Circle Working Committee Meeting of AIPSBCOEA, West
Bengal Circle will be held on 12th March’2016 at Tarapada Memorial
Hall.
Notice copy…
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Saturday 27 February 2016
Thursday 25 February 2016
Meeting of the Empowered Committee of secretaries (E-CoS) headed by Cabinet Secretary on 7th Central Pay Commission recommendation with members of the Standing Committee of the JCM National Council Staff Side will be held on 1st March 2016 at 06:45 PM.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Implementation of Recommendation of 7th CPC- Minutes of the Meeting of Joint Secretary (IC) with the Members of the Staff-Side of the Standing Committee (National Council-JCM) held on 19.02.2016 CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Wednesday 24 February 2016
Reminder from Joint Secretary (IC) to Nodal Officers for expediting the comments TO VIEW, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Copy of NCCPA/s letter
to the Joint Secretary, Implementation Celll. New Delhi.
President:
Com. Shiv Gopal Misra..97176 47594
Secretary General: Com. K.KN. Kutty. . 98110
48303
Shri R.K. Chathurvedi,
Joint Secretary, Implementation Cell,
Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance,
North Block New Delhi. 110 001.
Dear Sir,
Sub: 7thCPC
recommendations on retirement benefits- Reg.
The National Co-ordinating Committee of Pensioners Association is the apex
organisation of Associations/Federations of Central Government
Pensioners. We had submitted a detailed memorandum to the 7th CPC
on various demands, problems and grievances of the Central Government
Pensioners. However, it must be sadly admitted that most of the issues,
which we had projected before the Commission did not have a proper
consideration, may be perhaps, due to the Commission’s perceived anxiety over
the financial constrains of the Government of India. We have every reason
to believe that their anxiety was not well placed, for the Government’s
finances are far better presently than what it was two decades back. The
memorandum submitted by the Staff Side JCM National Council had elaborately
dealt with the issue concerning the relative capacity of the Government to pay
its employees and pensioners in the background of accelerated growth of
the economy, reduced tax burden on both business houses and the common people
the reduced percentage of expenditure on wages, salary and pension with reference
to the Government’s revenue resources, revenue expenditure and the GDP
itself. The denial of the need based minimum wage,(in accordance wit Dy.
Aykhroyd formula) in other words, the bare existence wage in the circumstance
by the 7th CPC is incomprehensible. We are pointing out
this aspect of the recommendations, for the successive earlier
Commissions had denied the need based minimum wage on the specious plea of the
inability of the Government to pay. We hope you will appreciate
that the present pensioners, who were in active service in 1960s, 1970s, 1980s,
1990s, did suffer immensely as they were denied even the bare existence
wages. They suffered on many counts, as they could not provide a decent
standard of living to their families, could not construct a residential
dwelling, could not educate their children properly for sheer want of requisite
finances, so on and so forth. The Pensioners’ community is presently
concerned again with the minimum wage as the re-fixation of pension on
account of the wage revision effected by the 7th CPC is linked
to the minimum wage. We, therefore, appeal that the grievances presented
by the Staff Side, National Council JCM on the determination of the quantum of
minimum wage by the 7th CPC must be considered seriously and
necessary corrections made.
Another important issue we would like to present before you, concerns the
New Pension Scheme introduced by the Government of India, with effect from.
1.1.2014. Both the Serving employees and Pensioners organisations placed
before the Commission, rather passionately, to consider their submissions made
for the replacement of the newly introduced defined contributory system of
pension for those who entered the Government of India Service from.1.1.2014 with
the time tested defined benefit scheme of pension. As of date the
Government employees, by virtue of the new contributory pension scheme
are divided into two classes viz. a good number of them receive
emoluments after deduction of 10% towards pension contribution whereas
the other for the same job is provided with a higher rate of emoluments.
It is nothing but a blatant denial of equal pay for equal work. We had
pointed out to the Commission in no uncertain terms that the new scheme was
conceived as an idea to allow the flow of the hard earned income of the
employees to the Stock market and permit the access of those funds for
the corporate houses with no guaranteed return to the contributor. We had
pleaded before the Commission to recommend for the exclusion of the Government
employees from the purview of the NPS, if the scrapping of the scheme is
infeasible in the light of the enactment of PFRDA. The Commission, as you
could see from the report, has enumerated innumerable flaws, defects, deficiencies
and what not in the administrative apparatus of the NPS, which has now
amassed huge funds and its coffers are swelling enormously day by day.
They have still not evolved a mechanism to monitor the remittances by the
concerned employers. The Commission has suggested in the light of their
findings, cosmetic remedial measures which in all fairness one should
admit, will not address the issue. In short, the Commission has not
been emboldened to make a positive recommendation for the exclusion
of the Central Government employees from its ambit, even though they have been
convinced of the force of our submissions and arguments. We may also
state that the Commission which was anxious of the increased financial
outflow on account of the revision of wages and pension did not, rather failed
to recognise the enormous outflow of tax payers money to the pension fund in
the form of Governmental Contributions. Without stating the various other
demerits of the New Contributory Pension Scheme, as it has been oft-repeated,
we plead that the Government employees be excluded from the Contributory
Pension scheme and all of them irrespective of their date of recruitment be
brought within the purview of the time tested defined benefit pension system.
Besides the submissions made in the preceding paragraphs, we enumerate here
under some specific issues concerning pensioners and request the Implementation
Committee to consider the same and place it before the empowering committee
for acceptance.
1. Parity
between the past and present pensioners be brought about on the basis of the 7th CPC
recommendations with the modification that the basis of computation be the pay
level of the post/grade/scale of pay from which the employee retired, whichever
is beneficial to him.
The 7th CPC has recommended the modus operandi for bringing
about parity between the past and present pensioners. While issuing
orders in acceptance of this recommendation, we urge upon that care may be
taken to provide the benefit to the pensioners as envisaged by the Commission
in its letter and spirit. Often we find when the orders are issued, the
same is interpreted by the pension disbursing authority in such a manner that
the envisaged benefit is denied to the deserving personnel on flimsy technical
grounds. We want you to appreciate that it is not a perceived grievance
but a real and genuine one. To cite a recent example:, When the orders on
the question of modified parity was issued after the 6th CPOC
recommendation, the benefit was denied to a large number of pensioners by
such an interpretation made by the Offices of the Controller General of
Accounts. The issue had to be agitated in the Central Administrative
Tribunal, where the CGA’s interpretation was set aside. The Government
dragged the poor pensioners upto the highest court of justice in the country,
the Supreme Court, before the concerned order was amended. Even in the
amended order, care was not taken to convey the benefit to certain pensioners
fully on the specious plea that the words employed in the original orders
speaks only of the scale of pay and not of the revised scale of pay. It
is highly unethical to drag the pensioners to the Courts. They are compelled to
bear the huge expenditure involved in the litigation at the level of the
Supreme Court . To avoid the recurrence of such a scenario, we plead that the
orders must specify in unambiguous terms, that the parity must be with
reference to the level of pay of an individual employee of the post/grade/scale
of pay from which he/she retired, whichever is beneficial to that individual.
This is to take care of the situation where the concerned Government servant
had been granted MACP, or the pay scale/pay band/grade pay/ had been
revised by the Government either suo motu or on the basis of the
recommendation of the Pay Commission.
2. Pension
to be 60% of the last pay drawn and family pension to be 50% of the last
pay drawn. Minimum pension to be 60% of the minimum wage and
minimum family pension to be 50% of the Minimum wage.
In our memorandum, we had demanded that pension to be 66.6% of the last pay
drawn and the minimum pension to be 66.66% of the minimum wage. The CPC has not
conceded this demand. Our present request in the matter is that the pension
must be fixed at 60% of the last pay drawn and the minimum pension at the rate
of 60% of the minimum wage. This is on the ground that minimum wage is
computed taking into account the family consisting of three units of two adults
and two children ( i.e. 1+0.8+0.6+0.6=3) Since the requirement of the children
can be excluded in the case of pensioners, the rational approach will be
to provide 60% of the minimum wage as the minimum pension Both the
pension and the minimum pension has to be at the rate of 60% of the last pay
drawn (or average emoluments) and the minimum wage respectively. The
present stipulation of computing the pension at the rate of 50% and the minimum
pension at 50% of the minimum wage has no basis at all. Family pension is
granted mostly in the case of the surviving spouse or unmarried or widowed
daughter. To reduce the pension beyond 10% is to heap misery and agony on
the survivors. Our suggestion in the matter is that the surviving member
of the family be provided with at least 50% of the pension.
3. Enhance
the pension and family pension on the basis of the increased age of the
pensioner. Grant 5% rise in pension for every addition of 5 years of age, 10%
after attaining the age of 80 and 20% for those beyond 90.
The decaying process of physique gets accelerated normally after 60 years of
age. To keep one fit, after the age of 60, increased expenses on various
counts are needed. It was in recognition of this fact that the earlier
Pay Commission suggested to calibrate the pension entitlement linking to the
age of the pensioner. The demand was formulated to rein in a logical
methodology for such increases. Our specific suggestion is to raise the
quantum by5% (i.e. 65% at the age of 65) and by 5% for every five year increase
in the age of pensioner. However, the increase will have to be 10% at the
age of 85 and 20% at the age of 90.
4. Restoration
of Commuted value after 10 years and gratuity as per the provisions of the
Gratuity Act.
It is now an admitted fact that the Government recovers the full value of the
commuted portion of the pension in 10 years including the interest. However, it
has refused to accede to the demand for a revision of the period of restoration
when it was taken up in the National Council. There had been
no reason adduced as to why this demand cannot be accepted, when the issue was
subjected to discussions before the 7th CPC. Fifteen
years is too long a period and the last five years in which the pensioner is
denied the full pension is without justification. We request you to kindly
place this fact before the Empowering Committee for a favourable decision. In
the matter of gratuity our demand is that the Government must adhere to
the provisions of the Gratuity Act and no distinction between the Government
employees and the workers in the Public or private enterprises be made in the
matter.
5. Fixed
Medical Allowance.
In the case of pensioners who resides at locations not covered by the CGHS
scheme has no health care benefit at all. The serving employees are
entitled for CGHS benefit if they stay in any of the 26 cities where the
CGHS facilities are available, and they enjoy the benefit of CVCS(MA)
Rules in other places. The Pensioners staying outside the CGHS areas
are to bear the health care expenses from the3oir meagre pension
amount. It is in consideration of this fact, a fixed medical
allowance was introduced. However, the quantum of such allowance is a
paltry sum of Rs. 500 p.m. In the neo-liberalised economic system,
the administered price mechanism barring in the case of a few medicines, has
been dispensed with, consequent upon which is the exorbitant prices of
medicines in the market. The pensioner is not
able to afford the prices of medicines. Either the Government must
come forward to bring in the application of CCS(MA) rules to the pensioners who
are not within the ambit of CGHS or the FMA will have to be increased. We
request that the FMA may atleast be raised to Rs. 2000 per month.
6. Grant
of HRA for pensioners.
Gone are the days when the pensioner can expect to be looked after by their
children. In most of the cases, they are unable to live with their
children even if the children are willing to accommodate them. This is
because of the frequent transfer of workplace and many other relevant
factors. As has been pointed out elsewhere in this letter, the pensioners
of date were the serving employees of 1970s,80s and 90s. They did not
have a decent wage structure nor could they obtain loan facility
from the banks on nominal interest (which the people of the present
contemporary society enjoys), with the result they could not venture to own a
house for occupation atleast after retirement. Throughout their service
career they had been in the occupation of the Government accommodation, which
they had to vacate after retirement. The real estate business in the
country witnessed a boom in 1990s and 2000s, . The pensioners cannot
compete in the real estate market either with the consumers like serving
employees or business people. All these factors put together makes the
pensioners to shell out a major portion of his pension income only for hiring a
dwelling place. We, therefore, request the Committee may consider
the demand for HRA from a humanitarian point of
view.
7. Grant
of an increment prior to the date of retirement.
Grant of one increment in the case of those pensioners who retired on
completion of one year in service as on the date of superannuation had been the
demand the staff side placed before the Government for their consideration in
the National Council. The demand was rejected on the technical ground
that even though they had worked for a full year the grant of increment would
be possible only if they are in service on the day when it become due.
The 6th CPC while recommending uniform date of increment for all Government
Servants, also suggested that in the case of all employees who had completed
more than six months, increment might be granted. The issue was taken up
before the 7th CPC too through our memorandum. The Commission
also did not recommend the acceptance of our demand. We therefore, appeal
once again to the Government that this simple issue may be settled as it has
very little coverage and the consequent financial implication is very
meagre.
These are some of the issues, which various pensioners organisations have
brought before us to take it up with you. We therefore, once again
request you to kindly consider these issues in the light of the justification
we have appended under each of them and recommend to the Government for a
positive consideration thereof.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
Saturday 20 February 2016
Proposed revision of Recruitment Rules (RRs) of Higher Selection Grade - I in Savings Bank Control Organisation (HSG-I in SBCO) – regarding To view, please CLICK HERE.
Friday 19 February 2016
NJCA
NATIONAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION,
4, STATE ENTRY ROAD, NEW DELHI-110055
No.NJCA/2016 Dated: 19.02.2016
Dear Comrades,
Sub: Brief of the NJCA meeting held on 19.02.2016 with the
Convener, Implementation Cell, Ministry of Finance
(Government of India), reg. 7th CPC recommendations
and Charter of Demands of the NJCA
A meeting of the NJCA held today with the Convener, Implementation Cell, Ministry of Finance, Shri R.K. Chaturvedi, wherein we discussed and emphasized on all the 26-point Charter of Demandsof the NJCA send to the Cabinet Secretary on 10.12.2015.
We agitated the issues of NPS, Minimum Wage, Multiplying Factor, deduction of HRA and all other important issues.
The Convener, Implementation Cell, Shri Chaturvedi, after hearing everybody, said that, he would put-up the issues to the Cabinet Secretary, and hopefully a meeting of the JCA would be held with the Cabinet Secretary and the Empowered Committee shortly within 15 days.
Let us not leave any stone unturned for preparations of the strike.
With Best Wishes!
Convener
Shiva Gopal Mishra
Thursday 18 February 2016
SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER TO
THE HON`BLE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS & IT ON CBS/CIS PROBLEMS.
National Federation of Postal Employees
1st Floor
North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001
Phone:
011.23092771
e-mail: nfpehq@gmail.com
Mob:
9868819295/9810853981
website:http://www.nfpe.blogspot.com
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No.PF-35/CBS/2016
Dated : 18th February,2016
To
Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad
Hon’ble Minister
Communication & IT
Sub: Miseries and untold sufferings faced
by the staff in CBS &CIS rolled out offices throughout the nation –
Immediate and personal intervention requested to rein in the situation.
Respected Sir,
In continuation of
this Federation’s letter of even no. dated 20.1.2016 , we submit the
following additional issues for immediate settlement in order to avoid chaos
and stalemate in the service in the near future due to the hasty migration of
CBS & CIS.
(i) Whenever migration takes place, Finacle becomes abnormally slow and
every single transactions take too long and the customer at the counter gets
irritated and become Quarrelsome. If this lacuna is not rectified at the
earliest, it is prone to invite undue displeasure of customers and endanger our
customer base.
(ii) Similarly ATM transactions are irritating the customers. In many
occasions, cash is not dispensed out of APM while transactions occur and amount
is debited from their account. Such scenario occurs in other banks ATM also,
but reversal transactions are done within a day or two. Whereas in Finacle, it
takes weeks together that too, after several mails from R.O. & C.O.
(iii) The Finacle software being used in post offices are based on universal
banking solutions and not universal Postal solutions. We have not heard about
single handed banks, whereas 60% of Post office in India are now functioning in
single handed status only. The SPMs of single handed offices have to work is
operator ID and then come out. Again he should log on with supervisor ID for a
single transaction which not only consumes a lot of time but also irritate the
public who are standing in queue.
(iv) Some of the office accounts like 339 (used for BOs) and 340 (used for
issuing cheques) can be misused to fund any ones account with crores and crores
of rupees as there is no maximum ceiling for our SB accounts as one date.
(v) For example, CXFER can be used to fund one’s near and dear accounts in
which teller cash will not get raised and simultaneously one can take
withdrawals from other SOL (CBS offices) Kashmir to Kannyakumari as there is no
cap on other SOL (Service outlet) withdrawal prescribed by the Postal
department.
(vi) It is opt to bring to your kind notice that some of the banking giants
like SBI, ICICI etc. are leveraging services charges for other branch
withdrawals and deposits other than through their cash vending machines like
ATMs etc.
(vii) In the case of single handed offices, both the operator and supervisor
remain the same, there are chances of fraud and misappropriation of money and
falsification of records. For example, a single handed SPM can take print outs
at any point of time and then he can amount the same in his account by using SB
CASH and thereafter he can use ‘CXFER’ to fund some one’s account in which
teller cash will not get raised. It is not in practice or practicable that the
SBCO officials are tallying the Finacle balance of a particular SOL
(branch/office) with their S.O. account.
(viii) Thereafter, it is suggested that there should be a cap on other
SOL withdrawals both in terms of maximum amount and number and customers who
wish to use other SOL should be given a SB ID and that request should be given
by them at the time of opening the accounts.
(ix) This is the serious problem which has not been attended so far by the
department that most of the deputations to single handed offices are ordered
without changing the SOL ID of the deputation incumbent and Single handed SPMs
are forced to giver USER ID and Password to the deputed officials in order to
avail of their leave, training etc. and also to avoid unnecessary public complaint
in their officers which is against the DOPT orders as there is no secrecy in
passwords. This issue has not been resolved. There is every chance for the
miscreants to misuse the USER ID of other in different computers and defrauding
the Government money. At later stage, forgetting the smooth functioning in the
absence of no arrangement, the poor innocent official will be proceeded under
the contributory negligence factor. This must be set right forthwith.
(x) Interest on loan could not be accounted in Finacle Software in the case
of loan accounts in which loan amount paid off completely prior to migration
period and interest on loan is still pending in the loan account in post
migration period. There is scope of defrauding the funds by the fraudulent
people by misusing the provision.
(xi) In short the Postal Department is working for the vendors and not for
its own. Despite ‘Sifi’ has not provided the required speed and service
deteriorated, there is no penal action taken against them and the staff alone
is being harassed. Some of the issues like SSA LOT are not coming in HFINRPT
menu i.e the report menu and the staff are using indirect methods to get the
LOT and till now the Department has not taken any efforts to get the work done
from our vendor. The need for torturing the Postal officials for the benefits
of vendors is best known to the Postal Department.
The above are only the tips of ice berg. There are many more issues confronting
the service and customers, have not been solved so far. The twenty issues which
requires urgent attention in our earlier letter, have not yet been addressed by
the Department. Whereas it is extending the migration of offices without
providing necessary bandwidth, Computer peripheral etc. unless necessary
peripherals are supplied and available, how can it be implanted smoothly in the
Postal Department. We request the Hon’ble Minister once again to intervene in
this regard.
Further we are submitting below the problems being faced at Post offices after
the migration and the solution also in a table for the immediate action by the
Hon’ble Minister of communication by directly to department to settle all these
issues as if fire at the top of the roof.
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Description
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Problem faced
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Solution needed
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Login Issues
1. User Already Logged in
2. User has exceeded three attempts. User ID is locked
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Most of the time due to frequent disconnection of
Internet connectivity and during the delayed process in SERVER these two
issues are being faced.
(1) the user either supervisor or System Admin
should use the Menu CSAC. But when Super faces same situation and if System
Admin is not in a position to attend the case, CPC to be called to rectify
the Issue. (which is always busy and the issue with CPC is dealt
later)
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1.It is stated by INFOSYS that the SACKING the
user already logged in will be reset within 5 minutes but it is not happening
so. HENCE REQUESTED TO WIPE OUT THIS SCENARIO.(IN MCAMISH SOFTWARE NOSUCH
ALREADY LOGGED IN ISSUE)
2. Though there cannot be any compromise on
security the unlocking facility to be given to Divisional level SPOC and
System Admin.
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List of Transactions SSA
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There is no provision till date to view
or print SSA LOT. At present we use HFTI menu (using Sub ledger 30042) to
print a list of particulars of transactions alone without any Total. Users
physically arrive the Total with ref to vouchers.
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Menu for SSA LOT is needed.
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MIS Reports
There are two servers
1. Production Server and MIS Server. Production Server is one where the
daily day transactions are stored and where the LOT for the current day alone
can be taken.
2. MIS Server is utilized for taking all reports for the older period
other than the current day.
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Most of the cases the MIS URL says “the page is
under maintenance “
Or the BOD (day Begin is much older the Current
day). Hence the LOTs could not be printed for the previous day
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Maintenance of MIS server with the current BOD.
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Training Server
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The BOD of the Training Server is 26122014 and so
for the training server is not reset to current date. The training is limited
to certain extend and full-fledged training could not be imparted
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The training server should be reset with current
date by deleting all older data that have been stored over two years.
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SIFY ISSUES:-
Toll free numbers
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The issues faced like network down, Modem
Failure, Tower issues, we used to call Toll Free number. Now the same cannot
be used as the AGREEMENT Period is over. In case of any issues with sify we
have to send a email/lodge a complaint in SIFY PORTAL which may not be
possible as network is down.
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Requested to restore TOLL FREE NUMBERS.
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Monitoring by SIFY
During the initial period the important locations (WEGs) where
monitored by SIFY. In case of any downs in primary (BSNL) or secondary
(sify)link SUO MOTTO action was taken by sify .
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Now the monitoring is not done by SIFY. The PO
should send a email/ use the web portal to lodge a complaint
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SIFY should monitor the functioning / Down
condition of sites and should take SUO MOTTO action.
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Bandwidth
The minimum bandwidth is 128kbps (NSP II) and maximum is 256 kbps for
C and B class offices.
256 and 512 for other class other than HOs .
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Except HOs all other smaller units are suffering due to low bandwidth.
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To be enhanced to 512 at C and B class level.
To be enhanced up to 1 MBPS for units for rest of
the units other than HPOs.
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Supply of BIO METRIC devices.
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To enhance more security
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Cutoff date for updating
Past premium postings introduced in Mc Camish.
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PLI dte. lr. Dt.9.2.16 says that .csv files will no
longer be available after 15.03.2016, while BOs are allowed
to
accept premiums and there is large no. of non migration exists.
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No cutoff date should be fixed, till 100%
migration ofNIC data to 'CIS' is confirmed. Migrations were made in a hasty
manner, to satisfy the higher officers, resulting in heavy non postings.
Further, BOs are permitted to accept premiums anywhere, which could not be
posted again, if cutoff date is fixed. Despite of these, if cutoff date is
fixed, responsibility will be fixed on poor ground level officials for wrong/
short payments.
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Once again we
request your honour to kindly intervene and save the Postal service by stopping
the speedy migration. We are not against modernization. CBS & CIS we are
praying that all the loopholes, problems in the existing software be rectified
and let it be user friendly before the expansion of CBS. All the issues
narrated above may please be considered and attended.
With profound
regards,
Yours sincerely,
(R. N. Parashar)
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