39th Circle Conference at Nagpur -Notice

ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF

INSPECTORS AND ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS POSTS

MAHARASHTRA CIRCLE BRANCH.

No. CS/CC-Nagpur/Notification/2010 Dated 31.05.2010.


To,
The Chief Postmaster General,
Maharashtra Circle,
Mumbai – 400001.

Sub:- 39th Circle Conference at Nagpur

Respected Sir,

Under the provision of Article 44 of the constitution of All India Association of Inspectors and Assistant Superintendent Posts, it is hereby notified that, 39th Biennial Circle Conference of Maharashtra Branch of All India Association of Inspectors and Assistant Superintendent Posts will be held at Nagpur from 03.07.2010 to 04.07.2010.

Venue of the conference :- M.L.A. Hostel, Nagpur.

The following items will be discussed in the Circle Conference.

1.   Adoption of Annual Report for the period from 22.04.2008 to 02/07/2010.
2.   Adoption of Audited Accounts for the period from 22.04.2008 to 02/07/2010.
3.   Felicitation of retired members.
4.   Merger of IP / ASP Cadre.
5.   Administrative and Financial Powers to Inspectors and ASP.
6.   Holding of PS “B” examination.
7.   Filling up of vacant post of Inspectors and ASP.
8.   Timely convening of DPC for ASP.
9.   Induction of Technology and Intensive Training to Inspector / ASP
      and provision of Laptops.
10. Provision of proper infrastructure / cabins to IP /ASP.
11. Financial Review of Association.
12. Approval for draft Resolutions.
13. Postal Inspectors.
14. Any other item with the permission of the chair.
15. Election of office bearers.
16. Appointment of Auditor.
17. Next CWC and Circle Conference.

All members of this association are nominated as delegates. It is therefore requested to grant admissible special casual leave to all the delegates to attend the 39th Circle Conference at Nagpur.

                                                                                              

Yours faithfully,

(S.S. Kulkarni)

Circle Secretary.

IP/ASP Association, Mah. Circle Br. Mumbai

Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to :-
1. Shri R.S. Gaikwad, President and ASP(HQ), Mumbai City South Dn., Mumbai – 400001.
2. All Office bearers and CWC members.

39th Cirlce Conference - Corrigendum

Dear Member,

Due to indefinite strike notice given by the Gr-C & D unions and proposed date of strike is w.e.f. 13th July, 2010. Due to this our Biennial Circle Conference date's has been changed and now our conference will be held on 03 & 04.07.2010 at MLA Hostel, Nagpur.

Kindly ensure your railway reservation and attend the conference in true spirit.

Clarrification on MACP

3rd FINANCIAL UPGRADATION ON COMPLETION OF 30 YEARS OF SERVICE OR 10 YEARS FROM THE LAST PROMOTION/UPGRADATION. DIRECTORATE ISSUED CLARFICATION
Department of Posts (Establishment Division) Memo No 4-7/(MACPS)/2009-PCC dated 20.5.2010

Subject : Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS) for the Central Government Civilian Employees.

I am directed to refer to this Directorate Office Memorandum of even number dated 18.9.2009 on the above subject mentioned above.

2. In page No 19 of the OM, the following omission has been noticed in illustration No 5:-

(a) In example 4 in Box No 4, the text appearing as "3rd MACP to the grade pay of Rs 4200 on completion of 30 years of service" may be read as "3rd MACP to the grade pay of Rs 4200 on completion of 10 years service in the grade pay of 2800 or 30 years of service, whichever is earlier".

3. This corrigendum is based on illustration No 28B of Annexure I to the OM dated 18 Septemner 2009 which prescribes that if two promotions are earned before completion of 20 year, only 3rd financial upgradation would be admissible on completion of 10 year of service in the grade pay from the date 2nd promotion or at 30th year of service, whichever is earlier.

4. This Directorate OM dated 18 Sep 2009 may be taken as amended accordingly and this change may be brought to the notice of all concerned.

MACP

Dear Members,

In our circle regarding MACP the issue was taken with the Chief Postmaster General in four monthly meeting. C.R has been called and DPC will be held in this regard very soon, MACp work process is under progress.... This is for u r kind information.

Features of MACPS (Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme)

Features of MACPS (Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme)

REFERENCE: 1. DOPT OM No: 35034/3/2008- Estt(d) dated 19/05/09.
2. RBE No: 101/2009 (no.pc-v/2009/acp/2) dated 10/06/09.
3. PBC No: 112/2009 (no. p(pc)524-pc/voliv) dated 18/06/09.
(Railway Board has sought for clarifications to DOPT – elucidation awaited)

The scheme would be operational from 01.09.08. In other words, financial upgradations as per old ACP of October 1999 would be granted till 31.08.08. (Para 8) A Screening Committee would be constituted and follow a time schedule to meet twice in a financial year preferably in the month of January (April to September) and of July (October to March).( (Para 6).

Financial upgradation under MACPS is purely personal to the employee and staff shall have no relevance to his seniority position. As such no stepping up of pay in the PB & GP would be admissible with regard to junior getting more pay than the senior on account of pay fixation under MACPS.(Para 9 & 20).

No past cases would be reopened. The differences in pay scales on account of grant of financial upgradations under old ACP and new MACP within the same cadre shall not be construed as anomaly (Para 10).

There shall be three financial upgradations under MACPS counted from the direct entry grade on completion of 10, 20 and 30 years. (Para 1 of Annexure). All cadres including Group A (excluding organized Gr.A services) are eligible for grant of MACP. (Para 3).

The financial upgradation under the MACPS would be admissible up to the highest grade pay of 12,000 in PB-4. (Para 3 of Annexure).

The pay shall be raised by 3% of the total pay in the pay band and the grade pay drawn before such upgradation. There shall be no further fixation at the time of regular promotion if it is the same grade pay as granted under MACPS. Financial up gradation will be in next higher grade pay in the hierarchy of Grade Pay and not in the promotional hierarchy (as it was earlier). (Para 4).

An employee who completes 10 years of service in a particular grade will qualify for grant of MACP. Service rendered in a lower grade will not be counted for grant of MACP after completion of total qualifying service of 10 years. For example if an employee gets regular promotion to the next grade after completion of 5 years of service in a particular grade, he will have to wait till the completion of 15 years of regular service for 2nd MACP. Likewise 3rd MACP for him will be given after completion of 25 years of regular service (Illustration 1 Para 28 (i) and (ii)). However, after 1st regular promotion or 1st MACP, completion of 10 years of regular service in a grade or total qualifying service of 20 years or 30 years whichever falls earlier will be the milestone for grant of next MACP (Illustration 3 Para 28 B).

The service rendered by the existing employees prior to implementation of the MACPS viz., prior to 1.9.2008, will also be taken in to account for calculating the 10, 20 and 30 year milestones for granting MACP.(Para 9 of Annexure).

Similarly, employees who were granted financial upgradation under previous ACP scheme i.e., prior to the introduction of MACPS with effect from 1.9.2008, will be eligible for financial upgradation under MACPS after completion of 20 years and 30 years of service, irrespective of regular promotion given to them if any, between their 10 to 20 years of service or between 20 years and 30 years of service. For example if an employee was given 1st ACP under old ACP Scheme after completion of 12 years of service and a regular promotion after completion of 18 years of service, he will be eligible for 2nd MACP after completion of 20 years of service. (Para 9 of Annexure and Illustrations in Para 5 and Para 28).

Promotions earned /upgrading granted under the ACP scheme in the past to those grades which now carry the same grade pay due to merger of pay scales /upgradations of posts recommended by the Sixth Pay Commission shall be ignored for the purpose of granting upgradation under MACPS.(Para 5 of Annexure).

Financial benefit an employee gets as a result of pay fixation during MACP will be 3% of basic pay (pay in pay band plus the grade pay before MACP) and the difference in Grade pay before MACP and grade pay after MACP.Option for fixation of pay is also available. (Para 4 and 7 of Annexure).

If an employee gets a regular promotion to a grade which carries same grade pay which he is receiving now after grant of MACP, no further pay fixation will be allowed at the time of said regular promotion. If an employee gets a regular promotion to a grade which carries higher grade pay than the grade pay he is receiving now after grant of MACP, no further pay fixation will be allowed on account of the fact that his pay would have been fixed at the time of grant of MACP itself. However, difference in the grade pay he is getting now and the next grade pay in the hierarchy will be allowed as monetary benefit at the time of promotion. (Para 4 of Annexure).

In the case of employees who have been either promoted or given ACP prior to 6CPC implementation from a grade to another grade, pay scales of which have been merged now after 6CPC implementation, the said promotion or ACP shall be ignored and those emplyees are to be considered for financial upgradations equivalent to the number of milestones they have completed viz., 10 years , 20 years and 30 years milestones as the case may be prescribed in the MACPS for financial upgradations. (Para 5 and illustration thereof).

In cases where ACP was granted as per previous ACP scheme, but whereas after 6CPC implementation the next higher post which the employee got through ACP has been upgraded with higher grade pay, the pay of such employees in the revised pay structure will be fixed with reference to the higher grade pay granted to the post. To illustrate, in the case of an employee, who was granted 1st ACP in old ACP scheme to the grade which carried the pre-revised scale of Rs.6500-10500 corresponding to the revised grade pay of Rs.4200 in the pay band PB-2, he would now be granted grade pay of Rs.4600 in the pay band PB-2 consequent upon upgradation of the post to the grade pay of Rs.4600 in PB-2. However, from the date of implementation of the MACPS viz., from 1.9.2008, all the financial upgradations under the Scheme should be done strictly in accordance with the hierarchy of grade pays in pay bands as notified. (Para 6.2 of Annexure).

Grade Pay of Rs.5400 in PB-2 and Grade pay of Rs.5400 in PB-3 are two different Grade Pay for the purpose of MACP (Para 8.1 of Annexure1 to MACP Order dated 19.05.09.)

Bench Mark (CCR/ACR Gradings) is “Good” up to GP 6600 thereafter is should be “Very Good”. (Para 17 of Annexure1 to MACP Order dated 19.05.09). ‘Regular Service’ for the purpose of MACPS shall commence from the date of joining of a post in regular basis either on direct recruitment or on absorption / reemployment basis. (Para 9 of Annexure1 to MACP Order dated 19.05.09). If financial upgradations will not be allowed under MACPS after 10years due to DAR proceedings, this would have consequential effect on the subsequent financial upgradations. (Para 15 of Annexure1 to MACP Order dated 19.05.09). On grant of financial upgradations under MACPS, there shall be no change in designation, classification or higher status. (Para 16 of Annexure1 to MACP Order dated 19.05.09).

If a regular promotion has been denied by the employee before becoming entitlement of financial upgradation, no financial upgradation shall be allowed. However financial upgradation will be allowed due to stagnation and subsequently refuses the promotion. (Para 25 of Annexure1 to MACP Order dated 19.05.09).

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COS

JTS Gr A posting orders

The following promotion/allotment/posting in the grade JTS Gr A on temporary and adhoc basis in the pay band Rs 15600-39100 with grade pay rs.5400 (PB 3) with immeadiate effect.

1) shri P.K.Shelke SRM B DN,Pune posted as APMG (Staff) C.O.

2)Shri B.H.Shaikh Sr.PM Pune Allotted to Goa Region.

3)Shri P.D.Kasar AD (Bldg)CO Posted as DDM (PLI).


4)Shri.K.Y.Kamble SPOS MFL PUNE posted SSP DHULE Dn.

The promotion of the above officers is purely on adhoc basis for a period of 11 months and not exceeding one year.

Performance based pay outs for central govt employees

The Indian government is finally going the corporate way. The stage has been set for introducing performance-linked payouts which may force over five million central government employees to deliver their best.


What may make even corporate executives envious of the new bonanza for central governmentemployees, particularly of the brass, is the proposal of a 20% hike for the best performers over and above the raise that they had received after the sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations two years ago.


Yet for the babus, it won’t be a cakewalk either, as the formula of assessing the governmentemployees as proposed by performance management division under the cabinet secretariat, has ruled out paying even a penny to an official if his ministry scores 70 or below in a scale of 100.


But a secretary of a high performing ministry which meets 100% target will be eligible to receive Rs 2.4 lakh extra per year if the cabinet secretariat’s proposal of a 20% performance-linked payout is endorsed by the government, according to an official in cabinet secretariat.


The first round of assessment, initially for three months from January to March 2010, is over and three out of 59 central government departments have got a 100% score. There is a strong possibility that a large number of government employees would receive an extra pay once the new formula is adopted.


“We are extending the performance monitoring and evaluation system to 62 departments from the current fiscal. According to our system, a department sets a target, fixes the weightages of each target, and if it succeeds meeting all its targets, it gets a score of 100. Now, we are proposing that if a department meets all its targets, the head of the department would be given a performance bonus of 20% or more of his basic salary. And other employees too will get such bonuses,” said an official inperformance management division.


He further says how the government has failed to implement performance-linked incentives for itsemployees for the last 20 years though such recommendations were mooted by successive pay commissions including the more recent Sixth Pay Commission.


Several countries such as Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Netherlands, Denmark, UK, US and Finland have moved away from the traditional government administrative model to a management model under which officers act like corporate managers as they get greater operational freedom, but are held accountable for results. In fact, New Zealand is considered to be the leader of the pack where performance of government agencies are weighed in by setting targets and adopting regular evaluations.


Though there were several attempts in India too to bring in performance management in an institutionalised way, the process got kickstarted only after World Bank’s senior economist Prajapati Trivedi was appointed as secretary to the government of India with the responsibility forperformance management early last year. Dr Trivedi, along with cabinet secretary KM Chandrasekhar, introduced a tool called Results Framework Document (RFD) which will set targets for each ministry and will finally be the basis for yearly evaluation.


Dr SP Parashar, a former director of IIM Indore, says that the government had in the past too dealt with the subject by introducing themes such as Programming, Planning, Budgeting (PPB), Zero Base Budgeting (ZBB), and Outcome Budgeting (OB), to name a few. “You might be wondering what happened to them? They went with their champions. Lets hope that Results Framework Document (RFD) stays. The real challenge and test of any change program in our kind of democracies is its continuity...” he says.


He agrees that at concept level, Results Framework Document captures international best practices in respect of government performance management, but it misses the heart of good performance being implemented in the corporate world. “It is fixing individual responsibility in addition to departmental responsibility. The Results Framework Document as currently devised and adopted uses departmental responsibility and score as proxy for individual responsibility and score,” he says.


Yet, with 62 government ministries and departments on board with a few exceptions like PMO, home and defence, the performance of central ministries is under close watch. Though SundayET has learnt that only three ministries met 100% targets and some could not even meet 50%, it remains to be seen when and how the government makes those report cards public.

Now account verification even in post offices

Labels: POST OFFICE, VERIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS BEFORE OPENING



LUDHIANA: To check the inflow of black money and to keep a vigil on fake accounts, now even the postal department has started verifying its accounts under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.



Sources said till now only the banks were verifying the antecedents of a person before opening any account or during the transaction but now even the customers, who will be dealing with the postal department have to submit various documents.



While giving the information, one of the postal officials said that under this system for an instance if the person was depositing Rs 50,000 then he had to deposit the license or I-card and if the transaction went beyond the Rs 5 lakh then income tax return along with the voter card or PAN card. The formalities will increase with rise in amount. While for the city residents the formalities were fine, but the rural people were facing problems, he added.



While the postal department authorities found it a good initiative in order to curb black money flow and also the opening of fake accounts. People’s view was that it was tough to complete the formalities. JR Nur, senior superintendent, postal department, said that the formalities would help in regulate the flow of money in the customer’s account. Nur added that already in banks the system had been adopted from the beginning but now the postal department would be working as per the new system.



Source : Times of India

39th Maharashtra Circle Conference

39th Maharashtra Circle Conference


Dear friends / Members.


Our Circle Biannual conference will be held on 17th (saturday) and 18th ( Sunday) July 2010 at Nagpur and venue will be M.L.A. Hostel, Near Vasantrao Deshpande Sabha Griha, Civil Lines, Nagpur - 440001.



Further details about conference will be intimated on the blog time to time.


Please book your reservations well in advance to avoid last minute rush.

Santosh Kulkarni,
Cirlce Secratery ( Maharashtra)

Condolence

Shri P.B. Waghmare, Sr. Postmaster, Thane HO expired on 14.05.2010 at 06.30 am due to Cardiac Failure on receipt of message Circle Secretary and our IP/ASPs members rushed to his  house immediately. SSPO's Thane Central was also informed  and arranged immediate relief.

Condolence meeting taken in his house and Cirlce secratary expressed his condolence on behalf of all IP/ASPs in Maharashtra Circle.

Members of Postal Services Board in-Charge of specific Circles

Hon’ble Minister for Communication and IT has observed that there is no integration between top management and Circle level operations, with Postal Services Board, having six Members is virtually excluded from any effective role. He also observed that work distribution among Members in the Board is haphazard and unequal. To put in place an effective administrative mechanism with greater accountability and participation the Members of the PSB have been made in- charge of specific Circles as follows. This is in addition to their existing functional responsibilities.

Circles                                                                                         Jurisdiction of Members of PSB

Central Zone
MP, Chhatisgarh, Orissa:                                                            Maj. Gen V Sadasivam

North Zone
HP, Haryana, Punjab, J and K:                                                  Ms. Manjula Prasher

South Zone
AP, TN, Karnataka, Kerala:                                                      Mr. P K Gopinath

North & Eastern Zone
UP, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand :                                          Dr. Uday Balakrishna

East Zone
Bihar, WB, Assam, NE:                                                           Mrs. Indira Krishna Kumar

West Zone
Maharastra, Gujarat, Rajasthan:                                               Mr. S Samant

India Post is the official carrier of Unique Identity Numbers - MoU signed between DOP and UIADI to this effect.

India Post is the official carrier of Unique Identity Numbers and will deliver the UID communication to the citizens of India. Department of Posts has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on April 30, 2010 to this effect. The MoU has been entered into for a period of two years. The Department would use its flagship product, the Speed Post for this purpose. The Department got advantage for this project due to its vast network of 155,015 post offices of which nearly 90% numbering 139,144 are in the rural area.

India Post is also providing the comprehensive business solution of printing & pre mailing activities and last mile delivery of UID letters to the recipients of UID number. Whenever/ wherever required by UIDAI, the Department will also do biometric authentication of each UID letter delivered.

The Department is also successfully implementing the work of distribution of nearly 10,000 tonnes of Census material from 15 printing presses to nearly 12,000 taluk/ municipal level locations across the length and breadth of the country through its Logistics Post in connection with Census 2011 as its official carrier. India Post will also be undertaking the reverse logistics for collection of filled in census forms from these locations and delivery to the respective Directorates of Census Operations and scanning centers in the States. The Project started in February 2010 and will be completed in June 2011.

Security to be furnished by Gramin Dak Sevaks increased

The Department of Posts vide letter no 6-18/2010-PE-II dated 07-05-2010 has revised the amount of security to be furnished by Gramin Dak Sevaks as under:




1. GDS BPMs from Rs 10000/- to Rs 25000/-

2 Other GDS from Rs 5000/- to Rs 10000/-



The security will be furnished in the form of Fidelity Guarantee Bond or National Savings Certificate pledged to the Department or in the shape of Bank Guarantee from any nationalized Bank. The present periodicity of yearly renewal- of the Fidelity Guarantee Bond is revised to once in 5 years (quinquinnelly).The required premium for-5 years' block may be recovered and the Fidelity Guarantee Bond obtained for full 5 years block from the recognized Cooperative Credit Society.



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