Wednesday, April 27, 2022

 

REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRANCH POST OFFICE

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https://utilities.cept.gov.in//dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=6667

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REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR SUB POST OFFICE   

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https://utilities.cept.gov.in//dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=6668

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REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR HEAD POST OFFICE

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https://utilities.cept.gov.in//dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=6669

 PRESS NEWS 

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS

CABINET APPROVES REVISED COST ESTIMATE ON “SETTING UP OF INDIA POST PAYMENTS BANK”
ADDITIONAL FUNDING OF RS.820 CRORE FOR FY 2020-21 TO 2022-23 TOTAL OUTLAY NOW AT 2255 CRORE

Posted On: 27 APR 2022 4:52PM by PIB Delhi 

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the revision of project outlay for setting up of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) from Rs.1435 crore to Rs.2255 crore as equity infusion to meet regulatory requirement.  The Cabinet also granted in principle approval for future fund infusion to the tune of Rs.500 crore for meeting regulatory requirements and technological upgradation.

The objective of the project is to build the most accessible, affordable and trusted bank for the common man; spearhead the financial inclusion agenda by removing the barriers for the unbanked and reduce the opportunity cost for the under banked populace through assisted doorstep banking.  The project supplement Government of India’s vision of “less cash” economy and at the same time promote both economic growth and financial inclusion.

India Post Payments Bank did a nationwide a launch by on September 1, 2018 with 650 branches/controlling offices.  IPPB has enable 1.36 lakh Post Offices to provide banking services and has equipped nearly 1.89 lakh Postmen and Gramin Dak Sevaks with smartphone and biometric device to provide doorstep banking services.

Since the launch of IPPB, it has opened more than 5.25 crore accounts with 82 crore aggregate number of financial transactions with Rs.1,61,811 crore which includes 765 lakh number of AePS transactions worth Rs.21,343 crore.  Out of the 5 crore accounts, 77% of accounts are opened in Rural areas, 48% are women customers with around Rs.1000 crore of deposit.  Nearly 40 lakh women customers received Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) into their accounts valued at Rs.2500 crore.  More than 7.8 lakh accounts have been opened for school students.

In Aspirational Districts IPPB has opened around 95.71 lakh accounts having 602 lakh aggregate transaction worth Rs.19,487 crore.  In Left Wing Extremism (LWE) districts, 67.20 lakh accounts have been opened by IPPB having 426 lakh aggregate transactions worth Rs.13,460 crore.

Total financial expenditure involved under the proposal stands at Rs.820 crore.  The decision shall help India Post Payments Bank pursue its objective of furthering financial inclusion across India by leveraging the network of Department of Posts.  DS (Release ID: 1820526) 




 

Saturday, April 23, 2022

PRESS NEWS

Ministry of Communications

INDIA POST WARNS PUBLIC AGAINST FRAUDULENT URLS/WEBSITES CLAIMING TO PROVIDE SUBSIDIES/PRIZES THROUGH CERTAIN SURVEYS, QUIZZES

Posted On: 23 APR 2022 10:15AM by PIB Delhi

India Post over the recent days has been observing various URLs/Websites getting circulated in social media such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and through emails / SMS containing tiny URLs/ Short URLs, claiming to be providing Government Subsidies through certain surveys, quizzes.

We wish to inform the citizens of the Country that India Post is not involved in any such activities like announcing Subsidies, Bonus or Prizes based on Surveys etc. Public receiving such notifications/messages /emails are requested not to believe or respond to such fake and spurious messages or share any personal details.   It is also requested not share any personally identifiable information such as date of birth, Account numbers, mobile numbers, place of Birth & OTP etc.

India Post though is taking necessary action to prevent these URLs / links / Websites to be taken down through various prevention mechanisms. Public at large is once again requested not to believe or respond to any fake / spurious messages / communications / links.   

India Post and Fact Check Unit of Press Information Bureau (PIB) have declared these URLs/Websites as fake through social media.

RKJ/M (Release ID: 1819189) 








Thursday, April 21, 2022

 TRANSFERS/POSTINGS IN HAG+(MEMBER,PSB/ADDL.DG (COORD.) OF IPOS  (CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW)

https://utilities.cept.gov.in//dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=6625

 

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Monday, April 18, 2022

 

FEDERAL EXECUTIVE MEETING OF NFPE AND  FELICITATION PROGRAM OF  COM. P V RAJENDRAN PRESIDENT AND COM.R N PARASHAR, EX. SECRETARY GENERAL NFPE AFTER THEIR RETIREMENT AT SHRI ANANDPUR SAHIB ,PUNJAB ON 18TH APRIL 2022.























 

RESERVATION IN PROMOTIONS-PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED PRIOR TO EFFECTING RESERVATIONS IN THE MATTER OF PROMOTIONS BY ALL DEPARTMENTS OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

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https://dopt.gov.in/sites/default/files/Reservation%20in%20promotions%20Central%20Government0001_0.pdf

 

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DOP - ANNUAL REPORT 2021-2022

VIEW ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2021-2022

 here

 

Thursday, April 14, 2022

 PRESS NEWS

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

UNION MINISTER DR JITENDRA SINGH ANNOUNCES SETTING UP OF SINGLE WINDOW PORTAL FOR BENEFIT OF PENSIONERS AND SUPERANNUATED ELDER CITIZENS

 

PORTAL WILL ENABLE CONSTANT CONTACT WITH PENSIONERS AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WILL ALSO REGULARLY RECEIVE THEIR INPUTS, SUGGESTIONS AS WELL AS GRIEVANCES FOR PROMPT RESPONSE: DR JITENDRA SINGH

THE MINISTER CHAIRS THE 32ND MEETING OF STANDING COMMITTEE OF VOLUNTARY AGENCIES (SCOVA) FOR REVIEW AND RATIONALISATION OF PENSION RULES I.E (CCS) (PENSION) RULES, 2021

Posted On: 12 APR 2022 4:26PM by PIB Delhi

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today announced setting up of Single Window Portal for benefit of pensioners and superannuated elder citizens. The Portal, he said, will not only enable constant contact with pensioners and their associations across the country but will also regularly receive their inputs, suggestions as well as grievances for prompt response.

Addressing the 32nd Meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) for Review and Rationalisation of Pension Rules i.e (CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021, Dr Jitendra Singh said under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several revolutionary changes were brought in since 2014 in Pension Rules for bringing “Ease of Living” to the common man.

Dr Jitendra Singh said, the objective of Common Pension Portal is to create a single window digital mechanism for pensioners to raise their grievances and get the same resolved without approaching different authorities in person. He said, all Ministries responsible to process, sanction or disburse pension dues, are interlinked to this system and grievances are forwarded after assessment to the concerned Ministry/Department for resolution. Pensioners as well as Nodal officer can view the status of the grievance online till disposal in the system.

SCOVA is a useful platform for holding consultation with the stakeholders i.e. the pensioners through their Associations and concerned Ministries/Departments. It provides the Associations an opportunity for raising their issues concerning pensioners’ welfare etc. directly before the concerned Ministries/Departments.  Pensioner Associations from Jammu, Jaipur, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Chandigarh and other parts of the country participated in the meeting.

In today’s meeting, discussions were held on the issues relating to shortage of doctors in CGHS wellness centres, periodical health check-up of pensioners, various issues related to CGHS wellness centre at Jammu, Nomination of Pensioners for life time arrears, Pension Adalat and Sanction of Grand-in-Aid and Laptop to Identified Pensioners’ Associations.

Dr. Jitendra Singh said we need to emphasise making good use of the knowledge, experience and efforts of the retired employees which can help in value addition to the Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare.

Dr Jitendra Singh informed that since the launch of Doorstep Service for submission of Digital Life Certificate (DLC) through Postman in November 2020, more than 3,08,625 Life Certificates through India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) have been done. The facility to submit life certificate online through Jeevan PramaanPortal was launched by the Prime Minister in November, 2014 with the objective to provide a convenient and transparent facility to pensioners for submission of Life Certificate. He also added that Doorstep banking for collection of Life Certificates is in place in 100 cities by Public Sector Banks and the number of Life Certificates done through Banking Agents is 4253.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that Face Authentication Technique through Android phone for submission of life certificate digitally has been launched on 29.11.2021 and till date, more than 20,500 Life Certificates through face authentication have been done. Similarly, he informed that as on date total number of DLCs submitted by the Central Government Pensioners is around 1,07,75,980 /- since 2014. In 2021 total DLCs submitted till date is 19,80,977.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that the ‘Bhavishya’ platform, an integrated online pension processing system is at present being successfully implemented in the main Secretariat of 96 Ministries/ Departments including 813 Attached Offices. As on date, more than 1,50,000 cases have been processed ie. PPOs issued which includes more than 80,000 e-PPOs. The Minister also informed that Bhavishya 8.0 released in August, 2020 with a new feature to PUSH the ePPO in Digilocker. Bhavishya’ is the first application to use the Digilocker Id based PUSH Technology of Digilocker.

The Minister said that the Department had started in 2017 the unique experiment of holding Pension Adalats to resolve chronic grievances of Central Government Pensioners, falling within the four walls of extant policy and the First Pension Adalat was held on 20.09.2017. So far, the Department has conducted a total of 6 Pension Adalats. The next Pension Adalat is scheduled to be held on 05.05.2022.

Dr Jitendra Singh directed the officials to create widespread awareness of the initiatives for the welfare of pensioners through official and social media channels.

Dr Jitendra Singh said, the earlier Pension Rules were notified 50 years ago in 1972. Since then, a large number of amendments to the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 have taken place. He said, in the light of such changes and several office memoranda clarifying different provisions of these Rules, the Department has brought out a revised and updated version of the Rules i.e. Civil Services (CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021.

Dr Jitendra Singh clarified that the revised Rules do not make any changes in regard to entitlement of amount of pension, family pension or gratuity. However, the new Rules bring about several new policy and procedural improvements over the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. Also, some provisions in the old rules, which have become redundant over a period of time, have been omitted from the new Rules, the Minister added.

Secretary, Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare, Shri V Srinivas also spoke about the recent reforms and initiatives of the Department.

SNC/RR  (Release ID: 1816031) 

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RESERVATION IN PROMOTIONS-PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED PRIOR TO EFFECTING RESERVATIONS IN THE MATTER OF PROMOTIONS BY ALL DEPARTMENTS OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT     (CLICK THE LINK BELOW T6O VIEW)

https://dopt.gov.in/sites/default/files/Reservation%20in%20promotions%20Central%20Government0001_0.pdf

 

WARM GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES

ON THE AUSPICIOUS OCCASIONS OF

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BIRTHDAY OF DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR

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LORD MAHAVIR JAYANTI

AND

VAISAKHI, VISHU, RONGALI BIHU, NABA BARSHA, VAISAKHADI AND PUTHANDU-PIRAPPU

 

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

 

SB ORDER 07/2022: RELAXATION IN MANDATORY UPDATION OF ASLAAS-5 CARD NUMBERS IN AGENT PORTAL BY MPKBY AGENTS

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https://utilities.cept.gov.in//dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=6594

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

 The memoir "Samarachakravaalangalil :

Com. M Krishnan Smarana",

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Published by Confederation State Committee, chronicles the life, journey and contributions of our beloved leader Com. M Krishnan to the trade union movement.

 

The memoir was launched by Hon. Chief Minister of Kerala Com. Pinarayi Vijayan on 12th April 2022, presenting the first copy to Hon. Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Com. Arya Rajendran, in an emotional ceremony in the presence of his wife Smt. Sarjoni and other fellow comrades including Confederation State General Secretary Com. P V Rajendran, President Com. V Shrikumar, Editor of the memoir Com. Unnikrishnan Chazhiyad, Comrades P K Muralidharan, G.R.Pramod, R.Krishnakumar, S. Asokkumar and Mohammad Mahin.

 

          Special Launch of the book in all districts will be done in a grand manner shortly.  

 

Supply of the book will be done soon after the Special Launch in Districts.

P.V.Rajendran 
General Secretary



 

PROMOTION OF GOVERNMENT SERVANTS THROUGH LIMITED DEPARTMENTAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION AGAINST WHOM DISCIPLINARY / CRIMINAL PROSECUTION ARE PENDING   

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USER MANUAL FOR FACILITY PROFILING AND DWS OPERATION

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https://utilities.cept.gov.in//dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=6587

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USER MANUAL FOR FACILITY PROFILING AND SYSTEM ASSISTED SORTIN

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https://utilities.cept.gov.in//dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=6588

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USER MANUAL FOR HANDLING OF RE-CALLED ARTICLES

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https://utilities.cept.gov.in//dop/pdfbind.ashx?id=6589

 

 

Monday, April 11, 2022

 

FIRST CONFERENCE OF ALL INDIA POSTAL AND RMS PENSIONERS ASSOCIATION DELHI STATE ON 11.04.2022







 IPPB : Scope of Deputation Policy Guidelines for the Bank (04-04-2022)

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

 WARM GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES

ON THE AUSPICIOUS OCCASION OF RAM NAVAMI

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Saturday, April 9, 2022

 

AUTHORIZATION OF KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK FOR DISBURSEMENT OF PENSIONS \

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https://documents.doptcirculars.nic.in/D3/D03ppw/2021_22_6476_2_2SW6Cu.PDF

 

 PAYMENT OF DEARNESS ALLOWANCE TO GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS (GDS) EFFECTIVE FROM 01.01.2022 ONWARDS    (CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW)

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RECOVERY OF EXCESS PAYMENT MADE TO PENSIONERS AS PER RULE 66 (4) OF THE CCS (PENSION) RULES 2021: CPAO O.M DATED 05.04.2022

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE
CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE
TRIKOOT-II, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE
NEW DELHI-110066

CPAO/IT & Tech/Clarification/13 Vol. III A/7380/2022-23 /03

05.04.2022

Office Memorandum

Subject: Recovery of excess payment made to pensioners

Attention is invited to the Reserve Bank of India’s circular dated 21st January, 2021 regarding withdrawal of circulars on Recovery of excess pension made to pensioners. The RBI decided that the following circulars issued by the Department of Government and Bank Accounts, Reserve Bank of India related to recovery of excess pension made by agency banks stands withdrawn from effect from the date of the circular-

  • Circular No. DGBA.GAD.No. 2960/45.01.001/2015-16 dated March 17th, 2016
  • Circular No. CO.DGBA (NBS) No. 44/GA.64 (11-CVL) 90/91 dated April 18, 1991
  • Circular No. CO. DGBA (NBS) No. 50/GA. 64 (11-CVL) 90/91 dated May 6, 1991

It was further stated that agency banks will seek guidance from respective Pension sanctioning Authorities regarding the process to be followed for recovery of excess pension paid to the pensioners, if any.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has clarified (copy enclosed) that the question of recovery or waiver of recovery of any excess payment on account of an error in initial authorization or revision of pension by the office is to be dealt with in accordance with rule 66 (4) of the CCS (Pension) rules 2021.

This issues with the approval of the Chief Controller (Pensions).

(Anang Rawat)
(Dy. Controller of Accounts)

To

Friday, April 8, 2022

 

NOMINATION BY PENSIONERS UNDER THE PAYMENT OF ARREARS OF PENSION (NOMINATION) RULES, 1983 FOR PAYMENT OF LIFE-TIME ARREARS

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https://documents.doptcirculars.nic.in/D3/D03ppw/1_2_40_2022_P_PW_E_06_04_2022_engOwLBE.pdf

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32ND MEETING OF STANDING COMMITTEE OF VOLUNTARY AGENCIES (SCOVA) UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF HONOURABLE MOS(PP) ON 12.04.2022 FROM 11 AM ONWARDS - NEW AGENDA ITEMS

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https://documents.doptcirculars.nic.in/D3/D03ppw/42_05_2022_PPW_DyLH3t.pdf

 

Thursday, April 7, 2022

 

Revised rates of Dearness Allowance to the employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies continuing to draw their pay in the pre-revised Pay Scale/Grade Pay as per 5th Central Pay Commission from 01.01.2022

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https://doe.gov.in/sites/default/files/Revised%20rates%20of%20DA%20-%205th%20CPC.pdf

 

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Revised rates of Dearness Allowance to the employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies continuing to draw their pay in the pre-revised Pay Scale/Grade Pay as per 6th Central Pay Commission from 01.01.2022

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https://doe.gov.in/sites/default/files/Revised%20rates%20of%20DA%20-%206th%20CPC_0.pdf