Friday, February 10, 2017
Finance ministry warns employees of action for criticizing govt policies
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry has warned employees of disciplinary action if they criticize the government or its policies.
The directive assumes significance as associations representing employees of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) are protesting against certain decisions taken by the GST Council led by finance minister Arun Jaitley on Goods and Services Tax.
Deployment of POS terminals in post offices for accepting card based transactions
From: Director (CBS)
Sent: 07 February 2017 17:33
To: All CPMG; CPMG Telangana Circle
Cc: pande.alok@nic.in; aptechnologycell.dop; GM CEPT
Subject : Deployment of POS terminals in post offices for accepting card based transactions
Respected Sir/Madam,
This is regarding deployment of POS terminals in post offices for accepting card based transactions. Please find attached the list of 100 identified post offices as pilot for deployment of POS terminals. SBI has already delivered POS machines in most of the locations. CEPT Mysore has released the desktop application for cashless transactions and also has released the updates for Meghdoot point of sale and treasury module (copy attached). An option for performing a transaction through a valid Credit/Debit card payment has been provided in the Meghdoot Point of Sale software. Another application developed by CEPT, Hyderabad will be running in the same Desktop where Meghdoot Point of Sale is installed. This application has been integrated with SBI Server and also with the Card Swiping machine (PoS terminal). Please issue instructions to all 100 Pilot locations for installing the applications/updates developed by CEPT and keep it ready. The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Accounting Procedure for POS machine transactions are attached with this mail. Date of commencement of card based (POS machine) transactions will be informed shortly.
With regards,
Sachin Kishore
Director (CBS)
Sansad Marg,
Dak Bhavan
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
MERCHANT ACQUIRING BUSINESS INSTALLATION OF POS MACHINES AT POST OFFICES FOR PROVISION OF CASHLESS TRANSACTIONS
Preamble:
Postal department revenue deficit widened to Rs 8,670 crore till December
Revenue deficit of the Department of Post (DoP) widened to Rs 8,670 crore in the April-December period of this fiscal, but various initiatives - including passport facility and other government services through post - are expected to rake in more revenue.
The DoP had registered a revenue deficit of Rs 6,007 crore in the fiscal year 2015-16, as per data shared by Communications Minister Manoj Sinha.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Higher Allowances for central staff likely from 1st April
7th Pay Commission: Govt not to hike minimum pay, higher allowances to be paid from April 1.
No Arrears likely.
In a setback to central government employees, Centre has decided not to hike minimum pay under the 7th Pay Commission recommendations. Higher allowances and minimum pay under the 7th Pay Commission have been the major bone of contention among majority of the central government employees. The government seems in no mood to increase minimum pay of Rs 18,000 under the 7th Pay Commission. Though the government is expected to announce higher allowances in March, it had no plan to give allowances in arrears from August.
Head post offices to render passport services
TNN | Updated: Feb 2, 2017 : To increase citizens' access to passport services, particularly in remote regions, finance minister Arun Jaitley announced that head post offices of each district would be used to render passport services.
"Our citizens in far flung regions of the country find it difficult to obtain passports and redress passport related grievances. We have decided to utilise head post offices as front offices for rendering passport services," he said.
Monday, February 6, 2017
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