Wednesday 24 June 2015

CONGRATS TO MENTOR COMRADE



It is a pleasure to share with all the comrades that one of our Senior  and mentor comrades Sh Javed Ahmad Haji, ASPO's Anantnag SubDivision, and convener of the J&K Circle branch(adhoc body) of IPASP Association, has recently qualified as Administrative Officer (CCS Group A) in the Ministry of Agriculture, Govt of India.
The J&K Branch (adhoc body) of All India IPASP Association congratulates the officer and wishes him best of luck in his new assignment.  

REVISION IN THE LIMIT OF MINIMUM BALANCE FOR ISSUANCE OF ATM/DEBIT CARDS TO POSB ACCOUNT HOLDERS - SA POST

REVISION IN THE LIMIT OF MINIMUM BALANCE FOR ISSUANCE OF ATM/DEBIT CARDS TO POSB ACCOUNT HOLDERS - SA POST

Filling up of vacant posts of Direct Recruit IPs

No. CHQ/AIIPASP/Direct-Recruit IPs/2015                         Dated :      24/6/2015.
To,
Ms Kavery Banerjee,
Secretary (Posts),
Department of Posts,  
Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi 110 001.
Subject : Filling up of vacant posts of Direct Recruit Inspector Posts.
Respected Madam, 
          IP/ASP Association would like to bring to your kind notice that at present, the most isolated and depressed is Inspector Posts (IP) cadre which is struggling for getting Grade Pay of Rs. 4600/- at par with analogous Inspectors of Customs and Central Excise and now they are struggling even to get regular promotions after rendering 24 years of service in IP cadre. Almost 99% staff get 4800/- GP under MACP and there left no charm left in the promotion. For others, promotion can be in terms of marginal pecuniary benefits that too accompanied with posting at distant place at their fag end of service, when the officer tries to consolidate his service innings. 
          We are attaching herewith a chart showing the circle-wise position of Direct Recruit Inspector Posts (IPs) i.e. sanction strength, presently available and vacancy position as on date. From the chart it is explicitly clear that posts of more than 50% Direct Recruit Inspectors are lying vacant in the Department, and this has heavily burdened the existing IPs, ASPs and divisional heads. As you are aware, Inspector Posts in DOP are granted less Grade Pay as compared to Inspectors of Customs, CBDT, CBEC etc, thus, Direct Recruit IPs after their joining in the DOP are leaving the job in order to garner job in other preferred organisations/departments. Now-a-days, CBS project is going on full swing and to monitor this project and also to procure and monitor ecommerce business etc. at each level there is need of qualified IPs in the department.
          Madam, now our cadre review file has again been relegated to back seat by considered IPs inferior to AAO though we are given more targets, considered more accountable and answerable than AAO. Since extinct promotional avenue is a cause of concern for the cadre so the Association is still ready to surrender 27 posts of IPs and department should not have any objection to it because department is already managing the work with the shortage of 327 IPs (Direct Recruit quota ). Besides this, many posts of promotee IPs (Departmental Quota) are also vacant since years together. 
It is therefore urged upon to carry out a special drive to fill up above vacant posts of Direct Recruit Inspector Posts in the department at the earliest. It is also requested to arrange to send the cadre structuring file of Inspector Posts cadre to Nodal Department / Ministry immediately, as other cadres files have already been sent to Nodal Department/Ministry by the department.
          Hoping for an early action.
Yours sincerely,
 Sd/-
(Vilas Ingale)
General Secretary
ANNEXURE
Circle wise details of Direct Recruit Inspector Posts

Sl. No.
Name of Circle
Sanction strength of direct recruit IPs in the circle
Direct recruit IPs presently working in the circle
Vacancy of direct recruit IPs in the circle
1
2
3
4
5
1
Andhra Pradesh
53
30
23
2
Assam
19
6
13
3
Bihar
41
41
0
4
Chhattisgarh
13
2
11
5
Delhi
13
11
2
6
Gujarat
39
11
28
7
Haryana
14
8
6
8
Himachal Pradesh
13
4
9
9
J & K
7
1
6
10
Jharkhand
13
2
11
11
Karnataka
38
28
10
12
Kerala
30
3
27
13
Maharashtra
56
7
49
14
Madhya Pradesh
39
18
21
15
North-East
11
3
8
16
Odisha
35
8
27
17
Punjab
18
11
7
18
Rajasthan
39
24
15
19
Tamil Nadu
40
19
21
20
Uttar Pradesh
74
53
21
21
Uttarakhand
13
5
8
22
West Bengal
46
20
26
Total
664
315
348

Tuesday 23 June 2015

Newly promoted IP's still waiting for posting orders to be issued

Despite the lapse of more than one and a half month from the date of notification of the result of LDCE to the cadre of Inspectors of Posts for the year 2014, the successful candidates of J&K Circle are still awaiting the   posting orders to be issued by the Circle administration.

Rural post offices to provide online services : Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad


KOLKATA: Union Minister for Information and Technology and Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad said rural post offices across the country will also function as common service centres (CSCs) providing e-services.

He said this while asserting that the postal department had a crucial role to play in bringing in digital revolution in the country.

"Our vision of digital India is to ensure that from a mason to barber to a tyre puncture repairer, all can access newer avenues of growth using communications equipment like a smart phone," said Prasad while inaugurating the revamped building of Bhowanipore post office here.

"We are also committed to developing e-commerce, e-education and e-health. This is the larger vision of digital India. And in this digital India initiative, rural post offices have a very crucial role to play.

"We have decided that all the 1.30 lakh rural post offices should also become common service centres (CSCs) to further provide services," the minister added.

Implemented under the National e-Governance Plan and formulated by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the CSCs are ICT-enabled front end service delivery points at the village-level for delivery of government, financial, social and private sector services in the areas of agriculture, health, education, entertainment, FMCG products, banking, insurance, pension, utility payments etc.

Prasad said he expected the Reserve Bank of India to grant payment license to the proposed Post Bank of India by July.

"We expect to get the RBI nod by July. With 1,54,000 post offices the new initiative will usher in a financial revolution across the country," he said.

Hailing the services by the postal department, Prasad said it has done a business of Rs.500 crore in the year in e-commerce besides opening over 52 lakh accounts under the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojna receiving over Rs.1,000 in deposits.

"Whatever, be the decline in services, people still respect the Indian Railways and the postal services. I urge you all to build upon that respect and contribute towards the growth of the country," said Prasad, urging the employees to contribute towards the government's initiative to modernise the postal department.

Prasad also said state-run BSNL was also on the road to recovery.

"Now BSNL is running into losses in excess of Rs 8,000 crore. But in 2004, it earned a profit of Rs 10,000 crore. So we decided to revive it ... BSNL already has added 47 lakh new customers and its revenue has risen by 2%," he said.

The minister also said there would be 100 crore mobile connections in the country in next few years.

"In a country with a population of 125 crore, we now nearly 101 crore phone connections of which 98 crore are mobile phones. In the coming few years, we will have over 100 crore mobile phone connectivity across the country," Prasad said.

"Studies show that a country with more broadband connections has greater impact on the GDP growth.

"So we are bringing national optical fibre network connecting over 2.5 lakh gram panchayats across the country, we are bringing in broadband revolution," he added
Source : The Times of India

Filling up of vacant posts of Direct Recruit IPs

HQ has severally requested to all Circle Secretaries, CHQ Office Bearers and members working in Circle Office to ascertain and intimate the information about the sanction strength of Direct Recruit Inspector Posts (IPs), presently available in the circle and actual vacancy position thereof, but till date information from Harayana/ Karnataka and Tamil Nadu circles is awaited. It is noticed from the reports so far received from circles that, more than 70% posts (Direct Recruit IPs) are vacant in circles except Bihar/UP/AP and Rajasthan circle. Therefore there is need to take up the issue with Directorate to fill up vacant posts at the earliest to reduce the work burden of other IPs/ASPs.

BEST WISHES FROM GS CHQ

It is glad to inform to all that our members working in J&K circle have come forward to revive their defunct branch. The request of the members was considered and GS has already approved the adhoc body to make functional the defunct branch after long time.  Now, our members working in J&k Circle have taken efforts to open their circle blog under web address www.ipaspjandk.blogspot.in  
All Circle Secretaries are requested to give the link to their blog.

CHQ wish them best of luck.