HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY - AUGUST 5TH

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Friendship Day is celebrated each year on the first Sunday in August. In 2012 it will be celebrated on 5 August. The next day the apartment was declared by the U.S. Congress in 1935. The occasion started as a small event to celebrate the relationship shared by friends. Today, it has taken the form of a big festival. Gone are the days when holidays like Friendship Day was limited to the West. Today when the world has evolved into a global village, adopted people in the rest of the world festival wholeheartedly and celebrate it with great enthusiasm, just like all other occasions. They can easily relate them to the festival, just because no one can survive without at least one true friend in his / her life.

The idea to honor the friendship has been appreciated by people in many countries in the world. Over the passing years, the festivities related to Friendship Day will be even more colorful. Exchange of gifts, flowers, friendship bands and greeting cards have become an important part, rather a tradition of Friendship Day.

Friendship Day in India

Friendship Day has come to be celebrated in a big way in India. The noble idea of honoring friends and friendship has really caught on with the youth in India and one can see the festival being enthusiastically celebrated by the youth especially, students.

 

Day Dedicated to Friends
In tune with the spirit of the occasion, people dedicate Friendship Day festival to their best friends. Most choose to celebrate the entire day in the loving company of their dearest friends. Recollecting sweet memories of the time spent together and catching up with their lives over a cup of coffee is the idea of ideal Friendship Day celebration for many.

Friends separated by geographical distances, call up their friends to express love and warmth for each other and to wish a "Happy Friendship Day". With more and more people getting hooked to the net, many people also choose to chat with their friends with the help of Internet. Sending SMS and Friendship Day e-cards is another popular way of greetings friends.

Friendship Day Celebrations in Schools and Colleges
Friendship Day celebrations are particularly marked in schools and colleges in India. Euphoria of the day sets in days before the festival as everybody gets excited to wish their best friends in their own special way. Children make Friendship Day Cards or other special gift to thank their friends for their wonderful presence in their life. Exchange of Friendship Bands is the other most prominent feature of Friendship Day celebrations. Friends vie with each other as to who gets the most stylish band or who gets the maximum number of bands.

In several colleges, special programs are also organized to mark the occasion. Most of these programs and events intend to give youth an opportunity to dance and sing with friends and have a good time.

Friendship Day Parties
Following their counterparts in the west, youth in India too mark Friendship Day by participating in Friendship Day parties or organizing bashes for their friends. Major crowd for Friendship Day can be seen in discotheques and pubs where people dance with friends on fast pace music and cherish the loving company of their pals. Such parties also give youth a chance to make new friends and widen their friendship circle. At present such bashes are more popular in metros and other big cities, however, youth in small towns too are warming up to the idea of partying on Friendship Day.

Commercialization of Friendship Day
Just as in US and several other countries, Friendship Day has been commercialized to a great extent in India. Days before the festival, gift marketers run an extensive campaign to lure the people to buy cards and gifts for their friends. Restaurateurs too try to entice people by offering special discounts or holding bashes. Several people criticize such excessive campaigning. They feel commercialization has marred to the idea behind observing Friendship Day and has turned it into a mere formality. Some people however feel that advertising campaign has helped to generate awareness about Friendship Day festival and the idea of having a day dedicated to friends.

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Onam Festival – Salary and Pension in advance

All Central Government Employees and Pensioners in the State of Kerala would get theirSalary/Pension for the month of August 2012, four days in advance i.e on 27th August 2012, in view of Onam Festival which is to be celebrated on 29th August 2012.

The Office Memorandum No: 3(2)/TA/2012/518 dated 03.08.2012 issued by Department of Expenditure is as follows.

No 3(2)/TA/2012/518 

Ministry of Finance

Department of Expenditure

Controller General of Accounts

Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market, 

New Delhi, Dated: 03-08-2012.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Disbursement of salary/wages/pension to the Central Govt. Employees and Pensioners in the State of Kerala for the month of August, 2012 on account of ONAM festival.

        In view of the “ONAM” festival, the Government have decided that thesalary of all Central Government Employees in the State of Kerala for the month of August, 2012 may be drawn and disbursed by the Central Government Offices (including Defence, Posts and Telecommunications) on 27th August, 2012.

2. The wages for August, 2012 of the industrial Employees of Central Govt. serving in the State of’ Kerala may also be disbursed in advance on 27th August, 2012.

3. The pension for August. 2012 of all Central Government pensioners in the State of Kerala may also be disbursed by Bank/PAO’s on 27th August, 2012.

4      The salary/wages/pension so disbursed is to be treated as advance payment and subject to adjustment after the lull month’ssalary/wages/pension of each employee/pensioner is determined. The recovery, if any, will be made without exception from thesalary/wages/pension, as the case may be, for the month of September, 2012.

5. The concerned Ministries/Departments are requested to bring theseinstructions to the notice of their offices located in the Slate of Kerala for necessary action immediately.

6. Reserve Bank of India is requested to bring these instructions to the notice of all paying branches of all Banks located in the State of Kerala for necessary action immediately.

(Sonia Roy Burman) 

Jt. Controller General of Accounts

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E - version of Employment News

Employment News announces the launch of its e-version (English and Hindi) from 11th August, 2012, issue No. 19. It will meet long standing demand of our subscribers. The e-version will be available to all existing & new subscribers free of cost. The e-version will become accessible every Saturday.

How to access the e-version

1. Clik on the link of e-version
2. Enter your login name & password (your login ID & password will be your subscription number)
   (please note that login id & password shall not have any special characters and/or space.
   For example if your subscription number is AR/1111 then you shall only type your login id & password as AR1111).

Source : http://www.employmentnews.gov.in/

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Issue of Individual / Plastic Cards beneficiaries

It has been decided by the office of PCDA Bangalore, to Issue Individual Plastic Card to all CGHS beneficiaries from 1^st August 2012 by CGJS Koramangala, Bangalore. In this connection, the guidelines on Issue of Individual Plastic Cards to each CGHS beneficiary (serving and retired) are revised as follows:

1) CGHS Cards shall be issued only to the eligible Central Government Employees whose place of residence is situated within the coverage area of CGHS.

2) Requisition for CGHS shall be prepared in duplicate in Form “A”.

3) Requisitions for CGHS Cards shall be accompanied by two copies of recent 3X5 cm size individual photographs of all the family members of the government employee. One set of the photograph shall be signed on the back by the concerned beneficiary & enclosed with the application form.

4) Requisitions shall be sent along with two copies of the challan as on Form ‘C’ duly filled in.

5) On the occurrence of death, CGHS Cards issued to the government employee shall be withdrawn for cancellation.

6) In case of change in entitlement for CGHS facilities, the Government employee shall enclose the CGHS Card(s) with the application for Issuing new card(s) with the revised entitlement.

7) In case of mutilation, the mutilated card shall be enclosed with the application along with the challan in token of payment of the prescribed charges for issuing a new card.

 Duplicate Cards may be issued on payment of prescribed fee with details of lost / misplaced cards.

9) The plastic cards issued by CGHS shall be valid for a period of five years from the date of issue. The validity period shall also be indicated on the card.

All Offices may strictly adhere to the laid down conditions given in the above Circular. The requisition form duly filled in by all Officers & staff along with individual photographs may be forwarded to this Office By 6^th Aug 2012 for scrutiny and onward transmission to CGHS Bangalore.

Courtesy : http://cgstaffnews.com