Friday, 28 June 2013
Dopt orders 2013 : Guidelines regarding grant of vigilance clearance to members of the Central Civil Services/Central Civil Posts
Dopt orders 2013 : Guidelines regarding grant of vigilance clearance to members of the Central Civil Services/Central Civil Posts.
No. 11012/11/2007-Estt.A
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
North Block, New Delhi
Dated: 21st June 2013
Office Memorandum
Subject : Guidelines regarding grant of vigilance clearance to members of the Central Civil Services/Central Civil Posts.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s O.M. of even number dated 14.12.2007 on the above subject and to say that it has been decided to modify Para 2(c) thereof as under:
"(c) Vigilance clearance shall not be withheld unless (i) the officer is under suspension (ii) the officer is on the Agreed List, provided that in all such cases the position shall be mandatorily revisited after a period of one year (iii) a charge sheet has been issued against the officer in a disciplinary proceeding and the proceeding is pending (iv) orders for instituting disciplinary proceeding against the officer have been issued by the Disciplinary Authority provided that the charge sheet is served within three months from the date of passing such order (v) charge sheet has been filed in a Court by the Investigating Agency in a criminal case and the case is pending (vi) orders for instituting a criminal case against the officer have been issued by the Disciplinary Authority provided that the charge sheet is served within three months from the date of initiating proceedings (vii) sanction for investigation or prosecution has been granted by the Competent Authority in a case under the PC Act or any other criminal matter (viii) an FIR has been filed or a case registered by the concerned Department against the officer provided that the charge sheet is served within three months from the date of filing / registering the FIR / case (ix) the officer is involved in a trap / raid case on charges of corruption and investigation is pending."
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(J.A. Vaidyanathan)
Director (Establishment)
Source : www.persmin.nic.in
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/11012_11_2007-Estt-A-1.pdf]
CPF beneficiaries with 20 years continuous service eligible for the ex-gratia payment: Pensioner Portal Order
No.41/26/2010- P&PW(E)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare
3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan,
Khan Market, New Delhi,
Dated 25th/26th June, 2013
Office Memorandum
Sub: Grant of Ex-gratia to those pre-1986 Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) employees who retired otherwise than on superannuation after 20 years of service - regarding.
In this Department's OM No.45/52/97-P&PW(E), dated 22.03.2004, it was clarified that the following categories of CPF beneficiaries would not be entitled to grant of ex-gratia payment in terms of OM No.45/52/97-P&PW(E), dated 16.12.1997:-
(a) those who were dismissed or removed from service,
(b) those who resigned from service, and;
(c) those who retired from service other than on attaining the prescribed age of superannuation.
2. The matter has been reviewed. It has now been decided to delete the clause (c) above from the OM dated 22.03.2004. Accordingly, all CPF beneficiaries who retired voluntarily or on medical invalidation before 01.01.1986 after completing 20 years of continuous service would also be eligible for the ex-gratia payment in terms of OM dated 16.12.1997. Other conditions given in OM dated 16.12.1997 will remain same.
3. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, vide their ID 563/E.V./2013 dated 24/06/2013.
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(Sujasha Choudhury)
Deputy Secretary
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Grant of family pension and gratuity to the eligible member of the family of an employee/pensioner/family pensioner reported missing — consolidated instructions: Pensioner Portal Order
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare
Lok Nayak Bhawan,
Khan Market, New Delhi
Dated: 24th/25th June, 2013
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
The provisions regarding grant of gratuity and family pension to the members of families of the deceased Government servants/pensioners who were appointed on or before 31st December, 2003 and who are/were born on pensionable establishments are contained in Rules 50-54 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. The instructions regarding grant of family pension and gratuity under these rules to the eligible member of the family of an employee reported missing had been issued vide this Department's earlier office memorandum No. 1/17/86-P&PW, dated 29' August, 1986. Clarifications/amendments in this regard were issued vide OM No. 1/17/86-P&PW, dated 25" January, 1991 and 18th February, 1993 and OM No. 1/28/04-P&PW(E) dated 31't March, 2009 and 2nd July, 2010, O.M. of even number, dated 14th September, 2011 and OM No. 1/17/2010-P&PW(E), dated 2nd January, 2012.
2. A reference has been received in this Department to clarify whether in a situation where SHO states that FIR is not required to be lodged in the case of person gone missing, the eligible member of the family can be granted family pension. The matter has been examined in consultation with the Ministry of Home Affairs. Section 154 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code mandates filing of an FIR by the Police authorities on a report received of the commission of a cognizable offence. A missing person per se does not point to commission of a cognizable offence. In view of this, cognizance of a person's disappearance can be taken by the Head of Office on the basis of an authenticated Daily Diary (DD)/General Diary Entry (GDE), filed by the Police authorities concerned, as per the practice prevalent in that State/UT.
3. It has now been decided to issue consolidated instructions in supersession of previous instructions regarding grant of family pension to the eligible members of family of the employee/pensioner/family pensioner reported missing and whose whereabouts are not known. It includes those kidnapped by insurgents/terrorists but does not include those who disappear after committing frauds/crime etc.
4. In the case of a missing employee/pensioner/family pensioner, the family can apply for the grantof family pension, amount of salary due, leave encashment due and the amount of GPF and gratuity (whatever has not already been received) to the Head of Office of the organisation where the employee/pensioner had last served, six months after lodging of Police report. The family pension and/or retirement gratuity may be sanctioned by the Administrative Ministry/Department after observing the following formalities:-
(i) The family must lodge a report with the concerned Police Station and obtain a report from the Police, that the employee/ pensioner/ family pensioner has not been traced despite all efforts made by them. The report may be a First Information Report or any other report such as a Daily Diary/General Diary Entry.
(ii) An Indemnity Bond should be taken from the nominee/dependants of the employee/pensioner/family pensioner that all payments will be adjusted against the payments due to the employee/pensioner/family pensioner in case she/he appears on the scene and makes any claim.
5. In the case of a missing employee, the family pension, at the ordinary or enhanced rate, as applicable, will accrue from the expiry of leave or the date up to which pay and allowances have beenpaid or the date of the police report, whichever is later. In the case of a missing pensioner/family pensioner, it will accrue from the date of the police report or from the date immediately succeeding the date till which pension/family pension had been paid, whichever is later.
6. The retirement gratuity will be paid to the family within three months of the date of application. In case of any delay, the interest shall be paid at the applicable rates and responsibility for delay shall be fixed. The difference between the death gratuity and retirement gratuity shall be payable after the death of the employee is conclusively established or on the expiry of the period of seven years from the date of the police report.
7. Before sanctioning the payment of gratuity, the Head of Office will assess all Government dues outstanding against the employee/pensioner and effect their recovery in accordance with Rule 71 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 and other instructions in force for effecting such recoveries.
8. The amount of salary due, leave encashment due and the amount of GPF will be paid to the family in the first instance as per the nominations made by the employee/pensioner on filing of apolice report and submission of an indemnity bond as indicated above.
9. The benefits to be sanctioned to the family/nominee of the missing employee/pensioner will be based on and regulated by the emoluments drawn by him/her and the rules/orders applicable to him/her as on the last date he/she was on duty including authorised periods of leave.
10. Formats of separate Indemnity Bonds to be used in the case of missing employees, missingpensioners and missing family pensioners are available at this department's website www.persmin.nic.in.
Encl.: As above.
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(Sujasha Choudhury)
Deputy Secretary
Source: http://pensionersportal.gov.in/ [http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D3/D03ppw/GrantofPension_250613.pdf]
Interest Rate Changes - All Schemes
INTEREST RATE CHANGES - PATCH DATED 27/06/2013
INSTRUCTIONS FOR RUNNING THE PATCH
THIS PATCH IS COMMON TO SANCHAY POST VERSIONS 6.6.1 AND 7.0
This patch updates interest rates of all schemes including RD & NSC.
-- Unzip and copy the exe file to DBAnalyzer folder
-- Run the exe from DBAnalyzer folder itself.
-- Enter name of the SB Server and click 'OK'.
-- A message will be displayed for each scheme.
-- Continue clicking on 'OK' until the message 'Interest rates updation completed successfully' is displayed.
If any other message or error code is displayed, email the error code to SDC for solution.
Download : http://tamilnadupost.nic.in/sdc/patches/InterestChange_0627.zip
India Post applies for bank licence
MUMBAI: With the Reserve Bank of India's deadline for applying for a bank licence fast approaching, the number of companies that have joined the list is rising. IndiaInfoline, Bajaj Finserv and the India Post are among the recent entities that have joined the ranks of licence seekers.
"Bajaj Finserv Ltd has submitted its application to Reserve Bank of India on June 26, 2013 for a Licence to commence banking business in terms of section 22 of the Banking Companies Act, 1949. It is proposed to do this by converting its subsidiary Bajaj Finance Ltd into a Bank in terms of RBI Guidelines for Licensing of New Banks in the Private Sector dated February 22, 2013" the company said in a statement.
Although the postal department has been expressing its ambitions to float a bank for long, RBI would have to create a special dispensation for India Post as it does not fit into several of the criteria prescribed by the central bank. Besides the prescribed norms, the postal department would face a huge challenge in putting in place a core banking solution that would facilitate a centralized view of all its accounts. However, there are many who feel that the postal department is ideally suited to spread RBI's objectives of financial inclusion. The department already mobilizes small investments through the postal saving scheme and it has a network that is larger than any bank.
IFCI, Bajaj Finserv, India Infoline would join a host of other entities like Religare Enterprises,Aditya Birla group, JM Financial and Srei, which have lined up plans to foray into the banking sector.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Next time you go to the Post Office, it may well turn out to be a bank
A long-pending dream of India Post to have banking operations is now taking a final shape. The Department of Post has moved a Cabinet note with the government providing Rs 500 crore as seed capital to India Post for this purpose. This is the minimum paid up capital required under the final norms for banking licenses put up by the Reserve Bank of India.
Financial help from the government is needed since India Post ran a deficit of Rs 5,805.9 crore in 2011-12, though 8.5% lower than Rs 7,899.3 crore in the previous year.
India Post plans to start banking operations in 50 branches, a key official said.
The official said all the initial work on applying for a banking license to RBI has been completed and the only task left now is to formally submit its application.
The deadline for submitting applications is July one and in between only two working days are left.
"Our officer is in Mumbai and we will file the application before the deadline," the official said.
When asked that it would be too costly an affair to convert a post office into a bank, the official explained that both post office work of India Post and banking operations will simultaneously exist.
She said India Post can always squeeze a little space in its existing post offices. "We can give the bank a completely different branding and so the bank and post office can coexist ," she said.
"That little space for bank branches will be built from the scratch. But, the existing infrastructure across 1,50,000 post offices will be leveraged. We are naturally the most fit candidate to open a bank as no one can match the department's reach," the official said.
She said India Post has around 1,50,000 post offices, while all the other bank branches combined would come to around 50,000 only.
"So, other aspirants have a reason to worry, but we qualify RBI's eligibility criteria in all respects," the official said.
When other private banks can have a lean and mean approach in terms of bank branches and can still be successful, so can India Post, the official asserted.
But, the idea is to not to open branches across all the 1,50,000 post offices, but have a selective play. "If we cover the entire network, it will be too extensive, therefore we will open in places where there are not other banks etc. And our post man could act as a banking correspondent enabled with micro-ATMs," she said.
To become a bank, India post will have to restructure its shareholding. There is a stipulation in the RBI's norms that promoter companies of entities wishing to set up banks should be 51% held by the public. At present, India post is 100% government of India holding.
India Post has long nursed an ambition to start a bank, called Post Bank of India.
Earlier, the finance ministry is understood to have opposed India Post’s plan as the postal service doesn’t have the expertise needed in relevant areas, such as handling credit.
The Department of Post has a few savings instruments like post office savings scheme, besides acting as a distributor for mutual fund companies. It also has a life insurance scheme— Postal Life Insurance.
India Post's plans will also help the UPA’s ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) Scheme as the programme falters because of poor last mile connectivity of banks.
The official said the banking correspondent model as enshrined in DBT will be performed by postman. He will get an additional commission of 0.07% over and above his regular salary for every new deposit. The official said that moves are also afoot to link all post office branches with core banking solutions (CBS), which would further enable them to function as a full-fledged bank.
Source : http://www.business-standard.com/
[http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/next-time-you-go-to-the-post-office-it-may-well-turn-out-to-be-a-bank-113062700753_1.html]
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