MACP for Railway Employees – Two important Clarification on Benchmark MACP Scheme and regarding employees joined another organization

Financial upgradation under MACPS in the case of staff who joined another unit/organization on request:

• Regular service rendered in previous organization/office shall be counted along with the regular service in the new organization
• Wherever an official, in accordance with terms and conditions of transfer on own volition to a Lower post, is reverted to the lower Post/Grade from te promoted Post/Grade before being relieved for the new organization/office, such past promotion in the previous organization/office will be ignored for the purpose of MACP Scheme in the new organization

Benchmark for MACP Scheme

• In the hierarchy of grade pay within the PB-I Benchmark will be fitness
• After PB-1, the benchmark of ‘Good’ would be applicable till the grade pay of 6600/- in PB-3. The benchmark will be ‘Very Good’ for financial upgradation to the grade pay of Rs.7600 and above.
• Where the financial upgradation under MACPS also happens to be in the promotional grade and benchmark for promotion is lower than the benchmark for granting the benefit under MACPS as mentioned in para-17 ibid, the benchmark for promotion shall apply to MACP also
• Wherever promotions are given on non-selection basis (i.e. on seniority-cum-fitness basis), the prescribed benchmark as mentioned in para-17 of Annexure-I to Board’s letter dated 10-06-2009 shall not apply

The full text of this Railway Board is as follows:

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

RAILWAY BOARD

S. No.PC-VI/313

No. PC-V/2009/ACP/2

RBE No.08/2013

New Delhi, dated 31/01/2013

The General Managers

All Indian Railways & PUs

(As per mailing list)

Subject :- Modified ACP Scheme (MACPS) for Railway employees – clarification-regarding.

Reference is invited to the Board’s letter of even number dated 10-06-2009 regarding the Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS) to Railway employees. Pursuant to the discussions in the meeting of National Advisory Committee held on 17-07-12 and subsequent meeting on 27-07-2012 held with the Staff Side and in continuation to clarifications issued vide Board’s letter of even number dated 28-12-2010, it is further clarified as under:

2(i). Financial upgradation under MACPS in the case of staff who joined another unit/organization on request.

Railway Board’s letter of even number dated 28-12-2010 provides that in case of transfer ‘including unilateral transfer on request’, regular service rendered in previous organization/office shall be counted along with the regular service in the new organization/office for the purpose of getting financial upgradations under the MACP Scheme. However, financial upgradation under the MACP Scheme shall be allowed in the immediate next higher grade pay in the hierarchy of revised Pay Bands as given in Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008. It is now further clarified that wherever an official, in accordance with terms and conditions of transfer on own volition to a Lower post, is reverted to the lower Post/Grade from te promoted Post/Grade before being relieved for the new organization/office, such past promotion in the previous organization/office will be ignored for the purpose of MACP Scheme in the new organization/office. In respect of those cases where benefit of pay protection have been allowed at the time of unilateral transfer to other organization/unit and thus the employee had carried the financial benefit of promotion, the promotion earned in previous organization has to be reckoned for the purpose of MACP Scheme.

2. (ii) Benchmark for MACP Scheme:

Para 17 of Annexure-1 of Railway Board’s letter dt. 10-06-09 provide that the financial upgradation would be on Non-functional basis subject to fitness, in the hierarchy of grade pay within the PB-I. Thereafter for upgradation under the MACPS, the benchmark of ‘Good’ would be applicable till the grade pay of 6600/- in PB-3. The benchmark will be ‘Very Good’ for financial upgradation to the grade pay of Rs.7600 and above. Railway Board’s letter of even number dated 28-12-2010 provides that where the financial upgradation under MACPS also happens to be in the promotional grade and benchmark for promotion is lower than the benchmark for granting the benefit under MACPS as mentioned in para-17 ibid, the benchmark for promotion shall apply to MACP also. It is now further clarified that wherever promotions are given on non-selection basis (i.e. on seniority-cum-fitness basis), the prescribed benchmark as mentioned in para-17 of Annexure-I to Board’s letter dated 10-06-2009 shall not apply for the purpose of grant of financial upgradation under MACP Scheme.

3. The instructions issued on MACP Scheme vide Board’s letter of even number dated 10-06-2009 stands modified to the above extent.

4. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

5. Hindi version is enclosed.

[DoP&T's OM No.35034/3/2008-Estt.(D) (Vol.II), dt. 4th October, 2012]

sd/-

(N.P.Singh)

Dy. Director, Pay Commission-V

Railway Board

Cash transfer from February 9

The direct cash transfer scheme (DCT) is going to be launched through post offices in Chittoor district. The seeding of the accounts of beneficiaries with Aadhaar numbers and biometrics is being completed and it would be launched by February 9, Chief Postmaster General AP Circle Karuna Pillai said.

Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Information Technology and Communication Killi Kripa Rani, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and other Ministers and dignitaries are expected to attend the launch, she said speaking on the sidelines of the AP Postal Regional Cultural Selection Trials 2013 here on Saturday.

Further, the Department of Posts is launching its core banking service in Srikakulam district and Parvathipuram division this month, she said. With the linking of the postal savings bank accounts the users would be able to transact their accounts in any post office in the region for now and later it would be expanded to cover all the post offices. These accounts also would be seeded with the Aadhaar and biometric details to enable their unique identification and enable them to be used for the Centre’s DCT scheme.

Accepting the fact that there were delays in the delivery of Aadhaar cards to individuals she said that postmen were heavily burdened. In some cases the postmen have 8,000 articles to deliver. This would cause a delay in their delivery. In Hyderabad, the postmen have been delivering the Aadhaar cards on Sundays and holidays also, she said and added that the Department was also recruiting staff apart from provide postmen with two-wheelers to increase the efficiency in the last mile delivery, she added.

The Department will sett up two automatic mail sorting machines at its complex near the Hyderabad airport. One system would cater to the regular letters and the other to sort the parcels. The letter sorting machine would be able to handle 35,000 letters per hour and the other would be able to sort 25,000 parcels per hour.

8% DA HIKE FOR CENTRAL GOVT STAFF

In a major development, the Union Cabinet on Friday approved 8% hike in the Dearness Allowance (DA) for central government employees and pensioners. This decision is likely to bring some relief to nearly 50 lakh central government employees trying to cope up with spiraling inflation and price hike.

Source:zee news

WISHES OF REPUBLIC DAY

" NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES " , PURI DIVISIONAL BRANCH  SALUTES THE HERO'S OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY & WISHES A VERY HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY OF INDIA TO ALL ITS MEMBERS AND VIEWERS OF THIS BLOGGER. 

                                                                                                                  

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           WITH REGARDS FROM

            SRI G.C. PRATIHARI

DIVIL. SECRETERY , NAPEPURI Gr-'C'

        

LOOK AND FEEL OF THE JANLA POST OFFICE.

This is the condition of the JANLA Sub-postoffice in account with Khurda Head postoffice . This is a Project arrow office. And this is the condition of the project arrow and look and feel system of the department. This is a double hand office with other GDS staffs for packing and mail delivery. What about their lives ? The divisional administration has become completely paralysed. It is not in a mood to spend a single pie .It only bothers when DET of certain day has not been transfered to central server by any office.This office is situated on NH-5 ,very near to Bhubaneswar. When this is the condition of road side offices,then our viewers are very intelligent . Because of this condition of the office, attempt of theft have been occurred twice and each time divisional administration fixed responsibility upon the SPM as there is a provision of a quarter attached to it. But divisional office is quite inhuman to think that a SPM is bound to reside in this quarter of ruined condition. Let's see when the department wakes up from deep sleep ? Hope that day will come soon.

Expected DA from January 2013 is 8%

Dearness allowance to all Central Government employees and Pensioners from Jan 2013 will be expected to enhance by 8% and the total DA also will raise to 80% from Jan 2013.

PENSION-IMPORTANT POINTS.-A touch up

Pension :

1 The maximum limit for commutation has been raised to 40% w.e.f. 1.1.1996.A Government servant is now entitled to commute for a lumpsum payment up to 40% of his/her pension.

2 Provisional pension and provisional gratuity (up to 100%) should be sanctioned by the Head of Office if he were of the opinion that the Government servant is likely to retire before his pension or gratuity or both can be finally assessed and settled in accordance with the relevant rules.

3 In the case of a missing Government servant/pensioner, family pension can be paid after a period of six months from the date of lodging an FIR with the police authorities.

4 A judicially separated spouse of the deceased Government servant with children can get family pension after the children cease to be eligible till his/her death/remarriage, whichever is earlier.

5 Dependent parents and widowed/divorced daughter/unmarried daughter are now included in the definition of family for the purpose of consideration for grant of family pension.

6 Family pension is also admissible to a posthumous child and also to children from the void or the voidable marriage as per the relevant provisions in the rules.

7 Normal family pension is now at a uniform rate of 30% of pay last drawn, subject to a minimum of Rs. 3500 (w.e.f. 1.1.2006).

8 Family pension is admissible to children from the void or voidable marriage in their own turn, after the legally wedded wife ceases to be the recipient of the family pension.

9 In the event of death of a family pensioner, the arrears of family pension is automatically payable to the eligible member of the family next in line. Succession certificate for payment of the arrears is required only in such cases where there is no family member eligible to receive family pension after the death of the family pensioner.

10 With effect from 1.1.2006, in case of a Government Servant retiring in accordance with the provisions of CCS(Pension) Rules after completing qualifying service of not less than ten years, the amount of pension is calculated at fifty percent of emoluments or average emoluments whichever is more beneficial to him.

Gratuity :

11 The maximum limit of all types of gratuity has been raised to Rs. 10 lakhs w.e.f. 1.1.2006

12 Dearness Allowance admissible on the date of retirement/death is included in the emoluments for the purpose of computing all types of gratuity.

13 Interest (at the rate applicable to GPF deposits determined from time to time by the Government of India) is payable on delayed payment of DCRG, if it is delayed beyond three months from the date of retirement.

14 Qualifying service of 3 months and above may be rounded-off into a completed six-monthly period for the purpose of computation of both pension and DCRG. The period of nine months would thus be considered as two half years.

15 Dismissal or removal of a Government servant from a service or post entails forfeiture of his/her past service

Miscellaneous :

16 PPO should be issued so as to reach the Government servant at least one month in advance of his date of superannuation.

17 No specific orders are necessary for retirement on due date.

18 Retirement benefits up to Rs. 10,000 can be paid through uncrossed cheque/demand draft.

19 Encashment of leave is a benefit granted under CCS (Leave) Rules and thus not a pensionary benefit. As per the current provision, no interest is payable on the delayed payment of leave encashment.

20 Payments under Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme (CGEGIS) are not terminal benefit and can not be withheld. No Government dues can be recovered from the accumulation except the amount claimed by the financial institution as dues from the employee on account of loans taken for house building purpose.No interest is payable on account of the delayed payments under this scheme.

21 Dues to Municipality (water and electricity charges etc.) and Co-operative Societies are not treated as Government dues, since Municipal Committees and Co-operative Societies are not considered as Government bodies/organizations. No recovery of such dues can be made from the DCRG.

22 Only arrears of license fee can be recovered from dearness relief.

Source:http://www.pensionersportal.gov.in/douknow.asp

FIXATION OF PAY ON PROMOTION TO A POST CARRYING HIGHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES BUT CARRYING THE SAME GRDAE PAY.

MOCKERY ! MAIL NOT DELIVERED TO PRESIDENT OF INDIA.

HYDERABAD: After failing to deliver mail, including a registered parcel, addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee, Bolarum post office staff on Tuesday redirected it to Rashtrapti Bhavan in New Delhi.

At 8 am, senior India Post officials landed at R P Nilayam in Bolarum to deliver the mail to the VVIP guest. However, the President's security personnel initially stopped and denied them entry into the premises. Though they showed their identity cards and even tried to convince security personnel that they had to deliver letters to the President, their efforts were proved futile.

Meanwhile, the security personnel communicated to R P Nilayam authorities about the waiting India Post staff and explained about their purpose of visit. After half-an-hour, the security personnel permitted them to enter the R P Nilayam premises.

Till 3 pm, they were forced to wait at bungalow to deliver the mail. Meanwhile, R P Nilayam in-charge N Mahesh Babu spoke to the President's office. They advised him to re-direct the mail to Delhi immediately.

"As the President was flying back to the national capital, the authorities asked us to re-direct the dak in a special sealed pack to RP Bhavan, Delhi. Accordingly, we sent them," sources said.

Meanwhile, the postal department has launched an investigation to find out the reasons for non-delivery of the mail to the President. India Post officials also recorded the statements of both post-master A Durga Rao and postman Mahesh regarding reasons for delay in delivering the mail to the first citizen of the country.

GREETINGS OF NEW YEAR

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.

WISHES OF KARTIK PURNIMA

AA KA MA BAI ,PANA GUA THOI

PANA,GUA TORA ,MASAKA DHARMA MORA

"NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES" , GR-'C', PURI DIVISIONAL BRANCH WISHES ALL ITS MEMBERS AND VIEWERS, A VERY HAPPY AND DEVOTIONAL KARTIK PURNIMA.

                                                                                       WITH REGARDS
                                                                                Sri  G.C. Pratihari
                                       Secretery "NAPE",
                                       PURI DIVIL. BRANCH

IFS : INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM APPLICATION

The International Financial System application (IFS) is a standalone application, which takes care of the electronic transfer of international money orders. IFS uses electronic data interchange (EDI) to send international money order data electronically, using sophisticated data encryption techniques to ensure the integrity of the data sent over the postal network. IFS also helps Posts provide electronic domestic money order services.

IFS is a complete management tool that responds perfectly to the needs of Posts in the electronic transfer of money orders especially at a time when the money transfer market is becoming increasingly competitive.

Its Gross National Index (GNI) based costing structure and low transaction-tax enables a very fast return on investment. The goal of the IFS system is to provide postal enterprises with reliable, secure, and timely electronic financial services, which in turn allows Posts to be more competitive in the global marketplace. The IFS system not only handles all phases of international and domestic money processing but also provides advanced features that facilitate cash management and accounting.

IFS has a wide range of functions, including: Money order data collection, such as registration of any processing up to the final payment, reimbursement or cancellation of the transaction Tracking and tracing of individual transactions or groups of transactions Money order service monitoring and production of statistics Quality control measurements Bi-lateral agreement definition and automatic validation of transactions against the agreements Production of UPU standard international accounting documents

IFS also supports a variety of money order and fund transfer services, from ordinary cash-to-cash orders to urgent wired transfers. On the IFS network, any transfer of data is protected by strong software encryption techniques. Network members are part of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) operated by the PTC. The IFS operational front-end is run as a Web application. This is specifically adapted for easy deployment over an Intranet or even over the Internet. It is possible to secure the protocol between the Web browser and the Application server. IFS can easily be interfaced with an existing application, such as a counter operations system. In addition, the system user interface can be localised into any language. The advantages of the International Financial System include: IFS can be used as a simple gateway for accessing the postal network or as a complete money order management tool IFS complies with all UPU regulations IFS is easy to deploy and staff training can be provided during the installation phase. In most cases, no additional hardware is required IFS is an end-to-end solution and can be used from the point of sale (at the origin) to the point of final payment (at the destination) IFS supports multiple international and domestic services and service definitions are free. Each network member is free to negotiate and configure the service conditions, rules and prices bilaterally with each of its partners IFS is scalable ensuring that the same software supports from very low to very high volumes of transactions IFS functions are constantly enhanced, based on requests from all network members IFS offers various options for connecting to the postal network, including leased line or dial-up over the Internet or using SITA lines