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Bangalore AAO's won the case regarding 5400 gradepay
Congrats to Bangalore AAO's who won the case regarding 5400 gradepay to AAO's. It should be implemented within two months.
Four ways to undo the ill effects of prolonged sitting
Modern lifestyles are becoming increasingly sedentary. We spend a great deal of our time sitting; be it sitting for long hours at work, sitting while traveling, sitting while watching TV or eating. But if you think that your hour long intensive workout at the gym or your morning jog will make up for your prolonged sitting, you are wrong! A recent study published in the journal Health Psychology Review has found that targeting physical activity and increasing the level of exercise doesn't make any great difference to reduce prolonged sitting. One should focus on decreasing their sitting time. Ask health experts and they will tell you how prolonged sitting kills like smoking. It has turned into a serious public health concern. According to WHO, low physical inactivity is the fourth-leading risk factor for death around the world. So what can be done? Get up and move If you are guilty of staying glued to your office seat for long hours, it's time you change your habit. Fitn
Department started Core System Integrator by TCS in Mysore HO,Bangalore DAP and Pune east on 01/08/2015
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Requirement of taking prior permission for leaving station/headquarters from going abroad while on leave.
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Digital Locker facility by Government of India
You can store your important scanned documents like All certificates, Pan card, Driving license, Passport, Aadhar card, Voted ID, Ration card in Digital locker. The site is https://digitallocker.gov.in/ You have to enroll using Aadhar number. This online storage can be used for authentication purpose also.
STS Officers transfer dated 08/06/2015
Congrats to the officers who got transferred to Tamilnadu circle. Hearty Welcome Click to view
IndiaPost inks deal to issue 1.5 crore debit cards
MUMBAI: India Post will soon issue debit cards to its 1.5 crore account holders with the Department of Post signing a Rs 30 crore deal with CMS Info System to supply Rupay enabled cards. The Department of Post (DOP) has over 10 crore account holders in India, and has already begun deploying ATMs across the country in a phased manner. The personalized debit cards for DOP will be issued on the NPCI platform and their usage would initially only be on ATMs installed at DOP branches, as a closed loop environment. The cards can later be used on other ATMs with Rupay affiliation. These cards will initially be of the magstripe variant, with the option of EMV being available to the account holders after a set period of time. "This deal will power issuance of personalized cards to complement India Post's ATM deployment plans over a three-year period. We expect this to benefit people using teller facilities at the branches, as they can now begin to use these cards for more convenien
New tax Forms introduced
Finance Ministry brings out new 3-page income tax forms; last date of filing returns extended to August 31
Speed Post Tariff increases w.e.f. 01.06.2015
Budget 2015 has increased the service tax from 12.36% to 14%. So the SPEED POST tariff increases from 01.06.2015 for (LOCAL up to 50 grams) Rs. 17/- to Rs.17/- (Rs.15 + Rs.2 ST), (other place up to 200 grams ) from Rs. 39/- to Rs.40/-(Rs.35+ Rs.4 ST). Other rates will change on adding service tax rate.
Obtaining passport for Govt. employees made easier
To streamline and check the undue delay in getting passports to the government employees, the Ministry of External Affairs has relaxed provisions for issue of passport and asked the government employees to attach the copy of prior intimation letter submitted by the government employees to their controlling authority before applied for passport. Government employees, who applies for passport with ‘Prior Intimation Letter’, they do not need to police verification. The above provision is applied for getting passport only not for VISA, the government employees are required to obtain ‘No Objection Certificate (NOC)’ from their departments concerned for getting VISA from foreign embassies for travelling abroad As per CCS (Conduct) Rules and the instructions have been issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) from time to time. The Ministry of External Affairs has recently issued an Office Memorandum No.VI/401/01/05/2014 making the ‘Prior Inti
Central employees to get higher HRA and Tr. Allowance in some cities
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval to the proposal of Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure for reclassification/upgradation of certain cities/towns on the basis of Census-2011, for the purpose of grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) and Transport Allowance to Central Government employees. HRA and Transport Allowance are admissible to Central Government employees depending upon employees’ Basic Pay (including NPA where applicable)/Grade Pay and the classification of the city/town where they are posted. The existing classification of cities/towns in different classes viz. ‘X’, ‘Y’& ‘Z’ for the purpose of HRA and 13 specified cities classified earlier as `A-1’/`A’ and ``Other Places” for the purpose of Transport Allowance, is as per the criterion recommended by the 6th Central Pay Commission. The existing qualifying limits of population for classification for HRA purpose is 50 lakhs and above for
Rates i/r/o Remuneration payable to DoP for Savings Bank and Savings Certificates work for the Year 2015-16
POSB Rates for the Year 2015-16 Sl.No. Item/Category Rate per unit 1 Savings Deposits 205.59 2 Savings Certifcates (NSC,KVP) 70.25 3 Indira Vikas Patra 18.60 4 Silent Accounts 31.17 Source:- Department of Posts (FS Division) Letter No.63-1/2015-(FS) dated 20-05-2015
Increase in Service Tax Rate from 12% to 14% with Effect from 1st June, 2015
In the Union Budget, 2015, an increase in the rate of Service Tax from 12% to 14% had been proposed from a date to be notified. The Finance Bill, 2015 has since been enacted and the Central Government has notified 1st June, 2015 as the date from which the rate of 14% would become applicable. The provisions levying Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess would also cease to have effect from same date i.e. 1st June, 2015, as the same would be subsumed in the service tax rate of 14%. Certain other changes have also been notified with effect from 1st June, 2015. However, the date of giving effect to the provisions relating to imposition of a Swachh Bharat cess on all or any taxable service will be done in due course.
Department of Post introduces Android App named "postinfo"
Our Department has introduced a nice app in Google Play store. The name of the App is postinfo. You can view pincode, Postal rates search registered items, interest rates of small savings scheme as well as maturity amount. This app is very useful for Android users. The pincode search is ultrafast and the beauty is that you don't need data connection. you can view office particulars with phone no also by tab the office name. Click to download application
Postal bank set to become a reality, says Rajan
The country will see many new banks in the coming years, including a postal bank promoted by the postal department, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion of commemorating 80 years of the central bank, the governor said, “In the coming year, we will have many new players in the banking eco-system, such as payments banks, small finance banks and possibly a postal bank competing with existing universal banks, regional rural banks, cooperative banks, and a variety of non-bank finance companies.” The department of posts has already applied for a payments bank licence after RBI initiated the licensing process last year. Payments banks are niche banks which will be allowed to function with several restrictions; they will not be allowed to lend and will have a cap on the deposit it can take from an individual. A postal bank, if it gets a licence from RBI, will be a universal bank. A task force under T S R Subramani
TDS on recurring deposits from June 1 force investors to close down deposits prematurely
NEW DELHI: Days after the Budget announced that tax deducted at source (TDS) will also apply to recurring deposits, banks are witnessing a rush of investors closing down their deposits prematurely. Though it is fully taxable, the interest from recurring deposits is exempt from TDS. This only applies to interest from fixed deposits if the income exceeds Rs 10,000 in a year. The new rule is proposed to come into force from June 1 , so investors are rushing to close their recurring deposits before the taxman gets whiff of their wealth. "Premature closure of my recurring deposit will fetch me a lower interest rate. But at least there won't be a tax deduction," said an investor at a public sector bank branch in Delhi. Banks may see more premature closures of deposits as more investors become aware of the new rule. It is not difficult to see why investors are panicky. Since the TDS is credited to the permanent account number of the investor, not mentioni
NOW GMAIL LOGIN IS NOT POSSIBLE IN GOVT. OFFICES
GMail Banned in Govt Offices : The Government said in the notification that “The e-mail services provided by other service providers shall not be used for any official communication,”. This decision is took by Central Government and will be followed by both government employees of both central government and state government including the UT also. This policy strictly says that no Government employee should use the Gmail login or any other foreign E-Mail accounts like Yahoo mail, HotMail for the official work by the staff, And the staff should use the E-Mail services provided by only NIC. Due to this policy all the government data shall be passing from the Government Servers covering nearly 5-6 lakh Central and State government employees. And the notification also says that NIC will be Monitoring the activities of the staff and have the power to access the access, review, copy or delete any files on the server of any users (Govt. Staff) for security reasons.
SAP to Re-Engineer the Indian Postal Service
Most of us would not be aware of the fact that the Department of Posts has been in existence for more than 150 years. The Department has touched the lives of million of Indians ever since it started its operations, right from delivering letters to their near and dear ones, enabling them to send money to their friends and relatives who stay in faraway places and even providing special schemes for investing their hard earned money. It is very appealing to know that DoP, the department of posts has been recognized as the most widely distributed postal network in the world. The department of Posts proudly boasts of having 155,000 post offices and provides employment opportunities to 474,000 people. The DOP generates annual revenue of more than EUR 1.1 billion. In the current times also more than six billion articles are safely delivered every year through the vast network of offices of the DOP. Post urbanization and after analyzing the government has decided to rev
India Post targets 50 fold growth in E-Commerce revenue
BENGALURU: Internet retailers may have been the bane of the brick-and-mortar retail trade and a pain for the old order of things, but for one relic from the past, they are a proving to be a veritable godsend. For India Post, a 240-year-old straggler long fighting for relevance in a digital economy, the explosive growth in this new-age business has offered it a fresh lease of life and given it the luxury of dreaming big. These dreams have been bolstered by firms such as Flipkart and Amazon signing up for its services and with the theatre of activity for the fastgrowing ecommerce sector now moving to the country's remote corners. The Department of Posts is targeting a seemingly implausible 50-fold increase in ecommerce revenues. "With decline in document shipments, ecommerce is our department's new focus," a top official at the Department of Posts, told ET. "We are targeting Rs .5,000 crore in revenue from this segment alone in the next 24 months.&q
Highlights of Union Budget 2015
Following are the highlights of the Union Budget 2015-16 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament today: * No change in personal Income Tax * Health Insurance Premium deduction hiked from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000; for senior citizens to Rs 30,000 * Transport allowance exemption hiked to Rs 1,600, from Rs 800 per month * Additional 2% surcharge on people earning over Rs 1 cr; to fetch Rs 9,000 cr * Wealth tax abolished * Direct Taxes Code (DTC) dropped * Rs 50,000 deduction for contribution to New Pension Scheme * To lower Corporate Tax to 25% over next four years * GAAR implementation deferred by 2 years to April 2017 * Service Tax rate hiked to 14%, from 12.36% * Tax free bonds for roads, railways, irrigation projects * 2015-16 growth between 8-8.5%, double digit growth feasible * Retail inflation close to 5% by March, room for monetary policy easing * To achieve fiscal deficit of 3% of GDP by 2017-18 * Fi
Supreme Court sets bar on suspension of Govt employees
A government employee can't be kept suspended for more than three months if not formally informed about the charges, the Supreme Court said Monday. Based on the principle of human dignity and the right to speedy trial, the landmark verdict is expected to affect lakhs of government employees across India, many of whom are under suspension for years pending departmental proceedings. "Suspension, specially preceding the formulation of charges, is essentially transitory or temporary in nature, and must perforce be of short duration," a bench headed by justice Vikramjit Sen said. If the charge sheet or memorandum of charges was served within three month, the suspension could be extended, it ruled. "If it (suspension) is for an indeterminate period or if its renewal is not based on sound reasoning…, this would render it punitive in nature," the court said. It agreed with petitioner's senior counsel Nidhesh Gupta that a suspension
Retired employees can now avail benefits of missed promotions-- PRESS NEWS
THE TIMES OF INDIA-- DELHI - 1.2.2015. . NEW DELHI: Retired government employees who missed out on their promotions due to late meetings of the committees deciding on such departmental elevations will now be able to avail its post-retirement benefits. "Instructions have been issued to all ministries and departments to give benefit of promotion to those employees who missed it due to late meeting of departmental promotion committee (DPC)," an official in the department of personnel and training (DoPT) said. It would not be in order if eligible employees, who were within the zone of consideration for the relevant year but are not actually in service when the DPC is being held, are not considered while preparing year-wise zone of consideration or panel, as per the DoPT order. Consequently, their juniors are considered (in their place) for promotions, who would not have been in the zone of consideration if the DPC had been held in time, it said.
SUKANYA SAMRIDHI YOJANA
Questions related to Sukanya Samridhi Yojana As you are aware Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 22 January 2015 launched a small deposit scheme Sukanya Samridhi Yojana for girl child under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) campaign. In this post we are bringing you some probable questions that can be asked related to this Yojana in the upcoming exams. 1) Who can open account in the name of Girld Child under Sukanya Samridhi Yojana? - Guardian/Natural Guardian 2) A Guardian can open how many accounts under SSY? - Only one account in the name of one girl child and maximum two accounts in the name of two different girl children. 3) An account under SSY can be opened up to the age of ___ years only from the date of birth? - 10 Years 4) Whether nomination facility is available for accounts under SSY? - No 5) Minimum amount for opening of SSY Account? - Rs.1000 (Subsequent deposit should be in multiple of Rs.100/-) 6) Maximum amount that can