Shri S. K. Sinha is our new DG

DoP seeks Cabinet nod for payments bank proposal

New Delhi, Apr 27 (PTI) The Department of Posts (DoP) has sought Cabinet approval for its payments bank proposal involving a project cost of Rs 800 crore.

The Public Investment Board (PIB) has recommended that the payments bank may be set up as a public limited company under the Department of Posts with 100 per cent government equity.

"With a project cost of Rs 800 crore (Rs 400 crore equity and Rs 400 crore grant) and the draft cabinet note has been forwarded to Cabinet Secretariat seeking the approval for the project," Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

The Reserve Bank of India granted in-principle approval to DoP for setting up payments bank on September 7, 2015, with a stipulation to complete all formalities for setting up the bank with 18 months.

The present proposal is that the India Post Payments bank (IPPB) may set up one headquarter and up to 650 branches co-located in district headquarter post offices.

"...more than 60 large companies have approached the Department of Posts for collaboration with the prospective IPPB," the Minister added.

Prasad said the project may be rolled out in a phased manner and the bank may complete its nation-wide rollout in five years.

"All the post offices in a district may be linked to the respective IPPB branch and may become the access point for the services of payments bank and will coordinate with the payments bank branches to which they are mapped," the Minister said.

He further said services available through the payments banks will be basic banking services like acceptance of demand deposits such as current and savings accounts up to a balance of Rs 1 lakh, various kinds of payments, including social security payments like DBT payments, person to person remittances (both domestic and cross-border).

"Apart from these, financial products like insurance, mutual funds, pensions, credit etc may be distributed through third party tie ups with banks and other financial service providers especially in rural areas and among the under banked segments of the society," he added.

Regarding International Finance Corporation, a member of World Bank, has shown interest in picking up stake in the business, Prasad said some preliminary discussions had taken place but no formal proposal to this effect has been received.

Media report pay commission implementation within June/July

7th Pay Commission: Govt employees likely to get huge pay checks by June-July 2016.

Central government employees' wait to get higher salaries under the 7th Pay Commission will be over in two months.

As per a CNBC-TV18 report, hefty payouts are likely to happen between early June and late July this year.

Quoting government officials, the report said that the Empowered Group of Secretaries will likely to accept the pay commission's recommendations on salaries and pension payouts.

It may be recalled that the government had set up a high-powered panel headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha to process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission which will have bearing on the remuneration of 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.

The implementation of the new pay scales is estimated to put an additional burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore on the exchequer in 2016-17. Subject to acceptance by the government, they will take effect from January 1, 2016.

Source : Zee News

Rotational transfers for IPs issued in Hyderabad Region.

Regional Office Hyderabad has released the rotational transfers of IP cadre on 28.04.2016 vide memo no. PMG(H)/ST/6-5/IP/2016. Association congratulates all the Inspectors for being posted at their place of choice.

SLNO	Name & desgn	New place of posting
1	Y.Srinivas Naik IP Shadnagar	IP Mahabubnagar east
2	Prasun kumar IP Warangal	IP Godavarykhani
3	Md.Nayeemuddin IP Nalgonda North	IP Suryapet Est
4	L.Saidanaik IP Suryapet West	IP Nalgonda North
5	Noketo Rhesto IP SK. Nagar	IP Warangal North
6	E.Bhoomaiah IP Zahirabad	IP Shadnagar
7	Naveenkumar IP Mahabubnagar west	IP Suryapet West
8	M.Venkatram IP Medak South	IP (C&PG) Karimnagar
9	Subbhabrata Dinda IP Adilabad	IP Bellampalli

Four monthly/Bi-monthly meetings details.

1.      Four monthly meeting was held on 21.04.2016 with the Chief PMG and the following items discussed and administration assured to settle  them early.

a.       Training to all the  IP/ASPs on CBS and MECMISH ,

b.      Allotment of additional funds under head “TE” in r/o the divisions where TA bills pending for more than two years,

c.       Instructions to  the  Regional offices to fill the vacant mail overseer posts in the circle,

d.      HRA case of ASP Chirala & dharmavaram sub divisions.

2.      Bi-monthly meeting held on 25.04.2016 with the PMG Hyderabad.

a.       Restoration of ASP post at Karimnagar divisional office,

b.      Allotment of more TE funds to Karimnagar and Peddapalli divisions where NREGS funds not available.

c.       Irregular cut of TA bills amount.

Meeting held in connection with conduct of bi-annual conference of the association.

A meeting was held at Hyderabad on 25.04.2016 as scheduled.  This was in continuation of meeting held on 12.04.2016 pertaining to conduct of the bi-annual conference of the association. Important points discussed and approved in the meeting.

1. Tentative dates of bi-annual conference fixed on 04-05/06.2016.

2. Name of the Region came forward to conduct the meeting.  Hyderabad.

3. Place of meeting:  Warangal (Jointly to be conducted by Warangal, Hanamkonda and RMS "Z" divisions).

4. Next meeting to be held at Hanamkonda DO on 01.05.2016. As many as 12 members from Hyderabad City Region attending the meeting to have discussions and  assist formation of committees.

We appeal all the members of  Hyderabad Region to take part in the meeting to be held on at Hanamkonda on 01.05.2016 (Sunday) and make it a grand success since the meeting is being hosted by Hyderabad Region.

President,                         Secretary,                       Treasurer.

Dedication of Post Office Savings Bank ATM at Nalgonda Head Post Office

"DEDICATION OF POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK ATM AT NALGONDA HEAD POST OFFICE 508001 TO THE MEMBERS OF PUBLIC ON 22.04.2016 BY Dr.Y.P.RAI, I.Po.S., CHIEF POSTMASTER GENERAL, ANDHRA PRADESH CIRCLE"

India Post Telecast - NDTV 24x7

NDTV 24x7 news channel has done a story on India Post on the recent initiatives of the Department.

You may like to watch the same and also inform and circulate within your Circle/colleagues/friends/family and all those who are connected with us. 

In case you are in any closed Whats App group, you may also like to inform all the members of the group.

Channel : NDTV 24x7
Date : 23rd April 2016
Time : 1900 hours
Repeat Telecast: Sunday, 24th April 2016 at 1200 noon.

Central govt. employees can go on cruise tours with LTC money.

Mumbai: Aiming to increase cruise tourism, the Centre is mulling to include vacations on luxury ships under the Leave Travel Concession (LTC) scheme where government employees get their travel costs reimbursed.

"We are looking at including cruise tours under the LTC scheme. Employees can go on cruise ships at government expense," Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Suman Billa said during a session on tourism at the Maritime India Summit on Friday.

He said such a move will shore up the sagging numbers of tourists opting for cruise tours and will be a huge boost for the sector. Billa said for the five years between FY10 and FY14, there has been a 14 per cent decline in the number of tourists opting for cruise tours in the country, a trend the government wants to reverse.

In FY10, there were 55,000 domestic and 1.35 lakh foreign tourists who boarded cruise ships, which dropped to 45,000 and 70,000, respectively, in FY14, he said.

Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma today said presently only 0.40 per cent of the tourists in India opt for cruise tours, while India's share in the global cruise tourism market is 0.68 per cent. The government is targeting to take this up to 1 per cent by 2020 and further to 2 per cent later.

Most Indians "have a craze" towards cruise tourism, he said, adding that special emphasis has been laid on cruise tourism in the last 18 months.

Billa said a task force set up in November 2015 to increase cruise tourism is looking at various aspects, including developing infrastructure, simplifying procedures, increasing marketing and communication activities, and incentives and commissions.

The move to include holidays on cruise ships under the LTC is also one of the proposals the task force, chaired by tourism secretary and co-chaired by the shipping secretary, is looking into, he said.

Billa said India is best placed to take advantage of cruise tourism as it stands close to a busy route for cruise ships between the Middle East and South East Asian countries.

Source:http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/National/2016-04-15/Central-govt-employees-can-go-on-cruise-tours-with-LTC-money/221798

Rotational Transfers in the cadre of Inspector Posts in Vijayawada Region

R.O, Vijayawada has ordered the following transfers and Postings in Inspector Posts Cadre vide RO memo no ST-I/IPs/RT/2016 dated 21.04.2016.

 Association conveys best wishes to all the above inspectors on their transfer.  

Dr.BR.Ambedkar 125th Birthday celebrations.

125th birth day celebrations of Dr. BR.Ambedkar.

Chief PMG Dr. Y.P.Roy cutting birth day cake in a function held at Circle Office Hyderabad on 14 th April. PMG Hyderabad, PMG(BD), DPS Hyderabad, DA(P) Hyderabad also seen.

At SSRM Office, Hyderabad.

                                                 At mail Office, Kazipet, RMS 'Z' division.

                                                 
                                            At mail Office, Kazipet, RMS 'Z' division.

Return of assets and liabilities under Lokpal : Date extended upto 31st July'16

The date of filing returns of assets and liabilities for public servants under Lokpal has again extended from 15.07. 16 to 31.07.2016 vide gazette notification dated 11th April 2016.

Attestation Form for verification of character and antecedents prior to appointment in Government service

No. 18011/2(s)/201\6-Estt. (B)

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

Department of Personnel & Training

New Delhi, Date: 08th April, 2016.

To
Secretary,
Union Public Service Commission,
Dholpur House,
Shahjahan Road,
New Delhi - 110069.


Sir,

A large number of officers are appointed in Government of India through selection process conducted by recruiting agencies like UPSC. Once the list of successful candidates are recommended by these agencies, the appointing authorities undertake an exercise of verification of the character and antecedents of the candidates for which the recommended candidates has to fill up an Attestation Form
on which the verification is carried out. At present, the Attestation form includes Identity Certificate.

2. The undersigned has been directed to advice UPSC not to insist for an Identity Certificate and to dispense away with this provision (of the identity Certificate) in future.

3. This may also be posted on UPSC’s website for information of all concerned.

4. This has the approval of Secretary (P).

Yours faithfully,

sd/-

(N. Sriraman) 

Director

Source: http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/18011_2s_2016-Estt.B-08042016.pdf

DA orders released.

Ugadi greetings.

Association wishes all the members and viewers happy UGADI.

One rank one promotion- updates.

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its ex-post facto approval for implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP). The details are as follows: 

1. The benefit will be given with effect from 1st July, 2014. 

2. Pension will be re-fixed for pre 1.7.2014 pensioners retiring in the same rank and with the same length of service as the average of minimum and maximum pension drawn by the retirees in the year 2013. Those drawing pensions above the average will be protected. 

3. The benefit would also be extended to family pensioners including war widows and disabled pensioners. 

4. Personnel who opt to get discharged henceforth on their own request under Rule 13(3) 1(i)(b), 13(3) 1(iv) or Rule 16B of the Army Rule. 1954 or equivalent Navy or Air Force Rules will not be entitled to the benefits of OROP. It will be effective prospectively. 

5. Arrears will be paid in four half-yearly instalments. However, all the family pensioners including those in receipt of Special/Liberalized family pension and Gallantry award winners shall be paid arrears in one instalment. 

6. In future, the pension would be re-fixed every 5 year. 

7. Constitution of Judicial Committee headed by Justice L. Narasimha Reddy, Retd. Chief Justice of Patna High Court on 14.12.2015 which will give its report in six months on the references made by the Government of India. 

The implementation of OROP will result in enhanced pension for the pensioners/family pensioners of Defence Forces. The setting up of the Judicial Committee headed by Justice L. Narasimha Reddy will help in the removal of anomalies that may arise in the implementation of OROP order dated 7.11.2015. 

Financial implications on account of grant of OROP including Pre-Matured Retirees (PMR) cases would be Rs. 10925.11 crore for payment of arrears and annual financial implication would be Rs. 7488.7 crore. Till 31st March, 2016, 15.91 lakh pensioners have been given the first instalment of OROP, which amounts to Rs. 2,861 crore. Information is being gathered for processing on priority basis, the cases of 1.15 lakh pensioners after filling in the gaps of information such as the length of service being assessed, etc.

Source : PIB

Fresh copy of Constitution of All India Association of Inspectors and Assistant Superintendents Posts

-Proposals on Child Care Leave (CCL) and Maternity Leave

No. 13018/1/2014-Estt(L) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personnel & Training **** Old JNU Campus, New Delhi 110 067 Dated: 01.04.2016.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM. 

 This is regarding proposals on the subject of Maternity Leave and CCL that are under consideration in this Department. In this connection, a workshop was held in DoPT on 28.01.2016 with the stakeholder Departments on the following issues and the consensus emerged as follows:

 (a) Maternity/CCL in case of surrogacy: There is no provision at present for any kind of Leave for surrogate/commissioning mothers. It is proposed that 180 days maternity leave may be granted to the surrogate as well as commissioning mothers, in case either/both of them are Government servants. The commissioning mother also requires time for bonding with her child and to take care of him/her and hence would also become eligible for Child Care Leave. Paternity Leave may also be granted in case of surrogacy.

(b) Age Limit for CCL in case of disabled children: It is proposed that the age limit for CCL in case of disabled children needs to be done away with since the requirement of parental care may be more/stronger when the disabled child grows older. It may therefore be allowed to provide for CCL in the case of disabled children — the 'disability' being clearly defined by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment - without any age limit provided the maximum CCL that can be availed remains within the ceiling of 730 days.

 (c) Leaving HQ/availing LTC while on CCL: At present leavin g headquarters or availing LTC are not permissible during CCL. The underlying intent of CCL is to allow care of up to two children whether for rearing or to look after any of their needs like examination, sickness etc. Thus, it is not restricted to exam and sickness alone. Taking care may also include ensuring their rest and recreation and towards that objective leaving headquarters or availing LTC can be allowed. It is thus proposed that the employees may be permitted to leave headquarters/avail LTC while they are on CCL, provided clearances from appropriate competent authorities are taken while proceeding on foreign travel. (d) CCL minimum for at least five days: Vide this Department O.M. No.13018/6/2013-Estt.(L) dated 5 th June, 2014 the stipulation of the requirement of minimum period of 15 days' CCL has been removed. It is now proposed to introduce a minimum period of five days of CCL i.e., CCL henceforth may not be granted for less than 5 days. 2. Comments on the above proposals are solicited please.

(Mukul Ratra)

Director

SOME IMPORTANT BO RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY GDS

What are all the issues / lapses which will lead to issue of charge sheet ?

The following are the main issues / lapses which will cause issue of charge sheet to GDS and lead to trouble.

(1) Suppression of SB / RD deposits or delay in credit.

(Rule - 131, 141 & 143(3) of BO Rules)

(2) Suppression of money tendered for opening of accounts.

(Rule-145 (1), 129 & 130 of BO Rules)

(3) Suppression of RPLI premium.

(Rule-51A & 133 of BO Rules)

(4) fraudulent / forgery of SB / RD withdrawal.

(Rules - 134, 144, 143(8) & 136 of BO Rules)

(5) Failure to supervize the work of GDS MD by GDS BPM.

(Rule-9 of BO Rules)

(6) Shortage of Cash.

(Violation of Rule-11 of BO Rules)

(7) Fraudulent payment of Money Orders.

(Rule-121 (2) volume-VI part-III)

(8) Non maintenance of BO accounts.

(Rule-133 of BO Rules)

(9) Loss of Registered articles by GDS MD.

(Rule-86 of BO Rules)

(10)Non opening of BOs

(Rule-5 of BO Rules)

(11)Delay in credit of MS-87(a) by altering.

(Rule-104, 124, 133 & 134 of BO Rules)

(12)Non delivery of unregistered letter by GDSMD.

(Rule-66 of BO Rules)