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Government of India
Cabinet
27-October-2016 15:47
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Cabinet approves Cadre
Review of Indian Posts & Telecommunications Accounts and Finance Service
Group “A”
The Union Cabinet,
chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the first Cadre
Review of Indian Posts & Telecommunications Accounts and Finance Service
(IP&TAFS) with the following salient features:
(a) Reduction of the
total strength of the cadre from 420 to 376.
(b) Creation of one
Apex level post of Controller General of Communication Accounts (CGCA).
(c) Creation of one
additional HAG+ level post taking the grade strength to 2.
(d) Creation of two
additional HAG level posts taking the grade strength from 6 to 8.
(e) Creation of 18
additional SAG level posts taking the grade strength from 37 to 55.
(f) Reduction in JAG
level posts from 111 to 90.
(g) Reduction in STS
level posts from 198 to 86.
(h) Creation of 21 JTS
level posts taking the grade strength from 67 to 88.
(i) Creation of 46
Posts to be operated as Reserves
Background:
Indian Posts &
Telecommunications Accounts and Finance Service Group ‘A” was constituted in
1972 and caters to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the
Department of Posts (DoP).
In Department of
Telecommunications, the IP&TAFS performs the functions of assessment and
collection of license fee/ spectrum usage charges, spectrum auction, USO scheme
monitoring and subsidy management, exchequer control, budgeting, accounting,
pension disbursement, internal audit and finance advice. In the Department of
Posts, the IP&TAFS is entrusted with the functions of finance advice,
budgeting, tariff and costing, accounting and internal audit.
There has been a
paradigm shift in the role of Department of Telecommunications as well as the
Department of Posts in recent years. In the Telecom sector, the role of the
Department of Telecommunications has transformed from primarily being a Service
provider, Regulator and Policy maker into the present structure whereby the
Department is primarily responsible for Policy making, Licensing and Universal
Service Obligation. Receipts from Department of Telecommunications, primarily
License Fee, Spectrum Usage Charges and Spectrum Auction Value constitute one
of the largest source of non-tax revenue for the Government of India.
Similarly, the bundle
of services offered by Department of Posts has undergone a quantitative and
qualitative change and the Department has ventured into areas of retailing,
banking, insurance, digitizing operations etc. Further, the audit mechanism in
both the Departments needs to be strengthened.
These facts coupled
with the stagnation in various grades of the service necessitated a review of
the structure of IP&TAFS.
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