Posting of SDI(P)s in Koraput Division

Dear Comrades,

After a high time, now RO has issued orders for posting of Inspector of Posts in the vacant Sub-Divisions of Koraput Division. Shri Devadutta Jena has been posted as IPOs, Umerkote Sub-Division. Shri Jawahar Rao has been posted as IPOs, Malkangiri Sub-Division replacing Shri B Sethy. Shri Sethy has been transferred and posted as IPO(PG), O/o the SSPOs, Koraput Division.

Our union congratulates and welcomes to the new IPOs, Shri Jena and Shri Rao to Koraput Division.

Joint Bi-ennial Conference of Bolangir Division

Dear Comrades,

The Bi-ennial Conference of AIPEU Group-'C' and AIPEU Postmen & Group-'D' Bolangir Division was held on 14.11.2010 at Bolangir.

President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil launches special stamp to commemorate centenary year of Lala Lakshmipat Singhania

Dear Comrades,

 

President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil today released a stamp to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary celebrations of Lala Lakshmipat Singhania in a glittering ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The Indian postal department has brought out the stamp.

A visionary, a pioneer and a leader of outstanding quality – Lala Lakshmipat Singhania was the key architect of JK Organisation, one of India’s largest business houses. Even at a time when Indian industry was in its infancy, he considered management skills essential for Indian Industry and economy, to grow and develop not only domestically but also globally. He laid special emphasis on women education for holistic development of society. Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister spoke highly of the initiatives taken by Lala lakshmipat Singhania in building Industrial landscape for a modern India.

Inspired by Lala Lakshmipat Singhania, the generation next under the leadership of Shri Hari Shankar Singhania, President, JK Organization and past president of International Chamber of Commerce, have shown continuous and exemplary growth in diversified fields of industry.

With a sense of pride, Hari Shankar Singhania, President, JK Organisation, said, “Lala Lakshmipat Singhania had a strong belief that economic freedom of the country was as important as political freedom. He started several new industrial ventures, making many products in India for the first time, which were otherwise imported. He was committed to societal and nation building agenda. As a humanitarian he set up various healthcare and educational Institutes. He always said “Vidya Dadati Vinyam” meaning education makes you more understanding and humble.”

The group has achieved a lead position in major businesses over the years: JK Tyre, JK Paper, JK Lakshmi Cement, Fenner India, JK Agri Genetics, JK Sugar and other such successful enterprises.

India Infoline News Service / 10:54 , Nov 16, 2010

India Post Pavilion at Trade Fair Inaugurated

Dear Comrades,

India Post issues four Postage Stamps on Children’s Day.

India Post’s pavilion was inaugurated by Ms. Radhika Doraiswami, Secretary Posts, Government of India here today. India Posts is participating in India International Trade Fair – 2010 organized by ITPO from 14.11.2010 to 27.11.2010 at Pragati Maidan. The attractions of the pavilion set up in Hall No. 12 include- Project Arrow - Transformation of Rural Post Offices, A variety of Premium Products/Services, Tailor made solutions for your mailing needs, Customized Business Packages for Corporate Customer, Solution for your logistics needs, Financial Services, Insurance Services, Philatelic Stamps/Stationery and Print to Post – offering services printing, pre-mailing and dispatch of mail under one roof.

A set of commemorative Postal Stamps on Children’s Day was also released by her on this occasion.

Department Of Posts celebrates the 14th of November, each year with the issue of Special Postage Stamps on Children’s Day. Going by the tradition, Department of Posts has issued a set of four stamps on “Children’s Day” released by Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy today, during a formal function organized at its Pavilion in Pragati Maidan.

These Postage stamps show the wooden and mud toys such as the ones from Chennapatna, the dolls, tops of different hues and kites that colour their sky. The miniature sheet also pictures the little drag-cart which rattles happily with a stick on its stretched drum, dragged by a child.

This year the Children’s Day Special Postage Stamps celebrate return to innocence, the tenderness of nostalgia and also pays tribute to a heart full of compassion for those who have less than others.

These stamps and First Day Cover were designed by Sh. Sankha Samanta.

PIB

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Union Bulletin for the month of Nov, 2010

Dear Comrades,

The union bulletin for the month of Nov, 2010 is published hereunder for information.

Adding Photographs of all SOs of our Division to the Blog

Dear Comrades,

Taking an initiative we have already added photographs of nine SOs in the slideshow placed at the right corner. All comrades are requested again to send photographs of their SOs (front side view only), so that they can also be published in our blog.

Postal Strike

Dear Comrades,

Imphal, November 11 2010: Protesting alleged looting of money from two of their colleagues by miscreants on November 9 at Senapati, employees of Manipur Postal Division have stopped carrying out their services including ferrying and delivery of mails in Senapati district from today.

A joint statement of three Manipur Postal Division employees unions said miscreants harassed and looted Rs 1700 from driver Y Sanatomba Singh and mail guard RK Arunkumar Singh on November 9 afternoon while they were discharging duties between Mao and Tadubi along National Highway 39 .

An officer of Mao police station, however, said no complaint has been lodged in connection with the incident and they have no idea about it.

Condemning the looting All India Postal Extra Departmental Employees Union, Manipur Postal Division (MPD), MPD P-IV and MPD P-III – convened a joint meeting and decided not to cooperate with the conveyance of mails in between Senapati and Mao until an apology is tendered by the looters or are booked under the law.

The meeting also called upon all concerned for intervention to bring about an amicable solution to ensure non recurrence of such unwanted act in future in the interest of the general public.

Source: The Sangai Express

You have more time to submit your ITR-V

Dear Comrades,

For those filing their income-tax returns online, giving your income and other details electronically is not the end of the e-filing process. You also need to physically send in the ITR-V form to the Bangalore office via the Indian postal service.

And if you haven’t done it yet, you are in luck. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the time limit and the last day of submission of ITR-V related to assessment year 2009-10 to December 31, 2010, or 120 days from the date of filing, whichever is later.

Only tax payers filing their returns online need to fill and submit an ITR-V. The process goes like this: After you have filed your returns online, you will get an e-mail from incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in acknowledging your returns. You will also be sent an ITR-V form, which comes password protected for security. The password is usually a combination of your permanent account number (PAN) and date of birth.

The submission of this form to the Centralised Processing Centre (CPC) office will help you get an acknowledgement slip, which counts as proof that you have filed your returns. Tax payers have to fill this form physically and send it to No 1, Electronic City Post Office, Bengaluru - 560100, Karnataka.

If you have filed your ITR-V with the local income-tax office, you need to mail your form to the CPC office. If you have already mailed your ITR-V but have not received any acknowledgement in e-mail from the CPC, your need to re-send your form to the CPC.

Without the acknowledgement of the ITR-V from the CPC, it will be impossible for the income-tax department to process your tax returns or issue any refund, as your case will be treated as not having filed your returns.

DNA India

Indian Postal Network

Dear Comrades,

The Indian postal network is the largest in the world with 155,015 post offices in the country, 90 per cent of which, that is 139,144, are in the rural areas. While just around a quarter of the villages in the country have post offices, all inhabited villages have access to postal facilities. This is one communication service that has truly met the objective of inclusiveness, reaching out to every nook and corner of the country. In addition to the regular Department Post Offices, there are Extra Departmental Post Offices and over 250,000 Gramin Dak Sevaks are working on a part-time basis.

The post office network, a central government service, has been fairly well spread out across all the states. Each post office serves an area of approximately 21 sq km and an average of 7,000 people. There are some regions like Jammu and Kashmir and the north east that rank at the top with low area coverage, though this is largely owing to the topography of these states with large areas sparsely or totally uninhabited. Small states with good connectivity like Himachal Pradesh and Kerala do well when both area and population coverage are considered. India Post continues to expand services, and this year 200 branch post offices, mainly in rural areas, and 110 sub post offices are proposed to be set up.

India Post has been providing a range of services, going beyond parcel and mail delivery — in fact, the Post Office Savings Bank, which had 206 million deposit accounts as on March 31, 2009, is the largest banking institution in the country. The postal network has had to reinvent itself in the face of liberalisation, facing competition from private courier services in urban areas and other financial intermediaries. Money orders, for instance, have declined over the past decade, though premium service segments like speed post, retail post and business post have seen good growth. Recognising the need to upgrade and modernise even the "look and feel" of post offices, the government has launched Project Arrow to attract customers back into the postal services. Computerisation is also on, with the aim of covering all services in all post offices in the country by September 2012.

Moreover, the vast network is being put to use to disburse government payments now — more than 95,000 post offices are involved in the disbursement of wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS); every month around 800,000 new MGNREGS accounts are opened and so far till June 30, 44.8 million accounts have been opened under the scheme.

Then there is the sale of pension, insurance and investment schemes as well as retail of the New Pension Scheme has begun in 20 of the 22 postal circles; and in partnership with UTI Mutual Fund, mutual fund schemes are being sold across the country in all post offices. With a network that already reaches every household in the country, India Post is now set to become a major partner in meeting the objective of financial inclusion.

Sify.com

'Screen all Yemeni & Somali parcels'

Dear Comrades,

Not taking any chances after the discovery of two parcel bombs on US-bound cargo flights in Dubai and central England, the government of India has advised its Customs and postal departments to security-screen all parcels coming in from Yemen and Somalia. The advisory seeking additional checks on cargo emanating from Yemen and Somalia comes days ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Delhi and Mumbai.

The advisory, based on a request from the American agencies as well as its own threat assessment coinciding with the Obama visit, took effect from Tuesday night. It’s not time-bound and all parcels from Yemen and Somalia — including airmail and cargo landing at the country’s seaports and airports — will continue to undergo rigorous checks until further orders.

Incidentally, India is only one of the several countries that have tightened checks on Yemeni cargo and airliners following the interception of parcel bombs addressed to synagogues in Chicago at airports in Dubai and East Midlands in central England. While Germany has banned all flights from Yemen, Britain has threatened to ban all unaccompanied cargo from Yemen. Other European countries as well as Australia have ordered a rigorous security screening of all Yemeni cargo at airports across Europe as well as Australia.

 

The Economic Times