Pay commission report & suggestions.

  Rough Draft on pay commission prepared by association was sent to all the RRs and office bearers through e-mail. Hence office bearers and members of the association are requested to send suggestions on the 7th pay commission through RRs/Office bearers or ipaspap@gmail.com. Consolidated report from AP circle to GS is due.  Hence it is requested to act early.

Sri B.Udayshankar Rao SP CIRCLE STAMPs DEPOT Hyderabad is retiring on the after noon of 31st May-14. The officer had held important posts in the association and guided well for development of organization. We wish him a happy and peaceful retirement.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad- New minister took charge on 27th May-2014.

The Union Minister for Communications & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad interacting with the senior officers of the Department of Telecom, at Sanchar Bhawan, in New Delhi on May 29, 2014.

Letter to CPMG on Problems of IP/ASPs in AP circle.

No. AIAIPASP/AP/06/2014                                               Dated : 29^th May- 2014

                   

                   To,

               The Chief Postmaster General,

                A.P circle, Hyderabad-500001.

               

                Respected Sir,

               

Subject: - Request for settlement of IP/ASPs problems –reg.

               

Ref: Nil.  

              

The following issues are brought to the association by the members.  The      Chief PMG is requested to issue instructions to the concerned for                                 settlement             

 of problems.

1.   

S  Supply of brief cases to IP/ASPs in AP Circle:  Brief cases are not supplied due to non-circulation of Dte orders issued in the year-2012 as a result of which facility is denied to IP cadre staff.  A copy of Dte .letter no.F.No. 15-1/2011-GA dated 26.10.2012 is enclosed. Circle Office is requested take action for circulation to all the ROs/Units in the Circle.

2.    Requests of IP/ASPs for transfer to their native regions: Requests of IP/ASPs are being forwarded to circle office by the Regional offices.  Some Regional offices are not forwarding request applications to CO on the pretext that shortage of staff.  As a result of which junior IPs/ASPs are getting chance of re-allotment and seniors are ignored.  There were instructions from CO earlier to send re-allotment applications directly to CO for registration. Hence the CPMG is requested to issue instructions on the subject since members of association are frequently approaching the association.

3.    Provision of invertors to sub divisional offices where offices located away from post office: It is brought to the notice of the association that there is frequent power cut in the state.  Generally sub divisional IPs/ASPs work late hours at nights in c/w inspection, NREGS,SSP, BD, 100% verification of BOs/SOs work etc. Hence, the CPMG is requested to supply invertors to sub divisional offices to improve efficiency.  Further it is requested to issue instructions to ROs/Dos to make arrangements to provide connection from post office UPS to sub divisional offices where they are located in post offices.

4.    Delay in payment o PLI/RPLI incentives and IO/PO honorarium to IPs/ASPs:  Circle Office Is requested to issue instructions to ROs for taking early action to clear long pending incentive bills.

Annexure: One.

Yours sincerely,

(S.Prasad Rao)

CIRCLE SECRETARY.

queries on ASP/SP merger proposal

Directorate raised queries on merger proposal

No. 25-35/2011-PE-I

Government of India

Ministry of Communications and IT

Department of Posts

***********

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi 110001

Date : 19^th May 2014

To,

The General Secretary,

All India Association of Inspectors and

Assistant Superintendents, Posts,

CHQ Qtr. No. 12, P&T Colony,

Khurshid Square, Civil Lines, Delhi – 110 054.

Subject : Merger of ASP cadre in to PS Gr. B cadre – Proposal regarding.

Sir,

          Kindly refer to your letter No. GS/AIAIASP/Merger ASP/2013 dated 20.11.2013 and 21.04.2014 on the subject mentioned above.

2.       In this regard, this is to inform that the proposal submitted by your Association has been examined in detail with the following observations:

(i)          It was intimated in the proposal that there is a matching saving for the proposal as there would be an additional expenditure of Rs. 66,86,100/- per annum against the saving of Rs. 69,25,100/- per annum. This means a net saving of Rs. 2,39,700/- per annum. However, while this may be true in the long run, at present there would be no matching saving, as pay will have to be protected for the 679 ASPs till they get promoted to PS Gr. B Grade, while additional expenditure of Rs. 66,86,100/- would start immediately Savings will start accruing only after the 679 ASPs working on the ASP posts downgraded to IPs get promoted to PS Gr. B Grade which will take a very long time. Thus, it is not correct to say that the case has matching savings.

(ii)         The proposed down gradation of 679 ASPs (Sub Division) to IP (Sub Division) would create technical problems as ASPs cannot be posted on IPs Posts. Otherwise, they would have to be reverted which is not permissible. The proposal, thus, would only be beneficial for the senior 1311 ASPs and at the same time detrimental to the remaining 679 ASPs who may suffer reversion. Further, on upgradation of the ASPs Posts to PS Gr. B there would be two or more Gr. B officers in Gr. B Divisions. Then, there would be a problem / issue of reporting and also that who amongst them would head the Division.  This would ultimately create complicated situation and may not, thus, be administratively viable.

(Note :- the number of ASP Sub Divisions has been ascertained from the Circles and the matching savings have been re-calculated on the basis of information received from the Circles)

3.       Therefore, it is requested to furnish your comments / clarifications on the above mentioned observations for further examination of the proposal at the earliest.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

(Tarun Mittal)

Assistant Director General (PE-I)

PS : All the office bearers and members of AP circle branch are requested to submit their comments in detailed to CS by email early. 

Grade pay CAT case- Updates..........

OA NO. 296/2014:
The Directorate has on 07.05.2014 sent the(Grant of  Rs. 5400- grade pay to ASPs who have completed 4 years of service in the grade pay of Rs. 4800-) case to ministry of finance for further action.

Transfers and postings in IPos STS Group "A" cadre.

Sri SV Rao APMG (FS&BD) % the Chief PMG AP Circle Hyderabad has been transferred and posted as DDM (PLI) % the Chief PMG AP Circle Hyderabad.  The officer will hold the additional charge of  APMG(FS&BD), vide CO Memo no. ST/12-74/2013 dated 27.05.2014.  Association conveys best wishes to the officer.

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Questionnaire on CBS.

No: 16-01/2013-Inspn.Government of India ,Ministry of Communications & IT ,Department of Posts (Inspection Unit) , Dathavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi 110001. Dated: 15.05.2014

1. A11 Heads of Postal Circles,

2 A11 Unions.

3. A11 Principals, Postal Training Centres,

4. Director RAKNPA Ghazíabad,

5. Army Postal Directorate, New Delhi

Subject: Supplementary Inspection Questionnaire of HO / SO and BO relating t0 CBS.

Department of Posts has launched Core Banking Solution (CBS) in several Post Offices across the country as part of IT induction programme. The application is presently working satisfactorily in nearly 300 HOs / SOS and will be expanded further in due course of time.

2. Inspection Division in support with FS Division has developed a supplementary set of questionnaire on CBS to monitor its performance for proper implementation. The copy of the questionnaire is enclosed. This set of questions is supplementary to existing Inspection Questionnaire of HO / SO / BO. It is reiterated that these questions are in addition to existing questions laid down in the present questionnaire.

3. 4Circles are requested to circulate the questionnaire to its subordinate units for using the same While inspecting the units Where CBS has been rolled out. It is also requested that Circle may forward suggestions / recommendations to further improve the questionnaire.

4. Receipt of this letter may be acknowledged.

Enclosures: Supplementary Questionnaire on CBS Wm .

 Director (PO & Inspection) Sh. Víneet Pandey, DDG (FS), Dak Bhawan, New Delhi Supplementary Inspection QuestionnaireOn Core Banking Solution (CBS) .

See reconciliation report provided by Infosys at the time of migration is available? Whether Copy ofthe same has been provided to SBCO and Divisional Head? Examine exception report if any given by Infosys at the time of migration and suggest remedial action.

See as to whether, Manual Records have been migrated to CBS / Finacle Application? lf no, make a note of it and take remedial action. Have all Signatures (Digitized & Manual) been migrated to CBS / Finacle Application? See signatures of at least 10 accounts in Finacle CBS Application.

4. Talk to the Concerned Staff and See if any issue observed with the migrated data. This section is related to the smoothness of the daily operations and support being provided to Post Office.

Whether staff working has been adequately trained in operating Finacle CBS. Any Suggestions for improvements?

 Whether supervisory staff is regularly verifying pending transactions during Whether job Aids are available on the desktop of all Counters? lf not, take remedial action to get from FSl Vendor and install the same. Whether process documents circulated by Directorate are available in soft or hard copy with Counter Pas and Supervisors? lf not, ensure that the same is made available. Whether Post Office staff is aware of the Infosys Help Desk number and mail iD'? How many important issues are pending for soiution? Ensure that post office staff is raising only genuine issues and mentioning their names, designation and Mobile number While raising issues through e-mail.

Hand Holding support team:

What is the feedback on the support provided by Infosys Hand holding/support? Any Suggestions for improvements? Whether Postmaster is taking print out of office accounts ledgers and cross verifying transactions with LOT on daily bases? lf not, direct Postmaster to do it on daily basis and ensure compliance.

Physically verify Certificates stock with stock available in Finacle CBS Application and record results.

Physically verify stock of blank POSB Cheque Books with Finacle CBS Application and record results.

Verify physical cash with one or two counters with his/their Teller Cash account in Flnacle and record results.

Educate staff Whether all active MPKBY/PRSS Agents have been given training for operating Agents Portal? Whether Agent Portal is functioning properly? See some of the agent lists Created by agents through Portal and Check results through Finaole CBS Application. See Consolldatlons of all schemes for 4 working days and verify with total of all LOTS available in the Post Office.

13.Whether ATl\/l is installed in the Post Office premises? lf so is it working?

14. Number of instant ATM Cards/Welcome Kits lying in stock?

15. Collect some Passbooks from the counter and verify balance available in Finacle

CBS by using menu HACLl. Record results.

16.Whether New Account opening Forms and CBS passbooks are available in sufficient numbers? lf no, take remedial action to ensure adequate supply.

17. Whether SS Book is being maintained to paste Specimen Signatures of newly opened Savings accounts? if not, get the same started in your presence.

18.Whether new Account Opening Forms (AOF) and KYC documents are being sent to CPC on daily basis and bundles received back from CPC are being preserved securely?

19. If any pending AOFS rejected by CPC are lying in the office for rectification?

20.Check pending N04 (a) against which NSCs are still not issued in Finacle CBS Application and ensure that NSCs have been delivered tc the customers. lf adequate stock is not available, take action to make stock available in the Post Office.

21.Ensure that no undelivered NSCs are lying in the office.

22.Have a discussion with the staff and list out major issues pending with the Helpdesk of Infosys and send to Circle SPOC for taking up further.

23.8ee pending tickets on the part of post office where solution has been provided but tickets are pending for Closure on the part of Post Office.

24.Whether SBCO is tailying 100% Vouchers with LOTS and writing objections in  Memo Pad for manual Corrections in LOT and Consolidation? How many memo Pads are pending foreoiosure?

Note: - These questions are in addition to existing questions and laid down in present

questionnaire till new questionnaire is circulated. 

Hyderabad Region- ASP transfers.

RO Hyderabad vide memo no.PMG/(H)ST/4-3/ASPOs/2013 dated 22.05.2014 has issued following transfers under RT-2014.  Association wishes them all the best during their tenure.

Name  of officer	Present post	Posted as
Sri P. Venkateshwara rao	ASP (Inv) RO Hyd	ASP Kazipet RMS
Sri J.Srinivas	ASP (LC) RO Hyd.	ASP Bhongir sub-dn
Sri V.Tirupathi	ASP Parkal sub dn	ASP siddipet sub dn
Sri Y.Venkateshwarlu	ASP  siddipet sub dn	ASP (Hq) Suryapet
Sri AVN Satyanarayana	ASP (Hq) Suryapet	ASP (Hq)  Waraangal
Sri Ch.Balaswamy	ASP (Hq) Warangal	ASP Parkal sub dn
Sri MA Aleem-II	ASP  Warangal south sub dn	ASP (R) Nizamabad
Sri K.Srikanth	ASP  Bhongir sub dn	ASP (LC) RO Hyd.
Sri M.Bhoomanna	ASP ® Nizamabad	ASP (Hq) Adilabad
Sri T.Isaiah	ASP (Hq) Adilabad	ASP  Warangal south sub dn
Sri S.Venkatsai	ASP  Kazipet RMS	ASP (Inv) RO Hyd

POST BANK.........

TOI News- India Post to get bank licence soon?

The following press clip is from 'The Times of India' Mumbai edition dated 22/5/2014. Hope India post will be given licence shortly.    

Group "B" Adhoc arrangement.

1. Sri P.Sivashankariah Jt.Manager EPPC Hyderabad has been promoted on adhoc basis as SP PSD Hyderabad for a period of 180 days  vide CO Memo no. ST/12-1/Adhoc-GrB/2014 dated 22.05.2014.
2. Sri S.Prasad Rao ASP (PG-RTI) CO was given adhoc promotion for a period of 45 days against leave vacancy of Sri TVV Satyanarayana AD (LC&PG) % the CPMG Hyderabad under office arrangement.

It is learnt that process is under way in r/o filling up of vacant group "B" posts on adhoc basis in the Circle.

Cadre restructuring of Inspector Posts cadre.- Letter from GS to DG.

No. CHQ/AIAIPASP/Cadre Restructure/2014                 dated  :     19/5/2014.

To,

Ms P. Gopinath
Secretary (Posts),  
Department of Posts, 
Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg, 
New Delhi 110 001. 
 

Subject :    Cadre restructuring of Inspector Posts cadre.

Respected Madam,  

Kindly refer to this Associations letter of even number dated 30/4/2014 vide which it was requested to call immediate meeting with the members of this Association for discussion of cadre restructuring of Inspector Posts cadre, but till date nothing is heard from Directorate.

This Association would like to bring to your kind notice that cadre restructuring of Group ‘C’ cadre has been finalised by Department on 28^th April 2014 under the chairmanship of Shri V. P. Singh, DDG (P). As you know that second cadre review case of Inspectors and ASPs is pending since long in the files of Directorate. The recommendation of second cadre review committee that gave its report in the year 1990 has not been executed till now. Today DOP is the only organization where career progression Scheme for Inspector Posts stand relegated to back seat.

            IP/ASP Association many-a-times brought to the notice of the Department about the stagnation being faced in the cadre of IPs/ASPs and the long span of service running up to 24 to 25 years which IP/ASP have to put in, before getting promotion to PS Gr. B cadre. However, it was assured by the officers that this will be looked into at the time of cadre restructuring of Inspector Posts cadre.

            It is therefore once again requested your kind honour to kindly call immediate meetings (before your retirement) with the members of this Association for the discussion of cadre restructuring of Inspector Posts cadre and finalisation thereof as has been done for other cadres.

Waiting for an immediate action.

          Yours Sincerely, 

Sd/-

 (Vilas Ingale)

General Secretary

CBS Roll out of Nellore HO of Vijayawada Region-

May 19, 2014

 Inauguration by Sri B.V.Sudhakar, Chief Postmaster General, AP Circle, Hyderabad.

 I
 Sri M.Sampath,PMG , K.Somasundaram, DPS and P.Viswanatham SPOs nellore attended. CPMG felicitated Sri S.Sridhar, ASP &Postmaster Nellore HO for his contribution in successful rollout.


 

Four monthly meeting with CPMG.

Details of four monthly meeting held on 08.05.2014 with Chief PMG.

Association side attended: 1. S.Prasad Rao C/S, 2. Y.Venkateshwarlu OS(CHQ).

SLNO	New items	Reply
1-05/14	Provision of Gr-D assistance to sub-divisional heads	Orders issued for provision of Gr-D assistance to sub-divisional IP/ASPs vide CO letter no. Est/Misc/Gr.D/2009 dated 30.07.2009 and 05.02.2010 to all regions/units in HCR.
2-05/14	Sanction of telephone bills on self declaration.	Production of voucher is required in support of expenditure.
3-05/14	Sanction of RPLI/PLI incentives to IP/ASPs for last two years.	Recently during the month of April & May-14 some of IPs/ASPs have been sanctioned PLI incentive for the years-2010-11,2011-12 & 2012-13.  Association may furnish the list of officials to whom incentive was not paid.

All the members are requested to act on the above and intimate non-conformity, to our association to take up with CO.  Details of PLI/RPLI incentives due to IP/ASPs not paid for the last two years may also please be intimated.

Schedule of PA/SA Examination 2014

Schedule of PA/SA Examination 2014

1. Jammu & Kashmir   - 18-05-2014   - From 10.00 AM to 12.00 NOON

2. Punjab                   - 18-05-2014   - From 10.00 AM to 12.00 NOON

3. Andhra Pradesh      - 25-05-2014   - From 02.00 PM to 04.00 PM 

4. West Bengal          - 25-05-2014   - From 02.00 PM to 04.00PM 

Candidates may download their hall permits from admitcardhelpdesk.dopexam@gmail.coms

The association convey best wishes to all the candidates awating the examination.

Re-allotment/Transfer in IP cadre.

 Circle Office has ordered the following re-allotments/transfers in the cadre of IP vide memo no. ST/Req/2013 dated 08.05.2014.

SLNO	Name of official & desgn.	Region in which working	Region to which re-allotted	Remarks.
1	S.Prabhudas, OS % the SSP Bhimavaram Dn	Vijayawada	Visakhapatnam	Spouse/Medical grounds

Revision of monetory ceiling for purchase of briefcases/Ladies purses for official purposes.

Directorate vide letter no. F.NO. 15-1/2011-GA dated 26.10.2012 has issued  orders on the above subject.  The periodicity of replacement shall be 3 years across all categories.

SLNO	Rank of officer/Grade pay	Upper cost of ceiling ( Rs)
1	Secretary & equivalent	10,000-
2	Member(PSB)/Additional Secretary level officers(HAG+scale and HAG scale and equivalent	8,000-
3	DDsG/Joint Secretary level officers and equivalent (Grade pay Rs. 10,000-)	6,500-
4	Directors/DSs/Sr.PPs and equivalent(GP-7600- to 8700)	5,000-
5	ADsG/USs/Ads/SOs/PSs & equivalent (PG.4800 to 6600-)	4,000-
6	Assistants/Pas/Stenos and equivalent (GP.4200 to 4600-)	3,500-

Improvements to CCC software - Auto closure.

A new feature has been provided in the CCC soft ware called AUTO CLOSURE FACILITY. The auto-closure will be available from 15/05/14.

At present, the Customer Care Centres have to login to the CCC software and then check every case and provide suitable reply with reference to available information.There are many types of complaints, like NON DELIVERY OF ARTICLES, NON PAYMENT OF EMOS etc. can be settled using the data which is already available in the system. As delivery information is available in the central server, for such complaints the CCC software has been modified to search Registered Net, Parcel Net, Speed Net and eMO data base for the delivery/payment information, fetch that information from the respective servers, update in the CCC software and then automatically close the complaints. The whole exercise will be done daily once at 6.00 AM. Therefore the complaints pertaining to NON DELIVERY OF ARTICLES and NON PAYMENT OF EMOS will get closed automatically without the intervention of Customer Care Centres.

General information of pay commissions.

Details of pay commissions from first to latest one are furnished below for the information of viewers. Let us hope the present appointed committee submit report before fixed date.

Central Pay Commissions	Date of Appointment	Date of Submission of Report
First Pay Commission	May, 1946	May, 1947
Second Pay Commission	August, 1957	August, 1959
Third Pay Commission	April, 1970	March, 1973
Fourth Pay Commission	June, 1983	3 Reports submitted. I. June, 1986;II- December, 1986 and  III-May, 1987.
Fifth Pay Commission	April, 1994	January, 1997
Sixth Pay Commission	October, 2006	March, 2008
Seventh Pay commission	28th February-14	(To be submitted)