CHQ BULLETIN 01 - DATED 28.04.2015

Bulletin No. 01                                   Dated: 28.04.2015

To,

All CHQ Office Bearers, Circle Secretaries and Members,

                Our 30^th All India Conference was held at the Holy place of Shrikshetra Shegaon (Dist Buldhana) Maharashtra Circle from date 18.04.2015 to 19.04.2015 and CWC Meeting on date 17.04.1015, totally 150 members from all Circles attended the conference. Since the Shegaon is the holy place of the Saint (Gajanan Maharaj) who lived here, all the members were very happy for their visit to the temple on his Samadhi and  ‘Anand Sagar’ project providing space for meditation and entertainment

After the two years break, once again I have been given chance to dedicate my Union service as General Secretary. I convey sincere thanks to all Office bearers, Circle Secretaries and Members for having confidence on me as General Secretary. I assure you all to render my best Union service in solving our problems with the kind co-operation of our beloved CHQ President Sri.R.K.Tandon , CHQ office bearers and our Ex.General Secretary and Legal advisor of our Union Sri.J.Sukumar. The resolutions passed in the AIC is given in this bulletin.

             

May Day Greetings

            Let us we all remember the historical International Workers day of May Day on 1^st May 2015 , which is  remarkable  for the achievement of eight hours of duty to working class.  I on behalf of our AISBCE Union convey my “May Day Greetings” to all comrades.

                In the open session on date 18.04.2015, all the Circle Secretaries and representatives from all the Circles put up their problems before house. The main problem we are facing is holding our staff as subsidiary offenders in fraud cases. One committee has been formed to look in to this matter. The General Secretary will be Chairperson of this committee.Shri Deepak Sharada, Punjab Circle will be the Secretary of this committee. All the Circle Secretaries will nominate one member from his Circle as member of this committee. The aggrieved officials will send their cases to this committee through the General Secretary. The committee is empowered to file court case if necessary.

                Second committee has been formed to look after problems of Finacle operation. Shri Gautam Banarjee, West Bengal is the Secretary for this committee. All the members/Circle Secretaries will send their problems relating to Finacle operation to Shri Gautam Banarjee, for redressal.

                 I thank to the reception committee of Akola HO for holding the conference with nice arrangement. I especially thank to Shri K. P. Birgade and Shri K. R. Deshmukh for their main role in this function.   

PROPOSED STRIKE ON 06.05.2015

                It has been decided not to participate in the proposed strike dated 06.05.2015 called by some of the sister unions. However this union will address the Directorate on the problems of our cadre.

In the All India Conference held at Shegaon, Maharasthra Circle on 18.04.2015 & 19.04.2015, the following office bearers are elected unanimously.

Sl.no	Name of post	Name of office bearer	Office address
1	PRESIDENT	R.K.TANDON	O/O CPMG, LUCKNOW
2	VICE PRESIDENT	A.K.SAMANTA	ICO[SB], BHUBANESWAR
3	GENERAL SECRETARY	P.A.MHATRE	SUPERVISOR, MUMBAI CENTRAL HO
4	ASST.GENERAL SECRETARY	V.K.MOURIYA	ASHOK VIHAR HO, DELHI
5	ASST.GENERAL SECRETARY	SURESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI	GORAKHPUR HO U.P
6	ASST.GENERAL SECRETARY	S.NATARAJAN	TRICHY HO T.N.
7	ASST.GENERAL SECRETARY	SHIBANATH BANERJEE	BANKURA   HO W.B
8	ASST.GENERAL SECRETARY	BHARAT BUSHAN SHARMA	ICO, SB, JAIPUR
9	TREASURER	K.R.DESHMUKH	SBCO, AKOLA HO, MAHARASTHRA CIRCLE
10	ASST.TREASURER	G.R.GUPTA	PATNA HO BIHAR CIRCLE
11	CWC MEMBER - 1	KESHAVA RAO	KARKALA HO,KARNATAKA
12	CWC MEMBER - 2	N.B.KUNDALIYA	GANDHI NAGER HO,GUJARAT
13	CWC MEMBER – 3	HARBHAJ RAI	ROPAR HO, PUNJAB
14	CWC MEMBER – 4	DHARMENDER	PANIPAT HO, HARYANA
15	CWC MEMBER – 5	A.R.SHREE KUMAR	KOTTAYAM KERALA
	AUDITOR	P.K.ARYA	JHABUA HO M.P.CIRCLE

WORKSHOP ON SBCO PROCEDURE AFTER FINACLE

                Two days workshop was conducted in the office of CPMG Tamilnadu Circle from date 23.04.2015 to 24.04.2015. Total 23 stake holders from PA (SBCO), AAO and AO cadres attended the workshop. The DDG [FS} and Director [CBS] were participated in this workshop. Our Union Ex.General Secretary Sri.J.Sukumar was also invited to this workshop during his presence at Chennai on that day. Myself and Sri.J.Sukumarji had delivered valuable suggestions on behalf of our Union to the proposed new procedure of “Roll of SBCO”.  Shri Kawaljit Singh, Assistant Director (SB & FS) prepared new procedure for SBCO to be followed after migration of all offices to CBS. This procedure is available on our website as given below.

SBCO PROPOSED PROCEDURE 

v  Sealing of Vouchers and LOT 

v  Post Office staff will write name of Scheme and TRAN ID in red ink on the right hand side of the voucher. 

v  One deposit slip and one withdrawal slip will be prepared for auto-credit of MIS/SCSS/TD to Savings and Savings to RD. 

v  One deposit slip will be prepared for the total of each type of Agent commission credited into savings supported by consolidated list of commission paid. 

v  At the closing of counter hours, all vouchers should sorted scheme-wise and TRAN ID wise. Vouchers should be tallied with LOT and LOT is to be signed by Counter PA as well as Supervisor. 

v  A consolidation of the scheme should be generated and printed. 

v  All vouchers including closed vouchers are to be sealed along with print out of consolidation. One printed copy of LOT is to be taken and attached to the voucher bundle separately.

v  In case of any adjustment if required in interest, Postmaster/Sub Postmaster will raise the issue with Divisional head who will approve adjustment and send letter to SBCO In-charge.

v  SBCO In-charge will use HIARM menu and enter interest adjustment entry. All such approvals will be maintained in a gusrd file.

v  SBCO has to kept a watch on Freeze/Unfreeze Account report of SBGRP and raise objection in case of suspicion.

v  SBCO Has to keep watch on some identified Office Accounts.

v  SBCO will get list of cheques issued by Postmaster against matured/closed accounts and LOT of Postmaster Office Account 0340. SBCO has to cross verify these entries and raise objections in case of any suspicion.

v  SBCO will get LOTs of some office accounts like 0382, 0017,0409, 0410, 0408, 0096, 0098, 0437, 0322, 0387, 0382, 0339 etc. SBCO has to preserve these LOTs and in case of suspicion raise objections.

v  In case of closed accounts, no need to send SB-3 in CBS Offices.

v  There are many Finacle menus through which SBCO can test check individual accounts. This will be optional to carry out these checks and raise issues. 

v  SBCO will get LOTs of some office accounts like 0382, 0017,0409, 0410, 0408, 0096, 0098, 0437, 0322, 0387, 0382, 0339 etc. SBCO has to preserve these LOTs and in case of suspicion raise objections.

In addition, Some of the features of the new roll are as under:

1. SBCO will received all the vouchers as before and performs 100% general checking of vouchers.

2. SBCO will check those vouchers with system in which there is difference in account number and amount only.

3. Maintenance of SB 62, SB 63, Non Cash registers is discontinued.

4. Ledger agreement is discontinued.

5. SBCO will receive consolidated journals as before.

6. SBCO will tally consolidated journals with HO Cash Book and send Statistical Returns to PAO.

7. SBCO will check annual interest of 100 accounts in each scheme totally for HO and SO for the first one and half year to ensure the software calculation correctly.

8. Annual interest figure will be called from SOs and SBCO will prepare interest summary manually and submit to DAP.

9. Preservation of records is suggested as under: LOT- 1 Year, Vouchers – 5 Years, UD Pass Books – 1 Year Consolidated journals – 1 Year and Statistical registers – 3 Years,

                This procedure will be applicable only for the CBS offices after migration of HOs and SOs to Finacle. The new procedure will be circulated shortly after the approval of Directorate.

PROPOSED NEW PAY SCALES MINIMUM (AFTER MERGER) SUBMITTED TO 7TH PAY COMMISSION – INDWF - Written By Admin on April 18, 2015 | Saturday, April 18, 2015

PROPOSED NEW PAY SCALES MINIMUM (AFTER MERGER) SUBMITTED TO 7TH PAY COMMISSION – INDWF

Oral evidence submitted by National Council (JCM) Standing committee and the VII CPC on 23.03.2015, 24.03.2015 and on 31.03.2015 respectively.

Proposed new pay scales after removal of existing Grade Pay Rs.1900, Rs.2400, Rs.4600 and Rs.8700 in order to reduction of pay scales from 19 to 14.

Proposed Pay Scale INDWF: PROPOSED NEW PAY SCALES MINIMUM (AFTER MERGER)

Sunday, April 26, 2015

7th Pay Commission recommendations likely this year : Jaitley The recommendations of 7^thCPC on pay revision of Central Government Employees is expected to be submitted to the government this year, the Lok Sabah was informed .

DoP to seek Cabinet nod for 240 cr to set up Post Bank

Written By Admin on April 13, 2015 | Monday, April 13, 2015

v  The Department of Posts (DoP) will soon seek Cabinet approval for Rs 240 crore for setting up Post Bank of India.

v  The DoP has plans to set up Post Bank of India under payments bank licence. The Reserve Bank of India has already issued licensing norms for niche banks -- payments banks and small banks.

v  The DoP, which has applied for a payments bank licence, has a hybrid model in mind to operate Post Bank of India. Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan yesterday had said while the banking sector is set to undergo changes in the next few years, "we are going to possibly have postal bank".

v  "The Department is in the process of seeking approval for about Rs 240 crore from Expenditure Finance Committee which will then need nod from Cabinet," an official source told PTI.

v  As per RBI guidelines, payments banks would offer a limited range of products such as demand deposits and remittances. They will not be allowed to undertake lending activities and will be initially be restricted to holding a maximum balance of Rs 1 lakh per individual customer.

v  They will be allowed to issue ATM or debit cards as also other prepaid payment instruments, but not credit cards.

v  According to a source, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has approved hybrid model suggested by Ernst & Young which prepared detailed project report on Post Bank of India (PBI).

v  "E&Y has come out with three models but suggested preference to a hybrid model. Under which about 600 branches will directly operated by PBI staff in post office premises and transactions in other parts of the country will be supported by India post staff," the official said.

v  Post Bank of India is proposed to have its own employees and IT infrastructure. The transaction handled by India Post , employees will be entered in to computer server of PBI.

v  The Department expects revenue of over Rs 550 crore from PBI in first 5 years.

v  "India Post will earn from every transaction it will carry out for PBI and rents that it will get from its branches. India Post financial services like saving account, postal life insurance will continue as it is," the official said.

v  The DoP will evaluate its five year performance as payments bank and then it will take call of setting up full fledged banking service.

v  Source : http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/dop-to-seek-cabinet-nod-for-240-cr-to-set-up-post-bank-115041200142_1.html

RESOLUTIONS PASSED IN ALL INDIA CONFERENCE HELD FROM DATE 18.04.2015 TO 19.04.2015 AT SHEGAON (MAHARASTHRA CIRCLE)

Resolution No. 01: SBCO staff is doing post audit work. Therefore SBCO staff, by identifying them as subsidiary offender for the SB frauds is injustice and they will not be held responsible for amount defrauded by counter staff or SAS/MPKBY agent and no recovery should be made from SBCO staff.

Resolution No. 02: As the SBCO staff is working under SSPOs/Postmasters they are forced not to raise objections or forced to admit genuine objections. Therefore administrative control i. e. writing of APAR of SBCO staff should be transferred to AO ICO (SB) as earlier.

Resolution No. 03: Group of HOs - Cluster: This problem had already been taken with Directorate in two occasions vide Union letter NO: CHQ/14-SBCO-Transfer cluster/AISBCEU/2014 Dated 30.09.2014 & 28.12.2014. Since, the Department is denied to consider the welfare matter of transfer policy and reiterated their earlier stand vide D.G. Posts letter No. 141-141/2013-SPB II dated 31.01.2014 & No. 141-229/2014-SPB II dated  28.01.2015 that

 “the rotational transfer of the staff of the Savings Bank Control Organization may be made within the cluster of Divisions and / or Head Post Offices only, which fall in the same Postal Division  or/ and  a neighboring Postal Division and are located in the same Region. It is presumed that the Circles/Regions have already worked out the clusters of HPOs for this purpose”.

Due to this above order, all Circles have issued orders by clubbing both Divisions as one cluster with a distance of 100 KMs to 200 KMs and now they are ready to issue Rotational transfer during this year of  2015. If the new policy will be implemented this year, many of our staff and their family members including children will suffer. The implementation of above clarifications dated 28.01.2015 must be deferred until the disposal of the case, till such time as per the existing policy issued in the year of March-2000 may be followed.

Resolution No. 04: In Connection with CBS implementation in all Circles, all vacant post of PA (SBCO) should be filled immediately and also all the PAs, SBCO deputed to CPC may be recalled to the parent Unit of SBCO to manage the shortage of staff in all the SBCO branches.

Resolution No. 05: Cadre restructuring of SBCO cadre should be taken on priority. Representative of this union should be called for meeting of cadre restructuring of SBCO.

Resolution No. 06: SB Control procedure should be updated on par with CBS implementation and the new “Roll of SBCO procedure” should be defined immediately.

Resolution No. 07: SBCO staff should be treated as organized account cadre staff and grade pay of organized account cadre should be granted to SBCO staff.              In CBS also, our role is defined as audit staff. This proposal is high lightened in the 7^th CPC Memorandum submitted by our Union and again formal meeting was attended with Chairman, 7^th CPC at Mumbai.

Resolution No. 08: All vacant supervisory posts of LSG, HSG II and HSG I should be filled on seniority basis from PA (SBCO) cadre as most of the PA (SBCO) are drawing HSG I (MACP III) grade pay.

Resolution No. 09: Finacle software problems must be rectified and the slow process of this software must be updated with latest version of Finacle software.

Resolution No. 10: All the SBCO staff is to be given Finacle software training for a week to discharge their auditing duties properly.

Resolution No. 11: The implementation of 7^th CPC must be given w.e.f. 01.01.2014 with 50% DA merger.

Resolution No. 12: In the revised SBCO procedure after CBS, the preservation of records/vouchers period must be reduced for which no accommodation is provided by the Divisional Head to keep the records/vouchers.

Resolution No. 13: Discontinuance of V2 software in all Circles: Since almost this software was withdrawn in 15 Circles and now it is under use only in eight Circles. Uniform stand has to be taken in this regard.

MEMBERSHIP VERIFICATION

                It is noticed that the rival union is forcing our members to accept their membership. All members are therefore requested not to believe on the propaganda of the rival union and be united under the banner of AISBCE Union.                 Fresh membership verification will be carried out in the coming months. New membership form will be supplied by the Directorate which will be circulated to all members and displayed on our Union website. All members are requested to fill up the forms supplied by our union and send them to their Circle Secretaries for onward submission to concerned authorities.

CHQ UNION WEBSITE

Dear Comrades,

                Our CHQ has taken special efforts to maintain our Union website http://www.aisbceu.blogspot.in/

with all information about SB Rules and Procedure, all Union Bulletins, all Directorate order and Union matters. Our Union conveys our sincere thanks to Com.M.Rajendren, Tamilnadu Circle for his sincere efforts in this regard. Hence it is kindly requested to see this website at least two times in a week to know the latest in formations.

         

    With regards.

Sd: P.A.Mathre, General Secretary