Happy New Year 2015

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Holiday 2015

Holidays 2015

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PA/SA exam Dates/admit card 2014 released

India Postal Department written examination 2014 have been releases. The exam is held for recruitment to 8243 vacant posts of Postal Assistant (PA) and Sorting Assistant (SA).

The exam is scheduled to be held on April 27 and May 4. Candidates appearing for the exam can download their admit cards from the official website.

According to news reports a total of nearly twenty lakh candidates have applied for the mentioned recruitment and are waiting eagerly for the release of the admit card.

The India Post SA/PA 2014 written examination is going to be held at various locations on the dates given below:

• Delhi, Rajasthan, Assam, North-East , Odisha: April 27, 2014
• Jharkhand: May 4, 2014

In order to download the examination admit cards the candidates have to follow the given steps:

• The candidates has to first log on to the official website: http://www.pasadrexam2014.in
• Click on login option and enter their registration number and password
• Click the link titled as India Post SA/PA 2014 exam admit card.
• Enter Roll No, DOB as instructed.
• India Post SA/PA 2014 exam admit card will appear on the screen.

Note: Incase the candidates come across any discrepancy in their admit cards they will have to notify the concerned authority immediately without fail. Also, candidates who paid their examination fee after April 1, 2014 are not eligible for the exam.

Exam pattern:

An aptitude test will be conducted for 100 marks covering subjects: General Knowledge, Mathematics, English and Analytical Skills. A computer/typing test for 30 minutes will also be held.

Important date:

Date of written exam: April 27, 2014 and May 4, 2014

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Revision in Interest Rate of Small Saving Schemes w.e.f 1st April 2014

Revision in Interest Rate of Small Saving Schemes
 w.e.f 1st April 2014

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Merger/de-merger of IPO /IRM cadre & Minimum working experience

Merger/de-merger of IPO /IRM cadre & Minimum working experience

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Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees

Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees

No. 1/1/2014-E-II (B)

Government of India Ministry of Finance

North Block, New Delhi,

Dated: 27th March, 2014.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees – Revised Rates effective from 1.1.2014.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry’s Office Memorandum No. 1-8/2013-E-II (B) dated 25th September, 2013 on the subject mentioned above and to say that the President is pleased to decide that the Dearness Allowance payable to Central Government employees shall be enhanced from the existing rate of 90 % to 100 % with effect from 1st January, 2014.
2 The provisions contained in paras 3, 4 and 5 of this Ministry’s O.M. No. 1 (3)/2008-E-II(B) dated 29th August, 2008 shall continue to be applicable while regulating Dearness Allowance under these orders.
3 The additional installment of Dearness Allowance payable under these orders shall be paid in cash to all Central Government employees.
4. The Payment of arrears of Dearness Allowance shall not be made before the date of disbursement of Salary of March 2014.
5. These orders shall also apply to the civilian employees paid from the Defence Services Estimates and the expenditure will be chargeable to the relevant head of the Defence Services Estimates. In regard to Armed Forces personnel and Railway employees separate orders will be issued by the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Railways, respectively.
6. In so far as the persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, these orders issue in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

Sd/-

Under Secretary to the Government of India

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India Post opens 2 ATMs in Delhi;2800 more pan-India by Mar'15

New Delhi: Postal bank savings account holders in Delhi can now avail of ATM services as India Post yesterday launched automated teller machines at two locations here.
     
The department will open 2,800 more such ATMs by March 2015 which is part of its core banking system (CBS) project.
     
The initiative is part of modernisation project under which around 1.6 lakh post offices will be equipped with core banking system by 2015, Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal said while launching ATM at ITO post office. The other ATM has been opened at Kashmere Gate PO.
     
Finance Minister P Chidambaram inaugurated the first ATM of India Post network in Chennai on Thursday.
     
"Its not a short journey. It will take time but we have started this journey. There will be about 2,800 ATMs installed by March 2015," Sibal said.
     
"Some people only talk about common man but we are among those who work for common man without making noise. This ATM is for 'Aam Aadmi' at a common man's post officer. This is a gift for Aam Aadmi and I congratulate Aam Aadmi," he said.
     
The department is issuing ATM cards to postal savings bank account holders through which they can withdraw money.
     
"The ATM will serve only Post Office customers for first 6-8 months. After that we will link it with ATMs of other banks. Thereafter customers of any bank will be able to withdraw money and our customer will be able to use other ATM," Delhi Circle Chief Post Master General Vasumitra said.
     
Delhi will get 86 more ATMs by the end of this month and around 600 by 2015.
     
India Post has connected about 64 lakh savings accounts across seven states - Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Assam and Andhra Pradesh -- in select branches with CBS.
     
The department has also applied for banking licence.      

"I am trying that Post Office should get a banking licence to serve common man in rural area. I will keep by struggle on for banking licence," Sibal said.
     
India Posts also announced linking of Postal Life Insurance service which has corpus of close to Rs 40,000 crore with CBS that will enable people to pay premium online, check status of their policy.
     
India Posts has plan to roll out core insurance solution like CBS at pan-India level under which it will integrate 810 insurance processing centres for faster claim settlement and after sales service.
     
Under the insurance project, 11,000 post offices will be migrated to new technology by September 2014 and about 14,000 post offices by March 2015.
     
The government has earmarked about Rs 5,000 crore for modernisation of post offices which also includes equipping all branches with real time banking facility using service of private companies. 

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50 फीसदी डीए को मूल वेतन में जल्द ही मर्ज करने की है तैयारी

50 फीसदी डीए को मूल वेतन में जल्द ही मर्ज करने की है तैयारी

38 लाख कर्मियों, 25 लाख पेंशन- भोगियों को लुभाने की कवायद

20 हजार करोड़ का अतिरिक्त बोझ पड़ेगा सरकारी खजाने पर

केंद्र सरकार के कर्मचारियों और पेंशनरों तथा इनके परिवारजनों के तकरीबन ढाई करोड़ वोटों पर अब सरकार की नजर है। तकरीबन 38 लाख कर्मचारियों और 25 लाख पेंशनभोगियों को लुभाने के लिए शीघ्र ही 50 फीसदी महंगाई भत्ता (डीए) को मूल वेतन में मर्ज करने की तैयारी है।

इसका फैसला अगले पखवाड़े हो सकता है। यदि ऐसा हुआ तो सरकारी खजाने पर लगभग 20,000 करोड़ रुपये का अतिरिक्त बोझ पड़ेगा।

इसे ट्रेड यूनियन से जुड़े पदाधिकारियों का दबाव कहें, रेलवे समेत सभी केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों के अनिश्चितकालीन हड़ताल की धमकी या फिर ढाई करोड़ वोटरों को लुभाने की कोशिश कहें, लेकिन सच्चाई यही है कि डीए मूल वेतन में मर्ज हो रहा है। तकरीबन 12 लाख कर्मचारियों का प्रतिनिधित्व करने वाले संगठन एआईआरएफ के महासचिव शिव गोपाल मिश्रा का कहना है कि पिछले दिनों ही उन्होंने इस बारे में प्रधानमंत्री कार्यालय और वित्त मंत्रालय से पत्राचार किया है। वह इस सिलसिले में व्यय सचिव से भी मिले थे।

तो डीए 101 फीसदी हो जाएगा:

संकेत यही है कि जब लेखानुदान के लिए संसद का सत्र चलेगा, तभी इसकी घोषणा कर दी जाएगी। नेशनल फेडरेशन ऑफ इंडियन रेलवेमैन के प्रेस सचिव एस एन मलिक ने पीएमओ के सूत्रों के हवाले से बताया कि इस बारे में कैबिनेट नोट बन गया है। इससे संबंधित फाइल इस समय पीएमओ में पड़ी है। अगले सप्ताह जब संसद का सत्र शुरू होगा, तभी किसी दिन इसकी घोषणा हो जाएगी।

गौरतलब है कि इस समय केंद्रीय कर्मचारियों का डीए 90 फीसदी तक पहुंच गया है और एक जनवरी को ही फिर से डीए में बढ़ोतरी ड्यू हो गई है। यदि इस बार भी डीए में 11 फीसदी की वृद्धि होती है तो डीए 101 फीसदी हो जाएगा। मलिक का कहना है कि पांचवें वेतन आयोग के समय जब कर्मचारियों का डीए 72 फीसदी पर पहुंचा था, तभी बिना कहे 50 फीसदी डीए मूल वेतन में मिला दिया गया था। इस बार ऐसा नहीं किया जा रहा है।
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Centre is likely to announce this month a hike in dearness allowance by 10 per cent

NEW DELHI: Centre is likely to announce this month a hike in dearness allowance by 10 per cent to 100 per cent, benefiting about 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners.

It would be the second double digit DA hike in a row. The government had announced a hike of 10 per cent to 90 per cent in September last year, effective from July 1, 2013.

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List of holidays during the calendar year 2014

List of holidays during the calendar year 2014 

Sr.No	Holiday	Date	Saka Date	Day
1	Prophet Mohammad’s Birthday(Id-E-Milad)	14.01.2014	24 Pausha	Tuesday
2	Republic Day	26.01. 2014	06 Magh	Sunday
3	Holi	17.03. 2014	26 Phalguna	Monday
				1936 SAKA ERA
4	Mahavir Jayanti	13.04.2014	23 Chaitra	Sunday
5	Good Friday	18.04.2014	28 Chaitra	Friday
6	Budha Purnima	14.05.2014	24 Vaiskha	Wednesday
7	Idul Fitar	29.07.2014	07 Sravana	Tuesday
8	Independence Day	15.08.2014	24 Sravan	Friday
9	Janmastmi(Vaishanavi)	18.08.2014	27 Sravana	Monday
10	Mahatmagandhi’s Birthday	02.10.2014	10 Asvina	Thursday
11	Dussehara(Vijay Dasmi)	03.10.2014	11 Asvina	Friday
12	Id-ul-Zuha(Bakrid)	06.10.2014	14 Asvina	Monday
13	Diwali (Dipavali)	23.10.2014	01 Kartika	Thursday
14	Chhath Puja	30.10.2014	08 Kartika	Thursday
15	Muharram	04.11.2014	13 Kartia	Tuesday
16	Guru Nank’s Birth Day	06.11.2014	15 Kartik	Thursday
17	Christmas Day	25.12.2014	04 Pausa	Thursday

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Rebirth to India Post with Express Parcel Service & COD – Partnership with Amazon

Rebirth to India Post with Express Parcel Service & COD – Partnership with Amazon

Imagine the postman in your area bringing courier from your online shopping, where other private courier’s hesitate to deliver. With a massive reach of 150,000 post offices all-around India that has 89 percent concentration in rural areas, Indian Post can bring massive turbulence in the e-commerce market and that’s what India Post aims to do in the near future. In its path to rebirth India Post has launched two new parcel services – Express Parcel service and Business Parcel service along with Cash on Delivery (COD) option that competes directly with private courier companies mainly BlueDart, Aramex and other

India Post Express Parcel service

India Post Express Parcel service is available for both retailers and business customers that offers fast delivery of products/parcels through air mail or any other fastest mean available. It provides Door-to-Door service with door delivery irrespective of parcels weight. In addition India Post offers Cash on Delivery for the Express parcel service with maximum consignment value up to Rs 50,000. Main advantage of this service is that parcels booked under the services will be delivered at most in 72 hours.

Looking on to the charges, Express Parcel service starts from Rs 30 for local service, Rs 50 for delivery within the sate, Rs 60 for neighboring state and Rs 80 for delivery to other sates, for items weighing up to 500 grams. For additional 500 grams up to 5 Kg rates charged from Rs 8 to Rs 20 and for every additional 500 grams above 5 Kg will be charges between Rs 10 to Rs 22.

Currently the service is available for booking and delivery in limited cities – Agra, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Delhi (NCR), Patna, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Pune, Parwanoo, Shillong, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram.

India Post Business Parcel service

On the other hand India Post Business Parcel service is contractual service, designed to suit requirement of business customers. Here the minimum chargeable consignment weight is 2 Kg and up to maximum of 35 Kg and offers Door-to-Door service. Unlike Express service which currently has limited reach, Business Parcel can be booked for delivery from any Post Office in the country providing a nationwide coverage. This service also offers Cash on Delivery on consignment which provides a collection of amount up to Rs 50,000 at the time of delivery.

Tariff for Business Parcels starts at Rs 45 for local service, Rs 80 for delivery within the sate, Rs 100 for delivery in neighboring state and Rs 115 for delivery in other sates, for parcel weighing up to 2 Kg. Every additional 1 Kg up to 5 Kg with be charged with Rs 12 to Rs 30 and Every additional 1Kg above 5 Kg will be charged from Rs 14 to Rs 32 respectively.

Salient features of Express and Business Parcel service include -

• Fast and secure transmission by Air mail/land
• Safe and secure handling
• Fast and assured Door to Door delivery
• Credit facility and flexible payment option for bulk customers
• Collection of Cash on Delivery
• Customized key account management
• Weight limit up to 35 Kg

“Many e-commerce companies have shown interest to use parcel services of India Post. They have been demanding for more value addition to existing parcel service. Hence, we are launching Express Parcel and Business Parcel service.” commented P. Gopinath, Secretary, Department of Post (DoP).

Amazon India Partnership with India Post

Another interesting news coming up is the partnership of Amazon India with India Post, who has already started a pilot testing the postal service. Through this partnership Amazon aims to reach its presence to the deepest parts of India, where only India Post have service. This will intensify competition in the emerging Indian e-commerce market now ruled by Flipkart, Snapdeal and eBay. Amazon is also told to be piloting the Cash on Delivery service through India Post which accounts for two-thirds of ecommerce transactions happening in India.

“We are trying to add capabilities like cash on delivery and reverse logistics. Consumers don’t want to make an upfront payment. We are developing software to start the cash-on-delivery service with Amazon,” a senior India Post official told Economic Times.

Currently most of the private courier companies neglect the outskirts of towns, villages and other deepest parts of India, but with the emergence of India Post that has widest reach in any part of India can bring dramatic changes to whole e-commerce industry. In addition, this partnership will also provide a rebirth for staggering 150-year-old India Post that was going down due to the country’s telecom revolution and massive internet adoption. India Post wants to be the center of Indian e-commerce revolution, so it aims to invest about Rs 100 crore in the next few years to set up warehouses for e-commerce packages.

If the plans work out for Amazon then it can reach the top of the e-commerce industry in India just like in US and for India Post it will be a new life blood.

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