Administrative Control over Speed Post Centres/Sorting Hubs.

Copy of D.G.Posts No. 6-5/2011-D Dated 20-10-2011

 

The matter relating to the administrative control over Speed Post Centres/Sorting Hubs falling under existing Postal or RMS division was raised by the staff side and was under consideration of this Directorate.

 

It has been decided that the issues of administrative control over Speed Post Centres/Sorting hubs in terms of placing under the administrative jurisdiction of Senior Superintendent/Superintendent of a Postal or RMS Division of a Postal or RMs Division maybe decided by the CPMG concerned taking into account local needs, administrative convenience and effective monitoring

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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

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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