SB ORDER NO. 16/2011 : Grant of Savings Bank Allowance to Postal Assistants working in Savings Bank/certificate branches- holding of SB Aptitude Test regarding.

SB ORDER NO. 16/2011

No.113-07/2010-SB

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110001, Dated: 23.08.2011

To

All Heads of Circles/Regions

Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.

Subject:- Grant of Savings Bank Allowance to Postal Assistants working in Savings Bank / certificate branches- holding of SB Aptitude Test regarding.

Sir / Madam,

The undersigned is directed to refer to this office SB Order No.26/89 issued vide letter No. 2- 3/86-SB dated 27.4.1989, SB Order No.43/89 dated 12.9.1989, SB Order No. 26/90 dated 4.05.1990, SB Order No. 17/2004 dated 8.10.2001, SB Order No. 5/2005 issued vide letter no. 113-1/2003- SB(APT) dated 28.3.2005, D.O. letter of even number dated 26.2.2010 from DDG(FS) to all Heads of circles and SB Order No. 10/2011 dated 21.6.2011 on the subject.

2.             Based on the inputs received from the circles, it was observed that out of the staff working in the POSB/SC related branches in the post offices, the percentage of staff passed SB Aptitude test is very low and in some circles the test has either been not held from many years or not regularly held. In view of this, the pattern and syllabus of the aptitude test has been reviewed in this office and it has been decided to revise the whole pattern as well as syllabus of this test which is very important from the operational point of view of the POSB/SC. Min. of Finance is also time and again pointing out the high percentage of irregularities being committed by the postal staff which is resulting in financial loss to the Government as well as in some cases to the customers and increase in court cases/public grievances.

SB ORDER NO. 15/2011: Settlement of deceased claim case in respect of Sr. Citizen’s Savings Scheme account-

No.79-01/2011-SB

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110116.

Dated: 18.08.2011

To

All Heads of Circles/Regions

Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.

Subject:- Settlement of deceased claim case in respect of Sr. Citizen’s Savings Scheme account- a clarification regarding.

Sir / Madam,

The undersigned is directed to say that a RTI query regarding settlement of deceased claim when deposit is payable to two or more nominees and either of them is dead was referred to Min. of Finance (DEA) for clarification as there is no such provision in SCSS Rules 2004.

2.             The Ministry of Finance (DEA) vide its O.M. No. 15/1/2009/NS-II dated 02.08.2011 has clarified that in such a case, the deposit shall be paid to the surviving nominee.

3.             It is requested that this may be circulated to all post offices for information and necessary guidance to deal with such claim cases.

4.             This issues with the approval of DDG(FS).

Yours faithfully,

(Kawal Jit Singh)

Assistant Director (SB)

Likely Dearness Allowance for July 2011 for Central Employees

   Though it is very early to predict the D.A. for July 2011 at this point of time, we are being flooded by queries in this relation. It may be realized that D.A. is complete based on arithmetical calculation on All India CPI (IW) (Base 2001=100), the data for the entire six months is required to calculate the installment of D.A. payable. The labour bureau has released the figure for Jan, Feb and March as 188, 185 and 185 respectively. We are yet to know the figures of April, May and June. If we assume that there is no further increase or decrease in the numbers {maintains the current level for the next 3 months}, the D. A will be 7% from July 2011. It is again reminded that it is only an assumption, the correct figure will be uploaded as soon as data available.

Rate of Dearness Allowance from the year 2006 to 2011 
1st Jan  2011 –  51%
1st July 2010 –  45%
1st Jan  2010 –  35%
1st July 2009 –  27%
1st Jan  2009 –  22%
1st July 2008 –  16%
1st Jan  2008 –  12%
1st July 2007 –    9%
1st Jan  2007 –    6%
1st July 2006  –   2%
1st Jan  2006  –   0

DB Analyzer dated 18.08.2011

Latest DB Analyzer has been developed by sdc chennai dated 18.8.11.It includes provision for getting BPL account list and a separate LOT for BPL accounts can also be obtained.This will be possible only if the prescribed conditions for opening the BPL accounts are met.




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Modernisation of Department of Posts

  Ministry of Communications & Information Technology

                                                 Modernisation of Department of Posts

Government has approved the ‘IT MODERNIZATION PROJECT’ of Department of Posts for computerization of Post Offices, Mail Offices, Administrative Offices and other field offices. This will involve establishment of required IT infrastructure, development of required software applications with an outlay of Rs.1877.2 crore.

The project has the following salient features:

• It will establish IT infrastructure of Data Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre and networking of all Departmental Post Offices including appropriate connectivity in the Branch Post Offices in the rural area.

• The project envisages development of integrated modular scalable applications for Mail, kBanking, Postal Life Insurance, solutions for Accounts and HR operations of the department.

• The rural post offices will be provided with rural ICT devices with required applications for performing Postal, Savings Bank, Insurance, MGNREGS and Money Order operations.

• Provision has been made for training, change management, capacity building of the employees of the department along with Project Management activity for smooth and timely implementation of the project.

It is planned to network all Departmental Post Offices and Branch Post Offices in the country subject to availability of connectivity and resources under the “India Post Technology Project-2012”.

The departmental Post Offices are proposed to be networked with appropriate connectivity. Branch Post Offices located in rural areas are proposed to be networked using available connectivity at these locations. The rural ICT Devices in the Branch Post Offices will have the capacity to work in both online/offline mode. The IT project is expected to be implemented by 2012-13 subject to the availability of funds.

This information was given by Shri Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.