Tuesday, May 22, 2012


News about PA/SA Recruitment 


It is known from the confidential sources that the directorate vide memo dated 11/05/2012 asked the circles to furnish the vacancy position for the year 2011-12 by 25/05/2012. In turn Circle office issued orders to Regions to furnish the vacancy position category wise DR quota including DP quota vacancies after considering all Rule-38 applications vide letter dated 15/05/2012.

Comrade Nani Banerjee Passed Away



COM. NANI DA NO MORE

VERY SAD NEWS

OUR GREAT VETERAN LEADER OF P&T TRADE UNION MOVEMENT COM. NANI BANERJEE, AGED 82 YEARS ,  EX. TREASURER AND EX. DY. GENERAL SECRETARY AIPEU GROUP ‘C’ CHQ  EXPIRED TODAY DATED 21ST MAY, 2012, MORNING AT KOLKATA AFTER PROLONG ILLNESS.

HE WAS VERY DEVOTED AND COMMITTED LEADER OF WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT FOR FIVE DECADES. THIS IS AN IRREPARABLE LOSS TO THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT NFPE CONVEYS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES AND DIPS ITS BANNER IN HIS HONOUR AND MEMORY. RED SALUTES TO COM. NANI DA. 

Circle Relaxation Committee Cleared 217 cases out of 465 cases-Orders issued by CO in GDS Cadre


Circle Relaxation committee which met on 10/05/2012, has considered 465 cases of dependants of deceased GDS Officials, out of them 217 cases were recommended. The orders have been issued vide Memo No.RE/1-27/CRC-GDS/2012 dated 15/05/2012. It is also directed to issue provisional appointment order with a clause to the effect that their continuance in the post will be subject to result of Police Verification report. The date of provisional appointment of the approved candidates should be intimated by 25/05/2012 to CO. Click the below link to get the details


Monday, May 21, 2012


Asian Posts praised for high quality of service

16.05.2012 - Members of the Asian-Pacific Postal Union (APPU) are on the right track in advancing quality of service and postal financial services in their region, says UPU Director General, Edouard Daya

 “Asia-Pacific is at the cutting edge of postal development, innovation and diversification,” he said in a speech before the APPU’s Executive Council meeting this week.

The APPU is a UPU restricted union, which facilitates and improves postal relations between 32 member countries in the Asia-Pacific region. During the work cycle 2009-2012, its primary focus was increasing quality of service.
“Quality of service in the Asia-Pacific region is progressing very well, both in terms of actual results, and the use of quality testing and enhancement solutions,” Dayan said.
The UPU’s data shows the region is progressing very well on several key quality of service indicators. More Posts are tracking all classes of mail, including registered letters and parcels, and using the UPU’s systems to exchange electronic data interchange messages and better manage their mail flows. In 2008, only 15 countries had active track and trace on parcels; now there are 36. The region is also performing well with the delivery of EMS items. On-time deliveries of such items remained steady at 90.8 per cent last December, and the region has an impressive 98.9 per cent rate for on-time customer service response.

Facilitating trade

Not to be forgotten is the rise of e-commerce, a market that Asia-Pacific dominates. He advised Posts to focus on trade facilitation and the export market to thrive in this area. “Customers know no borders and are increasingly demanding integrated and secure international postal services,” he said.
But Posts can look to the UPU for a helping hand, he assured. “[The UPU] will support you in your efforts to put in place such strategies [for facilitating] postal export programmes … ,” Dayan said.
The .post initiative will be one way the UPU can help countries “bridge the gap between the physical and electronic dimensions of the postal network” as Posts move online, he added.
As the UPU looks onwards to Congress and its goals for 2013-2016, the director general said the UPU will continue to work closely with the APPU to tackle its designated priorities after Congress: improved quality of service and remuneration systems.
“It is only through this kind of exemplary cooperation, based on mutual trust and a willingness to move forward together, that we can continue to foster the development of the postal sector,” Dayan said.
Falicitation to Com. V. Ramanaiah  Mailoverseer Gudur North who successfully passed in LGO Exam





Health Insurance Scheme for the Central Government Employees waits for Approval of Planning Commission

New Delhi, May 18, 2012(PIB): There is a proposal for introduction of a health insurance scheme for the central government employees and pensioners on pan-India basis, with special focus on pensioners living in non-CGHS areas.

The proposal is to make this scheme voluntary cum contributory for serving employees & pensioners.

However, it is proposed to be made compulsory for the new entrants in Government service.

The salient features of the proposed Health Insurance Scheme are as under;

  •  Optional for serving Central Government employees and pensioners including future pensioners,
  •  Compulsory for new recruits,
  •  Covers all the members of family as per CGHS norms,
  •  Sum insured – Rs. 5 lakh per year on a family floater basis,
  •  Corporate buffer of Rs 25 Crore to take care of cases exceeding Rs. 5 lakh,
  •  All pre existing diseases covered from the day one,
  •  Pre and post hospitalisation benefits available,
  •  Domiciliary Hospitalisation benefit,
  •  Maternity benefit upto two living children,
  •  OPD not covered however OPD consultations will be free,
  •  Payment of FMA for meeting OPD needs,
  •  Cashless treatment facility,
  •  Govt. to subsidise significantly the payment of premium,
  •  Employees / pensioners to contribute 20 to 30 percent of the premium,
  •  Identification of beneficiaries through a Smart Card.
The proposed scheme will be an alternative to the CGHS and it will provide an option to the serving employees and pensioners to choose a scheme as per his/her convenience.
The Scheme will have special focus on the pensioners living in non-CGHS areas who are getting Fixed Medical Allowance at the rate of Rs.300/- only per month to take care of their medical needs and have been demanding extension of CGHS or CS (MA) Rules to cover their OPD and Inpatient medical needs which is not feasible due to resource constraints. 
The Health Insurance Scheme seems to be a viable alternative. It will have additional implications, due to coverage of pensioners living in non-CGHS areas and not covered under any Government Scheme.

The proposal for inclusion of the Health Insurance Scheme for the Central Government employees and pensioners in the 12th Plan has been moved by the Ministry for consideration of the Steering Committee on Health in the Planning Commission. 

On receipt of approval of Planning Commission, the proposal would be placed before the Expenditure Finance Committee and finally before the Cabinet for approval of the scheme. No strict time frame can be given in this regard.

This information was given by the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad in reply to a Starred question in Lok Sabha on Friday, i.e. May 18, 2012.


26.       If a remitter of money order wants to stop its payment to the payee
a)                 Value of MO and commission paid will be refunded to him
b)                 Value of Mo will be refunded
c)                  No refund
d)                 None of these                                                                                               Ans:b(71)
27.       Payment of a MO addressed to a place not served daily by postman will be
a)                 Made to the messenger as authorized by the payee in a letter given to the Postmaster of office of payment
b)                 Paid only to the payee
c)                  Kept in deposit for 7 days an returned for repayment to the remitter
d)                 All the above                                                                                                 Ans:a(30)
28.       Which of the following stamps are not impressed by the issuing office while MO are issued
            a)         The oblong MO stamp        
            b)         Name stamp in acknowledgement portion
            c)         The round MO stamp
            d)         Month and audit stamp                                                                               Ans:c(71)
29.       Which one of the following stamps are not impressed at the office of payment of MO
           
            a)         The oblong MO stamp        
            b)         Name stamp of office of payment
            c)         The round MO stamp
            d)         Ordinary MO stamp after payment of MO                                                Ans:b(7)
30.       Money order issued at BO will be
a)                 Will be numbered examined and issued at the account office as MO presented at the window
b)                 Forwarded to HO for further action
c)                  MOs cannot be booked at BO
d)                 None of these                                                                                               Ans:b(16)
31.       The MOs for payment at the office of payment will be received from the
            a)         Delivery department                                    b)         The Postmaster
            c)         The regn department                       d)         Deposit department             Ans:c(22)
32.       Money order issued at the Pos will be dispatched
a)                 Along  with other unregistered mail of the PO
b)                 MO bundles will be made and the bundles dispatched along with labeled bundles of unregistered mails
c)                  Separate MO bundles will be prepared and transferred to registration PA for dispatch along with registered mails enclosed in R bags
d)                 Enclosed in separate bag and dispatched                                              Ans:c(21)
33.       If there is a discrepancy of Rs. 5/- in the value of MO as written in the MO form by the remitter and as advised by the office of payment
a)                 The payment should be withheld and a reference made to office of issue
b)                 The MO should be returned to office of issue
c)                  The amount entered by the remitter may be paid and irregularity reported to office of issue
d)                 The case is referred to HO/divisional supdt. foradvice                         Ans:c(23)
34.       The MOs paid at BOs will be accounted for
            a)         At the accounts office                     b)         At the HOs along with its paid MOs
            c)         Separately at the Audit office        d)         None of these                       Ans:a(44)
35.       If a money order payable to a person whose identity is not known to the PO is received
a)                 It cannot be paid at window
b)                 It should be paid on proper identification b a person known to the PO
c)                  Should be returned to the sender
d)                 Can be redirected/dispersed as per written instruction of the person            Ans:b(33)
36.       If a MO is received payable to a minor
a)                 It can be paid to the minor if he is old enough to understand the nature of the transaction
b)                 When the minor is under years of discretion and is living with his parents, payment will be made to his parents on signing the MO on behalf of the minor
c)                  When the minor is under years of discretion and is not living with his parents, payment can be made to person in whose care the minor is living on getting an undertaking
d)                 All the above                                                                                                 Ans:d(34)
37.       When MOs are paid to departmental pensioner, a life certificate should be signed on the back of the acknowledgement portion of the MOform by
a)                 Near relatives  of the pensioner                b)         A gazetted officer
c)            Postman                                                        d)         MO clerk                    Ans:c(121)
38.       MO payable to lunatics who are committed by proceedings under the lunacy act to lunatic asylum/mental hospital will be paid to
a)                 The manager of institution
b)                 The authority who has issued the order under lunacy act
c)                  The near relatives of the lunatic
d)                 Will not be paid but returned to sender                                                    Ans:d(264)
39.       In case money order received for payment to a blind person
a)                 The provision as for payment of MOs to minors to be followed
b)                 Money order should not be paid but returned to remitter
c)                  The provisions as for payment of MOs to pardanishin woman to be followed
d)                 Provision for payment of MOs to illiterate payees should be observed
Ans:d(265)
40.       Money order brought back toward unpaid MOs should be handed over to
            a)         The Postmaster                                b)         Treasurer
            c)         The MO clerk                                    d)         The sub account PA          Ans:b(266)
41.       When family allotment money order are paid
a)                 The MOs paid shall be listed along with other MOs
b)                 The MOs will be entered in separate journal and accounted forseparately in the accounts
c)                  Will be entered in MO paid journals and the total entered in the ordinary journal
d)                 None of these                                                                                               Ans:c(281)
42.       In the case of an inland MO, in which it is learnt that the payee has left India and his revised address, is known to the PO
a)                 The MO cannot be redirected but is should be returned to the remitter.
b)                 The MO can be redirected to payee in another foreign country as per the information available
c)                  The Mo can be redirected, but he difference in the commission of the redirected MO to a foreign country should be deducted in the original value of MO
d)                 None of these                                                                                               Ans:c(59)
43.       If a VPMO in favour of the sender of a VP article is remaining unclaimed at the PO
a)                 The MO will be returned to the addressee of the VP article forrepayment
b)                 The issuing postmaster will encash the VPMO as the remitter and credit to PO accounts
c)                  The VPMO will be treated as void and sent to audit office
d)                 None of these                                                                                               Ans:c(61)
44.       The commission on MO can be refunded if the
a)                 MO is repaid to remitter
b)                 MO is wrongly returned back to remitter
c)                  The value of MO is defrauded
d)                 The commission in no case be refunded                                                            Ans:d(63)
45.       The period of currency period of Money order expire
a)                 With the close of last day of the month of issue
b)                 With the close of last day of the month following month of issue
c)                  Three months from the date of issue of MO
d)                 With the close of six months following the month of issue                  Ans:b(65)
46.             The remitter can be altered the office of payment of the payees address
a)         On payment of second commission        
b)         Without any fees
c)         Not permissible       
d)         Only can ask repayment to him                                                                 Ans:b(69)
47.       In sub offices where there are no treasurer cash for payment of MOs will be given to the Postmen by the
            a)         Sub Postmaster                                b)         Joint custodian
            c)         The MO clerk                                    d)         The head Postman              Ans:c((27)
48.       Memo of admission of payment is obtained
a)                 When duplicate money order are issued
b)                 When a money order is lost before payment
c)                  When a money order is lost after payment
d)                 When money order was paid to a person other than the payee.        Ans:c(75)
49.       All head and sub offices journal of money order paid are sent to audit
            a)         Daily                                                   b)         Weekly
            d)         Twice in the month                          d)         Monthly                                  Ans:c(83)
50.       The instances in which the MO receipt is treated as spoiled are when
a)                 There is an error in any of the entries requiring correction
b)                 When the receipt is disfigured due to spilling of ink etc
c)                  A receipt is inadvertently passed over and left blank and noticed at close of the day
d)                 All the above                                                                                                 Ans:d(12)

Saturday, May 19, 2012


FLASH NEWS
MEETING OF CADRE RESTRUCTURING COMMITTEE FOR GROUP ‘C’ EMPLOYEES.
D.G. Posts No. 1/04/2010-SR dated 17th May, 2012

            Next meeting of Cadre Restructuring Committee for Group ‘C’ employees will be held on 22.05.2012 at 1200 noon in Shri K R Murthy Room at Dak Bhawan, New Delhi. All members of the Committee are requested to make it convenient to attend the meeting.

Sd/-
(Subhash Chander)
Director (SR & Legal)

Secretary Department of Posts, informed that discussion with Secretary Generals and General Secretaries NFPE/FNPO will be held at 11AM on 21.05.2012 at Dak Bhawan to take concrete decision on remaining items of the Charter of Demands. More orders issued after the announcement of Hunger Fast programme. Remaining items will be clinched in the 21st meeting. In view of the above , THE CENTRAL JCA UNANIMOUSLY DECIDED TO DEFER THE HUNGER FAST PROGRAMME IN FRONT OF DAK BHAWAN AND CPMG OFFICES
= M. Krishnan, SG NFPE & D Theagarajan ,SG FNPO
Flash News in GDS relaxation cases

Circle relaxation committee met and total 217 cases have been approved.
In Vijayawada Region        - 58 cases have been approved 
In Kurnool Region              - 53 
In Visakhapatnam Region  - 37
In Hyderabad Region         - 59
In Hyderabad City Region  - 10

In Gudur Division the following 3 cases have been approved

1. Smt. Y. Balasaraswathi (approved for the post of BPM Uchur)
W/o Late Y. Sivaramaiah 
Ex-BPM Uchur a/w Sullurpeta SO

2. Kum. M.Yogeswari (approved for the post of BPM Vindur a/w Gudur HO)
D/o Late M.Gopalaiah
Ex-GDS MC/DA Tikkavarappadu a/w V K Satram SO

3. Sri P. Charan Kumar (approved for the post of GDS MC/DA Mittatmakur)
S/o Late P. Ramaiah 
Ex-GDS MC/DA Mittatmakur a/w Kalichedu SO 


NFPE Gudur Congratulates them!

Friday, May 18, 2012

21st May 2012 one day fast effect 

Postal Directorate has decided to conduct Cadre restructuring committee meeting on 22nd May 2012 at 12AM 

Vacancy position in the cadre of postman / mail guard pertaining to the year, 2011 in Odisha Circle


Department of Posts, India,
Office of the Chief Postmaster General, Orissa Circle,
Bhubaneswar – 751 001
To
                The PMG, Berhampur / Sambalpur Region.
All SSPOs / SPOs in Odisha Circle.
SSRM, RMS “N” Division, Cuttack, SRMs “BG” Division /  “K” Division.
                                 
No.RE/30-22/2012,                                                                                         dated at Bhubaneswar the 15-05-2012.

Sub:  Vacancy position in the cadre of postman / mail guard pertaining to the year, 2011.
                  
                   I am directed to request you to refer to Circle Office letter of even number, dtd. 9th November,2011 wherein approved vacancy position in the cadre of Postman and Mail Guard as per the revised recruitment rules, 2010 was circulated. Consequent upon submission of revised vacancy position by SSPOs Puri Division, the total number of vacancies have been revised which is approved by the competent authority.

                   The revised vacancy position is sent herewith for its wide circulation among all concerned.
     
Encl :  As above

NUMBER OF VACANCIES OF THE YEAR 2011  IN THE CADRES OF POSTMAN AND MAIL GUARD
Sl. No.
Name of the Division
NUMBER OF VACANCIES FALLING UNDER
Total
25% promotion by selection cum seniority of Multi Tasking Staff
25% on the basis of Departmental Competitive Examination by promotion from amongst multi tasking staff
25% by Direct recruitment on the basis of competitive  examination limited to Gramin Dak Sevaks
25% by direct recruitment from  open market
1.
Bhubaneswar
5
4
4
4
17
2.
Puri
4
3
3
3
13
3.
Cuttack City
2
1
1
1
5
4.
Cuttack South
1
1
1
1
4
5.
Cuttack North
2
2
2
2
8
6.
Bhadrak
1
1
1
1
4
7.
Balasore
1
1
1
1
4
8.
Mayurbhanj
2
2
1
1
6
9.
Bolangir
3
2
2
2
9
10.
Dhenkanal
1
1
1
-
3
11.
Keonjhar
1
-
-
-
1
12.
Sambalpur
7
6
7
6
26
13.
Sundargarh
3
3
3
1
10
14.
R.O., Berhampur
9
6
8
6
29

Total
42
33
35
29
139
MAIL GUARD
15.
RMS “N” Division
-
-
-
-
-
16.
RMS “K” Division
1
1
1
-
3
17.
RMS “BG” Division
1
-
-
-
1

Total
2
1
1
-
4

Asst. Director (Recruitment)
For Chief Postmaster General,
Bhubaneswar - 751 001