Proposed new postal security standards for International Mail

The UPU’s official bodies, the Council of Administration and the Postal Operations Council, last week endorsed a proposed resolution on minimum security standards for international mail.

The proposal will be put forth for formal adoption by UPU member countries at the 25th Universal Postal Union Congress in Doha, Qatar, in September/October 2012.

If approved, the proposed standards would force Posts worldwide to apply measures to better screen international mail and take custody of it. Posts would have to apply minimum security standards to critical facilities in their network, such as international offices of mail exchanges, which process arriving and departing international mail.

According to UPU Postal Security Expert David Bowers, the standards would establish a security baseline to the global postal network, thus reassuring civil aviation and customs organizations that international mail has gone through minimum screening measures. “Our goal is to harmonize our international standards with the ones developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization to guide air transportation of mail,” explains Bowers.

International effort

The new proposed standards are the result of two years of work by the UPU’s inter-committee on security group. It includes representatives from UPU member countries and major international organizations, such as the International Air Transport Association, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the World Customs Organization and the United States Transport Security Agency, among others.

The UPU set up the group to tighten security standards for the global postal supply chain after rigorous TSA screening measures were unilaterally applied to international mail travelling to the United States in late 2010 after two packages containing bombs were found on private courier flights destined for the United States. The packages, sent from Yemen, were intercepted in Dubai and the United Kingdom.

The UPU launched a concerted effort among all relevant parties to come up with standardized security standards for the global postal supply chain to increase the security of mail travelling by air.

Member countries had adopted recommended security standards at the last Universal Postal Congress in Geneva in 2008, but there was no obligation to implement them.

Source: Universal Postal Union News

RTI APPLICANTS COUGH UP MORE, CUT WORD COUNT

Bhopal, Mar 12, 2012(TNN): Faced with the ‘problem’ of managing flood of RTI applications, BJP government inMadhya Pradesh has mooted a proposal to double fees on application and appeal, raise fee for document copy and to impose other restrictions such as “word count” for each request-a move that could trigger protests from the supporters of the transparency law. 

We here are, unfortunately, trying to restrict the people's right on one pretext or the other. Civil society has to wake up to protest against any such moves.

By proposing to amend the relevant RTI rules, the government plans to increase the existing fee of Rs 10 per application to Rs 20, double the fee for first appeal from Rs 50 to Rs 100 and to make a five- fold increase in fee for second appeal. If the amendment comes through, anyone moving the second appeal before the state information commission would have to shell out Rs 500 as against the existing fee of Rs 100. 

Insiders say that the government is also planning to restrict to 150 the “word limit” per application and also to restrict the number of subjects to be mentioned in one application to ensure that only one subject is entertained by the Public Information Officers (PIO) at a time. Besides, sources claim that the new rules could also have a provision that anyone, filing an RTI application, should also furnish a copy of the photo identity card to check the possibility of applications being filed in pseudonymous names. 

Sources claimed that the state government is empowered to make rules under section 27 (1) and (2) of RTI Act 2005 which stipulate that the government may make rules to carry out the provisions of the Act to decide the cost the cost of the medium or print cost price of the materials to be disseminated and the fee payable and so on. 

Legislative Assembly secretariat in Chhattisgarh, another BJP ruled state, recently increased the RTI application fees by 900% from Rs 50 to Rs 500 and the increase in fees per document copy to Rs 15 per page had invited criticism from the National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information (NCPRI) and others. Earlier, Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi had also written to Chhattisgarh chief minister, Speaker, and leader of the opposition to re-consider the decision to hike RTI fees. 

“A proposal has come up at the government level. It’s being examined. It’s too premature to divulge any details”, official sources confirmed. 

RTI activist Ajay Dubey said “the state government is planning to make amendments in the RTI rules through a notification. The amendments being considered are against the very sprit of the transparency Act, aimed at introducing cumbersome procedures to discourage people from using the RTI tool to elicit information”. 

Dubey said he had already written a letter to the state Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, seeking his intervention to stall the proposed amendments as it would amount to defeating the very purpose the historic transparency Act. 

Few months ago, he said, state government had also misused section 24 (4) of the RTI Act to keep the special police establishment of the Lokayukta and the State Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offences (EOW) out of the purview of the RTI Act 2005 as both these anti-corruption agencies were dealing with sensitive cases involving politicians and bureaucrats. “Till today, the state government has failed to put this notification before the state legislature, which is a mandatory requirement under section 24 (5) of the RTI Act, 2005″, he pointed out. 

“Bad habits are easy to copy”, quipped Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, who had protested against the Chhattisgarh legislative assembly secretariat, when his comments was sought on Madhya Pradesh move to increase RTI fees and introduce restrictions on word counts.

He said “RTI itself is getting lesser attention in the country with the civil society being engaged in many other issues. World over rights of people, even the fundamental rights in many countries, are being expanded further”. “We here are, unfortunately, trying to restrict the people’s right on one pretext or the other. Civil society has to wake up to protest against any such moves”, he added.

Revised recruitment rules for HSG I & HSG I adhoc arrangements

       UPSC has approved revised recruitment rules for HSG I. after several rounds of discussions with the  officers of India Post. 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.

    Department of Posts has approached DOPT for approval of adhoc arrangements for HSG I. Approval is expected with in a week and formal orders likely to be issued shortly. 

Courtesy: ipaspandhra blog

Railway Recruitment Boards invites applications for recruitment of 6449 posts. Last Date : 09.04.2012

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS 

RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARDS

Date of Publication : 10-03-2012

Date and Time of Closing : 09-04-2012 upto 17.30 hrs 

Date of Exam : 09-09-2012 

(refer para 17 of the general instructions)

CENTRALISED EMPLOYMENT NOTICE NO.01/2012

   Applications are invited in the prescribed format as enclosed (on a good quality A-4 size bond paper 80 GSM using one side only) from eligible Indian Nationals for the following posts.  Applications complete in all respects along with required enclosures should be sent  by post to the concerned Railway Recruitment Board, as mentioned in Para-15 of General Conditions, so as to reach on or before 09-04-2012  upto 17.30 hrs.  The applications can also be dropped in the box kept at the premises of RRB offices concerned , till the closing date. For candidates residing in Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Jammu & Kashmir, Lahaul & Spiti districts and Pangi sub-division of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshwadeep islands and for  candidates residing abroad, the closing date for receipt of applications by posts will be  24-04-2012 upto 17.30 hrs.

CANDIDATES PLEASE NOTE :

(1) Written examination will be held on the same day by all participating RRBs. 

  

(2) Participating RRBs have given choice of regional languages, candidates have got the option to choose any one of the regional languages at the time of applying.

(3) No examination fee for SC/ST/Ex-Servicemen/Physically Handicapped/Women/Minorities / Economically backward classes candidates having annual family income less than Rs.50,000/-

(4) Candidates should refer Para-16 of general instructions for submission of Single / Separate application to the RRB concerned.

(5) Candidates may refer to para 12 of General Instructions regarding online submission of application.

For more details please click here to view the notification copy

Govt opens Face book account to create awareness

 The Information and Broadcasting ministry has opened a dedicated account on social networking site Face book to interact with people to create awareness about its plans to digitize the cable sector.


Officials in the I & B ministry hope that the 'Wall' on the face book account would become an interactive platform.

“The Government has launched a new and dedicated face book account, namely, www.facebook.com /DigitalIndiaMIB to facilitate exchange of information and clarifications on a wider canvas of public participation, covering a whole gamut of public concerns,” a statement from the ministry said today.

The ministry’s facebook account carries answers to some of the frequently asked questions  and provides links to other connected organizations involved in digitization.

Officials in the ministry hope that the ‘Wall’ on the facebook account would become an interactive platform and also be a source of information for individuals as well as the stakeholders like the Multi-System Operators and Cable Operators.

The ministry has set an ambitious deadline for complete digitization of the Cable sector by December 31, 2014. In Phase I of this plan, the four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata have to be digitalised by June 30 this year.

The digital switch-over of cable television necessitates adequate public awareness about the new system and the changes to be made at the level of stakeholders including television viewers to be digital ready by the cut-off dates, the statement said.

The I and B ministry is also planning special awareness campaigns in conjunction with state governments to disseminate information related to digitization.

Announcement of Inspector Posts exam Result

It is ascertained that Directorate will  take some more time to announce the result of Inspector Posts Examination 2011. Though everything is ready to announce the result, it could not be announced because of allowing of  Postmaster Grade I cadre officials to write the examination erroneously by some of the circles and the Directorate is examining the various options to avoid the possible CAT / Court cases before announcement of the result.

Posted by ipaspandhra 

India's postal services to cost more

For the first time in ten years, India Post will soon increase charges for postal services upto 20% to meet its operational costs. The decision, which awaits the Reserve Bank of India's approval, would rake in additional revenue of about Rs. 1000 crore as it gears up to convert more than 1.5 lakh post offices into full-fledged banks.

The hike on speed post, inland letters, money orders and post cards also comes because the government has moved towards corporatisation of India Post. Post offices currently offer financial services such as savings bank accounts, postal life insurance, pension payments and money transfer services.

A top india post official confirmed that the hike has been approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission. India Post officials argue that the charges are heavily subsidized and much lower than the cost of services being offered by private courier services.

Despite having initiated the new hybrid mail service ePost, railway ticket vending and sale of gold coins, India Post has not been able to generate additional revenue. Till last November, it earned over Rs. 81 lakh.

Source:SAPARAVUR

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VII Pay Commission for Central Govt.Employees should be constituted at the earliest-INDWF November 14, 2011

Today the INDWF –Indian National Defence Workers Federation is Celebrating its Golden Jubilee Year in New Delhi. A rally to Talkatora stadium is organized by the Federation as a part of the Golden Jubilee celebration. In which around 10000 of its delegates across India are expected to participate. Sources Close to the INDWF revealed that the Supreme command of the Congress Party Smt. Sonia Gandhi is also expected to participate in the Meeting to be held at Talkatora Stadium in the evening. The Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh,Defence Ministers and Shri.Ragul Gandhi.are also invited to attend the meeting.


A list of around 30 Demands also been published by the Federation to put before the Government in its Meeting.The Federation Demands the Government, Particularly the Ministry of Defence that,


    * The Defence Procurement Policy to be reviewed, so that privatization and out sourcing may be avoided.
    * MACP should be granted to Central Govt.Employees on Promotional Hierarchy.
    * VII Pay Commission for Central Govt.Employees should be constituted at the earliest so that it can be reviewed and implemented in time.
    * Employment should be provided to the wards of employees those who are willing to go in VRS Scheme like in Railways.
    * The Bonus ceiling to be removed and one full month salary may be granted as Bonus to all Central Govt.Employees
    * One Increment should be granted to Central Govt.Employees whose annual increment falls between 01-02-2006 to 30-6-2006.


The Federation’s demand of  constituting 7th pay commission  well before the due date of next pay commission will be appreciated by all the Central govt. employees.

Source: Central Govt.Employees, VII Pay Commission

REGULARIZATION OF CASUAL LABOURERS - WINS A LEGAL BATTLE - CHENNAI NEWS

After waiting 30 years, 150 postal staff regularised

Chennai, Mar 9, 2012(TNN): After waiting for 30 years, close to 150 employees of the postal department will finally become regular employees, thanks to the intervention of the Central Administrative Tribunal ( CAT). A bench of G Shanthappa, judicial member and R Satapathy, administrative member, passed orders on the matter.

The applicants were appointed mazdoors with the department of posts in 1982. While joining, they were assured that their services would be regularised. Based on directions in a Supreme Court judgment, the department introduced a scheme in 1991 which stipulated that all casual labourers who worked for eight hours a day for 240 days every year as on November 29, 1989 would be conferred temporary status.


Those who were granted temporary status and had worked for three consecutive years would be conferred with 'Group D' status. These employees – who are now called multi-tasking staff – would be eligible for pension and other service benefits.


When they approached the tribunal in 2010, they were directed to make individual representations to authorities by listing out their grievances. But their claims were rejected mainly on two grounds – that they were overage and that they did not have the qualification.


When their fresh applications came up for hearing, M Ravindran, additional solicitor general who appeared for the Union government, said authorities did not have any objection to regularise their services.


The bench said there "cannot be any hindrance for the absorption of applicants" who have been working for so long. "It has also come to our notice that there are enough vacancies to accommodate the applicants before us," the bench said.


Authorities were directed to consider regularising these applicants and give age relaxation and training for those who did not possess matriculation skills within three months.

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.

****

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

Courtesy : www.gconnect.in,sapost

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

Courtesy : katiharho.blogspot.in

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.