Wednesday, September 10, 2014
IP AND LGO EXAMINATION POSTPONED
IP Examination, 2014
LGO Examination
Most Urgent
FILE No. A-34012/04/2014-DE
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT
Department of Posts
(Recruitment Division)
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi – 110 001
Dated : 9th September, 2014
To,
All Heads of Circles
Sub: Conducting of Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of Inspector Posts (66.66%) Departmental quota for the year 2014 o be held on 20th and 21stSeptember, 2014 and LGO Examination, 2014 proposed to be held on 21st September, 2014.
Sir/Madam,
I am directed to refer this office letter No. A-34012/03/2014-DE and A-34012/04/2014-DE dated 3rd June, 2014 wherein the notifications for holding Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion of LGO to the cadre of PA/SA for the year 2014 to be held on 21st September, 2014 and LDCE for promotion to the cadre of Inspector posts for the year 2014 on 20th and 21st September, 2014 were issued.
2. The Outsourced Agency, M/s CMC Ltd. has intimated that conduct of the above mentioned examination on the scheduled dates is not feasible. Therefore, the Competent Authority has ordered to postpone both the departmental examinations. The revised dates would be intimated shortly.
3. This issues with the approval of the Competent Authority.
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(M. C. Pandey)
Assistant Director General (DE)
Copy to :-
F. No. A-34012/03/2014-DE (Main file of conducting of LGO Examination, 2014
Postal Department doesn't have manpower to execute RTI Act
Nearly 13 months after Central Information Commission (CIC) directed to issue Right to Information (RTI) stamps instead of Indian Postal Orders and bank drafts or cheques to seek information from government departments, the Department of Posts has said printing presses don't have papers to print stamp papers.
The reply, which the Department of Posts has given for non-compliance to the RTI filed by Delhi-based civil activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal, says: "Both the security printing presses at Nasik and Hyderabad do not have paper to print RTI stamps!'' To this reply, Agarwal took a dig at the postal department saying, "these two presses have sufficient paper to print postal stamps for some foreign countries, apart from adequately equipped for printing commemorative and definitive-series stamps regularly with some stamps like on Sachin Tendulkar printed within a few days of decision-taken, but not for RTI, clearly a discrimination against the game-changer Act and disrespect to the CIC direction.''
On August 27, 2013, the CIC had clearly directed Secretary, Department of Posts, that "RTI applications be accepted in all its 25,000-odd post offices across the country and the RTI stamp of the denomination of Rs.10 be used instead of postal orders and this would be time and cost-effective step.'' But the postal department has its own set of reasons for not issuing the RTI stamps so far.
"The issue of RTI stamps is under examination. A committee has been set up by the Secretary (Posts). All stamps are printed by India Security Press at Nasik and Hyderabad. But currently, both presses are out of stamp papers and the printing of postal stamps has been adversely affected by this. Hence, the matter be raised by the DOP&T with the CMD of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India (SPMCI) Limited and the Finance Secretary under whose charge SPMCI Ltd operates,'' says the RTI reply by Postal Department.
It also hinted at logistics hurdles as opening nearly 25,000 postal offices for this purpose would demand "dedicated manpower and official infrastructure, including computers, which requires cost. In fact, Department of Posts admitted that it has got "no manpower and extra remuneration even to execute RTI Act by accepting those applications and issuing postal orders for the same through its 4,700 designated post offices.'' The onus thus clearly falls on the government to give mandate, manpower and money to execute CIC direction in its right spirit.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
IMPORTANT CAT JUDGEMENT
DECLINING REGULAR PROMOTION BEFORE THE DATE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF
ACP OR MACP SCHEME SHOULD NOT BE A BAR FOR GRANTING ACP/MACP
Refusal to accept promotion, earlier to 09.08.1999 when the ACP
scheme was promulgated, does not make an employee ineligible for grant of first
financial benefits under ACP scheme when the scheme came into force only on
09.08.1999
Facts: The Applicant (who was appointed on 08.03.1980),
while working as Radio Mechanic in India Meteorological Department refused his
promotion due to family circumstances, when his promotion order was issued on
30.07.1998.
The Assured career Progression Scheme came into force on
09.08.1999. The Applicant having completed 12 years of service and stagnating
in the same post of Radio Mechanic was rejected for the financial benefit of
ACP on the ground that he refused his promotion when offered on 30.07.1998
earlier to the introduction of ACP scheme on 09.08.1999.
Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACP) was introduced
for financial upgradation on 19.05.2009. As per this scheme, an employee will
be entitled for three financial upgradation after completion of 10, 20 and 30
years of continuance of service. The Applicant became eligible for 1st ACP in 2000 and 2nd MACP in 2010. The grievance of the
Applicant is that, he was denied 1st ACP and 2nd MACP. Hence he filed this OA
challenging the Office Orders 10/11-12-2008 and 20-9-2010 whereby he was denied
the financial upgradation.
The Respondents state that he refused promotion issued by Order
dated 30.07.1998. In terms of DoP&T O. M. No. 35034/1/1997 Establishment
(D) (Vol. IV), dated 18.07.2001, the Applicant cannot be said to stagnate in
the same post. Hence the 1st ACP
benefits was refused. The Applicant annexed the judgement of Bombay Bench of
the Tribunal as appeared in Swamynews of July, 2008.
The Bombay Bench of the CAT held that “If an employee has refused
the promotion before the enforcement of ACP Scheme, the facts would remain that
he has actually not been given any financial upgradation which he could have
been before regular promotion. He remains on the scale of pay still stagnated”.
In view of this clarification, the clarification of Respondents cannot be
accepted. Ernakulam Bench of CAT in OA No. 768 of 2005 considered condition No.
10 makes it amply clear that if an employee is accepting ACP benefit, he is
deemed to have given unqualified acceptance for regular promotion on occurrence
of vacancy subsequently”. That precludes factoring of past refusal while given
ACP benefit.
In view of the above, refusals of promotion earlier to 9-8-1999,
has no effect on the grant of financial benefit under ACP scheme. Hence, the
clarification given no Doubt No. 38 by DoP&T cannot be accepted in this
case as the Applicant herein refused promotion earlier to the coming of ACP
Scheme. In that view, refusal of grant of 2nd financial upgradation under MACP
scheme amount to punishing him for the second time. Hence, the eligibility of
benefits under ACP scheme has to be recknoned on the actual date namely
9-8-1999. Hence declaining promotion earlier to 9-8-1999 is no reason to deny
the first ACP introduced on 9-8-1999. Hence, a direction was given to
Respondents to grant the Applicants benefits under the ACP scheme irrespective
of the fact of their refusal of promotion earlier to 9-8-1999. Time given for
implementation was 6 weeks.
In view of the above, same relief given by Bombay Bench is to be
followed in this case also.
In the result, the impugned Order, dated 10/11-12-2008 and
20-9-2010 are set aside. The Respondents are directed to grant financial
benefits under the ACP scheme to the Applicant in 12 weeks from the date of receipt
of this order.
This the OA stands allowed.
(Shri. Ganesh Bhavrao Shrote v. Secretary, Ministry of Earth
Sciences Mausam Bhavan, New Delhi, New Delhi, 8/2014, SwamynewS 98, (Bombay),
date of judgement 5-8-2013)
NB: Reproduced from Swamy’s News August 2014-Tribunal Judgements
Government considering amendments to Minimum Wages Act
New Delhi: The government is considering a proposal to amend the Minimum
Wages Act 1948, the Lok Sabha was informed on August 11. "The proposal to
amend the Minimum Wages Act 1948 is under consideration," Labour and
Employment Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
Under the provisions of Minimum Wages Act 1948, both central and state
governments are appropriate governments to fix, review and revise mimimum wages
of workers employed in the scheduled employment under their respective jurisdiction,
Tomar said.
The appropriate governments
have been empowered to notify any employment in the schedule where the number
of employees is 1,000 or more in a state and fix rates of minimum wages in
respect to employees employed therein, he said. The minister said that
presently there are 45 scheduled employments under central sphere and the
workers employed in various mini cement plants and petroleum products outlets
are not included in the scheduled employment of central spehere.
The rates of minimum wages
fixed by central government are applicable to establishments under its
authority, railways administration, mines, oilfields, major ports and
corporations created under Acts of Parliament, he said. In the unskilled
section of agriculture sector, rates of wages including Variable Dearness
Allowance per day w.e.f April 1, 2014, are Rs 215, Rs 195 and Rs 193 in Area A,
Area B and Area C respectively. Similarly for the highly skilled in the same
sector, it is Rs 283, 262 and Rs 235 for Areas A, B and C respectively, he
said.
Replying to another question,
Tomar said that there are 56,90,636 beedi workers in the country as on July 31,
2014, in various states. Under various medical assistance given to the beedi
workers for different diseases, 31,74,440 workers benefited from various health
schemes in 2013-14. He said that there were 4,96,416 beneficiaries under
educational schemes in 2013-14 while the number of beneficiaries under group
insurance scheme in the same period was 7,02,320.
Source: Deccan Chronicle News
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