New Rules for Cash Deposits made between 9 November - 30 December 2016
Friday 30 December 2016
SB Order No. 12/2016 : Withdrawal of Legal Tender Character of existing Rs 500/- and Rs 1,000/- banknotes
Withdrawal of Legal Tender Character of existing Rs 500/- and Rs 1,000/- banknotes - SB Order No. 12/2016
Kindly refer to SB order no. 12 dated 8.11.2016 and Gazette Notification No 10/3/2016-CY.1 dated 8th November 2016 issued by Government of India regarding accepting of WOS banknotes till close of 30th of December 2016. In this connection it is requested to kindly ensure that post offices will accept the WOS banknotes only upto 30th of December 2016.
Thursday 29 December 2016
Withdrawal of Legal Tender Character of existing Rs 500/- and Rs 1,000/- banknotes - SB Order No. 12/2016
Dear Comrades,
Sachin Kishore
Director (CBS), Sansad Marg,, Dak Bhavan
Withdrawal of Legal Tender Character of existing Rs 500/- and Rs 1,000/- banknotes - SB Order No. 12/2016
To:
All CPMG;CPMG Telangana Circle;
Cc:
All Postal Divisions;pande.alok@nic.in;Director (Financial Services);ADG (FS I);adsb1dakbhawan@gmail.com;ADG (CBS);
Respected Sir/Madam,
Kindly refer to SB order no. 12 dated 8.11.2016 and Gazette Notification No 10/3/2016-CY.1 dated 8th November 2016 issued by Government of India regarding accepting of WOS banknotes till close of 30th of December 2016. In this connection it is requested to kindly ensure that post offices will accept the WOS banknotes only upto 30th of December 2016.
With regards,
Sachin Kishore
Director (CBS), Sansad Marg,, Dak Bhavan
ONE DAY STRIKE ON 15TH FEBRUARY 2017
· AGAINST THE BREACH OF ASSURANCE AND BETRAYAL BY GROUP OF MINISTERS OF NDA GOVERNMENT.
· TO UPHOLD THE SELF-RESPECT AND DIGNITY OF 33 LAKHS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND 34 LAKHS PENSIONERS.
ABOUT 15 LAKHS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND AUTONOMOUS BODY EMPLOYEES WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE STRIKE
v Central Government employees and Pensioners betrayed by NDA Govt. by breach of assurance given by Group of Cabinet Ministers including Shri Rajnath Singh, Shiri Arun Jaitely and Shri Suresh Prabhu regarding increase in Minimum Pay and Fitment formula. This is the worst pay revision after 2nd CPC report in 1960. Government implemented the report without any modification suggested by Staff side (JCM). In 1960 entire employees went on five days strike.
v Central Government Pensioners and Family Pensioners betrayed by NDA Government by not implementing Option-I (parity) recommended by 7th CPC and accepted by Cabinet.
v Autonomous bodies employees betrayed by NDA Government by issuing instructions NOT TO IMPLEMENT 7th CPC benefits to Autonomous body employees and Pensioners UNTIL FURTHER ORDERS.
v Three lakhs Gramin Dak Sevaks of the Postal Department betrayed by NDA Government by not extending the benefits of 7th CPC to them and also by not publishing the separate one-man committee report already submitted to the Government.
v Thousands of Casual, Part-time, contingent employees, daily rated mazdoors and contract workers are betrayed by the NDA Government by not regularizing their services and by not revising their wages on the principle of “Equal Pay for Equal Work”.
v 7th CPC Submitted its report after 21 months on 19th November 2015. Even after 13 months the NDA Government has not implemented the revised HRA, Transport Allowance and all other Allowances. Government is deliberately delaying it further to deny implementation from 01.01.2016 and also to delay it to next Financial year 2017, thereby denying arrears.
v Government betrayed Central Government employees and Pensioners by denying eligible 3% Dearness Allownace with effect from 01.07.2016. DA for pre-revised Minimum pay of 7000 is 7% = 490 per month. Same pre-revised pay of 7000 revised to 18000 after merger of 125% DA as on 01.01.2016. New DA granted for revised minimum pay of 18000 is 2% = 360 per month. Thus there is a recurring loss of Rs. 130/- per month in DA granted to Minimum pay. For other higher pay scales the loss is still higher.
v In the past, only one Committee before implementation of CPC report and one Anomaly Committed after implementation was constituted. This time Committee after Committees are constituted but no negotiated settlement with the JCM (NC) staff side on any of the issue, but only one-way hearing of the views of the staff side. Implementation Committee, Empowered Committee, Allowances Committee, Pension (Option-1) Committee, Anomaly Committee, New Pension System (NPS) Committee and Senior officers Committee (?) to discuss the issues arising out of 7th CPC recommendations. (no formal orders constituting the Group of Senior Offices Committee and no terms of reference made public). Almost six months are over after Cabinet approving pay scales and one year is over after submission of 7th CPC report, but no outcome of any committee).
v No negotiated settlement on Confederation’s 21 Point Charter of demands which includes increase in minimum pay, Fitment formula, no reduction of HRA rate, Revision of all allownaces, Restoration of abolished Advances, Option-1 for pensioners, Scrap New Pension System, Autonomous bodies wage revision, GDS Issues, Casual Labour issues, MACP promotional hierarchy and “Very good” bench mark, filling up of vacancies, removal of 5% compassionate appointment restriction, Five promotions, LDC/UDC pay upgradation, Parity in pay scales with Central Secretariat Staff, removal of CCL adverse condition, equal pay for equal work etc.
WHAT HAPPENED ON 30TH JUNE 2016 ?
AND WHO BETRAYED THE EMPLOYEES AND PENSIONERS ?
On the night of 30th June 2016, Shri Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister for Railways informed the Secretary, JCM (NC) Staff side Shri Shiv Gopal Misra that the Prime Minister had empowered three Cabinet Ministers, viz: Shri Rajnath Singh, Hon’ble Home Minister, Shri Arun Jaitely, Hon’ble Fiance Minister and Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Hon’ble Railways Minister, to negotiate with the staff side, JCM (NC), and invited staff side (JCM) for a meeting at the Official residence of Shri Rajnath Singh, Hon’ble Home Minister on the same night 21:30 hrs. On persistent demand of the staff side (JCM), the Group of Ministers assured that the issue of increase in the Minimum wage and Fitment formula will be referred to a High Level Committee and the Committee will submit its report to the Government within four months.
NOW SIX MONTH’S ARE ALMOST OVER.
WHERE IS THE HIGH LEVEL COMMITTEE REPORT?
CHEATING……………….CHEATING………………….. CHEATING
WHEN CABINET MINISTERS BETRAY, WHAT SHALL WE DO?
STRIKE…………….STRIKE……………….. STRIKE
Strike is the only BEFITTING REPLY to those who betrayed the cause of the Central Government employees and pensioners.
We cannot go on begging before the NDA Government.
WORKERS ARE NOT BEGGARS.
Let us make the 15th February 2017 one day strike a resounding success.
Let us not surrender our prestige and self-respect before those who betrayed our cause.
Fraternally yours,
(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
Confederation
Mob: 09447068125
ON 30th DECEMBER 2016, SIX MONTHS WILL BE COMPLETED AFTER THE “GREAT” ASSURANCE GIVEN BY THREE HONB’LE CABINET MINISTERS OF NDA GOVERNMENT TO NJCA LEADERS.
30th JUNE 2016 WILL BE REMEMBERED AS “BETRAYAL DAY” BY 33 LAKHS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND 34 LAAKHS PENSIONERS.
30th DECEMBER IS A “BLACK DAY” FOR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND PENSIONERS.
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND PENSIONERS ARE NEVER CHEATED LIKE THIS BY ANY PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS AFTER INDEPENDENCE.
Monday 26 December 2016
Aadhaar payment app set to simplify digital transactions
The government is coming up with an 'Aadhaar Payment App' that could silence digital payments critics. The new app would do away with plastic cards and the point of sale machines once believed to be essential for a less cash society.
The app, to be launched on December 25, would also eliminate the fee payments for service providers like card companies such as Mastercard or Visa, which has been a stumbling block in merchants switching to digital payments making it affordable to even merchants in remote villages, said people familiar with the development. All that it needs is an Android phone with the merchant.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Merchants need to download the Aadhaar cashless merchant app on their smartphones connected to a biometric reader, which is currently available for Rs 2,000. The customer will then feed his or her Aadhar number into the app, select the bank through which the transaction will take place, and the biometric scan will work as a password for the transaction to be authenticated. "This app can be used by a person to make payments without any phone, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey told ET. "Almost 40 crore Aadhaar numbers already stand linked to bank accounts - that is half the adults in India. The aim is to link all Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts by March, 2017."
The government, along with the regulator and payments companies, is working to ensure that the objective of making digital payments a reality across the country.
IDFC Bank along with UIDAI and National Payments Corporation of India have developed this app which would be launched at the national level on Sunday. The new technology was shown to finance Minister Arun Jaitley and information and technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on December 19.
"The settlement is done through the Aadhaar bridge, which means it con nects a much wider set of people," said Rajiv Lall, MD & CEO at IDFC Bank."Anybody who has Aadhaar seeding done can make payments to merchants with this app. It wouldn't matter if the person does not have a credit or debit card, or even a mobile phone.''The acceptance of point of sale terminals in the country has been slow with only 15 lakh terminals deployed by various banks.
SBI alone has deployed over 3 lakh terminals followed by HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank.
Even though card payments made its way into Indian merchant establish way into Indian merchant establishments two decades ago, the acceptability has been poor due to the nearly 2-3% charges that merchants used to levy and the 2% charges the card companies like Mastercard or Visa used to levy.
Furthermore, the lack of connectivity made it impossible for millions of merchants in the hinterland to adapt the card payment methods. There are over 15 lakh such machines for a population of 125 crore and nearly 5 crore merchants. If the 1.5 lakh bank branches in the country register even 20-25 merchants in their vicinity, it could boom.
Source:ET (copy)
We waited 50 days! Don't torture for 50 weeks
AIPRPA CHQ call:
We Demand our Pension on 31st December!
Hold Protests between 29th and 31st as per local convenience!
We Demand our Pension on 31st December!
Hold Protests between 29th and 31st as per local convenience!
On 31st December we want full payment of our pension without any restrictions. It is our earned money and certainly not "black money"! 50 days patience requested by Prime Minister will be over at the midnight of 28th December! We as and along with other patriotic people maintained patience all these days, silently bearing the tortures all around us! But after the assured 50 days at least we are expecting our monthly pension without any more EMIs! AIPRPA CHQ is writing to DoP in this regard, but calls upon the postal pensioners to raise this demand in one strong voice between 29th to 31st December. We are afraid through the media news that government is announcing that the restrictions to withdraw our own money in banks and through ATMs will continue! What is the restriction through ATMs? No ATM is working anymore! Most of the ATMs stopped working! Things have turned from bad to worse! We, the senior citizens are to be spared from the torture! - KR GS AIPRPA
Sunday 25 December 2016
Announcement of new Passport Rules - Rules will be easier
December 23, 2016
In order to streamline, liberalize and ease the process of issue of passport, the Ministry of External Affairs has taken a number of steps in the realm of passport policy which is expected to benefit the citizens of India applying for a passport. The details of these steps are given below:-
PROOF OF DATE OF BIRTH
As per the extant statutory provisions of the Passport Rules, 1980, all the applicants born on or after 26/01/1989, in order to get a passport, had to, hitherto, mandatorily submit the Birth Certificate as the proof of Date of Birth (DOB). It has now been decided that all applicants of passports can submit any one of the following documents as the proof of DOB while submitting the passport application:
(i) Birth Certificate (BC) issued by the Registrar of Births & Deaths or the Municipal Corporation or any other prescribed authority whosoever has been empowered under the Registration of Birth & Deaths Act, 1969 to register the birth of a child born in India;
(ii) Transfer/School leaving/Matriculation Certificate issued by the school last attended/recognized educational board containing the DOB of the applicant;
(iii) PAN Card issued by the Income Tax Department with the DOB of applicant;
(iv) Aadhar Card/E-Aadhar having the DOB of applicant;
(v) Copy of the extract of the service record of the applicant (only in respect of Government servants) or the Pay Pension Order (in respect of retired Government Servants), duly attested/certified by the officer/in-charge of the Administration of the concerned Ministry/Department of the applicant, having his DOB;
(vi) Driving licence issued by the Transport Department of concerned State Government, having the DOB of applicant;
(vii) Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) issued by the Election Commission of India having the DOB of applicant;
(viii) Policy Bond issued by the Public Life Insurance Corporations/Companies having the DOB of the holder of the insurance policy.
Report of the Inter Ministerial Committee
A three-member Committee comprising of the officials of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Women and Child Development was constituted to examine various issues pertaining to passport applications where mother/child has insisted that the name of the father should not be mentioned in the passport and also relating to passport issues to children with single parent and to adopted children. The Report of the Committee has been accepted by the Minister of External Affairs.
The following policy changes have been made inter-alia on the basis of the recommendations of this Committee:
(i) The online passport application form now requires the applicant to provide the name of father or mother or legal guardian, i.e., only one parent and not both. This would enable single parents to apply for passports for their children and to also issue passports where the name of either the father or the mother is not required to be printed at the request of the applicant.
(ii) The total number of Annexes prescribed in the Passport Rule, 1980, has been brought down to 9 from the present 15. Annexes A, C, D, E, J, and K have been removed and certain Annexes have been merged.
(iii) All the annexes that are required to be given by the applicants would be in the form of a self declaration on a plain paper. No attestation/swearing by/before any Notary/Executive Magistrate/First Class Judicial Magistrate would be henceforth necessary.
(iv) Married applicants would not be required to provide Annexure K or any marriage certificate.
(v) The Passport application form does not require the applicant to provide the name of her/his spouse in case of separated or divorced persons. Such applicants for passports would not be required to provide even the Divorce Decree.
(vi) Orphaned children who do not have any proof of DOB such as Birth Certificate or the Matriculation Certificate or the declaratory Court order, may now submit a declaration given by the Head of the Orphanage/Child Care Home on their official letter head of the organization confirming the DOB of the applicant.
(vii) In case of children not born out of wedlock, the applicant for the passport of such children should submit only Annexure G while submitting the passport application.
(viii) In case of issue of passport to in-country domestically adopted children, submission of the registered adoption deed would no longer be required. In the absence of any deed to this effect, the passport applicant may give a declaration on a plain paper confirming the adoption.
(ix) Government servants, who are not able to obtain the Identity Certificate (Annexure-B)/ No-Objection Certificate (Annexure-M) from their concerned employer and intend to get the passport on urgent basis can now get the passport by submitting a self-declaration in Annexure-‘N’ that he/she has given prior Intimation letter to his/her employer informing that he/she was applying for an ordinary passport to a Passport Issuing Authority.
(x) Sadhus/ Sanyasis can apply for a passport with the name of their spiritual Guru mentioned in the passport application in lieu of their biological parent(s) name(s) subject to their providing of at least one public document such as Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) issued by the Election Commission of India, PAN card, Adhar Card, etc wherein the name of the Guru has been recorded against the column(s) for parent(s) name(s).
Necessary notifications would be soon published in the Official Gazette to give effect to these changes. Instructions are also being issued to the Passport Issuing Authorities in India and abroad on these revised regulations.
The Ministry of External Affairs expects that the above changes in the Passport Rules would further ease the process for passport applicants in getting their Passport. At the same time, it would enable this Ministry to continue to deliver passport related services to the citizens in a timely, transparent, more accessible, reliable manner and in a comfortable environment through streamlined processes and committed, trained and motivated workforce.
New Delhi
December 23, 2016
Pay PLI Premium through Debit / Credit Card without Service Charges & its activation procedure
Please apply for online payment registration with aadhar, email and mobile number update in PLI records Today's Good News You can pay premium through Debit card ( ATM) / Credit card without any extra charge
How To Update Phone Number, Email Id For PLI Customers For Allowing Online Access
To incorporate the mobile number and email address in the System the following procedures are to be followed by CPC.
1. The policy holder is to submit an application to the CPC Head on person or through mail stating his/her policy number, Mobile number and email address ( Email address should be written on capital letters so that no mistake will occur by the CPC personnel while data entry is to be done) requesting incorporation of the same in the System. He/She is to enclose self attested photo copies of policy bond or first page of the P.R.Book and identity proof (photo copy Aadhar or Voter Card).
2. He will submit these to the CPC and take receipt for submission of application, generated from the System.
3. The CPC personnel will then follow the procedure as same as change of address done. i.e scan the documents, do ECMS and Data Entry and then Quality Check &.Finally Approval.
4. After approval.
The CPC personnel will send him/her the reply to his/her Email address.to the effect that ' Your mobile number and email address has successfully been incorporated in the System. You may now feel free to register your policy online, set your password as per your choice and perform all sorts business relating to PLI/RPLI, as and when, required without visiting any Post Office or CPC.
Saturday 24 December 2016
The Postman DR Examination in respect of Andhra Pradesh Circle
The Postman DR Examination in respect of Andhra Pradesh Circle
The Postman Direct Recruitment Examination in respect of Andhra Pradesh Circle
The Postman DR Examination in respect of Andhra Pradesh Circle scheduled to be held on 24.12.2016 is postponed to 29.01.2017
Some more interesting points about India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
1. As DOP is doing agency functions to MOF in PODB Schemes only, Whereas IPPB is completely owned by Ministry of Communications the Administrative Pricing Mechanism will go.i.e interest rates will be decided by itself.
2. The Schemes operated will be only the two i.e. CA/SA only with maximum limit of one lakh only.
3. The reason for keeping minimum balance is to avoid high networth customers and to provide all services hitherto not available to un/under banked low income customers.
4. After recruitment of high level functional officers a management board will be constituted under the designated chairman cum managing director who is going to be appointed from banking industry.The members of the board will include secretaries of Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Expenditure and the Ministry of Food and civil supplies all the three who are part of IPPB and whose programs will be implemented through IPPB
5. Choosing an operative partner is going to be done by the board, As you all aware already more than 50 institutions are given their consent to be part of IPPB.
6. The collected funds after RBI stipulation s of CRR and Capital Adequacy Ratio the first 75% will be deposited in Govt Securities and the remaining 25% will be parted with the stregetic partner chosen for banking commercial activities.
7. The account opening mode will be hussle-free and on E-KYC method, By just pressing your any finger on the machine and by feeding of just your AADHAAR number. No physical presence or documentation.
8. All DBS schemes of govt of India and its various ministries social benefit scheme last mile delivery will be ensured only through IPPB only.
9. The other banking activities of ECS,Loan disbursement, and collection of its EMI,and utility payments,and the money transfer amongst the banks and clearing of cheques and instruments will be carried out by IPPB.
10. All POSB activities will be continued till the natural closing of the schemes takes place separately on Finacle platform or till the integration of the leftover SOLs that's sub- offices. For the present they will carryout IPPB operations too along with POSB module.
11. The local money lending through institutions will be boosted by IPPB, The roadside vendors and whose mercantile activities were not till now have the facilities of bank financing will be connected through IPPB to the partner bank or any other bank if so desired.
12. Daily collection of deposits by postman of that area and operation of postman as teller for their banking activities will make sure the inclusive banking for all and at the doorstep can be achieved in the current scenario of cash less economy this very big enterence of IPPB is going to make a big difference.
13. Lastly,the financial stability of IPPB will be ensured by the very big institutional backing of the the INDIA POST and its already trained manpower, with the help of agile postman whose activities are going to be manifold. As of now all the banks profitability is nowadays hinges on fee based income.
Now. 16% of their income is on the services provided. Hence the ATM services and fee based income of IPPB is conservatively estimated at rupees 500 crores at the end of 5th year of operations. That against an equity capital of rupees 400 crores Which makes an EPS of 1.25 rupees against 1 rupee share value.Which will ensure it to offer its shares in public to raise its further capital without knocking the doors of the mentor i.e govt.
14. Kindle do keep in mind IPPB is registered Public Limited Company wholly owned by Ministry Of Communications.
Payments towards Tax, Penalty, Surcharge and Deposit under PMGKY 2016 in Old Demonetized Currency allowed till 30th December, 2016
The Central Government has decided that up to 30.12.2016, the payment towards tax, surcharge, penalty and deposit under the Pradhan Mantri Garib KalyanYojana (PMGKY), can be made in Old Bank Notes of Rs. 500 and Rs.1,000 denomination issued by the RBI.
The Taxation and Investment Regime for Pradhan Mantri Garib KalyanYojana (PMGKY), 2016 has commenced on 17th December, 2016 and is open for declarations upto 31st March, 2017. The payment of tax, surcharge and penalty under the Scheme is to be made through challan ITNS- 287 and the deposits are to be made in the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Deposit Scheme,2016. The notifications relating to PMGKY are available on the website www.incometaxindia.gov.in .
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DSM
Source : PIB
INFORMATION ABOUT THE STATUS OF GDS COMMITTEE REPORT
SG NFPE met Secretary, Dept of Posts after two days All India Protest demonstrations by NFPE.
Secretary has assured that GDS Committee report will be published immediately after 31st December and approval of Minister will be obtained before 31st Dec.
In view of the above assurance, Federal Secretariat of NFPE decided to wait up to 31st.
Next phase of programmes will be declared if report is not published as assured by Secretary, Posts.
This is already informed to all General Secretaries and Circle Secretaries.
R.N. PARASHAR
SECRETARY GENERAL
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