100% Joint Secretary and above, 50% JD & Director, 33% Other officer /staff will attend office – Railway Board Order to contain the spread of COVID-19

भारत सरकार  GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
रेल मंत्रालय MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
रेलवे बोर्ड (RAILWAY BOARD)
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Office Order No. 47 of 2020

Sub : Preventive Measures to contain the spread of COVID-19

Attention is invited to Office Order No. 45 of 2020 containing detailed guidelines on measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 amongst officials in Board’s Office. Keeping in view the rise in number of officials testing COVID positive, it has been decided with the approval of the competent authority to regulate reporting of Officials in Board’s Office as follows-until further orders:-

a) All Officers of the level of Executive Director/Joint Secretary and above shall attend office on all working days;

b) Officers of the level of JD and Director, shall attend office upto 50% on any given day on functional requirement as decided by the Controlling Officer;

c) For other Officers/staff below JD level, HODs of branches shall prepare roster so as to ensure that 33% of Officers and staff attend office with staggered timings;

d) The duty roster in respect of personal staff attached with Officers i.e., PSO, Sr.PPS, PPS, PS, PA/Steno and MTS shall be prepared by the respective officer or Senior most personal staff,, keeping in view the minimum functional requirement;

|e) All Officials not reporting to office, are to work from home and are to be available at all times on phone and other electronic means of communication.

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2. All concerned to ensure strict compliance of above instructions and also of Office Order No. 45 of 2020 tn letter and spirit.

L.No.2020/O0&M/9/I
Dated: 17/06/2020

( B.Majumdar)
Joint Secretary/Railway Board

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Mother of Shri. Pankaj Kulkarni, ASP(HQ), Nashik Division expired on 08.06.2020. I pray to almighty to rest her soul in please.

This Association conveys heartfelt condolence on his demise and pray to almighty to give courage to the family members to bear the shock.

Attendance in Offices: DoPT’s OM for strict adherence of MoHFW SOP on preventive measures to contain spread of COVID-19 in offices

F.No.11013/9/2014-Estt.A.III
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel and Training)
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North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 5th June, 2020

OFFICE  MEMORANDUM

Subject:  Preventive  measures to  be taken  to contain the spread  of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Attendance regarding.

The undersigned is directed to refer to OM of even number dated the  17th March, 2020, 18th May, 2020 and 19th May, 2020 whereby advisory for well-being of Government employees and attendance  in Government offices with staggered timings were issued by Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT).

2.  Kind attention is also drawn to Ministry of Home Affairs’ Order dated 30.05.2020 whereby ‘Additional Directives for Work Places’ have been prescribed. Further, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoH&FW) on 4th June, 2020 has issued Standard Operating Procedure on preventive measures to contain spread of COVID-19 in workplace settings (copy enclosed).

3. It is emphasized that strict adherence to the practices of social distancing norms and health & hygiene practices, as enunciated in these guidelines, is of paramount importance and the Government servants as responsible employees should abide by these practices so that the Government offices function in the most efficient manner in the given situation. All the Ministries/Departments/offices as well as the Central Government employees are, therefore, directed to ensure strict  compliance  of instructions issued by DoPT as well as MHA and MoH&FW.

(Umesh Kumar Bhatia)
Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India

Department of Posts Postman and Mail Guard (Group ‘C’ post) Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2020

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NPS withdrawal process at the time of difficulties caused by Covid 19 pandemic: PFRDA Circular dated 05.06.2020

PENSION FUND REGULATORY
AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
B-14/A, Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhawan.
Qutub Institutional Area,
Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi-110016

CIRCULAR

CIR No.: PFRDA/2020/19/SUP-CRA/8

Date: June 5, 2020

To

All stakeholders under NPS including nodal officers/POPs

NPS withdrawal process at the time of difficulties caused by Covid 19 pandemic

NPS withdrawals including partial withdrawal are allowed as defined under NPS exit regulations. NPS Subscribers who intend to withdraw are required to submit the duly filled-up withdrawal forms along with the Supporting documents to the associated Nodal officers/ Points of Presence (POP) for processing their request.

2. Post submission of withdrawal documents by the Subscribers, it is the responsibility of Nodal officers/ POPs to check the genuineness of documents and verify the identity of Subscriber before authorizing their withdrawal requests in the CRA system. Upon authorization, withdrawal requests are executed in the CRA system to allow lump sum and the subscribers’ information is shared with Annuity Service Provider (ASP) for issuing annuity. Subsequently, Nodal officers/ POPs submit physical withdrawal documents to CRAs for storage and record keeping.

3. In the current Covid – 19 pandemic situation and the challenges, considering that the Subscribers may not be in a position to submit the physical exit documents, the Nodal offices/ POPs are advised to accept the scanned and self-certified images of documents through digital means as a special case and process their requests. The requests can be received from the registered email ids of Subscribers/Nodal officers. POPs/Nodal officer shall Carry out and be responsible for due diligence before authorizing the withdrawal request.

4. The existing facility to upload the withdrawal related documents in CRA system while initiating ‘online withdrawal’ request can be used quite extensively by subscribers/ nodal officer/POPs. The documents thus uploaded help in instantaneous Processing of lump sum and enable ASP to issue annuity based on the documents already uploaded.

5. The above process needs to be adopted on an exception basis and the one time exemption is allowed only till 30th June 2020. The Nodal officers/ POPs need to ensure that the duly authorized and completed documents reach the respective CRA by end of 31st July 2020.

6. This circular is issued under section 14 of PFRDA Act 2013 and is available at PFRDA’s website (www.pfrda.org.in) under the Regulatory framework and in “Circular” sections of CRA/POP under intermediaries.

Sd/-
(K Motran Gandhi)
General Manager

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Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Recruitment for 175 Technical Officers Posts 2020

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare has published an Advertisement for below mentioned Posts. Other details like age limit, educational qualification, selection process, application fee and how to apply are given below.


Posts: Technical Officers 

Total No. of Posts: 175

Educational Qualification: Please read Official Notification for Educational Qualification details.

Selection Process: Candidates will be selected based on an interview.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are requested to remain present along with all original certificates to given address in the advertisement.

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Walk-in-Interview: 12-06-2020

Change of Nomenclature of Posts- Assistant to ASO , UDC to Sr. Assistant and LDC to Jr. Assistant in CAT: DoPT Notification

      MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS

(Department of Personnel and Training)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 5th June, 2020

G.S.R. 350(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 13 read with clause (b) of section 36 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (13 of 1985), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to amend the Central Administrative Tribunal (Salaries, allowances and conditions of service of the officers and employees) Rules, 2017, namely:-

1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Central Administrative Tribunal (Salaries, allowances and conditions of service of the officers and employees) Amendment Rules, 2020.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Central Administrative Tribunal (Salaries, allowances and conditions of service of the officers and employees) Rules, 2017, in the Schedule, –

(i) in column (2), against serial number 15, for the words “Assistant”, the words “Assistant Section Officer” Shall be substituted;

(ii) in column (2), against serial number 26, for the words “Upper Division Clerk”, the words “Senior Assistant” shall be substituted;

(iii) in column (2), against serial number 29, for the words “Lower Division Clerk”, the words “Junior Assistant” shall be substituted.

[F. No. A-11019/1/2019-AT]
RASHMI CHOWDHARY, Addl. Secy.

Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (1) vide notification number G.S.R. 1020(E), dated the 17™ August, 2017