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ନୂତନ ବର୍ଷ ୨୦୧୬ ଉପଲକ୍ଷେ ସମସ୍ତଙ୍କୁ ହାର୍ଦିକ ଅଭିନନ୍ଦନ
ଓ ଶୁଭେଚ୍ଛା ।
ମହାପ୍ରଭୂ ଶ୍ରୀ ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ସମସ୍ତଙ୍କର
ଜୀବନ ସୁଖମୟ ଓ ମଙ୍ଗଳମୟ କରନ୍ତୁ ।
ସ୍ଵାଗତଂ ୨୦୧୬
aipeu koraput divisional branch
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad Today Announced That India Post Would Be Launching Payment Banking By March 2017
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Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
28-December-2015 18:47 IS
Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Inaugurates Good Governance Week Celebration
23 New Products Launched
Payment Bank to Begin from March 2017
23 New Products Launched
Payment Bank to Begin from March 2017
A week-long celebration of Good Governance Week was organized by Department of Electronics and Information Technology starting from 25th December 2015. A National event on Good Governance was inaugurated on 28th December 2015 by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Hon’ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology (MoCIT) in India Habitat Centre at New Delhi. This event involved active participation from Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Department of Posts (DoP) and their agencies.
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad reiterated the commitment of the Government towards the successful implementation of ‘Digital India’ which would help to transform India into a truly digitally empowered society and knowledge economy in the 21st century. He said the government is aiming at empowering people of India through digitalization. Millions of citizens have already joined in this initiative and invited others to do so. He said e-services should reach more people at the earliest and sought cooperation from State Governments, industry and acadmecia in the early achievement of this objective.
Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad also announced that India Post would be launching Payment Banking by March 2017. He said after the successful turn around of BSNL, new initiatives have been taken for improving performance of MTNL. He also announced launch of free incoming all over the Country by MTNL from New Year.
The event saw the launch / inauguration of new 23 products / eServices.
The key launches are as follows:
Department of Telecommunications
· Inauguration of Wi-Fi hotspots at Har ki Pauri, Haridwar and Dargah Sharif, Ajmer.
· Announcement of Pan India Free Incoming Roaming Facility for MTNL Customers.
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Department of Posts
· Launch of Post-Terminals (Rural ICT - RICT) – handing over Post Terminals to rural Post Masters.
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Department of Electronics and Information Technology
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· Launch of National Centre of Geo-Informatics
· Launch of e-Payment Portal
· Launch of Olabs for Schools
· Launch of Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Phase-II
· All India BPO Promotion Scheme
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· North East Business Process Outsourcing Promotion Scheme
· Transfer of Technology for “ICT Centre on Tactile Graphics” at IIT Delhi
· Announcement of Setting up of NIC Data Centre at Bhubaneswar
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* The detail on each of 23 new products / eservices is available at the Digital India Portal (www.digitalindia.gov.in).
The awards for best performing States/Districts during the Digital India Week event (1st July – 7th July, 2015) were given to:
a. State level – Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.
b. District level – 77 Districts across 29 States/UTs.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
EDITORIAL POSTAL CRUSADER: JANUARY-2016 : MINIMUM WAGE STILL A DREAM FOR WORKERS
Dear Comrades,
NFPE call upon the entirely of Postal, RMS and GDS employees to act as per the agitational programme given by the Confederation and NFPE and make the Government ready to accept the genuine demands of Central Government Employees.
EDITORIAL POSTAL CRUSADER: JANUARY-2016
MINIMUM WAGE STILL A DREAM FOR WORKERS
68 years have passed after independence of India. But the need based minimum wage still appears a dream for working class. After reaching a tripartite agreement in 15th Indian Labour Conference in 1957 a scientific formula called as Dr. Akroid formula based on minimum needs of a workers to survive and work, was accepted. Based on this formula all Central trade unions and independent federations are struggling since long to achieve the demand of minimum wage.
This time also National council JCM demanded Rs. 26000 as minimum wage to a lowest class employees based on Dr. Akroid formula as on 01.01.2014 taking the commodity prices as Rs. 11344. The rates were taken as an average price of actual market from various cities throughout the India and actual receipts obtained from the shops and consumer stores were also produced as evidence. After adding component of housing, children education and social obligations it comes to 26000.
But the pay commission has recommended Rs. 18000 as minimum wage taking 12 monthly average of commodity prices quoted by Labour bureau Shimla which is totally contrary to Dr. Akroid Formula and the figures are imaginary not realistic.
The pay commission has also reduced the component of expenses on social obligation and children education as 15% contrary to the Supreme Court judgment of 25% on the plea that the employees are paid children Education allowance separately. The Children Education allowance is not fully reimbursed and expenses on education have increased heavily after liberalization of the education sector. The housing component has also been reduce by the pay commission stating that employees are paid HRA separately. House Rent Allowance is not full compensation of expenditure incurred on rent of accommodation obtained by an employee Earlier 3rd Pay commission has given 7.5% as the factor for housing.
Thus this 7th CPC has drastically cut the minimum wage.
The website of Agriculture Ministry also maintains the record of prices of commodities which are required to compute the minimum wage. Though these prices also vary from the real retail market. But if these prices had been taken by the pay commission as an all India average of the prices as on 01.07.2015. It will work out Rs. 10810. Thus the computation of minimum wage will arrive as Rs. 19880. After adding 25% for arriving at MTS scale it will come as Rs. 24850 and to convert it as on 01.01.2016 after adding 3% as suggested by 7th CPC. The final computation will come as 25596 when rounded off it shall be Rs. 26000/-
Without modification of minimum wage, no improvement is expected in the higher pay scales. Therefore it requires recomputation and revision. If it is revised consequently the fitment formula, multiplication factor and pay matrix will have to be revised.
Thus it is the urgent need to revise the minimum wage.
The NJCA, Confederation and NFPE have given charter of demands to the Government of India seeking modification in so many demands failing which all Central Government Employees will be compelled to go on indefinite strike from 1st week of March-16.
Thursday, December 24, 2015
World Bank might support India Post's payments bank
Dear Comrades,
The World Bank has shown interest to financially support the proposed India Post Payment Bank, having approached the department of posts (DoP), say sources.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had in October approved the proposals of 11 applicants, including the DoP, to start a payments bank.
These entities may offer most of the services offered by commercial banks, except for loans and credit card products.
“The World Bank wants to part-finance the project. We are having discussions at the inter-departmental and ministry level and would come out with a final decision early next year,” said a senior official in the department to Business Standard.
In October, the Bank had said the decision on the 11 new payments banks should expand penetration of banking in the rural areas, helping transform the rural remittances market.
The Bank is still seeking some clarity on the DoP issue, said its spokesperson. “There has been only one exploratory meeting with the postal service,” the person added.
According to officials in the ministry of communications, which oversees DoP, the latter is weighing options on the partners to choose for the project. It is also in the process of finalising a consultant for the project, the tender for which would be opened on January 6. And, waiting for Public Investment Board clearance from the finance ministry, expected next month.
“It’s only after the consultants do their research that we'd decide whom we want to partner with,” said a senior DoP official.
The department has 155,000 branches in the country. In the first phase, it plans to start payment banking services across 500 post offices.
The ministry has said as many as 17 banks and financial institutions — including Deutsche Bank, IDBI, Barclays, YES Bank, ICICI Prudential, and HDFC — are seeking an alliance with the proposed India Post Payment Bank.
“They want to use the postal network by entering into tie-ups for delivery of services such as loans, monthly instalments, collections, insurance, mutual funds and premiums, among other things,” added the official.
Recently, Hitachi had also said it was keen to partner DoP for payments bank solutions. In a meeting with communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad this month, Yutaka Saito, president of Hitachi, had discussed the possibility.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FIRMS
Seeking to partner India Post Payment Bank
- SBI
- IDBI
- UCO
- PNB
- Yes Bank
- Deutche Bank
- HDFC
- Axis
- Barclays
- HDFC Life
- ICICI Prudential
- Bajaj Alliance
http://www.business-standard.com/
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Government says goodbye to clerk era, changes designation for its staff
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Designations like Lower Division Clerk (LDC) and Upper Division Clerk (UDC) in central government's employee hierarchy have been replaced with new nomenclature. The posts of UDC and LDC under Central Secretariat Clerical service (CSCS) have been rechristened as Senior Secretariat Assistant and Junior Secretariat Assistant, respectively, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said. Besides, the post of Assistant under Central Secretariat Service (CSS) has been renamed as Assistant Section Officer, it said. Both the CSCS and CSS form the backbone of administrative work in the central government. The total sanctioned strength of CSS and CSCS is 11,467 and 5,933 respectively. Earlier in March, the DoPT had decided to replace the 'class' categorisation for specifying the seniority of its employees with new alphabetical groupings. The posts under the central government will be denoted as groups A, B, C and D instead of classes I, II, III and IV in the service rules, it had said. The Class-III (Group C) employees had expressed concern that they were taunted as 'third-class' employees due to the categorisation. The Class-I classification is for gazetted officers while Class-II refers to mainly the non-gazetted officers, though there are some gazetted officers in this category too. Class-III comprises clerical staff and Class-IV (which is now subsumed in Class III or Group C) includes peons and helps or multi-tasking staff in the government hierarchy.
Source:-The Economic Times
Lok Sabha approved hike of wage ceiling for bonus to Rs 21,000 per month from Rs 10,000 and monthly bonus calculation ceiling to Rs 7,000 per month from Rs 3,500
Dear Comrades,
The Lok Sabha has approved amendments to the Payment of Bonus Act that seeks to make more workers eligible for bonus by raising the pay eligibility limit of employees to Rs 21,000 per month from Rs 10,000.
The bill, tabled in the house earlier this month, also seeks to enhance the monthly bonus calculation ceiling to Rs 7,000 per month from Rs 3,500, thus substantially increasing the amount of bonus.
Both the proposed changes are in line with the demands of 10 central trade unions, which had observed a day-long strike on September 22.
The bill will now be tabled in Rajya Sabha. Once approved, it will be made effective from April 1, 2015.
"I thank all parties for supporting the historic decision of this government," Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said after the discussion in Lok Sabha.
The Payment of Bonus Act 1965 is applicable to every factory and other establishment in which 20 or more people are employed on any day during an accounting year.
The bill also provides for a new proviso in Section 12, which empowers the central government to vary the basis of computing the bonus.
As it stands today, Section 12 says that where the salary or wage of an employee exceeds Rs 3,500 per month, the minimum or maximum bonus payable to the employee shall be calculated as if his salary or wage was Rs 3,500 per month.
The last amendment to both the eligibility limit and the calculation ceilings under the Act was carried out in 2007 and made effective from April 1, 2006.
This amendment in the Act to increase wage ceiling and bonus calculation ceiling was one of assurances given by the Centre after 10 central trade unions went on a day-long strike on September 2.
Source:-The Economic Times
Declaration of Holiday on 24th December, 2015 (Thursday) on the occasion of PROPHET MOHAMMAD's BIRTH DAY(ID_E_MILAD)
Dear Comrades,
Declaration of Holidays on 24th December, 2015(Thursday) on the occasion of PROPHET MOHAMMAD's BIRTH DAY(ID_E_MILAD)
Minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee of National Council (JCM) side under the Chairmanship of Joint Secretary (AV), DOP&T with the Staff side at 1500 hours on 09.10.2015
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Minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee of National Council (JCM) side under the Chairmanship of Joint Secretary (AV), DOP&T with the Staff side at 1500 hours on 09.10.2015.
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Minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee of National Council (JCM) side under the Chairmanship of Joint Secretary (AV), DOP&T with the Staff side at 1500 hours on 09.10.2015.
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Scheme for engagement of a dependent of deceased GDS on compassionate grounds - review of existing point based system of assessing indigence - order dated 17.12.2015.
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Scheme for engagement of a dependent of deceased GDS on compassionate grounds - review of existing point based system of assessing indigence - order dated 17.12.2015.
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Scheme for engagement of a dependent of deceased casual labourer engaged on or before 01.09.1993 on compassionate grounds to Gramin Dak Sevak Post
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Scheme for engagement of a dependent of deceased casual labourer engaged on or before 01.09.1993 on compassionate grounds to Gramin Dak Sevak Post.
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Review of existing provisions for filling up of vacant GDS posts [Other than GDS BPM] - order date 17.12.2015
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Strengthening establishment of Single Handed Branch Post Offices - order date 17.12.2015
Dear Comrades,
Strengthening establishment of Single Handed Branch Post Offices - order date 17.12.2015.
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Procedure for grant of permission to the pensioner for commercial employment after retirement - revision of Form 25
Dear Comrades,
Procedure for grant of permission to the pensioner for commercial employment after retirement - revision of Form 25.
Installation of ATMs at Identified Post offices - Operational Hand Book on ATM
Dear Comrades,
Installation of ATMs at Identified Post offices -
Operational Hand Book on ATM
Issue of Pensioners Identity Card to pensioners
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Issue of Pensioners Identity Card to pensioners.
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DISCONTINUATION OF NATIONAL SAVINGS CERTIFICATE (IX ISSUE) WITH EFFECT FROM 20.12.2015 - SB ORDER NO. 16/2015
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DISCONTINUATION OF NATIONAL SAVINGS CERTIFICATE (IX ISSUE) WITH EFFECT FROM 20.12.2015 - SB ORDER NO. 16/2015
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
CORE BANKING SOLUTIONS ROLLED OUT AT JEYPORE IRRIGATION COLONY S.O. ON 17.12.2015
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CORE BANKING SOLUTIONS ROLLED OUT AT JEYPORE IRRIGATION COLONY S.O. ON 17.12.2015
CORE BANKING SOLUTIONS ROLLED OUT AT KUJENDRI S.O. ON 02.12.2015
Dear Comrades,
CORE BANKING SOLUTIONS ROLLED OUT AT KUJENDRI S.O. ON 02.12.2015
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