Central Govt. Employees to travel by Air on LTC-Special Package for North-Eastern Region

Special Package for North-Eastern Region
  
The Ministry of Tourism, as a part of its promotional activities releases print, electronic, online and outdoor media campaigns to promote various tourism destinations and products of the country including the North East Region. Besides, North East specific media campaigns are launched to promote the entire North East Region. The Ministry of Tourism provides complimentary space to the North Eastern States in India pavilions set up at major international travel fairs & exhibitions. Further, In relaxation of CCS (LTC) Rules 1988, the Government has decided to permit Government servants to travel by air to North Eastern Region on LTC as follows:- 

(i) Group A and Group B Central Government employees will be entitled to travel by Air from their place of posting or nearest airport to a city in the NER or nearest airport.

(ii) Other categories of employees will be entitled to travel by air to a city in the NER from Guwahati or Kolkata.

(iii) All Central Government employees will be allowed conversion of one block of Home Town LTC into LTC for destinations in NER.

(c): Every year 10% of the total plan allocation of the Ministry of Tourism is mandatorily earmarked for releasing funds to the States of the North East Region. This apart, following special dispensations are given to the North Eastern States:

(i) Under the scheme of product/infrastructure development of destinations/circuit, budget accommodation, restaurants, etc. are allowed to the States of North East Region, selected places of J&K and Eco Tourism projects only.

(ii) For organizing fairs & festivals 100% central financial assistance is allowed to the North Eastern States & the State of Jammu & Kashmir only.

This information was given by the Minister of State of Tourism, Shri Sultan Ahmed in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

Source : PIB

Additional allotments in Postmaster Grade I

Additional allotments in Postmaster Grade I

DEPARTMENT OF POST - INDIA

Office of the Chief Postmaster General, A.P. Circle, Hyderabad - 500 001.

Memo. NO. ST/6-2(P)/Postmasters/10/II   dated at Hyderabad - 01  the       25.11.2011.

Part - I

In pursuance of Directorate orders contained in its letter no. A-34012/3/2011-DE (AP) (Pt.1) dated 23.11.2011 and letter no.4-24/2011-SPB-II dated 09-08-2011 and 26.09.2011 circulated vide this office letter no.ST/6-2(P)/Postmasters/10 dated 17-08-2011 and 4.10.2011, Competent Authority has accepted the requests for declining the promotion for the post of Postmaster Grade-I from the following officials who have been  selected through the Postmaster Grade – I examination and not given the appointment orders yet.  The officials will not have any further claim to this post.

S.No	Name of the official	Region / Division to which the official belongs to
1	Thakur Brahmeshwara Singh	Hyderabad Region
2	Ommi Ramulu	Visakhapatnam Region
3	Thirupathi Ajmeera	Hyderabad Region

Part - II

The following additional allotments have been approved by the Competent authority in the cadre of Postmasters Grade-I in the pay scale of Rs.5200 – 20200 with grade pay of Rs.2800/- and allotted to the Regions / Divisions in Hyderabad City Region noted against each with immediate effect and until further orders:

S.No	Name of the official	Region /Dn working	Region / Dn  to which allotted
1	Ryali Naga Brahmanacharyulu	Visakhapatnam Region	Visakhapatnam Region
2	R.S.Bharathi	Secunderabad Dn	Hyd. South East Dn
3	Somasekhara Rao Duna	Visakhapatnam Region	Secunderabad Dn
4	M.G.S.Prasad	Visakhapatnam Region	Hyd. South East Dn
5	Bharatam Prahladu	Visakhapatnam Region	Secunderabad Dn
6	A. Chandrasekhara Raju	Kurnool Region	Kurnool Region
7	Ashok Kumar Hegde	Secunderabad Dn	Hyderabad Region
8	N. Srinivasa Reddy	Visakhapatnam Region	Hyderabad Region
9	Mannepuri Govindarao	Visakhapatnam Region	Hyderabad Region
10	Sunitha Kandula	Vijayawada Region	Hyderabad Region
11	P. Baby Chandrakala	Vijayawada Region	Hyderabad Region
12	Gara Brahmanandam	Visakhapatnam Region	Hyderabad Region

Meeting with Senior officers, Directorate

26th November 2011,

On 24. 11.2011, Com. M. Krishnan, Secretary General NFPE and President CHQ, General Secretary Com. K. V. Sridharan and Com. Satyanarayana, General Secretary, Postal Accounts met the Secretary and discussed the issues. The need for review meeting on the decision arrived on strike demands and convening JCM Departmental Council meeting was discussed and stressed. Secretary (P) Ms. Manjula Prashar assured to convene the meeting shortly.

Thereafter, Secretary General & General Secretary P3 met Member (P), DDG (P) and other senior officers and discussed various issues. The following are the outcome and information, we gathered from the Directorate.

1.      LGO Exam: - Decision has been taken ignore the language papers and exam result will be decided based on the marks secured in Arithmatic Paper (25 X 2) communication will be sent to CMC for valuation of arithmetic paper and finalise results.

2.      IPO Exam:  A Committee has been constituted to review the out of syllabus questions on law paper. The Committees report is expected within a forthnight Threafter decision will be taken about the valuation of IPO exam papers. It seems that it will take atleast a month’s time for finalistion.

3.      HSG I Recruitment Rules: At last, the UPSC approved the Recruitment Rules for HSG I, the file will be forwarded to Law Ministry for approval of draft for Gazette notification of HSG I Recruitment Rules and it will be finalized within a month.

4.      Postmaster Grade III: - The Issue will be finalized within a month as the file relating to HS GI Recruitment Rules had been approved. Volunteers will be called for among the HSG I after releasing DPC for HSG I and the posts will be filled first with the HSG I officials opted for postmaster Grade III. The remaining posts will be filled as per the Recruitment Rules of Postmasters.

5.      Cadre review: - DDG (P) assured that he will finalise a draft from the Department side and discuss the same in the first weak of December 2011. We explained the urgency and the need for the earliest finalization of this major demand.

6.      Postman Recruitment Rules : - Based on our strike demands to modify the Postman Recruitment Rules and also to have a discussion about this with staff side, a meeting with DDG (P) will be held on 2.12.2011 at 11.00 hours at Directorate.

7.      Allowance Committee: - The Committee constituted for review of allowances has finalized its recommendation and is expected to submit before the end of this month. Our CHQ views, as learnt, has taken note of while considering the issues. Orders may be expected.

8.      GDS Demands: - i) Despite strong recommendation by the Department, JS (FA) has once again return the file with some objections relating to the case of reduction of point from Rs. 20,000/- to Rs. 10000/- we should exert more pressure.

(ii) Similarly the enhancement of Bonus ceiling file was also returned by the internal finance stating that the GDS are doing duties less than 5 hours. This should also be taken vigorously

9.      Casual Labourers: - The Committee constituted to consider about application of revision of wages and also the future of the existing casual labourers/contingents has sought information from various circles. The finalisation of Committee, it is leant, will take more time, there are 21000 contingent part time casual labourers. We may think of suggesting to convert such posts as GDS or may be absorbed in the unfilled vacancies of GDS which were kept under skeleton.

10.  Postmaster Grade I: - The declined vacancies have been filled up with the remaining successful candidates of all the circles except five circles from which no informations were received. They have been addressed. No examination was held in Kerala Circle due to court cases.

11.  PA Recruitment: - PA Direct recruitment for the vacancies up to 2011 December may be scheduled in the month of April 2012 and the revised recruitment Rules will be brought in to effect. Directorate has initiated the process.

12.  Confirmation Exam: - In the revised PA recruitment rules, the confirmation examination has been removed. There is no examination hereafter. All will be confirmed by DPC committee as per 6 (i) (12) of the said rules. This is a major achievement so far our P3 Comrades.

13.  Rules 9 Cases/Review petitions: - Member (P) Ms. Yasodhara Menon informed that time bound action has been initiated to clear all pending Rule 9 Cases/Review petitions. She assured result-oriented action on other issues also.

CHANGES IN POSTAL SAVINGS SCHEMES W.E.F 01/12/2011

CHANGES IN POSTAL SAVINGS SCHEMES W.E.F 01/12/2011

Friday, November 25, 2011 Posted by My Tech

SB ORDER dt 24.11.11	SCHEME	FEATURE	EXISTING	REVISED w.e.f. 01.12.2011	REMARKS AND ACTION TO BE TAKEN
22	KVP	CERTIFICATE ISSUE	Available	Discontinued	Existing stock to be returned from SO to HO and from HO to CSD after 30.11.2011
23	NSC	PERIOD	6 year	5 year	Rubber stamp to be affixed in NSCs about new period and maturity value.
		MATURITY VALUE	Rs.160.10 for Rs.100 Dn	Rs.150.90 for Rs.100 Dn
		10 YEAR NSC IX ISSUE	Not Available	Available	Features not mentioned now.
24	PPF	MAXIMUM SUBSCRIPTION LIMIT	Rs.70,000 per annum	Rs.1,00,000 per annum
		INTEREST RATE	8 % p.a	8.6 % p.a	New interest applicable for balance at credit in account from 01.12.2011
		LOAN INTEREST	1% p.a	2% p.a	1 % p.a Int will continue for Loan taken before 30.11.11
25	MIS	PERIOD	6 year	5 year	Rubber stamp to be affixed in PB about the new features
		INTEREST RATE	8 % p.a	8.2 % p.a
		BONUS	5 % on pri.	Discontinued
26	SB	INTEREST RATE	3.5 % p.a	4% p.a	New interest applicable for balance at credit from 01.12.2011
27	TD	PMC (from 6 months to 1 year)	No interest	SB Interest	For accounts closed on or after 01.12.2011
		PMC deduction	2 % Int less	1 % Int less	Refer Rule 8 and rate table in Rule 7 of POTD rules
	1 TD	INTEREST	6.25 % Q.C.I	7.7 %   Q.C.I	Interest applicable for accounts opened on or after 01.12.11 (Q.C.I-Quarterly Compounded Interest)
	2 TD	INTEREST	6.5 %   Q.C.I	7.8 %   Q.C.I
	3 TD	INTEREST	7.25 % Q.C.I	8.0 %   Q.C.I
	5 TD	INTEREST	7.5 %   Q.C.I	8.3 %   Q.C.I
28	RD	MATURITY VALUE	Rs.728.90 for Rs.10- Dn	Rs.738.62 for Rs.10- Dn	Proportionate value for other Denominations
29	AGENT COMM	PPF	1 %	Discontinued	Applicable for deposits made on or after 01.12.11
		SCSS	0.5 %	Discontinued
		MIS,TD,NSC	1 %	0.5 %
		RD (MPKBY)	4 %	4 %

Points to remember for Cheque Deposits:

• Investment in KVP through Cheque should not be accepted w.e.f. 28.11.2011. If any cheque presented before 28.11.2011 is cleared after 30.11.2011,  the amount should be refunded to depositor. 
• After 25.11.2011 while accepting cheques for opening MIS, rubber stamp should be affixed on counterfoil “No Bonus shall be payable if cheque is credited to Govt. Account after 30.11.2011 
• Rate of interests applicable according to the Date of Clearance of cheque.