Types of Leave available to Central Govt Employees

A Central Government Employee has may kinds of leave and he has choice to avail any of them. The types of Leave and the eligibility conditions, restrictions etc. in respect of each kind of leave are given below for ready use :

Different Types of Leave available to central government employees :

1. Earned Leave

2. Half Pay Leave

3. Commuted Leave

4. Leave Not Due

5. Maternity Leave

6. Paternity Leave

7. Study Leave

8. Extra Ordinary Leave

9. Casual Leave

10.Child Care Leave

11.Hospital Leave

12.Vocational Department Staff Leave

13: Special Disability Leave

14. Child Adoption Leave

15. Leave to Probationers

16. Leave to Apprentices

1. Earned Leave:- Earned Leave is ‘earned’ by duty. The credit for earn leave will awarded at a rate of 15 days on the 1st of January and 1st of July every year. It can be accumulated up to 300 days in addition to the number of days for which encashment has been allowed along with LTC. Maximum of 180 days at a time can be availed in the case of Earned Leave.

2. Half Pay Leave :- All Government servants are entitled to 20 days of HPL for every completed year of service. Half pay leave is calculated at 20 days for each completed year of service. For eg, if you are in service for 2 years , you will be having a total of 40 days of half pay leave. The service includes periods of duty and leave including extraordinary leave with or without MC. Half pay leave can be availed with or without MC(Medical Certificate). From 1st January 1986, half pay leave is credited in advance at the rate of 10 days on the 1st of January and 1st of July every year.

3.Commuted Leave:- This Leave is granted on medical certificate normally. Commuted leave not exceeding half the amount of half-pay leave due can be taken on medical certificate. Up to a maximum of 90 days can be taken during the entire service without medical certificate where such leave is utilized for an approved course of study certified to be in university interest.

It can be taken up to a maximum of 60 days can be granted to a female employee in continuation of maternity leave without medical certificate and upto a maximum of 60 days can be granted without medical certificate to a female employee with less than two living children, on adoption of a child less than one year old. Commuted leave may be granted at the request of the employee even when earned leave is due to him.

4. Leave Not Due:- This Leave is also granted on medical certificate normally. Leave not due is granted when there is no half-pay leave at credit and the employee requests for the grant of Leave Not Due. It is granted only medical certificate if the leave sanctioning authority is satisfied that there is a reasonable prospect of the employee returning to duty on its expiry. It may be granted without medical certificate in continuation of maternity leave, and may be granted without medical certificate to a female employee with less than two living children, on adoption of a child less than one year old. The amount of leave should be limited to the half-pay leave that the employee is likely to earn subsequently. Leave not due during the entire service is limited to a maximum of 360 days and due will be debited against the half-pay leave that the employee may earn subsequently.

5. Maternity Leave :- Maternity leave is granted to women government employees.
1) Pregnancy: 180 days – Admissible only to employees with less than two surviving children.
2) Miscarriage/abortion (induced or otherwise): Total of 45 days in the entire service. However, any such leave taken prior to 16.6.1994 will not be taken into account for this limitation. Admissible irrespective of number of surviving children. Application to be supported by a certificate from a registered medical practitioner for NGOs and from AMA for GOs.

The maternity leave is not debited to leave account and full pay is granted. It cannot be combined with any other leaves and counts as service for increments and pension.

6. Paternity Leave :- A male employee with less than two surviving children may be granted Paternity Leave for a period of 15 days during the confinement of his wife. During the period of such leave he shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave. Paternity Leave shall not be debited against the leave account and may be combined with other kind of leave as in the case of Maternity Leave.

7. Study Leave:- Study leave may be granted to all government employees with not less than five years’ service for undergoing a special course consisting of higher studies or specialized training in a professional or technical subject having a direct and close connection with the sphere of his duties as a civil servant.

The course for which the study leave is taken should be certified to be of definite advantage to govt from the point of view of public interest and that particular study should be approved by the authority competent to grant leave.

The official should submit a full report on the work done during study leave. Maximum of 24 months of leave is sanctioned. In the case of CHS officers 36 months of leave can be granted at a stretch or in different spells.

Study leave will not be debited to the leave account and may be combined with other leave due. Study leave is not granted for studies outside India if facilities are available in India and to an official due to retire within 3 years of return from the study leave.

8. Extra Ordinary Leave :- Extraordinary leave is granted to a Government servant when no other leave is admissible or when other leave is admissible, but the Government servant applies in writing for extraordinary leave.

Extraordinary leave cannot be availed concurrently during the notice period, when going on voluntary retirement and EOL may also be granted to regularize periods of absence without leave retrospectively.

9. Casual Leave :- In a calendar year eight days of casual leave is permissible.
Casual leave is not a recognized form of leave and is not subject to any rules made by the Government of India. An official on Casual Leave is not treated as absent from duty and pay is not intermitted.

(i) Casual Leave can be combined with Special Casual Leave/vacation but not with any other kind of leave.
(ii) It cannot be combined with joining time.
(iii) Sundays and Holidays falling during a period of Casual Leave are not counted as part of Casual Leave.
(iv) Sundays/public holidays/restricted holidays/weekly offs can be prefixed/suffixed to Casual Leave.
(v) Casual Leave can be taken while on tour, but no daily allowance will be admissible for the period.
(vi) Casual Leave can be taken for half day also.
(vii) Essentially intended for short periods. It should not normally be granted for more than 5 days at any one time, except under special circumstances.
(viii) LTC can be availed du ring Casual Leave.
(ix) Individuals appointed and joining duty during the middle of a year may avail of Casual Leave proportionately or to the full extent at the discretion of the Competent Authority.

10. Child Care Leave :- Woman employees having minor children may be granted Child CareLeave by an authority competent to grant leave for a maximum period of 730 days (2 years) during their entire service for taking care of up to two children., whether for rearing or to look after any of their needs like examination, sickness, etc..
Conditions for Child Care Leave
1. Child care leave shall not be admissible if the child is eighteen years of age or older equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.
2. It can be availed in more than one spell.
3. It can not be debited against the leave account.
4. It may be combined with leave of the kind due and admissible.

11. Hospital Leave:- Hospital leave is admissible to Group 'C' employees whose duties involve handling of dangerous machinery, explosive materials, poisonous drugs and performance of hazardous takes and to Group 'D' Employees.
Medical certificate from an authorized medical attendant is necessary for grant of this leave. This hospital leave may be combined with any other kind of leave due and admissible, provided total period of leave does not exceed 28 months.

12. Vacation Department Staff leave Entitlement :- The leave entitlements of employees of Vacation Departments (i.e. departments where regular vacations are allowed during which those serving in them are permitted to be absent from duty) are the same as those serving in non-vacation Departments except in respect of 'earned leave'.
No earned leave will be admissible to a government servant of a vacation Department in any year in which he avails of the full vacation. The vacation can be combined with casual leave.

13. Special Disability Leave :- Special disability leave admissible to all employees when disabled by injury intentionally or accidentally inflicted or caused in or in consequence of the due performance of official duties or in consequences of official position. The disability above should have manifested within three months of the occurrence to which it is attributed and the person disabled had acted with due promptitude in bringing it to notice. The leave sanctioning authority, if satisfied as to the cause of the disability, may relax the condition and grant leave in cases where disability has manifested more than three months after the occurrence of its cause.

Special disability leave is also admissible when disabled by illness incurred in the performance of any particular duty, which has the effect of increasing liability to illness or injury beyond the ordinary risk attaching to the civil post held, under the same condition.This disability should be certified by an Authorised Medical Attendant to be directly due to the performance of the particular duty.

Maximum of 24 months of leave may be granted.
May be combined with any other leave.
Will count as service for pension.
Will not be debited to the leave account.

14. Child Adoption Leave:- Child adoption leave is granted to Female employees, with fewer than two surviving children on valid adoption of a child below the age of one year, for a period of 135 days immediately after the date of valid adoption.

Leave salary will be equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.
It may be combined with leave of any other kind. Leave not debited against the leave account.

15. Leave to Probationers :- A person appointed to a post on probation is entitled to all kinds of leave admissible under the rules to a permanent servants according as his appointment is against a permanent post.

16. Leave to Apprentices :- Apprentices are admissible to leave on medical certificate, on leave salary equivalent to half pay for a period not exceeding one month in any year of apprenticeship

Courtesy : http://www.gconnect.in/

How to protect your credit and debit cards from fraud

Convenience banking has, undoubtedly, come a long way. Most individuals have made the journey from ATMs to internet andmobile banking with consummate ease. However, most of them are still concerned about the risks involved in these new-age banking channels. The sentiment is shared by the Damodaran committee on customer service in banks, set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), to study the problems and concerns faced by bank customers.

The committee has identified various issues such as hacking of bank accounts, cloning of cards, etc, and has asked banks to step up security measures to minimise such frauds. Even otherwise, you can transact on these channels as banks already have redressal mechanisms for such problems in place. Here are some of the common problems faced by banking customers and what you can do if you become a victim.

Problem: You are in possession of the card, but it gets swiped in a remote location for a transaction not initiated by you.

Solution: This is possible if your card has been 'skimmed' and a 'counterfeit' card is generated for use by fraudsters. More sophisticated credit card issuers intimate customers about transactions through an SMS alert and this is how the customer gets the first information about the misuse of his card. The customer should immediately contact the customer care/service centre of the card issuer and block the card from further misuse. Then ask the bank to do a fullfledged investigation into the modus operandi of the transaction, which can then be the basis for a resolution.

"Transactions at point-of-sale (PoS) terminals can be disputed by the customer if the 'charge slip' is not signed by the card holder or if the signature does not match," says Sanjeev Patel, executive vice-president & head, direct banking channels, HDFC bank.

If the investigation reveals that the customer was in possession of the card but was not present in the remote location at the time of the transaction, then the bank initiates an insurance recovery for the disputed transactions.

"The interest of the customer is always kept in mind and in case of any ambiguity, customers' past trends and track record are considered to give the customer the benefit of doubt," said IndusInd Bank in an official statement. "Such transactions based on customer notification is marked as disputed transactions till the issue is resolved. The customer is not liable to pay for these transactions till the bank completes its investigation and initiates liaison for recovery through insurance," the bank said.

Problem: Identity theft through phishing, pharming

Solution: The customer should immediately report the incident to the bank and request for suspension of services (netbanking, cards, etc) depending on the details that have been compromised by the customer. The customer should also change the relevant passwords to ensure no further damage is done.

A customer should be careful about the computer being used for online transactions. "Even home computers are not free from key logging virus and other malwares. In fact, children often download games, music or movies. Any virus can get downloaded through these free downloads and put your computer at risk," says Vinoo Thomas, technical product manager, McAfee Labs. "Hence, you should either educate your children abou the possible implications of such risks or use a personal laptop, which is kept free of such downloads and viruses," says Thomas.

Banks, on their part, monitor usage to detect unusual transactions, in addition to putting in place a host of measures to circumvent frauds. "Measures are also taken to avoid account takeovers. These include virtual keypad to log in to prevent capture of key strokes and automatic logout on more than certain minutes of idling on the system. Also demographic details are not displayed in clear online and updation of the same is allowed only after an additional factor of authentication," says Gowri Mukherjee, head, digital business, Citi India. "We also regularly monitor the transaction activity on customer accounts, which triggers alerts if any unusual transactions are done. This is done for all channels, not just the online channel."

"Each of the systems provided by ECS also has basic checks in terms of number and value of transactions allowed in a period per card or per account or per terminal where the card is used. This feature may help in case an alarmingly high number of transactions happen in a very short time," says Bhavin Mody, senior product manager, ElectraCard Services, a payment processing company.

Problem: Non-dispensation cash from the ATM

Solution: Such scenarios can be primarily attributed to hardware malfunction, network connectivity issues, bad quality of currency bills or the customer forgetting to pick up the notes.

"This typically happens in case the communication link fails at the moment of cash dispensation by the machine. In such cases, the customer needs to retain the ATM slip which gives the time of transaction and report the incident to the respective customer care centre. Most banks reconcile ATM cash periodically and such unaccounted cash are credited back to the respective customer's account post internal review," said IndusInd Bank.

"The customer should report such cases immediately to the bank so that corrective actions can be taken and money refunded to the customer. The banks have various processes/system functionality features in place to investigate such cases and address them," Patel of HDFC Bank says. Also, the RBI has asked banks to compensate customers in case of any delay in reversing the erroneous debits.

Problem: Frauds occurring due to capture of your card information at ATMs/online

Solution: If you thought that you need to be watchful only while swiping cards at merchant outlets, think again.

Scamsters today are using sophisticated means to obtain information on your card's magnetic stripe to clone cards, apart from capturing your ATM PIN when you key it in at kiosks.

"In the online space, India is now the safest country for e-commerce, with the implementation of second factor authentication. Such misuse has now shifted to the ATM network. It is easier to commit such frauds at ATMs, due to the closed space than at POS terminals. After capturing the information, cards can be counterfeited to be misused," says Uttam Nayak, group country manager, India and South Asia, Visa. At your end, you need to make sure that you keep the keypad covered while entering your PIN to prevent any camera device from capturing the PIN you enter.

Problem: Giving into tempting offers

Solution: The solution is to simply be aware of the kind of frauds taking place. "Recently, an incident was reported where customers were encouraged to swipe at a POS terminal located in a departmental store for a small amount in return for freebies worth much more. They were unaware that a device was recording the card-related sensitive information offline," says Nayak of Visa. To avoid falling prey to such dubious schemes, it is best to stay away from offers that seem to good to be true, because they are likely to be.

Source: Economic Times

Windows Server - Groups and Rights

Windows Server - Groups and Rights

Group	Description	Default user rights
Account Operators	Members of this group can create, modify, and delete accounts for users, groups, and computers located in the Users or Computers containers and organizational units in the domain, except the Domain Controllers organizational unit. Members of this group do not have permission to modify the Administrators or the Domain Admins groups, nor do they have permission to modify the accounts for members of those groups. Members of this group can log on locally to domain controllers in the domain and shut them down. Because this group has significant power in the domain, add users with caution.	Allow log on locally; Shut down the system.
Administrators	Members of this group have full control of all domain controllers in the domain. By default, the Domain Admins and Enterprise Admins groups are members of the Administrators group. The Administrator account is also a default member. Because this group has full control in the domain, add users with caution.	Access this computer from the network; Adjust memory quotas for a process; Back up files and directories; Bypass traverse checking; Change the system time; Create a pagefile; Debug programs; Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation; Force a shutdown from a remote system; Increase scheduling priority; Load and unload device drivers; Allow log on locally; Manage auditing and security log; Modify firmware environment values; Profile single process; Profile system performance; Remove computer from docking station; Restore files and directories; Shut down the system; Take ownership of files or other objects.
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Your post office could soon don a bank’s role too Dept To Seek Cabinet Nod & RBI Licence

our post office could soon don a bank’s role too
Dept To Seek Cabinet Nod & RBI Licence
Surojit Gupta TNN

New Delhi: Your friendly neighbourhood post office may soon be your bank as well, with the department of posts working on a plan to get a bank licence. It is expected to approach the Cabinet for approval of its proposal, and officials say once the plan is shown the green light, the department will formally seek a licence from the Reserve Bank of India.

If the plan is approved and India Post gets to start its banking operations, it has the potential to emerge as one of the biggest banks in the country thanks to its massive network and reach. India Post, the largest postal network in the world, has a network of 1.55 lakh post offices out of which nearly 1.4 lakh are in rural areas. It already has 23.75 crore individual savings bank accounts and offers a whole range of financial services such as postal life insurance, pension payments and money transfer services.

“It will fulfill the UPA’s agenda of financial inclusion if we are a full-fledged bank. We have a huge network and wide reach in rural areas,” Sachin Pilot, minister of state for communications and information technology, told TOI.

Globally, there are several successful examples of post banks. In France, its postal service, La Poste, started banking operations ‘La Banque Postale’ in 2006. In 2007, it had more than 11 million postal banking accounts and accounted for almost 25% of the postal service’s turnover. Similar examples are visible in Italy and Germany. The banking operations of Post Italiane has helped it return to profit and expand its network.

Analysts say India Post needs to diversify its activities from the loss making postal services. Since post offices already accept deposits, it will be a good idea to enable them to branch out into full-fledged banking activities. However, they say, the best practices must be adopted to improve efficiency.

SPREAD SHEET 1.55 lakh Post offices nationwide, biggest postal network in the world. 1.4 lakh of these are in rural areas 23.7 crore No. of postal savings accounts. Post offices already offer insurance, pension and money transfer services 811 ATMs at post offices soon for postal & other customers ATMs for 1,000 cr part of India Post’s upgrade plan

New Delhi: According to experts, improving efficiency is a must if India Post is to succeed in its proposed banking operations. “Post offices are losing heavily due to internet and other alternatives that have emerged. They already have some experience of banking and it will not be a bad idea to help them enlarge their activities. But the cadres need training to improve efficiency,” said D H Pai Panandikar, president of RPG Foundation, an economic think tank.

The department of posts has embarked on a drive to revamp its functions and modernize its network and is finding ways to generate revenues. Minister of state for communications and IT Sachin Pilot said as part of the image makeover, 811 ATMs would be procured at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore. “We plan to issue debit cards to our customers who can then access cash from these ATMs. We are also tying up with other banks so that customers of different banks can use this facility,” Pilot said. The ATMs are expected to be rolled out by the end of March 2012. Core banking facilities are likely to be available in 4,000 branches once the networking of all post offices is complete. Pilot said the network of post offices is expected to be linked to enable roundthe-clock transaction facilities for customers. It will tie up with various government departments, ministries and state-run firms to maximize its revenues.

Source : http://epaper.timesofindia.com/

Interesting Facts

1. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S’s highways.
2. 5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
3. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is “A meaningless existential hell.”
4. 315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled.
5. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.
6. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
7. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
8. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
9. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
10. 7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
11. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
12. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
13. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
14. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
15. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
16. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
17. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
18. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
19. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
20. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.
21. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
22. A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
23. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
24. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
25. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
26. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
27. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
28. A whale’s penis is called a dork.
29. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
30. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
31. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
32. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
33. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background — when they say “walla-walla” it looks like they are actually talking.
34. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
35. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
36. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
37. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there.
38. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
39. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
40. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
41. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
42. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
43. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
44. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
45. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
46. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
47. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
48. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
49. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
50. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
51. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
52. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
53. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
54. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
55. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
56. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”
57. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
58. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
59. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
60. America’s first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
61. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
62. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
63. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
64. All porcupines float in water.
65. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
66. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
67. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
68. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
69. Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
70. Bubble gum contains rubber.
71. Back in the mid to late 1980′s, an IBM-compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
72. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
73. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
74. Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
75. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
76. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
77. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
78. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
79. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
80. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
81. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
82. Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
83. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
84. Camel’s milk does not curdle.
85. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down – hence the expression “to get fired.”
86. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
87. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
88. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
89. Cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
90. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
91. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader’s lines, and didn’t know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
92. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
93. Dr. Seuss pronounced “Seuss” such that it rhymed with “rejoice.”
94. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
95. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
96. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
97. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth… and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
98. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
99. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
100. Every person has a unique tongue print.
101. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
102. Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
103. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
104. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
105. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
106. Even if you cut off a cockroach’s head, it can live for several weeks.
107. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
108. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”
109. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
110. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
111. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
112. Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio’s newscast about the wreck.
113. Goethe couldn’t stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
114. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
115. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
116. Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
117. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
118. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
119. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
120. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
121. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
122. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
123. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
124. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones – Bhutan.
125. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
126. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
127. In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman somewhere.
128. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.
129. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
130. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
131. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
132. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
133. If you bring a raccoon’s head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
134. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television’s Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
135. In England, in the 1880′s, “Pants” were considered a dirty word.
136. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
137. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
138. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
139. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
140. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
141. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
142. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
143. It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
144. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
145. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
146. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don’t try this at home!)
147. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
148. In the movie “Casablanca,” Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.”
149. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
150. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
151. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
152. It’s against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
153. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
154. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
155. It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
156. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
157. John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
158. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
159. “Kemo Sabe” means “soggy shrub” in Navajo.
160. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
161. Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
162. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: “L.A.”
163. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
164. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
165. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of “Lorne Greene’s Wild Kingdom.”
166. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
167. Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
168. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
169. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
170. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
171. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
172. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
173. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
174. Murphy’s Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
175. Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.
176. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
177. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
178. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
179. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
180. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
181. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
182. Mosquitoes have teeth.
183. Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
184. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
185. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
186. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
187. One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
188. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
189. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
190. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
191. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
192. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
193. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
194. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
195. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930′s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
196. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
197. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
198. Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
199. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
200. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.
201. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
202. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
203. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
204. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
205. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
206. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
207. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
208. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
209. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
210. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
211. Some toothpaste’s contain antifreeze.
212. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
213. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
214. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with “Midnight Cowboy.” Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
215. Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
216. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
217. Slugs have 4 noses.
218. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
219. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
220. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
221. The average person laughs 15 times a day.
222. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
223. The condom – made originally of linen – was invented in the early 1500s.
224. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
225. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
226. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
227. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
228. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
229. The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.”
230. There are more chickens than people in the world.
231. The Sanskrit word for “war” means “desire for more cows.”
232. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.
233. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
234. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
235. The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
236. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
237. The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
238. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
239. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
240. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
241. The Neanderthal’s brain was bigger than yours is.
242. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
243. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
244. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
245. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
246. The saying “it’s so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey” came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off… thus the saying.
247. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
248. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
249. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
250. There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
251. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
252. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
253. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
254. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
255. There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
256. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs — it will let you go instantly.
257. There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
258. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
259. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
260. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth.
261. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
262. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
263. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
264. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
265. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
266. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
267. The “L.L.” in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
268. The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth’s surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
269. The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
270. The only nation whose name begins with an “A” but doesn’t end in an “A” is Afghanistan.
271. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
272. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
273. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”.
274. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the “American Pie.” (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
275. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
276. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
277. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
278. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
279. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
280. The phrase, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye” is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, “No eye gouging.” Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone’s eye out.
281. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
282. The term “the whole 9 yards” came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”
283. The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
284. The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
285. The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
286. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
287. The word “modem” is a contraction of the words “modulate, demodulate.” (MOdulate DEModulate)
288. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
289. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
290. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
291. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
292. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie “Barbarella.
293. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
294. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
295. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
296. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
297. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
298. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
299. The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.
300. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
301. The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.
302. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
303. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
304. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
305. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
306. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
307. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
308. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
309. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
310. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
311. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
312. When opossums are playing ‘possum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.
313. Who’s that playing the piano on the “Mad About You” theme? Paul Reiser himself.
314. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
315. Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble’s Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
316. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
317. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
318. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
319. You’ll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
320. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
321. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
322. You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
323. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
324. You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
325. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
326. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
327. You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather

SPECIALISED TREAÍMNT FOR SERVICE PERSONEL AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM CIVIL SOURCES

20028/Spi Treat/DGAFMS/DG-3A/1393/11/2011/D (Med)

Govt of India
Ministry of Defence
NewDelhi—110001 .

18th Jul 2011 .

To.

The Director General Armed Forces Medical Services
New Delhi-110001

Sub – SPECIALISED TREAÍMNT FOR SERVICE PERSONEL AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM CIVIL SOURCES

Sir,

I am directed to say that the President is pleased to extend the provision of Ministry of Defence letter No 20028/DGAFMS/DG-3A11348/D (Med) dated 28 Mar 1988 as amended from time to time and last extended vide Govt of India Ministry of Defence letter No 20028/Spl Treat)DGAFMS/DG-3A/331/09/D (Med) dated 31 Mar 2009 for a further period of two years wet 01 Apr 2011 with partial modification as explained in para-2 below.

2. However, as facilities many procedures now exist in certain Armed Forces hosipital the facility for availing specialized treatment for Cardiology and Renal Transplant procedures will
only be recommended on case-to-case basis as follows.

(a) Advanced Cardiovascular Treatment: – Recommendations of consultant/ Senior Advisor Cardiothoracic Surgery who will obtain concurrence of Sr Consultant (Surgery) office of DGAFMS telephonically if necessary. The recommendation should be pre- facto, however in emergency conditions, justitiabie post-facto recommendation may be obtained.

(b) Advanced Renal Transplant Treatment: – Recommendations of consultant/ Senior Advisor. Urology who will obtain concurrence of Sr Consultant (Surgery) office of DGAFMS telephonically if necessary. The recommendation should be pre-facto,however in emergency conditions, justifiable post-facto recommendation may be obtained

3, This issue with the concurrence of Defence/Finance vide their LJO.No 344/AG/PD/11 dated 06/07/2011

Yours Faithfully
(Kulwant Rana)
Under Secretary to the Govt of India

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