Material for IPO Examination

Kindly visit the following Link for the materials for coming IPO Examination.
http://sapost.blogspot.com/2011/08/general-knowledge-collections.html

Central Government Employees Census 2011

Latest Census of Central Government Employees 2011

Total Central Government Employees: 31.16 Lakhs

Railway: 45.32 %

MO Home: 22.20 %

Defence Civil: 11.35 %

Communication and IT: 7.7 %

Finance: 3.62 %

Other Ministries and Departments: 9.76 %

Regular Employees: 3.20 Lakh

Total Women Employees: 10.28%

Non Gazzetted Employees: 96 %.

Regular employees are Group C 57.80%

Group D (Now Group C) 30.62 %.

Group B: 8.63 %

Group A: 2.95 %

53.32% of employees are living in 'C' Class and unclassified cities.

15.31 % in B2 Cities.

4.61% in B1 Cities.

11.10% in A Cities

15.66% in A1 Cities.

Central Government Employees News IMyIdeas

Department's deficit is a tune of 6346 Crores

The annual expenditure of the Department of Posts was 13,307.95 crore during FY11, almost double its revenue of 6,962.33 crore, government data showed.

This has "resulted in a deficit of 6,345.62 crore," Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

Similarly, in FY10, while the Department earned 6,266.30 crore, it spend 12,908 crore.

The department's deficit had jumped over 80% to 6,641.30 crore in 2009-10 from 3,593.09 crore in 2008-09 on account of the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations.

The government has been working on revamping the Indian postal service. Internet connectivity to post offices and turning post offices to full-fledged banks are some of the initiatives being worked on to give the humble post office a radical makeover.

Replying to another question, Pilot said the government has approved the IT modernisation project for the Department of Posts for computerisation of post offices. "This will involve establishment of required IT infrastructure and development of required software applications with an outlay of 1,877.2 crore," Pilot said.

The IT project is expected to be implemented by 2012-13, subject to the availability of funds, he added.

The department has a network of 1.55 lakh post offices in the country, the largest in the world, of which more than 1.39 lakh are in rural areas.

Source: Economic Times on 22^nd August, 2011

Modernization of Department of Post

Government has approved the ‘IT MODERNIZATION PROJECT’ of Department of Posts for computerization of Post Offices, Mail Offices, Administrative Offices and other field offices. This will involve establishment of required IT infrastructure, development of required software applications with an outlay of Rs.1877.2 crore. 

The project has the following salient features: 

• It will establish IT infrastructure of Data Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre and networking of all Departmental Post Offices including appropriate connectivity in the Branch Post Offices in the rural area. 

• The project envisages development of integrated modular scalable applications for Mail, Banking, Postal Life Insurance, solutions for Accounts and HR operations of the department. 

• The rural post offices will be provided with rural ICT devices with required applications for performing Postal, Savings Bank, Insurance, MGNREGS and Money Order operations. 

• Provision has been made for training, change management, capacity building of the employees of the department along with Project Management activity for smooth and timely implementation of the project. 

It is planned to network all Departmental Post Offices and Branch Post Offices in the country subject to availability of connectivity and resources under the “India Post Technology Project-2012”. 

The departmental Post Offices are proposed to be networked with appropriate connectivity. Branch Post Offices located in rural areas are proposed to be networked using available connectivity at these locations. The rural ICT Devices in the Branch Post Offices will have the capacity to work in both online/offline mode. The IT project is expected to be implemented by 2012-13 subject to the availability of funds. 

This information was given by Shri Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. 

Source: 

http://www.pib.nic.in

Know Details about New Pension Scheme (NPS)

Kindly Visit the link below for details on New Pension Scheme (NPS)
http://sapost.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-is-national-pension-scheme-nps.html

First Floating Post Office in India

Tourists to Jammu and Kashmir now have another attraction -- a floating post office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, the first in the country.
Minister of state for communications and IT Sachin Pilot and chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah inaugurated the floating post office Monday (22.08.2011).
"This innovation by India Post will be a boon for the tourists visiting the lake," Pilot said in a statement.
Besides offering normal services, the place will also have a philately museum and a shop that will sell postage stamps and other products.

 Courtesy : timesofindia, NDTV

How to use computer perfectly

For everyone who works daily on a computer. The mistakes daily mouse and keyboard usage will result in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! Use the mouse and keyboard correctly. View below for the surgery of a patient suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome followed by the  RIGHT TECHNIQUES for usage...... 

Correct way to work on the Computer 

Courtesy : sapost.blogspot.com

Wishing you all a happy Janmastami

Different types of leaves

A Central Government Employee has  may kinds of leave and he has choice to avail any of them.  The types of Leave and the eligibility conditions, restrictions etc. in respect of each kind of leave are given below for ready use :

Different Types of Leave available to central government employees : 

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.Vocational Department Staff Leave

13: Special Disability Leave

14. Child Adoption Leave

15. Leave to Probationers

16. Leave to Apprentices

1. Earned Leave:-   Earned Leave is ‘earned’ by duty. 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.

2. Half Pay Leave :-  All Government servants are entitled to 20 days of HPL for every completed year of service. 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 includes 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:-   This Leave is granted on medical certificate normally. 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:-  This Leave is also granted on medical certificate normally. 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. 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 maternity 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.

Courtesy: sapost.blogspot.com

e-postoffice

Department has launched the epostoffice website in which one can book emo, track & trace articles booked and get the latest information. Visit the link below-
https://www.epostoffice.gov.in/

Revised Circle allotment of Surplus IP Candidates of 2009

Directorate has issued order on revised circle allotment of Surplus IP Candidates of 2009. The revised allotment of  Candidates are as follows-
Please visit the below link
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1697253814/IP_Surplus_Qfd_Cand_R_evised_Circle_Allotments_Dt._090811_IP_ASP_TN_Blog.pdf

Training on R-Net & Speednet

Training on R-Net & Speednet is going on for 30 Sorting Assistants of this Division at WCTC, Cuttack w.e.f. 12.08.2011 to 19.08.2011 in phasewise manner vide Dvl. office letter no. B/5-2/2007 dated 11.08.2011. R-Net will be shortly implemented at all the units of RMS N Division.  The list is given below -

Sl	Name of the Sorting Assistant	Name of the Unit	Date
1	Prakash Ch. Mallick	SRO Bhadrak	12.08.11- 13.08.11
2	Nirakar Majhi	-do-	-do-
3	Tapaswini Nayak	HRO Cuttack	-do-
4	Sasmita Pati	-do-	-do-
5	Sunita Behera	-do-	-do-
6	Swapan Sasmal	-do-	-do-
7	Swaraj Sasmal	SRO Khurda Road	-do-
8	Srikant Nayak	-do-	-do-
9	Pratap Bhanu Kabi	SRO Dhenkanal	-do-
10	Swati Ranjan Mohanty	SRO Jajpur Road	-do-
11	Arabinda Mohapatra	SRO Khurda Road	16.08.11-17.08.11
12	Siba Ranjan Bisoi	-do-	-do-
13	Jitendra Kumar Nayak	-do-	-do-
14	Deba Brata Behera	SRO Bhadrak	-do-
15	Barun Kumar Patra	-do-	-do-
16	Sabyasachi Daspatnaik	SRO Balasore	-do-
17	Digbijay Naik	-do-	-do-
18	Bibekananda Singh	SRO Dhenkanal	-do-
19	Monalisa Baral	HRO Cuttack	-do-
20	Monalisa Nayak	-do-	-do-
21	Nimai Ch. Sahu	HRO Cuttack	18.08.11-19.08.11
22	Rajesh Kumar Behera	SRO BBSR	-do-
23	Govinda Soren	SRO Dhenkanal	-do-
24	Parikhita Prusty	SRO BBSR	-do-
25	Susanta Kumar Behera	-do-	-do-
26	Manoranjan Sahoo	SRO Kendrapara	-do-
27	Chhatrai Soren	SRO Baripada	-do-
28	Ramakanta Tripathy	SRO BBSR	-do-
29	Abhaya Kumar Kar	SRO Khurda Road	-do-
30	Krushna Chandra Behera	-do-	-do-