Plan to strengthen Money Order service: Postal Dept.

Contrary to reports that Money Order service is being withdrawn, the Postal Department has said that plans are afoot to strengthen the facility using technology for the benefit of the people. The department averred that the time-tested money order service will not be terminated.

“Some reports are appearing in newspapers stating that the service will be withdrawn. It’s not correct. Such negative publicity is creating unnecessary apprehensions in the public domain,” said B.V. Sudhakar, Chief Postmaster General, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Using technology, services like Electronic Money Order, Instant Money Order and Mobile Money Order were brought into vogue and these services were found to be user-friendly.

Electronic Money Order is an electronic format of traditional MOs, which enables payment at doorstep, drastically cutting down physical transmission. The booking for these services can be done at any post office, according to another official. He said the service was one of the prominent modes of door-to-door money transfer since decades.

POSTMASTER GRADE II RT2015 NOTIFICATION OF TAMILNADU CIRCLE SOUTHERN REGION

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, INDIA

Office of the Postmaster General, Southern Region (TN)

Madurai 625002

To

All SSP/SP in Southern Region,

No. STA/102-02/RT/PM GR II/2015 dated at Madurai 625002 the               10 .04.2015.

Sub:  Rotational Transfers 2015 - Postmaster Grade II cadre -reg.

The following vacancies are notified for the Rotational Transfer 2015 in PM Gr -II cadre.

Sl No	Name of the post	Remarks
1.	Neyyoor SO	S.Venkateswaran is completing tenure
2.	Kuzhithurai SO	Vacant
3.	Marthandam SO	G.Ajikumar is completing tenure
4.	Sengottai SO	M. Murugan is completing tenure
5.	Gandhinagar SO	S.Rajaselvam is completing tenure
6.	Usilampatti	Vacant
7.	Vallioor SO	A.Pascal Jeevanayagam is completing tenure
8.	Srivilliputhur SO	Victor Stanislaus is completing tenure

            This may be verified with your office records and choice stations, if any, from the official who is due for rotation in Rotational Transfer 2015 may please be obtained and sent to this office on or before    17.04.2015.

It may please be noted that the request, if any, based on the notification alone will be taken into account. Previous representations, if any, will not be considered now for RT.

The notified vacancies will be filled up based on administrative convenience.

/M.BAKTHAVATSALAM/

Asst Director (Staff)

O/o Postmaster General,

Southern Region (TN),

Madurai – 625 002.

TODAY 6% OF DEARNESS ALLOWANCE APPROVED BY THE UNION CABINET

Release of additional installment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to Pensioners, due from 1.1.2015

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval to release an additional installment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners with effect from 01.01.2015 at the rate of six percent increase over the existing rate of 107 percent.

Hence, Central Government employees as well as pensioners are entitled for DA/DR at the rate of 113 percent of the basic pay with effect from 01.01.2015. The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission.

The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both DA and DR would be of the order of Rs. 6762.24 crore per annum and Rs. 7889.34 crore in the Financial Year 2015-16 ( i.e. for a period of 14 months from January 2015 to February 2016).

This will benefit 48 lakh government employees and 55 lakh pensioners.

DIRECT RECRUITMENT OF POSTMAN/MAIL GUARD EXAM RESULTS HELD ON 28.12.2014

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE RESULTS

Indefinite Hunger Fast by the Divisional Secretary, AIPEU Group 'C', Madurai Division

STATEWISE DETAILS REGARDING DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES’ WORKING STRENGTH

S. No.	Name of Circle	Permanent employees  Working Strength (as on 31-3-2013)
1.	Andhra Pradesh	13430
2.	Assam	4048
3.	Bihar	9236
4.	Chhatisgarh	2095
5.	Delhi	8191
6.	Gujarat	13447
7.	Haryana	3657
8.	Himachal Pradesh	2285
9.	Jammu & Kashmir	1446
10.	Jharkhand	2767
11.	Karnataka	13230
12.	Kerala	10098
13.	Madhya Pradesh	7224
14.	Maharashtra	26146
15.	North East	2001
16.	Orissa	5777
17.	Punjab	6069
18.	Rajasthan	7791
19.	Tamilnadu	19829
20.	Uttar Pradesh	19451
21.	Uttarakhand	2307
22.	West Bengal	17916
	Total	198441

Revision of Pre mailing Rates under Business Post from 01st April 2015

To view Directorate memo, please CLICK HERE. 

Will there be a HIKE in 6% DA this week?

The Union Cabinet is likely to approve hiking dearness allowance (DA) to 113 per cent from existing 107 per cent benefiting 30 lakh central government employees and 50 lakh pensioners in its meeting scheduled in this week.

“The Union Cabinet will take a proposal to hike Dearness allowance for its employees and dearness relief for its pensioners to 113 per cent in next week as per agenda listed for the meeting,” a source said. The hike in DA would be effective from the January 1st this year.

CBS FINACLE - GETTING SB BRANCH STATISTICS IN ONE MENU FOR ALL SCHEMES

In CBS finacle migrated offices, it is very hard to get, monthly SB branch statistics figures for various reports submissions like SMR, SB revenue target statement, etc., To get number of New accounts opened/closed, deposited/withdrawn, certificates issued/discharged, by following below procedures, we could get statistics easily in single menu in Finacle report URL. In HPO also, they could get sub office above statistics for any period by typing concerned SOL IDs by following below procedures.

Copy and paste the following report URL in internet explorer

https://dpdcpflmis.fsi.indiapost.gov.in:1443/finbranch/ui/SSOLogin.jsp

Please login with your CBS finacle user id and password

Please go to HFINRPT Menu

In the HFINRPT menu list please choose 18th report Common statistical statement report like below screen shot

Modi Govt May Implement Seventh Pay Commission Report From April 2016

Modi Govt May Implement Seventh Pay Commission Report From April 2016.

The Seventh Pay Commission drafted in to make a new pay structure for the 30 lakh Central government employees would not be able to submit its report in August this year, the Commission is likely to seek extension till October.

The reports of Seventh Pay Commission will be implicated from April next year as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Parliament on February 27, “The 7th Pay Commission impact may have to be absorbed in 2016-17.”

Tax Rebate on Sukanya Samriddhi Account.

To view Directorate memo No. 116-57/2014-SB dated March 2015, please CLICK HERE. 

BANKING SERVICES IN POST OFFICES

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS  

RAJYA SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.533

TO BE ANSWERED ON 27th FEBRUARY, 2015

BANKING SERVICES IN POST OFFICES

†533. SHRI BHUPENDER YADAV:                                                    

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

(a)       whether Government proposes to entrust banking related services to the Department of Posts;

(b)       whether all post offices in the country would also function as a bank; and

(c)        if so, by when this work is likely to be completed?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

(a)       Yes Sir. The Department of Posts applied to the Reserve Bank of India for issuance of license for setting up of Payments Bank on 30.01.2015.

(b)       No Sir. The Government does not propose to convert all post offices in the country to function as a bank. However, Department of Posts applied for license for setting up a Payments Bank on 30.01.2015, which may utilize a part of existing resources /infrastructure of the Department.

(c)        Date of completion of the above work will be depended on the decision of the Reserve Bank of India.

SSA A/c Opening List View/Print (HACSP) : Finacle Solution

As you Know SSA scheme is new Added in POSB. There is no report in HFINRPT menu, so many SOLs are preparing List manually. Here we are give a remedy to all to print the Account Open List of SSA. You can use HACSP command to View/Print List of Account of SSA. The following process is used to execute this command. This command can be used in CPA/SU/SA level.

• Menu Shortcut - HACSP
• GO
• The following screen will be appeared

• Give SOL ID
• Scheme Code is SSA

INSURANCE IS COMPULSORY FOR VP ARTICLE ABOVE Rs 1500/-

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE THE NOTIFICATION

DUE TO SHORTAGE NEWLY RECRUITED PA/SAs ARE DIRECTED TO JOIN PROVISIONALLY

NO MORE SPLITED ACCOUNTS TO ACHIEVE THE TARGET- CPMG STRICTLY INSTRUCTED.

SALE OF PENTA MOBILES THROUGH POST OFFICE

The offer includes bundled free talk time of 1999 minutes for 1 year. The bundled free talk time offer is available only with BSNL SIM cards. The focus of the company was on providing affordable devices. DOP has already started the sale of Penta Bharat mobile phones from 07-October-2014 onwards.

Penta Mobile Images

Specification

Conducting of PA/SA Aptitude Test (Re-examination) for Madhya Pradesh Circle

Friends.. Postal Directorate vide letter No.NO. A-34012/10/2014-DE ( MP Part)

dated 5 March 2015 has published that the PA/SA Direct Recruitment Examination, 2013-14 held on 22-06-2014 in Madhya Pradesh Circle was ordered by the competent authority to be cancelled. The re-examination will be conducted on 15-03-2015 and 22-03-2015.

The message displayed in official site http://pasadrexam2014.in/ read as follows:

Aadhar Linked Digital Locker to save mark sheets, license and important documents.

Press Information Bureau 

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & Information Technology

04-March-2015 18:17 IST

Aadhar Linked Digital Locker

Digital Locker is one of the key initiatives under the Digital India Programme. A beta version of the same has been released on 10.02.2015 by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India. Digital Locker is aimed at minimising the usage of physical documents and enable sharing of e-documents across agencies. The sharing of the e-documents will be done through registered repositories thereby ensuring the authenticity of the documents online. Residents can also upload their own electronic documents and digitally sign them using the e-sign facility. These digitally signed documents can be shared with Government organisations or other entities.

This information was given by the Minister of Communication and Information Technology Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad in Lok Sabha today.

I T Modernization Project Update # 15 (January & February, 2015)

AIAPC Delegates visited the Directorate on 26-02-2015.

Dear Postmaster Friends,

 AIAPC wises you all Seasonal Greetings !

It is time for all Postmaster Cadre friends to stand united, 7th Pay Commission’s consideration is upon the anvil, we have to project and protect the interest of Postmaster Cadre.

            We are sharing greater responsibilities as Postmasters, keeping in view of responsibilities of AIAPC. It is only the Postmasters in Postmaster Cadre who can fight by heart for the benefit of their own cadre.

7th Pay Commission : Highlights of the demands of Central Government Employees to 7th CPC

1. Pay scales are calculated on the basis of pay drawn pay in pay band + GP + 100% DA by employee as on 01-01-2014.

2. 7th CPC report should be implemented w.e.f. 01-01-2014.

3. Scrap New Pension Scheme and cover all employees under Old Pension and Family Pension Scheme.

4. JCM has proposed minimum wage for MTS (Skilled) Rs.26,000 p.m.

Union Budget 2015: Postal Department to use its vast network for proposed Payment Bank

NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Postal Department will utilise the services  of its vast network for the proposed Payment Bank.

"Government proposes  to utilise vast postal network with nearly 1.55 lakh points of presence across  villages of the country.

"I hope postal department will bring the  proposed Payment Bank venture successfully so that it can contribute in Pradhan  Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana," Jaitley said while presenting the Budget for 2015 in Parliament.

The postal offices will function as payment banks, he  added.