Material for IPO Examination

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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)

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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 

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