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.

Philatelic Products on Snapdeal

India Post has tied up with Snapdeal for sale of its Philatelic Products. 
The products are available under the category 'Antiques and Collectibles'. 
You can shop for the following products online. 
1. India Post Stamps Collection On Indian Musicians 
2.Indian art and culture : stamps album 
3. 2013 india post miniature sheets of stamps 
4. India's freedom struggle through india postage stamps 
5. Fifa 2014 stamp collection 
6. Glimpses of stamps on wild flowers of india 
7. Sachin Tendulkar's 200th test match stamps 
8. India - A Philatelic journey through stamps 
9. India post stamp year book 2013 
New products will be updated time to time. 

Buy Online 
Source: www.indiapost.gov.in

3% quota must for disabled in all government jobs including IAS: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court today held that three per cent reservation for differently-abled persons be given in all category of government jobs including in appointments and promotions to IAS while pulling up the Centre for "frustrating" the very purpose of empowering legislation by opposing it. 

A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha said the disabled persons have not got their due in the last 19 years after framing of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, which was passed in 1995. 

Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand, appearing for the Centre, contended that reservation cannot be given in case of promotion to Group A and Group B officers category as it is not a case of appointment. 

The bench, however, observed that appointment is a broader concept and the Centre is giving a narrow interpretation of it. 

"You are frustating the very reservation policy and cause of class for which Parliament passed the law," the bench said. 

"For the last 19 years it is not being implemented and the class, for which the legislation was made, had not got benefited as it should have," the bench said. 

The court dismissed the petition of Centre challenging order of  Bombay High Court which had directed the Centre and the Union Public Service Commission to implement a 3 per cent quota in direct recruitments and promotions for the disabled in the IAS.

POSTPONEMENT OF LDCE TO THE CADRE OF INSPECTOR POSTS FOR THE YEAR, 2014 AND LGO EXAMINATION FOR THE VACANCIES OF 2014

FILE No. A-34012/04/2014-DE

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

(Recruitment Division)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi – 110 001

Dated :  9^th September,  2014

1.      All Heads of Circles

Sub: Conducting of Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of Inspector Posts (66.66%) Departmental quota for the year 2014 to be held on 20th and 21st September, 2014 and LGO Examination, 2014 proposed to be held on 21st September, 2014. 

Sir/Madam,

  I am directed to refer this office letter No. A-34012/03/2014-DE and A-34012/04/2014-DE dated 3^rd June, 2014 wherein the   notifications  for  holding  Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion of LGO to the cadre of PA/SA for the year 2014 to be held on 21^st September, 2014 and LDCE for promotion to the cadre of Inspector  posts  for the year 2014  on 20^th and 21^st September, 2014 were issued.

2.         The Outsourced Agency, M/s CMC Ltd. has intimated that conduct of the above mentioned examination on the scheduled dates is not feasible.  Therefore, the Competent Authority has ordered to postpone both the departmental examinations. The revised dates would be intimated shortly.

3.         This issues with the approval of the Competent Authority. 

 Yours faithfully,

(M. C. Pandey)

Assistant Director General (DE)

Copy to

1.         F. No. A-34012/03/2014-DE (Main file of conducting of LGO Examination, 2014)

Union Cabinet today approves 7% DA from July 2014 to CG Employees and Pensioners

Release of additional installment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to pensioners due from 01.07.2014 

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for the release of an additional installment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners with effect from 01.07.2014. This is an increase of seven percent over the existing rate of 100 percent of the Basic Pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise. 

The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission. The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief would be of the order of approximately Rs. 7691 crore per annum and Rs.5127 crore respectively in the financial year 2014-2015 (i.e. for a period of eight months from July, 2014 to February, 2015)

Promotions and Postings in JTS Group A cadre on Adhoc basis

Circle Office, Hyderabad has ordered the following Promotions and Postings in JTS Group A cadre purely on temporary and Adhoc basis for a  period of 180 days vide CO memo no ST/12-74/Adhoc Gr A/2014 dated 03.09.2014.

Slno	Name of the Officer	Posting on Adhoc Promotion	Remarks
1	L.S.N Murthy, Sr Postmaster, Secunderabad HO	SSPOs Chittor Dn, Kurnool Region	Vice Sri B.Arumugam, SSP Chittor stands transferred to TN Circle
2	D.Ramanaiah, SPOs Gudur Dn	SSPOs Bhimavaram Dn Vijayawada Region	Vice Post vacant