Sunday, 10 November 2013
Post Offices should become the Front Offices of the Government of India - Cabinet Secretary
Post Offices should become the Front Offices of the Government of India - Cabinet Secretary
Shri Ajit Seth, Union Cabinet Secretary, has said that Post Offices should become the Front Offices of the Government of India, enlarging their role in communication, distribution and financial services. Quoting models from other countries, he said that the post office plays a significant role in the development of the nation. Shri Seth said this here today while interacting with senior officers of the Department of Posts as part of off-campus talks on ‘Good Governance’ organized by the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy.
“With a large network of 1,55,000 Post Offices spread across the country, the Post Office touches the life of everyone. There is a joy in visiting the Post Office”, the Cabinet Secretary said. He expressed his satisfaction on the implementation of the IT modernization project of the Department. With a large outlay of Rs 4,900 crore, the IT project of India Post will bring substantial benefits to the citizens of India. Shri Seth wanted the Department to be prepared to manage the massive changes that would arise on introduction of the IT modernization project. He felt that with this kind of technology initiative, the Post Office will be in a position to become the front office of the Government to the citizens.
“With a large network of 1,55,000 Post Offices spread across the country, the Post Office touches the life of everyone. There is a joy in visiting the Post Office”, the Cabinet Secretary said. He expressed his satisfaction on the implementation of the IT modernization project of the Department. With a large outlay of Rs 4,900 crore, the IT project of India Post will bring substantial benefits to the citizens of India. Shri Seth wanted the Department to be prepared to manage the massive changes that would arise on introduction of the IT modernization project. He felt that with this kind of technology initiative, the Post Office will be in a position to become the front office of the Government to the citizens.
Source :IPASPANDHRA
CCS (CCA) RULES - Resignation from Service procedure
CENTRAL CIVIL SERVICES (CCA) RULES, 1965
CCS (CCA) RULES - Resignation from Service
(12) Resignation from Service procedure in respect of :-
Instructions have been issued from time to time on the subject of resignation. These instructions have now been consolidated for facility of reference and guidance of all the Ministry/Departments of the Government of India.
1. Resignation is an intimation in writing sent to the competent authority by the incumbent of a post, of his intention or proposal to resign the office/post either immediately or from a future specified date. A resignation has to be clear and unconditional.
2. it is not in the interest of Government to retain an unwilling Government servant in service. The general rule, therefore, is that a resignation of a Government servant from service should be accepted, except in the circumstances indicated below :-
(i) Where the Government servant concerned is engaged on work of importance and it would take time to make alternative arrangements for filling the post, the resignation should not be accepted straightway but only when alternative arrangements for filling the post have been made.
(ii) Where a Government servant who is under suspension submits a resignation the competent authority should examine, with reference to the merit of the disciplinary case pending against the Government servant, whether it would be in the public interest to accept the resignation. Normally, as Government servants are placed under suspension only in cases of grave delinquency, it would not be correct to accept a resignation from a Government servant under suspension. Exceptions to this rule would be where the alleged offences do not involve moral turpitude or where the quantum of evidence against the accused Government servant is not strong enough to justify the assumption that if the departmental proceedings were continued, he would be removed or dismissed from service, or where the departmental proceedings are likely to be so protracted that it would be cheaper to the public exchequer to accept the resignation.
In those cases where acceptance of resignation is considered necessary in the public interest, the resignation may be accepted with the prior approval of the Head of the Department in respect of Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ posts and that of the Minister in charge in respect of holders of Group ‘A’ and ‘B’ posts. In so far as Group ‘B’ officers serving in Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, the resignation of such officers shall not be accepted except with the prior approval of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Concurrence of the Central Vigilance Commission should be obtained before submission of the case to the Minister-in-charge/Comptroller and Auditor General, if the Central Vigilance Commission had advised initiation of departmental action against the Government servant concerned or such action has been initiated on the advice of the Central Vigilance Commission.
3. A resignation becomes effective when it is accepted and the Government servant is relieved of his duties. If a Government servant who had submitted a resignation, sends an intimation in writing to the appointing authority withdrawing his earlier letter of resignation before its acceptance by the appointing authority, the resignation will be deemed to have been automatically withdrawn and there is no question of accepting the resignation. In case, however, the resignation had been accepted by the appointing authority and the Government servant is to be relieved from a future date, if any request for withdrawing the resignation is made by the Government servant before he is actually relieved of his duties, the normal principle should be to allow the request of the Government servant to withdraw the resignation. If, however, the request for withdrawal is to be refused, the grounds for the rejection of the request should be duly recorded by the appointing authority and suitably intimated to the Government servant concerned.
4. Since a temporary Government servant can sever his connection from a Government service by giving a notice of termination of service under Rule 5 (1) of the Central Civil Services (TS) Rules, 1965, the instructions contained in this Office Memorandum relating to acceptance of resignation will not be applicable in cases where a notice of termination of service has been given by a temporary Government servant. If, however, a temporary Government servant submits a letter of resignation in which he does not refer to Rule 5 (1) of the CCS (TS) Rules, 1965, or does not even mention that it may be treated as a notice of termination of service, he can relinquish the charge of the post held by him only after the resignation is duly accepted by the appointing authority and he is relieved of his duties and not after the expiry of te notice period laid down in the Temporary Service Rules.
5. The procedure for withdrawal of resignation after it has become effective and the Government servant had relinquished the charge of his earlier post, are governed by the following statutory provision in sub-rules (4) to (6) of Rule 26 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 which corresponds to Art. 418 (b) of the Civil Service Regulations:-
“(4) The appointing authority may permit a person to withdraw his resignation in the public interest on the following conditions, namely :-
(i) that the resignation was tendered by the Government servant for some compelling reasons which did not involve any reflection on his integrity, efficiency or conduct and the request for withdrawal of the resignation has been made as a result of a material change in the circumstances which originally compelled him to tender the resignation;
(ii) that during the period intervening between the date on which the resignation became effective and the date from which the request for withdrawal was made, the conduct of the person concerned was in no way improper;
(iii) that the period of absence from duty between the date on which the resignation became effective and the date on which the person is allowed to resume duty as a result of permission to withdraw the resignation is not more than ninety days;
(iv) that the post, which was vacated by the Government servant on the acceptance of his resignation or any other comparable post, is available;
(v) request for withdrawal of resignation shall not be accepted by the appointing authority where a Government servant resigns his service or post with a view to taking up an appointment in or under a corporation or company wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the Government or in or under a body controlled or financed by the Government;
(vi) When an order is passed by the appointing authority allowing a person to withdraw his resignation and to resume duty the order shall be deemed to include the condonation of interruption in service but the period of interruption shall not count as qualifying service.”
6. Since the CCS (Pension) Rules are applicable only to holders of permanent posts, the above provisions would apply only in the case of a permanent Government servant who had resigned his post. The cases of withdrawal of resignation of permanent Government servants which involve relaxation of any of the provisions of the above rules will need the concurrence of the Ministry of Personnel, P.G. & Pensions, as per Rule 88 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.
7. Cases of quasi-permanent Government servants requesting withdrawal of resignation submitted by them would be considered by the Department of Personnel and Training on merits.
8. A Government servant who has been selected for a post in a Central Public Enterprises/Central Autonomous body may be released only after obtaining and accepting his resignation from the Government service. Resignation from Government service with a view to secure employment in a Central Public enterprise with proper permission will not entail forfeiture of the service for the purpose of retirement/terminal benefits. In such cases, the Government servant concerned shall be deemed to have retired from service from the date of such resignation and shall be eligible to receive all retirement/terminal benefits as admissible under the relevant rules applicable to him in his parent organisation.
9. In cases where Government servants apply for posts in the same or other Departments through proper channel and on selection, they are asked to resign the previous posts for administrative reasons, the benefit of past service may, if otherwise admissible under rules, be given for purposes of fixation of pay in the new post treating the resignation as a ‘technical formality’.
[Deptt. Of Personnel & Training OM No. 28034/25/87-Ests. (A) dated 11th February, 1988]
Friday, 8 November 2013
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Relief / declination of regular promotion in PS Gr. B cadre...
Directorate
vide memo No. 9-33/2013-SPG dated 10.10.2013 issued promotional orders of 156
IP line officials on regular basis in the PS Gr. B cadre.
Out
of 156 officers, 47 officers who have declined their regular promotion in 2012
were also promoted and these officers may join to new assignment after their
debarment period is over. The debarment period of many of them
extends up to July/August 2014.
In
the above referred memo it is mentioned that officers should be relieved within
15 days from the date of issue of order and in case, posting order from the
allotted circle is not received, the circle where he /she is stationed will
relieve him/her and asked officer to report to the allotted circle headquarter.
In
the above said memo it is also mentioned that, in case, an officer is not
willing to accept his promotion; he should give in writing within 30 days from
the date of issue of order. One months period likely to expire within a week.
In view of the above all Circle Secretaries are requested to keep watch on relief of the officer / declination of promotion by the officer and report to CHQ positively on or before 15th November 2013.
Meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT today
The
meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT is scheduled to be
held today at 1100 hours. The meeting will be attended Secretary
(Posts). As such, the following information are being sought for from
each Divisional head urgently by the Department.
1. Name of constituency
2. Number of Departmental Post Offices (HO, SO wise
3. Number of Branch Post offices
4. Working strength of Postal Assistant
5. Working strength of Postman staff
6. Working strength of MTS
7. Working strength of GDS BPM
8. Working strength of other GDS
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
CEPT Mysore News...
In
order to further improvise the features and functionality available in
Speed Net and resolve some of the operational issues faced by the
Circles, a new version of Speed Net called “Speed Net 4.1” has been
released by CEPT. The files containing the new version of the Speed Net
software is available for download at the following url (CEPT FTP site):
What does the new version provide?
Version 4.1 adds following features:
(i) Returned to Sender (RTS) / Missent remark
for despatch of Speed Post articles would be mandatory for delivery
Post Offices. Without valid RTS/missent remarks, the article cannot be
returned back by the post offices. This should resolve the problem of
lack of RTS remarks faced by many circles.
(ii) Provision to select delivery date while taking delivery returns in case of bulk delivery
through Sorting Hub/IC Hub under Bulk Delivery option has been made for
Sorting Hubs and Intra Circle Hubs. Thus, in case the bags have been
close and sent for delivery by a Sorting Hub on a particular day but
delivery could not be done for any reason the same day, there would be a
provision to enter the actual date of delivery. However, it is informed
that this provision may be used carefully.
(iii) Bulk Addressee Special Delivery Slip
(generated by SH/ICH for making bulk delivery directly to the bulk
addressee) has been redesigned and it is available for SH / ICH. This
allows printing of 3 Speed Post articles per row, and hence, consumes
less paper.
(iv) Updation of delivery remarks for Articles
under “Other Office Articles – Delivery Data” option is now limited to
offices falling under the PIN code jurisdiction of a delivery Post
Office. This has been done to prevent misuse of the feature of updation
of delivery data facility.
(v) A provision now exists to upgrade local databases from Central Server through Speed Net Communication. This would help the central system to push new updates to the local systems centrally.
3.
All post offices (whether booking or delivery), Sorting Hubs (Speed
Post) and Intra Circle Hubs (Speed Post) are required to download and
install Speed Net 4.1 from the url/website details given above in this
mail. A “Release Document” along with a “read me” file containing
details of the software version, installation procedure, check list etc.
is attached with this e-mail. The same may be brought to the notice of
all concerned.
4.
It is requested that all post offices, all Sorting Hubs and all Intra
Circle Hubs may be directed to download and install Speed Net version
4.1 at the earliest andlatest by 07.11.2013. A compliance report may
accordingly be sent only by e-mail to the undersigned.
Center for Excellence in Postal Technology.
DPC for promotion to Junior Administrative Grade (JAG) officer of Indian Postal Service Group 'A'.
DPC for promotion to JAG cadre of Indian Postal Service Group 'A' officers up to IPoS 2006 batch was already convened on 16/9/2013 and posting order was not released. Now, it is learnt from Directorate that posting order consisting of nearly 27 officers in JAG cadre is likely to be issued soon.
Allocation of funds to the Circle Welfare Fund for Gramin Dak Sewaks for the year 2013-2014
To view Directorate Memo No. 19-31/2012-WL/Sports dated 14/10/2013, please CLICK HERE.
Declaration of Bonus of RPLI policies for the year 2009-10...reg.
To view Directorate of PLI memo dated 4/11/2013, please CLICK HERE.
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Saturday, 13 October 2012
Group B Reallotments
on 11/10/12 Directoate order following Group B officers from Haryana has been reallocated to their parent circle as under:
Name of official New circle alloted
1. Sh. M.Venk. Tamilnadu
2. Sh. K.P.Dutta Punjab
3. Sh. Inderjeet Sharma Punjab
Congratulation to all concerned officials
Name of official New circle alloted
1. Sh. M.Venk. Tamilnadu
2. Sh. K.P.Dutta Punjab
3. Sh. Inderjeet Sharma Punjab
Congratulation to all concerned officials
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Conducting of Special LDCE for promotion to the cadre of AAO(90% Departmental Examination Quota) for the year 2012
As communicated vide Department of Posts(PA Wing) letter No.3-24/10-PCE/EXAM(DE)/2111 to 2210 dated 11th September, 2012 the above examination will be held on 29th and 30th of December, 2012. All the categories of the officials who had qualified in the JAO Part-I(Postal) Examination are eligible to appear for the said examination as a one time measure. The successful candidates are liable to be posted anywhere in India.
The vacancy against 90% quota as on 01-09-2012 is as under:-
OC =293,SC=139 & ST=80
The candidate should not exceeding 53 years of age as on 1st January, 2011.
Qualifying Marks :
For OC Candidates:-40% in each subject and 45% in the aggregate provided that a minimum of 40% is also secured in the practical papers.
For SC/ST Candidates:-33% in each subject and 38% in the aggregate provided that a minimum of 33% is also secured in the practical papers.
The vacancy against 90% quota as on 01-09-2012 is as under:-
OC =293,SC=139 & ST=80
The candidate should not exceeding 53 years of age as on 1st January, 2011.
Qualifying Marks :
For OC Candidates:-40% in each subject and 45% in the aggregate provided that a minimum of 40% is also secured in the practical papers.
For SC/ST Candidates:-33% in each subject and 38% in the aggregate provided that a minimum of 33% is also secured in the practical papers.
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