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Monday, June 30, 2014
MODEL CONSTITUTION FOR THE RESIDENTS WELFARE ASSOCIATIONS RECOGNIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND TRAINING-REGARDING.(Click the link below for details)
AMENDMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RULES/SERVICE RULES (Click the link below for details)
GRANT OF HONORARIUM TO INQUIRY OFFICERS (IO)/PRESENTING OFFICERS (PO). (Click the link below for details)
MODEL CONSTITUTION FOR THE RESIDENTS WELFARE ASSOCIATIONS RECOGNIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND TRAINING-REGARDING.(Click the link below for details)
AMENDMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RULES/SERVICE RULES (Click the link below for details)
GRANT OF HONORARIUM TO INQUIRY OFFICERS (IO)/PRESENTING OFFICERS (PO). (Click the link below for details)
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
1st Floor, North Avenue Post office Building, New Delhi - 110001
Ref: PF/NFPE/CBS Dated – 27.06.2014
To
Ms Kaveri Banerjee
Secretary
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan, New Delhi – 110001
Madam,
Sub: - Incalculable miseries and untold suffering to the operative staff in CBS rolled out offices – Immediate remedial and rescue operations sought for – reg.
At the outset, we appreciate the efforts leads to technological advancements and extend our fullest cooperation in the journey to reach the desired goals of implementing innovative customer centric services and operational efficiency enhancement by inducting state of art technology.
But to our dismay, the CBS migrated offices are now facing incalculable miseries and untold sufferings due to lack of adequate network capabilities and software support of the vendors. The following are the issues to be set right in war foot manner at the initial stage itself otherwise leads to garboil and distress among the stake holders especially among the working staff.
1) Insufficient bandwidth Network:
Providing of strong and stable network is base of successful implementation of India Post project. Now almost all HOs have been given 2 MBPS bandwidth line, LSG SOs 512 KBPS line and B and C class offices have been given 256 KBPS line. If ‘India Post Project-2012’ is fully implemented, all the work of Post Offices will depend on these network. Present bandwidth speed is very less and due to low bandwidth, Finacle page is either not opening and some time opening very slowly. Due to this PO staff are forced to work up to night 10 pm many days. In many occasions in every CBS migrated office, the ‘Login’ is inconsistent and for each transaction “Login” is forced.
If CSI and PLI are migrated and placed on this network the situation may further worsen. Hence we request to provide at least 4 MB bandwidth line to HOs, 2 MB bandwidth line to LSG SOs and 1 MB bandwidth line to B and C class offices.
2) Failure of Sify:
In India Post Project 2012, NI Vender is Sify. On observation of quality and quantity of service being provided by them it is very much proved that M/S Sify is incapable to give service to this big department. They do not have sufficient skilled manpower and it seems that they are not intending to give good quality service also. At initial stage itself they have not made proper survey of all offices. Before installing and commissioning they were very keen on taking installation report from concerned Postmasters/Sub Postmasters.
It is told that, as per MOU, all offices should be provided with NSP-1 and NSP-2 lines. In almost all offices, NSP-1 is BSNL line and NSP-2 is either Sify line or Airtel datacard. It is observed that in many offices they have installed Airtel datacard ,where as Airtel signal is not available at that place.
It is also observed that M/S Sify is not recharging Airtel datacard installed. Instead they are recharging on receipt of complaint from concerned offices. By doing this they are deviating from MOU and leaving the staff in the field in distress.
3) Finacle Problem:
If we come to Finacle part, it is another tragedy. Initially it was boosted that Finacle is fully foolproof software and successfully implemented in many banks. We could not understand why Infosys is not utilizing experience gained in banks and implementing here. There are so many bugs in the software and more surprisingly even after lapse of 6 months of implementation, nothing is changed. All the issues raised at the time of January-2014 is still not resolved. Moreover Finacle server becomes inaccessible many time in peak business hours or responds very slow. It is a naked truth that we are losing clientle and distancing from the customers only due to faulty service of vendors.
4) Lack of Guidance:
No separate rulings are received to suit Finacle Environment. No authorities are giving authoritative guidance on many issues.
For example
§ Role of SOSB in HO after implementation of Finacle at SOs,
§ Role of SBCO at HO
§ Fate of manual records on transfer accounts from one Finacle office to other etc.
5) Supply of Printers and Computers:
At initial stage new Computers and printers are supplied to pilot offices. Rest of the offices are having more than 5 year old Computers and Printers which are not suitable to present scenario. Administration is pressing hard to migrate offices without supplying required hardware. The old computers and peripherals either to be revamped or replaced to make it compatiable to the present environment.
6) Problem of User credentials:
One each User credential is given to trained staff. But it is not clearly told what action to be taken while SPM/PA goes on leave especially in B class offices. As sharing of user credential is very risky and dangerous, alternative arrangement should be made immediately.
7) Due to slow network and frequent failure of server customers of the department are frustrated and moving out the department and needed immediate attention.
8. You may aware that we are struggling with outdated Computers and peripherals, which were purchased during the year 2000 to 2005 and immediate supply of needy new hardware to ensure the technological transformation in and effective manner.
9. Even proper up gradation of CPU is not made in many areas and the Software loaded is upto Windows XP in most of the offices. Presently it is a fact that windows XP is not supported by the Microsoft with updates.
10. Finacle can be better loaded with Windows 7 and hence the officers at ground level are pressurized to use pirated version of Windows 7, which may lead to litigation with Microsoft apart from non supporting with updates.
11. The MOU made with M/s Sify, for net work integration is limiting to low bandwidth such as 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps in many areas, serving with 1 server and 4 to 5 nodes, resulting in sluggish connectivity and takes hours together to transform the data. This results in hang over and the transactions could not be able to be made at the instant, as the Department expects, It requires atleast 2 to 4 Mbps and M/s Sify refused to increase the bandwidth now.
12. Further in the Data Centre, it requires to the level of 400 Mbps on the Network to receive the Data transmitted at a time from all the 680 offices but Sify is learnt to be provided with a minimum of 200 Mbps capacity. This affects the receipt of data from the end users at a time and take hours to complete the process. Further expansion is required when there is further migration.
13. The area of occupation in the main server at Mumbai maintained by M/S Reliance Ltd. is also not sufficient, which results in sluggish transmission of data from the entire 680 offices at present, at a time and even the validation cannot be made before 8:00 PM or 10:00 PM on all the days.
14. End of day process cannot be made even on daily basis and the staff have to wait for the nod from the Infosys even after midnights on several days and at times it can be made on the next day morning. Even the women employees are compelled to complete the EOD process in midnights and their husbands or wards waiting till midnights to take them to home.
15. Even the Help desk provided is not answering and the end users are taken to task and receiving brick bats from the irate public.
16. This results in closing of accounts in large numbers that too, can be made not on the date of presentation but after few days and our Department looses large chunk of customers, because of the miscalculations, wrong estimations and over ambitious activities and inadequate technological support.
17. Even the first and prestigious ATM of our Department unveiled by the ex Finance Minister Sri. P. Chidambaram at T. Nagar HO is not functioning from the date of installation and only 10 ATM cards are supplied on the first instant, that too only to the staff and some friendly users of T. Nagar HPO. But the ATM is provided with 24x7 A/C and a paid Guard, making huge loss to the Department and receiving severe criticism from the Print media.
18. The women employees should be relieved from this area of operation, till the situation improves, in order to avoid late night stays at offices inviting gender problems and unsafe returns to their home at midnights.
19. Further, adequate hardware and infrastructure should be given immediately to the CBS migrated offices with sufficient man power and proper remuneration for the extended hours, the staffs re serving.
20. In spite of all above cited problems the Postal staff is being worked on finacle software as matter of challenge and trying to give best services to the customers. In spite of all efforts the customers are not satisfying/delighting which hampers the reputation of the department. No PO which is upgraded with finacle are being closed before 8 PM every day. We are ready to work hard provided, solution for above problems are to be solved.
It is requested to sort out all the issues arising out of the CBS Migration and all the vendors need to be instructed to provide all the technological support as required by the field staff. As this is the pilot and sorting stage, if we failed to pull up the vendors to the level of expectation and necessity, later full implementation, restoration may be difficult with this vendor support.
It is further requested to spare some time and provide opportunity to present and brief our case in person for the welfare of our department staff and the clientle. Your immediate intervention as if house on fire is requested.
A line in reply is highly appreciated.
With profound regards,
Yours faithfully,
(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
NOTICE - NATIONAL SECRETARIAT CONFEDERATION
No. Confd/2014 Dated : 25th June,2014
NOTICE
It is hereby notified that National Secretariat Meeting of Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers will be held at Confederation H.Q. at 1st Floor North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110001 on 17th July 2014 at 2 PM.
All National Secretariat Members are requested to attend the meeting in time.
The following will be the agenda of the meeting:
AGENDA
(1) Organizational review.
(2) 7th CPC and related issues.
(3) 15 Point Charter of Demands and future course of action.
(4) Any other items with the permission of chair.
(M. KRISHNAN)
SECRETARY GENERAL
Copy to:
1. Com. S.K. Vyas, Advisor.
2. Com. K.K.N. Kutty President.
3. All National Secretariat Members.
Friday, June 20, 2014
Friday, June 20, 2014
CLARIFICATION REGARDING PURCHASE OF AIR TICKETS FROM AUTHORIZED TRAVEL AGENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF LTC.
AMENDMENT IN PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE AND PROTECTION OF INFORMERS (PIDPI) RESOLUTION-REGARDING. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
PHOTOS OF 30th AIC OF AIRMS & MMS EMP.UNION GROUP `C` HELD AT TIRUPATI (AP) FROM 15th TO 18th JUNE,2014
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DOPT ISSUES REVISED GUIDELINES ON COMMENCEMENT OF PENSION
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The Government has streamlined procedures for retiring employees so that delays may be overcome in earliest commencement of pension. This follows directions issued by Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions to the workshop held with the Pension Secretaries of various State Governments here on June 12, 2014.
Delegates pointed out during the course of deliberations that the release of pension after retirement gets delayed mainly due to two reasons. Primarily, the delay in receipt of intimation by the pensioner that pension papers have reached the bank and secondly, delay on the part of pensioner in approaching the bank for submission of undertaking that he shall refund any amount paid to him to which he is not entitled.
As per the new guidelines, the Government has decided that the requisite undertaking may be obtained by the Head of Office from the retiring employee and forwarded to the pension disbursing bank along with the Pension Payment Order (PPO). The bank shall credit the pension to the account of the pensioner as soon as this undertaking is received along with the pension documents
This change in procedure has an added advantage that the PPO can now be handed over in person to the retiring employee along with other retirement dues. Earlier the pensioner had to approach the bank for PPO.
With this change in rules and procedures, the pensioners would be saved of considerable inconvenience and delay and his pension will commence as soon as he retires.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Government employees who have differently abled children exempt from transfer - Dopt Orders
Government employees who have differently abled children will be exempted from transfer - Dopt Orders
Dopt issued new guidelines on transfer policy for Central Government
employees who have differently abled children on 6th June 2014.
The Department of Personnel and Training has ordered exemption from
transfers and rotational transfers to Central Government employees who
have differently abled children. And they will not be asked to take
voluntary retirement on refusing such postings
Raising disability children with special needs is a daunting and very
stressful task. In order to ease the pain of these parents and ensure
care and upbringing of these children, the Dopt has issued an
sympathetic order on the 6th of this month.
According to the Dopt orders [Order No. 42011/3/2014-Estt. (Res.)],
these employees shall henceforth be not compelled to take up voluntary
retirement due to work pressure, and be exempted from transfers and
rotational transfers as per the departmental administrative activities.
The move comes after Dopt enlisted the salient features in the
rehabilitation and special education requirements in the upbringing of
these children, and realized the fact that these measures require a long
time to take effect and that the environment in which these children
are raised is very important.
It has also be pointed out that these employees cannot be compelled to
take up voluntary retirement due to financial pressures, keeping in mind
the cost involved in offering special treatment and education to these
children.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Leave Travel Concession – Air Travel concession ends today…
Leave Travel Concession – Air Travel concession ends today…
Concession of Air travel,
which the Central Government employees have been enjoying for the past 6
years, comes to an end today. It is saddening to see that a scheme,
that was so popular and enjoyed by all across ranks, has come to an
end.
Travelling by airplane with the entire family is still not an ordinary
feat for the majority of Indians. It therefore comes as no surprise that
the ones who didn’t utilize this opportunity are regretting it.
For countless Central Government employees who completed a year in
service and took their parents and siblings on a plane journey, it will
be a memory worth cherishing for a very long time.
Former employees, who had served for 30-40 years but didn’t enjoy this
facility, sure have their regrets. No matter how sophisticated and
comfortable buses, trains and ships are, they can’t quite match the
thrill of travelling by air.
GREETINGS
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on 12 June 2014 declared final result of Civil Service (Main)
Examination 2013. A total of 1122 candidates have been recommended for
appointment to Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service,
Indian Police Service, and Central Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’
Shri. R. Elangovan s/o Shri V,Rajaram, Retd. Accounts Officer, Dept. of Posts, (Madurai Region, Tamilnadu Circle) has declared successful in the said examination and secured 562 Rank.
GREETINGS
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on 12 June 2014 declared final result of Civil Service (Main)
Examination 2013. A total of 1122 candidates have been recommended for
appointment to Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service,
Indian Police Service, and Central Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’
Shri. GURAV ABHIJIT DILIP
s/o Shri Dilip Gurav Branch Postmaster Gopalpur B.O. (Solapur Dist. Pune Region Maharashtra Circle) has declared successful in the said examination. He appeared under Roll No. 053189 and secured 672 Rank.
His
Brother Shri Gajanan Dilip Gurav also working in DOP as Divisional
System Administrator in Pandharpur Division Pandharpur (Pune Region)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
LGO EXAMINATION 2014
Limited
Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion of Lower Grade
officials to the cadre of Postal Assistants/Sorting Assistants for year
2014 will be held on 21st September 2014.
UNION FINANCE MINISTER
HOLDS PRE-BUDGET CONSULTATION MEETING WITH THE REPRESENTATIVES OF TRADE UNION
GROUPS
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Government of India
Ministry of
Finance
06-June-2014
15:31 IST
Union Finance Minister Holds Pre-Budget
Consultation Meeting With the Representatives of Trade Union Groups; Skill
Development to be Given Priority for Generating Employment Opportunities.
The
Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley said that skill development would be
given priority so that more and more trained workers join the Indian economy.
He said that the Government will give due consideration to the Ten Point Joint
Charter of Demands given by the Central Trade Unions while formulating the
budgetary proposals. The Finance Minister was speaking here today while
interacting with the representatives of the Central Trade Unions as part of his
Pre-Budget Consultation meetings.
Along
with the Finance Minister, the meeting was attended by Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman,
Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Ratan P. Watal,
Expenditure Secretary, Shri Rajiv Takru, Revenue Secretary, Smt. Gauri Kumar,
Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment and senior officers of the
Ministry of Finance among others.
The
participating Central Trade Unions gave a joint memorandum to the Finance
Minister for his consideration and positive response. Some of the specific
proposals contained therein are given below:
Take
effective measures to arrest the spiraling price rise and to contain inflation;
Ban speculative forward trading in commodities; universalize and strengthen the
Public Distribution System(PDS); ensure proper check on hoarding; rationalize,
with a view to reduce the burden on people, the tax/duty/cess on petroleum
products.
Massive
investment in the infrastructure in order to stimulate the economy for job
creation. Public Sector should take the leading role in this regard. The plan
and non-plan expenditure should be increased in the budget to stimulate jobs
creation and guarantee consistent income to people.
Minimum
wage linked to Consumer Price Index (CPI) must be guaranteed to all workers,
taking into consideration the recommendations of the 15th Indian Labour
Conference . It should not be less than Rs. 15,000/- p.m.
FDI should not be allowed in crucial sectors like
defence production, telecommunications, railways, financial sector, retail
trade, education, health and media.
The
Public Sector Units (PSUs) played a crucial role during the year of severe
contraction of private capital investment immediately following the outbreak of
global financial crisis. PSUs should be strengthened and expanded.
Disinvestment of shares of profit making public sector units should be stopped
forthwith.
Budgetary support should be given for revival of
potentially viable sick CPSUs.
In
view of huge job losses and mounting unemployment problem, the ban on
recruitment in Government departments, PSUs and autonomous institutions
(including recent Finance Ministry’s instruction to abolish those posts not
filled for one year) should be lifted as recommended by 43rd Session of Indian
Labour Conference. Condition of surrender of posts in government departments
and PSUs should be scrapped and new posts be created keeping in view the new
work and increased workload.
Proper allocation of funds be made for
interim relief and 7th Pay Commission.
The
scope of MGNREGA be extended to agriculture operations and employment for
minimum period of 200 days with guaranteed statutory wage be provided, as
unanimously recommended by 43rd Session of
Indian Labour Conference.
The
massive workforce engaged in ICDS, Mid Day Meal Scheme, Vidya volunteers, guest
teachers, Siksha Mitra, the workers engaged in the Accredited Social Health
Activities (ASHA) and other schemes be regularized. No to privatization of
centrally funded schemes. Universalization of ICDS be done as per Supreme Court
directions by making adequate budgetary allocations.
Steps
be taken for removal of all restrictive provisions based on poverty line in
respect of eligibility coverage of the schemes under the Unorganized Workers
Social Security Act 2008 and allocation of adequate resources for the National
Fund for Unorganised Workers to provide for social security to all unorganised
workers including the contract/casual and migrant workers in line with the
recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour and also the
43rd Session of Indian Labour Conference. The word BPL redefined and
redistributed at the earliest.
Remunerative
prices should be ensured for agricultural produce and Government investment,
public investment in agriculture sector must be substantially augmented as a
proportion of GDP and total budgetary expenditure. It should also be ensured
that benefits of the increase reach the small, marginal and medium cultivators
only.
Budgetary
provision should be made for providing essential services including housing,
public transport, sanitation, water, schools, crèche, health care etc, to
workers in the new emerging industrial areas. Working women’s Hostels should be
set-up where there is a concentration of women workers.
Requisite budgetary support for addressing crisis in
traditional sectors like jute, textiles, plantation, handloom, carpet and coir
etc.
Budgetary
provision for elementary education should be increased, particularly in the
context of the implementation of the ‘Right to Education’ as this is the most
effective tool to combat child labour.
The
system of computation of Consumer Price Index (CPI) should be reviewed as the
present index is causing heavy financial loss to the workers.
Income tax exemption ceiling for the
salaried persons should be raised to Rs. 5.00 lakh per annum and fringe
benefits like housing, medical and educational facilities and running
allowances should be exempted from income tax net in totality.
Threshold
limit of 20 employees in EPF Scheme be brought down to 10 as recommended by
CBT-EPF. Pension benefits under the EPS unilaterally withdrawn by the
Government should be restored. Government and employers contribution be
increased to allow sustainability of Employees Pension Scheme and for provision
of minimum pension of Rs. 3000/- p.m.
New Pension Scheme be withdrawn and newly
recruited employees of Central And State Governments on or after 1.1.2004 be
covered under Old Pension Scheme;
Demand for Dearness Allowance merger by
Central Government and PSU employees be accepted and adequate allocation of
fund for this be made in the budget.
All
interests and social security of the domestic workers to be statutorily
protected on the lines of ILO Convention on domestic workers.
The
Cess management of the construction workers is the responsibility of the Finance
Ministry under the Act and the several irregularities found in collection of
cess be rectified as well as their proper utilization must be ensured.
In regard to resource mobilization, the
Trade Unions have emphasized on the following:
A
progressive taxation system should be put in place to ensure taxing the rich
and the affluent sections who have the capacity to pay at a higher degree. The
corporate service sector, traders, wholesale business, private hospitals and
institutions etc should be brought under broader and higher tax net. Increase
taxes on luxury goods and reduce indirect taxes on essential commodities.
Concrete steps must be taken to recover huge
accumulated unpaid tax arrears which has already crossed more than Rs. 5.00
lakh crore on direct and corporate tax account alone, and has been increasing
at a geometric proportion. Such huge tax evasion over and above the liberal tax
concessions already given in the last two budgets should not be allowed to
continue.
We
welcome the constitution of SIT for black money and urge for speedy action.
Effective
measures should be taken to unearth huge accumulation of black money in the
economy including the huge unaccounted money in tax heavens abroad and within
the country. Provisions be made to bring back the illicit flows from India
which are at present more than twice the current external debt of US $ 230
billion. This money should be directed towards providing social security.
Concrete
measures be expedited for recovering the NPAs of the banking system from the
willfully defaulting corporate and business houses. By making provision in
Banking Regulations Act, CMDs and executives to be made accountable for
creation of NPAs.
Tax
on long term capital gains to be introduced, so also higher taxes on the
security transactions to be levied.
The rate of wealth tax, corporate tax, gift tax etc to
be expanded and enhanced.
ITES,
outsourcing sector, educational institutions and health services etc run on
commercial basis should be brought under the Service Tax net.
Small
saving instruments under postal and other agencies be encouraged by
incentivizing commission agents of these scheme.
Other
suggestions include holding of post budget consultations with the
representatives of Central Trade Unions, need for directional change in
policies such as stopping of mindless deregulation, encourage entrepreneurship
to tackle problem of unemployment, more spending on education and skill
development, removal of ceiling on gratuity, bonus and pension etc of workers
and following the principle of “Same work, same wages” among others.
Representatives
of different Central Trade Union groups who participated in today’s meeting
included Shri B.N. Rai, Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Shri Chandra Prakash
Singh, Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Shri Shanta Kumar, INTUC,
Ms Amarjeet Kaur, Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Shri D.L.
Sachdeva, Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Shri Sharad Rao, Hind
Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Shri Harbhajan Singh Sidhu, Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS),
Shri Swadesh Devroye, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Shri Tapan
Sen, MP (RS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Shri Dilip Bhattacharya,
All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), Shri Sankar Saha, All India
United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), Shri Sheo Prasad Tiwari, Trade Union
Coordination Centre (TUCC), Shri V.Suburaman, Labour Progressive Federation
(LPF), Shri M. Shanmugum, LPF, Shri Prechandan, United Trade Union Congress
(UTUC), Shri Abni Roy, United Trade Union Congress (UTUC) and Dr. Virat
Jaiswal, National Front of Indian Trade Unions among others.
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