In the last two weeks of implementing
centralised EOD, the following issues have been observed. Unless you are
implementing the guidelines issued, it would require further escalation to take
action against for failure to follow the guidelines.
The instructions are reiterated once
again and sent herewith:
HISCOD:
1. HISCOD
menu has a list of limited validation to ensure that “Unverified accounts does
not remain”, “No blocking validations”, “Inventory is maintained properly” –
Unless these are validated at HISCOD, the problems are carried forwarded to
other stages, more particularly the third stage of EOD.
2. Running
HISCOD, by design itself is mandated to run at SOL level individually, to
ensure that smooth validation happens at each PO level. If this HISCOD is run
in circle sets, the system will not validate these above parameters and it will
push these SOLs to the next stage, without validating any of the mandatory
rules.
3. In
extraneous circumstances, due to inordinate delay in DC closure of the previous
day, if a situation is chronic, EOD central team would be initiating this menu
after informing you, in sets. Otherwise, this HISCOD must be invoked at SOL
level individually by each postmaster.
4. Circle
CPCs are in the habit of coming to CPCs at 20.00 hours and invoking HISCOD in
Circle Sets in single stroke and passing on to the next stage. This act is
highly irregular. We have the user-IDs of circle CPCs who have invoked the menu
with set ID and at what time. This will be shared to Circle heads for further
necessary action.
5. Hence,
SPOCs/ In-charge of CPCs are requested not to run the HISCOD in circle sets.
Instructions may be issued to all POs down the line to invoke this menu as and
when the counter hours are completed, individually, by each
postmaster.
HSCOD:
1. Few Circle
CPCs, are attending office only at 20.00 hours and none present up to that time
to contact. They are invoking HISCOD in bulk in one set and as and when this is
moved to the next stage without any validations, they started invoking HSCOD,
beyond the prescribed permitted parallelisation. This is highly irregular.
2. This
would consume, more resources and other CPCs are made to wait unnecessarily.
3. Hence
please follow the instructions on parallelization strictly.
4. Few
of the circle CPCs are invoking HSCOD in bulk and going out of CPCs. If few
SOLs fail due to some reasons, none present there to review the status and
initiating the process once again. At their leisure, they come after 22.00
hours and invoking the same menu once again. There by, none present to see the
failed SOLs for more than 2 to three hours at night. We will be sharing the
details of such instances through screenshots containing the time of triggering
sets and if once failed, attending to the same after 2-3 hours gap.
REGULARISING THE OPERATIONS AT PO
LEVEL:
1. The
counter hours are completed by 1500 hours. On most of the days, Since the
Finacle was very slow, or either the application is down, during the last two
weeks, the situation was managed with due pressure. Now the system is back and
normal, Please insist the supervisors to verify the transactions as and when
happened. We have a set of offices, which are continuously verifying the
transactions only after 1500 hours. Most of the transactions have been verified
after 1500 hours by few Supervisors. We intend tracking the details of
Supervisors, verifying after 1500 hours or at particular intervals would be
extracted and sent to CPCs for action.
2. Entering
OLTP transactions (On Line Transaction Processing) after 1800 hours is
discouraged. If it pertains to BO transactions, CPCs can identify such sub
offices and get an administrative order from the region/circle for treating
these BOs to be accounted for on the next day.
3. When
few other SOLs in the country is doing EOD level-2, if OLTP is also allowed in
the system, it tends to be de-stabilised and as such, the DB servers are loaded
with more requirements of taking up OLTP, running HISCOD, HSCOD at a
time.
4. Hence,
it is instructed to CPCs, to stop entering Online transactions after 1800 hours
in any case.
5. It
should be ensured that HISCOD is run by individual SOLs starting from 1500
hours and this shoud be ensured to complete this HISCOD before 1800 hours in
any case.
6. Similarly,
without exceeding the parallelisation prescribed, CPCs must ensure hat HSCOD is
also completed by 20.00 hours daily. There may be exceptions in few post
offices, but this can not be regular that HSCOD running is triggered at CPC
level after 2000 hours and completing them, the early morning on the next
day. As we have logs and data for each of these instance
described in the email, these can be retrieved at any time and shared with
Circles, in cases of requirement. Hence, I would request all SPOCs to put
their efforts on the same line of EOD support team (DOP) to complete the date
change of all SOLs in their circle before 2000 hours / 2100 hours.
We intend conducting a on day
workshop at Chennai during fourth week of April. The venue, agenda for the
meeting etc would be shared shortly. The discussion would be on streamlining
the EOD operations.
(V M SAKTHIVELU)
Deputy Director CEPT
+919444227090
sakthiveluvm@indiapost.gov.
