Notice to the public for CBS Post Offices - No Transaction on 01.04.2017

Door to provide a small Respite for Postal Promotees from Group D to PA Cadre is opening!

MACP snatching away ACP better benefit by retrospective implementation struck by Madras High Court!

WP No.33946, 34602 & 27798 of 2014.
WP No.33946 of 2014.

The MACP was implemented retrospectively w.e.f 1.9.2008 vide GO dated 19.05.2009. We know under ACP system officials were allowed upgradation on par with hierarchical promotion. MACP granted only to next Grade Pay hierarchy. Many officials became eligible for ACP during the period between 1.9.2008 and 19.05.2009 were denied better upgradation under ACP but given only lower upgradation in GP hierarchy under MACP. Many affected officials in Defence services approached CAT Madras and won their prayer. Admn appealed in High Court Madras. Recently High Court has dismissed the writ appeals and held that any better upgradation under ACP cannot be denied by ordering MACP retrospectively. Thus officials eligible for upgradation on par with hierarchical layer during 1.9.2008 and 19.05.2009 will get upgradation under earlier ACP scheme. 

For full text judgment please Click here

This judgment opens the doors for any Postal employees who were under TBOP/BCR scheme and were denied BCR during 1.9.2008 and 18.09.2009 (the date of issue of MACP orders by DOP). Some Group D promotees who were promoted to Postman, and later on to PA/SA cadre were given TBOP earlier but was denied any more upgradation under MACP. Now, if such officials were found to be eligible for BCR by virtue of their 26 years of service in PA/SA cadre during 1.9.2008 and 18.09.2009 are free to claim their BCR under the weight of this judgment. - KR GS AIPRPA

WP No.33946, 34602 & 27798 of 2014.
WP No.33946 of 2014.

The MACP was implemented retrospectively w.e.f 1.9.2008 vide GO dated 19.05.2009. We know under ACP system officials were allowed upgradation on par with hierarchical promotion. MACP granted only to next Grade Pay hierarchy. Many officials became eligible for ACP during the period between 1.9.2008 and 19.05.2009 were denied better upgradation under ACP but given only lower upgradation in GP hierarchy under MACP. Many affected officials in Defence services approached CAT Madras and won their prayer. Admn appealed in High Court Madras. Recently High Court has dismissed the writ appeals and held that any better upgradation under ACP cannot be denied by ordering MACP retrospectively. Thus officials eligible for upgradation on par with hierarchical layer during 1.9.2008 and 19.05.2009 will get upgradation under earlier ACP scheme. 

For full text judgment please Click here

This judgment opens the doors for any Postal employees who were under TBOP/BCR scheme and were denied BCR during 1.9.2008 and 18.09.2009 (the date of issue of MACP orders by DOP). Some Group D promotees who were promoted to Postman, and later on to PA/SA cadre were given TBOP earlier but was denied any more upgradation under MACP. Now, if such officials were found to be eligible for BCR by virtue of their 26 years of service in PA/SA cadre during 1.9.2008 and 18.09.2009 are free to claim their BCR under the weight of this judgment. - KR GS AIPRPA

Significant spike seen in Postal Savings bank accounts in State

5.5 lakh postal savings accounts were opened in the State in the last one month. 

As many as 19 lakh accounts opened during this financial year in Tamil Nadu’

Of late, the Department of Posts is witnessing a significant increase in the number of postal savings bank accounts opened in the State

Radhika Chakravarthy, Postmaster General, Chennai City Region, said that of the total 19 lakh postal savings bank accounts opened during this financial year in Tamil Nadu, 5.5 lakh accounts were opened in the last one month.

“We are conducting melas to create awareness on postal savings bank accounts. There are distinct advantages in postal savings accounts. Here, people can have a minimum balance of Rs. 50, while it is Rs. 5,000 or even more in banks,” she told reporters during the sidelines of the inauguration of a Post Office Passport Seva Kendra on Saturday.

Another advantage was that customers get ATM cards that can be used in post office ATMs or any bank ATM to withdraw cash.

“We have no restrictions on the number of transactions nor do we charge them. These cards are interoperable,” she said.

There are a total of 97 postal ATMs — at all Head Post Offices — in the State.

Core Banking Solutions

Out of the 2,600 department post offices in the State, 2,580 were on the Core Banking Solutions (CBS) platform, she said.

CBS enables postal savings account holders of a CBS networked post office to carry out all transactions at any other post office on the CBS network across the country. Ms. Chakravarthy added that as many as 14 lakh “Selvamagal Semippu Thittam” accounts, a scheme meant for girl children, have been opened so far in the State.

Ms. Chakravarthy added that use of swiping machines at post offices to enable any kind of transaction was under trial at the Head Post Office, Anna Road in Chennai and this would be put in place shortly. The department was also examining the possibility of bringing in online payment facility and mobile transactions for customers, she said.

Source : http://www.thehindu.com/