WISH ALL THE READERS/ VIEWERS & COMRADES A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016

அன்புத் தோழர்களுக்கும் தோழியர்களுக்கும் இனிய  வணக்கம் ! கடந்த மூன்று நாட்களில் சென்னை பெருநகர மண்டல PMG அவர்களுடன் சந்திப்பு , மேற்கு மண்டல PMG அவர்களுடன் இருமாதங்களுக்கு ஒரு முறையிலான பேட்டி,  தென் மண்டல PMG அவர்களுடன் இரு மாதங்களுக்கு ஒரு முறையிலான பேட்டி என்று தொடர்ந்து  உங்கள் மாநிலச் செயலர் ஈடுபட்டதால்  பல செய்திகளை வலைத்தளத்திலோ, EMAIL  மூலமோ  பகிர்ந்து கொள்ள இயலவில்லை . 

இன்று மட்டுமே 9 செய்திகள்  இந்த வலைத்தளத்தில் பதியப்பட்டுள்ளன. இன்னமும் முக்கிய  செய்திகள் பகிரப்பட வேண்டி உள்ளன. அதிகப் படியான செய்திகள் இருந்தாலும் அவை சரியாக பார்வைக்கு சென்று சேர்வதில்லை. 

எனவே புத்தாண்டுக்கு மறுநாள் அந்த செய்திகளைப் பகிர்ந்து கொள்கிறோம் என்று   கூறி அனைவருக்கும் எங்கள்  இனிய புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துக்களை தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறோம்.  

வரும் 2016 ஆம் ஆண்டு  அனைவருக்கும்  இனிதாக  அமையட்டும்! ஏற்றங்களைக் கொடுக்கட்டும்! ஏமாற்றங்கள் தூக்கி  எறியப்படட்டும் ! வெற்றிகளை நோக்கி  நாம் முன்னேறுவோம் !  

வாழ்த்துக்களுடன் ==

 

STATE GOVT DECLARED THE STATE OF TAMILNADU AS FLOOD AFFECTED ; G.O. ISSUED - FOR GDS ALREADY APPLICATIONS CALLED - PL SEE THE ORDERS

புத்தாண்டுப்  பரிசு !  வெள்ள  முன்பணம்   

மற்றும்  உதவித்தொகை !

அன்புத் தோழர்களே  வணக்கம் !  ஏற்கனவே வெள்ள  முன்பணம் வழங்கிட அந்தந்த கோட்ட அதிகாரிகளுக்கு  CPMG  அவர்கள்  அளித்த உத்திரவின் நகல்   நமது  வலைத்தளத்தில் பிரசுரித்திருந்தோம். அதன் நகலை மீண்டும் இதன் கீழே   தருகிறோம்.  அதில் மாநில அரசு வெள்ளம் பாதித்த பகுதி என அரசாணை  வெளியிட்டிருப்பின்  இந்த  வெள்ள  முன் பணம் ரூ.7500/- விண்ணப்பித்த  ஊழியர்களுக்கு  வழங்கலாம் என்று அளிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தது.

மேலும் உரிய விண்ணப்பமும் அவர்களின் பொருட்கள் பாதிக்கப் பட்டதற்கான REVENUE AUTHORITY  CERTIFICATE உடன் அனுப்பப் பட்டால் WELFARE  FUND  இல்  இருந்து  GDS  ஊழியர்களுக்கு ரூ. 5000/- உதவித் தொகை வழங்கப்படும்  என்று  அடுத்த  நிலை  அதிகாரிகளுக்கு  உத்திரவிடப்பட்டிருந்தது . 

இது  குறித்து  மாநில  அரசினால்  தற்போது  அரசாணை  வெளியிடப் பட்டுள்ளது. அதில் மாநிலம்  முழுதும்  வெள்ளம்  பாதிக்கப்பட்டதாக அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அதன் நகல்  CPMG  அவர்களுக்கும்  நம்மால்   தற்போது அளிக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது.

இதன் மீது உரிய உடன் உரிய நடவடிக்கை கோரியுள்ளோம்.  மேலும் ஏற்கனவே இதன் மீது  STANDING  ORDER  CPMG அவர்களால்  கொடுக்கப் பட்டுள்ளதால் ,  அந்தந்த  கோட்ட அதிகாரிகளை அணுகி வெள்ள முன்பணம்  பெற  கோட்ட /கிளைச் செயலர்கள் விரைந்து செயலாற்றிட  வேண்டுகிறோம் ! அனைத்தும்  கீழே  உங்கள் உடனடி உபயோகத்திற்காக அளிக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது.

Payment Of Bonus (Amendment) Bill 2015

NOTICE FOR THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE MEETING OF CONFEDERATION

No. CONF/NE/2016                                                                                                   Dated: 30-12-2015

MOST URGENT / IMPORTANT

NOTICE FOR THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE MEETING OF CONFEDERATION

An urgent meeting of the National Executive of the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers will be held at ITEF Head Quarters (Rajouri Garden), New Delhi on 12-02-2016 (12th February 2016 - Friday). The meeting shall commence at 10.30am and continue till close. National Secretariat members, Chief Executives of the affiliated Organizations, General Secretaries of all State level C-o-Cs and main Office bearers of the Women's Sub Committee are requested to attend the meeting.

The following shall be the agenda of the meeting:

AGENDA:

1.   7th CPC related issues and proposed indefinite strike by NJCA.

2.   Two days All India Workshop of Confederation at Dehradun (Uttarakhand) – Finalisation of dates & Programme.

3. All India Conference of Confederation & All India Women Convention at Chennai (Tamilnadu) – Finalisation of dates.

4.   Financial position of Confederation – Decision for improvement.

5.   Issues relating to the affiliated Organizations.

6.   Any other item with permission of the Chair.

(M. Krishnan)

Secretary General

To 

1. All National Secretariat Members.

2. Chief Executives of all affiliated Organizations.

3. General Secretaries of State C-o-Cs.

4. Main office bearers of Women's Sub Committee (Not Committee members)

CONFEDERATION LETTER TO NJCA CONVENER ON PROGRAMME OF ACTION AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF STRIKE DATE

Ref: CONF/NJCA/2015                                                                                          Dated – 30.12.2015

To

Com. Shiv Gopal Mishra

Secretary, JCM (NC) Staff Side

& Convenor, NJCA

JCM National Council Office

13-C, Feroz Shah Road, New Delhi - 110001

Dear Comrade,

Kindly refer to your circular letter of 21^st December, 2015 wherein you have reiterated the decisions taken at the meeting of the NJCA on 8^th December, 2015.  We have already  advised our affiliates to carry out the programmes slated for 30^th December, 2015 and 19 to 21^st January, 2016.  The employees have realized that the report of the 7^thCPC is  the worst  ever in the history of wage revision of the Central Govt. employees.  They have also realized that a show down is inevitable to  change the situation. 

We feel in the given situation, it is the bounden duty of NJCA to provide leadership, unite the employees and lead the struggle, which alone can bring about tangible improvements. Though for the Confederation and its affiliates, strike ballot is not mandatory, we shall go through the process for it will enable our State and District level leaders to explain the various retrograde recommendations of the 7^th CPC to the rank and file of the membership.

We, however, feel that the strike ballot, if taken say by the end of January, will help us to create a salutary impact at the time of discussions.  We also feel that the Government might hold consultation with us only once at the level of the Cabinet Secretary.  Besides, As per the decision  of the meeting of NJCA of 8^th December, 2015, we are to  conclude the negotiation with the Government by the first week of February so that we would be able to declare the date of strike in the slated meeting of the NJCA on  8^th Feb. 2015.  In the circumstance, we suggest that the decision for the strike ballot may be taken immediately and the same is concluded by the end of January, 2016 i.e., before the declaration of the date of commencement of indefinite strike. You may kindly hold discussions with the NJCA members over the phone and if agreed upon take appropriate decision to hold the strike ballot by the end of January, 2016.

We make this request for it may pose some difficulties for us to go in for the strike ballot later than January. 2016.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

(M. Krishnan)

Secretary General

PENSIONERS POST RELEASED!

                         PENSIONERS POST ( PENSIONERS MONTHLY JOURNALS)  

                                                           RELEASED ON 29.12.2015! 

It is a simple function but quite memorable one with a large number of leaders and members of both Pensioners' Organisations and CG Employees & Postal Employees trade union Organisations enthusiastically participating at a very short notice!

Comrade K.Ragavendran Editor Pensioners Post & GS AIPRPA welcomed all to the function.

Com.M.Kannaiyan TN State President presided the function.

Comrade M.Duraipandian General Secretary of TN State Committee of Confederation of CG employees released the "Pensioners Post" and  Comrade N.L.Sridharan President of Tamilnadu State COC of Central, State Government and Public Sector Pensioners organisations  accepted the first copy.

Plethora of leaders A.G.Pasupathy (Patron); KVS (CHQ Advisor); C.K.Narasimhan (Circle Secretary AI BDPA); S.Sundaramurthi (President ITEF Tamilnadu); Ilamaran (Vice President TNGPA);P.Mohan (Circle president P3 NFPE); G.Kannan (Secretary NFPE Circle COC); P.Kumar (Secretary FNPO Circle COC); K.Ramesh (R3 NFPE C/S); and B.Paranthaman (R4 NFPE C/S) as well as quite a number of AIPRPA State Office Bearers, NFPE Circle office bearers and comrades graced the function. Circle Secretry P 3  is away from Circle Headquarters to attend  the bi-monthly meeting with the PMG, WR. Hence we  convey our best wishes to the good  efforts of AIPRPA.

Launch Of Post-Terminals For BPMs - Rural ICT Project

RURAL  ICT சோதனை  எலி   பீகார் !  உ. பி ., ராஜஸ்தான் !

அப்பாடா !  நமது  துறை  அமைச்சர்  திரு. ரவிசங்கர்  ப்ரசாத்  அவர்கள் புண்ணியத்தால் RURAL ICT PILOT PROJECT ஆக  பீகாருக்கும்  உ .பி . மற்றும் ராஜஸ்தானுக்கும் சென்றுவிட்டது.  

முதலில் துவக்குவதாக  இருந்த  தமிழக  அஞ்சல்  வட்டம் தப்பித்தது. இதை  ஏன்  சொல்லுகிறோம் என்றால்  எல்லா  புதிய திட்டங்களிலுமே , எல்லா  துவக்க  நிலை  பிரச்சினைகளையும்  சந்தித்த சோதனை  எலிகள் நாம்தானே  ?  

BPM களுக்கு HAND HELD DEVICE  அளித்து CORE BANKING , CORE  INSURANCE மற்றும் MAIL OPERATION திட்டத்தை கிராமப்புறங்களில் துவக்கு கிறார்களாம் .  

இங்கே இலாக்கா அஞ்சலகங்களிலேயே நாம் படும்பாடுதெரிந்தது தானே? அங்கே  சோதனை செய்த  பின்னர்   அப்புறம்  இங்கே   வரட்டும் பார்க்கலாம் . 

Department has launched issue of Post-Terminals (POTD Devices) to BPMs on pilot basis on 28.12.2015 in the states of U.P, Rajasthan and Bihar as part of implementation of RICT ( Rural Information & Communication Technology). 

Key highlights of RICT

1. Branch Post Masters to be given a hand held device for day-to-day operations
2. Through the hand held device, BPM will be able to do transactions for Core Banking, Insurance and Mail Operations
3. Scanning of documents and barcodes through a scanner
4. Regional language support on the handheld device
5. Provision of solar panels for battery charging at all Branch office

30.12.2015 DEMONSTRATIONS HELD IN VARIOUS DIVISIONAL UNITS ON THE CALL OF THE NJCA AND CONFEDERATION

ANNA ROAD HPO  BRANCH

CHENNAI CITY NORTH DN AND AUDIT OFFICE COMRADES 

ERODE DIVISIONAL BRANCH

TRICHY - SRIRANGAM  CONFEDERATION

                                                     TIRUPPATTUR DIVISIONAL BRANCH

NILGIRIS DIVISIONAL BRANCH

MINIMUM WAGE STILL A DREAM FOR WORKERS

     68 years have passed after independence of India. But the need based minimum wage still appears a dream for working class. After reaching a tripartite agreement in 15^th Indian Labour Conference in 1957 a scientific formula called as Dr. Akroid formula based on minimum needs of a workers to survive and work, was accepted. Based on this formula all Central trade unions and independent federations are struggling since long to achieve the demand of minimum wage.

            This time also National council JCM demanded Rs. 26000 as minimum wage to a lowest class employees based on Dr. Akroid formula as on 01.01.2014 taking the commodity prices as Rs. 11344. The rates were taken as an average price of actual market from various cities throughout the India and actual receipts obtained from the shops and consumer stores were also produced as evidence. After adding component of housing, children education and social obligations it comes to 26000.

            But the pay commission has recommended Rs. 18000 as minimum wage taking 12 monthly average of commodity prices quoted by Labour bureau Shimla which is totally contrary to Dr. Akroid Formula and the figures are imaginary not realistic.

            The pay commission has also reduced the component of expenses on social obligation and children education as 15% contrary to the Supreme Court judgment of 25% on the plea that the employees are paid children Education allowance separately. The Children Education allowance is not fully reimbursed and expenses on education have increased heavily after liberalization of the education sector. The housing component has also been reduce by the pay commission stating that employees are paid HRA separately. House Rent Allowance is not full compensation of expenditure incurred on rent of accommodation obtained by an employee Earlier 3^rd Pay commission has given 7.5% as the factor for housing.

            Thus this 7^th CPC has drastically cut the minimum wage.

            The website of Agriculture Ministry also maintains the record of prices of commodities which are required to compute the minimum wage. Though these prices also vary from the real retail market. But if these prices had been taken by the pay commission as an all India average of the prices as on 01.07.2015. It will work out Rs. 10810. Thus the computation of minimum wage will arrive as Rs. 19880. After adding 25% for arriving at MTS scale it will come as Rs. 24850 and to convert it as on 01.01.2016 after adding 3% as suggested by 7^th CPC. The final computation will come as 25596 when rounded off it shall be Rs. 26000/-

            Without modification of minimum wage, no improvement is expected in the higher pay scales. Therefore it requires recomputation and revision. If it is revised consequently the fitment formula, multiplication factor and pay matrix will have to be revised.

            Thus it is the urgent need to revise the minimum wage.

            The NJCA, Confederation and NFPE have given charter of demands to the Government of India seeking modification in so many demands failing which all Central Government Employees will be compelled to go on indefinite strike from 1^st week of March-16.

            NFPE call upon the entirely of Postal, RMS and GDS employees to act as per the agitational programme given by the Confederation and NFPE and make the Government ready to accept the genuine demands of Central Government Employees.

CIRCLE UNION ON STAFF MATTERS

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கடந்த 24.12.2015 மற்றும் 25.12.2015 இரு நாட்களும் மதுரை  அஞ்சல் பயிற்சி மையத்தில் பயிற்சியில் இருக்கும் 150 க்கும் மேற்பட்ட பயிலாளர்கள்  விடுமுறை தினங்களில்  தங்கள் சொந்த ஊருக்கு செல்லக் கூடாது என்றும் , அந்த நாட்களில் SWACHH  BHARAT  சேவை செய்யவேண்டும்  பயிற்சி மைய இயக்குனரால்  கட்டாயப் படுத்தப் பட்டதாக மாநிலச் சங்கத்திற்கு புகார்கள்  வந்தன. எனவே இந்தப் பிரச்சினையை CPMG  அவர்களிடம் கடிதம் மூலம் எடுத்துச் சென்றோம். CPMG  மற்றும் DPS  HQ  ஆகியோரின்  தலையீட்டினால்  அந்த  ஊழியர்கள் அத்துணை பேருக்கும் பண்டிகை  கால  இரு நாட்களும்  தங்கள் சொந்த ஊருக்கு சென்றிட அனுமதி  அளிக்கப்பட்டது. இந்தப் பிரச்சினையில் தலையிட்டு  உத்திரவு  வழங்கிய  CPMG  அவர்களுக்கும் , DPS HQ  அவர்களுக்கும்  நம்  நன்றி !

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தென் சென்னை கோட்டத்தின் ST  THOMAS  MOUNT  HO   கட்டிடம்  தொடர்பான பிரச்சினையில்  நாம்  மாநிலச் சங்கத்தின் மூலம்  ஏற்கனவே PMG CCR அவர்களுக்கும்  , பின்னர்  CPMG  அவர்களுக்கும்  கடிதம் அளித்துப் பேசியிருந்தோம். கடிதத்தின் நகல் நம்முடைய அஞ்சல் மூன்று வலைத்தளத்தில் ஏற்கனவே பிரசுரிக்கப் பட்டிருந்தது.  இதன் மீது உரிய நடவடிக்கை  எடுத்திட CPMG  அவர்கள்  PMG CCR , PMG, MM  , EE  CIVIL  ஆகிய மூவரையும்  பணித்திருந்தார்.   இதன்  அடிப்படையில்  கடந்த 22.12.2015 அன்று  இந்த மூன்று  அதிகாரிகளும்  ST  THOMAS  MOUNT தலைமை அஞ்சலகத்திற்கு நேரில் சென்று  பார்வையிட்டு  நம்முடைய  கோட்டச் செயலரையும் அழைத்துப் பேசி  பிரச்சினைகளை  நேரில் கேட்டறிந் துள்ளனர்.  பிரச்சினைகள் மீது  உரிய  நடவடிக்கை எடுப்பதாகவும் உறுதி அளித்துள்ளனர்.  நிச்சயம்  பிரச்சினைகள் தீர்க்கப்படும் என்று  நம்புகிறோம் .

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PL GO AHEAD WITH FIRST STAGE PROGRAMME OF ACTION ON NJCA AND CONFEDERATION CALL

ATTENTION TO ALL DIVISIONAL/ BRANCH SECRETARIES:-

Hold demonstrations on 30.12.2015 in front of all offices and Submit copy of the Charter of Demands to Head of offices for onward transmission to Cabinet Secretary.

PL CLICK HERE TO VIEW NJCA CHARTER OF DEMANDS

PL CLICK HERE TO VIEW POSTAL CHARTER OF DEMANDS

TN  NFPE  CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE WILL RELEASE JOINT CIRCULAR ON 30.12.2015 DEMONSTRATION.

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Payment of Arrear of Productivity Linked Bonus for the year 2014-15 - AIRF claiming with the Government

No.AIRF/387(252)                                                               Dated: Decembar 23^rd, 2015

Hon’ble Minister for Railways,

Ministry of Railways,
Rail Bhawan,
New Delhi

 Respected Sir,

Sub:- Payment of Arrear of Productivity Linked Bonus to Railwaymen for the year 2014-15

In this connection, it is mentioned that Parliament has passed the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill 2015 on 22-12-2015. This Bill has a proposal to increase ceiling limit of wages from Rs. 3500/- to Rs. 7000/-. It is also worth mentioning that Railwaymen has been given Payment of PLB on Rs. 3500/- for FY 2014-15.

 Since Parliament has passed the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill 2015, and it has come into force on 01.04.2014, it is therefore requested that payment of arrears in respect of PLB pertaining to FY 2014-15 may be disbursed to railway employees at the earliest. 

With kind regards

Govt. considering gratuity for NPS subscribers

Central Govt. is considering payment of gratuity for employees who joined Central Govt. service after 31.12.2003 and covered under National Pension

System (Popularly known as New Pension Scheme). Till now they are not covered under the existing gratuity scheme. Only in exceptional cases like death in service, retirement on invalidation etc., provisional gratuity is being paid vide order dated 05.05.2009 as an additional benefit.Minister of State for Finance, Mr Jayant Sinha informed in parliament that Govt. is considering the benefit of gratuity to extend for the NPS subscribers too.

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EDITORIAL POSTAL CRUSADER: JANUARY-2016

MINIMUM WAGE STILL A DREAM FOR WORKERS

            68 years have passed after independence of India. But the need based minimum wage still appears a dream for working class. After reaching a tripartite agreement in 15^th Indian Labour Conference in 1957 a scientific formula called as Dr. Akroid formula based on minimum needs of a workers to survive and work, was accepted. Based on this formula all Central trade unions and independent federations are struggling since long to achieve the demand of minimum wage.

            This time also National council JCM demanded Rs. 26000 as minimum wage to a lowest class employees based on Dr. Akroid formula as on 01.01.2014 taking the commodity prices as Rs. 11344. The rates were taken as an average price of actual market from various cities throughout the India and actual receipts obtained from the shops and consumer stores were also produced as evidence. After adding component of housing, children education and social obligations it comes to 26000.

            But the pay commission has recommended Rs. 18000 as minimum wage taking 12 monthly average of commodity prices quoted by Labour bureau Shimla which is totally contrary to Dr. Akroid Formula and the figures are imaginary not realistic.

            The pay commission has also reduced the component of expenses on social obligation and children education as 15% contrary to the Supreme Court judgment of 25% on the plea that the employees are paid children Education allowance separately. The Children Education allowance is not fully reimbursed and expenses on education have increased heavily after liberalization of the education sector. The housing component has also been reduce by the pay commission stating that employees are paid HRA separately. House Rent Allowance is not full compensation of expenditure incurred on rent of accommodation obtained by an employee Earlier 3^rd Pay commission has given 7.5% as the factor for housing.

            Thus this 7^th CPC has drastically cut the minimum wage.

            The website of Agriculture Ministry also maintains the record of prices of commodities which are required to compute the minimum wage. Though these prices also vary from the real retail market. But if these prices had been taken by the pay commission as an all India average of the prices as on 01.07.2015. It will work out Rs. 10810. Thus the computation of minimum wage will arrive as Rs. 19880. After adding 25% for arriving at MTS scale it will come as Rs. 24850 and to convert it as on 01.01.2016 after adding 3% as suggested by 7^th CPC. The final computation will come as 25596 when rounded off it shall be Rs. 26000/-

            Without modification of minimum wage, no improvement is expected in the higher pay scales. Therefore it requires recomputation and revision. If it is revised consequently the fitment formula, multiplication factor and pay matrix will have to be revised.

            Thus it is the urgent need to revise the minimum wage.

            The NJCA, Confederation and NFPE have given charter of demands to the Government of India seeking modification in so many demands failing which all Central Government Employees will be compelled to go on indefinite strike from 1^st week of March-16.

            NFPE call upon the entirely of Postal, RMS and GDS employees to act as per the agitational programme given by the Confederation and NFPE and make the Government ready to accept the genuine demands of Central Government Employees

ADMISSION OF CHILDREN OF GDS IN KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA

DEPARTMENT ORDER FOR FILLING UP OF GDS POSTS

No More Affidavits, Interviews For Central Govt Jobs- Central Minister told to PTI

New Delhi: Path-breaking initiatives like discontinuation of affidavits for host of central government services and ending job interviews for various posts from January 1 among other initiatives kept the Ministry of Personnel in news during 2015.

“The most revolutionary and path-breaking decision is abolition of attestation of certificates by gazetted officers instead promoting self-attestation,” Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh told PTI.

He said the government took this decision as it was willing to trust citizens, more importantly it’s youth who will not give wrong information while submitting self-attested documents.

This decision has come as a big relief to common people, especially those living in rural areas, who had to take lot of pain in getting documents attested.

The Ministry also recently discontinued the practice of submission of affidavit by the family members of deceased government employees for the appointment on compassionate grounds.

Now people are required to submit self-declaration at the time of applying for compassionate appointment. All states and union territories have also been asked by the Centre to do away with practice of getting gazetted officer-signed affidavit and seek self-attestation.

Singh, a Lok Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur constituency, said soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to end interviews from central government jobs, his Ministry has acted on it.

“We have decided that from January 1, next year, the process of interview for Group C and D recruitments will be abolished,” he said, adding that these are some steps which nobody thought of in past over 60 years after country’s independence.

“We have started the process of simplification of various application forms being used in the government. We are converting multi-page application forms into one-page,” the Minister said.

Talking about other initiatives, he said a pension portal has been started. “Those who are getting superannuated can check the status of their pension online. They can also check pension payment orders online,” Singh said.

He said out of 6.5 lakh public grievances received by his ministry during the year, 4.8 lakh were disposed of.

“The ministry will continue to work towards simplifying governance,” Singh said.

In another novel initiative, the ministry started yoga camps for the central government employees and their dependents.

Besides, it exempted the parents of differently-abled children from the mandatory transfers so that they can take proper care of them.

The scheme of interaction of officers with school students has been launched in which the officers of government of India visit schools and share their experiences with the students.

As a pilot project, senior officers of Department of Personnel and Training have visited kendriya vidyalayas in Delhi and interacted with the students.

For the first time in the history of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the officers of 2013 batch were posted as assistant secretary in the Central Secretariat for a period of three months.

In order to crack a whip on non-performing bureaucrats, it has started assessing the performance of employees. The government has asked all its departments to identify such public servants and move proposals for their premature retirement.

The Personnel Ministry has formed rules to check unauthorised stay on foreign postings by IAS, IPS and IFS officers.

P T I

Source : http://www.tkbsen.in/2015/12/no-more-affidavits-interviews-for-central-govt-jobs/

Rural post offices will soon get digitally connected

NEW DELHI: The communications and IT ministry is set to a launch a slew of schemes on December 28 that will seek to digitally connect rural post offices across the country and enable core banking facilities at 12,000 other post offices.

The ministry will also announce a programme to set up over 1,000 ATMs in three months for the convenience of post office  savings bank customers.

Communications and IT minister  Ravi Shankar Prasad will launch the schemes to mark the 'Good Governance Day'.

The ambitious project to digitise all transactions made by postmen in rural India will include equipping branch postmasters with solar powered, biometric hand-held devices.

It will be launched at three pilot circles in Uttar Pradesh,  Bihar and Rajasthan. A senior government official told ET that the  Good Governance Day will hence be a critical date for the government to measure its success in digitising governance and for setting new digitisation goals. The official said the government's attempt to mark the day on December 25 last year had become controversial and it was thus decided to shift it to December 28. "By March 2017, 1.30 lakh hand-held devices will be made available across rural branch offices. This instrument will revolutionise lives of people across villages," the official said.

Booking and delivery of Speed Post, registered mail, money orders, sale of stamps and postal stationary will be done through these devices and paper receipts will be generated instantaneously, the official said. "All financial transactions shall also be reconciled immediately and cash on delivery amount collected in the village will be immediately credited to the account of e-commerce company," the official said.

These devices will also facilitate biometric authentication of social security beneficiaries at the time of pay-out, "reducing leakage in the scheme", the official said.

The postal department has clocked revenue of Rs 980 crore in 2015 through cash on delivery and the figure is likely to cross Rs 1,500 crore by the end of the current financial year, the official said. The postal department has also set up 57 integrated state-ofthe-art parcel centres for booking, processing and delivery of ecommerce parcels.

The official said the postal department has this year offered more than 57,000 policies under the PM Suraksha Bima Yojana, PM Jeevan Jyoti Yojana and Atal  Pension Yojana to post office savings bank account holders.

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/

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 ‘நான் அல்லாஹ்வின் தூதரிடம் எது நன்மை? எது தீமை? என கேட்டேன்.அதற்கு அன்னார்: நன்மை என்பது நற்குணங்களாகும். தீமை என்பது உனது உள்ளத்தை உறுத்துவதும், அச்செயலை மக்கள் பார்த்துவிடக்கூடாது என்று வெறுக்கின்றாயே அதுவாகும்’-நவ்வாஸ் இப்னு ஸம்ஆன்  (ரலி) 

″உனக்கு அடுத்திருப்பவரிடம் அன்பு கூர்வாயாக″, ″பகைவரிடம் வெறுப்புக் கொள்வாயாக″ எனக் கூறியிருப்பதைக் கேட்டிருக்கிறீர்கள். ஆனால் நான் உங்களுக்குச் சொல்கிறேன்; உங்கள் பகைவரிடமும் அன்பு கூருங்கள்; உங்களைத் துன்புறுத்துவோருக்காக இறைவனிடம் வேண்டுங்கள். ... மத்தேயு 43, 44,45

CIRCLE UNION LETTER TO CPMG, TN ON PROBLEMS PERTAINING TO ST.THOMAS MOUNT HPO BLDG IN CHENNAI CITY SOUTH DN.