53RD ANNIVERSARY OF 1960 STRIKE

 Today, is the 53rd anniversary of the Glorious Strike of the Central Government Employees which started on 11th July 1960 and continued for 5 days on the basic demands of the workers. That was their biggest strike in independent India till then, which shook the edifice of the Government. It was suppressed by all repressive measures putting thousands in jail, dismissal, termination etc. But the workers never surrendered. The mighty one day Token Strike on 19th September 1968 reminded the Government that the workers can never be suppressed all the times. On this day our Revolutionary salutes to all those comrades who sacrificed their lives at the altar of struggle and also who faced inhuman suppression and also the lakhs of workers who participated. Red Salute to all those who showed through their action that the united struggle is the right path.


(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General

Pension scheme: Cabinet to take call on new withdrawal Rules

Pension scheme: Cabinet to take call on new withdrawal Rules

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MERGER OF 19 POSTAL DISPENSARIES PRESENTLY FUNCTIONING IN 12 CGHS COVERED CITIES WITH CGHS 

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பாராட்டு மடல்

இன்று நம்மிடம் இருந்து பிரியா விடைபெறும் நமது  கண்காணிப்பாளர் திரு அருள்தாஸ் அவர்களுக்கு

 

புன்னகை ததும்பும் இன்முகம்

பூவை போன்ற மென்மையான மனம்

கண்களில் ததும்பும் கம்பீரம்

கனிவு நிரம்பிய சொற்கள் – இக்கோட்டம்

காக்கும் காவலன் எங்கள்

கண்காணிப்பாளர் ஐயா அருள்தாஸ் அவர்கள்!

 

ஊழியர் நலனில் என்றும்

உண்மையான அக்கறை உம்முடையது!

ஒரேயொருமுறை உம்மைக் கண்டு – எம்

குறைகள் சொன்னால் – கணப்பொழுதில்

நிறைகளை மட்டுமே எமக்குச் செய்யும்

நிகரில்லா தலைவர்!

 

நான்கு வருடத்தில் செய்யும்

நலன்களையும் பயன்களையும்

நூற்றி ஆறே நாளில் அனைவரின்

நெஞ்சமும் குளிர்ந்திட

அலுவல்களையும் சிறப்பாய் ஆற்றிய

ஆன்றோனே நீவர் வாழ்க!

 

RPLI இலக்கை மட்டுமே கண்டோம்

இதுவரை நாங்கள்!

RD இலக்கை நிர்ணயித்து அதை

நாமே கடந்து சாதனை செய்ய வைத்தீர்!

 

ஆண்டவன் அருளால்

அன்னாரே மீண்டும் – எம்

பாசமிகு தலைவராய் வர

பரமனை வேண்டுகிறோம்!

 

NFPE, Srirangam     

Decisions taken in the meeting under the Chairperson ship of Secretary (P) held on 24/06/2013 on memorandum submitted by Postmen & MTS Staff union. 

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COACHING CLASSES FOR LGO EXAMINATION 2013 ( TamilNadu)

COACHING CLASSES FOR LGO EXAMINATION 2013

Shri. P.Karunanithy, ASPOs (HQ), Karaikudi Division, Karaikudi 630 003 is conducting coaching classes for LGO examination to be held on 08.09.2013 detailed below:

Date	Centre	Venue
07.07.2013	Tirupur	Nanjappa Higher Secondary School, near Tirupur Railway Station.
14.07.2013 09.08.2013 11.08.2013	Chennai	Nithis Higher Secondary School, near St. Thomas Mount Railway station
21.07.2013	Erode	Seventh Day Adventist School near K Hospital and Anur Theatre, Pattaraikara street, Erode 1 Bus Stop: Fire station / Railway Station
28.07.2013 04.08.2013	Thanjavur	St. Antony's Higher Secondary School, Thanjavur near Mary's Corner, in between old bus stand and new bus stand

• Coaching classes will be conducted from 0930 hours to 1700 hours at the above places.

• For further details, please contact Shri. P.Karunanithy, ASPOs (HQ), Karaikudi Division, Karaikudi 630 003.

( Cell number : 94433 29681)

Postman and MTS staff are requested to attend the coaching classes in nearby stations and get success in the examination.

Attention to School Headmasters in Tamilnadu

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TIPS FOR SAFE EMAIL

•  Guard Yourself against Phishing.
• Change your password on regular basis as per the password policy.
• Do not share your password with anyone.
• Always remember to sign out properly after using your mail account.
• Do not save or remember your password anywhere.
• Use Anti-Virus software & update it on regular basis.
• Update the operating system and application patches.
• Use automatic reply only when needed.
• Never open / respond any mail / attachment from unknown sender.
• Never subscribe your email ID on unsafe locations (over internet).

   

1. Guard yourself against Phishing

Common email scams employ email messages and even websites that look official, but are in fact attempts to steal your identity to commit fraud. This is the activity commonly known as ‘Phishing’.

Make sure that the address in your browser is genuine and does belong to the website you need to access. Don't ever copy URLs from e-mails. Type out the URL in a new window.

Never click on a link within an email requesting that you enter your username, password, etc. The link can also be malicious.

Do not open any 'fishy' emails. Delete immediately. Emails that have misspellings, poor graphics, or include a long cc list of other email addresses can be suspicious. 

Install a web reputation filter on your desktop that alerts users to phishing websites.

Make sure that you have unique username and passwords for each account/website you regularly visit. 

Never give out sensitive personal or account information to someone that asks via email unless you have verified the message's authenticity.

2. Change your password on regular basis as per the password policy. 

It is recommended to change passwords on a regular basis .

3. Do not share your password with anyone. 

Don't share your password. Do not be duped by malicious e-mails asking you for your password. This is a well-known, trick designed to fool you into sharing your password. As a rule, never share it with anyone.

4. Always remember to sign out properly after using your mail account. 

Always log out of your email when finished, whether you are using web mail or POP mail. It is also recommended to log out whenever you have to leave your computer unattended for a considerable period of time.

5. Do not save or remember your password anywhere.

Do not “save / remember” your password anywhere (say your browser, POP Client).

6. Use Anti-Virus software & update it on regular basis.

It is also highly recommended to install and maintain a anti-virus software on your computer to prevent infection from USB drives, CDs or DVDs and so on. Make sure it is updated regularly. Scan all attachments with a virus program before downloading/executing any, even if they come from someone you know.

Computers that are infected with spyware/key loggers record every word that users are typing, hence a daily scan is recommended.

7. Update the operating system and application patches

Users need to ensure that their desktop/laptop has the latest operating system and application patches. If the patch levels are not updated, updated anti-virus software will not be able to prevent an infection. Both anti-virus and operating system patches need to work together.

8. Use automatic reply only when needed.

It is savvy to turn off any automatic replies in your email client saying that an email has been read or received, because this confirms that the email address is a good one. Spammers will then target your email as a priority and flood your inbox with even more unnecessary and potentially harmful mails.

9. Never open / respond any mail / attachment from unknown sender.

If it happens that a few spam mails do manage to sneak through, make it a must to delete all them. Replying / Opening such emails / attachments typically only informs the sender that they have found an active email address to send more spam emails or They may contain what are known as "letterbombs" or "viruses," which can damage your PC.

10. Never subscribe your email ID on unsafe locations (over internet).

Never subscribe your email address on any unsafe / fake website, they may try to flood your inbox or spammers will try to send bulk spam mails (which may contain virus).

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Filling up the Post in Postmaster Grade-I and II in Post offices (POs) in Postal Circles

Filling up the Post in Postmaster Grade-I and II in Post offices (POs) in Postal Circles

PLEASE SEE THE CIRCULAR ISSUED BY THE DIRECTORATE IN CONNECTION WITH THE FILLING UP OF THE POSTMASTER GRADE I AND GRADE II.  


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http://www.indiapost.gov.in/DOP/Pdf/Circulars/04-43-2013-SPB.IIdtd26June2013.pdf

Should Indian Post get a Banking License? ..Do they need one?

The decision of Indian Postal Department to seek a Banking license from RBI through the Licensing Scheme meant for private sector has been an object of discussion since the announcement was made. The application is a source of embarassment to RBI which now has the challenge of deciding whether to grant a license to Indian Post or not as a traditional Bank.
There have been many positive reviews by experts indicating why Indian Post deserves a Banking license. However, I am personally not convinced that it is a good idea for Indian Post to become a “Commercial Bank”. In fact Indian Post has a greater future by simply modernizing its traditional services rather than becoming a Bank. By converting itself into a Bank, India will lose a great digital post service that can be developed by only the department of post and not by any other entity in future.
Let me present some of my preliminary views in this regard so that E&Y instead of advising the Postal department to convert itself into a Bank can work on how to modernize the postal system into a “Digital Postal System”.
To start with, we can recognize that the Postal department is today a department of the Government of India which meets its costs from out of the Consolidated Fund of India. It is stated that in the fiscal year 2012, it suffered a loss of Rs 6346 crores. Had it not been debited to the consolidated fund of India, perhaps the Postal department would be considered as a “Sick” company and wound up. . The deposits which are stated to be in the region of Rs 6 trillion (600,000 crores) . It is therefore the largest Bank in the country as regards deposit mobilization. It has over 150000 offices with nearly 89% of them in rural areas making it the largest institution in financial services across the country.
If the department needs to obtain Banking license then the “Banking Arm” has to be carved out as a “Public Sector Company” and run as a “Profit Center”. It cannot enjoy the benefit of “Money on tap” from the Government and has to earn money out of lending operations. It needs to maintain SLR and CRR on the deposits.
From the depositor’s angle, the rates of interest paid by the Post office today may go down in the Banking arm. Secondly, the deposits which now have an “Unlimited Deposit Insurance” will come under the limited guarantee scheme of the DICGC. Hence the deposit products of the Indian Postal Bank would be inferior to the current products of the Indian post office.
If this inferior product is offered with the current service levels of the Postal department vis a vis an ICICI Bank or a Kotak Mahindra Bank, it is not possible for the Indian Postal Bank to retain its current customer base of around 23.8 crore customers (Savings Bank).
What will therefore happen is that the postal department will have to continue its operations in the present form while its own sister organization will cannibalize into its present activities. As a result the department will continue to carry the unprofitable part of its operations which has resulted in the loss of Rs 6436 crores in 2012 and will also be burdened with commercial competition from its Banking arm to wean away profitable niche of the current business portfolio.
At the same time, the need to undertake “Lending” as a new activity will create a complete upheaval in the system. At present the manpower in post office is not geared towards any lending activity and hence it has to borrow the entire lending portfolio from outside.
The proposal therefore is neither good for the Postal department nor is rosy for the Banking subsidiary. It would be beneficial for both the Postal department and the Banking industry as well as for the people if Indian Post continues to be “Deposit only Institution” backed for repayment by the Government of India.
The Banking subsidiary of the postal department will essentially be a Government owned Bank much like the REPCO Bank presently owned by the Ministry of Home Affairs (as a Society). This trend of each ministry having a Bank of its own is unhealthy from the point of view of a central regulator like RBI.
Once an Indian Postal Bank comes into existence, its staff mostly drawn from outside will be in a higher remuneration package compared to the existing employees. The existing employees in rural areas will end up doing all the dirty business as agents of their Bank counterparts who will be entrenched in the district head quarters in air conditioned chambers. Sooner or later this will give raise to a huge HR conflict and makes the entire business unviable.
We now have the example of Air India and Public Sector Hotel businesses suffering from the competition fuelled by sell out from within by corrupt politicians. The fate of Indian Postal Bank cannot be different. We can therefore anticipate that the risk of failure of the Indian Postal Bank is relatively higher than in the case of any other private sector owned Bank.
It must be remembered that “Risk of Failure” is inherent in every financial business and hence it cannot be eliminated in Banking. We can only take precautions so that risks are identified at an early time and mitigated before it becomes unmanageable. From the RBI’s point of view, risk management strategy within the banking system is better administered if the risk can be contained within a “Failed Entity”. If the failure of one Bank can bring down other stable businesses, it would mean bad risk management. In this respect, failure of “Indian Post Bank” has the potential of developing into a major scam that can spread the risk to the consolidated fund of India.
In my opinion it is not logical for RBI to create this new risk.
Further, going by the legal structure in India, it is possible that the prospect of “Indian Post” turning into a “Commercial Venture” either directly or indirectly may be in conflict with the constitutional framework. Hence the Banking license to Indian Post could be challenged.
I would like Dr Subramanya Swamy to provide his views on this aspect.
While therefore giving my firm view that Indian Postal Department should withdraw its application (rather than RBI rejecting the same), I would like to express that the Indian Postal Department can contribute to the “Financial Inclusion” objective without setting up a Bank.
For example, as is already happening, Postal department can continue to be the “Disbursal Agent” for any Government subsidy. By simply linking the E Money order scheme to the disbursement chain, the objectives can be achieved without any additional investment from the side of the postal department.
Postal department can also modernize its IT infrastructure so that the efficiency of operation can be improved. Even today, the Speed Post is actually more efficient than private courier service though many in the public donot realize it. May be we need to introduce 24X7 speed post counters and more customer friendly operators to manage the counters. The back end can be stream lined and just as Premium couriers charge upto Rs 400 for guaranteed next day delivery, Postal authorities may also introduce “Guaranteed Speedpost Delivery” as a premium service.
The postal letter system can also be revolutionized with E-Letters being delivered electronically from one end to another end so that while Telegrams might have gone extinct, all letters would be delivered at the speed faster than the telegrams. The system would require a vending machine where the letter posted would be scanned and delivered to the destination post office where a print out would be delivered to the addressee. This will eliminate the movement of the cards in physical form. This system is similar to the Truncated Cheques or E Cheques conceptualized under the NI Act.
Postal authorities can also develop the “Postal ID” into a biometric based personal ID which can automatically be a “Postal Aadhar”. Then there could be bio-metric-cum face recognition based Assisted Money Vending systems in its rural Post offices which can be used as universal money disbursal systems for various government disbursements and also support other Banks which donot have such a network.
Additionally, Postal authority can and should develop a national e-mail exchange backbone with a secured server farm equivalent to the infrastructure of gmail so that all emails from within the country can be handled through this “Indian postal email”. Creating a commercially viable gmail alternative would be a great service that Indian Postal authorities could do to the people of India instead of rushing to become a Bank for which they are ill equipped.
Many of the arguments presented above will with some modification apply in principle to the application of LIC Housing Fiance also. Hence I donot consider it desirable that neither Indian Post nor LIC Home Finance should be considered for license.
Continuing from our previous discussion we are now left with 6 applicants only who need to be short listed for the license.

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