How to apply leave in CSI Post Office?

Leave is essential to all postal department employees in their career. The CCS conduct rule says “LEAVE IS NOT A RIGHT IT’S A PRIVILEGE”. So our department employees take fewer leaves compared to other departments.

After introducing CSI, employees can apply any kind of leave through the system itself. This technology helps us save paper - “SAVE PAPER SAVE TREES”.

Let’s see how to apply for leave on a CSI system?

In SAP, go to DOP Main Screen or type the T-code zdop_main. The below window will be shown up.

Click on Employee Portal. It will redirect to next page as shown below.

Enter the User ID and Password. Click on Log-on to enter into the page. It has some of the icons at the top of the window like Employee Self Service, Franking, LSS etc. Refer to the screenshot below.

Click on the Employee Self Service icon. You will get some options like,

Leave management – For Leaves.

Employee Payment – For loans, Salary Statements etc.

Recruitment – Departmental calendar, Vacancy etc

Personal information – Nominee details, Mutual Transfer, HR query, Asset declaration, My Service book etc.

Here click on Leave Management. You will see the below screen.

Here, you have the list like, Apply for leave, leave overview, Public Holidays and Restricted Holidays etc.

Go to Apply Leave. The below window will show up.

In this page, you have options like, Calendar, Team Calendar, View Leave, Leave Request.

In calendar - all holidays, non-working days, absent days can be identified in different colors.

In Team calendar - shows the same details but it includes all staffs details of an office.

In Leave balance - you can see the balance of all kind of leaves until today.

I’m going to take one example of Casual leave on 6.11.2017.

Type the following details.

Type of leave Casual

Start date From date

End date To date

No. of days 1 or more

Reason Enter the reason for leave.

Address Personal address.(For Half pay leave you have the provision to attach medical certificate.)

If you want to take the permission to leave the Head Quarters then click on the checkbox.

Once you enter all the details, click on Send button.

If it is CL/RH, a message will go to PM/SPM of the same office for approval or else it will go to Divisional Office for approval.

You can check whether the applied leave gets approved or rejected by clicking Leave Request as shown below.

You can also check the balance by clicking View Leave Balance menu as shown below.

This is how you can apply leave in CSI.

Some questions with their solution related to CSI

Budget2018 – Idea Worth Rs 25,000 Crore: Tax The Rich Farmer

When the government is hard-pressed to raise income-tax collection by bringing more people in the tax net and discouraging tax evasion, one area where it can reap a quick dividend is agricultural income.

And that too without burdening the small and marginal farmers. All farmers are not poor. Agriculture hides a diversity of land-holding and income. According to the National Sample Survey, 70% of agricultural households in India have marginal holdings (under 1 hectare), and only 0.4% hold over 10 hectares.

The proportion of agricultural households holding 4-10 hectares of land is 3.7%. By taxing the incomes of the top 4.1% of agricultural households, at an average of 30%, as much as Rs 25,000 crore could be collected as agricultural tax, according to Rajul Awasthi, Global Tax Team Lead at the World Bank.

Last year, Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian too made a case for taxing the rich farmers. “Why is it that it is very difficult to make a distinction between a poor farmer and a rich farmer-…When you say farmer, people think that you are going after the poor farmer. So what is it about political discourse that does not allow these distinctions to be made. Why can’t we say, rich regardless of where they get their income, should be taxed,” said Subramanian.

Niti Aayog, the government’s thinktank, too proposed a tax on agricultural income in its draft three-year action plan last year. Farm income could be assessed for tax as a three-year average, at a press briefing on Tuesday, making a case for widening the taxpayer base, it said.

Niti Aayog member Bibek Debroy too had said that agricultural income should be taxed at the same threshold as personal income.

However, Finance Minister Jaitley had denied that any plan was in the offing to tax agricultural income. He tweeted: “I categorically state that the Central Government has no plan to impose any tax on agriculture income. As per the Constitutional Allocation of Powers, the Central Govt has no jurisdiction to impose tax on agricultural income.”

But Subramanian had said nothing could prevent state governments from taxing agriculture income. “The constitutional restriction is on central government taxing agriculture income. There too, one could make a case that this is a choice open to 29 state governments and if there are willing takers,” he said, adding there was a need to make a clear distinction between poor and rich farmer.

However, the government has already taken note of agricultural income of non-agriculturists being used as a way to evade tax. In December 2016, then state finance minister Santosh Gangwar had revealed in Parliament that the government was verifying if taxpayers who reported farm income of over Rs 1 crore in nine years to March 2016 were genuine.

Income tax department has found an effective way to find out such tax evaders. The department accesses satellite imagery from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) of the piece of land for specific time periods and if there are no standing crops in that period, it is proved that the assessee is trying to avoid taxes.

Since the government is already working to stop tax evasion through agriculture, will it also move to bring rich farmers in the tax net? Though it is a matter for the states to decide, it can make a beginning by suggesting states to consider such a tax.

Postmen with smartphones will help IPPB reach the rural underbanked

India Post Payments Bank will give postmen smartphones for doorstep banking to customers predominantly in rural areas

Anant Narayan Nanda, chairman of India Posts Payments Bank. IPPB is planning to open 3,250 customer access points across 650 districts by the time it launches operations in March 2018. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

New Delhi: India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) will press into service postmen equipped with smartphones to go door to door and will open 3,250 customer access points across 650 districts when it launches operations in March, seeking to cater largely to under-banked rural areas.

The bank will leverage the 155,000 technologically upgraded post offices, of which 129,000 are in rural areas, as well as the existing customer base of India Post, Anant Narayan Nanda, secretary, department of posts, and chairman of IPPB, said in an interview.

A special dispensation from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will enable the payments bank to link accounts of existing post office savings bank customers and let them access both on the same screen and perform transactions.

According to Nanda, this will give a huge fillip to existing customers. India Post has around 170 million savings bank accounts.

“By December 2018, 2 lakh postmen and gramin dak sewaks carrying mobile phones will offer doorstep banking to customers predominantly in rural areas. Eventually, this number will increase to 3.5 lakh,” Nanda said.

The bank plans to start with 3,250 access points—five each in 650 districts—and scale up the number every month. It will employ 3,000 people—roughly half the staff will be on deputation from state-run banks and India Post.

The bank is in the process of training postmen to carry out basic banking facilities such as opening bank accounts and conducting transactions on the mobile phone. Besides assisting customers, the postmen will also teach them how to perform transactions on their own. They will receive monetary incentives for both assisted and eventually self-service transactions.

Customers will be able to access a range of services including net banking, National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT), Real-time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and Immediate Payment Service (IMPS). They will be able to pay utility bills, invest in mutual funds and buy insurance products on the app.

The gramin dak sevaks and postmen will be trained by banking institutions. An internal survey by the department showed that between 70% and 80% of postmen use smartphones for personal use and are active on social networking sites and should be able to use the app with ease, Nanda said.

At present, the post office accepts payments of around Rs46,000 crore in cash every year. With the entire network moving towards accepting digital payments, a significant portion of this amount could be handled by the banking network, an indication of the potential available for business.

IPPB is 100% owned by India Post; it received a payments bank license from RBI in January 2017 and has begun operations on a pilot basis in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

India has three other operational payment banks—Airtel Payments Bank, Paytm Payments Bank and Fino Payments Bank.

“India Post does have the largest reach in the rural parts of the country and the idea of financial inclusion through postmen seems very promising,” said Ashish Aggarwal, a consultant at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. “However, the execution has to be well done to have mass impact. The postmen need to be well-trained and equipped as even basic banking involves much more than delivering courier (packages) and letters,” he added.

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UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) July 2018 Short Notification

It is notified that CBSE will conduct the next UGC-NET for Junior Research Fellowship & Eligibility for Assistant Professor on 08th July, 2018 (Sunday).

Paper-I shall consist of 50 objective type compulsory questions each carrying 2 marks. The questions which will be of general nature, intended to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate. It will primarily be designed to test reasoning ability, comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the candidate.

Paper-II shall consist of 100 objective type compulsory questions each carrying 2 marks which will be based on the subject selected by the candidate.

The upper age limit for appearing in JRF has also been raised by two years, i.e. from the existing upper age limit of 28 years to 30 years (the relaxation as earlier will remain same). The candidates who desire to appear in the test may see the detailed notification available on the website http://cbsenet.nic.in from 01st February, 2018. The candidates are required to apply online from 06th March, 2018. The last date for applying online is 05th April, 2018 and fee can be paid up to 06th April, 2018

Short Notification: Click Here

Circle Conference : Delhi circle

37th Circle Conference of All India Association of Inspectors and Assistant Superintendents, Posts Delhi Circle Branch held on 20/1/2018 at Delhi and following office bearers are unanimously elected for the next 2 year term.

1. President : Shri Roop Chand, Sr. Postmaster, Sansad Marg HO, New Delhi.

2. Circle Secretary : Shri Ram Narayan Singh, IP (HQ) New Delhi Sorting Division, New Delhi.

3. Treasurer : Shri Hariom Sharma, ASP (Philately) o/o CPMG, New Delhi circle.

CHQ congratulate to all office bearers.

31st All India Postal Cricket Tournament at Postal Training Centre, Vadodara

The XXXI All India Postal Cricket Tournament was inaugurated in Postal Training Centre, Vadodara on 20-01-2018 by Shri Dashrath Pardeshi, former Ranji Trophy player of Gujarat and Vadodara teams in the presence of Shri Gautam Bhattacharya, Chief Postmaster General, Gujarat Circle, Shri Ambesh Upmanyu, Postmaster General, Ahmedabad Region, Shri Vineet Mathur, Postmaster General, Vadodara Region, Smt. Suchita Anant Joshi, Director, Postal Training Centre Vadodara, Shri B.L. Sonal, DPS, Vadodara Region, Shri Sunil Sharma, DPS (HQ) Gujarat Circle. The said tournament will continue up to 24th January 2018. The following 19 cricket teams of different postal circles are participating in this tournament.

SL	Name of Circle	SL	Name of Circle
1	Madhya Pradesh	11	Himachal Pradesh
2	Haryana	12	Chhattisgarh
3	Bihar	13	Odisha
4	West Bengal	14	Jammu & Kashmir
5	Telangana	15	Assam
6	Delhi	16	Maharashtra
7	Rajasthan	17	Uttar Pradesh
8	Tamil Nadu	18	Gujarat
9	Uttarakhand	19	Andhra Pradesh
10	Karnataka

The following knocks out matches were played among the participating teams on 21.01.2018 and result thereof is given below. There is good all-round performance from Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh teams. They batted, fielded and bowled well to beat the mighty Uttarakhand and Delhi batting line-up.

Date	Teams	Score	Result
21-01-2018	Himachal Pradesh Vs Uttarakhand	214/2 and 133/8	Himachal Pradesh won by 81 runs
	Rajasthan Vs Delhi	201/6 and 127/10	Rajasthan won by 74 runs
	Assam Vs Maharashtra	191/5 and 128/6	Assam won by 63 runs
	Andhra Pradesh Vs Madhya Pradesh	142/6 and 123/7	Andhra Pradesh won by 19 runs
	Uttar Pradesh Vs Gujarat	76/10 and 77/1	Gujarat won by 9 wickets

All 14 designs of Rs 10 coin valid and under legal tender: Clarifies RBI

All 14 types of Rs 10 coin are valid legal tender

Clearing the confusion caused by certain traders, the RBI has clarified that all 14 types of the Rs 10 coin are valid and are legal tender. This comes after certain traders raised questions over the 'genuiness' of the different variants of the Rs 10 coin and, hence, rejected them during transactions.

"It has come to the notice of the Reserve Bank that in certain places there is reluctance on part of traders and members of the public to accept Rs 10 coins due to suspicion about their genuineness," said the RBI.

The central bank clarified that it puts into circulation the coins minted by government mints. These coins are introduced time to time and have distinctive features to reflect on themes of economic, social and cultural values.

"So far the Reserve Bank has issued Rs 10 coin in 14 designs. All these coins are legal tender and can be accepted for transactions," the RBI said.

It has also asked banks to accept coins for transactions and exchange at all their branches.

Meanwhile, RBI has already rolled out the new Rs 10 notes and these will be chocolate-brown in colour.

(With inputs from PTI)

Wishing You a Very Lohri, Bihu, Pongal and Makar Sakranti to All Viewers and Members

Employment News : 13 January to 19 January 2018

Employment News : 13 January to 19 January 2018

JOB HIGHLIGHTS

ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, RAIPUR

Name Of Post : Accounts OFFICER, Assistant Nursing Superintendent etc

No.of Vacancies : 31

Last Date :20.01.2018

ELECTRONICS CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED

Name Of Post : Graduate Engineer Trainees

No.of Vacancies : 84

Last Date :15.02.2018

INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED

Name Of Post : Apprentices (Non Technical)

No.of Vacancies : 101

Last Date :03.02.2018

STATE BANK OF INDIA

Name Of Post : Specialist Cadre Officers

No.of Vacancies : 50

Last Date :28.01.2018

Source : http://employmentnews.gov.in/

Voluntary Retirement

Shri Atul Mahadik, ASP, Palghar Dn., Navi Mumbai Region is retired from Government Service on Voluntarily on 08.01.2018.

This Association Wishes her a very Happy and Healthy Retired Life

FAQs on deputation of DoP staff to IPPB

Directorate has already called for applications from IPs/ASPs to work in IPPB. It is learnt that only 40 IPs/ASPs have given the willingness to work on deputation in IPPB. There is very good pay scale and allowances applicable to the new entrant. Deputation will be minimum 3 years. The date for online filling up of the form is extended to 15/1/2017. Youngster may please avail this opportunity and get the chance to work in Bank as Manager. The payment structure of the salary would be as under:

Recently Directorate has issued FAQ on deputation to DoP staff to IPPB.

To view the same, please CLICK HERE.

Circle wise shortage of IP/ASPs as on 22/12/2017 are as under :

Sl. No.	Name of Circle	IP/ASP shortage	Sl. No.	Name of Circle	IP/ASP shortage
1	Andhra	34	13	Madhya Pradesh	55
2	Assam	6	14	Maharashtra	93
3	Bihar	63	15	North East	9
4	Chhattisgarh	16	16	Punjab	16
5	Delhi	8	17	Odisha	21
6	Gujarat	86	18	Rajasthan	34
7	Haryana	10	19	Tamil Nadu	84
8	Himachal Pradesh	18	20	Telangana	35
9	J & K	16	21	Uttar Pradesh	38
10	Jharkhand	11	22	Uttarakhand	15
11	Karnataka	39	23	West Bengal	49
12	Kerala	17		Total	763