Aadhaar enrollment at Post Offices from July

City residents may visit post offices to enrol themselves for the Aadhaar cards from July.

The postal department is in the process of identifying designated post offices across the State to function as centres for Aadhaar enrollment and updating.

The department has planned to implement the project at head post offices in 12 places — Chennai, Puducherry, Kanniyakumari, Madurai, Tiruchi, Coimbatore, Erode, Salem, Tiruppur, Dindigul, Vellore and Tirunelveli. These select post offices would enable residents to enrol themselves for Aadhaar cards and update details such as mobile numbers and address.

7th CPC Allowances and its Date of Effect - Actual report in the current scenario

High Expectation over announcement of 7th CPC Allowances and its Date of Effect

7th CPC Allowances is now become a hottest topic of discussion and most expected matter by Central Staffs. Central Government confirmed officially that the Report of the Allowance Committee is submitted to the Government. Later the Cabinet Secretary told that Allowance Committee Report will be examined by the Expert Committee of Secretaries which was appointed initially to expedite the Recommendations of 7th Pay Commission.

Kind appeal to the newly upgraded LSG/HSG II/HSG I officials under cadre restructure.

Dear Postmasters and Supervisors,

On the outset of Cadre restructure, 7338 supervisory posts establishment of our postal department had enhanced to 37431 supervisory posts.

   More than Half of the group c strength(69996) is now upgraded to supervisory post. So you are all most welcome to our All India Association of Postal Supervisors - GL (AIAPS-GL).

  I request you all the AIAPS divisional/regional/circle secretaries to issue welcome notice to all the newly promoted LSG/HSG II/HSG I officials under the bannership of All India Association of Postal Supervisors.

While issuing the notice the following things may kindly be included.

LSG Promotion List of Southern Region ( Madurai) - TN Circle dtd 09/06/2017

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Transfer of LSG officials from Identified HSG II post in Southern Region ( Madurai) - TN Circle dtd 09/06/2017

Postmaster Grade II Promotion list - Southern Region (Madurai) - TN Circle dtd 09/06/2017

Stenographer Grade 'C' and 'D' Examination -Allocation of Circles to the post of Stenographer Grade -II in the Department of Posts

Postmaster Grade II Adhoc Promotion orders are released at tamilnadu circle

Dear Postmasters of Tamilnadu circle....

    On the outset of the informal meeting with CPMG, DPS(HQ), APMG(staff) and AIAPS staff side held on 30.05.2017, long pending one time relaxation orders were released by the circle office.

     One more grand success to the initiatives of our All India Association of Postal Supervisors at Tamilnadu Circle.

       Promotion order is published below...

Have an SBI account? Brace yourself to pay more service charges from today.

While the government is urging citizens to move towards a cashless economy, country's largest bank State Bank of India has announced revised service charges on online transactions and also for exchanging soiled notes at bank branches.

The charges are effective from Thursday, June 1, 2017, and here are the increased charges you will have to factor in. 

1. ATM transactions:

Cash withdrawal from SBI's mobile app, State Bank Buddy, through ATM will now be charged Rs 25 per transaction. No charges will be levied on four ATM transactions in a month. Beyond four transactions, service charges will be levied on Basic Savings Bank Deposit account at Rs 20 plus service tax per transaction on other banks' ATMs and Rs 10 plus service tax per transaction on SBI's own ATMs. Other than that, normal bank accounts, such as the savings bank account, will continue to attract eight free ATM transactions in metros and ten free transactions in non-metros.

Transfers and Postings in the Junior Administrative grade (JAG) of Indian Postal Service, Group 'A'

Promotion and postings of Junior Administrative Grade (NFSG) officers of Indian Postal Service, Group 'A' to Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) of the Service and transfers/postings of regular SAG officers of Indian Postal Service, Group 'A'

7th Pay Commission: Latest Update On Allowances (Including HRA)

The Empowered Committee of Secretaries has finalised 7th pay commission-related allowances (including HRA or house rent allowance) proposals for consideration of the Union Cabinet, a senior employee union leader told NDTV, citing sources. The Cabinet did not take up the 7th pay commission allowances in today's meeting as it was not part of the agenda, sources told NDTV. The union leader expects the Cabinet to take up the matter soon. The Empowered Committee of Secretaries met on June 1 to screen the report on 7th pay commission allowances (including HRA) to prepare proposals for consideration by the government, the union leader said.

The Ashok Lavasa committee, which examined the 7th pay commission's recommendations on allowances, submitted its report to the finance minister on April 27. The committee was headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa and had Secretaries of Home Affairs, Defence, Health & Family Welfare, Personnel & Training, and Post, and Chairman, Railway Board, as Members, and Joint Secretary (Implementation Cell) as Member Secretary.