REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRANCH POST OFFICE
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REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR SUB POST OFFICE
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REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR HEAD POST OFFICE
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PRESS NEWS
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
CABINET APPROVES REVISED COST ESTIMATE ON “SETTING UP OF INDIA POST PAYMENTS BANK”
ADDITIONAL FUNDING OF RS.820 CRORE FOR FY 2020-21 TO 2022-23 TOTAL OUTLAY NOW AT 2255 CRORE
Posted On: 27 APR 2022 4:52PM by PIB Delhi
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the revision of project outlay for setting up of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) from Rs.1435 crore to Rs.2255 crore as equity infusion to meet regulatory requirement. The Cabinet also granted in principle approval for future fund infusion to the tune of Rs.500 crore for meeting regulatory requirements and technological upgradation.
The objective of the project is to build the most accessible, affordable and trusted bank for the common man; spearhead the financial inclusion agenda by removing the barriers for the unbanked and reduce the opportunity cost for the under banked populace through assisted doorstep banking. The project supplement Government of India’s vision of “less cash” economy and at the same time promote both economic growth and financial inclusion.
India Post Payments Bank did a nationwide a launch by on September 1, 2018 with 650 branches/controlling offices. IPPB has enable 1.36 lakh Post Offices to provide banking services and has equipped nearly 1.89 lakh Postmen and Gramin Dak Sevaks with smartphone and biometric device to provide doorstep banking services.
Since the launch of IPPB, it has opened more than 5.25 crore accounts with 82 crore aggregate number of financial transactions with Rs.1,61,811 crore which includes 765 lakh number of AePS transactions worth Rs.21,343 crore. Out of the 5 crore accounts, 77% of accounts are opened in Rural areas, 48% are women customers with around Rs.1000 crore of deposit. Nearly 40 lakh women customers received Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) into their accounts valued at Rs.2500 crore. More than 7.8 lakh accounts have been opened for school students.
In Aspirational Districts IPPB has opened around 95.71 lakh accounts having 602 lakh aggregate transaction worth Rs.19,487 crore. In Left Wing Extremism (LWE) districts, 67.20 lakh accounts have been opened by IPPB having 426 lakh aggregate transactions worth Rs.13,460 crore.
Total financial expenditure involved under the proposal stands at Rs.820 crore. The decision shall help India Post Payments Bank pursue its objective of furthering financial inclusion across India by leveraging the network of Department of Posts. DS (Release ID: 1820526)
The Conference ended with the
resolve to fight policy offensives unitedly.
33rd All India Conference of
All India Postal Employees Union Group ‘C’ was held at Shri Anandpur Sahib from
19th April to 22nd April 2022 in a very grand and
splendid manner.
AIC commenced with the flag hoisting on 19th April. National Flag was hoisted by Com. R. N. Parashar, Secretary General, Confederation of C. G. Employees & Workers & NFPE Flag was hoisted by Com. C. C. Pillai, Ex- Secretary General, NFPE and P3 flag was hoisted by com. N. Subramanian, President.
Homage was paid to the Martyrs and leaders whom we lost during this period including Com. M. Krishnan, Ex-General Secretary, P3, Com. S. S. Roy, Asst. General Secretary, P3, Com. R. Sivannarayana, Ex-President, Com. S. A. R. Mazgaonkar, Ex-Working President and Com. R. Seethalakshmi, Ex-General Secretary, P4 and others who left during this period by offering flowers on martyrs column by all leaders, guests, CHQ office bearers, Circle Secretaries, delegates and visitors.
The open session was inaugurated by
Com. Swadesh Dev Roy, All India Secretary of CITU. In his inaugural speech he
elaborated on the political and economic issues prevailed in country and
international factors affecting economic policies of our country and policy
offensives unleashed by the Govt. of India on common man, peasants, agriculture
workers, and workers of organized and unorganized sectors. He stressed the need
of united struggle to fight against the policy offensives.
The inaugural session was also addressed by Com. R. N. Parashar, Secretary General, Confederation, Com. P. U. Khadse, General Secretary R3, Com. P. Suresh, General Secretary R4, com. S. B. Yadav, General Secretary, Postal Accounts, Com. Jasmine Jalal Begum, General Secretary SBCO, Com. P. V. Rajendran, President NFPE, Com. A Sree Niwas, Vice President, NFPE, Com. Giriraj Singh, Ex-President NFPE and Com. C. C. Pillai, Ex-Secretary General, NFPE.
Com. K. V. Sridharan, Ex-General Secretary P3, Com. K. Ragavendran, Ex-Secretary General, NFPE & General Secretary, AIPRPA and Com. D. B. Mohanty, General Secretary P4 delivered their speech in delegate session.
Delegate session started with the presentation of General Secretary’s report by Com. Janardan Majumdar, General Secretary.
Discussion started on Report and agenda items. More than 100 delegates and all CHQ office bearers, /Circle Secretaries and Women Committee Members deliberated on agenda items.
The discussion was summed up by Com. R. N. Parashar, Ex-Genera Secretary P3 and by com. Janardan Majumdar present General Secretary jointly.
After that election of office bearers was conducted
The following set of office bearers was
elected unanimously for the next session.
President : Com.
Com. A Veeramani, (Tamilnadu)
Working Presidents : Com. G. Janakiram, (Karnataka)
Com. Surendra
Pallav (Maharashtra)
Vice Presidents : Com. Manjit Singh, (Punjab)
Com. M. Asha (Kerala)
General
Secretary : Com.
Janardan Majumdar (West Bengal)
Deputy
General Secretary : Com. P. K. Muraleedharan (Kerala)
Assistant General Secretaries : Com. A. Kesavan, (Tamilnadu)
Com. Naresh Gupta (Haryana)
Com. Vinay Joshi (Rajasthan)
Financial Secretary : Com.
Parminder Pal Singh, (Delhi)
Assistant Financial Secretary : Com. Rakesh Kumar (Delhi)
Organizing General Secretaries: Com. A. Shravan Kumar (Telangana)
Com. Indrajit Pandey, (Jharkhand)
Com. R. N. Sarat Kumar, Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh)
The following set of All India Women Committee was elected
1. Chairperson - Com. Mausumi Majumdar (Assam)
2. Convenor - Com. Mausami Bhattacharya (West
Bengal)
3. Members - Com. K. K. Jagadamma (Kerala)
Com. Mangala Bhagwat (Karnataka)
Com. Chaitra Gowda (Karnataka)
Com. Sunita Dwivedi (Chattisgarh)
Com. Chandrabati Das (Odisha)
Com. Saryu Rao Brahambhatt (Gujarat)
Com. Snehal Sanjay Ingole (Maharashtra)
Com. S. Deepa (Tamilnadu)
Com. K. V. Kollamal (Tamilnadu)
Com. M. Shanti (Tamilnadu)
The Conference also passed some resolutions
on important subjects which will be published in journal.
The Constitution amendment for enhancement of monthly subscription Rs.75/- to Rs.100/- was also passed unanimously with the following break up.
Branch/Division - Rs.50/-
Circle - Rs.25/-
CHQ - Rs.20/-
NFPE - Rs.5/-
The Conference was concluded after the vote of thanks by Com. SSRA Prasad, AGS and with thunderous slogans and applaud to reception committee for organizing the AIC in such a grand and splendid manner for making all arrangements of accommodation, food and meeting by Reception Committee of Punjab Circle under leadership of Coms. Lachman Singh, Manjit Singh and Joginder Singh.
PRESS NEWS
Ministry of Communications
INDIA POST WARNS PUBLIC AGAINST FRAUDULENT URLS/WEBSITES CLAIMING TO PROVIDE SUBSIDIES/PRIZES THROUGH CERTAIN SURVEYS, QUIZZES
Posted On: 23 APR 2022 10:15AM by PIB Delhi
India Post over the recent days has been observing various URLs/Websites getting circulated in social media such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and through emails / SMS containing tiny URLs/ Short URLs, claiming to be providing Government Subsidies through certain surveys, quizzes.
We wish to inform the citizens of the Country that India Post is not involved in any such activities like announcing Subsidies, Bonus or Prizes based on Surveys etc. Public receiving such notifications/messages /emails are requested not to believe or respond to such fake and spurious messages or share any personal details. It is also requested not share any personally identifiable information such as date of birth, Account numbers, mobile numbers, place of Birth & OTP etc.
India Post though is taking necessary action to prevent these URLs / links / Websites to be taken down through various prevention mechanisms. Public at large is once again requested not to believe or respond to any fake / spurious messages / communications / links.
India Post and Fact Check Unit of Press Information Bureau (PIB) have declared these URLs/Websites as fake through social media.
RKJ/M (Release ID: 1819189)
PRESS NEWS
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Posted On: 12 APR 2022 4:26PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today announced setting up of Single Window Portal for benefit of pensioners and superannuated elder citizens. The Portal, he said, will not only enable constant contact with pensioners and their associations across the country but will also regularly receive their inputs, suggestions as well as grievances for prompt response.
Addressing the 32nd Meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) for Review and Rationalisation of Pension Rules i.e (CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021, Dr Jitendra Singh said under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several revolutionary changes were brought in since 2014 in Pension Rules for bringing “Ease of Living” to the common man.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the objective of Common Pension Portal is to create a single window digital mechanism for pensioners to raise their grievances and get the same resolved without approaching different authorities in person. He said, all Ministries responsible to process, sanction or disburse pension dues, are interlinked to this system and grievances are forwarded after assessment to the concerned Ministry/Department for resolution. Pensioners as well as Nodal officer can view the status of the grievance online till disposal in the system.
SCOVA is a useful platform for holding consultation with the stakeholders i.e. the pensioners through their Associations and concerned Ministries/Departments. It provides the Associations an opportunity for raising their issues concerning pensioners’ welfare etc. directly before the concerned Ministries/Departments. Pensioner Associations from Jammu, Jaipur, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Chandigarh and other parts of the country participated in the meeting.
In today’s meeting, discussions were held on the issues relating to shortage of doctors in CGHS wellness centres, periodical health check-up of pensioners, various issues related to CGHS wellness centre at Jammu, Nomination of Pensioners for life time arrears, Pension Adalat and Sanction of Grand-in-Aid and Laptop to Identified Pensioners’ Associations.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said we need to emphasise making good use of the knowledge, experience and efforts of the retired employees which can help in value addition to the Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare.
Dr Jitendra Singh informed that since the launch of Doorstep Service for submission of Digital Life Certificate (DLC) through Postman in November 2020, more than 3,08,625 Life Certificates through India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) have been done. The facility to submit life certificate online through Jeevan PramaanPortal was launched by the Prime Minister in November, 2014 with the objective to provide a convenient and transparent facility to pensioners for submission of Life Certificate. He also added that Doorstep banking for collection of Life Certificates is in place in 100 cities by Public Sector Banks and the number of Life Certificates done through Banking Agents is 4253.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that Face Authentication Technique through Android phone for submission of life certificate digitally has been launched on 29.11.2021 and till date, more than 20,500 Life Certificates through face authentication have been done. Similarly, he informed that as on date total number of DLCs submitted by the Central Government Pensioners is around 1,07,75,980 /- since 2014. In 2021 total DLCs submitted till date is 19,80,977.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that the ‘Bhavishya’ platform, an integrated online pension processing system is at present being successfully implemented in the main Secretariat of 96 Ministries/ Departments including 813 Attached Offices. As on date, more than 1,50,000 cases have been processed ie. PPOs issued which includes more than 80,000 e-PPOs. The Minister also informed that Bhavishya 8.0 released in August, 2020 with a new feature to PUSH the ePPO in Digilocker. Bhavishya’ is the first application to use the Digilocker Id based PUSH Technology of Digilocker.
The Minister said that the Department had started in 2017 the unique experiment of holding Pension Adalats to resolve chronic grievances of Central Government Pensioners, falling within the four walls of extant policy and the First Pension Adalat was held on 20.09.2017. So far, the Department has conducted a total of 6 Pension Adalats. The next Pension Adalat is scheduled to be held on 05.05.2022.
Dr Jitendra Singh directed the officials to create widespread awareness of the initiatives for the welfare of pensioners through official and social media channels.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the earlier Pension Rules were notified 50 years ago in 1972. Since then, a large number of amendments to the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 have taken place. He said, in the light of such changes and several office memoranda clarifying different provisions of these Rules, the Department has brought out a revised and updated version of the Rules i.e. Civil Services (CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021.
Dr Jitendra Singh clarified that the revised Rules do not make any changes in regard to entitlement of amount of pension, family pension or gratuity. However, the new Rules bring about several new policy and procedural improvements over the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. Also, some provisions in the old rules, which have become redundant over a period of time, have been omitted from the new Rules, the Minister added.
Secretary, Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare, Shri V Srinivas also spoke about the recent reforms and initiatives of the Department.
SNC/RR (Release ID: 1816031)
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RESERVATION IN PROMOTIONS-PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED PRIOR TO EFFECTING RESERVATIONS IN THE MATTER OF PROMOTIONS BY ALL DEPARTMENTS OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT (CLICK THE LINK BELOW T6O VIEW)
