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MODE OF SALARY PAYMENT AT OUR OPTION

Payment of Salary and other Personal Payments, Salary by Cash on optional basis or through Cheque/Electronically through Bank – instructions

No. 2-1/2007-08/PA (Tech-I) D-813-897

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION & IT

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS

PA WING: TECH-I BRANCH

DAK BHAVAN: SANSAD MARG

NEW DELHI-110001

Dated:11-12-2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub:-Payment of Salary and other Personal Payments, Salary by Cash on optional basis or through Cheque/Electronically through Bank – instructions regarding.

In continuation of this Directorate O.M. of even No. D-482-558 dated 11.07.2007 wherein clarificatory Orders for disbursement of salary to the staff through POSB Accounts were issued and further O.M. of even No.D-255-326 dated 14.05.2009 wherein decision of Director General (Posts) for disbursement of Pay and Allowances to all employees of Department of Posts through cheque and/or through direct credit to the Salary/Savings Accounts of the employees concerned was conveyed for implementation in letter and spirit.

2. Further, another O.M. of even No. D-473-524 dated 03.10.2012 was issued, wherein decision of DG (Posts) was conveyed that payments of Salary and other personal payments including Retirement/Terminal benefits to all employees of Department of Posts mandatorily be made through Bank including POSB electronically by issuing payment advices with immediate effect. However, in special and exceptional cases, payment of Pay and Allowances including other personal payments to the employees can be made through cheque only with the prior approval of Head of Office/Divisional Head/Head of Postal Accounts office.

3. The case has been carefully re-examined in the light of provisions contained in Ministry of Finance, Gazette Notification dated 30.03.2012 and Department of Expenditure, Controller General of Accounts OM. F. No. 1(1 )/20ll/TA/292 &303 dated 31.03.2012 & 11.04.2012 and it has been decided by DG (Posts), that hence forth, all Government Servants of Department of Posts are permitted to receive their Salary by direct credit to their Bank Accounts or in Cash or by Cheque, at their ‘option’ and payments other than Salary like HBA above Rs. 25000/- and all payments towards settlement of Retirement/Terminal benefits such as Gratuity, Commuted value of Pension, Encashment of Leave Salary, CGEGIS, withdrawal from General Provident fund, etc. by issue of – payment advices, including electronically signed payment advices, Cheque/POSB Account or Bank Account.

4. All concerned are requested to issue suitable instructions to all Drawing and Disbursing Authorities working under their administrative jurisdiction for strict compliance.

5. The receipt of this OM may kindly be acknowledged to Sh. Naresh Kumar, Asstt. Chief Accounts Officer (PEA), Room No. 412, Dak Bhavan, New Delhi – 110001

sd/-

(Rajnish Kumar)

DDG(PAF)

NFPE writtes to Dept. on MACP in case of promotees

Now you can get PAN and TAN in just one day

NEW DELHI: To improve the Ease of Doing Business for new corporates, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has tied up with Ministry of Corporate Affairs to issue Permanent Account Number (PAN) and Tax Deduction Account Number (TAN) in just 1 day.

"Applicant companies can submit a common application form SPICe (INC 32) on the corporate affairs ministry portal and once the data of incorporation is sent to CBDT by the ministry, the PAN and TAN will be issued immediately without any further intervention of the applicant," Ministry of Finance said in a statement.

"The Certificate of Incorporation (COI) of newly incorporated companies includes the PAN in addition to the Corporate Identity Number (CIN). TAN is also allotted simultaneously and communicated to the Company," Ministry added.

The ministry said, 19,704 newly incorporated Companies have been allotted PAN in this manner till March 31.

During March, 2017, of the 10,894 newly-incorporated companies, PAN was allotted within 4 hours in 95.63 per cent cases and within 1 day in all cases. Similarly, TAN was allotted to all such companies within 4 hours in 94.7 per cent cases and within 1 day in 99.73 per cent cases.

The new system would make the entire registration process simpler, reduce the number of registration required and the time taken for allotment of the registration number (CIN, PAN, TAN).

In another initiative, CBDT has also introduced the Electronic PAN Card (E-PAN) facility, which will be sent by email, in addition to issue of the physical PAN Card at the time of issuance.

E-PAN would be a digitally-signed card, which can be submitted as a proof of identity to other agency electronically directly or by storing in the government's Digital Locker

The Economic Times

Coming soon: Settle PF claims on your phone through mobile app UMANG

Nearly four crore members of retirement fund body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will soon be able to settle their claims like EPF withdrawal through mobile application UMANG.

"The EPFO is developing online claims settlement process by receiving application online," Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

The minister also said, "The application will be integrated with Unified Mobile App for new-age governance, (UMANG) App, to receive the claims online. However, the timeframe to roll out the same has not been finalised."

The EPFO receives close to 1 crore applications manually for settlement of EPF withdrawals, pension fixation or getting group insurance benefit by the deceased.

A senior official said over 110 regional offices of the EPFO out of 123 field formations have already been connected with the central server. The official explained that it is a technical requirement for connecting all regional offices with the central server for rolling out the facility.

Earlier in February this year, EPFO Central Provident Fund Commissioner had said, "The process of connecting all field offices with a central server is going on. We may introduce the facility for online submission of all types of applications and claims like EPF withdrawal and pension settlement by May this year."

The EPFO has an ambitious plan to settle the claims within a few hours after filing of the application. For instance, it has plans to settle the EPF withdrawal claim within three hours of the filing.

As per the scheme, the EPFO is required to settle all claims within 20 days from filing of the application for settlement of pension or EPF withdrawal.

The minister also told the House that the EPFO has engaged the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, as its technical consultant to upgrade its technology and the body is installing latest equipment at its three central data centres in Delhi, Gurugram and Secunderabad.

An official spoke of the requirement of seeding Aadhaar and bank accounts with the Universal (PF) Account Number (UAN) for settling EPFO claim online.

In a separate reply to the House, the minister said that out of the 3.76 crore contributing members as on March 31, 2016, as many as 1.68 crore have linked their Aadhaar numbers with UAN.

The EPFO has already made it mandatory to provide bank account numbers with IFSC codes and Aadhaar of subscribers.

Business Standard.

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Grant of Children Education Allowance to third Child

Grant of Children Education Allowance to mentally disabled to two children in case of first child being totally mentally disabled – reg.

7th Pay Commission – Central Government employees disappointed as Committee on Allowances delays final report

New Delhi, Apr 10: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had formed the Committee on Allowances in July last year to look into the provision of higher allowances other than dearness allowance for central government employees under the 7th Pay Commission. It’s been almost nine months and the Committee on Allowances is yet to submit its report to the Finance Ministry. About 47 lakh Central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners have been waiting for higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission since last nine months. The government only hiked basic pay of the central government employees as per the 7th Pay Commission recommendations, but higher allowances have been delayed due to anomalies raised by employees’ unions.

“Pessimism has gripped central government employees and all sections of workforce are disappointed. Some may express the disappointment, some may not. Be it defence personnel, engineers, technicians, all are disappointed,” said National Joint Council of Actionconvenor Shiv Gopal Mishra. Latest reports suggested that the Committee on Allowances has held conclusive meeting with representatives of the central government employees’ unions and is most likely to submit report its report on higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission this week.

Shiv Gopal Mishra, who attended a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary on March 28, also said the Committee on Allowances is expected to submit its report on higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission this week. “The committee had not submitted its final report and there are chances that it may be submitted by weekend. Only after which we can expect some major announcement,” Mishra told India.com.

The Ashok Lavasa led panel held a final meeting on with central government employees on April 6. Though there is no clarity whether consensus were reached, but the Committee on Allowances is expected to submit its report this week. Once the Lavasa panel submits its report on higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission, a cabinet note will be moved in this regard and the government is expected to approve it. The government had in June accepted the recommendation of Justice A K Mathur-headed 7th Pay Commission in respect of the hike in basic pay and pension.

In the meeting on April 6, the Committee on Allowances was apprised of 14 existing allowances given by Department of Posts, Ministries of Railways and Defence. The issue of Housing Rent Allowance (HRA) was also discussed in the final meeting. Central government employees have demanded the Centre to implement higher allowances along with arrears from January 2016. Centre is yet to confirm whether the allowance would be hiked with retrospective effect, considering its impact on the exchequer. The major point of grievance among central government employees was the reduction in Housing Rent Allowance (HRA), but they also want government to increase basic pay from Rs 18,000 to Rs 26,000.

The 7th Pay Commission had recommended abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others out of 196 allowances, which triggered resentment among central government employees. The hike in basic pay and pension for central government employees and pensioners has been made effective from January 1, 2016 but the they are still awaiting for the higher allowances.

Source:- India.com

RBI is not against the HRA hike as per 7th CPC HRA; Analysis

RBI is not against the HRA hike as per 7th CPC HRA; Analysis by Paramnews.com

Committee on Allowances has concluded his exercise as the last meeting was held on 6th April, 2017 and the report of committee has been handed over to Cabinet Secretary soon. Cabinet Secretary has already assured to JCM that he will put-up the report to the Cabinet for early approval.

Some media/blog reports are advocating that RBI First Monetary Policy 2017-18 issued on 6th April, 2017 is against the HRA hike as recommended by 7th CPC, but at the same time the Paramnews.com team has analyzed the previous Monetary Policy Report alongwith recently issued and interpreted that the RBI First Monetary Policy 2017-18 issued on 6th April, 2017 is not against the HRA hike as per 7th CPC recommendations. However the previous reports of Monetary Policy issued by RBI were against the HRA hike

As the RBI Monetary Policy is stating that inflation risk in the enhancement HRA and the other hand the RBI also want to be neutral not hawkish on the issue of inflation risk. Now RBI is positively signalling about expenditure see the answer of last question asked by CNBC correspondent Reserve Bank of India’s First Bi-Monthly Post Policy Press Conference:

"Latha Venkatesh CNBC TV 18: To continue with what Ira asked you Governor, you are speaking about upside risks to inflation. So, should we assume that even this movement to neutral cannot remain for long that if you have to get to 4% you will have to even go beyond neutral and get too hawkish?

Dr. Urjit R. Patel: The Committee has also pointed out a couple of downside risks and we have also said that the economic content of the incoming data will determine our future course. We are of course aware of the risks on inflation and we have a medium-term target to achieve. So we will do that, but we feel that at this juncture the shift from accommodative to neutral is adequate. Thank you." [Source RBI]

"It's time to be happy for Central government employee as RBI's signals"

As per above statement by RBI is showing the Inflation Risk but be neutral on it. RBI also want to give boost in housing sector, which are marked low during demonetization. At the same time the Govt also want to trigger housing sector to show extreme interest in the "Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY)" and "Housing For All (Urban) Mission". Therefore Team Paramnews has interpreted that now RBI is not against the revision of HRA & allowances as per recommendation of 7th Central Pay Commission, so It's time to be happy for Central government employee as RBI's signals

However Paramnewsteam is also advocating that delay in 7th CPC HRA in view of RBI First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy issued in April, 2016

Training of GDSs : GDS Committee Recommondations

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Role of GDS in India Post Payment Bank - Committee Recommandations

The Committe furthur observes that since the IPPB is a Public Limited Company and will maintain seperate accounts ; the Department should clearly define the terms and conditions of relationship on which the IPPB will draw resources from the GDS system.

NUGDS MEMORANDUM TO GDS COMMITTEE

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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION GDS

CENTRAL HEAD QUARTERS, NEW DELHI – 110001

MOST URGENT

IMPORTANT

Circular dated – 10.04.2017

NATIONWIDE DAY LONG MASS DHARNA ON 27.04.2017

IN FRONT OF ALL DIVISIONAL/REGIONAL/CIRCLE OFFICES

DEMANDING IMPLEMENTATION OF FAVOURABLE RECOMMENDATIONS OF KAMALESH CHANDRA COMMITTEE REPORT ON GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS

To,

1) All Branch/Divisional/Circle Secretaries of all affiliated unions/Associations of NFPE

2) All Branch/Divisional/Circle Secretaries of AIPEU – GDS.

3) All CHQ office bearers of NFPE & AIPEU – GDS

Dear Comrades,

As you are aware that the Kamalesh Chandra Committee on GDS has submitted its report to Government on 24.11.2016. As Department delayed the publishing of the report, NFPE & AIPEU-GDS declared indefinite hunger fast in front of Directorate (Dak Bhawan) demanding immediate publishing of the report. After that the Department published the report on 15^th January 2017. Due to elections in four state Assemblies, the election commission has given instructions to the Department that no further action on the report should be taken. Thus only after election, the Departmental Constituted an implementation Committee headed by Member (Technology) holding additional charge of Member (Personnel) Postal Services Board. The proposal of the implementation Committee is now being examined by the Joint Secretary & Financial Advisor (JS & FA) of the Postal Board. After JS & FA’s approval the proposal is to be approved by Secretary, Departmental of Posts. Then the file is to be submitted to the Minister, Communication for approval. Only after the approval of the Minister, Communications, the file will be submitted to Department of personnel & Training for approval and then the proposed is to be submitted to Finance Ministry and Law Ministry for approval. After completing all these process only the final proposal will be submitted to Cabinet for approval.

This it can be seen that much delay is taking place in implementation of the favourbale recommendations of the GDS Committee Report. Eventhough Secretary, Department of Posts has informed the leaders of NFPE & AIPEU-GDS that Postal Board will take speedy action for implementation, many hurdles including Finance Ministry’s approval are to be crossed yet.

NFPE & AIPEU-GDS has taken serious note of the situation and has decided to organize agitational programmes demanding immediate implementation of the favourable recommendations of the Kamalesh Chandra Committee report. As, First phase of the agitation it is decided to organize nationwide mass dharna in front of all Divisional/Regional/Circle offices on 27^th April 2017.

All Branch/Divisional/Circle Secretaries of NFPE affiliated Unions/Associations and AIPEU-GDS are requested to mobilise and organize mass dharna on 27.04.2017.

Please treat it as most urgent/important.

Fraternally yours,

P. Pandurangara Rao R. N. Parahsar

General Secretary Secretary General

AIPEU-GDS NFPE

All Divisional/Circle Secretaries of P3, P4, R3, R4 & SBCOEA are requested to organize the programme by ensuring maximum participation of departmental and also GDS employees. Please extend all help to AIPEU-GDS.

Dharna should be organized in all divisions/RO/CO without fail. Reports & Photos may be sent to NFPE HQ by e-mail-nfpehq@gmail.com.

R. N. Parashar

Secretary General

Appeal from APS Head Quarter to join service in APS

FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS WHO ARE ON DEPUTATION TO APS (Click the link below to view)

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Reply of Railway Board on queries related with MACP

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Revised Examination Calendar for the year 2017-18

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has published Revised Examination Schedule / Calendar (Tentative) for the year 2017-18, Check below for more details.

Advertisement of SSC CGL will come on 16.05.2017

Exam Calendar: