REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRANCH POST OFFICE
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REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR SUB POST OFFICE
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REVISION OF STANDARD INSPECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR HEAD POST OFFICE
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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)
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)
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PRESS NEWS
Ministry of
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
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)
SB ORDER 07/2022: RELAXATION IN MANDATORY UPDATION OF ASLAAS-5 CARD
NUMBERS IN AGENT PORTAL BY MPKBY AGENTS
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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.
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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USER MANUAL FOR FACILITY PROFILING AND SYSTEM ASSISTED SORTIN
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USER MANUAL FOR HANDLING OF RE-CALLED ARTICLES
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IPPB : Scope of Deputation Policy Guidelines for the Bank (04-04-2022)
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AUTHORIZATION OF KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK FOR DISBURSEMENT OF PENSIONS \
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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
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-
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
NOMINATION BY PENSIONERS UNDER THE PAYMENT OF ARREARS OF PENSION
(NOMINATION) RULES, 1983 FOR PAYMENT OF LIFE-TIME ARREARS
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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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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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Revised rates of Dearness Allowance to the employees of Central Government
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Pay Scale/Grade Pay as per 6th Central Pay Commission from 01.01.2022
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