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Monday 25 January 2016


India Post is going to announce about 20000 vacancies soon

Great news for all the government jobs aspirants as Indian Postal Circle is going to announce one of the biggest employment notifications very soon. The recruitment will be organized for selection of eligible staff for Postal Assistant and Sorting Assistant posts on its official site www.indiapost.gov.in. Now all those qualified candidates are invited for 20000 upcoming job opening whose link will be soon available at their official site. This notification will bring good news for those entire aspirants who were looking for government jobs, 10th pass government jobs, 12th pass government jobs, post office jobs etc.

According to report, India post is going to hire candidates for Postal Assistant and Sorting Assistant posts, Stenographers, Postman and Mail Guard, MTS, Postmaster Cadres, Hindi Typist, Inspector, Director Posts, etc. Aspirant must have completed their Matriculation or Intermediate from recognized board and diploma/ graduation/ bachelors or its equivalent in required discipline from recognized university or institute. The online application process will start from February 2016 and will going to end on March 2016.

India Post operates postal system in India. It was founded during British Empire i.e. 01st April, 1774 and operated under Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt of India. But, on 31st March 2011 it was officially declared as the Indian Postal Service and currently has more than 154,866 post offices which are located across India. Main headquarter of post office is located in Sansad Marg, New Delhi.

India post is popular among candidates for providing various services such as Letter post, parcel service, EMS, deposit account, third-party logistics freight forwarding, delivery etc. India post is divided into 22 postal circles which is independently headed by chief postmaster general. Currently more than 4, 70,000 employees are working with Indian postal circle. India Post’s main objective is to provide all type of courier service at low cost than other private firm. For the date of official announcement keep going through their official website daily and stay tuned with us for more news related to latest government job vacancy.

DHARNA at Circle Office on 21.1.2016

As per call given by NCJM a Dhanrna was conducted at Circle office Hyderabad on 21.1.2016 and a good number of people attended. Sri D.Kishanrao GS NAPE Gr-c  CHQ, inagurated the Dharna and addressed the gathering. He explained 7th CPC report and our unions demand on it. He also added that if our demands like Min wage 26000 instead of 18000, Five promotions, Ban NPS and introduction of difined pension scheme were not solved we will go on indefinite strike in the month of March 2016.

Regarding Contributory negligence issue CPMG assured over phone that a meeting will be conducted on all issues and also suggested that items may please take up with Regional level first.




             Happy Republic Day 








Tuesday 19 January 2016


Departments instruction on 3 days Dharna programme from 19th to 21st January,2016 of NJCA



Painful Reality Behind India Post COD Services


india-post-COD-deliveryThousands of products from e-commerce companies such as Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart, HomeShop18, Shopclues, Naptol and Yepme are reaching the remotest corners of India everyday, owing to their last-mile partnership with India Post, the government-operated postal network. On its part, India Post transacted business worth Rs 500 crore in cash-on-delivery alone for e-commerce players in 2014-15. Its revenue from this business rose from Rs 20 crore in 2012-13 to Rs 100 crore in 2013-14. But that’s just one side of the story.
To reach as many customers as possible at the fastest pace, even if it means getting drones to do the job, online retailers are learnt to be coping with the infrastructure hurdles of India Post. In fact, many leading companies are said to be directly in touch with Union minister of communications, Ravi Shankar Prasad, as well as senior bureaucrats in the ministry, to resolve last-mile issues.

While e-commerce companies tied up with India Post to reach India’s interiors and access pin codes that no courier company could, this has helped them only in a limited manner. On bicycles, India Post delivery men hardly match courier boys on motorbikes, who are faster and are also able to carry heavier parcels. Some postmen have to walk on rough terrains to reach distant addresses with parcels containing anything from mobile phones and apparel to fancy accessories and kitchenware.
A senior Snapdeal executive told, “As most of the India Post team uses bicycles, we have ensured products weighing less than five kg are routed through them for delivery.” Against that, a courier delivery boy often carries parcels 10 times the size, according to industry sources. An Amazon spokesperson said, “We appreciate and understand that the last-mile delivery methodology of India Post is mostly on bicycles and we are in discussions with India Post to come up with a solution/delivery methodology for large-sized Amazon packages.”
Flipkart did not respond to a questionnaire on the issue.
An official at India Post said the department was gearing up for the challenges and infrastructure was being upgraded. The department has already generated substantial revenue from its tie-up with e-commerce companies. While there’s no word yet on replacing bicycles with motorbikes and on whether the current India Post delivery staff, typically much older than those employed by private courier companies, are ready for the change, the official said logistics could be outsourced to a third party for delivery of goods, depending on volume.
Currently, the slow mode of sending parcels via India Post to pin codes unheard of is upsetting the sales targets of top e-commerce companies, for which every missed delivery could translate into a lower GMV (gross merchandise volume) and valuation. Also, it could mean missing the next round of funding from a marquee investor.
There are other issues, too. For instance, a Bengaluru-based online retailer-cum-stylist had partnered India Post in 2013. However, according to its co-founder, the two-year-old company had to discontinue the arrangement after it was found postmen were seeking money from customers for deliveries to remote areas such those in the Northeast. “Such incidents are serious enough to malign the reputation of a company,” he said.
Another challenge is the India Post delivery team doesn’t get any volume-based incentive because it’s a government organisation.
On the other hand, private courier companies were often enthused by such offers, an official said.
The fact that 70-80 per cent of orders for companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal are from non-metro areas shows how critical it is for them to compete in the remotest parts of India. Amazon, for example, took pride in saying it had delivered a parcel to pin code 790002 — a destination called Balemu in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Kameng district.
The dark side of the e-commerce revolution is equally real. A recent Wall Street Journal report had highlighted the plight of courier boys carrying parcels weighing 23-46 kg in large backpacks day after day, all for a monthly salary of less than Rs 10,000. “This low-tech army of urban sherpas hauls bags of online purchases down narrow alleys and up flights of stairs, lugging everything from laser printers and kitchen appliances to cans of Coca-Cola for their country’s burgeoning consumer class,” the report had said.

Source: The Business Standard
 
 
 

Know about Rural ICT for GDS in India Post

Launch of the Rural ICT project of the Department by handing over the solar powered, biometric hand-held devices with connectivity along with the application software to Gramin Dak Sewaks from three pilot Circles viz Bihar, UP and Rajasthan on 28th Dec 2015
 
 
 

Benefits of Hand-held device to the rural citizen 

  1. Electronic transactions- Booking and delivery of Speed Post, registered mail, money orders, sale of stamps and postal stationery will be done through these devices and paper receipt shall be generated 
  2. instantaneously thereby eliminating chances of overcharging and other problems associated with manual transactions. Savings Bank deposits & withdrawals, PLI/RPLI premium deposits and loan/claim payments will also be done electronically on these devices. 
  3. Immediate uploading of transaction data and financial reconciliation- Using mobile connectivity, data pertaining to all transactions done on the hand-held devices shall be uploaded onto the central server. E-Money order will reach the destination post office instantaneously unlike present day where the money order is digitized at the nearest computerized Post Office and leads to delay in delivery. All financial transactions shall also be reconciled immediately without any manual intervention and Cash on Delivery amount collected in the village shall be immediately credited to the account of e-Commerce Company. Similarly the artisans would be able to fulfill e-commerce orders and receive immediate payment for their sold products online. This will have a positive impact on the overall economy of the villages. 
  4. Automatic track and trace- Speed Post and Registered letters/parcels and money remittances will be trackable at the Branch Post Office level and booking/delivery information will also be uploaded to central server immediately. 
  5. Fraud and leakage elimination- As Savings Bank and Postal Life Insurance transactions will be done on a real-time basis and through immediate generation of receipt and voice message, chances of fraud would be eliminated. Biometric authentication of MNREGS and social security beneficiaries at the time of pay-out would also reduce leakage in the schemes 
  6. Post Offices as Common Service Centres- Branch Post Offices shall be able to work as Common Service Centres and offer services such as Railway Reservation, online bill payment for electricity and water utilities, mobile and DTH recharge, insurance policy premium payments & transactions for partner banks/insurance companies/mutual funds etc
 

Wednesday 13 January 2016







Who is a Central Government Employee? - Definition given by 7th Central Pay Commission 

 

Who is a Central Government Employee? - Definition given by 7th Central Pay Commission

Defining a Central Government Employee : The III CPC had attempted to define who is a Central Government employee. It stated that “All persons in the civil services of the Central Government or holding civil posts under that government and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of India.”

The Commission is in broad agreement with what has been stated in the III CPC Report.
For the purposes of its work, the Commission defines Central Government employees as all persons in the civil services of the Central Government or holding civil posts under that government and paid Salaries out of the Consolidated Fund of India. This however, does not include such persons appointed to serve Parliament or the Union Judiciary.

The Commission has obtained data regarding 33.02 lakh Central Government civil personnel, in Civil Ministries/Departments, Defence (Civilians), Posts and Railways5. The analysis includes 0.77 lakh personnel of Delhi Police, who are paid salaries from the Police grant of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Views of Important Stakeholders on Central Government Personnel

The Commission has received representations/memoranda on issues that broadly involve the strength, deployment and expenditure on Central Government personnel.

Joint Consultative Machinery-Staff Side: On the size and nature of government, the JCM-Staff Side has made the following submissions to the Commission:

i. Majority of Central Government employees (88 percent) are either industrial or operational staff and therefore the contention that wage bill of the Central Government is for administrative purpose is ill conceived.

ii. Existence of a large array of personnel employed by the government through contract, pushing a major segment of government functions into informal sector.

iii. Expenditure on pay and allowances over the years as a percentage of revenue receipts and revenue expenditure has been falling.


 

National Council (Staff Side) (JCM) addressed to the Secretary Department of Expenditure, Government of India on issuing orders for raise in bonus ceiling

 

 

Present Central Government is anti labour , anti regularization ,anti pay hike .Only one policy of the Government is Privatization .



Tuesday 12 January 2016

Suggestions / Feedback To GDS Committee In India Post .........

Suggestions / Feedback To GDS Committee In India Post


  The Department of Posts has constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Shri Kamlesh Chandra, Retired Member of Postal Service Board to review the existing conditions of services, emoluments and other facilities such as discharge facilities, social security benefits welfare measures, methods of recruitment, minimum qualification for engagement, conduct and disciplinary rules of Gramin Dak Sewaks (GDS). The committee is constituted at a time when transformation is taking place in the rural post offices due to implementation of IT projects of the Department of Posts. The committee would like to know your views on the above issues to give its recommendations. 

Suggest / Feedback Through India Post Web Portal    Click here

Monday 11 January 2016


List of new office bearers of Federation of National Postal Organisations - Department approved 



No.17-06/2015-SR
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT
Department of Posts
(SR Section)
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi- 110001
Dated the 06th January, 2016
To,
1.                  All Heads of Postal Circle.
2.                  All Postmasters General.
3.                  Director of Postal Staff College, Ghaziabad (UP).
4.                  CGM, PLI Directorate, Chankyapuri PO, New Delhi.
5.                  CGM, (BD&M) Directorate, Dak Bhawan, New Delhi.
6.                  Postmaster General, Foreign Mails, Mumbai.
7.                  All Directors, Postal Training Centres.
8.                  Directors Foreign Mails, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi.
9.                  All Directors/Dy. Directors of Accounts (Postal).

Subject: List of new office bearers of Federation of National Postal Organisations elected in 10thFederal Congress held at Kolkata from 03.11.2015 to 06.11.2015.
Madam/Sir,
                           I am directed to state that fresh election of Federation of National Postal Organisations has been conducted and a list of new office bearers elected in 10th Federal Congress held at Kolkata from 03.11.2015 to 06.11.2015 is as under:-
Designation
Name of the Office Bearer (Shri/Smt.)
President
1. T. N. Rahate (Maharashtra)
Working President
1. Rajat S. Das (West Bengal)
Vice Presidents
1.  Ghulam Rabbani (Andhra Pradesh)
2.  R. S. Yadav, Uttar Pradesh
3.  T. K. Govindarajan (Tamil Nadu)
4. Ranjit P. Gohil (Gujarat)
Secretary General
1.  D. Theagarajan (Tamil Nadu)
Deputy Secretary General
1. D. Kishan Rao (Andhra Pradesh)
Asst. Secretary Generals
1.   N. N. Majawar (Maharashtra)

2.   B. Shivakumar (Karnataka)

3.   A. K. Solanki (Gujarat)

4.   Rabindranath Biswas (West Bengal)

5.   R. H. Gupta (Maharashtra)
Finance Secretary
1.   Brij Mohan (Delhi Circle)
Asst. Finance Secretary
1.  Jagdish Sharma (Delhi Circle)

2.         This is for information and taking necessary action as per existing instructions on
the subject.
Yours faithfully,
                                                                                                                                                                      -sd- 
(Arun Malik)
Director (SR & Legal)
Copy to:-
1. Secretary General, Federation of National Postal Organisations, T-24, Atul Grove Road, New Delhi- 110 001.
2. All Sections in the Department of Posts.
                                                                                                                                                                          -sd- 
(Arun Malik)
Director (SR & Legal)


  

Sunday 10 January 2016



Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015 notified: Increase in the Eligibility Limit under clause (13) of Section 2 and Calculation Ceiling under Section 12 of the Payment of Bonus Act, 2015:

        The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015 was passed by the Parliament in the just concluded Winter Session of the Parliament. The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015 has been published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary on 1st January, 2016 as Act No. 6 of 2016. The provisions of the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2014.

          The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015 envisages enhancement of eligibility limit under section 2(13) from Rs.10,000/- per month to Rs.21,000/- per month and Calculation Ceiling under section 12 from Rs. 3500 to Rs.7000 or the minimum wage for the scheduled employment, as fixed by the appropriate Government, whichever is higher. The Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015 also mandates previous publication of draft subordinate legislations, framed under the enabling provisions under the said Act, in the Official Gazette for inviting objections and suggestions before their final notification.

          The Government has been receiving representations from trade unions for removal of all ceilings under the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965. It is also one of the demands made by them during the country-wide General Strike held in February, 2013 and September, 2015. As the last revision in these two ceilings were made in the year 2007 and was made effective from the 1st April, 2006, it was decided by the Government to make appropriate amendments to the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965. 

          These changes in the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 will benefit thousands of work force. 

Source : PIB