TOP PRIORITY
No 25-20/2008-PE-I (Pt.)
Ministry of Communications & IT
Department of Posts
(Establishment Division)
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg
New Delhi-110 001
Dated 22nd July, 2011
To
All Heads of Circles
Subject:- Study to be carried out on Postmen related issues.
Sir / Madam,
The Joint Council of Action of Staff Federations including Postmen Staff submitted their Agenda of demands to the Department for their resolution. As ordered by the Competent Authority, a separate Committee has been formed to look into the issues flagged by the Postmen Unions. A meeting of the said Committee held on 01.07.2011, wherein during the course of discussion, Staff Side put forward certain issues on which they are facing difficulties while discharging their duties.
2. In this connection, therefore, the Competent Authority has decided that each Circle should carry out detailed study on following issues:-
(i) Extraction of Data Entry Work from Postmen.
(ii) Irregular computation of working hours for Postmen in the field units- assess all areas of work being handled by Postmen.
(iii) Assess the average Beat Length of Postmen for deciding the maximum Beat length as in some Circles it stretched up to 40 KMs or more.
(iv) Postmen to carry all articles (first class, second class, Speed Post, Registered Post, Money Orders, EPP, etc.) in each Beat.
3. It is requested to complete the Study on above points and send the report along with the comments of CIFA to this office by 19th August, 2011 positively so that further suitable action could be taken.
4. It may please be accorded Top Priority.
This issues with the approval of the Competent Authority.
Yours Sincerely,
Sd/-
Asst. Director General (Estt.I)
Government aims to modernise all post offices by 2013:
New Delhi, Aug 3 (PTI) :
Government has approved a project aimed at modernising all post offices in the country by 2013.
"The government has approved ''India Post Technology Project-2012'' for the IT modernisation of Department of Post to be implemented in a phased manner by 2012-13," minister of state for communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
"The government has approved ''India Post Technology Project-2012'' for the IT modernisation of Department of Post to be implemented in a phased manner by 2012-13," minister of state for communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
"The project would cover all post offices across the country," he added.
Pilot also informed that 24,015 post offices in the country have been provided with computers till date and that 1279 post office are yet to be computerised.
In a reply to another question, Pilot said the Department of Post has set a target to open 125 franchisee outlets in the ongoing financial year.
A total of 21 states have been identified by DoP for opening franchisee of post offices.
Pilot also said that 5 new post offices will be opened during the ongoing financial year in hilly areas-- one in Karnataka and four in Jammu and Kashmir.
Courtesy: http://news.in.msn.com/
Instead of doubting the NSS data, policymakers would do well to heed it.
They have plenty of problems at hand.
The recent estimates of employment and unemployment from the 66th round (2009-10) of the National Sample Survey (NSS) belie any hopes that the growth of the Indian economy between 2004-05 and 2009-10 has been inclusive. Employment has expanded by only a million jobs during this period. Not only is this lowest ever growth recorded in any such period, the fact that it occurred during the period of highest growth in the economy makes it exclusionary. It is of little concern that this growth of employment is not even a fraction of the government’s claim of creating more than 50 million jobs during the same period.
The results were shocking to many senior policymakers, but more than that they were embarrassing. This reflected amply in their anger against NSS and claims of problems about the data quality. Not only were the claims unverified and untrue, they did great disservice to the statistical system of the country.
But what did the data show that offended policymakers so much? It showed that employment increased by merely one million with male employment expanding by 22 million, but female employment declining by a drastic 21 million jobs. It also reconfirmed what was already known: that a large part of the employment created was in the informal sector with casual workers accounting for more than 80% of all the new jobs generated. Regular employment also showed deceleration. A large number of the jobs created were in the low productivity construction sector while the remaining were in the non-farm sector that contributes more than three-fourths of the growth accounting for less than one-fourth of total employment increase. In a nutshell then, there is overwhelming evidence that not only did growth fail to create a sufficient quantity of jobs, but the quality of employment also deteriorated.
The data, however, showed that one possible reason for the slow growth of employment could be the significant increase in attendance in educational institutions by the younger population, particularly female. It also showed a respectable increase in the wage rate of casual workers with real wage of male workers increasing by 3.6% and rising by 5% per annum for female workers. It also showed increase in participation in public works, particularly the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme with participation improving by almost eight times during this period. Further, unemployment rates fell for all categories of population. Unfortunately, having sullied the data, policymakers failed to take note of the positive features that emerged from the same data.
Later commentators have obviously picked up positive features to claim that there is no cause for worry. Probably some of this is true. It is now acknowledged that the previous period—1999-2000 to 2004-05—was a period of severe distress. This could have led females to move out of household in numbers to the job market, leading to a large increase in female employment. Since the subsequent period was one of high growth, the situation did improve and, therefore, some women went back from being workers to non-workers. Also, the shift of younger population to educational institutions explains a small part of the low growth of workforce.
Unfortunately, none of these explanations is new or unexpected. But if these were known, why did the government claim that the economy will generate more than 50 million jobs per year?
However one views the data, there are reasons to worry. This is not only due to the fact that high growth has failed to create jobs, but also that planners and policymakers are clueless about long- term employment patterns. The fall in unemployment rate from 2.6% to 2.1% is of little significance in a country where more than one-third of the population is poor and three-fourths is economically vulnerable. Remaining unemployed is not a luxury that the poor of this country can afford. They will take whatever jobs that come their way, even if they are not remunerative, but are casual and informal. The problem is not that of those who are unemployed, but that of the large majority of the working poor.
As far as female employment is concerned, it is true that they enter the labour market when there is severe distress. But if that is the case, this signals vulnerability and should not be looked as employment creation. But why should they move back from being workers to non-workers when the situation improves? It takes courage for the women of this country to move into the labour market, breaking patriarchal and social barriers. It is a shame if women are forced to move away from the labour market because there is marginal improvement in incomes. It is symptomatic of the vulnerability of female workers where they are needed only to fill the gap in case of distress. If not, the other possible reason can only be that even those jobs that were available to them have been taken away. Either way, a sufficient cause for worry.
But the trend that should worry them the most is the trend of younger population staying away from the labour market to acquire better degrees. Because while they gave breathing space to the government this time, they will be a restless and aggressive lot when they enter the job market in the coming five years armed with skills and degrees.
Courtesy: livemint.com, August 2, 2011
Admissibility of interest in PPF(HUF) accounts matured between 13.5.2001 to 7.12.2010 -a clarification regarding :
SB ORDER NO. 13/2011
No.32-01/2010-SB
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi-110001, Dated: 01.08.2011
To
All Heads of Circles/Regions
Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.
Subject:- Admissibility of interest in PPF(HUF) accounts matured between 13.5.2001 to 7.12.2010 -a clarification regarding.
Sir / Madam,
The undersigned is directed to refer to this office SB Order No.23/2010 dated 13.12.2010 vide which, MOF(DEA) GSR 956 (E) dated 7.12.2010 ( F.No. 7/4/2010-NS-II dated 7.12.2010) was circulated. Now, MOF(DEA) vide its letter No. 7/4/2008-NS-II dated 01.06.2011 has further clarified the following:-
Interest at PPF rate would be paid on those PPF(HUF) accounts which had attained maturity after 13.5.2005 but closed by the subscribers before7.12.2010 subject to the conditions that the accounts had not been extended after maturity and the deposits were retained in such accounts without further subscription during this period.
2. This may kindly be circulated to all post offices for guidance and necessary information. If any such account was closed either without interest or with interest @ Post Office Savings Account, that may be settled according to this clarification.
3. This issues with the approval of DDG(FS).
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(Kawal Jit Singh)
Assistant Director (SB)
I C T in Post Offices :
It is proposed to introduce the segments of Core Banking Solution relevant to Post office Savings Bank Scheme (POSB) in 2207 departmental post offices initially.
The Government proposes to provide ATM facility in 810 Post offices. The complete list of identified Post offices, can be viewed by clicking on : https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BxNEVCvnmZdeYTRiMDc1MzMtODVhNS00NGQyLTg3MzEtY2VlNTllN2UyNzVk&hl=en_US
Sl. No. | Name of the PO | Sl. No. | Name of the PO | Sl. No. | Name of the PO |
1 | Angul HO | 13 | Chandinchowk HO | 25 | Koraput HO |
2 | Aska HO | 14 | Chharapur HO | 26 | Nayagarh HO |
3 | Athgarh HO | 15 | Cuttack GPO | 27 | Paralakhemundi |
4 | Balangir | 16 | Dhenkanal HO | 28 | Phulbani HO |
5 | Balasore HO | 17 | Jagatsinghpur HO | 29 | Puri HO |
6 | Baragarh HO | 18 | Jajpur HO | 30 | Rairangpur HO |
7 | Baripada HO | 19 | Jaleswar HO | 31 | Rayagada HO |
8 | Berhampur HO | 20 | Jeypore(K) HO | 32 | Rourkela HO |
9 | Bhadrak HO | 21 | Jharsugda HO | 33 | Sambalpur HO |
10 | Bhanjnagar HO | 22 | Kendrapara HO | 34 | Sundargarh HO |
11 | Bhawanipatna HO | 23 | Keonjhargarh HO | 35 | Uditnagarh HO |
12 | Bhubaneswar GPO | 24 | Khurda HO |
Source: PIB Release, August 3, 2011
Ms. Hilda Abraham, Chief PMG, Orissa Circle relieved for Karnatak Circle :
Ms. Hilda Abraham, Chief PMG, Orissa Circle relinquished her charge and left in the afternoon of 03.08.2011 for taking over her new assignment at Bangalore.
Ms. Devika Kumar, the new Chief PMG of Orissa Circle is expected to join on 10.08.2011. Till then local arrangement is likely to continue.
Ms. Devika Kumar, the new Chief PMG of Orissa Circle is expected to join on 10.08.2011. Till then local arrangement is likely to continue.
Inclusion of names of family in the PPO and proof of age for additional quantum of family pension - requirement of certificates etc. - regarding :
To view the complete order, please click on :https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BxNEVCvnmZdeYzc4YmNmYzktM2JmYy00YjFhLTg5MjYtYTQ0MDIwZTA3NjJl&hl=en_US
Opening of Post offices in Hilly Areas :
In the existing guidelines for opening of new post offices, there is already relaxation in the norms for opening of post offices in hilly areas in comparison to plain areas. There is no proposal for further relaxation in the existing norms.
The number of Post Offices opened (Circle-wise) in hilly areas during the last three years and current year are as follows:
Sl. No. | Name of Circles | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 |
1. | Himacla Pradesh | - | 1 | - | - |
2. | Karnataka | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
3. | North East | 3 | 7 | 12 | - |
4. | Uttarakhand | 4 | 2 | 6 | - |
5. | Jammu & Kashmir | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
This reply was given by Shri Sachin Pilot, the minister of State in the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in response to a question in Parliament.
Source : PIB Release, August 3, 2011
Franchise Postal Outlets :
During current financial year 2011-12, targets for opening of 125 Franchise Outlets have been issued to the Circles including Madhya Pradesh. Details of physical targets allotted to the Circles as under. Madhya Pradesh Circle has been allotted the target of 8 franchise outlets. These outlets are opened in areas where opening of post office is justified but it cannot be opened for some reasons. This is also subject to receipt of applications from suitable candidates.
The targets for opening of new franchise outlets have been given to Circles for the current financial year.
This reply was given by Shri Sachin Pilot, the minister of State in the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in response to a question in Parliament.
ANNEXURE
Circle-wise physical targets for opening of Franchise Outlets for the financial year 2011-12
Sl. No. | Name of the Circles | Physical Targets [in number] |
1 | Andhra Pradesh | 8 |
2 | Assam | 4 |
3 | Bihar | 6 |
4 | Chhattisgarh | 3 |
5 | Delhi | 8 |
6 | Gujarat | 7 |
7 | Haryana | 7 |
8 | Himachal Pradesh | 5 |
9 | Jammu & Kashmir | 2 |
10 | Jharkhand | 4 |
11 | Karnataka | 7 |
12 | Kerala | 0 |
13 | Madhya Pradesh | 8 |
14 | Maharashtra | 8 |
15 | North East | 4 |
16 | Orissa | 6 |
17 | Punjab | 6 |
18 | Rajasthan | 7 |
19 | Tamil Nadu | 7 |
20 | Uttarakhand | 3 |
21 | Uttar Pradesh | 8 |
22 | West Bengal | 7 |
Total | 125 |
Source : PIB Release, August 3, 2011
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