Notice for General Body Meeting of AIPEU, GroupC, Bhubaneswar Division on 10.02.2013

National Federation of Postal Employees

Group-C, Bhubaneswar Division, Sahidnagar Mukhya Dak Ghar, Bhubaneswar – 751 007

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N   O   T   I   C   E

No. UN / BN – AIPEU /Gr.-C / 01 - 02 / 2013

 Dated at Bhubaneswar the 2^nd February, 2013

Notice is hereby given under Article 48 of the Constitution of All India Postal Employees Union, Group – C to hold the General Body Meeting of this Divisional union at 10.00 hours on 10.02.2013 in the campus of Bhubaneswar GPO.

            The following shall be the agenda for discussion in the Working Committee.

1.     29^th All India Conference of AIPEU, Group-C, CHQ at Thiruvanthapuram from 10^th to 12^th March, 2013:

a.     Debate and discussion on the draft biennial report of the 29^th AIC to collect constructive suggestions/correction/amendments to improve the report;

b.    Resolutions on important common issues to be submitted to 29^th AIC for discussion;

(i)                   Cadre Restructuring of Postal Group-C officials;

(ii).        Postmasters’ Cadre – Delay in formation of HSG-I Recruitment Rules and fate of Post Master Grade – III;

(iii).             Issues relating to System Administrators / Assistants / Business Executives;

(iv).             Separate cadre for P O & RMS Accountants;

(v).             Problems arising out of  Project Arrow / Computerization / Modernization;

(vi)              Core Banking Solution;

(Vii)             National Postal Policy;

(viii)            Mail Network Optimization;

(ix)              Business activities of India Post and problems of Group-C postal employees;

(x)              Abolition of posts and closer / merger / relocation of Post Offices;

2.     Common threats before Central Govt. employees in general :

a.     New Pension Scheme and PFRDA bill

b.    Constitution of 7^th CPC and merger of D A with Pay

c.     Right to Strike

d.    Trade Union victimization

e.     Anomalies arising out of 6^th CPC;

f.     Problems arising out of implementation of MACP Scheme;

3.     All India two days General Strike from 20.02.2013 to 21.02.2013 – effective campaign for successful conductance in Bhubaneswar Division/Odisha Circle.

4.     Formation of AIPEU GDS (NFPE) – Role of AIPEU, Group-C / NFPE

5.     Formation of Mahila Committee

6.     Organizational Review – Collection of new membership forms

7.     Financial Review

8.     Any other item with the permission of Chair.

9.     Vote of thanks

 ( BRUHASPATI   SAMAL )

Secretary

Copy to:

1.     The President, AIPEU, Group – C, Bhubaneswar Division.

2.     The Circle Secretary, AIPEU, Group-C, Orissa Circle       

3.     All Office Bearers and Members.

4.     Notice Board.

Combined meeting by Odisha State CoC and Circle JCA held successfully on 02.02.2013 in the campus of Bhubaneswar GPO for effective conductance of all India two days strike on 20th & 21st February, 2013

 

  As per the programme fixed by the Confederation a grand meeting was conducted at 5.30PM on 02.02.2013  in the campus of Bhubaneswar GPO with participation of leaderships from different Central Govt. establishments stationed at Bhubaneswar including the Circle J C A comprising NFPE, FNPO, AIPEU GDS ( NFPE) and NUGDS.

The meeting was arranged by the Divisional JCA, Bhubaneswar leaded by Com. B Samal, Divisional Secretary, AIPEU, Group-C, Bhubaneswar Division and presided by Com. M M Samal, President , State CoC, Odisha.

 

 Addressing the meeting, Com. K K N Kutty, Secretary General, Confederation justified the reasons for going on a two-days strike which is unique in nature to take 11 central trade unions affiliated to all the national political parties including the ruling Congress party let NDA and all the Central Govt. employees under one umbrella  to raise voice against the anti-people, anti-employee and anti-working class policies of the present Govt. He narrated this proposed strike as quite historic since such a strike has never been conducted earlier neither before nor after independence. Even the members of public supporting the ruling party are disgusted with the retrograde policies of the ruling party which has compelled the INTUC affiliated trade unions to join in the proposed strike. Com. Kutty suggested the gathering to convince not only to the staff members but to the members of public as well how the nation as a whole is being cheated by the present Govt. starting from price rise to PDS. The Central Govt. employees are, he told the right persons to convince the members of public. The present condition of the BSNL employees is a burning example of the evil consequences of corporatization which everyone should realize and stand against the privatization , downsizing and corporatization of Central Govt. establishments. 

The recommendations of the 6^th CPC is fully irrational for which the Confederation is demanding to do away with all the ambiguities / anomalies thorough setting up of a new Pay Commission , i. e. Seventh Central Pay Commission. He strongly opposed the new pension scheme and PFRDA.

Once upon a time, the postman of India Post was the most respected Govt servant in the nation. But now the things have been drastically changed. Govt. is planning to convert this service department to a commercial one through amendment of Indian Post Office Act and introducing unviable services/products which need to be opposed strongly.

The Circle Secretaries of P-III and R-III asked some questions in connection with the anomalies arising out of the recommendations of the 6^th CPC and Com. Kutty assured to look into the same.

 Narrating the role of NFPTE / NFPE in giving so many benefits to the employees / working class starting from defined working hours, leave, bonus, D A, OTA etc. Com. Pranab Bhattachrjee, General Secretary, AIPAOEU, CHQ impressed upon all that we can achieve anything through united struggle only and thus the proposed two-days strike on 20^th 21^st February, 2013 is the right time to answer for the purpose. Briefly describing the charter of demands, Com. Bhattacharjee represented mathematically the loss sustained by each Central Govt. employee per month due to non-merger of DA with Pay and requested the gathering to bring a thundering success to the proposed strike.

 “ Since the charter of demand is not restricted to the employees only but includes the general problems of the members of public from price rise to PDS, let the public know that the Central Govt employees are not only interested for achieving their demands but are also showing concern for the aam admi” told Com. R C Mishra, Circle Secretary, P-III and Vice President, CHQ.

 briefing the demands in nutshell, Com. R N Dhal, Leader, NFPE and Circle Secretary, R – III assured the Confederation to bring total success to the two-days strike." We had made the 12.12.12 one day strike successful in spite of compulsions beyond our control and we are committed to bring an unprecedented success to the forthcoming strike", he told.

 Citing one example of victimization, Com. Damodar Mishra, Circle Secretary, NAPE, Group-C told that unity would be the basic requirement for all struggle movements. Irrespective of cadre and union, if we will not be united for the common benefits, then we must suffer.

Among others, Com. S S Samanta, C S, AIPAOEU, Com. B C Dash, Divisional Secretary, AIPEU, Group-C, Cuttack City Division, Com. H K Mohanty, C S, R – III, Com. Gautam Das, C S, NUGDS and many leaders from CGWB, CPWD, Income Tax, Institute of Physics, RMRC, GSI, ASI, Provident Fund, Text Book Press, AG, Postal Printing Press etc. had also attended the meeting.

 The vote of thanks was given by Com. B Samal, Divisional Secretary, AIPEU, Group-C, Bhubaneswar Division with assurance to make the strike cent percent successful not only in Bhubaneswar but in Odisha Circle as well.

 

 

 

Release of New version of ePost Software.

Government of India

Ministry of Communication & IT

Department of Posts,

Business Development & Marketing Directorate

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg

New Delhi – 110001

No.52-01/2011-BD&MD                                                                                    Dated: 05-12-2012

 To

            All Heads of Circles

Addl. DG, APS

 Subject:          Release of New version of ePost Software.

                This is regarding enhancement in ePost software.  The enhanced new version of ePost software is ready for release.  The main features of new version are given below for all the three types of users (Retail, Prepaid and Corporate):

a)    Multilingual feature has been added in the Text editor where Operator type the message in the Text box in the desired language.  11 languages have been provided for  in our system – Hindi, Tamil (Ambili, Karthika, Revathy), Malyalam, Orriya, English, Assam, Gujarat, Konkari, Sanskrit, Marathi, Manipuri.

b)   *.Pdf file Upload

c)   Many to One-Many Senders sending message to One person/recipient.

d)   Pre-Paid Cash module - On line registration and then payment of CASH at the ePost - Post Office counter to get the account activated

e)   Re-Printing of ePost message-here operator send a request to Circle, once gets approved by the Circle ePost coordinator the message printout could be taken by the operator.

f)    Creation of ePost centre and its user ID at the Circle level, creation of Region user ID, creation of Division user ID at the Regional level, creation of PM user at the Division level and re-setting of pwd  by the circle of it’s region/division as per their hierarchy.

g)   Download of MIS – Report etc. in. pdf, excel format.

h)  Auto Corporate Bill generation and its delivery on the corporate user e-mail account.

i)    eGreetings-Uploading of greeting by the directorate and provision for  sending of eGreetings has given to Retail, Prepaid and Corporate user.

j)    Circle can change the mapping of the pincode.

k)   Corporate user have been given privilege to create Template using Multilingual feature, they have been also provided Scan, Text, PDF option for sending ePost.

Feature for APS Users:-

l)     Corps Mapping incorporated into this new system

m)  FPO Pincode-Display of FPO pincode only while booking of ePost, no name of the centre   will come now onwards – this is as per instruction from APS Directorate.

n)   Debit Army ePost option provided.

o)    Now all the data pertaining to APS would reside at APS on their server at their location at 1CBPO – ePost centre.

p)    Now on the main ePost system i.e. central server data will have the record of message send from or to APS.

q)    Communication between central server and APS server would get established through Web services.

2.       Corporate Customer have to be informed by their respective Postal Circle that they would be losing all their created templates and have to create new template in the new version of application s/w using Multilingual font feature

3.       The new version of ePost software will be released on 12th December 2012.

 4.       NIC will conduct a training program on new version of ePost software through V.C. (Video Conference) on 7th December 2012 at 03:00 PM.

  (Anula Kumar)

Addl. General Manager(BP)

 Copy to:      Shri Ravi Kumar, Technical Director, NIC, Dak Bhawan New Delhi-110001.

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES GROUP INSURANCE SCHEME, 1980 - TABLE OF BENEFITS IN RESPECT OF SAVINGS FUND-ACCUMULATIONS DURING 01.01.2013 TO 31.19"20L3 - REG.

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21st MEETING OF POSTAL SPORTS BOARD HELD AT HYDERABAD ON 05.06.2012.

Copy of D.G. Posts No. 2-01/2012/WL/Sports   Dated 31^st January, 2013.

I am directed to invite your kind attention to the minutes (Circulated vide No. 2-01/2012-WL/Sports dated 18.06.2012) of the 21^st meeting of Postal Sports Board held ay Hyderabad on 05.06.2012 under the Chairmanship of Secretary (P) . In the meeting , total 49 items were taken up for consideration and after discussion: the decisions taken in the meeting in case of 14 items are hereby conveyed as under. The orders will be issued separately for the remaining items requiring decision.

(i)    Item No. 1-    Introduction of Women Team in the All India Postal Chess Tournament.

It was decided to introduce women Chess Team in All India Postal Chess Tournament subject to the stipulation that nomination of players will be made on merit and only those players will be nominated who have the skill of competing at the All India Level. For this purpose it would be desirable to have scrutiny of players by professionals by the concerned Circles.

(ii)        Item No. 5-    Enhancement of the rate of Refreshment allowance for players.

It has been decided that there is no change in the rate of the existing Daily Allowance being paid to the players at the rate of Rs. 150/- per day. However, it has been decided to enhance the rate of Refreshment Allowance to the players from the existing Rs. 60/- per day o Rs. 75/- per day in case of All India Postal Meets so as to bring it on par with the Refreshment Allowance being paid in case of National Tournaments.

(iii)       Item No. 6-    Payment of local conveyance to the players who participate in the All India Tournaments.

In the meeting , the subject regarding the payment of local conveyance o the players who participate in All India Postal Tournaments was taken up for consideration in the past, the players were not being paid any local conveyance . It has been decided to allow for payment of local conveyance to the players from their home to Railway Station and back, who participate in All India Postal Meets.

(iv)      Item No. 7-    Increase in the strength of the football team as per FIFA Rules in the All India Postal Football Tournament to 18 players from the present 15.

The subject regarding increasing the strength of the number of players in the Circle Football Team who participate in the All India Postal Tournaments was taken up for consideration. After discussion, it has been decided to increase the strength of the Football Tram to 11+7 (18) players from existing 11+4 (15) players as per FIFA Rules for participation in All India Football Tournaments.

(v)       Item No. 10-  Increase the strength of the Table –Tennis women’s team and Veteran Men’s team in the All India Postal Table Tennis Tournaments.

In the meeting , the subject regarding increasing the strength of the Table Tennis Women’s Team from existing 3 players to 4 players and veteran Men’s team from 1 player to 2 players in All India Postal Table Tennis Tournament was taken up for consideration. After due deliberations, it was decided to increase the strength of Women’s Table Tennis Team to 4 players from the existing 3 players for participations in the All India Pose Table Tennis Tournaments. However, there is no change, in so far as participation of veteran (Men) in the Tournaments in concerned.

(vi)      Item No. 11-  Participation by Circles in local league matches/tournaments.

The matter regarding issue of suitable guidelines to Circles to participate in local league matches/tournaments was taken up for consideration. It was pointed out during meeting that the Department never issued any instructions which would disallow teams from participating in local league matches/Tournaments. After discussion it has now been decided the Circle team s may be allowed to participate in local league matches/Tournaments under the banner of India Post so as to enable the Circle Teams to enhance their performance, wherever possible and practicable. HOC may decide it on case to case basis.

(vii)     Item No. 13-  Arranging practice matches during the coaching camp before the start of the All India Postal Meets.

The subject regarding arranging practice matches during the coaching camp before the start of the All India Postal Meets was taken up for consideration. After discussion, the competent authority has agreed to the proposition to the extent it is possible and practicable.

(viii)    Item No. 15-  Nomination NIS Coaches duly approved by Sports Authority of India to be sent with Postal Teams participating in National Tournaments and All India Postal meets.

In the meeting, the subject regarding nomination of NIS Coaches duly approved by Sports Authority of India o be sent with Postal Teams participating in National Tournaments and All India Postal meets was taken up for consideration . The proposal was agreed to in principle. Accordingly, it has been decided that officials who are qualified as NIS Coaches will be given preference for nomination as Coaches of the Postal Teams, while participating in National Tournaments. The Circles will also ensue that, as far as possible, such NIS qualified officials be nominated as Coaches of the Circle Teams for All India Postal Meets/Tournaments.

(IX)      Item No. 23-  Provision of medical facilities to players during play/practice.

            The subject regarding provision of medical facilities to players during play/practice was taken up as per Item No 23 for consideration in the meeting. Accordingly it has now been decided in the meeting that the players of the Circle Teams may be provided medical facilities during the practice matches organized during the coaching camp period prior o their participation and during the course of holding of Alkl India Postal Meets.

(x)       Item No. 24-  For increase in kit allowance for All India Postal Meets/Tournaments.

The matter regarding increase in kit allowance for All India Postal Meets/Tournaments was taken up for consideration. The competent authority is pleased to approve enhancement in the kit allowance for the players who participate in National tournaments from Rs. 750/- to Rs. 1500/- per person.

(xi)      Item No. 26-  Nomination of Coaches for Circle Teams for All India Postal Tournaments.

The subject regarding nomination of Coaches for Circle Teams for All India Postal Tournaments was taken up for consideration. After discussion, it has now been decided that preference should be given to those officials who have played in International/National Tournaments for nomination as Coaches for the Circle Teams for the All India Postal Tournaments.

(xii)     Item No. 27(b)-         Institution of Rolling Trophies for the Winners and Runner-up Teas instead of Shields in All India Postal Tournaments.

The matter regarding institution of Rolling Trophies for the Winners and Runner-up Teams instead of Shields in All India Postal Tournaments was taken up for consideration. It has now been decided by the competent authority that Rolling Trophies will be instituted to the Winners and Runner-up Teams in All India Postal Tournaments, w.e.f. 2013-2014.

(xiii)    Item No. 32-  Payment of kit allowance to Artist participating in the All India Postal Cultural Meets/Tournaments.

The matter regarding payment of kit allowance to Artist participating in the All India Postal Cultural Meets/Tournaments was taken up for consideration. In the past the Artist were not being paid any kit allowance for participation in the cultural Meets/Tournaments. The competent authority is pleased to convey its approval for grant of kit allowance of Rs. 500/- to the artists participating in the cultural events. This allowance is being approved to meet the expenditure on costumes etc. which the artists are required o wear during performance.

(xiv)    Item No. 37-  Funds under Sports head may be allotted much ear lie for proper utilization of money in time.

The subject regarding allotment of Funds under Sports head may be allotted much earlier for proper utilization of money in time was taken up for consideration. Any deadly in allotment of funds occurs due late receipt of audited accounts of previous year from the Circles, which is mandatory for release of funds for the subsequent year. In order to avoid hardship to the Circles which send the audited accounts in time, it has been decided to process their cases in the first phase so as to release funds to these Circles by mid-July. The issue of release of funds to Circles which are late in submission of audited accounts will be taken up separately.

These orders will come into force with effect from 01.04.2013. Past cases will not be re-opened.

                                      Sd/-

                                                                    (MADHURI DABRAL)

                                                                       Director (WL & Sports)