Employee Quits - Expenses incurred for the Training to be Repaid

The Centre has made it mandatory for bureaucrats to execute a bond to pay back all expenses incurred by the government before taking up an advanced training programme, in case they leave the course or service mid-way.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has written to all states and Union Territories about inclusion of the new clause related to the bond for recommending officers to attend Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA).

“The officer selected for the APPPA programme will be required to execute a Bond prior to his/her joining the programme and submit the same to his/her Cadre Controlling Authority that he/she will serve the Government for a period of five years, or to repay the total expenses incurred on the training in the event of his/her resignation, voluntary retirement or quitting programme without completing,” Joint Secretary (Training), DoPT, Upma Srivastava said.

She said that the government’s directive will come into effect from 38th APPPA programme scheduled to begin in July.

The programme is aimed at imparting specialised training in courses related to disaster management, public expenditure management, economics of regulation, management systems and rural development among others. The estimated cost of the course, which includes a short term foreign study visit, is about Rs 3.38 lakh.

According to a DoPT official, the move was taken after noting instances of officers leaving the training programme or courses for better options.

No . 12013 / 04/20 11-Trg(TNP-38, h APPPA)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel . Public Grievances and Pensions

Department of Personnel and Training

(Training Di v is ion)

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Block-IV,3rd Floor. Old JNU Campus,

New Delhi-II 0067

Dated 21″ February, 201 2

Subject: 38′h Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA)-2nd July 2012 to 31 st March 2013- inclusion of Bond condition reg.

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In continuation of this Department’s Circular of even number dated 17th November 2011 on the above subject. It has now been decided with the approval of competent authority to include the following clause under terms and conditions of APPPA programme:

“THAT, in the event of APPPA participant failing to resume duty, or resigning or voluntarily retiring from service or otherwise quitting service, withouj returning to duty after expiry or termination of the period of training, OR failing to complete the training programme, OR quitting the service at any time within a period of FWE (5) years after the return to duty, he shall forthwith pay to the Government or as may be directed by the Government, on demand the said sum together with interest thereon from the date of demand at Government rates for the time being in force on Government loans. “

2. The officer selected for the APPPA programme will be required to execute a ‘ Bond’ (copy enclosed) prior to hislher joining the programme and submit the same to hislher Cadre Controlling Authority that he/she will serve the Government for a period of five years, or to repay the total expenses incurred on the training in the event of his/her resignation, voluntary retirement or quitting programme without completing. This will take effect from 38th APPPA programme.

(Upma Srivastava)

Joint Secretary to the Government of India

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LATEST NEWS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS

Revised Recruitment Rules for HSG I: UPSC has approved revised recruitment rules for HSG I, after several rounds of discussions with our officers. The Department of Posts has fulfilled the requirements of the UPSC . Now, the file may go to Law Ministry, after that our Department will issue gazette notification notifying the revised recruitment rules for HSG I . According to our information it may take 3 months time.

Adhoc arrangements for HSG I: Department approached DOPT for approval of adhoc arrangements for HSG I . Approval is expected with in a week, formal orders will be issued within fortnight.

IPO EXAMINATION RESULTS: Some of the candidates have moved CAT and hence the results of the IPO Exam 2011 are delayed.

Cadre Restructuring committee for MMS: First meeting will be held in Hyderabad on 12th March 2012 to 13th March 2012, under the chairperson of Smt . Sandhya Rani, PMG (BD) Hyderabad . Staff side has prepared for proposals for cadre Restructuring and the same will be submitted during the meeting.

source :fnpo blog

DA from Jan 2012 – Cabinet will decide in the next meeting on 15.03.2012

Dearness Allowance for Central Government Employees and Pensioners...

     Rate of additional Dearness Allowance from January 2012, Cabinet Ministry will decide in the next meeting which will be held on 15th March 2012...

     DA from Jan 2012 – Cabinet will decide in the next meeting…

DA from Jan 2012 – Cabinet will decide in the next meeting wich is held on 15.03.2012 …

The additional Dearness allowance which is announced every six months by the Central Government to the Central Government employees and the Pensioners is based depending upon the price hike of essential commodities all over the nation.

     The statistics of All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (AICPIN-IW) is increased on account of the proportionate rise in twele-month as of December 2011,  regarding the additional DA to be announced from 1.1.2012, which is based on the price rise from July 2011 to Dec 2011 in about 70 selected areas throughout India. These calculation are done by the Labour Ministry and it was sent to the Finance Ministry and discussed in the meeting of the Cabinet Ministers. The decision is expected to be finalised in the next meeting.

     DA from 1.1.2012 may increase 7% form the existing rate is expected. Now all the Central Government employees and pensioners are getting 58% from their basic pay (Pan in the pay band + Grade Pay), it will become as 65% from 1.1.2012. The minimum of the enhanced amount of DA will be Rs.500 to the existing employees.

     After the final decision is taken from the Cabinet Committee, order will be issued by the Finance Ministry in the end of this month and the DA for the month of March will be included in the salary and the previous two month’s DA will be paid as arrears in the month of April 2012.

Source: CGEN.in

[http://centralgovernmentemployeesnews.in/2012/03/da-from-jan-2012-cabinet-will-decide-in-the-next-meeting/]

Stylish car with 100 KMPL from TATA

Tata coming up with their new car Tata Megapixel that will be giving a mileage of 100KM per liter. After developing world’s cheapest car Nano (at one lack rupees only), TATA Motors have unveiled a car which will run 100 kilometer in 1 leters of Fuel. This car has been given the name TATA Megapixel after its earlier version Tata Pixels. Approximately it will take 3 years to comeinto the market.

Mr. Ratan Tata has surprised everyone by presenting Tata Nano and again four seater Tata Megapixel. This is basically designed for cities to overcome traffic and save fuel , hence save money. Not only this car provides a best average ,but also it is best in comfort . Ratan Tata said that it takes at least three years to create such a unique model he had to create electricals appliances also for comfort.According to company it has lithium ion phosphate battery and one petrol engine generator also which gets recharged fast . After making its single fuel tank full, it will approximately go about 900 km. Battery based car (Tata Megapixel) it will run upto 100km/h.

Megapixel is friendly for your pocket as well the environment as the CO2 emission for Megapixel is only 22 gram per KM. Also as per company officials, Tata Megapixel offers a range of up to 900 km (with a single tank of fuel) and a pocket friendly fuel economy of 100 km/litre (under battery only power). The turning radius is only 2.8 meter to make the parking easier.

Last year Tata Motors presented Tata Megapixels at Geneva, Especially for busy Roads in cities in Europe but this car has to be launched yet. Tata Motorschief officer Prakash M Telang said that Tata Megapixel is designed by the team of Engineers & designers of India, Britan & Italy. It will help people who are living in cities. Hope you will like this better version after tata nano.

One day pay cut for absence on strike day

The state government has decided to cut a day’s salary of employees who skipped work on the day of the Citu-sponsored general strike on February 28, but spared them the break-in-service clause it had threatened to invoke.

Today’s order, issued by the finance department, came as a relief to many employees who were absent that day. As a last-ditch attempt to foil the strike, Mamata Banerjee had threatened on strike-eve to crack the break-in-service whip on those employees who would ignore the chief secretary’s circular and be absent on February 28.

The dies non clause that the government invoked today is derived from the no-work-no-pay principle. It is a much lighter clause in comparison with break in service, which could have affected pension calculations significantly as government employees need to put in 20 years of uninterrupted service to be eligible for full pension.

A break in service would have had much larger implications on promotions and increment calculations.

“A day’s docking of salary is a much lighter provision than break in service, which would have meant a fresh start of career. I would have lost the seniority I had earned by putting in 12 years of service,” a government employee who took part in the strike said.

The government, however, will first issue a show-cause notice to the employees who stayed away from office on strike day. Action will be taken against those whose answers are not found satisfactory. The order gave a list of reasons that the absent employees can cite, with documentary evidences.

Although senior office bearers of the Left-backed Co-ordination Committee — an umbrella organisation of 33 government employees’ associations — claimed victory, saying that the administration did not dare invoke the break-in-service clause because of their “tough stand”, a senior official said Mamata did the “right thing”.

“Her main objective was to ensure high attendance at government offices on February 28. She achieved that. As attendance in government offices was over 85 per cent on that day, there was no need for her to invoke the break-in-service clause, which would have provoked court cases,” he said.

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa had faced such a situation after sacking 1.7 lakh government employees for striking work on July 2, 2003. In August 2003, 1.64 lakh of them had to reinstated after the Supreme Court intervened. The 6,000 employees who were not reinstated had allegedly indulged in violence.

Sources in the government said Mamata “tried to gauge the mood of the employees and checked legal provisions before taking a final decision” on the action.

“The government did not initiate the break-in-service clause as it could have been challenged in court. But the government can deduct a day’s salary and a day’s seniority if an employee remains absent for a day without valid reasons,” the official said.

Co-ordination Committee leaders said the panel was “discussing our next course of action”.

Source: The Telegraph 

[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120308/jsp/bengal/story_15227072.jsp]

Announcement of result of IP Examination-2011

Today, I contacted the concerned officers in the Postal Directorate. It came to notice that some Circles had allowed P.M.Grade-I officials to take the IP Examination. Hence, the file has been sent to the DDG (P) for clarification. Result will be announced only after clarification by the SPN Division of the Department.

(Vilas Ingale)
General Secretary


 courtesy All India Association of IPs/ASPs at 5:02 PM

CAT CASE DRAFT FOR REVERSION FROM POSTMASTER GRADE-I

Click here to read the CAT case draft copy

Supplementary dates configuration in subaccounts Module

During March While doing day begin in Sub accounts module a message appears. Most of the SPMs and Supervisor firstly just ignore the message. The message is about configuring the Last working day of the March and First working day of April. If you ignore the message while day begin of next day this message also reappears.

Solutions:

Log in as ---Supervisor -->

Go to configuration -->

Select Supplementary Dates -->

Current Year  2012

Last working day of March   31-03-2012

First Working day of April    02-04-2012

Save

This will solve the error

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Postal Abbreviations

APO Army Post Office
APPU Asian Pacific Postal Union
AMPC Automatic Mail Processing Centre
CBPO Centrally Based Post office
CPMG  Chief Postmaster General
CO Circle Office
CSD Circle Stamps Depot
CRC Computerized Registration Centre
ECS Electronic Clearance Service
EFT Electronic Fund Transfer
eMO electronic Money Order
ePOST electronic Post
ESMO Electronic Satellite Money Order
eVPP electronic Value Payable Parcel
EMS Express Mail Service
EPP Express Parcel Post
FPO Field Post Office
GPO General Post Office
HPO Head Post Office
ISP India Security Press (Nasik)
IVP Indira Vikas Patra
ILC Inland Letter Card
IMO Instant Money Order
IFSMO International Financial System Money Order
IMT International Money Transfer
KVP Kisan Vikas Patra
MSY Mahila Samridhi Yojana
MO Money Order
MDG Mukhya Dak Ghar
NSC National Savings Certificate
PRSS Pay Roll Savings Scheme
PIN Postal Index Number
PLI Postal Life Insurance
PTC Postal Training Centre
PMG Postmaster General
PCO Public Call Office
PPF Public Provident Fund
RMS Railway Mail Service
RO Regional Office
RL Registered Letter
RLO Returned Letter Office
RPLI Rural Postal Life Insurance
SBCO Savings Bank Control Organisation
SRO Sub Record Office/ Sub Record Officer
TMO Telegraphic Money Order
UPU Universal Postal Union
VPL Value Payable Letter
VPP Value Payable Parcel
V-SAT Very-Small Aperture Terminal

Release of Revised MNOP Script 05.03.2012

     It is decided to keep both POS and SpeedNet MNOP Updation Script at a single point download. This script has to be used at all the offices using POS and SpeedNet.

     Based on the latest Sorting Extract / Orders received from the Directorate and IC Hub Data received from Circles, the Revised MNOP Script is released and the details of the releases are as follows.

     This script will contain the entire Hub Master data as per the requirement /modifications - including all the previous revisions. This document shows only the latest revisions. 

Steps to Update:

• Download the MNOP script file from ftp://ftp.ptcinfo.org/MNOP_Hubs_UpdationScripts_POS_SpeedNet/

• Take Full Backup of POSPCC DB

• Execute the EXL file through ScriptTool.exe.

• Login to Speednet and check View-> Hub Details option to check the Pin Range Mapping for the Office/Hub

• Login to Operator and and check the Close Bag option to get all Offices as per mapping for the Office / Hub

If any Office is NOT found in the list of Offices for Close Bag option then do the following:

• Login to SPC Site

• Go to Linked Offices -> Modify Office Name Option -> Type the Pin Code of the Office and Fetch

• If the Office is not existing there then provide a New Office Add request with the format available at - ftp://ftp.ptcinfo.org/SpeedNet/  to support@ceptmysore.net 

• If the Office is existing then check whether the Office is a delivery office.

• If it is NOT a delivery office send the office details in the format in ftp://ftp.ptcinfo.org/SpeedNet/ with a request for change of status to delivery to  support@ceptmysore.net 

• If the office is a delivery office, then take the screen print of the details of the office and send the same to support@ceptmysore.net for further checking. 

Note: 

     SpeedNet: Script is compulsorily to be updated in concerned Hub or IC Hub as well as in all offices using SpeedNet whose Pin Code is covered under  Pin Range Modification /  Hub – Addition/Deletion. 

     At other SpeedNet offices the script may be executed so that the Hub Details option in the SpeedNet Module, will show the latest MNOP Pin Range for all hubs.

POS: All offices Booking Speed Post Articles should update the script. 

New Set of Model Questions for Various Departmental Examinations

1-----------  means anything transmittable by Post, whether Letter,  Paper, Parcel, or Package Article

2.  Forward Postage is  not   chargeable  on a.  mis-sent article. The above said statement is True

3.   A  Packet  of   Newspapers consists of  ----  or  more  Newspaper   enclosed in one cover. Two

4 . what is meant by  office of posting ? Office which any article is first received from the sender

5  The privileges and powers of the Government in respect of Postal and cognate matters are dealt with in the------------------------------  Indian Post Office Act

6   in which ministry directs the postal department? Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

7     --------------- and -----------------  are permanent invitee to the Postal board The joint Secretary and Financial Advisor to the Department

8    In which  postal  circle    is headed by  Major General called Additional Director  General   Base Circle  (for army postal service )

9   In which ratio is adopted  for selection of  army postal service  Seventy five  percent  of staff is coming from  civil post office as deputation and remaining twenty five staff are selected  through the direct recruit

10 The Materials Management is  handled by   ------------   member of postal board Member (D)

11   The Headquarters of the Postal Services Board, the Director-General and other officers of the Director General are at  Mumbai The above said statement is  False

12  . Any representation which is not an appeal should be designated as ---------------     a petition

13   Any petition or copy thereof which is sent direct to the Director General or to any subordinate authority, instead of through the proper channel, will be filed, no notice of any kind being taken of it. The above said statement is True

14 Petitions, representations and applications addressed to the Director General by persons who have left the Department, or whose services have been dispensed with or who have been dismissed or removed from service. Then  what  is the ruling related with  submission  of petitions, representations and applications ? All such communications must be submitted through the Head of the Circle or the Administrative Office under whom the persons were last employed.

15   For other Subordinate Courts,--------- appointed by the State Govt. have been notified to appear on behalf of the Union of India and its officers under the Civil Procedure Courts. The Govt. Pleaders

16  All ---------------- in the Posts Department who are fully conversant with the facts of the particular cases are the authorised persons by whom Plaints and Written Statements in Suits in any courts of civil jurisdiction by or against the Central Government can be signed and verified in respect of matters concerning the Posts Department. Gazetted Officers

Prepared by  S Jayachandran  ,  SA , Divisional office , Mavelikara  -690101

Published by :  http://sapost.blogspot.com/

Dopt : Rotational Transfer of Section Officers with more than 16 years of service in the same Ministry/Department

F. No. 6/10/2012-CS-I(S) 

Government of India 

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions 

Department of Personnel & Training

2nd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan, 

Khan Market, New Delhi. 

Dated the 5th March, 2012.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Rotational Transfer of Section Officers with more than 16 years of service in the same Ministry/Department.

   

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OM No. 21/7/2011-CS.I (D) dated 08th September, 2011 vide which the details of Section Officers who have completed more than 7 years in the same Ministry/Department in whatever capacity was sought in connection with Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1654 dated 10.08.2011. The information has since been received from Ministries/Departments and has been compiled. A decision has been taken in DOP&T to implement RTP in a systematic manner with the approval of the Competent Authority. The implementation schedule has been circulated to all the Ministries/Departments vide OM No. 4/12/2011- CS-I(D) dated 02nd March, 2012.

  

2. In the first phase, after excluding those officers who are due to superannuation within two years, it is proposed to transfer the Section Officers as per Annexure-I & Annexure II, who have completed more than 16 years in the same Ministry/Department as on 01.01 .2012.

  

3. Ministries/Departments and officers concerned may check the enclosed information and bring to the notice of this Department urgently if any other Section Officer with more than 16 years of service (excluding those who are due for superannuation within two years as on 01.01.2012) has been left out or if there is any other error/omission in the list.

  

4. The officers indicated in annexure are requested to indicate their preferences for posting in the enclosed format Annexure-III which should reach CS-I Division by 9.03.2012. It may be noted that seeking option is only for the purpose of assisting this Department in deciding the posting and this should not in any way be construed as a right for claiming posting of choice. The option may be faxed at 24629414.

sd/- 

(Monica Bhatia) 

Director, CS-I

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