should get back the items within 15 days. But this has never been the case. We still have outstanding dating back to December 2013.
2. We are told that these delays are mainly due to technical issues arising out of change in system from December 2013. However your goodself will appreciate that this should not result in affecting our entire business operation and should also not remain unsolved now for nearly 2 years.
3. The overdues of nearly Rs. 2 crores is crippling our business. The delay in receiving the COD proceeds has forced us to delay/stop payments to vendors and services. This has starting affecting our business including stoppage of goods from vendors.
The overdues are huge and we find the progress from the respective circles very slow. In order to continue the business and to overcome the cash crunch created due to non receipt of COD amounts, we request your goodself to personally intervene and issue appropriate instructions for remittance of the above COD overdues to us by the respective Circles on an urgent basis. The concerned CPMG/PMG of the booking circles/region may kindly be instructed to remit the pending COD proceeds to us and then subsequently reconcile internally the same with the destination post offices.
As earlier submitted, one year ago, we were despatching about 2000 articles in a day and our entire dispatch was through India Post. Currently, in spite of our total business increasing to nearly 5,000 articles per day, we have been forced to reduce dispatch through India Post to only about 1/3rd or about 1,500 articles. In other words we have been forced to make our own delivery arrangements for 2/3rd of our total business.
Your goodself may kindly note that we were one of the first in this sector to utilise the services of India Post for delivery of parcels to customers three years ago. Now, at a time when your Honorable Ministry has stepped up its initiative for India Post to partner with the E-commerce & Teleshopping industry for customer deliveries, we are saddened to look for other delivery alternatives.
We respectfully submit our above representation in the earnest hope that your goodself will look in to the matter and issue appropriate instructions for urgently resolving the pending COD remittance issue detailed above.
Thanking you
Yours faithfully
B.D. Ramesh Babu
Managing Director
Shopping Zone India TV Private Limited
Srinivasa Nagar, Kottivakkam (off OMR)
Chennai 600 096
Landline : +91 44 4360 7300
H/P : +91 98400 25211
Email : rameshbabu@shoppingzoneindia.
RAISING OF BONUS PAYMENT CEILING TO THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
Raising of Bonus Payment Ceiling to the Central Government Employees: National Council (Staff Side) (JCM) addressed to the Secretary Department of Expenditure, Government of India.
Ph.: 23382286
National Council (Staff Side)
Joint Consultative Machinery
For Central Government Employees
13-C, Ferozshah Road New Delhi – 110001
E Mail : nc.jcm.np@gmail.com
Shiva Gopal Mishra
Secretary
No. NC-JCM-2015/S.C
January 11,2015
The Secretary
Government of India
Department of Expenditure
North Block, New Delhi- 110 001
Subject: – Raising of Bonus Payment Ceiling to the Central Government Employees. Reference: – The payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill 2015.
Sir,
The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill 2015 was passed by both the houses of the Parliament. The amendment provides that the existing Ceiling limit of Bonus for 30 days Rs. 3,500/- is enhanced to Rs. 7,000/- for 30 days. This amendment will take effect from 01.04.2014 (A copy of the Bill passed in the Parliament is enclosed for your kind ready reference).
You are aware that any change in Bonus Act would be an indicator while deciding the Payment of Bonus to the Central Government Employees. Accordingly, every time when Bonus Act is amended raising the payment ceiling limit, it is extended to Central Government Employees also. This issue was also raised by the Staff Side in the Standing Committee Meeting of National Council (JCM) held on 09th October, 2015.
INDIA POST HAS DIVERSIFIED ONLINE BUT FACES OBSTACLES IN GETTING YOUTH TO OPT FOR SERVICES
Before the month ends, the Postal Department will have taken another step towards digitalisation of its services by introducing internet banking. But, it still has a long way to go before ensuring the digital generation is drawn to its services.
It has already taken several other measures, which are expected to be attractive to youngsters. Of the 2,340 post offices in the Chennai city region, 521 have been networked with core banking solutions so far. This would help customers operate their accounts or carry out transactions from any networked post office.
POSTAL DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS SUSPENDED FOR NOT DELIVERING SHRI.RAMVILAS PASWAN'S NEW YEAR CARDS
Three postal department officials, including the postmaster of the main post office of Hajipur have been suspended for non-delivery of New Year greeting cards send by Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan to the people of his Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency.
Acting on the complaint of LJP workers and others that greeting cards send by the Minister was found abandoned on the third floor of the district bar council building, Superintendent of Post Umesh Chand Prasad ordered suspension of the three officials.
Instructions regarding time limit for holding examinations / interviews from the date of advertisement for the post under direct recruitment - reg.
The entire recruitment process including and starting from advertisement, conducting written examination or holding of interview may be completed within six month - Instructions regarding time limit for holding examinations / interviews from the date of advertisement for the post under direct recruitment
F. No. Misc-14017/15/2015-Estt. (RR)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
North Block, New Delhi
Dated: 11.1.2016
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Instructions regarding time limit for holding examinations / interviews from the date of advertisement for the post under direct recruitment — reg.
The undersigned is directed to refer to the subject and to say that it has come to notice of this Department that there are instances of a long time lag between the date of advertisement for the vacancy and date of examination or interview. This delay may deny the opportunity to fresh candidates who become eligible during that period, while creating an atmosphere of uncertainty to candidates who have applied.
Monday, January 11, 2016
7th CPC and arrears to be paid by April 2016 or June 2016 !!!
New Delhi: After long wait, the new pay commission report has been submitted to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on November 19, which has increased new hopes among the central government employees that their pay will soon rise.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, Seventh Pay Commission award bill Rs 1,02,000 crore can be afforded.
A commendable initiative , the new Seventh Pay Commission award is timely and necessary for the 48 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners including dependents.
Government jobs in India have been less rewarding in terms of pay and perks. Apart from a sense of job security and perceived power, most of the employees have to struggle to make ends meet with the cost of living going up every year.
The central government is facing a shortage of around 7.3 lakh staff, the motive behind this move is to achieve a reduction of 10 percent in staff strength in five years, according to report of the Seventh Central Pay Commission.
So, Central government employees need to do more works so as to fill up the shortage of staff with their works, accordingly, they deserve a good pay raise.
However, since the submission of the the Seventh Pay Commission report, discussions hovered around its impact on a number of areas including inflation, budgetary allocation, efficiency of public services.
Economists have explained adequately why there will be no inflationary pressure on the economy due to injection of pay hike amount in next next budget and the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, Seventh Pay Commission award bill Rs 1,02,000 crore can be afforded.
The World Bank report also forecasts India will continue to be the bright spot of the global economy and is projected to grow at a robust 7.8% in fiscal 2016-17, more than a percentage point higher than China, despite pressure on the budget from a salary hike for central government employees and payment of One Rank One Pension. (OROP) .
Centre brings web tools to promote use of Hindi among employees
Central government has introduced web tools like audio-typing aid on computers and is working on making available Hindi classic literature digitally to promote use of the language among its employees, a top official today said.
“We have introduced e-tools to make learning and adaption of Hindi easier among central government employees. For their self-learning, we have also brought in audio-typing aid for their ease,” Secretary, Department of Official Language (Rajbhasha) Girish Shankar said.
The senior bureaucrat said this on the sidelines of a function to mark the 11th ‘World Hindi Day’ in the national capital.
Saturday, January 9, 2016
All over India Filled up posts in Postmaster Grade !!! Tamilnadu stands top !!!!!
AIAPC - TAMILNADU CONVEYS ITS SINCERE THANKS TO THE CIRCLE LEVEL ADMINISTRATION FOR THE PROMPT FILLING UP THE POSTS.
Circle Name
|
Grade I
|
Grade II
|
Grade III
|
Total
|
Andhrapradesh
|
131
|
29
|
0
|
160
|
Bihar
|
58
|
7
|
2
|
67
|
Chattisgarh
|
20
|
1
|
3
|
24
|
Gujarat
|
47
|
3
|
6
|
56
|
Haryana
|
36
|
3
|
0
|
39
|
Himachal Pradesh
|
28
|
7
|
5
|
40
|
Jammu & Kashmir
|
11
|
4
|
0
|
15
|
Karnataka
|
130
|
26
|
25
|
181
|
Kerala
|
102
|
8
|
14
|
124
|
Maharastra
|
197
|
10
|
10
|
223
|
Madhyapradesh
|
61
|
5
|
4
|
70
|
North East
|
7
|
0
|
1
|
8
|
Punjab
|
58
|
1
|
3
|
62
|
Rajasthan
|
50
|
2
|
8
|
60
|
Tamilnadu
|
223
|
41
|
10
|
274
|
Uttar Pradesh
|
165
|
32
|
1
|
198
|
West Bengal
|
84
|
37
|
0
|
121
|
Total
|
1408
|
222
|
92
|
1722
|
BONUS ACT 2015
The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015 was passed by the Parliament in the just concluded Winter Session of the Parliament. The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015 has been published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary on 1st January, 2016 as Act No. 6 of 2016. The provisions of the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2014.
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