INTERACTION WITH THE IPS PROBATIONERS

Postal Staff College, Ghaziabad (Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy) invited Secretary General NFPE, Com. M. Krishnan for an interactive session with the Indian Postal Services Probationers Induction Training Batch on 07.03.2012 on the subject – “Role of Service Associations in India Post”. The following points were discussed.

1. Stand of NFPE on various issues faced by India Post.
2. Need for interaction with unions on all policy related issues and new schemes before implementation.

3. Need of better understanding and cooperation between the unions and the officers to face the challenges before India Post.
4. Our opposition to liaberalisations corporatization, privatization and outsourcing.
5. Our stand on induction of technology, modernization and computerization.
6. Challenges due to (a) Decline in mail traffic (b) Increasing competition (C) Recurring operative loss (d) Universal service obligation and lack of full reimbursement (e) Pressure to reduce cost, increase revenue and operate on a far more commercial basis.
7. Reforms in the mails sector – collection, processing, sorting, conveyance and delivery – our stand.
8. Saving Bank – in adequate handling charges, core banking and Post Bank.
9. Insurance PLI/RPLI – Restriction for introduction of new products.
10. Human Resource development, Estate Management etc.

The session lasted for two hours and Secretary General answered many questions and clarified the view points of NFPE. The Principal of Staff College, Addl. Director, Joint Director etc. were also present.

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - WEEKLY CELEBRATION

International Women’s Day:President of India Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil Gives away Stree Shakti Puraskar 2011 in New Delhi

The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devising Patil has appealed to the women of the country to come forward yet to greater extent and participate actively in the development processes. She has lauded the women’s increasing contribution in the societal progress on all fronts. However, she lamented on the low child sex ratio which is at 914. The President, Smt. Patil was speaking on the occasion of International Womens Day celebrations at Vigyan Bhawan in the national capital. Smt. Patil gave away Stree Shakti Puraskar 2011 to 6 women who immensely contributed in the social educational and economical upliftment of women in various sectors. Ms. Hypno Padma Kamlakar (Andhra Pradesh) was awarded Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Award. Ms. Hypno Padma has done her post graduation in sociology. She became the first women Hypnotist and psychologist to practice counselling and has conducted more than 1500 programmes across the country. Ms. Kanwaljit Kaur (Chandigarh) was given Kannagi Award for providing hope, guidance and counselling to blind girls. Ms. Jagmati Malik (Haryana) was given Mata Jijabai Award for women empowerment by organising self help groups on various issues including Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, MGNREGA, female foeticide, total sanitation and Right to Information. Ms. Draupadi Ghimiray (Sikkim) was conferred Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang Award for working for children with disability. Ms. Sandhya Pandey (Chhattisgarh) was conferred Rani Laxmibai Award for boldly facing enormous adversities in life after losing her eyesight in 1999. Ms. Rakhee Gupta Bhandari (New Delhi) was conferred Rani Rudramma Devi Award for outstanding contribution in getting women in the mainstream by encouraging women Sarpanches to appear in public offices. Speaking on the occasion the Minister of State (I/C) Smt. Krishna Tirath expressed satisfaction at the progress of various ongoing schemes for the welfare of women. She said that the “Sabla” scheme for adolescent girls has been yielding good results and making the so called “Abla(weak)” woman now “Sabla(strong)” . Sm. Tirath said that in 56 government departments the gender budgeting cells have been established.The Minister appealed to all section of the society to popularise the schemes more specifically in the semi-urban and rural areas. Smt. Neela Gangadharan, Secretary, Women and Child Development and Shri Sudhir Kumar, Addl. Secretary (WCD) were also present on the occasion in addition to several officials and NGO representatives, women activists etc. DK/AS (Release ID :80732)

IMO LOGIN ERROR

While trying to login in to the IMO Website using the user id and password if an error is coming as shown in

 the screenshot,here is the solution to solve the error

1.Click on Tools in the internet explorer and select internet options

2.Select the option security and click on custom level.then enable all activex controls

This will solve the error

Google's new world and your privacy: Why you should worry

A significant part of your life revolves around Google. You use Gmail for work as well as personal emails. You use Google+ for virtual bonding and sharing content. You use Picassa to store photos, and YouTube for your fix of video clips. You know Google is tagging advertisements as well tailoring search depending on your web history. But, starting March 1, Google will do something more. Under its new privacy policy, it will combine data from all its services in one place, as part of its 'Google Plus Your World' programme. 

This can be useful. But also troublesome. Suppose User X watched a little too much of belly dancing video clips on YouTube. When he and his kids are using his account and are on Picassa, browsing family photos, an advertisement for a service tagged to his YouTube habits may appear. Embarrassing? Would you like more privacy? Google thinks the service will be incredibly empowering.


Source : Economictimes

Creating Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 2008 R2

One of the repetitive task that DBA need to perform is create maintenance plan for database. Maintenance plans enables you to automate maintenance activities for a database, backups, db integrity checks and index maintenance tasks. We can easily create a maintenance plan using a wizard in sql server 2008 R2. You can use the following steps to create a maintenance plan 1. Select the Maintenance Plan Wizard from the context menu as shown below 2. You can specify a name and description for the plan and select the desired scheduling options 3. Select next to see the maintenance tasks that you want to perform  4. Select the Maintenance tasks order  5. Select the database for the backup task.  5. Select the reporting option for the plan like write log to a specific location or send an email or both. 6. Click finish to create your plan , while the plan is being created you will get the following status dialogue 7. You can see the created maintenance plan in object explorer when you double click the Backup Plan from above window, you can get the designer Courtesy : http://sysadmindop.blogspot.in/  & http://rmssa.blogspot.com/

NO LEGAL IMMUNITY FOR GOVT SERVANT IN CRIMINAL CASES: SC

New Delhi, Mar 6, 2012 (PTI): A public servant facing charges of corruption, cheating and other criminal cases in the discharge of his or her duties does not enjoy any legal immunity as no prior sanction is required for prosecuting such officials.
A bench of justices R M Lodha and H L Gokhale set aside the concurrent findings of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and a sessions court which had quashed the prosecution and summons issued to a Deputy Excise and Taxation Commissioner, Gurgaon

The Supreme Court will provide no legal immunity for government servants in cheating and other criminal cases.

Citing the apex court ruling in the Prakash Singh Badal (2007) case, the bench said, “The offence of cheating under Section 420 or for that matter offences relateable to Sections 467, 468, 471 and 120-B can by no stretch of imagination by their very nature be regarded as having been committed by any public servant while acting or purporting to act in discharge of official duty.”

While Section 420 relates to cheating, sections 467, 468, 471 pertains to forgery and 120-B applies in cases of criminal conspiracy.
In the present case the official was accused by Omkar, a transporter, of collecting Rs two lakh money from him after impounding his three vehicles and refusing to issue any receipt.
Based on Dhankar’s complaint, judicial magistrate, Gurgaon, on June 2, 2001 issued him summons to face trial under Sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 161 (illegal gratification by a public servant) IPC.
On a criminal revision appeal filed by the official, the additional sessions judge quashed the summons and a single judge of the high court affirmed the order while dismissing Dhankar’s appeal. Aggrieved, he filed the special leave petition in the apex court.

Fingerprint based Attendance at West Bengal

Government employees can no longer sneak a French leave or walk out before 5.30pm. The Mamata Banerjee government is installing fingerprint readers that will record the time an employee logs in and logs out of office.

Attendance has always been a prickly issue with government employees. Many staff walk in late by simply signing in. Those who sneak out before closing time have evolved any number of smart tricks, including leaving their spectacles or bag on their table to feign that they are around and would return any time. Last week, on the day of the bandh, there was a tampering of the attendance register in the agriculture directorate at Writers’ Buildings. Some staff were absent in spite of the threat of break in service but when a headcount was ordered, the page for February28 went missing.

Once the biometric system is introduced, attendance registers will be redundant, officers said. The previous Left Front government had tried to implement it but failed. But the Mamata Banerjee administration is rolling it out with the Swasthya Bhavan (health department HQ) in April. Last week, the health department completed installing four fingerprint terminals in the lounge. The employees won’t have any card to swipe. Each terminal has a ‘reader’ to scan the fingerprint and match it to a databank.

Earlier attempts to improve attendance at government offices had a lukewarm response, but this time, officials hope to achieve success by introducing the fingerprint system in all government offices.

Generally, secretariat staff start leaving around 3.30pm and after 4.30pm there is a great rush to leave when the official check-out time is still an hour away.

Health secretary Sanjay Mitra had earlier tried to use SMS-based technology to get information about functioning of out patient departments (OPD) in government hospitals. But it was found that many hospital superintendents were sending SMSes to show that the OPDs were functioning from 9am without verifying whether there were any doctors present. In reality, many OPDs were not operating. Health officials want to install the biometric attendance system at all hospitals and health centres.

A recent survey by the health department found that staff would often indulge in ‘mini-shifts’ and instead of work far less than the mandatory 48 hours a week. Many teaching doctors were also found absent from medical college hospitals, say sources.

“The fingerprint system will help keep a tab on the doctors and staff. There will be special system for those who work in shifts,” said an official. Sources say staff of colleges and universities will also have to clock in with a biometric system.

source: tkbsen.com

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - WEEKLY CELEBERATION STARTS FROM TODAY........

On Mahila Divas

ये और बात कि आन्धी हमारे बस में नहीं
मगर चराग़ जलाना तो हमारे इख़्तियार में है
-अनजान

ye aur baat hai ki aandhii hamaare bas mein nahiin
magar charaagh jalaanaa to hamaare ikhtiyaar mein hai
-Unknown

It is a different matter that we have no control over storms,
But lighting a lamp is in our hands.

English translation by Manish Modi

OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY IN A BEFITTING MANNER

It is 8th March –; the International Women’s Day that is being observed all over the world. The women who constitute half of the human population continue to be the victims of liberalization policies on the one hand and male chauvinism and feudalistic outlook in the society at large on the other. Even the so called economically liberated women are not fully liberated socially. The much talked about legislations on empowerment of women are yet to take off in our country ,despite  campaigns unleashed by the enlightened women organisations in frequent intervals.

The women employees in different sectors, where their general problems are being tackled through the organised  trade union movement, face several women specific problems on which the trade union leadership are not sensitised so far. The most serious problem that the women employees face and suffer silently is the sexual harassment by fellow workers in general and the officers in particular. Trade unions must take up this issue seriously and ensure that women committees as envisaged by the DOPT.

The women employees who constitute more than 20 to 40 percent depending upon the places of work, are yet to be unionised fully. Except for payment of union subscriptions and occasionally attending union conferences to elect the leaders of the associations and unions,  seldom  they are encouraged to take part in other day to day work of the trade unions.

There are States like West Bengal and Kerala where women organisations are constituted by the class conscious trade union movement. Such initiatives are needed elsewhere also. Even in All India Federations and Associations such Mahila Committees are only in the formative stages.

Taking into all these aspects, the Confederation called upon the Affiliates to organise women Committees.  The Confederation  convened its all India Women meet at Kolkata. The Kolkata convention elected an all India Women Committee. The said Committee has   been mandated to bring about such committees all over the country..

The International Women’s Day is coming up in this particular backdrop. The All India Women Sub- Committee headed by Comrades  Gita Ghoshal Chair Person and C.P.Shobana Convenor has already called upon the entirety of the Confederation Affiliates to organise special women conventions, seminars and other types of organisational activities with specific reference to mobilisation of women employees working in CG Departments.

Confederation Headquarters calls upon the State Committees and the Affiliates of Confederation to observe the International Women’s Day on March 8th in a befitting manner by implementing the call of the Women Committee of Confederation.

With International Women’s Day Greetings

K.K.N.Kutty
Secretary General
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Promotion of Group C Staff (Multi Tasking Staff) as LDC on seniority basis - 5% quota -Reg

A. 60015/1/CS/2012-13/MF.CGA(A)/NG/ 623
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
controller General of Accounts
Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market,
New Delhi.

Dated: 22nd February, 2012

Office Memorandum

Sub:- Promotion of Group C Staff (Multi Tasking Staff) as LDC on seniority basis — 5% quota —Reg.

   Attention is invited to Rule 5 (2) of Central Civil Accounts Service (Lower Division Clerk Group ‘C’ Post) Recruitment Rules, 2010, as per the aforesaid provisions 5 % of the vacancies shall be filled on seniority-cum-fitness basis from Group C staff (Multi Tasking Staff) who have three years regular service in post with the Grade Pay of Rs. 1800.

   2. In order to prepare the panel for the year 2012-2013 CCA/CAs are to hold DPC in respect of those Group C Staff (Multi Tasking Staff) with Grade Pay of Rs. 1800 who have three years regular service as on 1.1.2012 (including those who have been found ‘unfit’ in the Range as on 1.1.2011. those who could not be promoted for want of vacancy in their choice station and those who refused to accept promotion offered to them and undergoing debarment). The persons who have been offered promotion in the year 2011-12 but have not accepted the same are to be debarred in terms DoPT OM No. 22011/8/87-Esstt (D) dated 09-04-96 and then considered afresh for 2011-2012. The information relating to those found fit by DPC may be furnished in Proforma-I enclosed. The information should be arranged in the order of seniority as appearing in the Gradation List.

   3. As per Central Civil Accounts Service (Lower Division Clerk Group ‘C’ Post) Recruitment Rules 2010 — 5 % of vacancies are to be filed up through promotion on the basis of seniority. The vacancy position under 5 % quota may be furnished in Proforma-II. Break up of vacancies that have accrued upto 31.03.2012, and likely to accrue during April, 2012 — March, 2013 may be given in the respective columns.

   4. Vacancies in the grade of LDC (station wise) may be furnished in Proforma-III (excluding those kept in operational abeyance).

   5. The information complete in all respects in Proforma-I, II and III must reach this office by 15th March, 2012.

End: As above

sd/-
(Ved Prakash)
Accounts Officer

source-http://www.cga.nic.in/

Original pdf-http://www.cga.nic.in/pdf/GroupC13022012_1.pdf

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