Special Casual Leave for union activities – Various instructions/ Orders and clarifications.

1. Special casual leave upto a maximum of 20 days in a year can be granted for the following puposes.

(a) When the delegates to All India Conferences and members of the executive committees are required to attend such conferences and meetings.

(b) When members from outstation are required to attend periodical meetings with the Head of Circles.

(c) When members from outstation wait on deputation on the Minister/ MOS and Secretary (P).

2. Special Casual Leave may be allowed to members of service associations coming from outstations to attend their monthly meeting with Departmental Officers at divisional level on the following conditions: -

(a) Not more than two members are allowed this concession during year

(b) Special Casual Leave is allowed for a day/ days of the meeting and the actual time taken in the journey.

(c) Maximum limit of Special Casual Leave allowed does not exceed 12 days in a year.

(d) The concession under this item will not bring an additional benefit to the staff who under para 1 above are allowed extent of 20 days in a year. If any official is required to meet the divisional head, the Special Casual Leave granted to him for the purpose will be counted against those 20 days Special Casual Leave in a year.

(e) The local members may be given suitable offs for the duration of the meetings.

3. Public holidays and weekly offs to the extent admissible to the category of the officials to which the office bearer of the service association belong falling within the period of Special Casual Leave granted to them or immediately preceeding or following should not be counted as part of Special Casual Leave.

4. Special CL is not allowed to be combined with regular leave/ EL or half pay leave etc. An understanding reached in the Departmental Council of JCM stipulates that as far as possible the Divisional Executive committee meetings of the service associations will be held on holidays or outside office hours. As regard number of members attending the committee meetings the same will be in accordance with the constitution. Where there is no reason to believe that more members are are asking for special CL than justified, the constitution and the records of the service association may be checked up to find out whether facilities have been asked for more members than admissible under the rules.

(No. 54-19/ 59–SPB dated 31.08.1959; No. 54-13/ 71–SPB–II dated 13.01.1974)

5. The office bearers of the recognised service association may be granted special CL for attending trade union seminars subject to the condition that maximum limit of Special CL does not exceed 20 days in a year.

6. Notices issued by the General Secretaries of the Service Associations for All India Conferences/ working committees or executive committee meeting of the service association are not being circulated by the Department. Instead, the Circle Secretaries concerned should furnish an attestted copy of the notice to the Head of the Circles and other administrative offices requesting them to issue necessary instructions to the concerned authorities for granting special CL to the eligble officials, subject to the overall limits. The competent authority will then sanction special CL to the eligible officials provisionally on receipt of applications from them. On completion of the conferences/ meetings, the officials concerned will be required to produce a certificate from the General Secretary to the effect that they had actually attended the conference/ meeting for its full duration. Therafter special CL granted provisionally will be regularised.

7. The other facilities such as deputation of official observer to the conferences, permission to conduct conferences within the departmental premises outside working hours, grant of special CL to the delegates to the Circle Conferences, should continue to be extended at the time of elections of the service associations from which facilities had been withdrawn for not conducting the prescribed elections in time. These facilities would not however, be available to the office bearers of the concerned branch which failed to hold the elections in time.(No. 16-38/ 82 – SR (Pt.) dated 28.08.87)

Courtesy : http://fnpokerala.blogspot.com

CCleaner 3.12 - A Useful Tool

Portable CCleaner 3.12, Defraggler 2.07, Speccy 1.13 are available here. Installation not necessary. Click below to download.

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Revision of Ceiling Rates and guidelines for various Coronary /Vascular Stents for CGHSICS(MA) beneficiaries.

F No Misc.1002/2006/CGHS(R&H)/ CGHS(P)
Government of India
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Department of Health&Family Welfare

Maulana Azad Road, Nirman Bhawan
New Delhi 110 108 dated the 31 October 2011.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Revision of Ceiling Rates and guidelines for various Coronary /Vascular Stents for CGHSICS(MA) beneficiaries.

In supersession of the Office Memorandum of even No dated 12.09.2007 of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare for the revised rates and guidelines for Coronary / Vascular Stents for reimbursement of CGHSICS(MA) beneficiaries, all DCGI approved Coronary / Vascular Stents are approved for reimbursement to CGHSICS(MA) beneficiaries as per the ceiling rates mentioned below

1, DRUG ELUTING CORONARY STENTS-

i. All DCGI and FDA approved Drug Eluting Stents –Rs 65,000/-
ii. Ail DCGI and CE approved Drug Eluting Stents — Rs.50000/-
iii All DCGI approved Drug Eluting Stents - – Rs 40000/-

2 BARE METAL CORONARY STENTS

i) STAINLESS STEEL STENTS – Rs.12000/-
ii) COBALT STENTS – Rs.20,000/.

a) All DCGI and FDA approved
b) Ail DCGI and CE approved – Rs. 18,000/-
C) All DCGI approved – Rs 15,000/-

iii) COATED I OTHER STENTS – Rs 25,000/-

3. BARE METAL VASCULAR (NON CORONARY ) STENTS

i) STAINLESS STEEL STENTS – Rs 20000/-
ii) COBALT STENTS – Rs 22,000/-
iii) NITINOL / OTHER STENTS – Rs 25,000!-

Reimbursement to beneficiaries /empanelled hospitals shall be limited to ceiling rates or as per actuals, whichever is lower.

2. Coronary Stents shall be permitted on the advice of Govt. Specialist, of which not more than two shall be of Drug Eluting Stents. Permission shall be granted as per the laid down procedure.

If more than two drug eluting stents are implanted in an empanelled hospital and no
written informed consent was obtained from the beneficiary that he!she would bear the difference in cost between the DES and Bare Metal Stent, arid the hospital has charged this amount from the beneficiary, the additional amount shall be deducted from the pending bills of hospitals and shall be paid to the beneficiary

3. It is essential for the empanelled hospitals to quote the Batch number when a coronary/vascular stent of any type is implanted in the case of a CGHS/CS (MA) beneficiary and also enclose a copy of the relevant invoices pertaining to the procurement of the stents by the hospitals. In addition to this, the outer pouch of the Stent packet along with the sticker on it on which details of the stent are printed shall also be enclosed with the medical bill for claiming reimbursement from the Govt. In case of treatment from a private non-empanelled hospital,
where the treatment was taken in an emergency, it is the responsibility of the beneficiary to obtain the batch number, invoice and outer pouches of the stent(s) before the submission of the medical claim to CGHSI concerned department, as the case may be.

4 The empanelled hospital shall submit a self certified undertaking that the hospital has not charged the CGHS / CS(MA) beneficiary more than the rate at which the stent has been procured by the hospital and incase of any detection and establishment that the hospital has overcharged the hospital shall be removed from the list of hospitals empanelled under CGHS without any further notice

5. UTI-TSL, while processing the hospital bills of coronary I vascular stents shall ensure that the hospitals have enclosed copies of the relevant invoices pertaining to the procurement of the stents by the hospitals and the outer pouch of the Stent packet along with the sticker on it on which details of the stent are printed and that the prescribed rates and the guidelines have been followed, before making provisional payments to the hospitals

6. The revised rates and guidelines shall come into force from the date of issue and shall be in force for a period of one year or tilt they are revised, whichever may be earlier.

7. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Division vide Dy.No 2979 dated 20.10.2011 of the office of AS&FA Min. of H&FW

(JAI PRAKASH)
UNDER SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

source : http://msotransparent.nic.in/

Core Banking Project - FAQs

The salient features of Core Banking Project and the services offered to the Customers are furnished here under for the information of the members.

1.What is Core Banking Project?

India Post has a vision to be one of the leaders in providing banking and money remittance services to the citizens of the country with a focus on the rural population

2.How it is different from the existing Sanchay Post?

Sanchay Post is a LAN (Local Area Network) based application. CBS on the other hand is a centralized application with browser based interface. There is no need for servers at the post office level for running CBS. CBS will have the following features which are not available in Sanchay Post: real-time 24x7 processing capability, centralized database, availability of alternate channels, capture of KYC (Know Your Customer) details, adequate audit & inspection features

3.What are the alternate service channels planned along with CBS ?

ATM Banking

Internet Banking

Phone Banking (IVR)/ Banking through call centre

Mobile Banking

SMS Banking - tracking and alerts

4.What is Rural ICT project? How is this integrated with core banking?

The Rural ICT solution will computerise the rural Post Offices and provide integrated and affordable electronic services at the Branch post office level. In the Rural ICT project, the vendor will be responsible for development of core application platform; development of MGNREGS application and expansion of already existing electronic Money Order (eMO) application for RICT Hardware Devices; development of a central MGNREGS database; Integration with overall India Post 2012 solution architecture and other core applications such as Mail Operations, Core Banking Solution, Postal Life Insurance and solution deployment of the complete Rural ICT solution to approximately 1.30 lakh branch post offices

5.What are the objectives of CBS project?

To increase the number of customers from existing 20 crore to 35 crore by 2012

To provide multiple delivery channels like internet, mobile banking, ATMs, thereby bringing access to financial services to the doorsteps of the customers

To enable faster money remittances and fund transfers and increase volumes to capture a 50% market share by 2014

To become the one stop solution for financial inclusion & microfinance initiatives of government, public/private sector banks

6.Can Post Office customer transfer money to other bank account; say SBI?

Yes, the same can be done. CBS will have interface with NEFT- National Electronic Fund Transfer System run by RBI which will facilitate transfer of money from POSB accounts to other bank accounts

7.Does the project have any linkage with Project Arrow?

Yes. Project Arrow has linkage with CBS project. Project Arrow monitors data entry and signature scan activities which are part of pre implementation activities of the CBS project.

8.What are Circle Processing centres?

Circle Processing Centres (CPCs) which would act as centralized processing units for a circle and handle some of the non customer interfacing tasks centrally. Each circle will have a Circle Processing Centre

9.What is double entry accounting system? Will CBS have double entry accounting system?

Yes, CBS will have double entry accounting system. A double-entry bookkeeping system is a set of rules for recording financial information in a financial accounting system in which every transaction or event changes at least two different nominal ledger accounts. The above said accounting logic will be inbuilt in the CBS software.

10.What are the linkages between CBS and other projects?

The entire scope of India Post 2012 project is organized under 8 RFPs, in a multi-tower model with vertically integrated towers, in order to expedite the rollout of priority solutions and allow specialized and full service providers to participate in the procurement process. The vendors selected would need to work together to ensure smoothness in building and rolling out the solutions. The key linkages between CBS vendor and other vendors in the India Post 2012 project are network, data centre facility, helpdesk, call centre etc.

11.Whether all the schemes have to be migrated to CBS?

Yes, all existing schemes will be migrated to CBS. This is needed due to the fact that firstly Sanchay Post will be phased out and secondly due to interface with the new POS ( which will replace Meghdoot software) integrating all the applications of the post office.

12.What is the role of SI as far as Sanchay Post is concerned?

SI shall maintain, operate and support this application during the period of its availability. SI shall do the necessary enhancement of the Sanchay Post software during the time of ownership as may be required for successful running in the identified Post Offices.

13.Who will run the call centre for banking? How the staff will resolve issues while implementing CBS?

There will be an internal helpdesk to resolve the issues faced by the internal staff of DoP in relation to the products and solution/ applications implemented as part of India Post 2012 Project. A call centre will be available for the DoP customers. Both (internal helpdesk and call center) will be managed by the core system integrator as part of its scope of work.

14.What are the facilities the customer can get through core banking?

The customer will get the benefit of anytime, anywhere banking by access to multiple alternate channels like ATM, internet banking, phone banking, mobile banking etc.

15.What are the online facilities planned under internet banking for CBS?

The key online facilities that will be provided to the CBS internet banking users are: opening of TD/NSC/KVP/RD, change of contact details, cheque book request, apply for and report loss of debit/ATM card, view mini statement of past few transactions, bill payments etc.

16.What are the interfaces planned for CBS?

Internal and external interfaces are planned for CBS. Internal interfaces will be developed with insurance module, mail system, ATM switch, Sanchay Post, Enterprise Content Management System etc. External interfaces will be developed with EFT/NEFT, ECS, RTGS, Cheque Truncation System, National Financial Switch, payment services provider etc.

Ms. Manjula Prasher is new Secretary, Post

Ms. Manjula Prasher is new Secretary, Post

Ms. Manjula Prasher, an IPoS (1976) has taken over the charge of the Secretary (Posts)/ Chairperson, PSB/ DG (Posts), Department of Posts, Dak Bhawan, New Delhi-110001 wef 01.11.2011F.N.

TRAI Raises SMS Limit To 200 SMS Per Day Per SIM

Now, there seems to be good news for all the SMS fans or Heavy SMS Users! Indian Telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today increased the limit of One hundred SMS (100 SMS) per day per SIM to Two hundred SMS (200 SMS) per day per SIM for prepaid users.

TRAI also doubles the SMS limits/caps for Postpaid mobile service users from 3000 SMS per month to 6000 SMS per month per SIM.

TRAI said that it has received representations from some of the service providers and consumers to increase the limit of 100 SMS per day per SIM. The Authority has considered these representations and decided to increase the limit of one hundred SMS per day per SIM to two hundred SMS per day per SIM.The new SMS cap of 200 SMSes per SIM per day for Prepaid and 6000 SMSes per SIM per month on Postpaid will be effective from today i.e. 1st November 2011.

On 27th September, TRAI directs all Access Providers (GSM and CDMA Mobile service operators) to sets a cap of 100 SMSs per day per users as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk.

New SMS Limits / Cap for Prepaid and Postpaid Subscribers :

Prepaid : 200 SMS Per Day Per SIM (existing 100 SMS/Day)

Postpaid : 6000 SMS Per Month Per SIM (existing 3000 SMS/Month)

Courtesy : http://telecomtalk.info/

How to safeguard your Bank ATM card from fraudsters?

Like the news on street-side robbery, house-breaking, bank robbery etc we are used to read in the news papers few years ago, nowadays we come across lot of news on debit card (also popularly called as ATM card) frauds.

Innocent people, especially salaried class are victims in these frauds as they expose their debit cards more in the ATM to take out their salary credited in the bank.

We provide here a news published in Hindu recently on one kind of these ATM Card fraud in which fraudsters were held by police in Chennai.

A gang that robbed 64 persons in chennai of over Rs.30 lakh last month after making fake bank cards has been busted by police.

The gang members used a slim skimmer device that they placed inside the card slots of four ATMs, in different locations, to obtain details of the victim's card details, including the PIN.

Police launched investigations after Commissioner of Police receivedcomplaints from 64 persons last month stating that someone had drawn large sums of money from their bank accounts.

When the victims made enquiries with their banks, the officials told them that the money had been drawn using ATM cards.

It was found that the money was drawn from four ATMs – in West Mambalam, Kilpauk, Kotturpuram and Saidapet.

“The gang opted for the four ATMs because these facilities had neither a security guard nor a CCTV camera. We gathered information about the movement of people who visited the kiosks and details of calls made and received on mobile phones of those who came to the ATMs. During the cell phone trace, our team zeroed in on a mobile phone number, which was used at all the four ATMs,” the police said.

Fraudsters confessed to having inserted film-thin skimmer devices made in China, worth $ 2,000 each in the card slots of the four ATMs. The devices with a two-day battery life are capable of capturing card details, including the PIN, through an advanced sensor panel when a customer uses the card issued by the bank. They replaced the skimmer devices every two days and used the information to make fake cards.

Advanced skimmer devices with sensors can detect the movement of fingers on the numeric pad on the ATM.

Earlier, a pinhole camera on the skimmer placed inside the card slot was used by culprits to read the PIN number. Now the fraudsters have gone one step ahead.

The police have advised ATM users to inspect card slots for any suspicious objects and change PIN numbers of their bank cards at frequent intervals.

We also provide a slide show below issued in the interest of people by Common Wealth Bank.

This slide-show shows the possible area where skimmer device is installed by fraudsters in the ATM.

· Though it may not be fully possible all the time by a layman to identify the illegal installation of a skimmer device in the ATM, a cautious look at the card insertion area of ATM may throw some light.

· Even if you just suspect that the ATM is tampered with, you can go to a nearby ATM where security people are available all the time.

· You can also avoid loss of your debit card information by frequently changing your ATM password.

· Safest of all of these precautionary measure is not to expose your debit card linked to your main account in which you receive your salary and other payments in the ATM unless it's an emergency. Then how can we withdraw amount for our day to day expenses? Here we have an easy solution.

· If you have internet banking facility for your main account, then you can easily safeguard your money. You have to open another account in another bank with ATM card facility and transfer small portion of amount to this alternative account from the main account usinginternet banking. Now the ATM card of the alternative bank account can be exposed in the ATM, while you never take outside the ATM card of the main account unless it's an emergency. Whenever, the alternative bank account balance is nil you can use internet banking within no time to transfer amount to the alternative account from the main account.

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

Postal Staff College India is now “Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA)”

No.2-04/2009-Trg.

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts, (Training Division)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi – 110001

Dated : 31.10.2011

1. All Heads of Circles,

2. Additional Director General APS, West Block-III, RK Puram, New Delhi-110066

3. Chief General Manager, Business Development Directorate, New Delhi-110001

4. Chief General Manager, Postal Life Insurance, New Delhi-110 021

Subject: Renaming of the Postal Staff College India.

A proposal for change in the name of the Postal Staff College India (PSCI) was placed before the Postal Services Board. The Board, in its sixth meeting held on 21.09.2011, after detailed discussion, has agreed that in order to reflect the true character of the institution and its future aspiration, PSCI needs to be upgraded as a National Academy. The Board has, accordingly recommended that PSCI be renamed after Shri Rafi Ahmed Kidwal, the first Communication Minister of Independent India, a freedom fighter and one of the foremost nation builders of the post independence era as “Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA)”. The recommended actions of the Board have been approved by the Competent Authority.

2. It is, therefore, hereby notified for information of all concerned that the Postal Staff College India, C.G.O. Complex Ghazibad 201 002, and will hereafter be known as Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA), C.G.O. Complex, Ghaziabad – 201 002.

Sd/- ( A.Kumaraswamy) Assistant Director (Training).

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

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WE MISS YOU ......

Sree. K M Alexander

Died on 29-10-2011 and funeral on 31-10-2011

We inform with deep sorrow the death of Sh.K M Alexander, Retired Supervisor of Tiruvalla RMS and working as SDSA.We express our deep condolences to the family members of Sh. K M Alexander to God to give them enough strength to bear this irrecoverable loss.