One day strike/agitation on 16.03.17 & 16.11.16 - Case of Dhenkanal Division

Deparment of Posts: India

Office of the Supdt. of Post offices: Dhenkanal Division

Dhenkanal-759001

Regd/email.

To                                                                                                                                 

    1-The Asst.Supdt of Pos

       Dhenkanal Sub-Division

       Dhenkanal-759001

   2-The I.P, Angul East/Angul West/Kamakhyanagar/Talcher Sub-Division.

   3- Postmaster, Dhenkanal H.O/Angul HO/Talcher MDG/Nalco Nagar MDG

   4- Office Supervisor, Divisional  Office, Dhenkanal.

   5-All SPMs, Dhenkanal Division

 

No: -A-33   Dated at Dhenkanal the 17.03.2017.

 

Sub: - One day strike/agitation on 16.03.2017 & 16.11.2016 -  information regarding.

                    

                     Please submit the list of the officials under your unit/jurisdiction participated in the last strike/agitation on 16.03.2017 & 16.11.16. The list may be prepared separately for Departmental staffs and GDS with names. The list along with strike situation report to be submitted by 1100 hrs 17.03.17 positively without fail.         

 

      

                                                                                                                   Supdt. of Post Offices

​Dhenkanal Division

                                                                                                Dhenkanal-759001

 

 

 

 

Supdt. of Post Offices

Dhenkanal Division

Dhenkanal - 759001

73 COMPANIES KEEN TO PARTNER WITH INDIA POST PAYMENTS BANK (IPPB) - LOK SABHA

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS

LOK SABHA

STARRED QUESTION NO.400

TO BE ANSWERED ON 29TH MARCH, 2017

INDIA POST PAYMENTS BANK

400. SHRI PASHUPATI NATH SINGH:

SHRI NINONG ERING:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has set up the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) as a Public Limited Company under the Department of Posts and if so, the details and the status thereof along with the benefits accrued/likely to be accrued therefrom;

(b) the number of IPPB branches opened so far, State/UT-wise along with the time by which branches of the said bank are likely to be opened in all the States;

(c) whether IPPB has installed ATMs and issued Debit Cards across the country and if so, the details thereof including the number of ATMs installed and Debit Cards issued, State/UT-wise; 

(d) whether many firms including global banking institutions like the World Bank have reportedly expressed interest for being associated with IPPB and if so, the details thereof and the action taken by the Government thereon; and

(e) whether IPPB has signed any Memorandum of Understanding with British lender Barclays regarding banking operations and if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS &

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(SHRI MANOJ SINHA)

(a) to (e) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House

STATEMENT TO BE LAID ON THE TABLE OF THE LOK SABHA IN RESPECT OF PARTS (a) TO

(e) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.400 FOR 29TH MARCH, 2017 REGARDING

“INDIA POST PAYMENTS BANK ”.

(a) & (b) Yes Madam, Department of Posts (DoP) has set up India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) as a Public Limited Company on 17/08/2016 under the Companies Act 2013, to further the financial inclusion objectives of the Government. IPPB has launched operations in Raipur (Chattisgarh) and Ranchi (Jharkhand) with 8 access points on 30/01/2017. It is proposed to set up access points co-located with district level post offices in up to 650 districts with linkages to all the post offices throughout the country by September, 2017, subject to feasibility and fulfillment of regulatory requirements. Thus after complete roll-out, approximately, 1.55 lakh post offices will become access points for the IPPB.

(c) IPPB has not installed any ATM, as of now. IPPB has issued 1619 Debit Cards of which 832 Debit Cards have been issued in Jharkhand and 787 Debit Cards have been issued in Chattisgarh. However, the Department of Posts has installed 976 ATMs which are mostly located in the rural areas of India.

(d) Yes Madam, many companies have approached the Department of Posts for collaboration with India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) which include domestic and international financial entities in the field of banking, insurance, international money transfer, mutual funds etc. Some preliminary discussions had taken place with International Finance Corporation (World Bank); no formal proposal to this effect has been received. While the Department is in various stages of discussions with them, decision on formal partnerships will be taken after carefully evaluating the entire value proposition that they propose for the common man. A list of companies interested in partnering with India Post Payments Bank is attached at Annexure A.

(e) No Madam, IPPB has not signed any Memorandum of Understanding with Barclays

7th Pay Commission – Report on allowances after comments from Ministries and departments

 

The Lavasa Committee was constituted in June last year after the government implemented the recommendation of the 7th Pay Commission.

A high-level committee headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa will finalise its report on payment of allowances to 47 lakh government employees after receiving comments from ministries on treatment of over a dozen such benefits. The panel, which was asked to examine the 7th Pay Commission recommendation for abolition of 53 allowances out of a total of 196 and subsuming another 36 into larger existing ones, at its meeting today sought comments from the ministries of defence, railways and posts on treatment of 14 allowances

A high-level committee headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa will finalise its report on payment of allowances to 47 lakh government employees after receiving comments from ministries on treatment of over a dozen such benefits. The panel, which was asked to examine the 7th Pay Commission recommendation for abolition of 53 allowances out of a total of 196 and subsuming another 36 into larger existing ones, at its meeting today sought comments from the ministries of defence, railways and posts on treatment of 14 allowances.

Sources said these 14 allowances had not been factored in previously and the concerned ministries have been asked to give their views on what is to be done with them. The panel will finalise its report after it gets the comments, they said, adding one more meeting of the committee is likely for doing so. The government is keen to give out the revised allowances from the fiscal year beginning April 1 but will take a call on payment of arrears in case the rollout is delayed, they said.

The Lavasa Committee was constituted in June last year after the government implemented the recommendation of the 7th Pay Commission. The Pay Commission had recommended abolition of or subsuming of allowances like acting, assisting cashier, cycle, condiment, flying squad, haircutting, rajbhasha, rajdhani, robe, shoe, shorthand, soap, spectacle, uniform, vigilance and washing.

Out of a total of 196 allowances, it had recommended abolition of 53 and subsuming of another 36 into larger existing ones. Sources said the committee in its next meeting will also finalise its views on pay commission recommendation of reducing the house rent allowance (HRA) to 24 per cent of basic pay as against the 30 per cent of basic pay employees were drawing under the Sixth Pay Commission.

Source;- Indian Express

India Post Payments Bank targets 1.55 Lakh outlets by September 2017

IPPB targets 1.55lakh outlets by Sep2017

In a written response to questions in Parliament by Members of Parliament Pashupati Nath Singh and Ninong Ering, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said that the India Post Payments Bank, as of the end of January 2017, was operational only with 8 access points in total, in Raipur (Chhatisgarh) and Ranchi (Jharkhand). The Payments Bank intends to set up access points in post offices in up to 650 districts with linkages to all post offices (around 1.55 lakh of them) across India, by September 2017, “subject to feasibility and fulfillment of regulatory requirements.”

Remember that AP Singh, interim managing director and CEO of the India Posts Payments Bank had said that it intends to allow sending money from one Aadhaar number to another, and Aadhaar will be made a payment address which can work with or without a bank account linked to it. However, the payments bank does offer bank accounts of three types: Safal, which is a regular account, with a maintenance fee of Rs 100 from the second year, and Sugam and Saral which are basic savings deposit accounts. Sugam accounts have a maximum balance of Rs 1 lakh. Saral account has a maximum balance of Rs 50,000. 

According to the filing, the India Post Payments Bank has issued 1619 Debit Cards so far: around 832 in Jharkhand and 787 in Chhatisgarh. While the Payments Bank hasn’t installed any ATMs, the Department of Posts has around 976 ATMs in rural India. The Minister stated that the Payments Bank has had “preliminary discussions” for collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (World Bank), but “no formal proposal to this effect has been received.”

Other companies have approached the India Post Payments Bank for collaboration, including “domestic and international

financial entities in the field of banking, insurance, international money transfer, mutual funds etc. The Minister shared a list of 98 companies that he said are “keen to partner” with the India Post Payments Bank, which, surprisingly, included Obopay, which we didn’t know was still around, after its disastrous history; I just checked and its investor Elephant Capital’s August 2016 report says that the company “has no value”.

Important- Annual interest Run-Request to instruct SOLs to verify all unverified transactions

You are all aware that we are nearing the end of the financial year 2016-2017 & annual interest calculation and posting are due for Savings Accounts- SB, SSA, PPF, NSS 87 & NSS 92 .

It is requested to kindly cause to instruct all CBS Offices to verify all the accounts which have been modified but verification is pending since interest posting for such accounts will fail resulting in complaints and tickets being raised for non-posting of interest.

Unverified accounts can be listed by respective offices using the HAFI menu. Following are the fields to be entered in HAFI for finding out unverified transactions:

SOLID: Default SOLID
Ref. No.: Enter one or two spaces
Table Short Name: GAM
General Ledger Subhead Code: 30001
Authorize: Select the radio button 'Not Authorized'
Function Code: M
Following are the GL Heads
SB - 30001
PPF - 33001
NSS87 -30021
NSS92 -30022
SSA - 30042

Accounts thus identified have to verified to ensure interest is calculated and posted in them on 1st April 2017

Review of' Transfer Policy' circulated by Directorate vide letter No.141/2013- SPB - II dated 31.1.2014 - invitation of suggestions /comments

• 
  
• Directorate has called the opinions on transfer & placement Committee.
• A copy of the Directorate letter is posted below.
• Please submitt your suggestions / comments immediately.

Transfer and Posting of HSG-II officials in Odisha Circle

Validity of Self Attested affidavits

The second Administrative Reforms Commission in its 4th Report titled ‘Ethics in Governance’ and 12th Report titled ‘Citizen Centric Governance’ had stressed on the need for simplification of Government procedures. As a part of simplification, the State Government of Punjab in the year 2009-10 decided to do away with the practice of submitting of affidavits and also allowing of self-attestation of copies of certificates for small level Government jobs. However, this decision did not have any bearing on the requirement of submission of affidavits in the Courts as per the law. This initiative of State Government of Punjab had won the Prime Minister’s Civil Services Award. As the part of replication of the aforesaid initiative, the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances has been requesting on a regular basis the Central Ministries/ Departments and the State/UT Governments to adopt the similar procedure. This is a continuous process. 

This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri Mahesh Poddar in the Rajya Sabha today.

PIB.

Distribution of Group C Posts After Cadre Restructuring in All over India

Click below link to Enlarge / Download the Image

7th Pay Commission – Prime Minister or Finance Minister, who is responsible for delay in Allowances

The source further added that the Union Government is also planning to pay the higher allowances under the new pay scale from the next fiscal year.

New Delhi, March 26: Almost nine months have been passed and the committee on Higher Allowance is yet to submit its report to the union government, which has further delayed the implementation of 7th Pay Commission. More than 56 lakh central government employees are eagerly waiting for the Higher Allowance, the decision on which has not yet reached to a conclusion. Although some reports suggest that the delay in higher allowance has saved crore of rupees this financial year but some reports suggest that neither Finance Minister Arun Jaitley not Prime Minister Narendra Modi responsible for the delay in implementation of higher allowances.

According to The Sen Times report which quoted a senior official from Finance Ministry said on the condition of anonymity that, “neither Finance Minister Arun Jaitley nor the PMO responsible for delaying the implementation of the new allowances”. The source further added that the Union Government is also planning to pay the higher allowances under the new pay scale from the next fiscal year. Some reports suggest that the higher allowances will be paid by April 1, next fiscal year, whereas some report suggests that the government plans to pay higher allowance, with retrospective effect from August 2016.

A source from Finance Ministry who was quoted by The Sen Times also said that a meeting will be held writing next week with members of the allowance committee of 7th Pay Commission. The same was also confirmed by National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) convenor Shiv Gopal Mishra. The NJCA leaders who have been putting forward this issue also added that the Ashok Lavasa committee, which is looking into 7th Pay Commission and allowances may submit their reports after having a discussion with employee representatives. The NJCA is one of the most active joint body of unions representing central government employees. Also Read – 7th Pay Commission: Government likely to make higher allowances effective from April 1, next fiscal year

Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Finance had also clarified that the allowance committee on 7th Pay Commission has not yet submitted their report and also confirmed that the decision will be confirmed only after the report is submitted by the committee.

Soon the NJCA is likely to hold a centralised meeting with another panel that is looking into National Pension Scheme (NPS). The Finance Ministry has also constituted a separate committee for suggesting measures for streamlining the implementation of NPS.

In June 2016, the Union Government had accepted the recommendations made by Justice AK Mathur and his high-powered team on 7th Pay Commission in respect to the hike in basic pay and National Pension Scheme. But issues related to higher allowances were referred to the Ashok Lavasa committee. In last one year, the 7th Pay Commission had also examined a total of 196 existing allowances and recommended the abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming of 37 allowances.

The NJCA on the other side has demanded their HRA (House Rent Allowance) at the rate of 30 per cent, 20 per cent and 10 per cent. However, the high-powered committee had recommended the HRA to be paid at the rate of 24 per cent, 16 per cent and 8 per cent of the new basic pay, depending on the type of cities where government employees live.

The committee also recommended when DA (Dearness Allowances) crosses 50 per cent then the rate of HRA be revised to 27 per cent, 18 per cent and 9 per cent and if DA crosses 100 per cent then the rate of HRA has to be revised to 30 per cent, 20 per cent and 10 per cent.

Source:- India.com