C.O , Hyderabad Latest news on Postmater Grade-III, Grade-II Promotions  :-

The conveyance of DPC for promotion / Adhoc to the Postmasters Gr-III & Gr-II (regular & one time measure)  still under Process at C.O, Hyderabad  not yet finalized.  All CR/APARs get ready for process. As per present position it will further  takes one week to 10 days delay. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF  7^TH CPC  APPROVED  BY CABINET TODAY

Cabinet approves Implementation of the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the implementation of the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) on pay and pensionary benefits. It will come into effect from 01.01.2016.

In the past, the employees had to wait for 19 months for the implementation of the Commission’s recommendations at the time of 5th CPC, and for 32 months at the time of implementation of 6th CPC. However, this time, 7th CPC recommendations are being implemented within 6 months from the due date.

The Cabinet has also decided that arrears of pay and pensionary benefits will be paid during the current financial year (2016-17) itself, unlike in the past when parts of arrears were paid in the next financial year.

The recommendations will benefit over 1 crore employees. This includes over 47 lakh central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners, of which 14 lakh employees and 18 lakh pensioners are from the defence forces.

Highlights:

1. The present system of Pay Bands and Grade Pay has been dispensed with and a new Pay Matrix as recommended by the Commission has been approved. The status of the employee, hitherto determined by grade pay, will now be determined by the level in the Pay Matrix. Separate Pay Matrices have been drawn up for Civilians, Defence Personnel and for Military Nursing Service. The principle and rationale behind these matrices are the same.

2. All existing levels have been subsumed in the new structure; no new levels have been introduced nor has any level been dispensed with. Index of Rationalisation has been approved for arriving at minimum pay in each Level of the Pay Matrix depending upon the increasing role, responsibility and accountability at each step in the hierarchy.

3. The minimum pay has been increased from Rs. 7000 to 18000 p.m. Starting salary of a newly recruited employee at lowest level will now be Rs. 18000 whereas for a freshly recruited Class I officer, it will be Rs. 56100. This reflects a compression ratio of 1:3.12 signifying that pay of a Class I officer on direct recruitment will be three times the pay of an entrant at lowest level.

4. For the purpose of revision of pay and pension, a fitment factor of 2.57 will be applied across all Levels in the Pay Matrices. After taking into account the DA at prevailing rate, the salary/pension of all government employees/pensioners will be raised by at least 14.29 % as on 01.01.2016.

5. Rate of increment has been retained at 3 %. This will benefit the employees in future on account of higher basic pay as the annual increments that they earn in future will be 2.57 times than at present.

6. The Cabinet approved further improvements in the Defence Pay Matrix by enhancing Index of Rationalisation for Level 13A (Brigadier) and providing for additional stages in Level 12A (Lieutenant Colonel), 13 (Colonel) and 13A (Brigadier) in order to bring parity with Combined Armed Police Forces (CAPF) counterparts at the maximum of the respective Levels.

7. Some other decisions impacting the employees including Defence & Combined Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel include :

· Gratuity ceiling enhanced from Rs. 10 to 20 lakh. The ceiling on gratuity will increase by 25 % whenever DA rises by 50 %.

· A common regime for payment of Ex-gratia lump sum compensation for civil and defence forces personnel payable to Next of Kin with the existing rates enhanced from Rs. 10-20 lakh to 25-45 lakh for different categories.

· Rates of Military Service Pay revised from Rs. 1000, 2000, 4200 & 6000 to 3600, 5200, 10800 & 15500 respectively for various categories of Defence Forces personnel.

· Terminal gratuity equivalent of 10.5 months of reckonable emoluments for Short Service Commissioned Officers who will be allowed to exit Armed Forces any time between 7 and 10 years of service.

· Hospital Leave, Special Disability Leave and Sick Leave subsumed into a composite new Leave named ‘Work Related Illness and Injury Leave’ (WRIIL). Full pay and allowances will be granted to all employees during the entire period of hospitalization on account of WRIIL.

8. The Cabinet also approved the recommendation of the Commission to enhance the ceiling of House Building Advance from Rs. 7.50 lakh to 25 lakh. In order to ensure that no hardship is caused to employees, four interest free advances namely Advances for Medical Treatment, TA on tour/transfer, TA for family of deceased employees and LTC have been retained. All other interest free advances have been abolished.

9. The Cabinet also decided not to accept the steep hike in monthly contribution towards Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme (CGEGIS) recommended by the Commission. The existing rates of monthly contribution will continue. This will increase the take home salary of employees at lower levels by Rs. 1470. However, considering the need for social security of employees, the Cabinet has asked Ministry of Finance to work out a customized group insurance scheme for Central Government Employees with low premium and high risk cover.

10. The general recommendations of the Commission on pension and related benefits have been approved by the Cabinet. Both the options recommended by the Commission as regards pension revision have been accepted subject to feasibility of their implementation. Revision of pension using the second option based on fitment factor of 2.57 shall be implemented immediately. A Committee is being constituted to address the implementation issues anticipated in the first formulation. The first formulation may be made applicable if its implementation is found feasible after examination by proposed Committee which is to submit its Report within 4 months.

11. The Commission examined a total of 196 existing Allowances and, by way of rationalization, recommended abolition of 51 Allowances and subsuming of 37 Allowances. Given the significant changes in the existing provisions for Allowances which may have wide ranging implications, the Cabinet decided to constitute a Committee headed by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th CPC on Allowances. The Committee will complete its work in a time bound manner and submit its reports within a period of 4 months. Till a final decision, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates.

12. The Cabinet also decided to constitute two separate Committees (i) to suggest measures for streamlining the implementation of National Pension System (NPS) and (ii) to look into anomalies likely to arise out of implementation of the Commission’s Report.

13. Apart from the pay, pension and other recommendations approved by the Cabinet, it was decided that the concerned Ministries may examine the issues that are administrative in nature, individual post/ cadre specific and issues in which the Commission has not been able to arrive at a consensus.

14. As estimated by the 7th CPC, the additional financial impact on account of implementation of all its recommendations in 2016-17 will be Rs. 1,02,100 crore. There will be an additional implication of Rs. 12,133 crore on account of payments of arrears of pay and pension for two months of 2015-16.

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7th CPC LATEST NEWS :-

NEW DELHI:  Salaries and pensions for former and current central government employees will go up by nearly 24 percent retroactively from the start of this year.

Here is your 10-point cheat-sheet to this big story:

1.    The move will benefit an estimated 10 million government employees including nearly 60 lakh pensioners, starting from January 1, 2016. Among the defence services, 14 lakh serving officers and 18 lakh retired members will be covered.

2.    Arrears will be paid within this year, said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

3.    The last major hike in 2008 saw an average raise of nearly 50 percent. The auto and retail sectors gained in the stock market after today's announcement.

4.    The increments - considerably smaller than past increases-  will cost the government about one lakh crores or 15 billion dollars every year.

5.    While this cost is a whopping 0.7 percent of India's GDP, the hike is the lowest in the last seven decades.

6.    The new allowances and hikes were cleared by the cabinet today and are based on the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission - a government committee which reviews the pay of government employees nearly every decade.

7.    Government workers also have been getting half-yearly and annual increments linked to prices. The new rules do away with 52 allowances and merge 36 others.

8.    Under the new scheme, the maximum salary for a government servant will be about 2.5 lakhs a month, that's more than double the top-rung pay of Rs. 90,000 a month.

9.    The least a government officer can now be paid is  Rs. 18,000 a month, more than double the current compensation of Rs. 7,000 offered to the most  junior employees.

1  . The government is counting on the higher salaries to result in more consumer spending which could trigger economic growth.However, some experts believe that the additional cash in the market could fuel inflation. To keep a check on price rise driven by greater liquidity in the market, the government plans to keep a close eye on the market TRENDING. //NDTV NEWS//

CBS becomes   :  see (KYC see)  Be (record exists or not)  Yes (then get permission from HO):  

(Important   points of    SB order 05/2016.)

SB order 05/2016 issued by the department on 21.06.2016.  The main motto of this order to arrest fraud and smooth functioning of the Post offices. At the Same time these steps are fixed the more responsibility on H.Os.  S.Os are some what  free from fears of frauds.  But customer point of view it is most dissatisfaction issue and  true spirit of  CBS is  in vain.  Due to the present situation customer wants to maturity of  certificate he should complete ( 1.)  Fill up transfer application  (2.)  Submission of KYCs  (3) Hand over application to  S.O (4) This documents sent to HO (5) After duly verification of KYC/SS etc HO return request with remarks (6) SO intimate customer to attend for payment.   For this process it will take as minimum as possible  one week.   (for speedy HOs 4- days ) .  Not only this maturity payments but for account conversion from single to joint or vice versa also  a time consuming process.  The purpose of CBS is not fulfilling either to customer or  office.  Due to this order Post office SB works are restricted to their office only.  The contents of   order are:-

Sl no of order	Item of  work	Remarks
08.	Salary / pension credit	Should  be done by H.O only
09	Freezing / unfreezing of account	At  H.O level  only
10.	Transfer  of account from P.O to P.o  (or) Bank	At  H.O level only.
11	Menu :  HACXFRSC, Transfer of account/cert from one scheme to another (Single < > Joint, conversion to cq account etc..)	At H.O level only even having two Supervisors
12	Revival   of silent   Account	At H.O level only
18	BPM cash limit for single account	BPM should not accept more than Rs.25000/- in  single account.
19	>Rs.25000/- Transactions	Should be verified through PRI(p), ASP/IP etc.
24	Transfer Transaction (CXFER): S.Os  should not use this menu for Cheques clearance.	Steps:-(1).  SO s  prepare Cq Lists for new  a/cs (SOL+0382), RD Lists/ subsequent deposits (SOL+0017) (2). SOs prepare cq lists manually for subsequent deposits for PPF,SB,SSA and send  Deposit forms ( Sb-107) to HO along with Cqs. (3). HO use menu CXFER for funding  (after cqs realization) for new a/cs , RD Lists/subsequent transactions  to respective S.Os (SOL+0382 (or) SOL+017). S.Os should check their clearing office account (SOL+0382  , SOL + 0017) and open accounts/deposit RD accounts. (4) For Subsequent deposits H.O only funding the respective accounts  (after cqs  clearance ) Note:- S.Os. part of work for new and subsequent RD deposits only for cq clearing system.  Remaining all deposits in respect of cq clearance should be done at H.O level only. Accounting Procedure:- At HO level: (When cqs are realized) Receipt side:  Received from S.O (advance) At S.O level :  Receipt side:  deposit . Payment side:  H.O remittance.
27	P.O SB cq acceptance at other SOLs not above Rs.25000/-	H.Os/ S.Os should not Pay more than Rs.25000/- for PO SB cq in a day of other  SOLs. Is for any investment POSB cq of Other SOL presented for more than Rs.25000/- acceptable (or) not ???. Order says for only cash wdls limit.
28	Pledge / release Pledge	Should be done at H.O level only even having two supervisor option.
29	Closure of  any NSS-87/NSS-92/ other discontinued schemes	Customer should  approach H.O only.
30	For Closure of  other SOL account.	Should be done at H.O level Only.

Postmaster Gr-III / Grade-II  Promotions/Ad-hoc Promotions Latest News:-

The issue is under quick process at C.O, Hyderabad. Due to non receipt of some CRs from regions it was said that the process will complete by the end of this month. // C.S  : AIAPS (gl) //

LGO exams  2015-16 : (Promotion to PA/SA cadre from Postman/mail guard/MTS) : A.P Circle notification issued: Total vacancies : 276

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NO  CHANGE IN INTEREST RATES FOR THE COMING QUARTER (JULY TO SEPT-2016)

Quarterly Revision of Interest Rates for Small Savings Schemes

On the basis of the decision of the Government, interest rates for small savings schemes are to be notified on quarterly basis. Accordingly, the rates of interest on various small savings schemes for the second quarter of financial year 2016-17, on the basis of the interest compounding/payment built-in in the schemes, shall be as under:

Instrument	Rate of interest w.e.f. 01.04.2016 to 30.6.2016	Rate of interest w.e.f. 01.07.2016 to 30.9.2016	Compounding frequency
Savings Deposit	4.0	4.0	Annual
1 Year Time Deposit	7.1	7.1	Quarterly
2 Year Time Deposit	7.2	7.2	Quarterly
3 Year Time Deposit	7.4	7.4	Quarterly
5 Year Time Deposit	7.9	7.9	Quarterly
5 Year Recurring Deposit	7.4	7.4	Quarterly
5 Year Senior Citizens Savings Scheme	8.6	8.6	Quarterly and paid
5 year Monthly Income Account Scheme	7.8	7.8	Monthly and paid
5 Year National Savings Certificate	8.1	8.1	Annual
Public Provident Fund Scheme	8.1	8.1	Annual
KisanVikasPatra	7.8 (will mature in 110 months)	7.8 (will mature in 110 months)	Annual
SukanyaSamriddhi Account Scheme	8.6	8.6	Annual

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KVP / NSC :  Certificates issued in the form of  Pass books only wef 01.07.2016.  View SB order>>

POSTMASTER GRADE – CADRE RESTRUCTURE ISSUE :: AIAPS(GL) submitted Letter for early action:-

Courtesy :  http://postmastercadre.blogspot.in/

AIAPC wrote letter to D.G, Dept.of Posts for Enhancement of   Postmaster cadre Posts :-

Transfers under Rule-38 issued by C.O : Hyderabad:

A  visit to   SRINAGAR (J&k)  from Srinagar colony (Hyderabad).

Recently Postal staff at Srinagar colony visited  Srinagar (j&K) on LTC .  J&K visit is one of the most memorable in every ones life.  I personally observed some issues:  The   “Pahalgham “  visit is  available through Hourse ride ( each person @Rs.1100/-). The worlds second highest Gondola (rope cars) service (14000 ft height) at Gulmarg (The world of snow)  is excellent.  The cost per I phase per head is Rs. 700/- II phase (aparvath) is Rs. 900/- Srinagar to Jammu roads are ghat  with several curves (10 hours journey). It appears one bypass road is under construction from Srinagar to Jammu will cut  half of the journey time in future.  From Katra to Maa Vaishnodevi temple darsan is expensive and adventure thing. The main services are : by walk ( up and down 30 Kms), by  hourse ride ( Rs. 3200 per head up and down varies as per  rush) , Pallaki (Rs 9000 up and down or varies on demand ), helicopter service available (for adv.booking about 2 months Rs.1150/- per head (one way)  for some distance), Battery cars for a few distance availabe . No fee for Darsan ticket.  For children , old age people it is a difficult thing.  Now the roads and electricity is provided up to the temple.  The Govt. has to think easiest mode of transport during this computer era by providing vehicle service, rope etc.  Horse ride like  in B.C time , walking ,Pallaki services should be avoided.  The path is fill with foil smell with horse dung and polluting air.  The Road transport system is fully under private persons control . The govt. buses are limited. If better services are provided more and more visitors will  come to  this holy place in more number of times.  Let us hope this......

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, MoC,Govt  of India during his Vikas parv programme on 05^th June at Kakinada, A.P  has been launched many  Postal related schemes.  He was digitally inaugurated the laying stone of  Machilipatnam Head office building.  Launching  ATMs to  four post offices, Nanyata for Letter Postage application at LB , SSA,PLI/RPLI bonds disbursement to the customers.  Postal  Department honored  him by giving “ MYSTAMP”.

Cadre Restructuring  in Postal department Group ‘C’:-  The postal Directorate issued orders on the Cadre resturcturing.  As per the order the Distribution of Posts in A.P.Circle are :-

(Disclaimer:  The information posted is may not be true.  This is for sharing of information only. If any one feels to read difficulty simply out of this blog. This information has no validity.)

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	Total PA	LSG	HSG-II	HSG-I	Total
Before cadre restructuring	7403	287 G.pay: 2800	98 G.pay : 4200	87 G.Pay: 4600	7875
After Cadre Restruturing	5106	1960 G.Pay: 2800	635 G.Pay: 4200	157 , 17 G.pay: 4600 /4800	7875

Some Points are:  (i)  More number of LSG posts are attached to the circles.

(ii) In this order nowhere said this posts should manage by MACP-I . As the posts are to be filled though LSG selection only. Circles exercise to prepare LSG lists and grant promotions.  Right now in A.P circle Year 1988 (nearly) LSG promotion list is moving.  If  LSG promotions  has given to the granted  1960 Posts  almost all cross the G.pay Rs.2800/- and to work as SPMs in single/double handed offices.

(iii) The posts of HSG-II are 635 and even if all LSG  officials got promoted to HSG-II some more posts are vacant due to  non availability of suitable service of official.

(iv) Same as for HSG_I promotions.

(v) The order is silent about other issues of cadre restructuring cases for SAs in RMS, C.O , Accounts , Postman , especially Postmaster Cadre.

(vi) Let  from above total : (LSG) 1960+635+174=2769 carved out 1/3^rd equals 923 Posts  should have been allotted to Postmaster grade. Let a Circle with 38 divisions of  each an average of 50 post offices. i.e circle with 1900 post offices . As per the above order no of Posts are granted 2769 rather than existing offices.

(vii) The  Transfers and Postings in  LSG, HSGs are through Circles.

(viii) Nowhere said in the order about MACPs manage these offices.

(viii) Whom will get benefit is not clear through this restructuring.  As seen from the above a few officials could get financial benefit.

(ix) Many confusions are to be clarified .

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Department Recent order on One Time Relaxation for Promotion to Postmaster Grade-II, GR-III.

In this order Some ambiguity is there:-

Promotion is granted to the officials who have completed 50% of required service for promotion. But this promotion is not treated as regular.   Not told about to give adhoc promotion.  But some circles are interpreted as adhoc promotion and issued orders for 11 months promotion. (after 11 months are they to revert?) . But the true spirit of the order is promotion is to be given and not treated as regular and on after completion of required service of 5 years (for PM gr-I) may be treated as regular.

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