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Friday 16 January 2015
Directorate issued various orders for GDS
Directorate issued various orders for GDS on the basis of DKS CHAUHAN COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
Review of approved categories of Gramin Dak Sevaks - Filling up of vacant posts of GDS Mailman.CLICK HERE
Consideration of Married Son as dependent family member for the purpose of compassionate engagement to GDS posts
Review of merit points under compassionate Engagement Scheme, under attribute ‘own agricultural land and house’ CLICK HERE
Revised selection process for engagement to all approved categories of GDS Posts.
Review of Penalties specified in Rule 9 of GDS (Conduct and Engagement) Rules, 2011.
Revised eligibility criteria for engagement to GDS posts. CLICK HERE
Preference to casual labourers in the matter of engagement as Gramin Dak Sevaks – review thereof. CLICK HERE
Tuesday 13 January 2015
There should be No Reservation in Promotions – Supreme Court
Supreme Court in a landmark judgement has ruled out reservation in promotion for SC/ST categories.
New Delhi: January 10
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that there could be no quota for SC and ST employees for top posts in public sector banks but reservation for them was permissible in posts from scale-I till scale-VI.
A bench of J.Chelameswar and A.K.Sikri held that though there was no provision for reservation in promotion in banks for officers from scale-I onwards but an office memorandum issued by Department of Public Enterprises in November 2004 permitting quota up to scale-VI.
The bench informed that “the policy of no reservation in the matter of promotion is applicable only from Scale-VII and above. It, therefore, clearly follows that in so far as promotion from Scale-I to Scale-II, Scale-II to Scale-III, Scale-III to Scale-IV, Scale-IV to Scale-V, Scale-V to Scale-VI are concerned, reservation is to provided”. The bench said: “It is clarified that at present there is no provision for reservation in promotion by selection only in respect of those posts which carry an ultimate of 5,700/- per month (revised to 18,300 and 20,800/- per month in respect of those public sector undertakings following IDA pattern). Qua (with regard to) appellant Banks, that would be in respect of Scale-VII and above. Therefore, to carry out promotions from Scale-I upwards upto Scale-VI, reservation in promotion in favour of SC/ST employees has to be given.”
The court passed the order on a bunch appeals filed by banks challenging the Madras HC order directing them to provide reservation on the ground that there is no adequate representation of SC/ST category of officers in Group-IV and above.
The apex court held that HC in its verdict of 2009 has gone by the lofty ideals enshrined in Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution as well as the fact that in there banks there is no adequate representation of SC/ST category of officers in Group-IV and above.
“That may be so. It can only provide justification for making a provision of this nature.
“However, in the absence of such provision, same cannot be read by overstretching the language of office memorandum dated August 13, 1997″, it said.
Clarifying its verdict, the bench said, it would have the effect of allowing the writ petitions with directions to the appellant banks to make provision for reservations while carrying out promotions from Scale-I to Scale-II and upward upto Scale-VI.
Source: www.govemployees.in
Government mulls legislative route for setting up Postal Bank
NEW DELHI: The government is looking at taking the legislative route, by next month, to finalise the setting up of Postal Bank of India and will soon approach RBI to consider the postal department's application for banking licence.
In a recent meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Department of Posts (DoP) said that it is ready to move into the banking space by becoming a universal bank, sources said.
According to a presentation given to the Prime Minister, DoP, in consultation with the government, may approach RBI this month to consider its original application for a universal bank, the source said.
"Simultaneously, modalities for the alternative of taking the legislative route to set up Postal
Bank of India (PBI) would be worked out in February," the source said.
The meeting, which was also attended by Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, discussed the proposals of the 'Task Force on Leveraging the Post Office Network' and the way forward to implement the recommendations.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in August last year said that the Union government has to take a final call on application for banking licence by DoP.
The sources said to begin with, DoP proposes to have Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) to run parallel to the PBI, which can eventually become part of the PBI as suggested by the Task Force.
The source said post offices as front of PBI shall offer full banking services to the customers whereas PBI branches shall only handle the back office operations such as processing of loan applications, credit worthiness and risk assessment, investment operations etc.
"PBI will also offer the facility of opening institutional accounts, like for panchayats, micro credit agencies, along with new schemes and market linked rates," the source added.
Modi had set up the Task Force in 2014 to leverage the postal network in India and to enhance the role of India Post in financial inclusion, among other services like delivery of goods for eCommerce firms.
In December last year, the Task Force had submitted its rport to Prasad. It noted that with its Rs 6 lakh crore in deposits, India Post is second only to the country's largest bank SBI.
The report suggested that the government should set up a holding company under the DoP for immediate roll out of banking, insurance and e-commerce services.
The holding company should have five different verticals, and three of them -- banking, insurance and e-commerce -- can start working immediately.
The panel had suggested establishing PBI as a separate entity with a branch in each district in the first three years with initial capital of Rs 500 crore to be funded by the government.
PBI and Prime Minister's Jan Dhan Yojanacan compliment each other for financial inclusion, former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian, who headed the task force, had said.
Source : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Thursday 8 January 2015
Different Types of Leave available to central government employees and a brief description of each leave.
1. Earned Leave:
2. Half Pay Leave:
3. Commuted Leave:
4. Leave Not Due:
5. Maternity Leave:
6. Paternity Leave:
7. Study Leave:
8. Extra Ordinary Leave:
9. Casual Leave:
10.Child Care Leave:
11.Hospital Leave::
12.Vacational Department Staff Leave:
13: Special Disability Leave:
14. Child Adoption Leave:
1. Earned Leave:
The credit for earn leave will awarded at a rate of 15 days on the 1st of January and 1st of July every year. It can be accumulated up to 300 days in addition to the number of days for which encashment has been allowed along with LTC. Maximum of 180 days at a time can be availed in the case of Earned Leave. Some exceptions are also there.
Earned leave exceeding 180 days but not exceeding 300 days at a time may be granted to Group 'A' and Group 'B' officers, if at least the quantum of leave in excess of 180 days is spent outside India, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Nepal , Pakistan , Bhutan Burma. This leave may be taken at at time upto 300 days as leave preparatory to retirement.
2. Half Pay Leave
Half pay leave is calculated at 20 days for each completed year of service. For eg, if you are in service for 2 years , you will be having a total of 40 days of half pay leave. The service inculdes periods of duty and leave including extraordinary leave with or without MC. Half pay leave can be availed with or without MC(Medical Certificate). From 1st January 1986, half pay leave is credited in advance at the rate of 10 days on the 1st of January and 1st of July every year.
3.Commuted Leave:
Commuted leave not exceeding half the amount of half-pay leave due can be taken on medical certificate. Up to a maximum of 90 days can be taken during the entire service without medical certificate where such leave is utilized for an approved course of study certified to be in university interest.
It can be taken up to a maximum of 60 days can be granted to a female employee in continuation of maternity leave without medical certificate and upto a maximum of 60 days can be granted without medical certificate to a female employee with less than two living children, on adoption of a child less than one year old. Commuted leave may be granted at the request of the employee even when earned leave is due to him.
4. Leave Not Due
Leave not due is granted when there is no half-pay leave at credit and the employee requests for the grant of Leave Not Due. Temporary officials with one year’s service and suffering from TB, Leprosy, Cancer or Mental illness may also be granted LND if the post from which the official proceeds on leave is likely to last till his return.
It is granted only medical certificate if the leave sanctioning authority is satisfied that there is a reasonable prospect of the employee returning to duty on its expiry. It may be granted without medical certificate in continuation of maternity leave. and may be granted without medical certificate to a female employee with less than two living children, on adoption of a child less than one year old. The amount of leave should be limited to the half-pay leave that the employee is likely to earn subsequently.
Leave not due during the entire service is limited to a maximum of 360 days and due will be debited against the half-pay leave that the employee may earn subsequently.
5. Maternity Leave
Maternity leave is granted to women government employees.
1) Pregnancy: 180 days – Admissible only to employees with less than two surviving children.
2) Miscarriage/abortion (induced or otherwise): Total of 45 days in the entire service. However, any such leave taken prior to 16.6.1994 will not be taken into account for this limitation. Admissible irrespective of number of surviving children. Application to be supported by a certificate from a registered medical practitioner for NGOs and from AMA for GOs.
The materntiy leave is not debited to leave account and full pay is granted. It cannot be combined with any other leaves and counts as service for increments and pension.
6. Paternity Leave
A male employee with less than two surviving children may be granted Paternity Leave for a period of 15 days during the confinement of his wife. During the period of such leave he shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave. Paternity Leave shall not be debited against the leave account and may be combined with other kind of leave as in the case of Maternity Leave.
7. Study Leave
Study leave may be granted to all government employees with not less than five years’ service for undergoing a special course consisting of higher studies or specialized training in a professional or technical subject having a direct and close connection with the sphere of his duties as a civil servant.
The course for which the study leave is taken should be certified to be of definite advantage to govt from the point of view of public interest and that particular study should be approved by the authority competent to grant leave.
The official should submit a full report on the work done during study leave. Maximum of 24 months of leave is sanctioned. In the case of CHS officers 36 months of leave can be granted at a stretch or in different spells.
Study leave will not be debited to the leave account and may be combined with other leave due.
Study leave is not granted for studies outside India if facilities are available in India and to an official due to retire within 3 years of return from the study leave.
8. Extra Ordinary Leave
Extraordinary leave is granted to a Government servant when no other leave is admissible or when other leave is admissible, but the Government servant applies in writing for extraordinary leave.
Extraordinary leave cannot be availed concurrently during the notice period, when going on voluntary retirement and EOL may also be granted to regularize periods of absence without leave retrospectively.
9. Casual Leave
In a calendar year eight days of casual leave is permissible.
Casual leave is not a recognized form of leave and is not subject to any rules made by the Government of India. An official on Casual Leave is not treated as absent from duty and pay is not intermitted.
(i) Casual Leave can be combined with Special Casual Leave/vacation but not with any other kind of leave.
(ii) It cannot be combined with joining time.
(iii) Sundays and Holidays falling during a period of Casual Leave are not counted as part of Casual Leave.
(iv) Sundays/public holidays/restricted holidays/weekly offs can be prefixed/suffixed to Casual Leave.
(v) Casual Leave can be taken while on tour, but no daily allowance will be admissible for the period.
(vi) Casual Leave can be taken for half day also.
(vii) Essentially intended for short periods. It should not normally be granted for more than 5 days at any one time,
except under special circumstances.
(viii) LTC can be availed du ring Casual Leave.
(ix) Individuals appointed and joining duty during the middle of a year may avail of Casual Leave proportionately or to the full extent at the discretion of the Competent Authority.
10. Child Care Leave
Woman employees having minor children may be granted Child Care Leave by an authority competent to grant leave for a maximum period of 730 days (2 years) during their entire service for taking care of up to two children., whether for rearing or to look after any of their needs like examination, sickness, etc.
Conditions for Child Care Leave
1. Child care leave shall not be admissible if the child is eighteen years of age or older equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.
2. It can be availed in more than one spell.
3. It can not be debited against the leave account.
4. It may be combined with leave of the kind due and admissible.
11. Hospital Leave:
Hospital leave is admissible to Group 'C' employees whose duteis involve handling of dangerous machinary, explosive materials, poisonous drugs and perfomance of hazardous taks and to Group 'D' Employees.
Medical certificate from an authorized medical attendant is necessary for grant of this leave. This hospital leave may be combined with any other kind of leave due and admissible, provided total period of leave does not exceed 28 months.
12. Vacation Department Staff leave Entitlement
The leave entitlements of employees of Vacation Departments (ie departments where regular vacations are allowed during which those serving in them are permitted to be absent from duty) are the same as those serving in non-vacation Departments except in respect of 'earned leave'.
No earned leave will be admissible to a govt servant of a vacation Department in any year in which he avails of the full vacation. The vacation can be combined with casual leave.
13. Special Disability Leave
Special disability leave admissible to all employees when disabled by injury intentionally or accidentally inflicted or caused in or in consequence of the due performance of official duties or in consequences of official position. The disability above should have manifested within three months of the occurrence to which it is attributed and the person disabled had acted with due promptitude in bringing it to notice. The leave sanctioning authority, if satisfied as to the cause of the disability, may relax the condition and grant leave in cases where disability has manifested more than three months after the occurrence of its cause.
Special disability leave is also admissible when disabled by illness incurred in the performance of any particular duty, which has the effect of increasing liability to illness or injury beyond the ordinary risk attaching to the civil post held, under the same condition.This disability should be certified by an Authorised Medical Attendant to be directly due to the performance of the particular duty.
Maximum of 24 months of leave may be granted.
May be combined with any other leave.
Will count as service for pension.
Will not be debited to the leave account.
14) Child Adoption Leave:
Child adoption leave is granted to Female employees, with fewer than two surviving children on valid adoption of a child below the age of one year, for a period of 135 days immediately after the date of valid adoption.
Leave salary will be equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.
It may be combined with leave of any other kind.
Leave not debited against the leave account.
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Use post offices to deliver services, information: PM Modi
To leverage the assets of postal network, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said post offices in rural areas can be used to deliver various services and information to the individual households.
He also said the postal network can become a driving force for the economy, similar to the Indian Railways, and the huge assets held by the Postal department across the country can be suitably used for the benefit of the people, he said.
Modi, speaking after the presentation of a report by the task force on leveraging India's post office network, said post offices in rural areas can be used to deliver services and important government information to individual households.
Modi has directed that recommendations of the task force be studied in detail within a short period of time, so that necessary follow-up action can be initiated, an official statement said.
Minister for Communication and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad was also present. The presentation on behalf of the task force was given by its Chairman, TSR Subramanian.
Modi said, postman along with the teacher, is the most respected government employee in rural areas.
Modi had set up the Task Force last year to leverage the postal network in India and to enhance the role of India Post in financial inclusion, among other services like delivery of goods for eCommerce firms.
In December last year, the Task Force had submitted its report to Prasad. It noted that with its Rs 6 lakh crore in deposits, India Post is second only to the country's largest bank SBI.
The report suggested that the government should set up a holding company under the Department of Posts for immediate roll out of banking, insurance and e-commerce services by the 1.55 lakh strong postal network.
The holding company should have five different verticals, and three of them -- banking, insurance and e-commerce -- can start working immediately.
It added that e-commerce could be the second largest activity after banking that DoP can foray into for emerging as one of biggest players in the world.
The panel also suggested establishing Post Bank of India as a separate entity with a branch in each district in the first three years with initial capital of Rs 500 crore to be funded by the government.
Post Bank of India and Prime Minister's Jan Dhan Yojana can compliment each other for financial inclusion, Subramanian said.
Source : The Economic Times
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