All India Association of Postmasters & Supervisors

Dear Postmasters,                AIAPS(GL) has taken up the case with Postal Directorate about wrong interpretation of Postmaster cadre recruitment rules, resulting postmaster cadre officials are barred from appearing in PSS Group B, Inspector Posts examinations.                 Required directorate draft copy is submitted with this post for the members kind information....   To,         The Honorable Secretary Posts,         Department of Posts,         Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,         New Delhi – 110001          Subject: Negative and wrong interpretation of Postmaster cadre recruitment rules attracting numerous court cases while conducting LDCE exams – reg         Reference : Postmas...

 

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The Union Cabinet under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval to release an instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to Pensioners w.e.f. 01.07.2016 representing an increase of 2% of the revised Basic Pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise. The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission. The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief would be Rs. 5622.10 crore per annum and in the Financial Year 2016-17 for the period of 8 months (i.e. from July 2016 to February 2017), it would be Rs.3748.06 crore. About 50.68 lakh Government employees and 54.24 lakh pensioners will be benefitted. **** AKT/VBA/SH (Release ID :153041)

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NEW DELHI: The Department of Post (DoP), which is racing against time to ready its Payment Bank, has had to re-tender its technology contract after it failed to get bids from any of the major Indian technology firms such as  Infosys ,   Wipro , TCS or the multinationals.   In its first attempt to find a technology vendor to build the backbone for its ambitious payment bank, DoP found itself in a single bid situation – with the lone application of  Polaris  India. The development may push the launch of the postal payment bank by another few months giving a lead to its rivals —  Paytm  and  Airtel  — which are about to start soon.  Officials of technology companies told ET that they decided to give the opportunity a miss since the contract didn’t make “business sense” and its terms and conditions were very “vague” and “open ended”. An executive of one of the top IT firms said that the department is under a lot of pressure to sta...

ATAL PENSION YOJANA (APY) - India Post with PFRDA: All Indian citizens in the age group of 18-40 years can register.Join APY at your Post Office and ensure a Guaranteed Pension. http://www.jansuraksha.gov.in/…/ApplicationFormPostOffice

Sources said that the Allowance Committee Meeting has finalized a proposal on HRA. It will be finalized in the Meeting held on 25th October 2016. It is said that the proposed Meeting under the Chairmanship of DOPT Secretary (P) with the Secretary Staff Side, NC (JCM) is to firm up the view on various allowances pertaining to Department of Personnel & Training. This Meeting is conducted as per the decision of Allowance Committee Meeting held on 1-9-2016. The meeting to finalize the allowances pertaining to DOPT has been scheduled to be held on 25th October 2016. The Reliable Sources said that the Official Side are in the view of increasing HRA by 1 Stage to reach 30% , 20% and 10% . The pay Commission recommended HRA at the rates initially from 24%, 16%, and 8 % and whenever DA reaches 50% it will be increased to 27%, 18% and 9% and Finally after DA reaches 100% the HRA will be revised to 30% , 20% and 10% for X,Y and Z cities respectively. The NCJCM has demanded i...