Conducting of Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for Promotion of to the cadre of Inspector Posts (66.66%) Departmental quota for the year 2014 held on 22nd and 23rd November 2014 - Display of Provisional Key

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015

NEW YEAR CELEBRATION AT PALAMANER MDG

Amendment to Small Savings Schemes, 2014

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SB ORDER 13/2014 - GRANT OF SB ALLOWANCE TO POSTAL ASSISTANTS WORKING IN SB/SC BRANCH

DECLARATION OF ASSETS & LIABILITIES BY PUBLIC SERVANT - LAST DATE EXTENDED upto 30.04.2014

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Department of Posts Launches Some More IT Based Services on Good Governance Day

On the occasion of Good Governance day today, the Department of Posts- “India Post” showcased some of the web based services which would be beneficial to the citizens of India. 

It participated in the exhibition organized by the Ministry of Communications & Information technology. The “India Post” pavilion showcased following initiatives:

The usage of hand held device which would be used by village Postmaster. All types of transactions related to the services of Post will be offered through the wireless hand held device in rural post offices under the ongoing IT project. 

(ii) My Stamp counter was set up where any individual who desires, can get customized stamp made which could also be used as postage. 

(iii) The monitoring of mail transmission under MNOP (Mail Network Optimisation Project) and of Project Arrow Offices through web based tools was displayed.

(iv) The functioning of e-Post Office- a virtual Post Office where an individual can do postal transaction was also on display. 

(v) A pilot connecting weavers of Varanasi with e-commerce was started today at Varanasi and its portal was displayed in the exhibition in Delhi. Under the Pilot, Department of Posts and M/s Snapdeal, under the existing agreement of cooperation, will do hand holding of domestic manufacturers by helping them through post office in putting their products on the e-commerce platform. An ecommerce desk is set up in Varanasi Head Post Office where registration of weavers etc and uploading of their products would be facilitated. Management of orders received, payment processing, returns management would be done by Snapdeal. Packaging, if required, booking of articles and final delivery to online buyer would be undertaken by Department of Posts.

To mark the occasion the Minster of Communications &Information Technology Shri Ravi Shanker Prasad launched an e-Book and a pocket book on products and services of Department of Posts. He also announced the enhancement of maximum sum assured limit in Postal Life Insurance from 20 to 50 lakh rupees. Details are: 

e-Book

As part of the agenda to promote good governance through e-initiatives in the Department of Posts, an e-Book is being launched. This e-Book can be accessed directly on the India Post official website or by scanning a Quick Response (QR) Code Printed on a card. Details of the new initiatives of the Department of Posts, along with existing services are available on the e-Book. 

e-Pocket Book 

In order to provide an easy to carry reference book containing the details of all products and services of the Department of Posts in hard form, a Pocket Book is also being launched. This would be available in all post offices and shall promote Good Governance by making details of services and their rates available to the common man, in a simple, reader friendly and pocket sized format.

Postal Life Insurance:

The present maximum sum assured limit in Postal Life Insurance is Rs. 20 lakh per individual. In order to give benefit of greater insurance to the customers, upper insurance limit has been enhanced from Rs. 20 lakh to Rs. 50 lakh. 

INCENTIVE TO STAFF PERFORMING INTERNATIONAL MONEY TRANSFER SERVICE(IMTS) IN POST OFFICES

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Postal life insurance limit hiked to Rs 50 lakh

New Delhi, December 25

To mark the Good Governance Day, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today announced that the limit of postal life insurance has been raised from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, besides launching one-month rental-free MTNL broadband and landline combo plans on new bookings.

The 21 schemes he announced also included support for international patent protection in electronics and an Internet-based real-time system to provide eServices in rural India.

December 25 is being celebrated across the country as Good Governance Day, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said was ushered in by the previous NDA regime led by Atal Bihar Vajpayee and is being carried out in this government. It also coincides with Vajpayee’s birthday.

“Good governance can be effectively achieved through the vision of Digital India of digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and digital empowerment of citizens,” Prasad said in his address.

In the last six months, the government has taken a number of landmark initiatives. Digital India programme is committed to taking the cause of good governance forward in letter and spirit, he added.

Key projects include time stamping of digital signature, Integrated Indian Languages Virtual Keyboard for Android, PARAM Shavak (Super computer in box solution), .bharat domain in Gujarati and Bangla, e-launch of Support International Patent Protection in Electronics & IT scheme (SIP-EIT).

Prasad also handed over disbursements under the Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme(M-SIPS) and Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC) disbursement.

The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) also launched Gyansetu, which is an Internet-based real-time ICT system to provide eServices to the rural population and e-Governance Competency Framework (e-GCF).

Another launch was that of C-DOT’s solution MAX-NG, a cost-effective and smooth migration path to the Internet Protocol Multimedia Systems (IMS).

It will ensure a smooth transition from old telephone system to voice over Internet protocol and will enable consumers to enjoy voice, data and video services on existing landlines at affordable cost.

Telecom Secretary Rajesh Garg said the government has planned to cover about 55,669 villages as yet uncovered by mobile connectivity all over India in a phased manner by March 2019.

The focus is to reach remote areas like North-Eastern States, Himalayan States, Border States and Islands and more importantly the Left Wing Extremism affected areas in the country, he added.

DeitY Secretary R S Sharma said his department has taken various initiatives like MyGov, Aadhaar-enabled Biometric attendance system, Jeevan Pramaan, eGreetings, eSampark, National Digital Literacy Mission, eGovernance Competency Framework to promote good governance. 

Blind Mathematician: Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

It is popular belief that disable persons are unable to do something great. But it is not fact at all. Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma was a little known Indian mathematician from Andhra Pradesh. He was born blind and gave many Mathematical Avadhanams (Ganitavadhanams) and surprised the elite and educated people.

He was born on 27 November 1907 at Kalluru village of Proddatur mandal (Block) in Cuddapah district in a pious Brahmin family. His parents are Lakkoju Pedda Pullaiah and Nagamma. He had no formal education. He was married to Adilakshmamma at the tender age of 19.

He gave his first performance at Andhra Mahasabha at Nandyala (Kurnool District) in 1928 chaired by Indian philosopher and statesman Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975). Nandyal is a town; originally called Nandalluru, is a major centre of trade, commerce, education and industries in the region. He was also invited to New Delhi by the then Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) and performed before the 1^st President Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) and other dignitaries. He was widely traveled and gave about 7,000 performances in several states e.g. AP, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and New Delhi (UT but state status). One of the memorable performances was given on December 7th 1966 at Sri Krishna Devaraya Andhra Bhasha Nilayam, Hyderabad. He has prepared Indian Calendar for 4000 years. He has received many Gold medals, honors and felicitations.

He was invited to USA in 1993 by the Telugu community but could not attend due to Visa problem. He got honorary Ph D from Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati in 1996. It is a tragedy that a mathematical giant spent his old age in utter poverty in an asbestos room at Srikalahasti, a holy town and a municipality in the Chittoor district. But the Government showed lukewarm response to support such type of stammering personality. He was playing Violin every evening at Kalahasteswara (Lord Shiva) temple and used to get some honourorium from the Devasthanam (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, TTD) authorities. He died in 1998.

Introduction of Plastic Notes

It has been decided by the Government to introduce plastic notes in the denomination of Rs. 10/-. One billion plastic notes of the denomination of Rs. 10/- will be introduced in a field trial in five cities selected for their geographical and climatic diversity. The primary objective of introduction of polymer/plastic notes is to increase its life and not to combat counterfeiting. The cities selected for field train are Kochi, Mysore, Jaipur, Shimla and Bhubaneswar.

The Reserve Bank of India has informed that since the proposal is at a trial stage, the decision on replacement of currency notes with plastic notes will depend on the outcome offield trial.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Shri Jayant Sinha in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today (28/11/2014).

POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE ONLINE CALCULATOR :

Postal Life Insurance is 117 years young. It was started in 1884 as a welfare measure for the employees of Posts & Telegraphs Department under Government of India dispatch No. 299 dated 18-10-1882 to the Secretary of State. Due to popularity of its schemes, various departments of Central and State Governments were extended its benefits. Now Postal Life Insurance is open for employees of all Central and State Government Departments, Nationalized Banks, Public Sector Undertakings, Financial Institutions, Local Bodies like Municipalities and Zila Parisads, Educational Institutions aided by the Governme

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APPOINTMENT OF POSTAL ASSISTANT/SORTING ASSISTANTS ON DIRECT RECRUITMENT BASIS.

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KISAN VIKAS PATRA (KVP) RE-LAUNCHED ON 18/11/2014

SALIENT FEATURES OF RE-LAUNCHED KISAN VIKAS PATRA:

1.Amount Invested doubles in 100 months ( 8years 4 months)

2.Available in denominations of Rs 1,000, 5000, 10,000 and Rs 50,000.

3.Minimum deposit Rs 1000/- and no maximum limit.

4.Certificate can be purchased by an adult for himself or on behalf of a minor or by two adults.

5.KVP can be purchased from any Departmental Post office. This facility will also be extended shortly to the designated branches of commercial Banks.

6.Facility of nomination is available.

7.Certificate can be transferred from one person to another and from one post office to another.

8.Certificate can be en-cashed after 2 1/2 years from the date of issue.

Table Showing Premature closure of KVP  (for Den. Rs. 1000)

Period	Amount Payable
2 and half years but less than 3 years	1201
3  years but less than 3 and half years	1246
3 and half years but less than 4 years	1293
4  years but less than 4 and half years	1341
4 and half years but less than 5 years	1391
5  years but less than 5 and half years	1443
5 and half years but less than 6 years	1497
6  years but less than 6 and half years	1553
6 and half years but less than 7 years	1611
7  years but less than 7 and half years	1671
7 and half years but less than 8 years	1733
8  years but before maturity of the Certificate	1798
On maturity of Certificate  8 Years 4 month  = 100 months	2000

Government to launch revamped Kisan Vikas Patra soon: Official

The government will soon launch the revamped Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) besides some new saving instrument programmes for the girl child as well for the physically challenged person, a senior finance ministry official said today. 

"We are going to launch the revamped Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) soon again in the form of saving instrument," Rajat Bhargava, Joint Secretary (Budget) in the ministry finance said at an event here. 

"Similarly, the government of India is also going to launch some new saving instrument programmes for girl child as well as for the physically challenged person who has not been covered so far (under the programme)," Bhargava added. 

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in the Budget speech, had said he will re-introduce the KVP, which was a very popular instrument among small savers. 

"I plan to reintroduce the instrument to encourage people, who may have banked and unbanked savings to invest in this instrument," Jaitley had said. 

The KVP was discontinued by the UPA government in 2011 following the Shyamala Gopinath Committee report. It had suggested that KVPs may be discontinued as they are prone to misuse. 

KVP was a popular saving scheme that doubled the money invested in eight years and seven months. The government sold these saving bonds through Post Offices in the country. 

The new government has identified financial inclusion and access to formal financial channels as a priority area and the reintroduction of KVP is seen as furthering this objective.

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• Rules and Orders 
• Posting and Promotions 
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Conducting of LDCE for promotion to the cadre of Inspector Posts (66.66%) Departmental quota for the year 2014 and LGO Examination, 2014

Department of Posts (DE Section) Letter No.A-34012/04/2014-DE dated 17/10/2014 communicated vide C.O. Letter No.RE/30-6/2014 dated 22/10/2014.

LDCE for promotion to the cadre of Inspector Posts for the year 2014.

Date of Examination	Paper No.
22/11/2014 (Suturday)	Paper-I & II
23/11/2014 (Sunday)	Paper-III & IV

LDCE for promotion of LGOs to the cadre of Postal Assistants / Sorting Assistants for the year 2014.

Date of Examination	Paper No.
23/11/2014 (Sunday)	Paper-I & II

Employment News: 18 October 2014 to 24 October 2014

1. Indian Army

Vacancies in Permanent Commission

No. of Vacancies – 90

Last Date - 30/11/2014

2. The New India Assurance Company Ltd.

Name of Posts – Assistants

No. of Vacancies – 1536

Last Date – 10/11/2014

3. Indian Overseas Bank

Name of Posts- Managers (Security, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, etc.)

No. of Vacancies – 26

Last Date - 30/10/2014

4. Public Service Commission, Uttar Pradesh

Post in Fire Service Dept., Forest Dept., Evaluation Division, Fisheries Dept., etc.

No. of Vacancies – 198

Last Date - 30/10/2014

5. Staff Selection Commission, Northern Western Region

Name of Posts – Sr. Assistant, Sr. Technical Assistant, Investigator, etc.

No. of Vacancies – 47

Last Date – 15/11/2014

6. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Name of Posts- Professor and Assistant Professor

No. of Vacancies – 95

Last Date - 31/10/2014

7. Northern Railway

Vacancies against Sports Quota

No. of Vacancies – 21

Last Date – 31/10/2014

How do you tell if your computer has a virus

How do you tell if your Windows computer has a virus? Seriously! You have an  antivirus software installed and you go about using the computer with the feeling that it was well-protected and hence malware-free. But maybe, just maybe, there could be malware or a Trojan or a key logger operating on your computer without your knowledge and compromising your security or damaging your data.

How do you tell if your computer has a virus

Is your Windows computer infected? Learn to recognize malware infections and signs, symptoms that will tell you if your Windows PC has a computer virus. In this post we will see some of the symptoms of malware infection, that will tell you if you computer was compromised or infected with computer virus.

Symptoms of Malware Infection

The typical symptoms that your computer may have been compromised are:

1. Change in your browsers home page or default search
2. Your web browser hangs or becomes sluggish
3. Your computer starts behaving sluggishly or hangs often
4. You are unable to open security-related sites or Microsoft.com domains.
5. You get re-directed to web pages you did not intend to visit
6. Unexpected toolbars in your browser
7. Security software or Firewall disabled
8. Your security software throws up warnings or its icon turns red or something.
9. Pop-ups while browsing, unknown or excessive
10. Balloon Notifications from your system tray
11. Excessive CPU or Memory utilization
12. Internet or data transfer activity – Modem appears to be working overtime
13. You start seeing unexpected Windows error messages
14. Some programs start automatically
15. Some important Windows functions or features disabled. Eg, Task Manager, Registry Editor, Control Panel, Command Prompt, etc.
16. New unknown unwanted software installed, etc.
17. You see new icons on your desktop suddenly.

If you see any of these signs, if is quite possible that your computer may have become infected with a virus or malware.

Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced many security features in the operating system which were further improved upon in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Nevertheless, should your computer get infected with malware.

WORLD POST DAY ( 9th OCTOBER) CELEBRATIONS - INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY DIRECTORATE

VALUE ADDED SERVICES IN EPOST : INDIA POST

1. This is regarding modifications in existing ePost system for sending ePost message from senders to the recipient’s email box.
2. Presently, ePost facilitate the customer to send their message to any address in India with a combination of electronic transmission and physical delivery through a network of almost 155000 Post Offices. In addition, corporate customer can also avail ePost facility at special rates and other value additions.

3. In view of the changing customer requirements from time to time it was felt that the current ePost service needed more value additions. The competent authority has decided to extend the ePost service with following features:

(I) Many To One :- 

 This facilitates sending of same ePost message from many senders to one recipient on recipient’s email box.

(a) The following activities will be performed by the booking ePost center:

· Entry of email id of recipient
· Typing of message, if any
· Scanning and attachment, if any 
· Entering the name, address and mobile number of each sender
· The number of senders will be limited to maximum 10 senders for sending one message.

(B) The Charges For This EPost Facility Is As Under:

- Rs.5/- per page of A4 size for the 1st sender
- Rs.5/- per attachment thereof (upto 1 MB)
- Rs.5/- for each subsequent sender

(Ii) One To Many :- 

This facilitates sending of same eP1ost message from a sender to multiple recipients on recipient’s email inbox.

(a) The following activities will be performed by the booking ePost center:

· Entry of email ids of all the recipients
· Typing of message, if any
· Scanning and attachment, if any 
· Entering the name, address and mobile number of the sender
· The number of recipients will be limited to a maximum of 20 recipients for sending one message.

(b) The charges for this ePost facility is as under:

- Rs.5/- per page of A4 size for the first 10 recipients.
- Rs.5/- per attachment thereof (upto 1 MB)
- Rs.3/- for each subsequent recipient from 11th to 20th recipient.