The present Secretary Expenditure may be appointed as Member- Secretary of 7th CPC.

RS Gujral

The Central Government is likely to notify the the pay commission within the next two months The timing is in such a way that it is well before the model code of conduct for the general elections comes into force. Such a move will bring a positive mood for the central government employees towards the government. Additionally the Center is expected to give the panel enough time to prepare its report in the hope that the government would be a lot more comfortable vis-a-vis the fiscal deficit by the time the panel submits its report.Government employees have also asked the Center to consider merging dearness allowance with their pay, arguing that the Sixth Pay Commission, like the Centre, could not have anticipated the high inflation that has eroded real wages over the last decade. The demand was made at a preliminary meeting held between the department of personnel and the employee representatives to discuss the proposed Seventh Pay Commission. It is learnt that the present Secretary Expenditure, R S Gujral, is likely to be appointed Member-Secretary of the 7th Pay Commission. The 1976 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre Gujral is retiring on November 30th 2013. Shri Gujral was also Secretary ( Revenue) and having sufficient experience on functioning of CBEC & CBDT.

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New Postal Department service promises quick money transfers

A mobile money transfer service, launched recently by the department of posts, promises to reduce the time taken to transfer money orders within the country.

Now, people can send and receive money in a matter of a few minutes, thanks to the new ‘Mobile Money Transfer Service’ scheme available at 207 post offices in the city and suburbs.

As part of the mobile-based service, post offices are already offering electronically-transmitted money orders and instant money orders.

When a customer deposits money at a post office, a transaction ID is generated and sent as a text message to both the sender and recipient.

“We then provide a unique code to the sender who has to inform the recipient. The receiver can visit the nearest post office and show the text message and the unique code, to get the money. This process takes only a few minutes,” an official said.

The transaction amount is limited to Rs. 10,000 and customers are charged between Rs. 45 and Rs. 112 for transferring Rs. 1,000 to Rs.10,000.

The postal department has tied up with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited for the service.

M. Rajan, who booked a money order through the service at the Vadapalani post office, said: “I transferred Rs. 2,000 to a relative in Chromepet. I was able to finish the process of booking, getting the unique code and telling my relative the code in 15 minutes.”

Officials at the postal department said, every month, on an average, nearly 10 lakh money orders, worth about Rs. 100 crore, are booked in the Chennai region. Of these, transactions relating to various government pension schemes account for Rs. 9 lakh.

Postmaster general, Chennai city region, Mervin Alexander said, “We want to tap customers who want to transfer small amounts, especially in rural areas, and draw customers who largely use banks for money transfers. Postal staff members have been provided with a handheld device to carry out the transactions.”

Tamil Nadu accounts for nearly 35 per cent of the money order transactions carried out across the country. For the six months ending September, for instance, about Rs. 6,000 crore worth of transactions were carried out in the country. Of these, transactions worth nearly Rs. 1,876 crore were done in the State, Mr. Alexander said.

Officials said in the older system of electronic money transfer, orders are delivered to the receivers the day after the booking is done.

Unlike in the case of web-based instant money orders, there are no receipts involved in this new service, officials said.

Source : http://www.thehindu.com

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PROPOSAL FOR CADRE RESTRUCTURING IN POSTMASTER CADRE SUBMITTED TO DIRECTORATE TODAY BY THE CHQ, ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION FOR POSTMASTER CADRE..

PROPOSAL FOR CADRE RESTRUCTURING IN POSTMASTER CADRE SUBMITTED TO DIRECTORATE TODAY BY THE CHQ, ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION FOR POSTMASTER CADRE..

Cadre restructuring in Post Master Cadre

CREATION OF POSTMASTER CADRE – AN IDEA TO BRING BACK THE GLORY OF INDIAPOST :

The services at Post offices offered have grown in the traditional areas of sale of stamps, booking of Money orders and registered letters as also in Savings Bank functions, especially where Post Offices disburse NREGA wages to beneficiaries. In many post offices these activities are carried out electronically, new services like e-payment, e-post etc is also offered. Further the Department has also entered into agreements with private players like Western Union for money transfers. In the area of mail, both express, parcel and traditional, the Department of Posts faces tremendous competition. It has to offer excellent services by way of continuous upgrades in quality and in the add on value of its mail products, like 100, national billing, same day delivery of corporate mail etc “to improve/upgrade the functioning of the Post Offices, meet the present day requirement of specialization in Postal office management in the wake of introduction of technology, challenges from market and to increase productivity that it has absolutely become essential and to ensure that key Post Offices are headed by professional managers.”

Thus, Department of Posts had created Post Master cadre three years back by carving out 33% of LSG, HSG-II and HSG-I posts as Gr.I, Gr.II and Gr.III respectively. We hope that the very purpose of creating this cadre is fulfilled from our side with constant efforts. The Department has been benefited by creating this cadre because almost all Gr.I/II Post offices are working efficiently in India when compared to previous period in MNOP and CBS projects. In future also, Department has to depend on this cadre to implement various project under India Post, 2012 several other ensuing innovative projects in future.

All Post offices identified under Post Master Cadre are Head Post Offices, Mukhya Dak Ghars, Offices identified for Core Banking Solution (CBS), major delivery Offices and Offices located in prime locations serving as face of India Post. But there is no departmentally approved powers,rights and identity.

Duties and Responsibilities of a Post Master in independent post offices:- 

Operative units are the face of the Post Offices. Our Business depends upon the operative functions. But this is crystal clear that the vital side is ignored and least importance is given from years together. The in charge of an operative units is not seen in a way of prestige as in case of an section /divisional incharge and the highest responsibility takers are very less.

Post Master made involved in each and every work of a post office. From Postal Manual Volume-I to Volume-VI and PO Guide part-I to Part-II and POSB Manual Vol.I and Vol.II, and the circulars issued from time to time by the department at whtsoever working environment of his unit .

The Postmasters are pulled in all and every irregularity directly performed by their subordinate in the name of implied duties.

The detailed list of the duties and responsibilities of a Postmaster is as under :

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REVISED HSG II RECRUITMENT RULES COMMENCED

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Department of Posts Post Offices including Foreign Post Offices other than at Mumbai, Railway Mail Service Offices, Savings Bank Control Organization, Circle Offices/Regional Offices, Returned Letter Offices, Foreign Posts at Mumbai and Independent Postal Stores Depots Higher Selection Grade - II Group-B Posts Recruitment Rules, 2013

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Mapping of PLI/RPLI Sales force & Payment of Incentive from HO

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