AISBCEU HEAD QUARTERS BULLETIN DATED 26.12.2014
ALL INDIA SAVINGS BANK CONTROL
EMPLOYEES
(Service union under Dept. of Posts)
[HQ- # 32 RANI KATRA CHOWK, LUCKNOW 226 003 UTTAR PRADESH CIRCLE
P.A.MATHRE
R. K. TANDON
P.K.MISHRA
PRESIDENT GENERAL SECRETARY
TREASURER
SBCO, MAHIM HO
O/ O CPMG, U.P.CIRCLE
CPU, New Hyderabad
MUMBAI-400016
LUCKNOW – 226001 LUCKNOW – 226007
CELL: 09819188067
CELL: 09415025900, 09616500831 09451028656
Email: prakashamhatre@gmail.com Email:
rakeshshobha@gmail.com
CHQ BULLETIN: 11 DATE:
26.12.2014
To
All Circle Secretaries
Dear Comrades,
I am very happy to meet you
all through this bulletin in the Happy New Year 2015. I wish all Comrades and all your family
members that the New Year 2015 is a messenger of Joy, Happiness, smiles and
good tidings for you and your family.
In
the coming New Year 2015, it is expected that most of the changes are going to
be introduced in our Department with a proposal a holding company under the
Department of Posts with 5 different verticals. Three verticals- Banking,
Insurance and E-commerce --can start working immediately. "Government
services and B2B vertical can start as we go along," Subramanian, also a former
Cabinet Secretary, said. The task force was set up to study leveraging of
postal networks for providing multi-disciplinary services to both individual
and businesses.
During this year, the CBS will also be
implemented in most of the 60% Post offices including HO/SOs and it may be
implemented in all 100% post offices before the end of year 2016. In view of
the CBS implementation, it is expected that some changes in the working
procedure which are already demanded by our Union may be ordered shortly. However,
Our Union will discuss this issue in the Directorate during our visit shortly
in the month of January 2015.
Our
Union All India Conference is due in the month of Feb/Mar-2015. Our CHQ
President had already given assurance to hold the AIC at Maharashtra Circle. I
do hope that Our CHQ President Sri.P.A.Mathre will make arrangements to hold
the AIC and the CHQ notice will be issued shortly with the information of Venue
and Date of AIC to your kind information.
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NO REDUCTION IN RETIREMENT AGE: There
is no proposal under consideration of Government to reduce the retirement age
from 60 to 58 years for its employees. The retirement
age for Central Government employees was revised from 58 to 60 years in 1997
on the basis of recommendations of the 5th Central Pay
Commission.
The Centre’s
total wages and salaries bill for its employees for the year 2010-11, 2011-12
and 2012-13 is Rs. 85,963.50 crore, Rs. 92,264.88 crore and Rs. 1,04,759.71
crore, respectively. This was stated by the Minister of State for
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written
reply to Sardar Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Dr. T Subbarami Reddy and Smt. Ambika
Soni in Rajya Sabha, today. [Min of
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions]
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Copy of the
D.O.Lr. addressed to Ms.
Kavery Banerjee, Secretary [Post] vide No: CHQ/14-SBCO-Transfer cluster/AISBCEU/2014 Dated 28.12.2014
Respected Madam,
Namaskar.
I wish to bring your kind
notice about the recent SBCO staff Rotational transfer policy vide reference D.G. Posts letter No. 141-141/2013-SPB II dated
31.01.2014-Annexure that the SBCO staff are to
be transferred within the cluster of Divisions.
In
most of the Circles, the Head offices
are placed with a long distance of 100 KM to 200 KM. It was brought to
the notice of the Directorate about the hardship of the officials during the
rotational transfers and after accepted the grievances of the staff, it was
considered by the Directorate and the following clarification was issued vide
D.G. Posts letter No. 141-77/2000-SPB II dated
2.3.2000 [Copy enclosed] that 2-3 HPOs as far contiguous as possible should be grouped together
and the SBCO staff transferred to such group of HPOs after they complete
their prescribed tenure.
Our
Union had already taken this matter with DDG[P] vide our Union letter Lr.No:
CHQ/10-SBCO- cluster/AISBCEU/2014 Dated 30.09.2014. But, so far no
modification is issued. Hence, it is kindly requested to reconsider the
transfer policy issued as referred in the above letter Dated: 31.01.2014 may
please be modified as group of 2-3 HOs instead of cluster of divisions
to protect the welfare of staff and their families. Since the
Rotational transfer process will start in the month of Jan-2015, our Union is
kindly requested to issue the modification of transfer policy guidelines as
early as possible to avoid hardship to the low paid employees.
Thanking You, Madam.
[R.K.TANDON General Secretary]
SB Order 10/2014 :
Regularization of irregularly opened MIS accounts in the multiples Rs.1000/-
instead of Rs.1500/- :
It has now
been decided by the Min. of Finance vide OM No. 01/02/2011-NS-ii(Pt-i) dt.
11.09.2014 to regularize all those MIS a/cs which have been opened in the
multiples of Rs.1000 instead of Rs.1500 in convention of POMIS Rules, 1987.
On notice of irregularity, the balance of amount in multiples of Rs.1500 be
kept in the account and the remaining amount in the account be refunded to
the a/c holder along with POSB rate of interest. The other terms and
conditions in r/o POMIS a/cs will remain as per Rules, 1987. Such a/cs may
only the regularized after taking necessary action against erring officials.
( SB Order 10/2014, AD SB-1, New Delhi dt.
19.09.2014 )
Government
launches special deposit scheme ( Sukanya Samriddhi Account ) for Girl child
: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced the
scheme in his budget speech in July. The account can be opened and operated
by the natural or legal guardian of a girl child till she attains the age of
10, after which she can herself operate it but deposits in the account may be
made by the guardian or any other person or authority.
v The account could be opened in a post office or a public
sector bank. A depositor may open and operate only one account in the name of
a girl child under these rules after furnishing birth certificate of the girl
child along with other documents relating to identity and residence proof of
the depositor.
v Natural or legal guardian of a girl child will be
allowed to open accounts for two girl children only except if the depositor
has twin girls as second birth or if the first birth itself results into
three girl children.
v The government will notify interest rate on this scheme
every year. The account may be opened with an initial deposit of Rs 1,000 and
the reafter any amount in multiples of Rs 100 may be deposited, subject to
the condition that a minimum of Rs 1,000 will be deposited in a financial
year but the total money deposited in an account on a single occasion or on
multiple occasions shall not exceed Rs 150,000 in a financial year.
v Deposits may be made till completion of 14 years from
the date of opening of the account, the notification said. The account shall
mature on completion of 21 years from the date of opening of the account or
if the girl gets married before that.
v Withdrawals up to 50% will be allowed prior to maturity
for high education and marriage
([F.No.2/3/2014.NS-II]Dr.RAJATBHARGAVA,Jt. Secy. )
Copy of the D.O.Lr. addressed to Ms. Kavery Banerjee, Secretary [Post] vide No Lr.No:
CHQ/13-SBCO-CBS Accounting Procedure/AISBCEU/2014 Dated 28.12.2014
Respected Madam,
Namaskar.
I
wish to bring your kind notice about the important issue of statistical
information submitted to Postal Account by each SBCO branch every month to
generate the total no of Savings Bank transactions and Closing Balance of
each office in each category. It is very important statistical information to
generate the closing balance of each office and collect the commission from
Ministry of Finance for the operation of Savings Bank work.
At
present, CBS is implemented in every Post Offices and it is our target to
make our SB transaction business with easy process to the public like
implemented in all other banks. As per this CBS system, a public could make
transaction in his account from anywhere in India i.e. can deposit or
withdrawal money from his account from any CBS post office.
As per the latest Directorate
SB order: No 5/2014 Dated 24.03.2014, the following Changes in
Statutory Rules in the backdrop of implementation of CBS.
1) Deposits and withdrawals can be done through any
electronic mode in CBS Post Offices.
2) Inter Post Office transaction can be done between CBS
Post Office.
3) ATM/Debit
Cards can be issued to Savings Account holders having prescribed minimum
balance on the day of issue of card which will be circulated separately of
CBS post offices.
The main job of the SBCO branch
is the submission of statistical information to Postal Accounts every month
to generate the total no of Savings Bank transactions and Closing Balance of
each office in each category.
After
implementation of CBS, the SBCO branch is put in compulsion to submit the
wrong figures of statistical information to Postal Accounts for which no
separate accounting procedure for SBCO is prescribed by the FS Division of
directorate. Since all the CBS post offices are permitted to accept Deposits and withdrawals through any
electronic mode, the other office transactions are included with the
transactions and closing balance of main parent office instead of accounting
at parent office i.e. original account office of the concerned account. Due
to this wrong arrival of closing balance and number of transactions, the
closing balance of the main office will be modified with wrong closing
balance.
For example:
An account holder having account at Srinager CBS post office, withdraw money
Rs.80,000 at Chennai CBS office, the withdrawal amount will be included
with Chennai office transactions instead of Srinagar resulted to modify the
closing balance of both Srinagar & Chennai offices. If this kind of
transactions will be continued in all accounts, one day the closing balance
of all CBS offices will be modified with wrong figures.
Our
Union had already taken this matter with your office vide our Union letter
No: AISBCEU/CBS Problems/2014 Dated 15.03.2014 & Lr.No: CHQ/13-SBCO-CBS
Procedure/AISBCEU/2014 Dated 30.09.2014, but so far no revised accounting
procedure for SBCO branch is issued
from your office till date.
Our
Union suggests the following to your kind consideration for immediate effect
to avoid wrong arrival of closing balance in all the CBS Units.
If the above action would not be implemented in earlier, once all
office accounts closing balance will be modified with wrong closing balance
and also we may lose the commission claims from the Finance Ministry for
doing the Savings Bank agency service. If any more clarification is
required in this important matter, Our Union is ready to share our views with
Directorate in person.
This is for your kind information to consider this
matter with top priority to avoid wrong arrival of closing balances in the
CBS offices.
Thanking you, Madam.
[R.K.TANDON, General Secretary]
Copy to Shri
L.N. Sharma, DDG [FS] & Sri.
Sachin Kishore, Director [CBS], Dak
Bhawan, New Delhi-110001 for information
Air India Domestic Fare list
updated with LTC Scheme – LTC Fare List Nov 2014: Journey by Air Travel while availing LTC, stipulating that the orders
insisting to travel by Air India only.
v Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ officers (Gazetted and Non-Gazetted) are
entitled to travel by Air to NER on LTC. Other employees are entitled to
travel by Air to NER from Guwahati or Kolkata airport only.
v One more restriction of travel by Air India only need not apply to
non-entitled employees who travel by air and claim LTC reimbursement by
entitled class of rail.
v An employee can avail LTC to visit NER by conversion of one block of
home-town LTC. Reimbursement of the actual expenses on air travel while
availing LTC, will be restricted to cost of travel by the economy class only.
v To visit J&K by any Airlines subject to their entitlement being
limited to LTC-80 Fares of Air India.
Employees who are entitled to travel by rail by 2nd AC class for
availing LTC to Andaman & Nicobar Islands can travel by air. Air India
has now updated once again the fare list for LTC Scheme. ( Air-India-LTC-80-fare list-November-2014
Supreme Court ruled against recovery of
excess pay due to employers' mistake: Sunday, December
21, 2014
Recovery of
excess amount paid to Class-III and Class-IV employees due to employer's
mistake is not permissible in law, the Supreme Court has ruled saying that it
would cause extremely harsh consequences to them who are totally dependent on
their wages to run their family.
The apex
court said employees of lower rung service spend their entire earning in the
upkeep and welfare of their family, and if such excess payment is allowed to
be recovered from them, it would cause them far more hardship, than the
reciprocal gains to the employer. A bench of JS Khehar and Arun Mishra also
directed that an employer cannot recover excess amount in case of a retired
employee or one who is to retire within one year and where recovery process
is initiated five years after excess payment.
"We are
therefore satisfied in concluding, that such recovery from employees
belonging to the lower rungs (i.e., Class-III and Class-IV - sometimes
denoted as Group 'C' and Group 'D') of service, should not be subjected to
the ordeal of any recovery, even though they were beneficiaries of receiving
higher emoluments, than were due to them. Such recovery would be iniquitous
and arbitrary and therefore would also breach the mandate contained in
Article 14 of the Constitution," Justice Khehar, who wrote the judgment
said.
It said that the employer's right to recover has to
compared, with the effect of the recovery on the concerned employee and if
the effect of the recovery from the employee would be, more unfair, more
wrongful, more improper, and more unwarranted, than the corresponding right
of the employer, which would then make it iniquitous and arbitrary, to effect
the recovery.
"In such a situation, the employee's right would
outbalance, and therefore eclipse, the right of the employer to
recover," the bench said.
The bench passed the order on a petition filed by Punjab
government challenging Punjab and Haryana high court order restraining it to
recover the excess amount paid by mistake to numerous employees over the
years.
It said we may, as a ready reference, summarize the
following few situations, wherein recoveries by the employers, would be
impermissible in law:
(i) Recovery from employees belonging to Class-III and
Class-IV service (or Group 'C' and Group 'D' service).
(ii) Recovery from retired employees, or employees who are
due to retire within one year, of the order of recovery.
(iii) Recovery from employees, when the excess payment
has been made for a period in excess of five years, before the order of
recovery is issued.
(iv) Recovery in cases where an employee has wrongfully
been required to discharge duties of a higher post, and has been paid
accordingly, even though he should have rightfully been required to work
against an inferior post.
(v) In any other case, where the Court arrives at the
conclusion, that recovery if made from the employee, would be iniquitous or
harsh or arbitrary to such an extent, as would far outweigh the equitable
balance of the employer's right to recover.
The court said a government employee is primarily
dependent on his wages, and such deduction from salary should not be allowed
which would make it difficult for the employee to provide for the needs of
his family and any recovery must be done within five years. Source
: Times of India
Yours faithfully
[R.K.TANDON, General
Secretary]
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