PROGRESS

ON CADRE RESTRUCTURING in respect of Group C employees of RMS, SBCO & Administrative Offices

Current Status……..

Circle Union write a letter to the Chief Postmaster General, West Bengal Circle protest against unilateral order towards abolition of 25 Post in PA( SBCO )cadre under West Bengal Circle.

Circle Working Committee Meeting of AIPSBCOEA, West Bengal Circle  will be held on 31^st December’2016

Notice copy......... 

A great achievement of NFPE & Postal JCA (NFPE-FNPO & AIPEU-GDS - NUGDS) for Gramin Dak Sevaks

A great achievement of NFPE & Postal JCA (NFPE-FNPO & AIPEU-GDS - NUGDS) for Gramin Dak Sevaks

ORDERS OF ENHANCED CEILING

OF BONUS @ RS 7000/- FOR GDS

ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT OF POST

NFPE & Postal JCA always stand for the cause of GDS.

GDS BONUS ENHANCEMENT ORDER ISSUED . 

SHINING VICTORY FOR NFPE , AIPEU GDS AND POSTAL JCA INCLUDING FNPO & NUGDS . 

RECOGNISED GDS UNION's GENERAL SECRETARY SHRI MAHADEVAIAH WITHDRAWN THE STRIKE DECISION EVEN BEFORE ORDERS ARE ISSUED. 

NFPE & AIPEU -GDS , POSTAL JCA INCLUDING FNPO & NUGDS SERVED TWO DAYS STRIKE NOTICE ON 20.10.2016 AND TOOK A FIRM STAND THAT WE WILL NOT WITHDRAW THE STRIKE DECISION TILL ORDERS ARE ISSUED . 

SECRETARY , DEPARTMENT OF POSTS HELD DISCUSSION WITH US AND REQUESTED TO WITHDRAW THE STRIKE DECISION . 

WE REFUSED TO WITHDRAW . SHRI MAHADEVAIAH WITHDRAWN THE STRIKE DECISION ON 24.10.2016 ITSELF WITHOUT WAITING FOR THE DECISION OF THE FINANCE MINISTRY AND GOVT AND RAN AWAY FROM THE BATTLEFIELD HALF WAY FEARING WITHDRAWL OF RECOGNITION FACILITIES.

CONFEDERATION & JCM STAFF SIDE EXTENDED FULL SUPPORT AND DISCUSSED THE CASE IN THE JCM STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING WITH THE GOVERNMENT ON 25.10.2016.. 

COPY OF ORDER PUBLISHED HERE UNDER. 

Yours fratennally 

R.N.PARASHAR

After DA, Central Govt Employees Now In Wait For Fatter Allowances

After DA, Central Govt Employees Now In Wait For Fatter Allowances

The central government today announced 2 per cent dearness allowance, benefiting its 48 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners, in a bid to ease the inflationary pressure.

All eyes of central government employees are now on ‘Committee on Allowances’, which will take a final decision in fatter allowances under the 7th Pay Commission recommendations.

The increasing of Dearness Allowance (DA) of central government employees and officials were not helpful for maintaining their living standard, Finance Ministry’s official said on Thursday.

They also said fatter allowances under the 7th Pay Commission recommendations should implement which would give them some financial comfort, a step they had hoped might be taken within weeks.

Sources in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said the government may make a formal announcement on higher allowance after obtaining feedback from Finance Ministry.

They also said the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had initially appointed ‘Committee on Allowances’ headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa on July 22 for examination of the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission on allowances other than dearness allowance and asked to submit its report with in four months.

The pay commission had recommended abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others out of 196 allowances. So, there was resentment among employees over suggestions to scrap some allowances.

The Pay Commission recommended overall increase in allowances by 63 per cent.

The Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa recently said, “A committee headed by me is currently examining the Pay Commission’s recommendations on allowances and it will submit its report soon.

“The cabinet is likely to approve the proposal of committee on allowances and the higher allowances will be implemented with retrospective effect from August 2016 but the central government employees unions demanded for implementation of the allowances with retrospective effect from January 2016,” the sources confirmed.

“Moreover, arrears for higher allowances will be paid from August,” the source assured.

However, the central government employees’union expressed its resentment over the non-formation of High Level Committee for reviewing the minimum pay and allowances and say they must lead their march to Parliament on December 15 against non-formation of High Level Committee.

The central government employees and pensioners got theirs arrears of basic pay and pension arising from implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations in one go in August salaries and pension respectively. The hike in basic pay and pension has been made effective from January 1, 2016.

TST

DA Announced 2% for Central Government Employees, Pensioners w.e.f 01/07/2016

DA Announced 2% for Central Government Employees, Pensioners w.e.f 01/07/2016

Dearness Allowance hiked by 2 per cent for central government employees, pensioners:

Dearness allowance is provided to employees and pensioners to minimise the impact of price rise on their earnings.

The Cabinet on Thursday approved 2 per cent hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) for central government employees and pensioners, effective from July 1, 2016. The proposal to hike the DA was approved during the Cabinet meeting today afternoon at the Prime Minister’s Office. The announcement, which comes ahead of Diwali, is set to bring cheer to around 50 lakh central government employees and 58 lakh pensioners in the country.

Dearness allowance is provided to employees and pensioners to minimise the impact of price rise on their earnings. Earlier this year, the government hiked dearness allowance by 6% to 125 % of the basic pay. It was later merged into the basic pay, based on the recommendation of the 7th Pay Commission Panel.

Temporary staff should be paid on par with regular ones.

Temporary staff should be paid on par with regular ones.

India Post Recruitment - 3281 Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistant Vacancy Notified in SSC (10+2) Examination, 2016

India Post Recruitment - 3281 Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistant Vacancy Notified in SSC (10+2) Examination, 2016

India Post Recruitment - 3281 Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistant Vacancy Notified in SSC (10+2) Examination, 2016

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has published Advertisement for Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination, 2016. Other details like age limit, educational qualification, selection process, application fee and how to apply are given below.

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FLASH NEWS

BONUS ORDER ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF POST

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Procedure to find the no of accounts opened scheme wise in a month in DOP Finacle.

 Procedure to find the no of accounts opened scheme wise in a month in DOP Finacle 

• Generally in DOP we will submit the report number of accounts opened and number of accounts closed every month to DO.
• In DOP Finacle also we can generate the number of accounts opened scheme wise only not product wise.
• Most of them will have doubt what is scheme and what is product ?
• The answer to the above question is as follows in DOP Finacle we have different products such as SB,RD,MIS,TD,SCSS,NSC,KVP,PPF and SSA. For each product in DOP Finacle we have different schemes as mentioned below
•  If we consider SB product we have following schemes in DOP Finacle they are list below.

1.    SBBAS-----Savings Bank-- Basic Account

2.    SBGEN--- Savings Bank---General--- Without cheque book

3.    SBCHQ---Savings Bank---General---With cheque book

4.    SBDIS---  Savings Account---Discontinued

5.    SBPEN---Savings Bank--Pensioners--Without cheque book

6.     SBPWC---Savings Bank---Pensioners--With cheque book

7.    SBSAN----Savings Bank---Sanchayaka---Without cheque book

8.    SBSWC---Savings Bank---Sanchayaka---With cheque book 

• If we consider RD product we have following schemes in DOP Finacle they are list below.

1.    RDIPN---Recurring Deposit--Normal Account 

2.    RDIPE---Recurring Deposit--Exceptional Account

•  If we consider MIS product we have following schemes in DOP Finacle they are list below.

1.    MISN1---Monthly Income Scheme--Normal Account

2.    MISE1---Monthly Income  Scheme---Exceptional Account

•  If we consider TD product we have following schemes in DOP Finacle they are list below.

1.    TDIP1--- Term Deposit for One Year

2.    TDIP2--- Term Deposit for two year

3.    TDIP3--- Term Deposit for three year

4.    TDIP5--- Term Deposit for five year

5.    TDIPE ---Term Deposit --- Exceptional account 

·   If we consider SCSS product we have following schemes in DOP Finacle they are list below.

1.    SCDEF---Senior Citizens Savings Scheme---Defence account

2.    SCSCM----Senior Citizens Savings Scheme---Normal account

3.    SCVRS---Senior Citizens Savings Scheme---VRS account

4.     SCEXP---Seniors Citizens Savings Scheme--- Exceptional account

•  If we consider PPF product we have following schemes in DOP Finacle they are list below.

1.    PPF--- Public Provident Fund

2.     PPFHU---Public Provident Fund---HUF

• If we consider KVP,NSC products  recently as per SB order 06/2016 we have to issue passbooks hence at present there are only NSC16 and KVP16 schemes .
• If we consider SSA product there is only one scheme SSA.

Step by step procedure to generate the no of accounts opened scheme wise in a month:-

• The menu used for generation of monthly report for the no of account opened scheme wise is HACSP.
• HACSP stands for Account Selection and Print.
• Invoke the menu HACSP then the system will show the below screen as shown
  

• In the next step enter the following details as mentioned below

Enter the field SOL/SET ID  _____________________

Select the Scheme code field from the searcher _____________  

Enter the field Open date low ___________________

Enter the field Open date high _____________________ as shown in the below screen

• From the above screen it is clear in our example i have entered the SETID as APSEC  (SETID for Secunderabad which includes Secunderabad HO and its SO's) and scheme code as SBGEN as mentioned in the above screen shot.
• Also in our example we are trying to view report from 01/06/2016 to 30/06/2016 as shown then finally click on submit then the system will show below screen shot

• From the above screen one can observe that total number of accounts selected are 206 for total credit amount Rs 1782233.50/- which are highlighted for reference to all the viewers. It means totally 206 new accounts opened for the mentioned period in Secunderabad HO SETID.
• Similarly we can view the number of accounts opened for monthly for all the scheme codes for a SETID.

Some important points to Remember :- 

1.    Using HACSP we can generate the new accounts report for a period utmost for a division and region SETID.

2.    Using HACSP if we try to generate the report for circle Set ID system will throw the error as the system is unable to fetch the number of accounts for period due to more number of offices.

3.    Always try to generate the report monthly for a SETID for quick response from the server.

4.    We can also generate the reports for all scheme codes individually note that there is no option as "ALL" in the scheme code hence we should generate the reports using scheme codes individually.

5.    Even there is no option to generate product wise in the menu HACSP.

REVISION OF INTEREST RATES FOR SMALL SAVINGS SCHEMES TO BE EFFECTIVE FROM THIRD QUARTER OF FINANCIAL YEAR 2016-17TO VIEW, PLEASE CLICK HERE. 

INDIA POST PAYMENTS BANK RECRUITMENT NOTIFICATION CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

NOTE ON ALLOWANCES

POSTAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES

FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS 

PF-No.PF-PJCA/2016                                                               Dated:16^th September, 2016

To

          The Secretary,

          Department of Post,

          Sansad Marg,

          Dak Bhawan,

          New Delhi-110 001

NOTE ON ALLOWANCES

1.   The recommendation of the 7^th CPC that Tough Location Allowance will not be admissible alongiwth Special Duty Allowance (SDA) should not be accepted by Government.

In para 8.10.62 of the 7^th CPC the following recommendation is made –

Para 8.10.62 -  There are some “Special Compensatory” Allowances that are based on geographical location and are meant to compensate for hardship faced by employees posted in such places. It is proposed to subsume these allowances under the umbrella of “Tough Location Allowance”.

In Para 8.10.63 the Commission made the following recommendations –

“The Tough Location Allowance will, however, not be admissible along with Special Duty Allowance”.

At present, special allowances are paid in the following places along with Special Duty Allowance.

(a)  Assam and North Easter Region – Special Compensatory allowance paid alongwith Special Duty Allowance.

(b) Andaman & Nicobar Islands – Special Compensatory Allowance paid alongwith Island Special Duty Allowance.

(c)  Tripura Special Compensatory Remote Locality Allowance paid along with Special Duty Allowance.

Demand of the staff side:       In all the above cases “Tough Location Allowance” may be paid alongwith Special Duty Allowance. Withdrawal of any of the above allowances, will result in substantial financial loss to the employees. An existing benefit should not be withdrawn, under the pretext of 7^th CPC’s unjustified recommendation.

2.   Special Duty Allowance in N. E. Region should be uniform for all at 30%.

In Para 8.17.115 the 7^th CPC made the following observation –

“Special Duty Allowance (SDA) is granted to attract civilian employees to seek posting in North Eastern and Ladhak Regions, in view of the risk and hardship prevailing in these areas. Currently the rate of SDA is 37.5% of Basic Pay for AIS officers and 12.5% of Basic Pay for other employees.

In para 8.17.118 the Commission made the following recommendation –

“Accordingly in line with our general approach of rationalizing the percentage based allowance by a factor of 0.8, SDA for AIS officers should be paid at the rate of 30% of Basic Pay and for other civilian employees at the rate of 10% of their basic pay.

Demand of the staff side:  The discrimination between AIS officers and other civilian employees in payment of SDA should not be there and all may be paid at the same rate i.e. at the rate of 30% recommended by the pay commission for AIS officers.

3.   Allowances which are not reported to 7^th CPC by the concerned departments.

In para 8.2.5 of the report, the 7^th CPC made the following recommendation.

“We have considered all allowances reported to us, in this chapter. Any allowances, not mentioned here (And hence not reported to the commission) shall cease to exist immediately. In case there is any demand or requirement for continuation of an existing allowance which has not been deliberated upon or covered in this report, it should be re-notified by the ministry concerned after obtaining due approval of Ministry of Finance and should be put in the public domain”.

Demand of the Staff Side: The above recommendation should not be accepted, as it amounts to penalizing employees for the fault of the departmental heads. The following allowance which are not reported to the commission should be retained and enhanced.

(a)  PO & RMS Accountants’ Special allowance

Postal Assistants and Sorting Assistants of Postal department are posted as PO & RMS Accountant after passing a qualifying examination. Taking into consideration their work which require much skill, application of mind, and knowledge of all rulings, Special allowance is granted to them. This allowance may beretained and enhanced.

4.   Savings Bank Allowance in Post offices:

In Department of Posts, Savings Bank Allowance is granted to Postal Assistant working in Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) for shouldering strenuous and complicated nature of Savings Bank work. Postal Assistants need to qualify an aptitude test to get this allowance. The current rates are Rs.300/- per month for fully engaged staff and Rs.150/- per month for partially engaged staff.

In para 8.10.80 of the report, the Commission recommended as follows:

“Savings Bank Allowance be abolished as the justification provided by the concerned ministry for the grant of this allowance is not sufficient for their continuance”.

Demand of staff side:        Savings Bank Allowance should be retained and enhanced in view of the justification given above.

5.   Special Compensatory (Hill area) Allowance

In para 8.10.50 of the report, the 7^th CPC made the following recommendation – “There is hardly any hardship involved at altitude of 1000 meters (more than 3000 feets) above sea level. Hence, it is recommended that the allowance should be abolished.

Demand of the staff side:            The above observation of the commission is not based on ground realities but based on presumption. Hence the above allowance should be retained and enhanced.

6.   Family Planning Allowance

In para 8.17.50 of the report, the 7^th CPC made the following recommendations – “The commission recognizes the fact that most of the benefit related to children viz. children Education Allowance, maternity Leave, LTC etc. are available for two children only. Moreover, the level of awareness regarding appropriate family size has also gone up among Government servants. Hence, a separate allowance aimed towards population control is not required. Accordingly, it is recommended that family planning allowance should be abolished.

Demand of the staff side:  The above allowance may be retained. In any case, the Family Planning Allowance already granted should not be withdrawn.

7.   Fixed Medical Allowance

In Para 8.17.51 of the report the 7^th CPC observed as follows –

It is granted to pensioners for meeting expenditure on day to day medical expenses that do not require hospitalization, presently payable at the rate of Rs.500/- p.m. Demands have been received to increase the rate of this allowance to Rs.2000/-.

In para 8.17.52 the Commission made the following recommendation-

The Commission notes that the allowance was enhanced from Rs.300/- to Rs.500/- p.m from 19.11.2014. As such, further enhancement of this allowance is not recommended.

Demand of the staff side:   in the memorandum submitted to 7^th CPC, the staff side had elaborately explained the justification for enhancing the FMA to Rs.2000/-. As everybody knows, old age persons are suffering from many deceases and as the cost of medicines has increased manifold the expenditure on outdoor medical treatment has also gone up like anything. With Rs.500/- p.m no pensioner can meet the medical expenses. The commission has not conducted any scientific and realistic study, but simply rejected the demand stating that it is enhanced recently. It is once again requested that the FMA for pensioners may be enhanced to Rs.2000/- p.m as in the case of EPF pensioners.

8.   Cash handling Allowance

In para 8.10.9 of the report, the 7^th CPC observed as follows: -

It is paid to cashiers working in Central Government departments, for handling of cash. The current rates are –

Average amount of monthly cash disbursed	Rate per month
Below Rs. 50000	230
Over Rs. 50000 upto 200000	450
Over 200000 upto 500000	600
Over 500000 upto 1000000	750
Above 1000000	900

Again in Para 8.10.57 the commission observed as follows: -

Treasury Allowance – This allowance is granted in Department of Posts to Treasurers and Assistant Treasurers working in Head Post offices and large Sub Post offices for handling cash. The present rate is Rs.360/- p.m for handling cash upto Rs.2 lakhs and Rs.480/- p.m. for handling cash more than Rs.2 lakhs.

In para 8.10.80 the commission made the following recommendation

Assistant cashier Allowance, Cash handling allowance and Treasury Allowance –

With technological advances and growing emphasis on banking, these allowances have lost their relevance. Hence it is recommended that not only all salary be paid through banks, but Ministries/departments should work out plans to first minimize and then eliminate all sorts of cash transactions.

Demand of the staff Side:  The recommendation of the Commission is not realistic. Till that time the cash transactions are eliminated the Cash handling allowance and Treasury allowance should be retained and enhanced.

9.   Cycle Allowance

In para 8.15.10 of the report the 7^th CPC made the following observation.

“It is paid where the duties attached to the post require extensive use of bicycle and the official concerned has to use and maintain his own cycle for official journeys. The existing rate is Rs.90 p.m.

In para 15.11 the commission made the following recommendation –

“The Commission is of the view that amount of this allowance is megre and the allowance itself is outdated. Hence it should be abolished.

Demand of the staff side:            This allowance is at present given to more than 40000 Postmen staff and about 50000 GraminDakSevaks of the Postal Department. When the commission itself observed that an official using his own bicycle for official duties has to incur expenditure for maintenance of the cycle. When the maintenance work is done for performing official duties, the amount should be reimbursed to the official, whether the amount is megre or not – Hence this allowance should be retained and enhanced.

10.  Overtime Allowance

In para 8.17.97 of the report the 7^th CPC made the following recommendations -

Hence while this commission shares the sentiments of the predecessors that Government offices need to increase productivity and efficiency and recommended that OTA should be abolished (except for operational staff and industrial employees who are governed by statutory provisions) at the same time it is also recommended that in case the Government decides to continue with OTA for these categories of staff for which it is not statutory requirement, then the rate of OTA for such staff should be increased by 50% from their current levels.

Demand of the staff side:            OTA rates are revised in the year 1987. For the last 30 years no revision has taken place. Eventhough an arbitration award for enhancement is given, the same is also pending implementation for the last 20 years. After 7^th CPC revision, one hour wage of an MTS is Rs. 75/- where as rate for one hour OTA is Rs.15.85 only!!! Hence it is requested that overtime allowance wherever sanctioned must be based upon the actual basic pay of the entitled employee.

11.    Dress Allowance

(a)  Para 08.16.14 may be referred. The 7^th CPC recommended four slabs of Dress allowance per year for various categories of employees. In the Department of Posts there are about 75000 Postmen and Multi-Tasking staff wearing uniform. Their name is not mentioned in the category of employees shown in the table. Even if it is included in the other categories of staff, then the Dress Allowance per year will be Rs.5000/- only. At present the Postmen/MTS staff of Postal department are getting more than Rs.5000/- for uniform plus washing allowance. Hence it should be made clear under which category the Postmen and MTS staff of Postal department are to be included, in the dress allowance table recommended by the 7^th CPC. These official may be granted Rs.10000/- as dress allowance.

(b) It is further demanded that the Dress Allowance ceiling to be raised to Rs.32400 per annum.

     (c) If cloth for dress is provided stitching charges should be revised reasonably.

     (d) Washing allowance should be increased from Rs.90/- to 150/- Rupees per month.

Yours faithfully

                                                                                

(D. Theagarajan)                                                                                            (R.N. Parashar)

Secretary General  FNPO                                                                         Secretary General