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n order to benefit over 50 lakh employees and over 30 lakh pensioners, the Cabinet also approved terms of reference for seventh pay commission. This includes merging dearness allowance above 50 per cent with basic pay. Currently DA is around 90 per cent of basic pay and another hike of 10 per cent is expected soon. DA is calculated on the basis of change in retail inflation. Click here to view/download

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With traditional business dwindling, Postal Department looking for new avenues. The Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and E-commerce companies can soon will be able to tie-up with the India Post, which spread across 1.50 lakh locations across India, to reach out to their customers/potential customers. The India Post, is being modernised with an investment of over Rs 4,900 crore, which will bring all the Postoffices under one net and all the operations will be computerised. On the backdrop of the declining traditional businesses, including transaction of letters and post cards, the India Post is now planning to take a new avatar, with a budgetary support of over Rs 4,900 crore from the Union Government. “In the recent years post offices have started offering various services including courier, parcel and others as the traditional businesses of Post Offices, like letter and post cards were declining”, said the Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, after inaugurating India

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Friday approved hiking dearness allowance to 100 per cent from existing 90 per cent benefiting 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners in it meeting. The hike in DA would be effective from January 1 this year. This increase in the dearness allowance by the UPA-2 government comes ahead of the imposition of the model code of conduct by the Election Commission.  The model code of conduct is likely to come into force with the announcement of the schedule for the forthcoming general elections in a week or so. This is the second double digit DA hike in a row. The government had announced a hike of 10 per cent to 90 per cent in September last year, effective from July 1, 2013. As per practice, the government uses Consumer Price Index- Industrial Workers data of the past 12 months to arrive at a quantum for the purpose of any DA hike. Thus, the retail inflation for industrial workers between January 1 to December 31, 2013 was used to take a final call on the

CHANGE OF OPTIONS BY EMPLOYEES FOR MEMBERSHIP OF ASSOCIATIONS/UNIONS TO SEE DIRECTORATE LETTER CLICK HERE

ALL INDIA POSTAL SUPERVISORS(GL) ASSOCIATION RECOGNITION IS CANCELLED. ALL POST MASTERS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO CONFUSE ON THIS ISSUE . INSTEAD OF UNDERSTANDING OUR PROBLEMS, UNIONS ARE PLAYING THIS KIND OF TACTICS.  THEY SHOULD THINK OVER WHY THEIR STANCH MEMBERS ARE DECIDING TO COME OUT FROM TRADITIONAL UNIONS.   UNIONS ARE JUST INTERESTED TO PLAY POWER POLITICS BUT NOT TO UNDERSTAND THE GROUND LEVEL REALITIES OF GROUP-C EMPLOYEES.  THEY ARE ALSO NOT INTERESTED TO ELEVATE SOCIAL STATUS OF THE POSTAL EMPLOYEES IN THE SOCIETY.

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GET ONLINE QUOTE FOR PLI/RPLI POLICIES - ONLINE PLI/RPLI CUSTOMER PORTAL CLICK HERE

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PA/SA RECRUITMENT  2014 - LAST DATE FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS IS 27.03.2014. CLICK HERE    website address  pasadrexam2014.in

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Rules for Issuing Pan Card The Income Tax Department has made changes in rules for issuing Permanent Account Number (PAN) Card. It has vide notification S.O. 3794 (E) dated 23.12.2013, amended Rule 114 of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 to provide , inter alia, that the application for allotment of PAN shall be accompanied by proof of date of birth of the applicant in addition to proof of identity (POI)/proof of address (POA). The notification has also amended the prescribed list of documents which can be furnished as POI/POA and Aadhar Card has been included as one of the POI and POA document. The number of PAN Card holders in the country as on 17.2.2014 is 20.24 crores. So far, 9.73 lakhs PAN have been issued where Aadhar has been captured and seeded in PAN database for maintain uniqueness. Identification of bogus/duplicate PAN Card is an integral part of the data management system. In order to ensure that bogus PAN cards are not issued, the Income-tax Department has started capturing

ISSUE OF INDIAN POSTAL ORDER ELECTRONICALLY THROUGH E-POST OFFICE PORTAL CLICK HERE

MODIFICATION IN  E-POST SYSTEM CLICK HERE

Definition of "LOCAL" for speed post tariff and extending the scope of of "LOCAL" for speed post articles for NCR click here

E-Wallet Scheme Launched by IRCTC  E-wallet Scheme has been launched by Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a public sector undertaking of the Ministry of railways, to make the payment process fast and to reduce transaction failures due to bank payment related problems. Under this scheme, user can deposit money in advance with IRCTC which can be used as a payment option along with other payment options available on IRCTC website for paying money at the time of booking tickets. This scheme is available for PAN verified user only. Names of all the passengers booked on a fully waitlisted e-ticket are dropped at the time of preparation of reservation charts and fare is refunded automatically. In this regard, there is no difference between e-tickets booked through E-wallet scheme or those booked through other payment options available on website www.irctc.co.in. This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in written

GDS INDEFINITE STRIKE CALL OFF AFTER REACHING AGREEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT. SOURCE: RURALPOSTALEMPLOYEES.BLOGSPOT.IN

TELANGANA BILL PASSED IN "UPPER HOUSE" ALSO.  ASPIRATIONS OF 4 1/2 CRORES PEOPLE ARE FULFILLED.   POST MASTERS BLOG HEARTY WISHES TO ALL PEOPLE OF TELANGANA. NEW DELHI :   Telangana   crossed a major hurdle on the route to becoming India's 29th state with   Parliament   approving the bill to divide Andhra Pradesh in the face of repeated adjournments and continuous disruptions and sloganeering. It was 8.05pm on Thursday when   Rajya Sabha   deputy chair P J Kurien finally declared "the bill is passed", setting off raucous celebrations among Telangana supporters in the House and in central hall where Lok Sabha MPs from the region crowded around TV sets. The announcement was greeted with loud cheers in Hyderabad as Parliament's seal of approval makes the Telangana story practically irreversible as presidential assent and notification by gazette expected to be matters of procedure with few variables. Political jockeying over Telangana has seen the pe

IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FINACLE CBS AND SANCHAYA POST Major issues where the process in Sanchay Post and Finacle CBS Application differs. Issues Process in Sanchay Post Process in Finacle Post Office For each Post Office, PO Code is allotted. ·                   In Finacle, each Departmental Post Office is called as Service Outlet (SOL) and allotted a ID which is called as SOL ID. ·                   Combinations of different SOLs in Finacle is called SOL Set and separate SOL Set ID is allotted for each type of sets. ·                   Each Branch Post office will be allotted a separate Code during migration which needs to be selected at the time of doing BO transactions from account opening screen. Account number In Sanchay Post, account number is generated from the block of accounts allotted for different schemes. ·                   In Finacle, account no. is called as Account ID. Accou