Timely confirmation in various Central Civil Services- issue of guidelines - DOPT issued Latest Guidelines

Dear comrades,
DOPT issued new guide lines in view of the Supreme Court judgement on 8.7.2010 in civil appeal No.596 of 2007 (appeal of Khazia Mohameed Muzammil v/s State of Karnataka & Anr.) examined the contention of automatic/deemed confirmation after the expiry of the probation period. After examining the various judgements, the Apex Court were of the considered opinion as to what view has to be taken would depend upon the facts of a given case and the relevant ruler in force.

In Para No.22 of the Judgement the Apex court obseved as follows

"Before we part with this file, it is required of this Court to notice and declare that the concerned authorities have failed to act expeditiously and in accordance with the spirit of the relevant rules. Rule 5(2)of 1977 Rules has used the expression 'as soon as possible' which clearly shows the intent of the rule framers explicitly implying urgency and in any case applicability of the concept of reasonable time which would help in minimizing the litigation arising from such similar cases. May be, strictly speaking, this may not be true in the case of the appellant but generally every step should be taken which would avoid bias or arbitrariness in administrative matters. no matter, which is the authority concerned including the High Court itself. Long back in the case of Shiv Kumar Sharma v/s Haryana State Electricity Board(1988) Supp. SCC 669] this Court had the occasion to notice that due to delay in recording satisfactory completion of probation period where juniors were promoted, the action of the authority was arbitrary and it resulted in infliction of even double punishment. The Court held as under:
'While there is some necessity for appointing a person in government service on probation for a particular period, there may not be any need for confirmation of that officer after the completion of the probation period. If during the period a government servant is found to be unsuitable, his services may be terminated. On the other hand. if he is found to be suitable, he would be allowed to continue in service. The archaic rule of confirmation, still in force, gives a scope to the executive authorities to act arbitrarily or malafide giving rise to unnecessary litigations. It is high time that the Government and other authorities should think over the matter and relieve the government servants of becoming victims of arbitrary actions.'
For further details and order copy please click the below link and down load

http://www.persmin.nic.in/WriteReadData/Estt/18011_1_2010-Estt.C.pdf

DOP invited expression of Interest for Core System Integrator for IT Modernisation Project

Dear Comrades,

Postal Department Invited Expression of Interest forCore System Integrator for IT modernisation Prject. Some of the highlights placed here under for the information of the members.Please go through them to know the latest developments in the department going to be taken place.

2.3.4 Finance and Accounts

Finance and accounts provide a single view of the financial performance of the DoP and plans to maintain the accounting records under both accrual and cash system and information on costs and tariffs. This includes tracking and reporting on budget approvals and fund utilisation as per Government of India guidelines. Finance and accounts also manage the procure-to-pay cycle for goods and services purchased by DoP including inventory management, budgeting and procurement, efficient vendor management for payables and receivables to ensure favourable liquidity position for the department

2.3.5 Customer Interaction Services

The customer interaction services enable the Point of Sale at DoP Multi Purpose Counters to perform various functions, including retail sales, bill collection on behalf of business partners, and cash management for end-of-day cash balance reconciliation. Additional channels, such as mobile and web portal, to be provided for delivery of products and services..

2.3.6 Call Centre

Set up and operate Call Centre to provide product and services related information and take orders or requests for mail booking, banking, insurance and retail post, resolve customer enquiries such as track and trace of the articles, retail order fulfilment, etc.

2.3.7 Human Resources Management and Payroll

The human resources management maintains personnel data and service related records for all employees (departmental and GDS) and shall allow employees to perform self-service transactions, including ability to view and edit personal data, leave, travel etc. and their approvals. Human resources also manage recruitment activities and departmental and direct examination, performance management, periodic establishment review and training activities. Payroll shall ensure timely and centralised payroll services, including disbursement of salary and other benefits by leveraging modern payment mechanisms like direct account transfers and ECS credits.

2.3.8 Customer Information Management

The customer information management shall consolidate customer information from across the various business verticals including FSI and RSI, capture customer information, including personal,contact, account and payment information and analyse customer information to determine outstanding payments, cross-selling opportunities, etc.

2.3.9 MIS and Business Intelligence Services

Management information and business intelligence services will maintain data/information across functions to provide cross-vertical reporting with drill down capabilities to transactional level. The reports shall be available through user-friendly MIS dashboards that adhere to regulatory and management reporting requirements, both ad-hoc and periodic.

2.4 Technical Overview

2.4.1 Solution Requirements

The Core SI shall perform the following activities to implement the solution:

2.4.2 Supply of Software

1. Supply of software including operating system, application, database and any other software

as required to support the business functions described in Section 2.2, 2.3;

2. All licenses shall be enterprise wide; Source code to be made available;

3. Supply of security software, including security incident, event, identity and access

management;

4. Directory and email software for the DoP employees.

2.4.3 Supply of Hardware

1. Sizing of the necessary server hardware based on the proposed software that meets DoP’s

current and future business needs;

2. Supply of server hardware as per sizing and project timeline ;

3. Client side hardware shall be out of scope of this RFP; however selected bidder shall work with DoP and/or the client side hardware vendor to validate the suitability of the IT infrastructure for the implementation of the proposed solution.

2.4.4 Design and Implementation Services

1. Develop an architecture that is highly available, scalable and flexible;

2. Design an integration architecture model and approach using Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) approach;

3. Design and build a data model to share data across multiple systems in the organisation ;

4. Design a Business Intelligence platform providing a dashboard for monitoring and measuring

business metrics and generate customized MIS reports at various levels;

5. Install and commission the supplied software and hardware;

6. Develop the client application for the supplied solution to be rolled out on the RICT

platform;

7. Build a unified customer interaction layer to enable channel access for multiple users, modes

and services;

8. Build and maintain complete security architecture based on industry best practices such as

ISO27001, DSCI Security framework in compliance with e-governance standards

(http://egovstandards.gov.in/) and applicable statutory requirements such as IT Act 2000

(amended 2008);

9. Build monitoring infrastructure for ensuring systems are functioning as per SLAs;

10. Implementation of solution in the field over a period of 19 months and post go-live support.

The tentative approach is as follows:

a. Pilot roll-out in 100 identified offices

b. First phase roll-out in all offices in six identified circles

c. Final roll-out in all offices in the remaining circles

2.4.7 Training

1. Prepare a detailed training plan and finalise in consultation with the divisions and Change Management vendor/DoP change management team;

2. Plan and implement the training in co-ordination with Change Management vendor and the DoP;

3. Conduct train-the-trainer training to enable the trainer network across the DoP;

4. Conduct end user training for a specific number of batches across India.

2.4.8 Operation and Maintenance Services

1. Set up and run centralized 24x7 Helpdesk operations. CSI shall provide Level 1, 2 and 3

support based on the service levels;

2. Run Level 1 Help desk which is common for all applications and services for the overall

solution;

3. Co-ordination with other SIs and vendors for L2, L3 level services;

4. Set up and run the Call Centre to provide cross-vertical information and transactions;

5. Supply, installation and commissioning of enterprise management system (EMS) and service

desk software and integration of EMS, service desk, IVR and other Call Centre components;

6. Design and implementation of ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) processes such as Incident

Management, Change Management, Configuration Management, etc.

For further details please click the below link and down load

http://www.indiapost.gov.in/Pdf/CSI_EOI_Department_of_posts_29102010.pdf

Grant of DR (from 01/07/2010)to C.G.Pensioners who are in receipt of Provisional pension in the pre revised scale of 5th CPC

Dear Comrades,

Department of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare has been issued orders to increase DR to Central Govt. Pensioners who are in receipt of provisional pension or pension in the pre revised scale of 5th CPC @ 103% w.e.f 01/07/2010 vide memo No.42/18/2010-P&PW(G) dated 27/10/2010. Please click the below link to getthe order copy.

http://persmin.gov.in/WriteReadData/Pension/42-18-2010-ppwg-271010.pdf

Dept. of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare issued orders for Payment of commutation value of additional amount of pension in respect of employees who retired on or after 01/01/2006 but before 02/09/2008 and expired before excercising option for commutation of additional amount of pension vide memo No.38/79/08-P&PW(G) dated 27/10/2010. The issue has been exmined in consultation with Ministry of Finance,Department of expenditure who has observed that the pay commission's intention was that the pensioner should excercise a conscious choice in view of the fact that the commutation table has changed w.e.f.01/01/2006 as such, in these cases, the Rule 10 of CCS (Commutation of Pension) Rules,1981 may be followed and difference in commuted value be paid without fresh application. The intention was not to deny the higher capitalized value on account of revision of pension. For order copy please click the belowlink and down load.

http://persmin.gov.in/WriteReadData/Pension/38-79-08-ppwg-271010.pdf

Department issued orders to fillup the PAs/SAs Vacancies pertaining to the year 2009 and 2010

Dear Comrades,
Due to our union/Federation restless efforts to filling up of vancat posts to curb the shortage of staff now the department has been issued orders to filling up of vancies pertaining to the year 2009 and 2010 by direct recruitment vide memo No.60-9/2010-SPB-I dated 18/10/2010.As per the said orders all the circle heads are instructed by the directorate to follow the following time schedule strictly.

1.Issue Advertisement/Circulation of the Vacancies               8th November 2010
2.Last date for receipt of the applications                              8th December 2010
3.Holding of written examination and completion of
Computer test                                                                      9th January 2011
4.Declaration of final results/select list                                   15th January 2011
Click here to get the directorate orders

Notice Issued for Joint Working Committee of Secunderabad Division of P-III,P-IV and ED going to be held on 28/10/2010 at SDHO

Dear Comrades,
The Joint Working Committee meeting of the AIPEU Group-C (HO and Division), Postmen &Group-D and ED of Secunderabad Divisional Branch is going to be held at Secunderabad HO premises on 28/10/2010 at 6-00pm. The same is placed here along with agenda for the information of the members. It is requested to all the working committee members to attend the meeting without fail.

Notice Issued for All India Conference of AIPEU Group-C going to be held from 9 to 11 Jan 2011 at Alandi (Pune)

Dear Comrades,
All India Conference of the AIPEU Group-C has been notified by the General Secretary. The AIC is going to be held from 9 to 11 January 2011 at Dhyansagar Mangal KAryalaya, Alandi, Vadgaon Road, Tal-Khed, Dist.Pune. Agenda items along with Notice is placed here for the information of the members.

General Secretary's Desk - Circular Issued by the General Secretary

Dear Comrades,
Circulars issued by Com.K.V.Sridharan, General Secretary is placed here for the information of the members. Please go through the same to know the latest developments.

The Reserve Bank of India has given permission to the Department of Posts (DoP) to launch its prepaid debit card, in partnership with Master Card

The Reserve Bank of India has given permission to the Department of Posts (DoP) to launch its prepaid debit card, in partnership with Master Card, which will allow customers to purchase products from all major retail outlets across the country.

The prepaid debit card by India Post would have a minimum value of Rs 1,000 and a maximum of Rs 50,000, a senior official from the department told Business Standard. Subsequently, the cards will be topped up with the required value.

 The customers would also be able to withdraw money from ATMs using the new card from DoP. It could also be used for making online transactions, for mobile commerce and to facilitate electronic money transfer.

"The department has already received all the requisite approvals from RBI for the launch of the card and we expect to commercially announce it within a few months," the official said. DoP might also rope in a bank as partner in the venture, the official added, refusing to divulge further details.

 The nature of the card would be in line with debit card offered by different banks. The software for the solution would be offered by one or more banks, while the required infrastructure and staff would be provided by the postal department.

 According to the request for proposal issued by the department earlier this year, "the card (magnetic stripe-based) could be operated at merchant establishments or ATMs, where Master Card is acceptable, and in various post offices. Up to four add-on cards are proposed to be issued to one customer, along with the primary card."

 The debit card would be issued to customers by major post offices, after a payment of activation fees and the amount to be loaded on to the card.

 The official said such cards could also be used by organisations for giving allowances and other benefits to their employees.

Business Standard

Mansi Taneja / New Delhi September 17, 2010

Result of the Departmental Examination for selection to the Post of Inspector Posts-Letter issued by the SSPOs Secunderabad division

LSG Posting orders given by the SSPOs,Secunderabad Division

LSG selection list issued by Circle Office on 08/10/2010

Dear Comrades,
Circle office had issued LSG selection list vide memo No.ST/6-1(PI)2010-11 dated 08/10/2010. The same is placed here for the information of the members.

Minutes of 2nd MACP Meeting held on 15/09/2010 - officially issued by DOPT

Dear Comrades,
Minutes of 2nd meeting of MACP committee held on 15/09/2010 was officially issued by the DOPT vide Memo no.11/1/2010-JCA dated 06/10/2010. The same is placed here for the information of the members. Please click the below link and down load.

Click here to get the official minutes of 2nd MACP Meeting

Deepest Condolences to the Family Members of Com.Sadguru rao, Com.Rajaratnam, and Com.Jaleel

Dear Comrades,

Com.Sadguru Rao, Postal Assistant, Secunderabad HO was expired on 04/10/2010 due to Severe Illness. Com.Rajaratnam, Postman, Malkajgiri SO was expired on 02/10/2010 due to accident at Peddimul. Com.Jaleel, Postman, Sitaphalmandi SO was expired on 04/10/2010 due to Brain Heamarrage. These three officials are maintained close association with our union and its a un recoverable loss to to the divisional union. On behalf of Divisional Union I convey my deepest condolenses to the family members of the deceased officials. On behalf of P-IV divisional union Com.Ahwaq Hussain Divisional Secretary, AIPEU P-IV expressed his deepest condolenses to the family members of the deceased officials.

IPO Examination Results Released by the Department

Dear comrades,
Department of Posts released IPO Examination for the year 2009 examination held on 4th to 6th January 2010 vide Memo No.A-34013/01/2009-DE dated 05/10/2010. The same is placed here for the information of the members.

Click here to get the IPO Examination Result

Circle wise All India Marks list of all the candidates who appeared in the IPO examination 2009 held fro 04 to 06 January 2010 may be down loaded by clicking the below link.

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1lMxUW4u8zyZTk1NWI5ZDEtMTMwYy00ZTQ3LTlkODgtY2M0MDQzZmJmN2Zj&hl=en

Postal Directorate announcd 60 days Bous to the Postal Employees

Dear Comrades
Department of Posts has released order today for 60 days Bonus for regular employees as well as for Gramin Dak Sewak subject to the ceiling of Rs. 3500/- and Rs.2500/- respectively vide Memo No.26-04/2010-PAP dated 01/10/2010

Grant of Additional Pension to Pre-2006 Pensioners/Family pensioners-Clarification issued by Department of Pensions

Dear Comrades,

As per the existing Instructions vide Department of Pensions OM of even number dated 21/05/2009 and 11/08/2009 it is provided that in case the information regarding date of birth/age is not available in the PPO or the office records, certain documents,viz PAN card, Matriculation certificate,Passport,CGHS card,Driving Licence and Voter ID card would be accepted as proof f age/date of birth for payment of additional pension/family pension on completion of age of 80 years and above.It was also provided that the pension disbursing authority/bank will make payment of additional pension/family pension in the above manner on provisional basis, up to a period of three months from the month in which the proof of age/date of birth is submitted by the pensioner/family pensioner. Ins such cases the pension disbursing authority/bank will immediately send one copy each of the document submitted by the pensioner/family pensioner to the pay and accounts officer/CPAO for formal authorisation of the additional pension/family pension. The pension disbursing atuhority will make payment of additional pension/family pension beyond a period of three months only on receipt of such an authorisation from the pay and accounts officer vide OM of even number dated 25/06/2010. 

                  Now considering the hard ship that is likely to be caused to the old pensioners/family pensioners due to discontinuance of additional pension by the pension disbursing authority/bank, in such cases, it has been dicided by the department of Pensionsthat the pensioner/family pensioner has submitted any of the prescribed docuents as age/date of birth proof , payment of additional pension/family pension  on provisional basis will continue to be made till 31/12/2010 or for a period of six months from the month in which the proof of age/date of birth was submitted by the pensioner/family pensioner, which ever is later. This has been considered by the department of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare vide Memo no.38/37/08-P&PW(A) dated 28/09/2010. for order copy please click the below link and down load.

http://persmin.gov.in/WriteReadData/Pension/38-37-08-ppw_280910.pdf

Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules/Liberalized Pensionery Award Scheme revision of Pre 2006 pensioners/family pensioners-orders issued by the Department of Pensions

Dear Comrades,
Department of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare decided to revision of Pre 2006 pensioners/family pensioners coming under the category of Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules/Liberlized Pensionary award scheme, on the lines of benifits sanctioned for ordinary pensioners/family pensioners vide memo No.45/3/2008-P&PW(F) dated 30/09/2010. The same is placed here for the information of the members.Please click the below link and down load.

http://persmin.gov.in/WriteReadData/Pension/45-3-08PPW.F30.9.10.pdf