On the occasion of World Post Day on 9th October 2013, Hon'ble Chief
Postmaster General, Maharashtra and Goa Circle Col. K. C. Mishra VSM
has released a short film on " Your Friendly Neighborhood Post Office" in a function at Mumbai.
Friday, October 11, 2013
Connecting People: The Department of Posts
One of the most enduring symbols of India as a nation is the post man
who makes his daily round, come rain or shine. The famous Malayalam
humour writer Gopalakrishnan, who had a long and meritorious service in
the Railways, as well as Kerala’s former Chief Election Officer T N
Jayachandran have written that the first person they befriend on being
transferred to a new place is the post man! Such is the friendliness and
charm of the postal service – one of the most people friendly and
accessible of the Government services.
For more than 150 years, the Department of Posts (DoP) has been the
backbone of the country’s communication and has played a crucial role in
the country’s socio-economic development. It touches the lives of
Indian citizens in many ways: delivering mails, accepting deposits under
Small Savings Schemes, providing life insurance cover under Postal Life
Insurance (PLI) and Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) and providing
retail services like bill collection, sale of forms, etc. The Department
of Posts also acts as an agent for Government of India in discharging
other services for citizens such as wages disbursement of the unique
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) as
well as various old age pension payments.
The Mission Statement of the Postal department says explicitly that the
department will maintain its iconic status as a unique and trusted
national institution by always providing the human touch in all our
interactions with society, being responsive and reliable, demonstrating
the highest order of integrity, honesty, transparency and
professionalism and discharging our responsibilities towards the society
in an environment of deep trust, mutual respect and a culture of
service before self.
The latest figures say that there are 1,55, 515 post offices in the
country. Of this 1,39,040 (89.78 percent) are in rural areas and 15,826
(10.22 percent) are in urban areas. This figure includes 25,464
departmental post offices and 1,29,402 extra-departmental branch post
offices. At the time of Independence, there were 23,344 post offices.
Moreover, these post offices were mainly in urban areas. The figures
show that the network has increased by six times after Independence,
with the focus primarily on rural areas.
On an average, a post office serves an area of 21.23 square kilometres
(8.20 sq mi) and a population of 7,114. This could well make the Indian
Postal System the most widely distributed postal system in the World.
Because of this mind boggling reach and the ubiquitous presence in
remote areas, the Indian postal service is close to people and the
people are close to the postal services!
As far as available records show, by 1861, there were 889 post offices
in India. The system was handling nearly 43 million letters and over 4.5
million newspapers annually. It has to be remembered that the
administration was taken over by the British government from the East
India Company in 1858.
The establishment of the modern postal system in India can be traced
back to the second half of the 18th century. For the facility of
prepayment of postage on letters, 'Copper Tickets' , pre-paid token
stamps in 2 anna value were introduced from Patna in 1774 by the East
India Company during the period of Warren Hastings, the then Governor
General of India.
The postal system, established by Lord Clive in the year 1766, was
further developed by Warren Hastings by establishing the Calcutta G.P.O.
under a Postmaster General in the year 1774. Postal Service was open to
the public for the first time.
The first superintendent of the post office was appointed in 1870 and he was based in Allahabad.
At present, the Department of Posts comes under the Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology. The Postal Service Board, the
apex management body of the Department, comprises the Chairman and six
Members. The Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor to the Department is a
permanent invitee to the Board. The Board is assisted by a senior staff
officer of the Directorate as Secretary to the Board. Deputy Directors
General, Directors and Assistant Directors General provide the necessary
functional support for the Board at the Headquarters.
The world's first official airmail flight took place in India on 18
February 1911, a journey of 18 kilometres (11 mi) lasting 27 minutes.
Henri Piquet, a French pilot, carried about 15 kilograms of mail
(approximately 6,000 letters and cards) across the river Gangafrom
Allahabad to Naini. The mail thus carries is said to have included a
letter addressed to King George the Fifth. The first floating post
office was inaugurated in August 2011 atDal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir.
The first adhesive postage stamps in Asia were issued in the Indian
district of Scinde in July 1852 by the then chief commissioner of the
region. The Scinde stamps became known as Scinde Dawks", dawk being the
English spelling of the Hindi word Dakor (post). These stamps, with a
value of 1⁄2-anna, were in use until June 1866. The first all-India
stamps were issued on 1 October 1854.
At present, the postal department is under the process of finalizing its
IT enablement project. Trends such as urbanisation, increased demand
for financial services, increased funding by the government for the
weaker sections and the rural sector, have opened up new opportunities
for the Department of Posts. This has made necessary the development of
new processes and supporting technology.
The department is also faced with twin challenges of increasing
competition and continuing advances in communication technology,
especially in mobile telephony and the Internet. In order to provide the
best-in-class customer service, deliver new services and improve
operational efficiencies, the Department of Posts has undertaken an end
to end IT Modernization project to equip itself with requisite modern
tools and technologies.
The project, intends to achieve wider reach to the Indian populace
through more customer interaction channels, better customer service,
growth through new lines of business and enhanced IT enablement of
business processes.
The postal identity card is a service offered by the postal department
under clause 63 of the postal guide. The card is basically meant for the
benefit of tourists, traveling representatives of firms and other
members of the public who experience difficulty in establishing their
identity in connection with postal transactions, e.g., receipt of
registered and insured articles and payment of money orders in the post
town through which they pass. These cards will be obtainable at any head
post office by literate persons whose identity is well established in
the locality in which they reside or who can be vouched for by
substantial permanent residents known to the postmaster.
The card will contain a full description of its holder, his signature
and photograph and will be current for a period of three years from the
date of issue. After the expiry of the period of validity of the card, a
fresh card will have to be applied for.
The use of these cards is entirely optional. Holders will ordinarily
receive delivery of postal articles and payment of money orders on their
presentation but in cases of doubt it will be open to postmasters to
make such further enquiry as they may consider necessary to establish
the identity of the applicants.
The cost of application for the card is Rs 20 and the card itself will
cost Rs 250. In order to make the cards more attractive, they are being
issued in the form of plastic cards like smart cards incorporating
information like date of birth, telephone/mobile number and blood group
in addition to the address of the person.
By Dr. K. Parameswaran, Assistant Director, PIB, Madurai.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Now, Pay Water bills at Post Offices
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, October 9, 2013 : Now,
consumers of the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) need not worry about the
limited number of counters and the winding queues to pay water bills.
The bills can be paid at post offices from Wednesday.
In the initial stage, the service will be available across five
districts — Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Kottayam, Kollam and
Palakkad. It will be a perfect gift for the State on the World Post Day.
“We have been running a trial of the water bills payment gateway for the
past one year in the capital district. It was found to be successful
and so we decided to extend the service to other districts. For the
first few months, it will be available in the urban areas of five
districts. Later, we plan to extend the facility to all the post offices
in the State,” K.V. Vijayakumar, Assistant Director of Technology and
Administration, Postal Department, told The Hindu .
The move is part of the department’s various initiatives to make post
offices the one-stop shop for services required by every type of
customer. Plans are also afoot to include electricity bills among the
list of services.
Computerisation
The computerisation of all the 1,506 major post offices in the State was
completed as part of the 11th plan. The work on digitising the
3,500-odd branch post offices, located in remote regions, will be taken
up soon. Once this work is completed, these smaller centres will also
become part of the integrated postal network across the State.
“The plan is to digitise the working of these branch offices using
handheld devices, smart phones, thermal printers and barcode scanners.
In places where electricity is scarce or is yet to reach, we will use
solar panels. Various information technology players such as Accenture,
TCS and Infosys are taking care of the various aspects of the project,”
said Mr. Vijayakumar.
As of now, the performance of 1,285 post offices in the State are being
monitored closely as part of the ‘Project Arrow’ initiative launched in
2008 to improve the quality of services in the core areas of mail
delivery, money remittances, savings bank and office service levels.
The ‘look and feel’ of the post offices is also being improved as part
of this project. The external branding as well as the interior design of
the offices has been standardised.
Plan to make post offices one-stop shop for services
‘Project Arrow’ to better ‘look and feel’ of post offices
IMPORTANT MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
IMPORTANT MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
1. Actinometer --an instrument for measuring the intensity of radiation, esp of the sun's rays.
2. Fathometer -- a tool to measure underwater depth of lake or ocean floors.
3. Planimeter -- a drafting instrument used to measure the area of a graphically represented planar region (on the map)
4. Lysimeter -- a measuring device which can be used to measure the amount of actual evapotranspiration which is released by plants, usually crops or trees.
5. Hygrometer --an instrument for measuring the moisture content in the atmosphere.
6. Pyrometer --it is a type of thermometer used to measure high temperatures.
7. Rotameter-- a device that measures the flow rate of liquid or gas in a closed tube
8. Opisometer -- an instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map.
9. Tellurometer-- device that measures distance by means of microwaves.
10. Anemometer-- device used for measuring wind speed, and is a common weather station instrument.
11. Hydrometer-- an instrument used to measure the specific gravity (or relative density) of liquids.
12. Barometer -- a scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure.
13. Clinometer --an instrument for measuring angles of slope (or tilt), elevation or depression of an object with respect to gravity.
14. Venturimeter-- tool used for the calculation of a fluid's velocity as it goes through a pipeline.
15. Sinometer --it is a voltage sensor, it can measure AC/DC Voltage.
16. Manometer --an instrument for measuring the pressure of a liquid.
17. Nephometer-- an instrument for measuring the amount of cloud cover in the sky.
18. Seismometer-- an instrument that measures motions of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions etc.
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INDIAN GEOGRAPHY - NICK NAMES OF SOME PLACES
INDIAN GEOGRAPHY - NICK NAMES OF SOME PLACES
1) Golden City - Amristar
2) Manchester of India - Ahmedabad
3) City of Seven Islands - Mumbai
4) Queen of Arabian Sea - Cochin
5) Space City - Bangalore
6) Garden City of India - Bangalore
7) Silicon Valley of India - Bangalore
8.) Electronic City of India - Bangalore
9) Pink City - Jaipur
10) Gateway of India - Mumbai
11) Twin City - Hyderabad - Sikandarabad
12) City of Festivals - Madurai
13) Deccan Queen - Pune
14) City of Buildings - Kolkata
15) Dakshin Ganga - Godavari
16) Old Ganga - Godavari
17) Egg Bowl of Asia - Andhra Pradesh
18) Soya Region - Madhya Pradesh
19) Manchester of the South - Coimbatore
20) City of Nawabs - Lucknow
21) Venice of the East - Cochin
22) Sorrow of Bengal - Damodar river
23) Sorrow of Bihar - Kosi river
24) Blue Mountains - Nilgiri
25) Queen of the Mountains - Mussoorie
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Top 20 ways to Prevent Diabetes
Diabetes is a serious disease and the number of people affected with it has skyrocketed in the last couple of years.
If you think diabetes affects
only elderly people then think again. By adopting few simple tips, you
can turn off the diabetes clock. To get started, try these simple
diabetes prevention tips, shared by Sunita Pathania - Sr. Registered
Dietician and Diabetes Educator, Healthy Living Diet Clinic, Mumbai.
Diabetes prevention tip # 1: Know about diabetes
Before beginning the diabetes prevention act, it is important to know
what is exactly diabetes. Once you are well acquainted with this
disease, you can start your prevention therapy easily.
Diabetes prevention tip # 2: Reduce your portion size
Reduce the amount of food you eat, each day. Instead, of having one cup
of fruit every day, try having half a cup of fruits, or you can also
drink a glass of water every day before beginning your meal, this will
make you less hungry and you will avoid over eating.
Diabetes prevention tip # 3: Get physically active
If you acquire the habit of exercises daily, it will benefit you in many
ways. Exercising daily helps to maintain a healthy weight, lowers blood
sugar level and boosts your sensitivity to insulin. Thus, exercise
everyday for at least 30 minutes daily to keep your blood sugar lavel in
normal range.
Diabetes prevention tip# 4: Lose weight
If you think, your excessive weight is making you closer to the risk of diabetes than, slash some kilos in a healthy way. Shedding even 10 pounds can significantly drop your diabetes risk drastically.
Diabetes prevention tip # 5: Add lots of whole grain in your diet
Count your carb intake and switch to whole grain diet, to reduce your
risk of diabetes. Including whole grain, products in your diet not only
help to prevent diabetes but also slow down your carb absorption in the
body.
Diabetes prevention tip# 6: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day
No matter how full you are, always make a habit of eating a healthy
breakfast every day, as it helps to reduce your risk of getting
diabetes. Eating a healthy breakfast not only helps to control your
appetite but also helps to control your calorie consumption in the rest
of the day, by keeping you full and thus prevents weight gain.
Diabetes prevention tip# 7: Avoid fatty foods
Junk food and other streets foods are high in saturated fat, which can
raise your bad cholesterol level in your body. This in turn can also
affect the blood sugar level in your body. Thus, avoid junk food and
other fat filled foods that tempt you always.
Diabetes prevention tip # 8: Avoid sugary drinks
If you are thirsty, then quench your thirst with water or milk rather
than purchasing sodas, soft drinks or any other flavoured water. All
these sweetened beverages are sources of invisible sugar, which can
spike your blood sugar level.
Diabetes prevention tip # 9: Choose healthy snacks
If you can bear your evening stomach growls, then treat your tummy with a
bowl of healthy salad rather than a pizza. Besides severe your salad
with less toppings and low-fat cheese or mayonnaise.
Diabetes prevention tip # 10: Eat many veggies
Meat is yummy, but it shouldn't be eaten every day, as it raises your
risk to diabetes. Thus, ditch that meat and add colour to your life by
having lots of veggies every day. They will help to load your body with
nutrients and prevent you from diabetes.
Diabetes prevention tip # 11: Stay stress-free
Excessive stress can raise your blood sugar level. Thus, reduce your
stress level by practicing yoga, meditation or breathing exercise.
Diabetes prevention tip # 12: Sleep well
Getting at least six hours of good night sleep is very essential to keep
diabetes at bay. Lack of sleep can spike hormone cortisol in your body,
which can raise your insulin level and cause blood sugar imbalance.
Besides, improper sleep can also make your appetite regulating hormones
mad.
Diabetes prevention tip # 13: Load up on fibre
Adding fibre rich foods to your diet helps to smoothen your digestive
system and lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes. Thus, add at least 25-30
grams of fibre to your diet, to regulate your blood sugar level.
Diabetes prevention tip # 14: Drink lots of water
Drinking sufficient amount of water everyday will help to mobilise the
sugar content in the blood. Water also helps to regulate proper
functioning of the body and reduces the risk of diabetes.
Diabetes prevention tip # 15: Get some health test
Most of the diabetes symptoms are silent, thus to avoid the risk of
diabetes, do a routine health check up. A health check-up, will help to
diagnose pre-diabetes symptoms, and prevent it from getting worse.
Diabetes prevention tip # 16: Soak in the sun
According to a research conducted by Loyola University Chicago,
sufficient intake of vitamin D through early morning sunshine helps to
increase insulin sensitivity and secretion in the body, which plays a
major role in preventing the onset of diabetes.
Diabetes prevention tip # 17: Avoid diabetes with spices
According to a German research, adding spices to your diet especially
cinnamon helps to activate the enzymes in your body, which helps to
stimulate insulin receptor. Besides, it also helps to lower down
cholesterol and reduces the risk of developing cholesterol, thus, spice
up your diet with cinnamon.
Diabetes prevention tip # 18: Soy is good for you
Soy is one of the best foods to prevent diabetes among patients. The
isoflavones contained in them helps to reduce the sugar content in
blood, while accumulating much fewer calories, as compared to other food
items. So eat a diet filled with soy, to avoid diabetes.
Diabetes prevention tip # 19: Drink green tea
Drinking green tea every day will help your body to get rid of free
radicals. Besides, the antioxidants present in it will help to normalise
the blood sugar level and keep diabetes at bay.
Diabetes prevention tip # 20: Quit smoking
Smoking increases chances of diabetes, since it begins to affect
hormonal secretions in the long run. Thus, give up your smoke to keep
diabetes away.
Read more Personal Health, Diet & Fitness stories on www.healthmeup.com
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Solved Question Paper - Examination for Selection as Postman and Mailguard ( held on 06.10.2013 Kerala Circle ) General Knowledge
NFPE filed Case on RTP issues
FLASH NEWS:
Let us hope for the best.
(M. Krishnan)
General Secretary
NFPE, P3 CHQ & R3 CHQ FILED RTP CASE IN CAT PRINCIPAL BENCH DELHI ON 08.10.2013
NFPE, P3 CHQ & R3 CHQ has today jointly filed a case in
the CAT Principal Bench Delhi for counting of RTP Service as regular
service for all promotions and pensionary benefits. Case registration
No. 3647/2013 dated 08.10.2013.
Com.
S. K. Vyas Ji, Veteran Leader of the Confederation is our Advocate.
Hereafter there is no need for filing separate cases by employees.
Let us hope for the best.
(M. Krishnan)
General Secretary
http://www.aipeup3chq.com/
Monday, October 07, 2013
ഫേസ്ബുക്കില് സൂക്ഷിച്ച് കളിക്കുക, ഇല്ലെങ്കില് ജീവിതം കുട്ടിച്ചോറാവും
ഫേസ്ബുക്ക് സ്റ്റാറ്റസും ബന്ധങ്ങളും വിവാഹമോചനത്തിലേക്ക് നയിക്കുന്നവരുടെ എണ്ണം ക്രമാധീതമായി വര്ധിക്കുകയാണെന്നാണ് പുതിയ പഠനങ്ങള് കണ്ടെത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഫേസ്ബുക്കിലെ മെസേജുകളും സ്റ്റാറ്റസും തെളിവായി കോടതി സ്വീകരിക്കുമെന്ന് നിയമവിദഗ്ധരും പറയുന്നു. സോഷ്യല് നെറ്റ് വര്ക്കിംഗ് ചങ്ങലകളില് വിഹരിക്കുന്നവര് അവിടെ പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുന്നത് അവരവരുടെ സ്വഭാവമായതിനാല് ഇത് തെളിവാകുമെന്നാണ് നിയമജ്ഞര് പറയുന്നത്.
രണ്ടായിരത്തില്
നിലവില് വന്ന ഐ ടി ആക്ടില് ഇതേക്കുറിച്ച് പരാമര്ശമില്ലായിരുന്നു. അന്ന്
സോഷ്യല് നെറ്റ് വര്ക്കിംഗ് സൈറ്റുകള് സജീവമല്ലായിരുന്നു.
പെട്ടെന്നായിരുന്നു സോഷ്യല് നെറ്റ് വര്ക്കിംഗ് സൈറ്റുകളുടെ വരവ്. ഇതോടെ
സൈബര് കുറ്റകൃത്യങ്ങളുടെയും പരാതികളുടെയും എണ്ണം കൂടി. ഇതിന്റെ
അടിസ്ഥാനത്തില് 2012 ഒക്ടോബറില് രണ്ടായിരത്തിലെ ഐ ടി ആക്ട് ഭേദഗതി
ചെയ്തു. ഇതോടെയാണ് കൈവിട്ട് കളിച്ചാല് കാര്യം പൊല്ലാപ്പാവുമെന്ന
അവസ്ഥയില് എത്തിയത്.പങ്കാളി ഫസ്ബുക്കിലെ സ്റ്റാറ്റസ് മാറ്റാത്തതിനാല് വിവാഹമോചിതരായ നിരവധിപേരുണ്ട്. അമേരിക്കയില് നിന്നായിരുന്നു ഇത്തരത്തിലുളള വാര്ത്തകള് വന്നിരുന്നത്. ഇപ്പോഴിതാ ഇന്ത്യയിലും ഇതൊക്കെ സംഭവിക്കുന്നു.
പങ്കാളിയോട് നുണ പറഞ്ഞായിരിക്കും പലരും പല പരിപാടിക്കും മുങ്ങുന്നത്. മുങ്ങിയെത്തുന്ന പരിപാടികളുടെ ഫോട്ടോകള് ആരെങ്കിലും ഫേസ്ബുക്കില് പോസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യും. ഇതോടെ കള്ളക്കളിയെല്ലാം പൊളിയുകയും ചെയ്യും. മറ്റു ചിലരാവട്ടെ കളളത്തരം മറന്ന് സ്വയം പോസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്ത് പണിവാങ്ങും.
ഫേസ്ബുക്ക് അപ്ഡേഷനോ, ചാറ്റ് മെസേജോ കോടതിക്ക് തെളിവായി സ്വീകരിക്കാമെന്ന് അഭിഭാഷകയായ കര്ണിക സേഥ് പറയുന്നു. ഇതേസമയം, പുതിയ ഐ ടി നിയമം വ്യക്തി സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തിന് മേലുളള കടന്നുകയറ്റമാണെന്നും ആക്ഷേപമുണ്ട്.
എന്തായാലും സോഷ്യല് നെറ്റ് വര്ക്കിംഗ് സൈറ്റുകളില് അഴിഞ്ഞാടുന്നവര് സൂക്ഷിക്കുക. ഇല്ലെങ്കില് കോടതി കയറാന് തയ്യാറെടുത്തുകൊള്ളുക.
Sources"Yaganews
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