Latest Census of Group wise Central Government Employees...

Latest position of group wise Central Government Civilian Employees working in Central Government Departments as on March 2011...

As per the latest information available, the estimated number of Group A, B, C and erstwhile Group D regular Central Government Civilian Employees (including Union Territories) is given below...

Group           As on 1st March 2001          As on 1st March 2011
A                        73,174                                               87,410
B                     1,51,727                                            2,05,523
C                   22,27,233                                          28,56,347#
D                   10,34,826 -
(# After implementation of 6th CPC, erstwhile Group D posts have been categorized as Group C)

ABOLITION OF 17093 POSTS IN THE DEPARTMENT -PROTEST DEMONSTRATION

NFPE - FNPO

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS ISSUED ORDERS

TO ABOLISH 2/3rd POSTS KEPT VACANT FOR THE YEARS 2005 to 2008

TOTAL POSTS TO BE ABOLISHED - 17093

CONDUCT PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRONT OF

ALL CIRCLE/REGIONAL/DIVISIONAL OFFICES ON 28-12-2012

As per Government of India orders on Downsizing of Central Government Services, Screening Committee for filling up/aboliotion of posts was constituted in the year 2001 and Annual Direct Recruitment (ADR) plan was approved by the Screening committeefor each year from 2001 to 2008. Screening Committee cleared only 1/3rd vacancies for direct recruitment and balance 2/3rd posts were ablished as per its recommendations.

Accordingly Department of Posts abolished 2/3rd vacant posts from 2001 to 2004. Regarding the abolition of 2/3 rd vacant posts from 2005 to 2008, Postal Department & Communication Ministry requested Finance Ministry to grant exemption to Department of Posts from abolishing the vacant posts from 2005 to 2008, as it is an operative Department dealing with the general public and customers. 2/3rd posts earmarked for abolition from 2005 to 2008 are kept vacant (but not abolished) pending decision of the Finance Ministry.

The ban on recruitment was lifted and the Screening Committee was abolished in the year 2009. Government of India issued orders to fill up all vacant posts for the year from 2009 onwards. Accordingly, Department of Posts, issued orders to fill up all vacancies for the year 2009 and 2010. Orders are also issued to fill up all vacant posts for the year 2011 and 2012. But, at the same time, Directorate issued clear instructions to all Chief PMGs that posts kept vacant for the year from 2005 to 2008 should not be filled up under any circumstances but should be kept vacant. (for abolition).

Finance Ministry has now made it clear that no permission or exemption will be granted to any department including Department of Posts to fill up the posts kept earmarked for abolition as per the Screening Committee recommendations. Accordingly Department of Posts has now issued orders to abolish all the 2/3rd vacant posts (Total 17093 posts for four years) for the year 2005 to 2008. Cadrewise break-up figure of the posts to be abolished is furnished below:

IP Postal - 1                                      Driver Grade III - 14

PA Postal - 5010                                Driver MMS - 84

PA SBCO - 385                                  Postal Accounts - JA - 125

PA CO/RO - 138                               LDC - 186

PA RLO - 11                                      Group D - 118

PA Fgn Post - 18                               Sorter - 31

PA MMS - 12                                    Hindi Typist - 1

Steno - 2

SA RMS - 1259                                 Steno Group C - 43

POSTMAN - 3230                             Jr. Hindi Translator - 8

Hindi Typist - 1

Group D Postal - 4407

Group D RMS - 1336 All others - 411

Group D MMS - 81

Group D CO/RO - 67                                        Total - 17093

Group D PSD/CSD- 90

Group D Others - 24

CONDUCT PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS ON 28-12-2012

SEND SAVINGRAMS to Minister, Communications and Secretary, Department of Posts

TEXT OF SAVINGRAM

STRONGLY PROTEST THE ABOLITION OF 17093 POSTS in Department of Posts XXX UNABLE TO MANAGE THE DAY-TO-DAY WORK XXX REQUEST TO REVIEW THE ORDERS AND RESTORE THE POSTS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT = .......... Branch/Divisional/Circle Secretary.

D. THEAGARAJAN                                          M. KRISHNAN

Secretary General FNPO                                   Secretary General NFPE

Congratulations

2012ರ ಪೋಸ್ಟಲ್ ಅಸಿಸ್ಟೆಂಟ್ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮ  ವಿಭಾಗದ ಈ ಕೆಳಕಂಡವರು ಉತ್ತೀರ್ಣರಾಗಿರುತ್ತಾರೆ .

೧. ಶ್ರೀ ಬಸವರಾಜಪ್ಪ, ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾನ್ ವಿನೋಬನಗರ, ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ 
೨. ಶ್ರೀ ಟಿ ಎನ್ .ನಾಗರಾಜ್, ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾನ್ , ಭದ್ರಾವತಿ ಪೇಪರ್ ಟೌನ್ 
೩. ಶ್ರೀ ಮಹಾವೀರ, ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾನ್, ಸಾಗರ  ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಕಛೇರಿ .
೪. ಶ್ರೀ ಕೃಷ್ಣಮೂರ್ತಿ , ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾನ್, ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಕಛೇರಿ 
೫. ಶ್ರೀ ವಿ. ದಿನೇಶ್, ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮ್ಯಾನ್, ಸಾಗರ  ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಕಛೇರಿ

                ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ನಮ್ಮ ಸಂಘದ ಸದಸ್ಯರೇ ಆಗಿದ್ದು, ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಹಾರ್ದಿಕ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು.  ಮುಂದಿನ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಶ್ರೇಯಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಇವರುಗಳು ಪಡೆಯಲಿ ಎಂದು ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಹಾರೈಸುತ್ತದೆ.

Revision of Instant Money order tariff w.e.f 22/12/2012

Remittance Slab                             Revised Tariff
Rs.1000-10000                                        Rs.100
Rs.10001-30000                                      Rs.110
Rs.30001-50000                                      Rs.120

MODERNISATION AND DIVERSIFICATION OF POST OFFICES

The Department of Posts has decided to improve Look and Feel of its post offices through Project Arrow. The project has been launched by modernizing departmental post offices across the country in a phased manner with an aim to make visible, tangible and noteworthy differences in post office operations that matter to ‘Aam Aadmi’. It aims at comprehensive improvement of the core operations of the post office as well as the ambience in which postal transactions are undertaken.           The number of post offices covered for modernization under ‘Look & Feel’ component of ‘Project Arrow’ during the last three years is as follows: 2009-10  -  500 post offices covered 2010-11  -  530 post offices covered 2011-12  -  206 post offices covered           The Department is diversifying activities in post Office to earn additional revenue which is an on-going process. The IT Platform set up under the IT project will support new products and services. It had diversified its activities to utilize its vast network to sell products and services for other organizations like: 1.     Booking of Railway reserved tickets. 2.     UID enrolment/Delivery of AADHAAR cards. 3.     Selling of passport forms in identified post offices. 4.     Accepting of utility bills in identified post offices. 5.     Disbursement of wages to MGNREGA beneficiaries through Post Office Savings            bank 6.     Collection of Rural Price Index Data – the data so collected are electronically         ransmitted to Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation. 7.     Payment of old age pension paid by State Government through Post Office Savings         Account and through Money Orders. 8.     Sale of gold Coins. 9.     Provision of New Pension Scheme through Post Officers, etc.           This information was given by Dr (Smt.) Killi Kruparani, Minister of State for C&IT in written reply to a question in Rajya   Sabha today. ******** MV/RK (PIB)

Reduction in Commission of PPF agents to make the Schemes more Investor Centric than Agent Centric

The recommendation of Shyamala Gopinath Committee regarding agents’ commission was to reduce commission of 0.5% on Senior Citizens Saving Scheme (SCSS) and 1% on Public Provident Fund (PPF) to zero, reduce 4% commission under Mahila Pradhan Kshetriya Bachat Yojana (MPKBY) to 1% in a phased manner and to reduce 1% commission for all other schemes under Standardised Agency System (SAS) to 0.5%. The Government, after consulting all the stakeholders and the representations received, has decided to reduce the commission under PPF and SCSS to zero and under SAS to 0.5%. However, commission under MPKBY continues to be at 4% for the time being.

The main intention of these recommendations is to make these schemes more investor centric than agent centric.

Representations of Small Savings Agents’ Association from various states including Mumbai were received in the past. Taking into account large number of representations received from Small Savings Agent’s Associations, Members of Parliament, other dignitaries and others, the Government accepted most of the recommendations of the Committee.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Finance Shri Namo Narain Meena in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

Bonus ceiling Rs. 3500/- to GDS.

GDS employees will get bonus ceiling at par with departmental staff. Bonus ceiling Rs. 3500/- to GDS  file cleared by MOF. 2.7 lakh GDS staff will be benefited.  congratulation to those who have conducted hystoric strike.  Remember success will follow for all struggles.  be prepare for further struggles.

New Format Cheques will be valid from 1.1.2013.

New Format Cheques CTS-2010 Standards will be implemented from 1st January, 2013.

CTS- 2010 Standards implementation : Standardisation and Enhancement of Security Features in Cheque Forms, the introduction and implementation of additional security features on cheque forms will commence from 1.1.2013, this Guidance Note will be called CTS-2010.

Important things on new cheque leaf as follows...
A) Water Mark (to be incorporated at the paper manufacturing stage)
B) Void Pantograph ( at printing stage)
C)Ultra-violet logo of Bank(at printing stage)
D) Standardized field placements of a cheque
E) Cheque printing colours and background.
F) Microlettering.
G) New Rupee Symbol at CAR (Courtesy Amount Recognition) amount in figure field.
H) Printer Name along with CTS – 2010

What would be benefit of cheque truncation to customers of banks?
Before we answer this question, we have to understand the present system of cheque clearance. The cheques presented by customers, today, are sent to the clearing house at the drawee centres by the beneficiaries' bank. The cheques at the bigger cities, in view of the large volume of paper instruments, are subjected encoding and then to mechanical sorting and thereafter reach the drawee branches.

As per the existing banking practice, these instruments received at the counters of the drawee branches are paid or returned by them. The returned instruments are passed on to the presenting customers through the process of a return clearing. Only after the return clearing process gets over, banks release the credit to the customers. The beneficiaries' account gets credited on the same day on which the drawees' account gets debited; however, the beneficiary is permitted to use the proceeds only after the return clearing process.

With the introduction of the imaging and truncation, the physical movement of instruments would be stopped and the electronic movement of images of cheques would speed up the process of settlements and ultimately alter the clearing cycles. The clearing cycle could be shortened and it would be possible for customers to realize the proceeds of cheques early. Thus cheque truncation would reduce effectively the time of float, i.e. time from the point of issue of cheque to the point of time the actual debit takes place. In case such clearing is introduced across the cities, it would ensure the realisation of inter-city instruments faster thus ensuring early availability of funds to beneficiaries.

Thus the benefits could be summarized as:
a) Faster clearing cycle;
b) Better reconciliation/verification process
c) Better Customer Service ñ Enhanced Customer Window
d) T+0 for Local Clearing and T + 1 for inter-city clearing.
e) Elimination of Float - Incentive to shift to Credit Push payments.
f) The jurisdiction of Clearing House can be extended to the entire country - No Geographical Dependence
g) Operational Efficiency will benefit the bottom lines of banks - Local Clearing activity is a high cost no revenue activity.
 h) Minimizes Transaction Costs.
i) Reduces operational risk by securing the transmission route.

 

Source:AIAIP/ASPsA