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An employee of Gauripur post office was injured inside his office in lower Assam's Dhubri district this evening when gunmen opened fire in a bid to rob the post office, the police said. The two assailants went to the post office around 6.30 PM when its Post Master Rabindra Kumar Biswas was counting the day's collection of small savings before depositing the amount in the nearby sadar police station, they said. Stating that the gunmen came in the pretext of depositing money, the police said when the Post Master refused to accept their money as the post office had closed for the day at 4 PM, the assailants opened fire seriously injuring the PO's guard.

In six months, those having accounts with post offices can use their postal debit cards to withdraw cash from Automated Teller Machines (ATM) operated by banks too. With the inauguration of an ATM facility at the Park Town head post office on Monday, all the city’s nine head post offices, including the ones at Mylapore, Avadi and St.Thomas Mount, have ATMs now. In the Park Town head post office, to start with, 250 customers will be provided with debit cards and more customers will get theirs soon. Charles Lobo, chief postmaster general, Tamil Nadu circle, inaugurated the ATM and distributed debit cards. Once the facility of interoperable ATMs are in place, bank customers can withdraw cash from ATMs at post offices too, said Mervin Alexander, postmaster general (Chennai City Region) at the function. At present, there are 52 lakh postal savings account holders in the Chennai city region. Of these, nearly 16,000 account holders have been provided with debit cards. Of...

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Dear Postmasters/Supervisors There will be a General Body Meeting with all the members at Vijayawada HO on 21-02-2016 (Sunday) from 1000 hrs to 1700 hrs followed by Circle CWC meeting on 22-02-2016 (Monday) from 1000 hrs to 1700 hrs.   The meeting will be presided over by Sri YSR Srinivasulu, Postmaster Gr-III, Trimulgherry HO, President AIAPS(GL).  The points to be discussed will be: 1 .    Review on 19th All India Conference Held at Hyderabad 2.    7th CPC recommendations 3.    Finacle/Mcmish implementation problems at operative level. 4.   Auditing of association funds till date. 5.   Any other points with the permission of President. Special CL is granted for CWC members by CO. The letter is attached herewith.  It is requested to attend the meeting discuss all the issues and make it grand sucess.

DEAR GRADE POST MASTERS AND POSTAL SUPERVISORS, IT IS DECIDED TO CONDUCT A MEETING WITH ALL POSTAL SUPERVISORS(LSG/HSG) AND GRADE POST MASTERS, IRRESPECTIVE OF UNION/ASSOCIATION, AT VIJAYAWADA ON 21.02.2016(SUNDAY) TO DISCUSS VARIOUS PROBLEMS BEING FACED BY SUPERVISORS AND GRADE POST MASTERS.  ALL ARE INVITED AND FEEL FREE TO SHARE THEIR VIEWS ON VARIOUS PROBLEMS i.e. RECOMMENDATIONS OF 7CPC, PROMOTIONS etc.,

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The government is set to reduce interest rates on small savings products such as public provident fund and National Savings Certificate over the next few days - a move that will impact returns on your bank fixed deposits but also pave the way for banks to pare lending rates in the coming months and reduce the EMI burden.  The new formula will see small savings rates linked to returns on government securities of comparable maturity, with the reduction expected to be up to 50 basis points (100 basis points equal a percentage point). The finance ministry is finalizing product-specific rates and sources said the impact would be higher in case of maturity period of less than five years. There are indications that senior citizens and women will be protected with products such as the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana spared the the axe, at least for the moment.  The new rates are expected to be notified over the next few days with the government set to announce quarterly revision...

Launch of the Rural ICT project of the Department by handing over the solar powered, biometric hand-held devices with connectivity along with the application software to Gramin Dak Sewaks from three pilot Circles viz Bihar, UP and Rajasthan on 28th Dec 2015 Benefits of Hand-held device to the rural citizen  Electronic transactions- Booking and delivery of Speed Post, registered mail, money orders, sale of stamps and postal stationery will be done through these devices and paper receipt shall be generated  instantaneously thereby eliminating chances of overcharging and other problems associated with manual transactions. Savings Bank deposits & withdrawals, PLI/RPLI premium deposits and loan/claim payments will also be done electronically on these devices.  Immediate uploading of transaction data and financial reconciliation- Using mobile connectivity, data pertaining to all transactions done on the hand-held devices shall be uploaded onto the central serv...

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