Enhancement of SB Allowance to PO Staff

Dear Comrades,

DoP vide Directorate Memo No.: 113-07 / 2010-SB by SB Order No. 10 / 2011 has enhanced SB allowances to Postal Assistants working in SB Branches.

Sub: Enhancement of SB Allowance to PAs working in Savings Bank Branches.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this office letter of No. 2-2/93-SB Dt. 08.10.2004 (SB Order No. 17/2004) vide which it was conveyed that Ministry of Finance (DEA) has conveyed its approval for increase in the SB Allowance from Rs.60 to Rs.150 & from Rs.30 to Rs.75 per month wef 08.10.04.

02. After implementation of 6th CPC, increase in the SB Allowance was taken up with MoF (DEA), which has not vide its OM No. 17/1/2001-NS-II Dt. 10.06.11 has conveyed its approval for enhancement of SB Allowance as per the following rates wef 01.09.08.

01. Staff Fully engaged in SB / SC work - present Rs.150 - new rate from 01.09.08 Rs.300.

02. Staff Partially engaged in SB / SC work - present Rs.75 - new rate from 01.09.08 Rs.150.

03. All other conditions for grant of SB Allowances will remain unchanged.

Sd/- S.Manik Lakra ADG (FS)

Clarification on Children Education Allowance.

Dear Comrades,

No.21011/16/2009-Estt.(AL)

Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions

Department of Personnel & Training

New Delhi, Dated 17th June, 2011

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: - Clarification on Children Education Allowance.

The undersigned is directed to refer to DOP&T O.M. No. 1201 1 /03/2008- Estt(Al1owance) dated 02-09-2008 and clarificatory OM No.12011/16/2009-Estt.(AL) dated 13.1 1.2009 on the Children Education Allowance(CEA) Scheme, this Department has been receiving references from various Departments seeking further clarifications. The doubts raised are clarified as under:-

(i) Whether Children Education Allowance would be admissible beyond two children due to failure of sterilization operation.

The reimbursement of Children Education Allowance is admissible only for the first child born after failure of sterilization operation.

(ii) whether the admissible amount per annum per child (annual ceiling of Rs.15000/-) on account of CEA can be reimbursed in fill in the first quarter of the financial/academic year itself.

It is clarified that a Government servant is allowed to get 50% of the total amount subject to the overall annual ceiling in the first quarter and the remaining amount in third and or fourth quarter. Frontloading of the entire amount in the first and second is not allowed.

(ii) A Government servant can claim full amount subject to the annual ceiling of Rs.15000/- in the last quarter.

Sd/- (Vibha Govil Mishra) Deputy Secretary (P &A)

New System for conducting LDC Exam for the year 2011

Union bulletin for the month of June, 2011

Talk between union and Postal Board failed - Get ready for strike

Dear Comrades,

The talk between union representatives and Postal Board failed again. Intensify the strike movement. Strike will be definitely happen and will continue till our demands fulfilled. Get ready comrades to shutdown all the post office with immediate effect from 5th July, 2011.

POSTAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES

FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS

ALL INDIA POSTAL EXTRA DEPARTMENTAL EMPLOYEES

NATIONAL UNION OF GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS

NEW DELHI – 110001

DISCUSSION WITH POSTAL BOARD AGAIN FAILED

DEPARTMENT ADAMANT ON IMPLEMENTING McKINSEY RECOMMENDATIONS

CENTRAL JCA DECIDES TO GO AHEAD WITH THE STRIKE

The third round of discussion held with the Postal Board today (27.06.2011) at 3 PM also failed due to the adamant position taken by the Department. Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy, Secretary, Department of Posts, Sri. P. K. Giopinath, Member (Personnel), Mrs. Manjula Parashar, Member (Operations), Sri. Kamaleshwar Prasad, Member (HR) and other Senior Officers were present. Staff side was represented by Secretary Generals, NFPE, FNPO and other General Secretaries.

Immediately on commencement of the meeting the Staff Side expressed its strong resentment and protest against the decision of the Department to go ahead with the Mckinsey recommendations regarding Mail Network Optimisation Project. The Staff side demanded that the aleady failed experiment of speed post hubs should be withdrawn immediately and the decision to implement first class mails hubs and delivery hubs and closure/merger of offices should be dropped. After heated discussion for about two hours no consensus could be arrived on this important agenda of the Charter of Demands. Hence meeting ended with disagreement.

The Central JCA met after the discussion with Postal Board and took the following decisions: -

1. The JCA unanimously decided to go ahead with the strike decision.

2. Campaign and preparations at grass root level for the strike should be further intensified.

3. The indefinite strike shall commence at 6 AM on 05.07.2011

4. 100% strike should be ensured in all Branches/Divisions and Circles.

5. Strike shall not be withdrawn unless and until result – oriented settlement is reached on important items of Charter of Demands.

Get UID number at your post office

Dear Comrades,

TNN Jun 25, 2011, 05.29 AM ISTBANGALORE: From today, you can enrol for your Unique Identification Number (UID) in Bangalore. Just walk into one of the post offices which have been empanelled for the enrolment. The project was launched by India Post, one of the registrars of UIDAI, at the General Post Office on Friday.

About 4 million enrolments and 18 lakh Aadhaars (12-digit unique number) have been issued in the state. From today, enrolments will start in a phased manner through post offices but full-scale enrolments will kick off in a month's time once tenders are finalized. As of now, 10 post offices in Bangalore will begin enrolment.

"In Tumkur and Mysore, 85% of enrolments have been completed. Now, we are moving to Gulbarga and Belgaum. It will start in Dharwad, Bijapur, Yadgir and Gulbarga and then roll out in Bangalore in a bigger way. Our target is to cover the entire population of the state by March 2012," said deputy director general, UIDAI, Bangalore, Ashok Dalwai.

Times of India

Sibal announces entrepreneurship programme for postal department officials

Dear Comrades,

New Delhi, June 27(ANI): Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday announced an entrepreneurship programme for skill and capacity development of the officials of the postal department.

Under the programme, the employees of the postal department would be trained so that they can start their own business after serving their jobs.

"What we intend to do is, is launch a comprehensive time bound programme and it's for skill development and capacity. So, we are going to have a Gramin Dak Sevaks (Village Postman) go through a particular course for development of skills and for capacity development and they run about 3.25 such Gramin Dak sevak employees in India on the postal department," Sibal said while conferring the 'Meghdoot Awards 2011' to postal department officials in New Delhi.

"We are going to empower them and ensure that they actually become entrepreneurs, where ever they are," he added.

The Telecom Minister also said that the country's postal department has to get progressive developments and adopt good marketing strategy with an aim to enhance its image in this rapidly changing world of technology.

"The postal department has not got the kind of, what should I say, 'publicity' and the kind of posturing that the postal department deserves because I think it's perhaps one of the most important, historically and otherwise, department of the Government of India and I want the postal department to be right up there along with the other departments," Sibal said.

This scheme of national awards known as 'Meghdoot Awards' was instituted in 1984 to provide encouragement to the postal employees by recognizing performance of high standard.

The awards are given every year to the officials selected from amongst the nominations received from various postal circles.

Source: dailyindia.com

Publicity of Strike through Print Media

Dear Comrades,

The Print coverage of the meeting held at Nabarangpur is reproduced hereunder.

Sambad

 Dharitri

The Samaj 

Meeting held at Nabarangpur for organising Strike

Dear Comrades,

In pursuant to the strike call by NFPE, AIPEU, AIPEDEU and FNPO, NAPE CHQ, New Delhi a meeting was conducted at Hiramani Devi Recreational Club, Nabarangpur by the AIPEU Koraput Divisional Branch to discuss, explain and interact with the comrades of POs of Nabarangpur District. In the presence of a large gathering, the meeting was a grand success. The meeting was organised by our Senior Com. Anand Kumar Choudhury, Class-III & Com. Prabhat Ku Mohapatra, AIPEU Postmen & Gr-D and Com. Chandrasekhar Rao, AIPEDEU. 

Sri Sanmukh Patra, a Senior Advocate, Supreme Court, New Delhi was the Chief Guest. Com. Anand Ku Choudhury presided over the meeting. Com. Purna Chandra Maharana, Com. Rajendra Prasad Sahu, Com. Jagdish Kar, Com. Prabhat Ku Mohapatra and special guest Sri Mohan Suna, IPOs, Nabarangpur Sub-Division was present on the dias. The necessity of the Indefnite Strike was described in detail to the members participated in the said meeting. As per the unanimous suggestion, it was decided to close all the post offices in Koraput Division from 5th July, 2011 until our demands are fulfilled. Despite of bad climate, continuous rain and cold weather hundreds of comrades from corners of Nabarangpur District attended the said meeting.

Secy. Genl explains regarding OPTIMIZATION OR LIQUIDATION of MNO

Dear Comrades,

The Mail Network Optimization in the Dept. of Posts suggested by the McKinsey Company is resulting as a threat to our department in the form loss of faith from our customers thereby gradually opening the road of closure of Dept. of Posts.

M Krishnan, Secretary General, NFPE has explained  regarding the Mail Network Optimization in NFPE website which is reproduced hereunder for your information.

OPTIMIZATION OR LIQUIDATION?

The Mail Network Optimization Project (MNOP) has become Mail Network Liquidation Project (MNLP). Implementation of the "Speed Post hub" experiment has resulted in reducing 315 National Speed Post Centres to 89 speed post hubs. Introduction of the "First Class Mail hubs" will result in gradual extinction of 366 RMS Mail Sorting Offices. Delivery hubs will further result in withdrawal of delivery from hundreds of Urban Post Offices. The proposed closure or merger of 9797 urban Post offices will sound the death-knell of Post services. Is it optimization or liquidation?

Department of Posts is paying Consultancy fees to Mckinsey and Mckinsey is not paying any money to the INDIA POST. But the Mckinsey is behaving as if they have purchased the INDIA POST and are the real owner of it. They are passing orders to the employees above the head of departmental officers. Even Heads of Circles are bound to obey Mckinsey. Voice of the right-thinking employees and officers are suppressed and only those support Mckinsey are allowed to run the show.

Creation of hubs has resulted in abnormal delay in conveyance and delivery of speed post articles and everywhere back-routing is taking place. Even articles meant for local delivery are unnecessarily despatched to the hubs situated hundreds of miles away and from there again back-routed to the delivery Post offices causing avoidable delay. Speed post has lost its speed and the faith of public in this premium services has been shaken. Number of articles and revenue has come down. Still the authorities blindly go on repeating that it is a great success. It is just like "operation is successful, but the patient died". The introduction of the first class mails hubs and delivery hubs will be the "beginning of the demise of the Postal Services in India".