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Wednesday 30 March 2016
Friday 25 March 2016
DATE: 25.03.2016
FNPO & NUGDS SUBMITTED MEMORANDUM TO
SRI. KAMALESH CHANDRA ,CHAIRMAN ,GDS
COMMITTEE DATED.03.03.2016
MEMORANDUM
TO
Sri.KAMALESH CHANDRA , Chairman
GDS Committee
ON
POSTAL GRAMIN DAK SEVAK SYSTEM
ON
ISSUES RELATING TO GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS
BY
NATIONAL UNION OF GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS
(Central
Headquarters)
Downhill Post Office
Malappuram (Kerala) –
676519
FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS
(Central
Headquarters)
T-24, Atulgrove Road
New Delhi – 110001
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Date. 24.03.2016
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Digital India summit: Post offices pip SBI to have largest core banking footprint, says Ravi Shankar Prasad
Listing out the achievements of the Government as it looks to complete two years in power, Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad today said during his tenure and because of a sustained push, 20494 post offices have been connected under core banking solution, which is more than the 16333 enabled core banking branches of State Bank of India ( SBI).
"I pushed my postal service to go digital, because postal service digitization is integral to digital India. The first thing we pushed was core banking solution, which means banking from anywhere. We have 25,000 district and sub-post offices that needed to be digitized. When I had become Minister only 230 post offices had core banking. Today, 20494 post offices have come under core banking solution and we will complete the remaining by April this year. Core banking linkage of post office is bigger than that of the State Bank of India," said Prasad at the Times Network organized Digital India Summit & Awards 2016.
Prasad added that the number of ATMs in post offices has increased from 4 when he took over as the minister to 850 today and by April the number will rise to 1000. "By March next year we will bring in the payment bank of the postal department," said Prasad.
Prasad listed another key achievement of his Ministry, which is the delivery of e-commerce consignments. "Parcel revenue had dipped by 2% in 2013-14, it rose by 45% in 2014-15 and now has risen by 120% by January 2015-16. This is the scale we have been able to achieve," said Prasad.
Stating that digital infrastructure is important and has revolutionary potential, Prasad said that when he became the Minister the total length of pipes laid out was 2092 kms and optical fiber was at 398 kms. "Today, in less than two years we have laid pipes in 1,30,000 kms of pipes and optical fiber of 1,10,000 kms," said Prasad.
The Minister went on to add that the number of Common Service Centers has increased from 83000 units when he took over to 157000 today. Next year the government plans to scale it by another 1 lakh units. Of these, 20,000 are being run by women entrepreneurs. He added that the government would also be pushing a BPO call centre programme in a big way to ensure Digital India as a mission percolates to even the smaller towns.
Source :The Economic Times
Interest Rates on various Small
Savings Schemes for the 1st
Quarter of 2016-17 notified
Additional Interest Rate spreads which the Government allows on Small Savings Schemes like PPF, Senior Citizen Savings Scheme, Sukanya Samridhi Scheme and NSC etc. are being continued and included in the rates notified today.
From the year 2012-13, the interest rates on various Small Savings Schemes (SSS) are recalculated and notified in the month of March every year. These rates are applicable for the next financial year. This is being done in line with the recommendations of the Shyamala Gopinath Committee to ensure that the interest rates of Small Savings Schemes are market linked.
Accordingly, as done in the previous years, the interest rates for various Small Savings Schemes were due for recalculation in March 2016. As notified on 16th February, 2016, instead of annual resetting of interest rates for the next financial year, the interest rates from now on will be reset every quarter based on the G-Sec yields of the previous three months. Consequently, the interest rates for various Small Savings Schemes were recalculated with reference to the G-Sec yields of equivalent maturity for the months December 2015 to February 2016. Based on this calculation, the interest rates on various Small Savings Schemes for the 1stquarter of 2016-17 have been notified today. The rates of interest on various small savings schemes for the First Quarter of Financial Year 2016-17, on the basis of the interest compounding/payment built-in in the schemes, shall be as under:
Instrument
|
Rate of interest w.e.f. 01.04.2015 to 31.3.2016
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Rate of interest w.e.f. 01.04.2016 to 30.6.2016
|
Savings Deposit
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
1 Year Time Deposit
|
8.4
|
7.1
|
2 Year Time Deposit
|
8.4
|
7.2
|
3 Year Time Deposit
|
8.4
|
7.4
|
5 Year Time Deposit
|
8.5
|
7.9
|
5 Year Recurring Deposit
|
8.4
|
7.4
|
5 Year Senior Citizens Savings Scheme
|
9.3
|
8.6
|
5 year Monthly Income Account Scheme
|
8.4
|
7.8
|
5 Year National Savings Certificate
|
8.5
|
8.1
|
Public Provident Fund Scheme
|
8.7
|
8.1
|
Kisan Vikas Patra
|
8.7
|
7.8 (will mature in 110 months)
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Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme
|
9.2
|
8.6
|
This is a formula driven process.
Further, as notified earlier, the additional interest rate spreads which the Government allows on Small Savings Schemes like PPF, Senior Citizen Savings Scheme, Sukanya Samridhi Scheme, NSC etc. are being continued. The additional spread for these Schemes are 25 basis points for PPF, 100 basis points for Senior Citizen Savings Scheme, 75 basis points for Sukanya Samridhi Scheme, 25 basis points for five year time deposit, 25 basis points for National Savings Certificate and 25 basis points for Monthly Income Scheme. These additional interest rate spreads are being continued and are included in the rates notified today.
The quarterly revision of interest rates will ensure that the interest rates under Small Savings Schemes are more dynamically related to the current market rates, thereby enabling the Banks to move their interest rates in line with current money market rates.
Age Relaxation for Widows -
Minister's Reply in Lok Sabha
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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
16-March-2016 13:21 IST
Age Relaxation for Widows
Suggestions have been received from time to time for relaxation of upper age-limit for widows. Relaxation of age up to 35 years (up to 40 years for members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) for the widows, divorced and women judicially separated from their husbands who are re-married for employment to Group ‘C’ and erstwhile Group ‘D’ post has been provided vide Department of Personnel & Training’s Office Memorandum No. 15012/13/79-Estt (D) dated 19.01.1980. Similar relaxation is provided for Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ posts except where recruitment is made through open competitive Examination vide Department of Personnel & Training’s Office Memorandum No. 15012/1/87-Estt.(D) dated 05.10.1990.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question .
Implementation of RTI Act, 2005 to be strengthened - DoPT invites views/suggestions by 31st March, 2016
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16-March-2016 17:29 IST
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16-March-2016 17:29 IST
Implementation of RTI Act, 2005 to be strengthened
DoPT invites views/suggestions by 31st March, 2016
DoPT invites views/suggestions by 31st March, 2016
A Committee of Experts consisting of Shri A.N. Tiwari, former Chief Information Commissioner and Dr. M.M. Ansari, former Information Commissioner of Central Information Commission was constituted to recommend, inter-alia, measures to further strengthen implementation of Section 4 of the RTI Act, 2005. Some of recommendations of the Committee of Experts have been accepted by the Government and an OM dated 29th June 2015 was issued to all public authorities to implement the recommendations of the Committee. Further, instructions were issued to all Public Authorities vide O.M. No. 1/1/2013-IR dated 9th July, 2015 to make an analysis of information which is sought most often from applicants and provide it on their website as suo-motu disclosure.
Further, a committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Devesh Chaturvedi, Joint Secretary, DoPT has examined some of the recommendations of Committee of Expert and it has now been proposed to issue an Office Memorandum to implement the recommendations of the Committee regarding suo-motu disclosure u/s 4 of RTI Act, 2005.
The interested persons may send their views/suggestions on the annexed O.M. latest by 31st March, 2016 to this Department through email : usir-dopt@nic.in.
Release of additional instalment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to Pensioners due from 1.1.2016
Release of additional instalment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to Pensioners due from 1.1.2016
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved release of an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to Pensioners w.e.f. 01.01.2016. This represents an increase of 6 percent over the existing rate of 119 percent of the Basic Pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise.
This will benefit about 50 lakh Government employees and 58 lakh pensioners.
5 Year Post office Time Deposit eligible for 80C
5 Year Post office Time Deposit eligible for 80C
Investment made in "five year time deposit in an account under Post Office Time Deposit Rules, 1981" will be eligible for deduction from the Gross total income, under section 80C, with the overall section treshold of 1 Lakh.
The additional point to be noted is "The amendment shall apply to investments, as above, made during the financial year 2007-08 and subsequent years."
Below is the summary of the Finance bill presented in the budget:
Enlargement of the scope of eligible saving instruments under section 80C
Section 80C of the Income-tax Act provides for a deduction of upto rupees one lakh to an individual or a Hindu undivided family (HUF) for,-
(i) making investments in certain saving instruments; or
(ii) incurring expenditure on tuition fee and repayment of housing loan.
With a view to encourage small savings, it is proposed to enlarge the scope of eligible saving instruments by inserting two new clauses in sub-section (2) of section 80C. The following investments made by the assessee, during the previous year, shall be eligible for deduction under section 80C within the overall ceiling of rupees one lakh:-
(i) five year time deposit in an account under Post Office Time Deposit Rules, 1981; and
(ii) deposit in an account under the Senior Citizens Savings Scheme Rules, 2004.
Further, it is also proposed to provide that where any amount is withdrawn by the assessee from such account before the expiry of a period of 5 years from the date of its deposit, the amount so withdrawn shall be deemed to be income of the assessee of the previous year in which the amount is withdrawn. The amount so withdrawn, accordingly, shall be liable to tax in the assessment year relevant to such previous year. The amount liable to tax shall also include that part of the amount withdrawn which represents interest
accrued on the deposit. However if any part of the amount so received or withdrawn (including the amount relating to interest) has suffered taxation in any of the earlier years, such amount shall not be taxed again.
Atal Pension Yojana (APY) amended to give an option to the spouse to continue to contribute for balance period on premature death of the subscriber
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Atal Pension Yojana (APY) amended to give an option to the spouse to continue to contribute for balance period on premature death of the subscriber;
After the death of both the subscriber and the spouse, the nominee of the subscriber shall be entitled to receive the pension wealth, as accumulated till age of 60 years of the subscriber.
The feedback received from various quarters has indicated that the present provision under Atal Pension Yojana (APY) of handing-over lump sum amount to spouse on premature death of the subscriber is not preferred by many subscribers. It has also highlighted the fact that there is growing demand to give an option to the spouse to continue contribution after the death of subscriber to enable him / her to draw pension when the deceased subscriber would have turned 60 years of age. Therefore, after considering the feedback, the Government has decided to give an option to the spouse of the subscriber to continue contributing to APY account of the subscriber, for the remaining vesting period, till the original subscriber would have attained the age of 60 years instead of present provision of handing-over lump-sum amount to spouse on the premature death (death before 60 years of age) of the subscriber. The spouse of the subscriber shall be entitled to receive the same pension amount as that of the subscriber until the death of the spouse. After the death of both the subscriber and the spouse, the nominee of the subscriber shall be entitled to receive the pension wealth, as accumulated till age of 60 years of the subscriber.
Earlier to address the longevity risks among the workers in unorganised sector and to encourage the workers in unorganised sector to voluntarily save for their retirement, the Government had launched a new initiative called Atal Pension Yojana (APY) with effect from 1st June, 2015. Under APY, each subscriber, on completion of 60 years of age, will get the guaranteed minimum monthly pension, or higher monthly pension, if the investment returns are higher than the assumed returns for minimum guaranteed pension, over the period of contribution. After the subscriber’s death, the spouse of the subscriber shall be entitled to receive the same pension amount as that of the subscriber until the death of the spouse. After the death of both the subscriber and the spouse, the nominee of the subscriber shall be entitled to receive the pension wealth, as accumulated till age of 60 years of the subscriber. In exceptional circumstances, that is, in the event of the death of beneficiary or specified illness, as mentioned in the PFRDA (Exit and withdrawals under the National Pension System) Regulations, 2015, before the age of 60 years, the accumulated pension wealth till date would be given to the nominee or the subscriber as the case may be.
Tuesday 15 March 2016
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Saturday 12 March 2016
MODEL LETTER TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR REQUESTING TO DIRECT THE 54 POINTS TO GDS PAY COMMITTEE
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National Union of Gramin Dak Sevaks
(FEDARATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL
ORGANISATIONS)
DIVISION
NO.NUGDS/Div/MP’s/Memorandum/March Date: 01.03.2016
To,
The Honorable Member of Parliament,
New Delhi.
Respected
Sir,
Subject: Departmentalization of Grameena Dak Sewaks
working in the Postal Department
On behalf of
all the members of our union we have prepared a memorandum on the aspirations
of all Grameen Dak Sewaks left as mirage for so many decades though 5 GDS
Committees were constituted earlier. We have requested you sir /madam through
our letter No.NUGDS/CHQ/MP’s/Memorandum/Nov. dated 02.11.2015 to present our
problems in Parliament and get the directions to include GDS also in 7 th
Central Pay Commission instead of separate GDS Commissions as earlier
constituted. But Sir/ Madam, to our misfortune GDS was not included in the 7 th
CPC and one Departmental Committee is constituted as done earlier.
This GDS
service was started 130 years ago as extraneous service on honorarium, later
converted in to extra departmental service and finally named as Grameen Dak
Sewaks with very low pay scales. The department is getting all its services in
rural India on par with urban India but not allowed equal pay structures along
with departmental postal officials in a view that GDS are assigned with less workload
and engaged for limited hours. But Sir/ Madam, the country is so developed and
a rural Indian demanding the same services at par with urban area and to
fulfill the desire of rural India, the Branch Post offices numbering about
1,26,000 located in rural India are the only outlets to serve rural India .No
other department spread to each and every village in the country except postal
department with its Grameen Dak Sewaks. In deed this is realized by the Govt.
of India and Govt. of all States and Union Territories and utilizing Branch
Post offices for their services such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme ,Social
Security Pensions etc. other than this ,this Branch Post office is doing agency
services such as savings bank, the only banking services in many villages as on
today also and the department has given cores of rural postal life insurance
policies to villagers in rural India and assured the lives for the term spread
to maximum 37 years i.e, in between 18 years to 55 years for which the rural
post office is the only servicing agent and it cannot be undertaken by another
service organization to cater to the needs of rural public. The term Grameen
Dak Sewaks engaged for limited hours is out dated as every Branch Postmaster is
spending 10 hours a day at his post office for attending to his normal work
i.e., savings bank including recurring
deposits ,rural postal insurance, mails ,registration ,parcels ,value payable
services, money orders and delivery etc, and for attending to other service
schemes i.e., MGNREGS at an average of
1400 a/c and Social Security Pensions at
an average of 800 a/c at every Branch Post office.
The Govt.
of India through its Communications and IT Ministry is set to a launch a slew
of schemes on 2015 December 28 that will seek to digitally connect rural post
offices across the country and enable Core Banking facilities . Further Govt.
of India has decided to provide 1,30,000 hand-held devices by march 2017.For
this also our GDS are the officials to attend the said work and to develop
rural India in digitally devised lines. This is the high time to bring these
Grameen Dak Sewaks in to main stream of the departmental officials rather civil
servants of Govt. of India with full workload of 8 hours and with pay scales
designed at par with departmental employees
Our opinion to bring us to the main
stream rather our demands are enclosed to this letter in fifty four points. Sir
/Madam we are working at your footsteps and covering entire your jurisdiction.
Kindly show sympathy on us and endorse and recommend these Fifty four points to
Sri. Kamalesh Chandra , GDS Commission constituted to examine Grameen Dak
Sewaks services to the address given below.
Sri. Kamalesh Chandra
Chairman,GDS Committee
&
Shri. T.Q. Mohammad
Secretary,GDS Committee
Malcha Marg Post Office
New Dehi -110021
or
or
India post website
Yours sincerely
( )
Divisional Secretary
Suggestions/Feedback
to GDS Committee.
1) The
motto of GDS is part-time should be scrapped by giving 7 ½ hours workload to
each official as it is available.
2) The
term “Sevak” should be replaced by “employee”.
3) No
BO is running on loss in real terms by keeping the thinking that it is a
mixture of many agency services and by considering it is a public essential
service, GDS can be made departmental.
4) All
GDS BOs may be converted into departmental BOs and renamed as “Rural Post Offices”.
5) All
GDS BOs staff should treated as departmental officials holding civil posts and
renamed as “Rural Post Masters” and
“Rural Postal Assistants”.
6) Total
expenditure on Rural Postal employees including OMA paid to each Rural Post
Office may be met by Ministry of Finance.
7) Commission
on SB and RD accounts standing at BOs may be kept with Ministry of Finance.
8) Accounts
work, Accounts supervision, Administrative Supervision done by Department of
Posts may be taken up as reciprocal services for its services received at Rural
Post Offices such as mails, sorting, delivery, stamp sale, registration
including V.P and Insured, Speed post, Money Orders, Mahatma Gandhi NREGs and
Social Service Pensions.
9) Mails,
Sorting, Delivery, Stamps sale, Registration including VP and Insured, Speed
Post, Money Orders, Mahatma Gandhi NREGs and Social Service Pensions related to
Department of Posts at Rural Post Offices may be taken up by Ministry of
Finance as reciprocal services for its work done by Department of Posts such as
Accounts, Accounts Supervision and Administrative Supervision.
10) Department
of Posts may increase its revenues at par with scheduled Banks and Couriers as
those Banks and Couriers are being survived with the same limited jurisdiction.
11) For
doing Inspections and Investigations of Rural Post Offices and supply of
stationary relating to SB and RD to Rural Post Offices, the subsidy to the tune
of Rs. 650/- crores (approximately) paid on Rural POs may be paid to Department
of Posts in proposed setup also.
12) Commission
received by Department of Posts on services such as NREGs and Social Service
Pensions may be kept by Postal Department as it is received from different
source.
13) As the conditions “holding
honorary posts being self sufficient” is an “obsolete” one in present conditions of the country, it is necessary
to bring all GDS under the category of “Departmental
Rural Postal Employees” and their services to be considered as essential
services as the Rural Post Office is the only outlet for the Government to
serve the rural public.
14) All Rural Postal employees may be considered as departmental
Group ‘C’ or Group ‘E’ by giving status of holding civil post in the
Government.
15) The BPM may be named as “Rural
Post Master” (RPM) with 7 ½ hours workload for Post Master’s duties.
16) Other GDS employees in a BO may be named as ”Rural Postal Assistants” (RPA) with 7 ½
hours workload for their duties such as delivery, conveyance, LB Clearance,
packing, stamp sale put together.
17) GDS Posts in HOs / SOs / RMS may be converted into MTS.
18) The income and cost of a Rural Post Office may be ignored as
it is only essential public service available in a village and demanded by
public and their leaders and used by state governments also as only way for
them to serve the rural public.
19) Statistical workload and financial positions of Rural Post
Offices may be assessed in Triennial reviews here after called as Audit as
these reviews can be used for 100% verification of accounts standing at Rural
Post Offices also.
20) The constitutional provisions under Article 309 and 311
should be applied to Rural Postal Employees.
21) All GDS stamp vendor posts in Departmental Post Offices may
be upgraded to MTS or Postman as the case may be and shortfall of workload if
any may be utilized for Registration etc. of the said office.
22) Basic qualification for future appointment, by selection or
promotion should be 10 + 2 with 60% of marks in Plus 2 for Rural Post Master
and 8th standard may be continued for Rural Postal Assistants.
23) Maximum age limit for entry as Rural Postal employee should
be 35 years with relaxation admissible to SC, ST and OBC. For promotions there
should be relaxation by 5 more years i.e. 40 years it would be better to reduce
to 3 years with relaxation to SC, ST and OBC employees as it is observed for
some categories in the department. Commission may consider the age of
superannuation.
24) Selection
at the time of entry should be at divisional level through employment exchanges
of the district, but on merit basis in the requisite qualifications.
25) All
“Rural Postal Employees” should be
imparted with concerned Trainings as designed for the purpose.
26) The
present service restriction of 5 years for promotions should be reduced to 3
years. In addition 50% RPM posts may be earmarked to outsiders through
employment exchange, out of remaining 50%, 25% may be earmarked for RPAs on
seniority cum fitness basis with the requisite qualifications of RPM through
DPC. Remaining 25% vacancies on merit as if outsiders through employment
exchange, but applications may be called for in the division, For both the
types of above DPC / selection minimum 3 years of service may be fixed. If any
vacancy is unfilled, it should be given to Employment Exchange immediately
without carrying forward for next year. The Rosters should be maintained as
usual at divisional level.
27) However
by virtue of services rendered the Rural Postal employees such as Rural Post
Master and Rural Postal Assistant may be allowed MACP I, II, III for 10 years, 20
years, 30 years completion of service respectively.
28) All
conduct and disciplinary rules and procedures under CCS (CCA) rules 1964
available to departmental employees may be extended to Rural Postal employees
also.
29) The pay structure suggested is as
follows:
Initial fixation to RPAs / RPMs as follows at the time of
implementation of 7th PC.
Rural Postal
Assistant:
|
Up to 5 years
|
18000 + GP
|
|
After 5 years
|
18000 +1 increment i.e. 5% on 18000 + GP
|
|
After 10 years (MACP I)
|
18000 + 3 increments i.e. 15% on 18000 + GP (For MACP I
one more increment)
|
|
After 15 years
|
18000 + 4 increments i.e. 20% on 18000 + GP
|
|
After 20 years (MACP II)
|
18000 + 6 increments i.e. 30% on 18000 + GP (For MACP
II one more increment)
|
|
After 25 years
|
18000 + 7 increments i.e. 35% on 18000 + GP
|
|
After 30 years (MACP III)
|
18000 + 9 increments i.e. 45% on 18000 + GP (For MACP
III one more increment)
|
|
After 35 years
|
18000 + 10 increments i.e. 50% on 18000 + GP i.e. 18000
+ 9000 = 27000 which is less than proposed pay component of MTS i.e. 29000
which is a promotional post. If this is not followed there will be no charm
in promotions.
|
Rural
Post Master:
To show difference between RPA and RPM, 2
increments may be given to RPMs at initial stage of fixation also. Then,
|
Up to 5 years
|
18000 + 2 increments i.e. 10% on 18000 + GP
|
|
After 5 years
|
18000 +3 increments i.e. 15% on 18000 + GP
|
|
After 10 years (MACP I)
|
18000 + 5 increments i.e. 25% on 18000 + GP (For MACP I
one more increment)
|
|
After 15 years
|
18000 + 6 increments i.e. 30% on 18000 + GP
|
|
After 20 years (MACP II)
|
18000 + 8 increments i.e. 40% on 18000 + GP (For MACP
II one more increment)
|
|
After 25 years
|
18000 + 9 increments i.e. 45% on 18000 + GP
|
|
After 30 years (MACP III)
|
18000 + 11 increments i.e. 55% on 18000 + GP (For MACP
III one more increment)
|
|
After 35 years
|
18000 + 12 increments i.e. 60% on 18000 + GP i.e. 18000
+ 10800 = 28800 which is less than proposed pay component of MTS i.e. 29000
which is a promotional post. If this is not done there will be no charm in
promotions.
|
As such Grade pay for Rural Postal Assistants
and Rural Post Masters in 7th PC is suggested as follows.
Rural Postal
Assistants:
|
At initial stage
|
4000 x 1000 / 1800
|
=
|
2222 i.e. 2200.
|
|
On
MACP I (after 10 years of service)
|
4000 x 1100 / 1800
|
=
|
2444 i.e. 2400.
|
|
On
MACPI I (after 20 years of service)
|
4000 x 1200 / 1800
|
=
|
2666 i.e. 2600.
|
|
On
MACP III (after 30 years of service)
|
4000 x 1300 / 1800
|
=
|
2888 i.e. 2900.
|
Rural
Post Masters:
|
At initial stage
|
4000 x 1400 / 1800
|
=
|
3111 i.e. 3100.
|
|
On
MACP I (after 10 years of service)
|
4000 x 1500 / 1800
|
=
|
3333 i.e. 3300.
|
|
On
MACPI I (after 20 years of service)
|
4000 x 1600 / 1800
|
=
|
3555 i.e. 3500.
|
|
On
MACP III (after 30 years of service)
|
4000 x 1700 / 1800
|
=
|
3777 i.e. 3800.
|
In all the above cases it is rounded off to next hundred
and where as in the case of MACP II it is rounded off to below hundred to
remove the dissatisfaction to MACP III candidates. However proposed GP to RPA /
RPM is less than proposed GP component of MTS at minimum i.e. Rs. 4,000/-.
Increments: 5%
on basic pay + GP every year besides one increment of 5% each for MACP I, II,
III promotions. This is in addition to 2 increments i.e. 5 + 5 =10% allowed to
Rural Post Masters on initial fixation and 5% raise after completion of every 5
years.
Maximum of the
scale: Rs. 1, 28,000/- with a length of 38 years.
Pay Band:
Should be pay band 1 shifting other pay bands by one number or giving special
pay band i.e. pay band R is suggested for Rural Post Masters and Rural Postal
Assistants.
30)
CCS
Pension rules available to departmental employees may be applied for Rural
Postal employees and GPF and all pensionery benefits including Group Insurance
Scheme may be applied to all Rural Postal employees at par with departmental
employees giving credit to their date of entry in the department.
Here one case is requested in either of
the cases i.e old pension system till 31.12.2003 entrants and New pension scheme wef 1.1.2004, the monthly minimum
pension received by Rural Postal Employees should be Rs.1000/- as it is given
by the Govt to poor citizens of India as this GDS is much poorer than that poor
citizens having getting no monthly income beyond superannuation though he
served those poor citizens particularly in the payment of the said social
security pension for many more years.
31) All the allowances admissible to departmental employees may
be extended to rural postal employees at the rate admissible to departmental
employees in the following cases.
i) Dearness Allowance. ii) Office Maintenance Allowance (In the
place of FHR) ranging between Rs. 500 – Rs. 950 with an annual raise of Rs.
50/-.
iii) Electricity and Water charges for Office.
iv) HRA ranging between Rs. 800 – Rs. 1520 with an annual
raise of Rs. 80/-
v) Transport Allowance: Rs. 150/- per month for official
use.
vi) Cycle Maintenance Allowance: Rs. 150/- for office use
to perform outside work.
vii) Overtime Allowance: Maximum 3 hours on a working day
beyond 7 ½ hours work if another post in the office is on leave or otherwise
and Sundays / Holidays as ordered by divisional head if required. Allowance
should be on prorata of pay + GP + DA for one day.
viii) Travelling Allowance: Travelling allowance would be
as shown in the Table at 16.11A .
ix) Boat Allowance: As demanded by boat operator.
x) Children education Allowance: At par with departmental
employees.
xi) RTF: At par with departmental employees.
xii) Cash allowance to RPM on par with ‘C’ class
departmental SPM.
xiii) Other allowances such as special duty allowance
being paid in Assam and NE Circle, Uttarakhand Allowance, Remote Area
Allowance, Naxalite Threat area Allowance, Bad Climate Allowance, Winter
Allowance and Project Allowance etc.,
32) All kinds of leaves admissible under CCS (leave rules) 1972 besides
casual leave to departmental employees may be extended to Rural Postal
employees with same limitations in all respects.
33) Leave encashment facility available to departmental employees
may be extended to Rural Postal employees. In addition 15 days leave encashment
every year may be allowed to Rural Postal employees to enable leave cases and
arrangements there on to be reduced.
34) Leave travel Concession at par with departmental employees.
35) Advance of leave salary and advance of pay may be allowed to
Rural Postal employees at par with departmental employees.
36) 5% of leave reserve may be maintained at divisional level.
37) Medical allowance of Rs. 600/- p.m to Rural Postal employees
for minor ailments and for hospitalization, it is in recognized hospitals at
par with departmental employees.
38) All welfare measures available to departmental employees may
be extended to Rural Postal employees also, such as,
a) Interim Relief.
b) Transfers
i) In the interest of service such as thrown out.
ii) Request transfers including
Rule 38 and Mutual’s.
c) Compassionate Appointments: 1) To the family members
of all deceased.
2) To the
dependents of Rural Postal employees retired on invalidation.
d) Bonus. e)
Identity Cards. f) Funeral
expenses.
g) Loans: Loans may be given to Rural Postal employees on
par with departmental employees. This may be extended for education of children
and marriage of daughters.
h) Advances: All advances available to departmental
employees may be extended to Rural Postal employees such as Cycle advance,
Natural Calamity advance (available now), Festival advance, Medical advance,
Pay advance, Leave Salary advance, Motor Cycle advance, House Building Advance
(to be extended).
39) Uniforms: At par with departmental employees.
40) Fixed Stationary Charges: At par with ‘C’ class departmental
offices and officials.
41) Counting of Past Service: The service rendered as ED or GDS
may be counted to newly renamed Rural Postal employees as departmental service.
42) Head Quarters: Where the Rural Postal employee is born in the
establishment for drawal of pay and allowances.
43) Security: At par with departmental employees.
44) Norms: At par with Departmental Post / Post Office.
45) Workload: All works performed by Rural Postal employee counts
for workload.
46) Incentive for promoting small family norms: At par with
departmental employees.
47) Incentive to Sports person: At par with departmental
employees.
48) Date of Superannuation: At par with departmental employee, but
maximum age to be reviewed by Commission.
49) Payments of retirement / terminal benefits: At par with
departmental employees.
50) Contributory negligence to be removed.
51) Basic amenities such as infrastructure to office and public
to all Rural Post Offices, to be provided. All requisite forms are to be
supplied. Divisional Office to be treated as secondary unit of supply. Sub
division to monitor supplies.
52) All Trade Union facilities available to departmental
employees may be extended to the Unions of Rural Postal employees and Rural
Postal Assistants. (One Union for one banner)
53) All the above suggestions are exhaustive, but Committee is
requested to look after anything left over.
54) Finally the GDS Pay Committee is requested to extend all
facilities available to Departmental Post Offices / Departmental employees to
Rural Post Offices / Rural Postal Employees.
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