Sixteen questions for departmental Examination

1-----------  means anything transmittable by Post, whether Letter,  Paper, Parcel, or Package Article

2.  Forward Postage is  not   chargeable  on a.  mis-sent article. The above said statement is True

3.   A  Packet  of   Newspapers consists of  ----  or  more  Newspaper   enclosed in one cover. Two

4 . what is meant by  office of posting ? Office which any article is first received from the sender

5  The privileges and powers of the Government in respect of Postal and cognate matters are dealt with in the------------------------------  Indian Post Office Act

6   in which ministry directs the postal department? Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

7     --------------- and -----------------  are permanent invitee to the Postal board The joint Secretary and Financial Advisor to the Department

8    In which  postal  circle    is headed by  Major General called Additional Director  General   Base Circle  (for army postal service )

9   In which ratio is adopted  for selection of  army postal service  Seventy five  percent  of staff is coming from  civil post office as deputation and remaining twenty five staff are selected  through the direct recruit

10 The Materials Management is  handled by   ------------   member of postal board Member (D)

11   The Headquarters of the Postal Services Board, the Director-General and other officers of the Director General are at  Mumbai The above said statement is  False

12  . Any representation which is not an appeal should be designated as ---------------     a petition

13   Any petition or copy thereof which is sent direct to the Director General or to any subordinate authority, instead of through the proper channel, will be filed, no notice of any kind being taken of it. The above said statement is True

14 Petitions, representations and applications addressed to the Director General by persons who have left the Department, or whose services have been dispensed with or who have been dismissed or removed from service. Then  what  is the ruling related with  submission  of petitions, representations and applications ? All such communications must be submitted through the Head of the Circle or the Administrative Office under whom the persons were last employed.

15   For other Subordinate Courts,--------- appointed by the State Govt. have been notified to appear on behalf of the Union of India and its officers under the Civil Procedure Courts. The Govt. Pleaders

16  All ---------------- in the Posts Department who are fully conversant with the facts of the particular cases are the authorised persons by whom Plaints and Written Statements in Suits in any courts of civil jurisdiction by or against the Central Government can be signed and verified in respect of matters concerning the Posts Department. Gazetted Officers

Prepared by  S Jayachandran  ,  SA , Divisional office , Mavelikara  -690101

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Useful Facts about Nobel Prize

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established

The Prize in Economics, as it is referred to by the Nobel  Foundation, was established and endowed by Sweden's central bank Syeriges  Riksbank  in 1968 on the occasion of the bank's 300th anniversary, in memory of Alfred Nobel

Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 was awarded jointly to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent

Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary

Nobel Peace Prizein  Peace 2012 The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union (EU) "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe".

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic  Two Americans, Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley, were Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic on Monday for their work on market design and matching theory, which relate to how people and companies find and select one another in everything from marriage to school choice to jobs to organ donations

The  Indian  who  got  Nobel prize

Ronald Ross Ronald Ross, born in Uttrakhand, , in 1857 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  in 1902 for his work on  Malaria

Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling, born in  Mumbai , 1865 , was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

C.V.Raman C.V.Raman was born at Thiruvanaikaval, Tamil Nadu. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics n 1930 for the effect named after him.

Mother Teresa Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace -  1979 to Mother Teresa in recognition of her "work in bringing help to suffering humanity

Amartya Kumar Sen   Amartya Kumar Sen  who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 '"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, born in Tamil Nadu, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as a US Citizen.

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Holders of Bharat Ratna award . Republic of India's highest civilian award

Bharat Ratna
Republic of India's highest civilian award, for performance of highest order in any field of human endeavour.
the recommendations for Bharat Ratna are to be made by the Prime Minister of India to the President of India.
The holders of the Bharat Ratna rank 7th in the Indian order of precedence; however they do not carry any special title nor any other honorifics

List of Bharat Ratna holders are furnished below with year

Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
1954
Sir C. V. Raman
1954
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1954
Bhagwan Das
1955
Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya
1955
Jawaharlal Nehru
1955
Govind Ballabh Pant
1957
Dhondo Keshav Karve
1958
Bidhan Chandra Roy
1961
Purushottam Das Tandon
1961
Rajendra Prasad
1962
Zakir Hussain
1963
Pandurang Vaman Kane
1963
Lal Bahadur Shastri
1966
Indira Gandhi
1971
V. V. Giri
1975
K. Kamaraj
1976
Mother Teresa
1980
Vinoba Bhave
1983
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1987
M. G. Ramachandran
1988
B. R. Ambedkar
1990
Nelson Mandela
1990
Rajiv Gandhi
1991
Vallabhbhai Patel
1991
Morarji Desai
1991
Abul Kalam Azad
1992
J. R. D. Tata
1992
Satyajit Ray
1992
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
1997
Gulzarilal Nanda
1997
Aruna Asaf Ali
1997
M. S. Subbulakshmi
1998
Chidambaram Subramaniam
1998
Jayaprakash Narayan
1999
Ravi Shankar
1999
Amartya Sen
1999
Gopinath Bordoloi
1999
Lata Mangeshkar
2001
Bismillah Khan
2001
Bhimsen Joshi
2008

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Interest Change Patch Error ???

While Running interest patch on some offices before 01/04/2013  it shows an error . Error Code L1. It shows some primary keyconstraint error and interest patch cannot be done properly.

Solution: Run the interest rate patch once again on 01/04/2013 This will solve your problem.

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Child Care Leave to Women Employees – Frequently Asked Questions compiled by DOPT

Sl. No.	Frequently asked Question	Answer
1.	Whether women employees of Public Sector undertakings/ Bodies etc. are entitled to	Orders issued by DOPT are not automatically applicable to the employees of Central Public Sector Undertakings/ CCL? Autonomous Bodies, Banks, etc. It is for the PSUs/ Autonomous Bodies to decide the applicability of the rules/instructions issued for the central Government employees to their employees in consultation with their Administrative Ministries.
2.	Whether Govt. servant can be permitted to leave station/go abroad while on CCL?	Child care leave is granted to a woman employee to take care of the needs of the minor children. If the child is studying abroad or the Government servant has to go abroad for taking care of the child she may do so subject to other conditions laid down for this purpose.
3.	What is the intention behind the instruction that CCL is to be treated like EL and sanctioned as such?	The intention is that CCL should be availed with prior approval of leave sanctioning authority and that the combination of CCL with other leave, if any, should be as per the restriction on EL. ‘ The restriction of the limit of 180 days at a stretch as applicable in the case of EL will not apply in case of CCL. The other conditions like CCL may not be granted for less than 15 days or in more than 3 spells etc., will apply. {Rule 43-C}
4.	Whether child care leave has been extended to female industrial employees?	Child Care leave has been extended to all civilian female industrial employees covered by the CCS(Leave) Rules, 1972 subject to the conditions provided in rule 43- C of the CCS(Leave) Rules, 1972, as amended from time to time.

Download DOPT Office Memorandum No. 21011/08 / 2013-Estt(AL) dated 25.03.2013

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Special Allowance for child care for women with disability – DOPT issues Frequently Asked Questions

Sl.No	Frequently asked Questions	Answer
1	Whether the women employees with disabilities are entitled for special allowance for child care at double the rates for multiple births at the time of first child birth?	No. In case of multiple births at the time of first child birth, the woman employee shall not be entitled to this allowance at double the rates for multiple births.
2	Whether the allowance would be admissible for the 3rd child in case either of the first two children i.e. first child or the 2nd child expires before the attaining the age of two years?	It is clarified that the grant of Special Allowance for the child care for women with disabilities is admissible for two years from the birth of the child so long as the woman employee does not have more than two surviving children.

Download DOPT Office Memorandum No. 21011/08/2013-Estt.(AL) dated 25.03.2013

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