List of Closed Holidays for Central Government Offices for the Year 2012.

Annexure-I

List of closed holidays  

for Central Government Offices in Bihar for the Year 2012.

FOR THE YEAR 2012.

Sl.No.	ClosedHolidays	Date	Day
1	Republic Day	26.01.2012	Thursday
2	Id-e-Milad	05.02.2012	Sunday
3	Holi	08.03.2012	Thursday
4	Mahaveer Jayanthi	05.04.2012	Thursday
5	Good Friday	06.04.2012	Friday
6	Budha Poornima	06.05.2012	Sunday
7	Independence Day	15.08.2012	Wednesday
8	Ramzan (Idu’l Fitr )	20.08.2012	Monday
9	Mahathma Gandhi’s B/Day	02.10.2012	Tuesday
10	Maha Navami	23.10.2012	Tuesday
11	Dussehra(VijayaDasami)	24.10.2012	Wednesday
12	Bakrid (Idu’l Zuha )	27.10.2012	Saturday
13	Deepavali	13.11.2012	Tuesday
14	Chhat Pooja	19.11.2012	Monday
15	Muharram	25.11.2012	Sunday
16	Guru Nanak’s Birthday	28.11.2012	Wednesday
17	Christmas Day	25.12.2012	Tuesday

Annexure-II

LIST OF RESTRICTED HOLIDAYS 

FOR THE YEAR 2012.

Sl	Holiday	Date	Day
1	NEW YEAR’S DAY	01.01.2012	Sunday
2	Makar sankranti	14.01.2012	Saturday
3	Pongal	15.01.2012	Sunday
4	Sri panchami/Basant panchami	28.01.2012	Saturday
5	Thaipoosam	07.02.2012	Tuesday
6	Guru Ravidas’ Birthday	07.02.2012	Tuesday
7	Swamy Dayananda Saraswathi Jayanthi	16.02.2012	Thursday
8	Shivaji Jayanthi	19.02.2012	Sunday
9	Maha Sivarathri	20.02.2012	Monday
10	Holika Dahan, (Dol yatra)	07.03.2012	Wednesday
11	Holi	08.03.2012	Thursday
12	Chaitra Sukladi/Gudi Padava/Ugadi/Cheti hand	23.03.2012	Friday
13	Ram Navami	31.03.2012	Saturday
14	Easter Sunday	08.04.2012	Sunday
15	Tamil New Years Day	13.04.2012	Friday
16	Mesadi/Vaisakhadi(Bengal)/Bahag   Bihu(Assam)	14.04.2012	Saturday
17	May Day	01.05.2012	Tuesday
18	Chithra Pournami	05.05.2012	Saturday
19	Guru Rabindranath’ s Birthday	08.05.2012	Tuesday
20	Vaisaki Visakam	03.06.2012	Sunday
21	Hazarat Ali’ s Birthday	04.06.2012	Monday
22	Radh Yatra	21.06.2012	Thursday
23	Varalakshmi Viradham	27.07.2012	Friday
24	Aadi -18	02.08.2012	Thursday
25	Gayathri Jebam	02.08.2012	Thursday
26	Raksha Bandhan	02.08.2012	Thursday
27	Janmashtami(Vaishnava)	10.08.2012	Friday
28	Jamat-ul-Vida	17.08.2012	Friday
29	Parsi New Year	18.08.2012	Saturday
30	Onam	29.08.2012	Wednesday
31	Krishna Jayanthi	08.09.2012	Saturday
32	Mahalaya Amavasya	15.10.2012	Monday
33	Maha Sapthami	21.10.2012	Sunday
34	Maha Astami	22.10.2012	Monday
35	Maharishi Valmigi’s Birthday	29.10.2012	Monday
36	Karaka Chaturdasi	02.11.2012	Friday
37	All Souls Day	2.11.2012	Friday
38	Naraka Chatrdasi	12.11.2012	Monday
39	Govardhan Puja	14.11.2012	Wednesday
40	Bhai Dhuj	15.11.2012	Thursday
41	Kanda Sashti	19.11.2012	Monday
42	Pratihar Sashthi Or surya Sasthi(chat Puja)	19.11.2012	Monday
43	Gur Tej Bahadur’s Martyrdom Day	24.11.2012	Saturday
44	Karthigai Deepam	27.11.2012	Tuesday
45	Christmas Eve	24.12.2012	Monday

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Dopt order: Extension of Risk Allowance till 31.12.2011

No.21012/01/12008-Estt.(Allowance)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel. Public Grievances and Pension

Department of Personnel & Training

New Delhi, December 28 2011

OFFICE MEMORAPUM

Subject: Extension of Risk Allowance till 31.12.2011.

           The undersigned is directed to refer this Departments OM No.21012/01/2008-Estt.(AL) dated 19.07.2011 vide which payment of Risk Allowance was extended till 31.12.2011. Extension of Risk Allowance for a further period of six months beyond 31.12.2011 has been considered and it has been decided that Risk Allowance may be continued at the existing rates for a further period of six months upto 30.06.2012 or till such time Risk Insurance Scheme is implemented, whichever is earlier.

sd/-
(Zoya C.B.)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

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Print to Post is an unique product of India Post that offers  total solutions to the businesses covering printing services, mail room services, distribution services and bill collection services. In the past, businesses were going to printers for their print requirements, mailing agents for pre-mailing requirements and post office for mailing  requirements. With Print to Post service, businesses can walk to the Post office for a one-stop-shop service that combines printing, inserting, sealing, franking, mailing , distribution and collection of the bills Once printed, the bills and other communication will be sent by letter post or Speed Post, as per the requirements of the customer. The entire communication chain becomes easy and integrated, through Print to Post services. The facility provides state of the art high speed variable printing in multi-colour duplex printing systems. Range of solutions offered under Print to Post

The primary objective of Print to Post’ is to provide value addition to the businesses, by providing an integrated service covering the following areas.

Printing of bills, invoices, direct mailers, etc that involve variable printing process in a large scale. Pre-mailing processes including inserting, sealing, franking etc using mechanized systems. Distribution of the materials through Standard Post, Registered Post or Speed Post as per the requirement of the customers. Collection of bills from the customers through Post office network.

Benefits to the customers: Printing, distribution and collection under one roof

With Print to Post, businesses can focus on their core business effectively and leave the non-core areas like printing, mailing, distribution and collection to India Post, which has the required expertise in distribution and collection across India. Under this service, printing, distribution and collection will be under one roof, thus providing enormous cost advantage to the businesses.  The target sector of this brand new service is Government, Banking, Insurance, Utilities, Telecom and other organizations. Already India Post is handling the mails of banking and insurance sectors along with the mail of sectors like electricity, water supply and other public utilities.  In the Print to Post, India Post will have the capacity to print these mailers efficiently, month after month, and deliver the printed mail to customers in time.

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