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All India Holiday Homes List under Department of Posts

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Download  :   List of Holiday Homes in DOP 

Govt to increase DA to 107 %

Govt to increase dearness allowance to 107 p.c The Government is likely to approve a hike in dearness allowance (DA) to 107 per cent from the existing 100 per cent, benefiting around 30 lakh Centre’s employees and its 50 lakh pensioners including dependents. “The average rate of retail inflation for industrial workers from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014 works out to be 7.25 per cent. Thus the Central government will hike dearness allowance for it employees by 7 per cent,” an official said. He said the Finance Ministry will now put a Cabinet proposal for approval of 7 per cent DA hike from July 1 this year as the revised Consumer Price Index-Industrial Workers data for June was released by Labour Ministry on Saturday. With increase in DA, the pensioners will also gain as the benefit provided to them as dearness relief will be hiked to 107 per cent of basic pay. The previous UPA government had increased DA to 100 per cent from 90 per cent with effect from January 1,

FAQs on Biometric Attendance System (BAS)

FAQs on Biometric Attendance System (BAS) Frequently Asked Questions on Bio-Metric Attendance System Q.1  How does an organisation start Biometric Attendance System (BAS) for their employees?  Ans. Please submit details of the nodal officer and upload a signed request by the head of the department on attendance.gov.in portal. System would send OTP to the mobile number/email id of the nodal officer which needs to be entered again on the portal for verification. Back-end administrator would then check the details of the organisation submitted and make the organisation active by assigning it a unique sub-domain which will be the first name of the website. Nodal officer will then be sent an email by the system giving username (which will be the sub-domain name assigned to the organisation) and a password. Q.2  Steps to be done by the nodal officer to start registration of employees  Ans. Nodal officer would need to login on attendance.gov.in with the user name and password se

Mother of Sri. J..Sukumar, Ex. General secretary, AISBCEU expired on (28/08/2014) at Madurai

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Mother  of Sri. J..Sukumar, LAN Project Officer  & Ex. General secretary, AISBCEU  expired on (28/08/2014) at Madurai AISBCEU conveys its heartfelt condolences. Circle Secretary  Tamilnadu

Soon, attendance of govt staff to be tracked online through attendance.gov.in

In what could be a revolutionary step towards monitoring and tracking the work of government officials, the NDA government has launched an “attendance website” to serve as a centralised database for all central government employees. Though the website, attendance.gov.in, is still in the process of being developed, officials said it is expected to be modelled on the lines of similar websites of the Jharkhand government and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology. To illustrate, the home page of the Jharkhand government’s attendance website gives the total number of employees present on the given day, along with graphical representations of “real-time attendance” and statistics on the percentage of people logging into office during different time slots, giving an idea of how many officials come to office during the designated timings. Further, a search for any registered employee yields complete details, along with the employee’s attendance/leave status. Of

DOP delivered stamp blow up to Master Blaster and Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar

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During Sachin Tendulkar's farewell series against the West Indies in November 2013, the Mumbai Cricket Association paid numerous tributes to the master blaster, one of which was to issue a commemorative postage stamp in legend's honour. On first day of Test match a commemorative postage stamp on 'Sachin Tendulkar 200th Test Match' was released on 14th November 2013 by the then MoC.  Shri P.K. Bisoi, Cheif PMG, Maharashtra Circle handed over stamp blowup to Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar at his residence on 26th August 2014

Cadre Restructuring Committee report submitted by the official side

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Prime Minister to Launch Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana Today: To Dedicate Mobile Banking Facility on Basic Mobile Phones to the Nation

Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 27-August-2014 17:58 IST Prime Minister to Launch Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana Tomorrow: To Dedicate Mobile Banking Facility on Basic Mobile Phones to the Nation                The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi will launch the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) tomorrow at a function in the national capital. On this occasion, an exhibition on Technology and Financial Literacy will be organized. The Prime Minister will visit this exhibition. A film on ‘Financial Inclusion’ will also be screened. The Prime Minister will unveil a Logo and a Mission Document on Financial Inclusion.  He will also distribute awards to the winners of the Logo contest and the ‘account opening kit’ to five beneficiaries on this occasion. He will dedicate the mobile banking facility on the basic mobile phone (USSD) to the nation.   The Union Finance Minister  Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for Finance, Ms. Nirmala Sithar

EPFO retains interest rate at 8.75% for current fiscal

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NEW DELHI: Retirement fund body EPFO's trustees on Tuesday decided to retain interest payment on provident fund deposits for 2014-15 at 8.75 per cent.  "It has been decided to pay 8.75 per cent interest in the current fiscal," Central Provident Fund Commissioner (CPFC) K K Jalan told PTI after the meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the apex decision making body of the Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO).  The EPFO has about 5 crore subscribers and the decision will have a bearing on their retirement fund.  The decision to retain the interest rate on the provident fund deposits at last year's level was taken despite some protest by the trade union members of the CBT, sources said.  The final notification for payment of the interest rate for the current fiscal will be issued by the finance ministry later. The EPFO had provided 8.75 per cent rate of interest on PF deposits for 2013-14, which was higher than 8.5 per cent pa

Addendum to S B order No. 4 / 2014 : Revision in interest rates of Small Savings Schemes w.e.f 1st April 2014

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India Post to connect its offices through CBS and also plans to roll out 3000 ATMs

MUMBAI: Preparing itself to start commercial  banking  operations,  India post  announced the launch of over 1000 ATMs in the near feature. It will also enable core banking solution  CBS  at its 25000 offices over the next year.  Speaking at a financial inclusion conclave a senior official of India post elaborated on the technology initiatives in reaching the post off account holders. "We have invested around Rs 5000 crore in technology since 2012.  Already 676 postal offices are connected through CBS.  By March 2016, 25000 offices will be on CBS," said Kalpana Tewari, Member (Planning and Technology), Department of Post.  "We plan to roll out 3000  ATM  by FY18, of which 1000 will be in the near future," she said. The department is already running a pilot in Chennai and Delhi. Once it gets stream lined and  RBI   allows interoperability even other bank account holders willl be able to transact through the ATMs.  India Post is already on the RBI's electronics

Economy in use of paper in Central Government Offices – Finmin Orders on 22.8.2014

No.25(6)/E.Coord-2014 Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditur e North Block, New Delhi, 22nd August. 2014 Office Memorandum Subject :-  Economy in use of paper. Ministry of Finance has been issuing instructions from time to time on expenditure management, fiscal discipline and on the need for economy and rationalization of Government expenditure. Government is one of the major consumers of paper. Injudicious use of paper not only leads to infructuous expenditure but also impacts the environment as trees are the major source of paper pulp production. Instructions on judicious use of paper have been issued by this Department in the past and similar instructions are also contained in the Manual of Office Procedure (MOP) published by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. With a view to further stress the importance of economy In use of paper in Government offices, following instructions are issued for strict compliance by

Sify Network - Help Desk and field level suport

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Sify Technologies Ltd has been selected for  setting up a  Network environment  for India Post  to implement  the IT Modernization Project. M/s Sify will act as Network Integrator (NI) with the help of major  Internet Service Providers  like BSNL, Airtel, etc.   The Sify will provide an interim helpdesk / service desk for a period of 1 Year which will be replaced by  the CSI helpdesk later. The interim Helpdesk which takes call from the end users will be  operating  between 0800 hrs and 2000 hrs on all the seven  days of the  week. Between 2200 hrs and 0800 hrs, only limited staffing will be available. However the end users can log  tickets  through Service Desk portal which will be 24x7 basis. Following are the main features of Help desk in connection with Network Integration. 1.   The service desk will be a single point of contact for India Post, vendors and other service providers  and will be an interface between the NOC teams and all the other  external agencies. Hen