SWEET MEMORIES OF 6TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE HELD AT JATNI MDG ON 22ND APRIL 2012

COUNTING OF SERVICE RENDERED BY RESERVE TRAINED POOL (RTP) PERSONNEL PRIOR TO THEIR REGULAR APPOINTMENT AS POSTAL ASSISTANTS (PAs)/SORTING ASSISTANTS (SAs)-REGARDING.

D.G. Posts No. 44-1/2011-SPB.II dated 12 April, 2012.

I am directed refer to Directorate’s letter of even number dated 13.1.2011 on the above subject and to say that the issue of counting of service rendered by Reserve Trained Pool(RTP) personnel prior to their regular appointment as Postal Assistants(PAs)/Sorting Assistants (SAs) for promotion, seniority and grant of MACP was under consideration of the Directorate.

2.The RTP Scheme was introduced in the year 1980 as per which a panel of such persons was retained who could not be covered under the number of vacancies declared for regular appointment as PA/SA. When required they were detailed on duty on wages to be paid on hourly basis to meet the short time needs and current needs. The said RTP personnel were given priority for absorption against vacancies, which occurred subsequently. In the year 1983 the RTP personnel were given an option to opt for servicing Army Postal Services (APS).Such persons who opted so were appointed as PA/SA on ad-hoc basis and deputed to APS. The said RTP candidates deputed to APS were eligible to get the benefit of regular appointment in the Civil Post. The RTP scheme was abolished w.e.f. 4.3.1986.

3. While furnishing the information asked for from the Circles, the Orissa Circle has brought to the notice of the Directorate that three OAs filed by three officials in the Cuttack Bench of Hon`ble CAT seeking regularization of the services rendered under RTP scheme were dismissed on 10.4.2003 for the reason that the issue raised has already been decided by the Apex Court on 1.8.1997 in the case of UOI and another Vs K. Sivados and others in C.A. No. 80-123 of 1996

4. It is observed that Apex Court in their judgment dated 01.08.1997 has discussed the case in detail and has rejected the case for grant of Productivity Linked Bonus to RTP personnel. As regards grant of benefit of counting their services as RTP personnel for the purpose of their eligibility to appear for the departmental examination the Hon`ble Supreme Court in the same judgment has observed that the relevant rule provides that the candidate “ must have put in at least five years continuous satisfactory service in one or more eligible cadres” and hence pronounced that any service rendered by RTP personnel prior to their regular appointment in the cadre cannot count for the purpose of the said rule because it can not be considered as service in any eligible cadre. Thus, the Apex Court has held that Tribunal was wrong in granting to RTP personnel the benefit of service rendered by them prior to their regular appointment, for the purpose of their eligibility to appear for the departmental promotion examination.

5. In another case Hon`ble Supreme Court in C.A. No. 5739 of 2005 in the case of UOI Vs Shri Mathivanan vide their judgment dated 9.6.2006 has held that ad-hoc service rendered in APS by RTP personnel should be counted for the purpose of grant of financial upgradation under TBOP scheme. This was mainly due to the fact that the said Scheme did not mention the requirement of ‘regular service’ in para 1 of the Scheme for being eligible for grant of financial upgradation under TBOP scheme .In fact, the Hon1ble Supreme Court observed that it was not a case where promotion to the higher post is to be made only on the basis of seniority. Keeping in view the Apex Court’s decision in M. Mathivanan’s case and the fact the TBOP is not to be granted on the basis of seniority, it was decided to extend the benefit of the Apex Court’s order to similarly placed serving officials vide Directorate’s letter No. 93-25/2003-SPB.II dated 26.7.2010.

6. As per MACP scheme, the officials are eligible for grant of three financial upgradations on completion of 10, 20 and 30 years of service respectively. For the purpose, it has been laid down that ‘regular service’ for the purpose of the MACPs shall commence from the date of joining of a post in direct entry grade on a regular basis either on direct recruitment basis or on absorption /re-employment basis. It has been categorically stated that the service rendered on ad-hoc/contract basis before regular appointment on pre-appointment training shall not be taken into reckoning.

7. In view of the judgment dated 01.08.1997 delivered in C.A. 80-123 1996 in the case of UOI & another Vs K.N.Sivados and others and provisions contained in MACP scheme, it has been decided by the Competent Authority that the service rendered under RTP scheme by the personnel prior to their regular appointment as PA/SA can not be counted for promotion , seniority and grant of MACP.

 

8. The above decision may be taken into consideration while defending the court case. The representations received on the subject may also be dealt with accordingly.

Sd/-

(Raj Kumar)

Director (Staff)

SUBHA ODIA NAVA BARSHA .

 

 WISH ALL THE VIEWERS OF "NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES, PURI" , A VERY HAPPY AND HAPPENING  "ODIA NUA BARSA" ON THE OUSPICIOUS OCCASION OF MAHA VISUBHA SAKRANTI . ENJOY BOTH THE OCCASIONS . 

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                                       ( SECY. NAPE PURI )

Fraudster sentenced to 28 yrs' jail, fined Rs 22L

: The prime accused in four different cases of serious nature has been sentenced to rigorous jail term for 28 years and pay a fine of Rs 22 lakh.
Shriram Shende was held guilty in a fraud case worth Rs 22 lakh related to the postal department. The accused was 33 years old at the time of committing the fraud. Now he is 60. Delivering the judgment on Wednesday evening, special judge NV Deshmukh sentenced the accused to 7 years' rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs 2 lakh under section 420 of IPC. He will have to suffer 5 years' jail and pay a fine of Rs 2 lakh each under sections 466 and 468 of IPC in another case.
Shende and the other accused were acquitted of the charges of conspiracy under 120B of IPC and section 5(i)(d) and 5(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act. The Central Bureau of Investigation had filed four sets of chargesheets against Shende and others. Shende has been convicted and sentenced to similar jail term and pay a fine of Rs 2 lakh in three cases each. He has to undergo sentences consecutively.
Shende had committed a fraud through ledger folio in saving bank department of the post office by collecting deposits. The fraud was first noticed on July 9, 1985 when a cheque of Rs 20,000 came for clearance while the balance in the account of the accused was only Rs 178. He opened accounts of himself, his brother Ramkrishna, three minor sons Gajanan, Ramakant, Umakant and minor daughter Maya and committed a fraud.
Shende, his brother Ramkrishna Badge, Bhimrao Deshmukh, Vitthal Kode and Suresh were the accused in the fraud. Accused Bhimrao Deshmukh has died.
The property of Shende was seized and auctioned. The proceeds of Rs 4 lakh were credited to the government account. Now an amount of Rs over 17 lakh has to be recovered from the accused.
Arguing before the court, CBI's special prosecutor Subhash Kate said Shende systematically committed a fraud of Rs 22 lakh through ledger folio system by opening fictitious accounts while working in the post office.
In all 36 witnesses were examined. Of them, 18 were of postal department, 12 property owners, Sureshchandra Lohiya and P Bhagwandas, the sanctioning authority. Lawyer Motisingh Mohta defended the accused.

NO MONEY OBSTRUCTION .

The Department of Post (DoP) is on a technology upgrade drive. The department plans to set up 1,000 automated teller machines (ATMs) across six states —Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu — as part of its ongoing modernisation drive, said Manjula Parasher, secretary, posts.

“We will start execution of our modern technology programme across six circles by the end of this year,” said Parasher. “This will help in people getting core banking facility etc. We plan to have 1,000 ATMs in a phased manner. The process for this will start by the year-end.”

The DoP has selected five major technology companies for five of its technology advancement projects.It has issued a Letter of Intent to Infosys for two projects including rural system and financial services integration; Tata Consultancy Services for change management; Sify for network integration and Reliance Communications Infrastructure for data centre.

The department plans to start execution of some of these projects by end of this year across six states on a pilot basis.It has already received approval for Rs 1,877 crore to be spent across these projects over a period of two years and will seek additional funds when the need arises.“Funds of Rs 1,877 crore have been approved,” said Parasher. “We will go ahead with that. We may need more money because implementation in some of the cases may last over six-nine years.”The department will computerise all of its 1.6 lakh post offices across the country by 2013 with over 24,000 department post offices already computerised by March.

250 computerised post offices in J-K

With an aim of providing better services to the people, the DoP has decided to computerise at least 250 post offices in Jammu and Kashmir during the current year. “During this year, the department has taken the ambitious plan of computerising 250 post offices and modernising them to make them relevant,” said John Samuel, chief postmaster general, J&K Circle. PTI/Srinagar

Implementation of Government’s decision on the recommendations of Sixth Central Pay Commission –Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules,2008-Date of next increment in the revised Pay structure under Rule 10 of the CCS(RP) Rules,2008.

D.G. Posts No. 4-4/2008-PCC dated 20 Mar 2012.

I am directed to enclose the following order on the subject mentioned for information and further necessary action.

S.N	Office Memorandum	Subject
1.	Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure Memo No. 10/02/2011-E.III/A dated 19 March 2012	Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008-Date of next increment in the revised Pay structure under Rule 10 of the CCS(RP) Rules,2008.

Subject- Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 Date of next increment in the revised pay structure under Rule 10 of the CCS(RP) Rules, 2008.

Copy of O.M. No.10/02/2011-E.III/A dated 19.03.2012 from Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure

In accordance with the provisions contained in Rule 10 of the CCS (RP) Rules, 2008, there will be a uniform date of annual increment, viz. 1st July of every year. Employees completing 6 months and above in the revised pay structure as on 1st of July will be eligible to be granted the increment. The first increment after fixation of pay on 1.1.2006 in the revised pay structure will be granted on 1.7.2006 for those employees for whom the date of next increment was between 1st July, 2006 to 1st January, 2007.

2. The Staff Side has represented on this issue and has requested that those employees who were due to get their annual increment between February to June during 2006 may be granted one increment on 01.01.2006 in the pre-revised scale.

3. On further consideration and in exercise of the powers available under CCS(RP) Rules, 2008, the President is pleased to decide that in relaxation of stipulation under Rule 10 of these Rules, those central government employees who were due to get their annual increment between February to June during 2006 may be granted one increment on 1.1 .2006 in the pre-revised pay scale as a one time measure and there after will get the next increment in the revised pay structure on 1.7.2006 as per Rule 10 of CCS(RP) Rules, 2008. The pay of the eligible employees may be re-fixed accordingly.

4, In so far as the persons serving in the Indian Audit and Account Department are concerned, these orders are issued in consultation with the Comptroller & Auditor General of India.

I AM A SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR , AND I AM A VALUELESS PERSON IN THIS DEPARTMENT .

Friend ! as the title itself shows some negativity , but the reality is something more bitter than the title. Starting from year 2000, the early days of computerisation in this postal department , to the self sufficient fully computerised computerised department of the present era , one should not forget the role of  " SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORs " .  But SAs are being treated as just like a " MULTI - SKILLED " Group - D employee in every division of India Post .  No one , neither the divisional authorities , nor the policy makers are worried about the SAs . In fact 11 long years have been passed . But still the postal manual is silent about the duties , responsibilities &  facilities  of the SAs . 11 years time is not a short span of time . Department of post is extracting the job of a professional software engineer in the salary of a PA. It is better to sit in the counters , But when you are asking to provide service by travelling from  one SO. to the other spending money from your own pocket, rising from early morning and preparing your travel plan for reaching your destination office.No body will bother for the communication facilities, but it is expected to reach there in time . No doubt , there is the provision of TA and DA . But it depends on the grace of the divisional administrators . In most of the cases SAs have to wait for the month of  March of the next year for your legitimate claim . Still then your bill will go through a tight scrutiny. No body will care how you are managing your expenditures. Most of the place one SAs visits are not good communicated areas . Hence you have to arrange your personal means of communication . But suddenly the officials sitting under fans at division office will object your bill by saying that you are not going to be sanctioned bike mileage over 300 KMs . That means , you can't afford bike in your job  . But usually SAs are forced over phone to proceed immediately from HQ to a far of place . It is not matter for the officials having so called higher ranks , that how the SA will proceed ? Whether there is any means of communication or not  ? Another thing is that there is a strong belief that, SAs are the officials having magic hands . Whenever one SA touches one problematic unit , it will be rectified immediately with one touch. This problem arises only because of the lack of technical knowledge with the divisional office staffs and the heads. Department is emphasising upon the computerisation . Everyday one new software is coming , up gradation files are coming  . But the department has never thought that the personnel who are implementing all these things are being managed by somebody who is completely ignorant of software s and working procedure of a SA .

                                                                     Now single handed SOs  are computerised  , Where the volume of transaction is almost negligible . But still department is spending around a lakh for a office. Are not this bad expenditures ? But the department have never thought that how this huge number of systems are being managed with the constant or decreasing number of SAs ? The number of computers have been increased but the Number of SAs are constant. All the SAs are not designated Purely as SAs . They are PAs who will work as SA. That means your controlling authority will definitely use you as a PA .

                                                                    Not only the administrative staffs , the SAs are betrayed by their own colleagues also . Nobody tries to do work systematically or to do according to the instructions of the SAs. So the problem in software arises frequently. And the SO. staff only reports the SA that such and such error message is showing come immediately wherever you are doesn't matter. Where some of your colleagues closes their single handed SOs before 14.00 hrs. and goes home , SAs have no time limit and excuses .
                                       If the question , " would you like to be a SA ? "will be put before every officials of this department, their answer will be certainly , " NO " . That's why every SAs can shamefully say that        " I AM A SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR , AND I AM A VALUELESS PERSON IN THIS 
DEPARTMENT . "

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TOTAL CBS  

(HO SANCHAY & SO SANCHAY BALANCE COMPARITION TOOL)

1. This Software aims at Total Solutions for CBS Reconciliation Work

2. Through this software Discrepency list can be generated at Head Office itself by obtaining Last Balance Report file (DAT files) from SO through e-Mails. By this,  physical movement of CBS Team members can avoided to the extent posible.  This reduces finacial incurrence in form of TA/DA.


3. Head office can have a check on SO balance whenever desired.  HO can save lot of man power and time by concentrate only on discrepent a/c.

4. This software compares the HO Sanchay Balance & SO Sanchay Balance

5. This software will not calculate any Closing Balance.  It uses the Last Balance Report of SOSB Sanchay & SO Online Sanchay Post.

6. This software will generate discrepency list as on a "Given Date"
 
7. Update all the patches in Sanchay software before generation of Last Balance Report.  Last Balance report file (SB.DAT/RD.DAT/MIS.DAT etc) will be usually stored at sub folder path "SP5\OT" if generated  through Online option, or  at "SP5\DE\RD" etc if generated using Data Entry Modules or at "SP5\SOSB" if generated using SOSB Module or at "SP5\SD\SB" ETC if generated using SOSB Data entry Module
 
8. This software treats "Non Listed Sanchay A/cs in Last Balance Report" as discrepency.  As such kindly give importance for "View Excluded A/cs" option in "Last Balance Report" and take corrective steps to include "Live A/cs" into the list.
 
9. At the end of the discrepency report a summary will be generated. The total number of a/cs in summary is "sum of HO Sanchay Live A/cs and Number of SO Sanchay A/cs in excess of HO Sanchay a/cs" as this software compares HO Sanchay Balance to SO Sanchay Balance and also SO Sanchay Balance to HO Sanchay Balance.
 
10. Excess of Sanchay a/c  Accounts are mainly because of
    a. non marking of Closed or Transfer remarks
    b. No entry in common index a/cs
    c. Non effecting of inward transfers either in HO or SO
    d. Listing of accounts having Zero Balance.
 
11. It is possible with this software to tally the Amount and also number of accounts at HO & SO.

12. At most care is taken before release of this software.  However if any drawbacks are found in the software please give your feed backs through any of the contact details provided in next window.

Note :  Download from the link below and extract the files to any location.  Create a shortcut for the Totalcbs.exe on the desktop


User guidence :


1. Generate last balance report for the required category for the range of account number and the date as on which you want discrepency report. A .dat file will be created.


2. Get the .DAT file from the sub office generating the last balance report for the same category and for the same account range and the date.


3. In the fetch data menu first show the path of HO Sanchay DAT file and then show the path of SO Sanchay DAT file


4. Process the file


5. Get the discrepency report.


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PAY RULLINGS

1.     Pay & Allied Issues

1.      What are all the conditions for claiming stepping up of Pay with juniors?

Ø  (i) Both senior and junior must be in the same cadre in identical pay scales and also in the same recruiting unit.

(ii) Posts to which they are promoted must also be identical and same.

(iii) At the time of promotion, senior must be getting equal or more pay than junior.

(iv) Anomaly should be direct result of application of FR 22 (c) or any pay fixation rules.

2.      How option can be made for pay fixation on date of promotion which will be advantageous?

Ø  As per the revised pay rules, if the promotion is in between 2^nd July to 31^st December, his next increment will be from 1^st July of the same year. If the promotion is accorded in between 1^st Jan to 30^th June in a year, his increment will be drawn only in the next year. So, one has to carefully study before making option for pay fixation at the time of promotion.

3.      What is the restriction under FR 35 for officiating pay when a Government is ordered to work in higher posts?

Ø  As per DOPT OM No. F/1/4/2009 - Estt (pay I) dt. 08.03.2010, for employees receiving pay in the pay band up to Rs.14880 PM (our cases), 15% of the basic pay subject to a maximum of Rs. 2000/- PM (including the difference of grade pay between the feeder and the promotional post). The annual increment @ 3% of the basic pay so fixed shall be granted.

4.      What are all the cases which will not construe under the pay anomalies?

Ø   (i) Senior getting less pay in lower post due to postponement of date of next increment on account of his proceeding on extraordinary leave.

(ii) Senior refusing promotion leading to early promotion of the junior and later promotion of the senior.

(iii) Junior getting higher pay in lower post due to adhoc arrangements.

(iv) Senior joining higher post later and getting lower pay.

(v)  Senior appointed to lower post later than the junior but getting promoted earlier than the junior.

(vi) Senior direct recruits getting less pay than the junior promotees whose pay is fixed with reference to pay last drawn.

(vii)Junior getting more pay due to additional increments earned on acquiring higher qualifications.

(DOP&T OM No. 4/7/92 – Estt (Pay I) dt. 04.11.93)

5.      Whether stepping up of pay can be allowed second time with another official?

Ø  As per DOPT order dated 22.07.1985, the benefit of stepping up of pay can be allowed to senior official second time, provided the anomaly has arisen with reference to the pay of the same junior, with reference to whom the pay of the senior was stepped up first time. As such there is no provision to step up with another person directly.