Shri Vineet Pandey
(I.Po.S.-1986) PMG, SK Region, Karnataka Circle will hold additional charge of
GM (CEPT), Mysore until further orders as per Directorate Order No.
1-10/2009-SPG dated 16/08/2012.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
NFPE SOUTH ZONE STUDY CAMP AT CHENNAI ON 13th AND 14th OCTOBER, 2012.
NFPE South Zone Study Camp will be held at Chennai, T. Nagar on
13th and 14th October, 2012. Delegates from all
NFPE Unions from Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh Circles will
participate. NFPE Tamil Nadu Circle Coordinating Committee will function as
Reception Committee. Further details will follow. All concerned please note the
dates = M. Krishnan, Secretary General, NFPE.
How to think positive and improve your life
Most of us do no have the perfect job or the
perfect life that we have dreamt of living in the big city.
Hence, to pull through the day and do your best at your make-do job, you need to be motivated and encouraged to think positively. A lot can be achieved if you are an optimist, ask the big dreamers who believed and put their heart and soul in achieving their dreams. We give you the top 5 mantras for positive thinking.
Learning and growing: To begin our journey, we asked Life Coach, Malti Bhojwani, about her mantras for getting through life's difficult moments. She talks about one of her role models, Oprah Winfrey, and her mantra - Live your Best Life, "I love Oprah Winfrey, she has inspired me for decades and even more so when I chose the path of personal development and became a life coach."
Malti says, "To Live your Best Life is to: Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up, use what you already have to move towards being better, to evolving and growing your life."
To feel empowered: Empowering yourself involves positive thoughts and self-belief. Malti speaks highly of Helen Reddy's song - I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman, "She's Australian and her song though was popular since it came out in 1975, but then it was revived when Samantha, Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda performed it in the 2nd Sex And The Citymovie."
She says "Whenever you feel like you are unsure about doing something, try singing this in your head or out loud, if I had to, I can do anything, 'I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman'."
Replace negativity: When problems are thrown at us, pessimism automatically creeps in. We feel the problem is too overwhelming for us to solve and often go into depression.
In her upcoming book Don't Think of a Blue Ball, in the chapter on "replacing negativity," Malti writes, "Your self-talk means well, it just needs to be trained to use language effectively to help you manifest your desires instead of perpetuating your current results.
Not entertaining the negative chatter is great, but it is impossible to do unless you give yourself new scripts. You need to become like a sentry or watchman of your chatter and notice each disempowering one when they come up and then replace them with empowering ones. If I asked you now, 'whatever you do, DO NOT think of a blue ball,' what is the image you conjured up in your head? A blue ball! You cannot not think of something, without first thinking of it. Can you?
So as Mike Dooley says, Thoughts become Things, choose the good ones."
Combat stage fright or cold feet: Most of us feel tongue tied in front of an audience; we choke and the embarrassment is just too much to handle. Here, Malti gives us her secret, "My personal mantra when fearful or nervous 'Oh What The *#@+, go for it anyway'. I learnt this at a personal development intensive program I did many years ago, when I was younger, and it felt OK to swear when "pumped" up...now I say "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh what the heck, go for it anyway" and then chant it as I go for it. I often teach this to my clients and when I start it sounds like I'm about to say Om, so it is quite funny."
Perseverance: Obama believed in Yes We can, so did millions of Americans; this positive attitude made him the first African American President. But does perseverance simply mean that you think you can, or that you persist and keep trying till you do?
Bhojwani's mantra is, "I can and I will - I am not sure who coined this mantra, but I like this one for when I need to be focused and keep at a job or a practice to achieve a very specific goal.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.- Henry Ford
Saying 'I can' gives you the belief that you are capable and saying you will affirms that you have the desire to do it. Combined this is a super-powerful mantra to support you in shooting your target just like a archer on the battlefield, no matter that chaos is going on around him."
Hence, to pull through the day and do your best at your make-do job, you need to be motivated and encouraged to think positively. A lot can be achieved if you are an optimist, ask the big dreamers who believed and put their heart and soul in achieving their dreams. We give you the top 5 mantras for positive thinking.
Learning and growing: To begin our journey, we asked Life Coach, Malti Bhojwani, about her mantras for getting through life's difficult moments. She talks about one of her role models, Oprah Winfrey, and her mantra - Live your Best Life, "I love Oprah Winfrey, she has inspired me for decades and even more so when I chose the path of personal development and became a life coach."
Malti says, "To Live your Best Life is to: Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up, use what you already have to move towards being better, to evolving and growing your life."
To feel empowered: Empowering yourself involves positive thoughts and self-belief. Malti speaks highly of Helen Reddy's song - I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman, "She's Australian and her song though was popular since it came out in 1975, but then it was revived when Samantha, Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda performed it in the 2nd Sex And The Citymovie."
She says "Whenever you feel like you are unsure about doing something, try singing this in your head or out loud, if I had to, I can do anything, 'I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman'."
Replace negativity: When problems are thrown at us, pessimism automatically creeps in. We feel the problem is too overwhelming for us to solve and often go into depression.
In her upcoming book Don't Think of a Blue Ball, in the chapter on "replacing negativity," Malti writes, "Your self-talk means well, it just needs to be trained to use language effectively to help you manifest your desires instead of perpetuating your current results.
Not entertaining the negative chatter is great, but it is impossible to do unless you give yourself new scripts. You need to become like a sentry or watchman of your chatter and notice each disempowering one when they come up and then replace them with empowering ones. If I asked you now, 'whatever you do, DO NOT think of a blue ball,' what is the image you conjured up in your head? A blue ball! You cannot not think of something, without first thinking of it. Can you?
So as Mike Dooley says, Thoughts become Things, choose the good ones."
Combat stage fright or cold feet: Most of us feel tongue tied in front of an audience; we choke and the embarrassment is just too much to handle. Here, Malti gives us her secret, "My personal mantra when fearful or nervous 'Oh What The *#@+, go for it anyway'. I learnt this at a personal development intensive program I did many years ago, when I was younger, and it felt OK to swear when "pumped" up...now I say "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh what the heck, go for it anyway" and then chant it as I go for it. I often teach this to my clients and when I start it sounds like I'm about to say Om, so it is quite funny."
Perseverance: Obama believed in Yes We can, so did millions of Americans; this positive attitude made him the first African American President. But does perseverance simply mean that you think you can, or that you persist and keep trying till you do?
Bhojwani's mantra is, "I can and I will - I am not sure who coined this mantra, but I like this one for when I need to be focused and keep at a job or a practice to achieve a very specific goal.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.- Henry Ford
Saying 'I can' gives you the belief that you are capable and saying you will affirms that you have the desire to do it. Combined this is a super-powerful mantra to support you in shooting your target just like a archer on the battlefield, no matter that chaos is going on around him."
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
5 PROMOTIONS
{ EDITORIAL POSTAL LIFE – AUGUST - 2012}
In 1978, while entering in its Silver Jubilee Year, the NFPTE
had organised its P&T Convention at Patna. The demand of “3 Promotions at
10, 20 and 25 years” for P&T employees was coined in that National
Convention. This demand was necessitated by the fact that most of the P&T
employees were retiring without even getting a single promotion in their long
career in those days. The Clerical employees retired without even becoming LSG
and the Postmen were retiring without even promoted as Sorting Postman or Head
Postman / Mail Overseer Postman, the only hierarchical promotion available at
that time. After much negotiations and struggles, ultimately the Government
agreed two promotions and introduced TBOP and BCR Promotions on completion of
16 and 26 years. All P&T employees were thereafter ensured of at least two
promotions. But the movement had paid some price including major punishments to
cadres to win the demand of two promotions.
The introduction of TBOP and BCR promotions caused the
hierarchical promotion of Sorting Postman / Mail Overseer Postman etc
irrelevant as most of the Postmen staff attained TBOP and BCR promotion before
getting the only regular promotion available. The Department also discontinued
constituting the DPC to promote Postmen staff. Similar was the case with the
Group ‘D’ staff also, in whose case the promotion to Jamedar Group ‘D’ was
discontinued. Even though the Department had subsequently declared unilaterally
that the TBOP/BCR is not a promotion but only a scheme of financial upgradation
like ACP Scheme, the regular hierarchical promotional ladder was not
restored or updated to ensure regular promotion to Postman and Group ‘D’
cadres. However, the TBOP, BCR ensured two automatic upgradations financially.
Discriminatingly during the same time, the Officialdom did not
satisfy itself with the available two or three promotions in its career but
went ahead with repeated cadre restructuring schemes to ensure at least five
promotions for the cadre of Officers! We see that an IPS Officer entering as
SSPOs [Junior Time Scale Officer] in the Postal Department is ensured of five
promotions at least in his career as Senior Time Scale, DPS, PMG, Chief PMG,
Board Member and Director General. In Departments like Income Tax a Class I
officer who enters as Assistant Commissioner as an IRS Officer goes ahead
with the promotions like Deputy Commissioner, Joint Commissioner, Additional
Commissioner, Commissioner of Income Tax, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax,
Board Member in CBDT and Chairman of CBDT. This is the case with all
departments. The Government never cared for the promotional avenues of Group C
and D employees while going on improving the career advancement of top officers.
The 6th Pay Commission also not cared much for ending the
discrimination between the employees and officers in the central services. It
simply recommended for only improving the periodicity of ACP financial
upgradation from 12 and 24 years into 10 and 20 years through MACP. After much
discussion in the JCM Standing Committee, the Government made only a marginal
improvement by granting the third upgradation on completion of 30 years but
created a lot of anomalies including taking away the benefit of parity with
hierarchical promotions. The increase in number of up gradations to three
necessitated us to switch over from TBOP/BCR system to MACP Scheme though we
knew that under MACP the Promotees will not be granted equal number of up
gradations like a direct recruitment. We however embraced the MACP for its
benefits with the idea to focus the discrimination and set right it through our
organisational efforts. Now, with the historic judgment of Jodhpur CAT, we have
brighter chances of set righting the anomaly. But even that will not bring
parity with the Officers, who are ensured of at least five promotions.
It is in this background that the NFPE raised it in the National
Secretariat of the Confederation of CG Employees and the Confederation expanded
its Charter of Demands into 15 Points by including the demand of Grant of 5
Promotions to all employees in their career on par with the Officers. This is a
very important demand with far reaching implications in advancing the status of
the Group C employees including the Postman and MTS. The demand attains
much more importance in the background of our cadre restructuring issue
stagnating without any noticeable progress and at the initial level of
discussions only. Proper popularisation of this new demand of 5 Promotions
among all our membership is absolutely essential to create necessary tempo as
we know very well that only when a new idea grips the minds of the employees it
becomes a material force. We broke the stalemate in 1980s by strongly agitating
for 2 Promotions. Let us now embrace the new demand of 5 Promotions and make it
a reality soon. But everything depends on the rank and file organisation, which
alone can succeed not only in popularising the new demand but also rousing the
employees to agitate for the 15 Points charter of Confederation that focuses on
7th CPC, 50% merger of DA and grant of 5 Promotions etc. Time has come to end
the discrimination between top officers and the bottom employees on number of
promotions to advance the career prospects.
COMPUTERS AND INTERNET FACILITIES IN POST OFFICES
As on date, 24,969 Departmental Post Offices have been computerised. Out of
24,969 computerised Departmental Post Offices 22,177 Post offices are having
internet connectivity.
In Rajasthan Circle, 1320 Departmental Post Offices have been computerized and
out of these 1320 computerized Post offices 1299 have internet facility.
The Government has approved IT Modernization Project of Department of Posts. It
involves computerization and networking of all Post Offices through network
integrator of the project including Branch Post Offices in the rural area. The
roll out of the Project is expected in the year 2013-14 subject to finalization
of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for Rural Hardware, timely implementation of
the project and availability of funds.
This was stated by Shri Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State in the Ministry of
Communication and Information Technology in response to a written question in
Rajya Sabha today.
BK/AT
(Release ID :86707)(PIB 24 Aug-2012)
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