HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES , PURI DIVISIONAL BRANCH WISHES A VERY HAPPY & HAPPENING NEW YEAR 2013 TO ALL ITS MEMBERS AND ITS VIEWERS. MAY LORD JAGANNATH BLESS YOU ALL AND YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS.

                                                                 

                                                            WITH BEST WISHES

                                                        Sri Govind Chandra Pratihari

                                                     DIVISIONAL. SECRETARY 'NAPE' PURI .

Infosys plans to roll out Rs 700-crore project for India Post in 2 years

IT major Infosys plans to roll out in about two years, its Rs 700-crore project that would help India Post transform its banking and insurance operations across 150,000 post offices in the country.
Infosys would implement and manage its flagship Finacle Core Banking and McCamish Insurance products to help India Post transform its banking and insurance operations - covering more than 200 million banking customers across urban and rural India, including a large base of insurance customers.
                                                                   

"We are expecting to roll out the project for India Post in 18-24 months. We will roll it out for 150,000 branches across 22 circles. It will change the way India Post operates at present," Infosys Vice-President and Head ( India Business) Raghupathi N Cavale told reporters here.
Speaking on the sidelines of 'INFOCOM 2012', he said the company is keen on developing similar projects for retail, health and education sectors.
"We are looking at mobility as a very strong theme," Cavale said.
As per an agreement between Infosys and India Post, the two would embark on a transformational initiative, which encompassed financial services system integration.
The project, estimated at Rs 700 crore, aimed to transform India Post into a technology-enabled and autonomous market leader, by revolutionising its financial operations and end-user services, according to an earlier statement by Infosys.
This was part of the 'India Post 2012' modernisation programme that aimed at bringing transparency, agility, flexibility and scalability to India Post's operations.
Infosys would be also install 1,000 ATMs for India Post as part of this programme and implement an electronic content management system to manage millions of documents generated as part of India Post's financial operations.

Modernisation and Diversification of Post Offices

The Department of Posts has decided to improve Look and Feel of its post offices through Project Arrow. The project has been launched by modernizing departmental post offices across the country in a phased manner with an aim to make visible, tangible and noteworthy differences in post office operations that matter to ‘AamAadmi’. It aims at comprehensive improvement of the core operations of the post office as well as the ambience in which postal transactions are undertaken.

The number of post offices covered for modernization under ‘Look & Feel’ component of ‘Project Arrow’ during the last three years is as follows:

2009-10  -  500 post offices covered

2010-11  -  530 post offices covered

2011-12          -  206 post offices covered

The Department is diversifying activities in post Office to earn additional revenue which is an on-going process. The IT Platform set up under the IT project will support new products and services. It had diversified its activities to utilize its vast network to sell products and services for other organizations like:

1.     Booking of Railway reserved tickets.

2.     UID enrolment / Delivery of AADHAAR cards.

3.     Selling of passport forms in identified post offices.

4.     Accepting of utility bills in identified post offices.

5.     Disbursement of wages to MGNREGA beneficiaries through Post Office Savings bank

6.     Collection of Rural Price Index Data – the data so collected are electronically transmitted to Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation.

7.     Payment of old age pension paid by State Government through Post Office Savings Account and through Money Orders.

8.     Sale of gold Coins.

9.     Provision of New Pension Scheme through Post Officers, etc.

This information was given by Dr (Smt.) Killi Kruparani, Minister of State for C&IT in written reply to a question in Rajya   Sabha today.

Ban on new recruitment in Central Government Departments..!

Ban on new recruitment in Central Government Departments..!

Any ban order on recruitment in Central Government Services..?

Important reply as clarification by the concerned Ministry was submitted in the Parliament on 12.12.2012.

The Minister of Dopt has given reply to a question in Lok Sabha regarding the ban on new recruitment in Central Government Departments on 12th December 2012. 

The Minister said that there is no ban on recruitment in Central Government. And the all Ministries and Departments concerned are required to fill up the vacancies within the framework of existing instructions and rules keeping in view functional requirement of the posts.

The government will set up camps in educational institutions and villages to speed up enrollment of beneficiaries under direct cash transfer scheme, a finance ministry official said. 

Direct cash transfer, a method the government hopes will plug leakages and cut delays in transfer of subsidies to the poor, is to be rolled out in 51 districts in 15 states from January 1. 

Enrollment camps will be set up in schools and colleges for cash transfers under scholarship schemes, and in villages and bank branch service areas for all other schemes. 

"Concerns have been raised on how we will be able to enroll beneficiaries. This camp-based approach will help us reach out to every nook and corner of the country," the official said. Earlier in the Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister P Chidambaram had denied that the government was implementing the cash transfer system in a hurry, saying measures were being implemented step by step to eliminate leakages, delays, and falsification. 

"The scheme was not devised in a hurry. It will not be implemented in a hurry. Our watchword for the scheme is 'we will not hasten, will implement it slowly, step by step'" Chidambaram said in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. 

The camps, which will function for three consecutive days, will help beneficiaries open a bank or Postal Account and also apply for an Aadhaar number—a unique identification number being issued to all resident Indians. These camps will have representatives from the district administration, the leading bank in the region, and the postal department. 

All departments concerned will coordinate with the district magistrates for the smooth functioning of these camps, the official said. Once data is captured in the system, it will be transmitted to the district office of the department concerned. 

Collated data will be shared between government departments, banks and Post Offices for cross-verification. 

"This will be a massive exercise that will be carried out over the next two three weeks, being undertaken under the supervision of district-level co-ordination committee," the official said. 

The official said the process will help cross-check data on beneficiaries and help avoid duplication. The government has already begun the process for implementing direct transfer of cash subsidy on PDS kerosene in 11 states and Union Territories. 

The department of food and public distribution proposes to implement the scheme for beneficiaries of the Targeted Public Distribution System in six Union Territories on a pilot basis.

Reduction in Commission of PPF agents to make the Schemes more Investor Centric than Agent Centric

The recommendation of Shyamala Gopinath Committee regarding agents’ commission was to reduce commission of 0.5% on Senior Citizens Saving Scheme (SCSS) and 1% on Public Provident Fund (PPF) to zero, reduce 4% commission under Mahila Pradhan Kshetriya Bachat Yojana (MPKBY) to 1% in a phased manner and to reduce 1% commission for all other schemes under Standardised Agency System (SAS) to 0.5%. The Government, after consulting all the stakeholders and the representations received, has decided to reduce the commission under PPF and SCSS to zero and under SAS to 0.5%. However, commission under MPKBY continues to be at 4% for the time being. 

The main intention of these recommendations is to make these schemes more investor centric than agent centric. 

Representations of Small Savings Agents’ Association from various states including Mumbai were received in the past. Taking into account large number of representations received from Small Savings Agent’s Associations, Members of Parliament, other dignitaries and others, the Government accepted most of the recommendations of the Committee. 

This was stated by the Minister of State for Finance Shri Namo Narain Meena in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today. 

Governmentt warns of action against striking staff

The Centre has issued a warning of disciplinary action to dissuade its 13 lakh-odd employees from participating in the strike called by the confederation of central government employees on Wednesday. 

All departments have been asked to take disciplinary action against babus who skip work for the strike apart from deducting their wages for the day. 

The personnel ministry has even sought a list of all employees who don't turn up for work on December 12. Departments are usually given about 15 days to inform the Centre about babus that participated in a strike, but this time the list of absentees has been sought by the same evening. 

The government was informed of the strike by the confederation in November, citing 15 unmet demands such as scrapping the new pension scheme, setting up the Seventh Pay Commission and revival of negotiations between the government and its workers through the Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM).

THANKS FRIENDS .

"NAPE ,PURI DIVISIONAL BRANCH" WISHES A HEARTY CONGRATULATION TO ALL ITS MEMBERS ,THOSE WHO DID N'T PARTICIPATED IN THE STRIKE SHOWING THEIR MORAL SUPPORT TO THE ASSOCIATION. ANY PROBLEM REGARDING THIS MATTER MAY BE CONTACTED TO THE DIVL . SECRETERY AT 9438185935  .

G.C.PRATIHARI
SECY. NAPE PURI.