Dept of Posts Reply for 15 points charter of demands submitted by PJCA

Government has also decided to revise pension of pre-2016 pensioners to 50% of notional pay in pay matrix of 7th CPC by fixing pay on notional basis during each intervening Pay Commission.

Hardwar is being provided as and when funds are made available. CSI will be rolled out only after the complaint hardware is there, either new, existing or upgraded.

Bandwidth:-

Bandwidth is being upgraded wherever required. The powers of bandwidth up-gradation/down-gradation are decentralized to the circles in almost all the cases.

The Digital Advancement of Rural Post offices for a New India (DARPAN) project aims to cover 1.29 lakhs BOS by providing Handheld RICT devices which will enable the Branch postmasters to carry out online transactions. As on date 54308 devices have been rolled out.

Equipment connected with the DARPAN such as Handheld devic and solar panel are supplied to all Branch Post Offices which have been rolled out.

In addition to the above, Infrastructure items e.g. table, chair, iron safe, Amirah etc are also supplied as per target fixed every year under the scheme “Rural Business & Access to Postal Network”.

As regards to connectivity issue decision has been made to on board Network Aggregator for providing better network connectivity of various service provider to the Branch Post offices.

M/s TCs imparts the User champion training to concerned staff in the circle. Then trained staff gives the End uset training to all the staff of the division before Roll Out. All pre- rollout activities (such as DCT Freezing) are completed 14 days before the CSI Roll out by the Circle. Mentor Circles are allotted to all Circles so that staff of circle which is going to Roll out can visit the mentor circle to understand the CSI working environment.

CSI project ownership is for the entire Department. The Project belongs to the circles/Divisions as much as it does to the Directorate. Each employee is a stakeholder. We are implementing CSI in collaboration and consultation of field units. Enthusiastic participation of each employee is solicited and expected.

Bandwidth for both type of network i.e. NSP-2 and NSP-2 are provided depending on status of the office.

i)        Vacant posts of PAs/SAs for the year 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 have been given to the staff selection commission, New Delhi fro recruitment. Result of CHSL Exam, 2015 conducted by SSC has been declared. Recruitment of PAs/SAs under CHSL 2015 has been completed. As per the website of SSC, the final result of CHSL examination 2016 will be declared on 16.02.2018.

ii)        Vacant posts of PA/SA DR 2013-14 exams of 6 Circles (UP, Bihar,Delhi,MP, Jharkhand and HP) had been given to the SSC for recruitment . these vacancies are also included under CHSL Exam, 2015 conducted by the SSC.

iii)    Maharashtra Circle is completing the recruitment of PA/SA DR Exam, 2013- 14 as the result of the same has already been declared by Maharashtra circle.

iv)      As per the order dated 13.07.2017 of Hon’ble supreme Court of India, the Department is reinstating the candidates who had been terminated in five circles namely Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana Circle. As per report furnished by the circles, total 643 reinstatement orders have been issued to the candidates as on 01.01.2018.

For the postman/Mail Guard and MTS cadre exams, instructions have been issued to all the Circles to fill up the vacancies by giving  top priority.

Calender of departmental Examinations scheduled to be held in the year 2017-18 has already been issued to all the circles by giving tentative schedule for filling up the vacancies of decentralized examination i.e. PO & RMS Accountant Examination, LDCs to junior Accountants in PAOs (Exam has been conducted by respective circles), LGOs examination for promotion to Assistants of other wings i.e. MMS, Foreign Post,RLO, Stores Depot and CO/RO and other exams.

Calender of departmental Examinations scheduled to be held in the year 2018-19 will be issued soon.

AS regards recruitment of DR postal Assistants is concerned, 5205 candidates have been allocated to various circles under CHSL 2015 exam. Result of CHSL 201 has been announced and allocation of 3295 is under way. Further, 2359 vacancies have been reported to staff selection commission for filling up through CHSL 2017 exam.

LGO exam for CO/RO is scheduled for 17.06.2018 circles have been requested to fill all the vacancies. Calendar of examination has already been issued on 13.04.2018 vacancies in all the cadres are expected to be filled up in a scheduled manner.

Business Development & Marketing Directorate issued instructions in past to outsource certain kind of activities/services which could not be managed with the available manpower/ resource. These were new kind of activities, for which there is no provision of manpower/less man power due to increased workload, but they have good impact on the revenue generation. Therefore in order to continue the business growth, without adversely impacting the existing staff arrangements, BD & M Directorate issued instructions to outsource certain kind of activities like pre-mailing, pick up etc.

In the express industry, collection from the customer’s premises is a norm as it provides convenience to the customer. Speed post OSA scheme was introduced in the year 1998 to extend the collection facility from customer’s premises and increase booking points as the infrastructure and resources for spped post collection is not adequate to meet the customer requirements. Further to strengthen this outsourced postal Agent scheme was also introduced in 2016.

In so far as, remuneration payable to full time casual labourers (other than temporary status) /Part time casual labours/workers engaged on contingency basis is concerned, the order has already been issued vide letter no.7-10/2016-PCC dated 31.03.2017.

Cadre restructuring in PAOs: The matter will be examined on receipt of proposal from the Association in this regard.

The Cadre Restructuring Proposal of Group ‘C’ employees of RMS, SBCO and CO.RO is currently under examination in consultation with Department of Expenditure, Ministry of finance. The cadre restructuring of MMs staff is under active consideration of the department, the restructuring process is being examined in consultation with personnel division.

All the HoCs have been requested to furnish their comments on the proposal submitted by the all india association of inspectors and assistant supdt. Posts. Further, the approval of the secretary (Posts) has also been obtained for constitution of a High powered committee to examine the issue of cadre Restructuring of inspector posts and ASP cadre.

Grant of Auditor status to SBCO staff in the backdrop of CBS:

Information received from Circles is enclosed herewith