Govt to look into issues of Aadhaar being made mandatory for select schemes

New Delhi, January 26:  

The Centre is examining various questions raised by Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC), a legal services organisation, with regard to violation of the Supreme Court’s order against making Aadhaar mandatory for access to certain services, sources close to the development, told BusinessLine.

According to sources, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, has recently responded to a letter by Rajya Sabha MP, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, saying he was ‘getting the matter examined’.

Chandrasekhar, in his letter to Prasad in December, had asked the government to state the ‘correct position under law’ on the issue of Aadhaar being made mandatory by various government and private entities with regard to their schemes, which, he said was a violation of the apex court’s orders.

Chandrasekhar had also raised question in the Rajya Sabha in November, after which SFLC had written in detail to Chandrashekar, listing out about 120 violations between September 2015 and September 2016, based on which the MP had written a letter to Prasad, who incidentally is also the Law & Justice Minister.

REFLECTION OF THE RECURRENT LAPSES IN OBSERVING FINANCIAL DISCIPLINE IN THE ANNUAL PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT REPORT (APAR)

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IndiaPost becomes 3rd entity to receive licence to start payment bank operations

NEW DELHI: IndiaPost has become the third entity to receive a final license last week from the Central Bank to start its payment bank operations. Country’s largest telcom service provider Bharti Airtel and digital payments firm Paytm are the other two to have received the license while only Airtel has started operations so far. 

The government has also appointed AP Singh has interim MD and CEO of the India Post Payment Bank. A 1986 Indian Postal Service Officer he was earlier Joint Secretary in the department of disinvestment, ministry of Finance and Deputy Director General incharge of financial inclusion and payments systems at Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Singh was one part of the founding team that launched Aadhaar and was stationed at the department of Post prior to UIDAI. 

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650 districts in country to have post office PSKs

Mysuru: January 26, 2017

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has drawn up ambitious plans of opening post office Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) in 650 districts across the country soon.

Disclosing this during the inauguration of a post office PSK here on Wednesday, MEA Secretary D.M. Mulay said the MEA was planning to collaborate with the Department of Posts by opening PSKs at district level across the country to meet the growing demand for passports. The demand for passports in India, which is around 2 crore a year, was the third highest in the world after China and the U.S. A total of 60,000 passports are issued every day in the country, he added.

CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965 - Clarification regarding effect of warning, censure etc on promotion.

One more success journey to AIAPS- Left out issue of Induction training to Postmasters was settled!!!

Dear Postmasters,

                 You are all well aware of AIAPS is satisfactorily attained the positive results on PM cadre one time relaxation promotion issue, confirmation order issue, gradation list issue, fake note detector machine supply. 

              And in the same way AIAPS team is continuously following the cases like debarring the due promotion, and induction training to the left out Postmasters etc.,

              Now AIAPS team have stepped into one more success.

Instructions on sealed cover procedure - where Government servant has been acquitted but appeal is contemplated/pending - clarification regarding.

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Journey of AIAPS-Tamilnadu towards the PM Cadre one time relaxation promotion orders!!!

Dear Postmasters of Tamilnadu circle,

   We are continuously following up many cases like promotion debarment of punishment completed officials, induction training, regular DPC for due promotions etc., Some of the cases like confirmation order, circle gradation list, fake note detector supply are satisfactorily settled to the members by our AIAPS association.

    In the same way Journey towards the one time relaxation promotion is also not at all easy to our AIAPS association and we had visited four times and have written many letters to the circle office for the regular and as well as adhoc promotions to the due officials as per the directorate one time relaxation orders. Some of the important dates spared by AIAPS to the welfare of our PM cadre to reach this significant process are shared below. 

1. One time relaxation order was circulated by the Postal directorate on 28.04.2016.

2. On 10.05.2016 - Grade II to Grade III DPC process was started by the administration.

3. But Even after 2 months delay, PM-III promotion orders were not issued, hence we have included the subject in the AIAPS Four Monthly meeting during August I week.

4. On 09.08.2016, PM-III promotion order was released by the administration.

5. For Grade II promotion we urged the administration further on the Four Monthly meeting with circle administration on 30.08.2016.

6. We had visited again to the circle office on 26.09.2016 and requested about the pending regular and as well as adhoc promotion to the PM-II post.

7. But the same was challenged by the circle administration that no such order from the directorate for adhoc promotion.

8. For that we had discussed elaborately about the directorate order and explained the staff side part very elaborately on 26.09.2016 and gave some other circles names which were done adhoc promotion already as example to the tamilnadu administration.

9. Finally the administration had agreed and assured to release the adhoc promotion order soon. On the same date 26.09.2016, PM -II regular promotion order is also released because of the continuous efforts of our AIAPS association.

10. Again on 23.11.2016 AIAPS-team paid a visit to the circle office, reminded and requested about the pending adhoc issue to the administration.

11. Again on 02.01.2017 AIAPS-team had paid a courtesy visit to the circle office again and reminded about the pending adhoc issue to the administration and pressed further because of the monitory loss to our PM cadre members.

12. Because of the continuous efforts made by the AIAPS-TN team and the circle administration's regards on our AIAPS association, on 09.01.2017 now adhoc promotion order was also released by the circle admininstration.

13. We are much previlaged to thank the circle administration towards the responses to our requests and within 3 months of time we had brought the adhoc promotion orders now.

14. Adhoc promotion order is shared below for the esteemed members knowledge

15. Thanks for the support dear Postmasters