Thursday 12 April 2012

Payment of Dearness Allowance to Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) at revised rates with effect from 01-01-2012.Onwards-reg.


NO. 14-01/2011-PAP
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & IT
DEPARTMENT OF POSTS
(ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION)
DAK BHAVAN, SANSAD MARGNEW DELHI,

THE 12th April,2012
To
All Chief Postmasters General,
All G.Ms.(PAF)/Director of Accounts (Postal).

Subject: Payment of Dearness Allowance to Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) at revised rates with effect from 01-01-2012.Onwards-reg.
  
          Consequent upon grant of another installment of dearness allowance with effect from 01st JANUARY, 2012 to Central Government Employees, vide Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure O.M. No.1(1)/2012-EII(B), dated 3RD APRIL,,2011,duly endorsed vide this Department's letter no.8-1/2012-PAP Dated 3.4.12, the Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS), have also become entitled to the payment of dearness allowance on basic TRCA at the revised rate with effect from 01-01-2012. It has, therefore, been decided that the dearness allowance payable to the Gramin Dak Sevaks shall be enhanced from the existing rate of 58% to 65% on the basic Time Related Continuity Allowance, with effect from 1st  JANUARY, 2012.

2.         The additional installment of dearness allowance payable under this order, shall be paid in cash to all Gramin Dak Sevaks. The payment of arrears of dearness allowance for the month of JANUARY to MARCH, 2012, shall not be made before the date of disbursement of TRCA of March, 2012.

3.         The expenditure on this account will be debited to the Sub Head 'Salaries' under the relevant head and should be met from the sanctioned grant.

4.         This issues with the concurrence of Integrated Finance Wing vide their Diary No.104/FA/12/CS, dated 12TH APRIL, 2012

Yours faithfully
Sd/-
(KALPANA RAJSINGHOT)
DIRECTOR (ESTT)
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MODEL QUESTIONS FOR IPO AND PM GRADE 1 EXAM



(Qn 1-25)
1.         The first class HO situated at the HQ of the Head of the circle or, where there are more than one such HO, the one is attached to HQ is called as

            a)         Head post office                               b)         First Class Post office
            c)         General Post Office                         d)         None of the above               Ans: c(6)

2.         The service responsible for the carriage of mails by rail, road,  river and air and for the collection and distribution of mails received form Post offices by mail offices and section

            a)         Army postal service                         b)          Mobile  post office service
            c)         Railway Mail Service                       d)         None of the above               Ans: c(2)

3.         A main office of group of post offices consisting of itself and a number of smaller offices called sub and branch office which have been placed under its Account jurisdictions is called as

            a)         Head Post Office                              b)         First class post office
            c)         General Post Office                         c)         None of these                       Ans: a(5)



4.         Post office which is situated on a line of through mail communication  receive & sorts bags intended for office in advance, without opening them is

            a)         TMO                                                    b)         SO
            c)         Transit office                                     d)         None of the above               Ans: c(9a)

5.         A branch of RMS where closed bags are received and dispatched sorting of letter is not done in this unit mail agent or mail guard is in charge of this unit is a

            a)         Transit office                                     b)         Head office
            c)         Transit mail office                            d)         None of the above               Ans: c(9b)

6.         Mark correct option

            a)         Sorting mail office charged with the duty of opening the sorting mail bags received by it and deposing of their contents.
            b)         AMPC mean automatic mail processing centre sorting is done by machine.
            c)         CRC mean computerized Registration centre.  Regn work is done by computer
            d)         All of  these.                                                                                                  Ans: d(9-10)

7.         Mark correct option

            a)         Sorting sub office are situated near the junction of several mail lines
            b)         Nodal Post office is working in important cities some post office are authorized to receive letters from neighboring PO and sort the mail as per sorting diagram.
c)         Central bagging unit is  branch of RMS office .
d)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans:d(11)

8.         An office is established at HQ of a Postal circle and deal with unclaimed and refused articles and articles without address or incomplete address is called as

            a)         Nodal Post office                             b)         Head post office
            c)         Returned letter office                      d)         None of the above               Ans:c(12)

9.         Mark correct options

a)         A post office or Sorting office or section which wxchanges mails with offices in foreign countries is known as ‘Office of exchange”.
b)         A Foreign post office is an office of exchange in which the work of assessment of customs duty on foreign mail is also carried out.
c)         A Sub foreign Post office is does not close and receive any bags but in which the work of customs examination, assessment and accounting of custom duty is carried out.
d)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans: d(13)

10.       Railway Mail service working on Railway or river streamer lines is called

            a)         Mail Office                                         b)         Bag Office
            c)         Transit section                                  d)         Transit mail office                Ans: c(14)

11.       The mail office deals with contents of mail bags addressed to them and with closed forward bags is called as

            a)         Transit Mail Office                            b)         Sorting mail office
            c)         Transit Section                                 d)         Record office                                    Ans:b(15)

12.       The mail office deals only with closed bags is called as
            a)         Transit Mail Office                            b)         Sorting mail office
            c)         Transit Section                                 d)         Record office                                    Ans:a(15)
           
13.       Mark correct option

            a)         Mail office are two kind one is Sorting mail office another is Transit mail office
            b)         Mail agent incharge of Sorting mail office and HAS is incharge TMO
            c)         Mass mailing centreis help to customer who are regularly posting max number
                        of letters, as help him to writing the address, affix stamp etc
d)         Press Sorting office is situated on promises of the newspaper. All the
expenditure   is borne by the publisher.
e)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans: e(15)

14.       Mark incorrect option

a)         RO is a stationary office of the RMS where work paper of the sections attached to it are prepared, checked and placed on record, all forms & bags.
            b)         HRO is stationary office situated at the HQ of RMS Dn
            c)         SRO is situated at the same station as a Mail office.
            d)         None of these                                                                                       Ans:d(16-18)

15.       Mark correct option

            a)         Every  PO  is Unit Bag office other than BO and EDSO
            b)         Every HRO/SRO in RMS is identified ad District Bag office
            c)         The PSD situated at the HQ of Postal circle is identified as Circle Bag Office
            d)         D section of Postal directorate works as Central Bag office. This is not deal with               any bags but only deals with the correspondence relating distributions of bags
            e)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans:e(18)


16.       Journey performed by a set of Section traveling on duty from one end to the another end of its beat is called

            a)         Section                                                          b)         Beat
            c)         Trip                                                                 d)         None of these           Ans: c(22)

17.       Mark correct option

            a)         Station articles are intended for delivery from a  PO  to which they are sent
            b)         Sorting articles are articles that are to be sorted by the Poor Mail Office to which   they are sent, and fwd to office of final destination or to other sorting offices
c)                  Label bundle are two type express bundle and differed bundle
d)                 Express bundle require to sort immediately & Differed bundle may be disposed later.
e)                 All the above                                                                                            Ans: e(23,24)

18.       Mark correct option

            a)         Pink check slip  for ordinary paid and unpaid bundle
            b)         Blue check slip  for Airmail
            c)         White check slip  for  both express & differed bundle
            d)         Marked 2 diagonal line green for local article, yellow for rajdhani & blue for           metro             bundle          
            e)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans: e(25)

19.       Mark correct option

            a)         The weight of TB should not be exceed 30 Kg weight
            b)         MO check slip printed in red in on white or badami paper
            c)         Registered bundle prepared there are three or more uninsured letter.
            d)         Regd bag may contain cash bag, ordinary and VP regd article, insured
                        envelope,      regd bundle, ins bundle, ordinary & VP   MO
            e)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans: e(28)

20.       A bag is used to enclose several bags sent to the same office or section thereby affording protection to them called

            a)         Packet Bag                                        b)         Insured Bag
            c)         Transit Bag                                        d)         None of these                       Ans: c(33)

21.       A bag is used to enclosed correspondence of the high officer of Govt called as

            a)         Camp bag                                          b)         Special bag
            c)         Transit bag                                        d)         None of these                       Ans: b(37)

22.       Mark correct option

            a)         An account bag is used between a SO to HO vice versa
            b)         SO to HO account bag contain SO daily account
            c)         HO to SO account bag contain SO Slip
            d)         Account bag are due bag              
            e)         All the above                                                                                                 Ans: e(34)
  

23.       A  and B order is issued by

            a)         Supdt of RMS                                   b)         PMG
            c)         Supdt of Post office                         c)         HRO                           Ans: a(46,47)

24.       A order contain

            a)         Proposed changes in the sorting list
            b)         Performance of SA duties in mail offices
            c)         Disposal of camp articles
            d)         None of the above                                                                                       Ans: a(46)

25.       B order contain

            a)         Proposed changes in the sorting list
            b)         Performance of SA duties in mail offices
            c)         Disposal of camp articles
            d)         None of the above                                                                                       Ans: b(46)

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CLOSED HOLIDAY ON 14TH APRIL 2012 ON ACCOUNT OF BIRTHDAY OF DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR-REG.


Sub: Closed Holiday on 14th April 2012 on account of birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar-Reg.

D.G. Posts No. 21-01/2010-PE-II dated 11.04.2012.
I am directed to forward herewith a copy of O.M. No. 12/2/2012-JCA-2 dated 27.03.2012 received from Department of Personnel and Training, on the above subject mentioned above for information and necessary action.

2. HOC/Regions are requested to bring the above decision to the notice of all concerned.

Sd/-
(Kalpana Rajsinghot)
Director(Estt.)

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Holiday Monetary Compensation for Postal employees

For Postal Department 13,14 and 15 of April are holidays, As per the Rule if Holiday comes in Three consecutive Days . Delivery Staff, Postmaster and Mails P.A need to work any of this Holidays..Here is A revised Order issued by Directorate Regarding incentive to be to Given to Postal employees while working on Holidays







File No. 10-7/2001-P.E.II
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT
Department of Posts
(Establishment Division)
Dak Bhawan Sansad Marg New Delhi – 110001
Dated the 24-11-2010

Chief Postmaster General
Postmaster General
General Managers (Finance)
Director of Accounts Postal

Subject: - Revision of Fixed Monetary compensation (FMC) to delivery staff and remuneration to other staff
Sir/Madam,

I am directed to refer to Directorates letter of even number dated 4-9-2002 and 28.1.2003 on the above subject.

2. The Department has received a number of references from the staff Associations requesting for upward revision of fixed Monetary compensation (FMC) admissible to Postmen staff. A Committee of Senior Officers was constituted for looking into the issue and the report of the Committee has been examined carefully in consultation with integrated Finance wing and the Competent Authority has ordered enhancement of the Fixed Monetary compensation (FMC) admissible to Postmen staff. The details are as under:

  1. When One Postman performs duty of an absentee Postman by combination of duties from Rs.29 per day revised to Rs.50 per day
  2. When two Postmen perform duty of an absentee Postman by sharing the beat from Rs.14 per day revised to Rs.24 per day
3. The competent Authority has also ordered fixation/revision of Holiday Monetary Compensation payable to Postmen Staff and other Departmental staff brought on duty on 2nd consecutive Holiday if three consecutive holidays occur as shown under:
Remuneration to
  1. for Supervisor Rs.85 per holiday for 4 hours
  2. for Postal Assistant Rs.85 per holiday for 4 hours
  3. for Postmen/Sorting Postmen Rs.85 per holiday
  4. for Multi tasking staff Rs.60 per holiday for 4 hours
4. All other conditions for payment of Fixed Monetary compensation (FMC) issued vide OM No.10-23/87-PE.I dt. 21.12.93 and delivery of Unregistered letters on holidays issued under 9-25/92-CI dt. 10.9.92 will remain unchanged.

5. The Expenditure on account of revision has to be met from the allocated funds of the units under the prescribed Head of account.

6. These orders will take effect from the date of issue.

7. This issues in concurrence with the Integrated Finance Wing vide their diary number 286/FA/10/CS dated 24.11.2010.

Sd/-
(K. Rameswara Rao)
Asst. Director General (Estt)
 
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