REVISION OF TIME LIMIT FOR DRAWAL OF LTC ADVANCE FOR THE JOURNEY THROUGH TRAIN

To seek Cabinet nod for India Post payment bank this month: Ravi Shankar Prasad

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has moved a Cabinet note on India Post’s payment bank proposal and is likely to seek the approval of the Union Cabinet this month. India Post’s payment bank is slated for a March 2017 launch.

“The postal department’s payment bank will be a game changer for financial inclusion. Several international and national consortiums for third party services are keen to partner with us. Deutsche Bank, Citi Bank, Barclays, Templeton and all the banks of India and all mutual funds and insurance companies, except LIC, for third party delivery, are willing to partner,” Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad told The Indian Express.

The domestic players in the fray for partnering India Post include NABARD, HSBC, Allahabad Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Kotak Life Insurance, HDFC, PNB Metlife, ICICI Lombard, ICICI Prudential, and Bajaj Allianz, while the international ones, apart from Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Citi and Templeton, include Transport USA for renting solutions, Western Union, ClearSecurity and Japan’s Hitachi.

These companies have approached the postal department for partnering on banking products, banking solutions, consultancy, banking correspondents, physical security products, ATMs and digital payment services. In August 2015, the Reserve Bank of India had granted in-principle approval to 11 applicants to set up payments banks, including India Post.

On Wednesday, the officials of the postal department apprised Prasad of the situation on its payment bank. As a prerequisite, Prasad said: “I have noted that the personnel must be properly trained to use the infrastructure,” he said. He also said that the India Post was in process of modernising its infrastructure to suit the growing needs of its customers. He informed that the department had 913 automated teller machines (ATMs) currently, against only four in 2014.

As of date, Prasad said, 20,644 post offices were enabled with core-banking solutions (CBS), against 230 as of June 2014. CBS-enabled post offices allow customers to access their postal savings from any of the branches where the facility is available.

Implementation of CBS is part of the government’s plan for IT Modernisation Project of the Department of Posts, which aims to bring in various IT solutions with the required infrastructure to the post offices.

Source : http://indianexpress.com

Our Postal Staff Achieved in UPSC / Civil Services Examination 2015

 Sri. B. Prakash ( B 0135573 ) working as Postal Assistant at Tallakulam HO under Madurai Division, TN Circle. In this recently declared results of UPSC CSE 2015. He has secured 906th rank in all India level.

All rayagada HO Staffs Congratulates to Sri. B. Prakash for bright future

11th MAY: National Technology Day

Posting order in officiating PS Group-B Cadre in Berhampur Region

The following ASP(s) promoted to PS Group-B Cadre on temporary and adhoc basis and allotted Berhampur Region are posted as mentioned below:-

Sl No	Name of Officer S/Shri	Present place of posting	Posted on Adhoc basis
1.	Raghunath Sahu	ASP(OD), Berhampur Division	SPOs, Kalahandi Division
2.	Rajendra Ku. Pattnaik	ASP(I/C), Berhampur North Sub Division	ADPS-II, RO, Berhampur
3.	Gopesh Dash	ASP(Staff), Berhampur Region	SPOs, Aska Division

ATM INAUGURATION OF RAYAGADA HO

ATM INAUGURATION OF RAYAGADA HO ON 06-05-2016 BY DAITARI RANA, HONOURABLE SSPOs, KORAPUT DIVISION

RESERVATION IN PROMOTION

RESERVATION IN PROMOTION

Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

28-April, 2016

RESERVATION IN PROMOTION

            Extant instructions of DoPT provide that reservation in promotion by non-selection method is available to SCs and STs in all Groups i.e. Group A, B, C & D. In case of promotion by selection method, reservation is available to SCs and STs upto lowest rung of Group A. There is no reservation in promotion by selection within Group A. Reservation in posts by promotion under the existing scheme is applicable in which the element of direct recruitment, if any, does not exceed 75%.

            In accordance with Supreme Court judgment dated 15.07.2014, results of Limited Departmental Competitive Examination 1996 for Section Officer grade were revised by UPSC. Appellants, who were declared successful in the modified results of SO LDCE 1996, were included in SOSL 1996 by this Department. Later the benefit was extended to similarly placed SC/ST officers who were declared qualified in the modified results of SO LDCE 1996. On their inclusion in SOSL 1996, these officers have become eligible for consideration for promotion to the next grade (Under Secretary) on completion of eight years of approved service in SO grade i.e. they become eligible for consideration in USSL 2004 onwards subject to the size of the zone. A proposal for review of USSLs 2004 and 2005 has been forwarded to UPSC in which these officers have been included in the zone.

            This was stated by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri Ronald Sapa Tlau in the Rajya Sabha today.

Source: PIB