0 Govt filed Appeal on modified parity in pension to the pensioners retired prior to 1.1.2006

The Government has filed an Appeal against the 1ST November 2011 judgment of the Principal Bench of Delhi Central Administrative Tribunal on modified parity in pension to the pensioners retired prior to 1.1.2006. You may remember that the Principal Bench of Delhi CAT had directed implementation of OM dated 1.9.2008 based on the Government's Resolution dated 29.08.2008 accepting the recommendation of 6th CPC for modified parity of pension to pre 1.1.2006 pensioners by nullifying the clarificatory orders issued subsequently that denied the...

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0 Awards for PLI / RPLI Best performers in AP Circle

As a part of celebration of February 2012 as Postal Life Insurance month, a valedictory function is being organized on 29.02.2012 at 17.00 hrs at Asman Mahal Community hall, P& T Officers Quarters, Khairatabad  to felicitate the best PLI/RPLI performers in Andhra Pradesh Postal Circle.  The awards are being presented in the following categories  for procuring highest business in PLI/RPLI  during the year 2010-2011. Sl No Category Best performer in PLI Best Performer RPLI...

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0 National Pension Schemes will be linked to Aadhar

The Rural Development Minister Shri Jairam Ramesh today said that National Social Assisstance Programme, NSAP will be completely restructured and all payments under the scheme will be done through Aadhar-based payment system. Talking to a select group of media persons here, he said, the restructured system will be in place by 10th of March this year and it will ensure that each beneficiary under old age, disabilities and widow pension schemes will get one’s entitlement every month and there will be no delay in payments. He said, the Central...

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0 Dependent children of widowed/separated daughters to be included in CGHS

The ministry of health and family welfare decided to expand the ambit of Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) to include dependent children of widowed/separated daughters as beneficiaries under the government’s comprehensive health scheme. Till now, serving central government employees, pensioners, current and former members of Parliament, serving and retired judges of Supreme Court and high court, freedom fighters, accredited journalists, former governor and former vice president of India could avail of CGHS benefits.“The move has...

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0 GENERAL STRIKE ON 28 th February 2012

Postal Federations have jointly given a call to all Postal employees to participate in the one day token strike on 28th February 2012 (Tuesday) based on the call given by Central Trade Unions.The unions have come together on a five-point charter, which seeks strict enforcement of all basic labour laws without any exception or exemption and stringent punitive measures for violation; a universal social security cover for unorganised sector workers without any restriction and creation of a National Social Security Fund.Workers of all 11 recognised...

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0 Minutes of the meeting of Departmental Council (JCM) held on 10.02.2012

Government of IndiaMinistry of Communications & ITDepartment of Posts( SR  Section )Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi -110001No.6/2/2011-SR                                                                               ...

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0 Postmen to now collect data for calculation of rural Consumer Price Index (CPI)

NEW DELHI: The postman in rural areas across the country has his hands full. Apart from his regular job, he now has to go out three to four times a week to collect data from retail outlets which is then used to calculate the rural consumer price inflation.Faced with an acute manpower shortage, the ministry of statistics and programme implementation tied up with the department of posts to get over the problem of collecting such massive amount of data from rural areas across the country. "When we were discussing about the comprehensive CPI...

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0 House panel for hiking IT relief limit to Rs.3 lakh

Parliamentary Committee, scrutinising the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill, will recommend raising the annual income-tax exemption limit to Rs.3 lakh and hiking the limit on tax breaks for investments to Rs.2.50 lakh following a broad consensus among its members. “There is a consensus among the members that the annual tax-exemption limit be raised to Rs.3 lakh,” sources said after a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, chaired by senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha. Some members had earlier suggested that the annual income-tax...

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0 Task Force on an Aadhaar Enabled Unified Payment Infrastructure Submits Report to Finance Minister

The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that Aadhaar-Enabled E-payment system would help not only in ensuring the timely payments directly to the intended beneficiaries but would also help in reducing the time taken, transaction costs and the leakages among others.  The Finance Minister said that this would also help in bringing transparency in the system and reducing avoidable delays.  The Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee was speaking after receiving the Final Report of the Task Force on Aaadhar-Enabled Unified Payment...

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0 RTI Queries Don't Affect Govt. Work

The time spent by government officials replying to RTI is so little that it cannot be a pretext for them to shirk that task. In August 2011, the Supreme Court made an observation which had some unintended consequences on the Right to Information (RTI) process. The judgement by Justice R.V. Raveendran is turning out to be a seemingly legitimate excuse for government officials to restrict information. Aditya Bandopadhyay went to court when...

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0 CHQ News - Communication of AIC resolution on IP Grade pay

No. CHQ/IPASP/1/2012 Dated : 22/2/2012. To, Ms Yesodhara Menon, Member (P),Department of Posts,Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi 110 001. Subject : Minutes of the meeting taken by Secretary (Posts) with All India Association of Inspectors and Assistant Superintendents Posts on 3/11/2011. Ref. : Directorate Letter No. 01/01/2011-SR dated 14/11/2011. Respected Madam, The 37th All India Biennial Conference of this Association was held at Bangaluru on 28th and 29th January, 2012. In the Conference, the matter related to merger of the posts...

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Sri N.Umamaheswara rao Inspector Posts RMS "V" Dn Visakhapatnam was felicitated at Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad on 18.02.2012  for winning first prize to his childrens story book "Melerigina Manishi" in children story Books competition (Bala Sahitya Grandhala Poti) from Arunodaya Art Creations and Rashtra Bala Sahitya Parishad, Hyderabad. Other dignitaries present on the occasion are Sri P.Vijayababu, Editor Andhra Prabha...

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0 Consideration of compassionate engagement to Depandants of GDS discharged on medical grounds prior to 14.12.2010

Government of India Ministry of Communication & IT Department of Posts (GDS Section) Dak Bhawan, Sandad Marg New Delhi – 110001 No. 19-19/2009-GDS                                                                                       ...

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