Our Circle Vice President & Divisional Secretary Navsari Dn. Com. K. D. Tailor is very senior and active leader in South Gujarat. He is also contributing in Valsad Navsari Postal Co operative credit Society Ltd. As Vice Chairman of Society he receives award as 2nd Prize. Circle Union congratulates him.

NFPE demands five days week like bank employees, for Postal operative offices.

Team Gujarat Circle wins Championship in Men's Team as well as Women's Team in 31st All India Postal Table Tennis Tournament. Circle union congratulates all Teammates for their consistent & glorious performance.

Request for circulation of Directorate's order dated 7-1-16 for restrictions in fixing business hours and instruct Hon. SSP Ahd City dn to cancel irregular revision of working hours

To.                       25-2-16

Hon. CPMG

Guj. Circle Ahmedabad

Sub:- Request for circulation of Directorate's order dated 7-1-16 for restrictions in fixing business hours and instruct Hon. SSP Ahd City dn to cancel irregular revision of working hours.

Hon. Sir,

Namaskar. I enclose herewith two attachments which shows that Hon. SSP Ahmedabad city dn has revised business hours of many post offices vide his order dated 22.2.16 in violation of Department's order dated 7-1-16 wherein it was emphasized to strictly adhere to close 5 of PO Guide Part-I and restrict business hours accordingly. 

I assume that Hon. SSP is not aware of the instructions otherwise he would definitely follow the same. I also knew from other two regions including Rajkot HO, also that the directorate orders said above are not implemented. It is required to circulate the said order dated 7-1-16 as directed in last two lines of order itself so that all units may implement the same.

With regards 

Yours sincerely

Rashmin Purohit

CS P3

An optimistic restart in Surat division. Com. Mayank Vakharia, Offg. Accountant has been nominated as Convener of AIPE Union Group 'C' Surat division.

An optimistic restart in Surat division. Com. Mayank Vakharia, Offg. Accountant has been nominated as Convener of AIPE Union Group 'C' Surat division. 

Our real aim is to establish a set up in Surat division, heart of South Gujarat, to meet with needs of PA cadre for redressing their multifold problems and exploitation. Being main Union having majority of staff as our members in Gujarat circle, we are always positive, coordinating and supporting administration without making uproar against routine difficulties in this transition period wherein the department moves forward with redical changes, digitalisation and up gradation of customers' service. But we also take care to see that our employees are not deliberately harrased, exploited and suppressed by creating atmosphere of fear and threats. 

We know that there are so many problems being faced by postal employees of Surat division which can be easily solved by taking up in formal Union meetings and writing letters to administration. Hon. PMG Vadodara is also a very positive, neutral and benign officer who would definitely give a patient hearing to problems of staff of Surat Dn.

Let us restart. Any staff of any cadre can communicate with us. Ultimately under mighty umbrella of National Federation of Postal Employees AIPE Union being a major Union takes care for all employees including GDS, Gr.D, MTS, Postmen, PAs.

We hope that postal employees of Surat division will join hands with us, boost enthusiasm of a young leader Shri. Mayank Vakharia.

Summary report of NJCA Meeting with 7th Pay Commission implementation Cell will be forwarded to the Empowered Committee soon

Latest 7th CPC News: Outcome of NJCA Meeting with 7th Pay Commission implementation Cell

Sources Close to the NJCA told that Meeting with 7th Pay Commission Implementation Cell took place as scheduled today.

Joint Secretary, Department of Expenditure, 7th Pay Commission Implementation Cell, represented the Government. It is told that the meeting of NJCA with 7th Pay Commission Implementation Cell continued for three Hours

Justification for 26 demands submitted by NJCA to Cabinet secretary has been summarized before the Joint Secretary, Implementation Cell. Various Issues including revising Fitment Formula, Increasing Minimum Pay, Revising Allowances, restoring Advances with increased rates and granting two increment on Promotion, increasing the rate of increment to 5% have been discussed in detail. Suitable justification was given by NJCA to establish their claims on these demands are reasonable.

It seems that the Points put by NJCA is well taken by the 7th CPC Implementation Cell and the same will be forwarded to Empowered Committee. It is told that the Empowered Committee headed by Cabinet Secretary will invite NCJCM Staff Side to discuss and finalize the issues discussed in this Meeting. After that It will be sent to Cabinet for its nod.

The summary report of this Meeting will be forwarded to the Empowered Committee soon. It is considered as a positive development towards the implementation of 7th Pay Commission recommendations with taking into consideration of NCJCM Staff Side Views.

Source: http://www.gservants.com/

Pay Rise 54% in 6th CPC – 7th CPC Recommended only 14.3%

The need for fixing the minimum wages at Rs 26,000/- and modifying the multiplying factor was explained in detail with full justification.

NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
3, CHELMSFORD ROAD, NEW DELHI – 110 055

No: II/95/Pt VIII

Dt:19th February, 2016

MESSAGE

On the Invitation of Shri R.K. Chaturvedi, Convener, Implementation Cell, Ministry of Finance Dr M. Raghavaiah, Chairman/NJCA & GS/NFIR and Shri Guman Singh, Member/NJCA & President/NFIR representing Central Government Federations/Associations attended the meeting at North Block, New Delhi at 11.00AM on 19th February 2016 and explained NJCA’s 1 to 26 charter of demands with full justification for every demand.

The need for fixing the minimum wages at Rs 26,000/- and modifying the multiplying factor was explained in detail with full justification. The leaders drew the attention of Shri Chaturvedi to Page No 63 of 7th CPC which is as follows:

(in percent)

II CPC	14.2
III CPC	20.6
IV CPC	27.6
V CPC	31.0
VI CPC	54.0
VII CPC	14.3

It is clear from above that the pay rise is only 14.3% in 7th CPC, which is causing lot of resentment and unrest among 34 lakh Central Govt Employees belonging to Railways, Defence, Postal etc., Mr R.K. Chaturvedi assured to explain the views expressed by NJCA leaders to the Cabinet Secretary and stated that within 10-15 days a meeting between NJCA, Empowered Committee and the Implementation Cell will be held for further discussions.

The NJCA leaders made it ample clear that in the event of No Negotiated Settlement all the central government employees will be compelled to serve Strike Notice on 11th March 2016 and proceed on strike from 6.00AM on 11th April 2016.

As already decided by NJCA all the Central Govt Employees must prepare themselves for Indefinite Strike from 11th April 2016.

(Marri Raghavaiah)
CHAIEMAN/NJCM & GS/NFIR

Source: NFIR

Brief of the NJCA meeting held on 19.02.2016 with the Convener, Implementation Cell, Ministry of Finance

NJCA

NATIONAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION,

4, STATE ENTRY ROAD, NEW DELHI-110055

  No.NJCA/2016            Dated: 19.02.2016

Dear Comrades,

Sub: Brief of the NJCA meeting held on 19.02.2016 with the

         Convener, Implementation Cell, Ministry of Finance

         (Government of India), reg. 7^th CPC recommendations

         and Charter of Demands of the NJCA

A meeting of the NJCA held today with the Convener, Implementation Cell, Ministry of Finance, Shri R.K. Chaturvedi, wherein we discussed and emphasized on all the 26-point Charter of Demands of the NJCA send to the Cabinet Secretary on 10.12.2015. 

We agitated the issues of NPS, Minimum Wage, Multiplying Factor, deduction of HRA and all other important issues.

The Convener, Implementation Cell, Shri Chaturvedi, after hearing everybody, said that, he would put-up the issues to the Cabinet Secretary, and hopefully a meeting of the JCA would be held with the Cabinet Secretary and the Empowered Committee shortly within 15 days.

Let us not leave any stone unturned for preparations of the strike.

With Best Wishes!

   

                           Convener

                 Shiva Gopal Mishra

Blog style changed

Previously three parts were provided and some members were suggesting a change in blog posts' style.

Now it has been changed. All posts will appear on screen as soon as blog is opened.

More suggestions are also invited.

Circle union thanks Com. Maulik Shah for his valuable help in this matter.

Dopt Orders on LTC – Self Certification Proforma and New Guidelines

Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 — Fulfilment of procedural requirements.

No.31011/3/2015-Estt (A.IV)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
Establishment A-IV Desk

North Block, New Delhi-110 001
Dated: February 18, 2016

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Central Civil Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988 – Fulfillment of procedural requirements.

This Department is in receipt of a number of references regarding the procedural difficulties faced by the Government employees in application and settlement of the LTC claims. Sometimes, the Government servants claim that failure to follow the correct procedure was on account of a lack of knowledge of the rules/instructions. It is alleged that in some cases, processing of LTC claims takes unduly long time, particularly when the employee and the sanctioning authorities are located at different stations.

2. To remove these bottlenecks, it has been decided to simplify the procedure of application and make the procedure of processing of LTC claims time bound. The following time-limits shall be followed while processing the LTC applications/claims of the Government servants.

ltc dopt order
*(a) Additional 3 days transit-time may be allowed in cases where the place of posting of the Government employees is away from their Headquarters, The Government employee may proceed on LTC after action on S.No.1 .

(b) Efforts should be made to reduce the duration of processing of LTC applications/claims at the earliest. The maximum time limit should be strictly adhered to and non —compliance of time limit should be adequately explained

3. Under CCS (LTC) Rules, the Government servants are required to inform their Controlling Officer before the journey(s) on LTC to be undertaken. It has now been decided that the Leave Sanctioning Authority shall obtain a self-certification from the employee regarding the proposed LTC journey. The proforma for self-certification has been annexed with this O.M.

4. In addition to the above, it has been decided that whenever a Government servant applies for LTC, he/she should be provided with a copy of the guidelines (enclosed) which needs to be followed while availing LTC.

5. Employees may be encouraged to share interesting insights and pictures, if any, of the destination he/she visited while availing LTC in an appropriate forum.

sd/-
(Surya Narayan Jha)
Under Secretary of the Government of India

Authority: www.persmin.gov.in

SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER TO THE HON`BLE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS & IT ON CBS/CIS PROBLEMS.

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER TO THE HON`BLE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS & IT ON CBS/CIS PROBLEMS.

National Federation of Postal Employees

1^st Floor North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001       

Phone: 011.23092771                                                      e-mail:nfpehq@gmail.com

  Mob: 9868819295/9810853981                          website: http://www.nfpe.blogspot.com

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No.PF-35/CBS/2016                                                                     Dated : 18^th February,201

To

            Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad

            Hon’ble Minister

            Communication & IT

Sub: Miseries and untold sufferings faced by the staff in CBS &CIS rolled out offices throughout the nation – Immediate and personal intervention requested to rein in the situation.

Respected Sir,

            In continuation of this Federation’s letter of even no. dated 20.1.2016  , we submit the following additional issues for immediate settlement in order to avoid chaos and stalemate in the service in the near future due to the hasty migration of CBS & CIS.

(i)      Whenever migration takes place, Finacle becomes abnormally slow and every single transactions take too long and the customer at the counter gets irritated and become Quarrelsome. If this lacuna is not rectified at the earliest, it is prone to invite undue displeasure of customers and endanger our customer base.

(ii)    Similarly ATM transactions are irritating the customers. In many occasions, cash is not dispensed out of APM while transactions occur and amount is debited from their account. Such scenario occurs in other banks ATM also, but reversal transactions are done within a day or two. Whereas in Finacle, it takes weeks together that too, after several mails from R.O. & C.O.

(iii)   The Finacle software being used in post offices are based on universal banking solutions and not universal Postal solutions. We have not heard about single handed banks, whereas 60% of Post office in India are now functioning in single handed status only. The SPMs of single handed offices have to work is operator ID and then come out. Again he should log on with supervisor ID for a single transaction which not only consumes a lot of time but also irritate the public who are standing in queue.

(iv)   Some of the office accounts like 339 (used for BOs) and 340 (used for issuing cheques) can be misused to fund any ones account with crores and crores of rupees as there is no maximum ceiling for our SB accounts as one date.

(v)    For example, CXFER can be used to fund one’s near and dear accounts in which teller cash will not get raised and simultaneously one can take withdrawals from other SOL (CBS offices) Kashmir to Kannyakumari as there is no cap on other SOL (Service outlet) withdrawal prescribed by the Postal department.

(vi)   It is opt to bring to your kind notice that some of the banking giants like SBI, ICICI etc. are leveraging services charges for other branch withdrawals and deposits other than through their cash vending machines like ATMs etc.

(vii)  In the case of single handed offices, both the operator and supervisor remain the same, there are chances of fraud and misappropriation of money and falsification of records. For example, a single handed SPM can take print outs at any point of time and then he can amount the same in his account by using SB CASH and thereafter he can use ‘CXFER’ to fund some one’s account in which teller cash will not get raised. It is not in practice or practicable that the SBCO officials are tallying the Finacle balance of a particular SOL (branch/office) with their S.O. account.

(viii)      Thereafter,  it is suggested that there should be a cap on other SOL withdrawals both in terms of maximum amount and number and customers who wish to use other SOL should be given a SB ID and that request should be given by them at the time of opening the accounts.

(ix)         This is the serious problem which has not been attended so far by the department that most of the deputations to single handed offices are ordered without changing the SOL ID of the deputation incumbent and Single handed SPMs are forced to giver USER ID and Password to the deputed officials in order to avail of their leave, training etc. and also to avoid unnecessary public complaint in their officers which is against the DOPT orders as there is no secrecy in passwords. This issue has not been resolved. There is every chance for the miscreants to misuse the USER ID of other in different computers and defrauding the Government money. At later stage, forgetting the smooth functioning in the absence of no arrangement, the poor innocent official will be proceeded under the contributory negligence factor. This must be set right forthwith.

(x)          Interest on loan could not be accounted in Finacle Software in the case of loan accounts in which loan amount paid off completely prior to migration period and interest on loan is still pending in the loan account in post migration period. There is scope of defrauding the funds by the fraudulent people by misusing the provision.

(xi)         In short the Postal Department is working for the vendors and not for its own. Despite ‘Sifi’  has not provided the required speed and service deteriorated, there is no penal action taken against them and the staff alone is being harassed. Some of the issues like SSA LOT are not coming in HFINRPT menu i.e the report menu and the staff are using indirect methods to get the LOT and till now the Department has not taken any efforts to get the work done from our vendor. The need for torturing the Postal officials for the benefits of vendors is best known to the Postal Department.

            The above are only the tips of ice berg. There are many more issues confronting the service and customers, have not been solved so far. The twenty issues which requires urgent attention in our earlier letter, have not yet been addressed by the Department. Whereas it is extending the migration of offices without providing necessary bandwidth, Computer peripheral etc. unless necessary peripherals are supplied and available, how can it be implanted smoothly in the Postal Department. We request the Hon’ble Minister once again to intervene in this regard.

            Further we are submitting below the problems being faced at Post offices after the migration and the solution also in a table for the immediate action by the Hon’ble Minister of communication by directly to department to settle all these issues as if fire at the top of the roof.

Description		Problem faced	Solution needed
Login Issues 1.    User Already Logged in 2.    User has exceeded three attempts. User ID is locked		Most of the time due to frequent disconnection of Internet connectivity and during the delayed process in SERVER these two issues are being faced. (1) the user either supervisor or System Admin should use the Menu CSAC. But when Super faces same situation and if System Admin is not in a position to attend the case, CPC to be called to rectify the Issue. (which is always busy and the issue with CPC is   dealt later)	1.It is stated by INFOSYS that the SACKING the user already logged in will be reset within 5 minutes but it is not happening so. HENCE REQUESTED TO WIPE OUT THIS SCENARIO.(IN MCAMISH SOFTWARE NOSUCH ALREADY LOGGED IN ISSUE) 2.  Though there cannot be any compromise on security the unlocking facility to be given to Divisional level SPOC and System Admin.
List of Transactions SSA		There is no provision till date to view or print SSA LOT. At present we use HFTI menu (using Sub ledger 30042) to print a list of particulars of transactions alone without any Total. Users physically arrive the Total with ref to vouchers.	Menu for SSA LOT is needed.
MIS Reports There are two servers 1.    Production Server and MIS Server. Production Server is one where the daily day transactions are stored and where the LOT for the current day alone can be taken. 2.    MIS Server is utilized for taking all reports for the older period other than the current day.		Most of the cases the MIS URL says “the page is under maintenance “ Or the BOD (day Begin is much older the Current day).  Hence the  LOTs could not be printed for the previous day	Maintenance of MIS server with the current BOD.
Training Server		The BOD of the Training Server is 26122014 and so for the training server is not reset to current date. The training is limited to certain extend and full-fledged training could not be imparted	The training server should be reset with current date by deleting all older data that have been stored over two years.
SIFY ISSUES:- Toll free numbers		The issues faced like network down, Modem Failure, Tower issues, we used to call Toll Free number. Now the same cannot be used as the AGREEMENT Period is over. In case of any issues with sify we have to send a email/lodge a complaint in SIFY PORTAL which may not be  possible as network is down.	Requested to restore TOLL FREE NUMBERS.
Monitoring by SIFY During the initial period the important locations (WEGs) where monitored by SIFY. In case of any downs in primary (BSNL) or secondary (sify)link  SUO MOTTO action was taken by sify .		Now the monitoring is not done by SIFY. The PO should send a email/ use the web portal to lodge a complaint	SIFY should monitor the functioning / Down condition of sites and should take SUO MOTTO action.
Bandwidth The minimum bandwidth is 128kbps (NSP II) and maximum is 256 kbps for C and B class offices. 256 and 512 for other class other than HOs .		Except HOs all other smaller units are suffering due to low bandwidth.	To be enhanced to 512 at C and B class level. To be enhanced up to 1 MBPS for units for rest of the units other than HPOs.
Supply of BIO METRIC devices.			To enhance more security
	Cutoff date for updating Past premium postings introduced in Mc Camish.	PLI dte. lr. Dt.9.2.16 says that .csv files will no longer be available after 15.03.2016,while BOs are allowed to accept premiums and there is large no. of non migration exists.	No cutoff date should be fixed, till 100% migration ofNIC data to 'CIS' is confirmed. Migrations were made in a hasty manner, to satisfy the higher officers, resulting in heavy non postings. Further, BOs are permitted to accept premiums anywhere, which could not be posted again, if cutoff date is fixed. Despite of these, if cutoff date is fixed, responsibility will be fixed on poor ground level officials for wrong/ short payments.

           

            Once again we request your honour to kindly intervene and save the Postal service by stopping the speedy migration. We are not against modernization. CBS & CIS we are praying that all the loopholes, problems in the existing software be rectified and let it be user friendly before the expansion of CBS. All the issues narrated above may please be considered and attended.

            With profound regards,

Yours sincerely,

(R. N. Parashar)

Copy to: The Secretary (Posts) Dak Bhawan, New Delhi                   Secretary General.

R. N. Parashar, General Secretary

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