Tamilnadu Postal and Telecom Accounts and Finance Officers Association

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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

Finance Ministry brings out new 3-page income tax forms; last date of filing returns extended to August 31

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.

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

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