Meeting with the Secretary (Posts) on 11-08-2011

Today, the Secretary (Posts) took meeting with our Association at 15:00 Hrs. I alongwith Shri Dinesh Khare, President, Shri Ajit Kumar, C.S. Kerala and Shri Rajdeo Prasad, C.S.Bihar attended the meeting. All items included in our Charter of Demands were discussed in detail. View of the Secretary (Posts) was positive towards our demands.

Official minutes of the meeting will be published on the blog on the receipt of the same from the Department. The Secretary (Posts) informed that upgradation of Grade Pay of IP from Rs.4200 to Rs.4600 will be only possible after merger of the post of IP and ASP. The Secretary (Posts) also assured us that a committee will be constituted for restructuring of IP cadre. The Secretary (Posts)  agreed to examine the issue of supply of Laptop to all IPs / ASPs other than Sub Divisional Heads. 

She directed the DDG(P) / Director(SPN) to discuss the issue of quota of IP Line in PS Group "B" examination on introduction of Postmaster Cadre in Postal Wing.  Accordingly, matter was discussed in the chamber of the DDG(P) but could not be resolved.

Roop Chand

General Secretary 

No proposal to increase the Retirement Age of Central Government Employees from 60 to 62

The Central Government clarified that there is no proposal to extend the retirement age of Central Government Employees.
In Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena told that the total number of Central Government Employees as on March, 2010 was 32.24 Lakh and “at present we have no idea to increase the retirement age of Central Government Employees from 60 to 62”.

Promotion of IPO/IRM/General Line officails to PS Group B on the basis of result of LDCE for the vacancy year 2010 held on 29-05-2011

Postal Directorate has issued Circle allotment order vide No.9-34/2011-SPG dated 05.08.2011 as below.

Name  (S/Shri)             Home Circle             Circle Allotted

1 A Subramanyam              AP                            AP

2 Ranjeet Singh            Haryana                     Haryana

3 Narsingh Mahto           Bihar                        Bihar

4 Vipin Malhotra         Directorate                PLI Directorate

5 R Padmanabhan       North East                North East

6 Megh Raj Mittal         Haryana                  Haryana

7 Narinder Kumar       Himachal Pradesh        Punjab

8 Siva Venkateshwara Rao Kande AP          AP

9 Jawahar Singh                UP                       UP

10 Kulbhushan Kakar        Punjab               Punjab

11 Hymavathi Gollamudi     AP                     AP

12 Sawraj Kaur               Punjab              Punjab

13 Mallad Hari Prasad Sarma AP                AP

14 Basantha Kumar Panda  Orissa              Orissa

15 Charu Mitra                UP                      UP

16 Manoj Kumar Naik      Orissa               Orissa

17 Rati Kanta Swain           Orissa             Jharkand

18 Pawan Kumar Sharma      Rajasthan       Gujarat

19 Satyaharishandrudu Gumpu   AP               AP

20 Trilochan ray                      Orissa          Gujarat

21 Ramachander Phogat      Haryana            Directorate

22 Janapala Prasad Babu         AP                  AP

23 Ugrasem                             UP                 UP

24 B Narasappa                     AP                  AP

25 Ponmuru Viswanathan      AP                   AP

Central Working Committee Meeting

As intimated by Sh. Rajdeo Prasad, Circle Secretary, Bihar Circle, venue of the CWC will be Patna. CHQ will issue notice shortly for holding of the same on 23.09.2011 & 24.09.2011.Exact venue will be mentioned in the notice.

All Circle Secretaries and CHQ Office Bearers are requested to kindly get their tickets booked for inward/outward journey immediately.

Roop Chand 
  G. S.

Transfer/posting of officers of PS Group "B" cadre

Postal Directorate has issued following transfers/postings in Postal Service Group "B" grade vide No. 9-3/2011-SPG Dated 03.08.2011.

S No.	Name of the officer(S/Shri)	Circle of Present Posting	Circle Allotted on Transfer
1.	K. Sathimoorthy	Kerala	Tamilnadu
2.	S. Ravi	Postal Directorate	Tamilnadu
3.	M. Mustafa	Kerala	Tamilnadu
4.	L. Amlachandran	Kerala	Tamilnadu
5.	T.Selvaraj	A.P.	Tamilnadu
6.	R.Thiraviraj	A.P.	Tamilnadu
7.	S. Grururajan	A.P.	Tamilnadu
8.	V.Balaraman	A.P.	Tamilnadu

 The above mentioned officers will be relieved only after their relievers will join their posts.

Transfer /postings in JAG of IPoS, Group "A"

Postal Directorate has issued following transfer/posting in the JAG of IPoS Group 'A' vide No. 2-8/2011-SPG Dated 05-08-2011

S No.	Name of Officer(Mr./Ms.)	Presently Posted	Posting on Transfer	Remarks
1.	B. Sarangi(1989)	AGM,PLI Dte. ( Designate)	DPS, Dharwad	Post restored
2.	M. Venkateswarulu(1992)	DPS ,Allahabad (Designate)	AGM,PLI Dte.	Vice Sh B. Sarangi  tfd
3.	Swati M. Pandey(1997)	DPS, Bhopal(Designate)	DPS Ajmer	Vice Sh R. P. Gupta tfd
4.	Prannoy Sharma(1998)	Director (MB) Postal Dte.	Director (PO) Postal Dte.	Vice Sh Neeraj Kr.proceeding on deputation
5.	R. P. Gupta(1999)	DPS Ajmer	DPS, Bhopal	Vice Ms Swati M Pandey tfd
6.	T. Nirmala Devi(2000)	Director, PTC, Madurai	DPS(SP&Mails) Chennai	Vice Sh Parimal Sinha  tfd
7.	Parimal Sinha(2001)	DPS(SP&Mails) Chennai	Director (MB) Postal Dte.	Vice Sh Prannoy Sharma tfd
8.	Sumitha Ayodhya(2002)	DPS (BD&Mktg) Orissa Circle(Designate)	DPS, Chennai City Region	Vice Ms J. Charukeshi  proceeded on CCL

Transfer/posting in the SAG of IPoS, Group "A"

Postal Directorate has issued following transfer/posting in the SAG of IPoS Group 'A' vide No. 1-2/2009-SPG Dated 05-08-2011

S No.	Name of Officer(Mr./Ms.)	Presently Posted	Posting on Transfer	Remarks
1.	B.V.Sudhakar(IPoS-1981)	PMG,SB Region,WB Circle(Designate)	PMG(BD,Tech&Mkg) WB Circle	Vice Sh. M. Sampath  tfd
2.	Meera Handa(IPoS-1982)	DDG(CP&PO)	DDG(Phil)	Vice Ms. Devika Kumar  tfd
3.	Aindri Anurag(IPoS-1988)	On Study Leave	DDG(CP&PO)	Vice Ms. Meera Handa tfd
4.	M. Sampath(IPoS-1988)	PMG(BD,Tech&Mkg) WB Circle	PMG,SB Region,WB Circle	Vice Sh. B.V.Sudhakar tfd

Meeting of Secretary (P) with All India Association of Inpsectors and Assistant Superintedents Posts to Discuss its charter of demands.

Copy of Postal Directorate letter No. 01/01/2011-SR dated 03.08.20011  addressed to the General Secretary   is reproduced below for information.

Subject:- Meeting of Secretary (P) with All India Association of Inpsectors and Assistant Superintedents Posts to Discuss its charter of demands.

Secretary(P) will take a Meeting with office-bearers of All India Association of Inspectors and Assistant Superintendents Post on 11.08.2011 at 1500 hrs to discuss the issues raised by the Association in its charter of demands,

Please make it convenient to attend the Meeting.

          -sd-

(Subhash Chander)

Director(SR & Legal)

Grant of leave to the staff working under HSG-I Postmaster

No 51-4/2011- SPB – 11

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg

New Delhi – 110001

Dated 01-08-2011

To,

1. All Chief Postmasters General
2. All Postmasters General

Sub: Grant of leave to the staff working under HSG I Postmaster.

Sir / Madam,

It is observed that HSG.I Postmaster is competent to grant only casual leave to the staff working under him/her. The applications for grant of other kind of leave to staff are forwarded by him/her to the Division office for approval. It has been brought to the notice of the Directorate that at times the said procedure takes time and  if such officials who donot have casual leave left in their accounts want to proceed on earned leave immediately to some unforeseen circumstances, they face problems in proceeding on leave at short notice.

2. The matter has been looked into. It has been decided by the competent authority in the Directorate that in such pressing circumstances, HSG I Postmasters while recommending earned leave may relieve the official of his duties in anticipation of grant of leave by the competent authority, provided :

I. The earned leave applied for by the individual is not for more than the period of three days.

II. No substitute is required in case the official proceeds on leave.

III. The leave may be recommended by the HSG I Postmaster by recording that it is being recommended subject to the availability of leave in the credit of the applicant.

IV. The official may be relieved after duly following the procedure of handing/taking over of the charge.

V. If later on the sanctioning authority finds that the official does not have the leave applied for to his credit he should obtain the revised application from the individual for the kind of leave he/she is entitled to at the earliest.

VI. If the official needs earned leave for more than three days or wants to extend the earned leave beyond three days he should apply for same well in advance so that it is sanctioned as per the existing procedure.

Yours faithfully,

                                                                                                                                   -Sd-

(B.P.Sridevi)

Director (Staff)

Expected DA from July-2011

Additional Dearness Allowance for Central Government employees and pensioners will be enhanced by 7% from July-2011. The Cabinet Committee will decide by the second week of the September,2011.

Central Working Committee Meeting

In the last CWC meeting held at Ambaji (Guj.), Maharashtra Circle branch came forward for holding next CWC meeting at Shirdi. Now, Circle Secretary, Maharashtra Circle has informed through SMS that "due to ill health unable to hold CWC in Maharashtra. I am extremely sorry. Waited for recovery of health but not improved.. Ingale. "


In view of above situation, CHQ has requested the Circle Secretary, Bihar Circle branch for holding the CWC in Bihar. Sh. Rajdeo Prasad, Circle Secretary has accepted the request of the CHQ. Bihar Circle branch is making arrangements for holding of CWC. Exact dates and venue of the CWC will be intimated shortly after confirmation from Bihar Circle branch.
      
ROOP CHAND
General Secretary

On-line processing of Recruitment Rules - Formulation/amendment.

                                                                                                                         MOST IMMEDIATE

                                   No. AB.14017/63/2007-Estt(RR)

                                      Government of India

                Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

                            Department of Personnel and Training

                                      New Delhi

                                    Dated the 28th July, 2011

                                         OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- On-line processing of Recruitment Rules - Formulation/amendment.

     The Department of Personnel and Training in consultation with NIC has developed a software package for submitting the proposals for framing/amendment of RRs in the on-line process In the first phase, 15 Ministries/Departments had been included and proposals on RRs from these Ministries/Departments are being processed on line before considering them for final approval in the concerned file received physically. A copy of the User Manual on Recruitment Rules Formulation

      Amendments Monitoring system (RRFAMS) prepared by the NIC, DOPT is enclosed

2.  It is now proposed to extend the software to all the Ministries/Departments for which a Workshop is proposed to be conducted in ISTM during September, 2011 for hands-on experience of the software package. The proposals on framing/amendment of RRs from the Ministries/Departments shall require to be submitted on-line and which shall be examined by this Department on-line. Once it is approved in the on-line system, the files need to be sent along with the printout of the RRs approved for formal approval by this Department.

3. It is requested that the Ministries/Departments may identify the concerned nodal officers (not below the level of Section Officer) who shall be dealing with formulation of Recruitment Rules etc for deputing them to the Workshop alongwith the officers from NIC in the Ministry/Department. The exact dates of the workshop will be intimated soon.

                                                                                                                               sd/-

                                                                                                                         (Smita )

                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                        Director (E.I)

Source : www.persmin.nic.in

[http://persmin.gov.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/14017_63_2007-Estt-RR-2807

Hike rate of return on GPF: Parliamantal Panel

A Parliamentary panel today asked the Central government to increase the rate of return on provident fund for its employees in the light of rising bank rates and EPFO's decision to hike its rate to 9.5% for 2010-11.

"The rate of interest on General Provident Fund (GPF) which is pegged at 8% may be reviewed so that government employees are not put to any disadvantage more so now when the interest rates for bank deposits has also been raised," the Standing Committee on Finance suggested in its report.

If the suggests of the panel finds favour from the government, over 50 lakh Centre's employees will stand to benefit.

The panel headed by former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, pointed out that retirement fund body Employees Provident Fund Organiation has also increased rate of interest on PF deposits to 9.5% for 2010-11 from 8%.

The EPFO had been paying 8.5% interest on PF deposits since 2005-06. In September last year, it had recommended an increase in interest rate to 9.5% for 2010-11 after discovering Rs 1,731 crore surplus in their books of accounts.

In the present scenario, the bank rates are also increasing. Reserve Bank of India has increased its short term lending and borrowing rates by half a percentage point to 8 and 7%, respectively in its recent quarterly review unveiled on July 26.

Following the central bank's rate hike, some private and public sector have also hiked their rates.

Source : Business Standard, August 2, 2011