Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad addressed the Heads of Circles ( CPMGs ) Conference of Postal department at Hyderabad on 22-05-2016.

Awarded the best performing circles / divisions.

L to R 1) M. S. Ramanujan Member (HR) 2) T. Murthy Member (O) 3) S. K. Sinha Secretary (Posts) 4) Hon'ble MoC Shri Ravishankar Prasad 5) Ashutosh Tripathi Member (P) 6) Sanjeev Thapar Member (Tech)

Dr. Charles Lobo CPMG Tamil Nadu Circle receiving award from Hon'ble MoC. Shri Stephen Mervin Alexander PMG Chennai City Region also seen in picture

Brig. B. Chandrasekhar, CPMG UP Circle receiving award from MoC

He categorically said, Government is committed to reform the postal department. Two unique qualities of Department of Posts are Extensive network spread in nook and corner of the nation and Emotional connect of Postman with the rural life.

India is at the tipping point of digital revolution and Postal department should be the fulcrum of economic development esp in rural life.

Postal department's share in E-commerce is around 15% only, which needs to be improved drastically. The entire ecosystem to reform the postal department needs to change..

1. Pick up points to reach the customers proactively to collect and deliver posts/ parcels.

2. India Post Payments Bank need to be flawlessly implemented . It should act as a platform for 3rd party services. Human Resource Training needs to be given. Postal Payment Bank should be started definitely by March 17

3. Implementation of IT modernization solutions needs to be improved. We keep getting complaints of glitches leading to harassment to customers

4. Parcel Delivery .. New ideas to generate revenue with Technology infusion. Geo tagging and better location identification needs to be considered.

5. Human Resource capacity building ... Need to incentivize the performance... Gud incentive at right time will be a big motivation. Best practices should be replicated pan India.

6. Good sign boards pan India should be ensured.

7. Metamorphosis of postal department should be branded well.

8. Surety of punishment is more important than Severity of punishment... in case of disciplinary cases. Any laxity in timely completion of disciplinary proceedings should be viewed seriously.

9. Philately should be ventured as a new source of revenue generation. My Stamp, Commercialisation of stamps need to be tried to earn revenues.

10. Social Media should be effectively used for complaint redressal and creation of awareness regarding departmental initiatives/ schemes.

11. He expect all of us to work hard.. to achieve the goals of government.

12. Recruitment to fill up vacant posts should be done in a transparent and fair means. Any irregularity should be viewed seriously and responsibility should be fixed..

13. Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad Congratulated the Department of Posts for good work done in the last 2 years in different schemes like Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, CBS, Postal ATMs, E-Commerce.

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Update of IT Modernisation Project as on 31-03-2016

The latest position of implementation is as follows:

·     Primary Data Centre has started functioning at Navi Mumbai since 3rd April, 2013.

·     Disaster Recovery Centre has been powered on at Mysore on 15-05-15.

·   28014 Departmental Post offices including mail offices and administrative offices have been networked at single Wide Area Network (WAN) and connected to Data Centre.

·     Core Banking Solution (CBS) has been rolled out in 20494 Post Offices.

·     ATMs have been installed in 759 locations.

·     Core Insurance solution (CIS-PLI) has been rolled out in 25406 Post Offices.

·   CSI Wave-1: Implementation of IDAM (Identity and Access Management) and SSO (Single Sign on) are under progress in Mysore Division.

·  Other Wave-1 security components are at Data Centre level and they are under implementation.

·    Anti-virus installed in 74,500 desktops 
     
     Enterprise Monitoring System under CSI Wave-1 is a Data Centre level component and it is under implementation.

·      CSI wave 2 Roll out: CSI has been rolled out In Mysore Division from 01.10.2015.

·     Two HOs and Sixty three SOs were migrated to CSI in addition to NSH Mysore.

·     The following Legacy applications were integrated with CSI. 

      

     eMO 

     eMO ePayment 

     Register net/ Parcel net 

     Speed net 

     IPS 

     IFS 

     RMFS 

     NPS 

     UAT for Wave 2 & 3 solutions is in progress (Cycle 1 & 2 completed).

·    CSI Integration UAT III completed from 22-06-2015 to 27-06-2015 at Hyderabad.

·    Closure of defects of UAT III completed from 09th to 11th July 2015 at Hyderabad. 

      Dispatch of RH Handheld devices started.

·    3546 devices have been dispatched to Branch Post Offices of Pilot circles.

INDIA POST PAYMENT BANK --

FAQ on IPPB :

Concept of Payment Bank : A Payment Bank is a "differentiated Bank" set-up under the guidelines of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to further financial inclusion for the undeserved population ................

Why is a Payments Bank required : A vast majority of the Rural population (approximately 61% as per RBI) is still not covered by formal Banking and  are unbanked ............

Why DoP is setting-up a Payments Bank : DoP has been successfully running the Post Office Savings Bank for the Ministry of Finance. Setting up its indenpendently owned Bank is the next logical progression ............

When will the India Post Payments Bank start operations? : ................................ A pilot launch is planned in the last quarter of FY 2016-17

Can the savings accounts be shifted from POSB to IPPB ? :The POSB accounts are operated by the Department on behalf of the Ministry of Finance. ............

How will the customer choose between the savings account of POSB and IPPB ? :   Given the difference in purpose of the two accounts, the POSB customers can be encouraged to open a IPPB account for managing their fund flow including bill payments, remittances to other family members, businesses etc. depending on their needs.................................

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Boundary Mapping of Post Offices under GEO TAGGING --

Directorate Member Letter No.46-08/2015-Tech(Pt.) dated 05.05.2016 regarding use of Space Technology in governance and Development a project that is being closely monitored by the Hon'ble Prime Minister.

Last date for drawing boundaries of Post Offices : 30.06.2016

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TUTORIAL FOR MODERATORS

Centre Asks States To Hold Two Month Camps To Achieve 100% Aadhaar Linked NREGS

"States have also been asked to check with the Chief Post Master General for involving post offices.

" NEW DELHI: Enthused by the success of direct benefit transfer in paying the beneficiaries of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the Centre has asked states to hold special two month camps to achieve 100% Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts for those employed under the flagship rural job programme.

The government had last week said that the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme helped it save Rs 3,000 crore or 10% of the total funds allocated for MGNREGS in 2015-16.

A senior government official told ET that a new "consent form"  has been designed by the Centre that the workers employed under MGNREGS workers will be "convinced" to sign and voluntarily seed their Aadhaar number into the bank account where they get wages through DBT.

A self-attested copy of the Aadhaar letter will have to be attached to the consent form and their details will be authenticated by the Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI). This comes even as the passage of the Aadhaar Act as a money bill has been challenged before the Supreme Court by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.

At present, 60% of MNREGS accounts are seeded with Aadhaar but only 16% of payments to 10-crore odd MGNREGS workers are done using the Aadhaar Payment Bridge.

MGNREGS remains India's biggest DBT subsidy programme with nearly Rs 2,400 crore paid every month.

"It is the PMO's top priority to increase Aadhaar seeding in MGNREGS," an official said.

The government is of the view that seeding of Aadhaar numbers into all MGNREGS bank accounts could lead to even more savings by weeding out fake beneficiaries and ensuring that only the genuine workers receive the wages.

The Centre has asked the states to depute gram rozgar sewaks for mobilising MGNREGS workers and ensuring their presence in these special camps, where they will be explained the advantages of seeding their Aadhaar numbers into their bank accounts and sign the new consent forms.

It has been specified that MGNREGS workers can also submit their Aadhaar consent forms to the 'bank mitra' in their areas. States have also been asked to check with the Chief Post Master General for involving post offices in the exercise as the Department of Posts is in the process of rolling out micro-ATMS at all of its 1.29 lakh rural post offices and has migrated 85% of its accounts to the CBS platform.

The new consent forms involve the worker authorizing the bank and the government to seed his Aadhaar number into his bank account, use his Aadhaar details to authenticate him from UIDAI and enable all DBT credits to come through that account with due SMS alerts sent to his registered mobile number. 

Consumer Court penalized India Post Rs 15,000 for delayed delivery of Speed Post Article

A District Consumer Court has now penalised India Post, North Division, Sector 17, with Rs 15,000 on his complaint as he could not make it for the interview.

Yogesh Kumar, a native of Hoshiarpur, averred in his plaint that he posted a speed post letter from Hoshiarpur post office on August 6 for the post advertised by the Union Territory, Child Protection Society under the aegis of Director (Social Welfare), Chandigarh Administration.

The last date for sending the application was August 11, 2014. As per the tracking details of the letter, it was at Chandigarh on August 8. But to Yogesh's utter dismay when he appeared for the interview on August 13, he came to know that his name was not listed for the interview as his application was not received. When he enquired from India Post, he was told the letter was lying at Chandigarh only. Following this, he sent a legal notice to it to redress the grievance but to no avail.

In its reply to the forum, India Post stated that the Central Government or its postal officers were exempted from any liability or loss, mis-delivery or delay or damage to any postal article in course of transmission by post as per Section 6 of the Indian Post Office Act. It was further said that the envelope had cryptic address, thus, the article remained at the delivery centre for ascertainment of correct address. Thereafter, the complainant went to the delivery centre for the disposal of article on August 13 and it was delivered the same day.

What the forum said...

 "...The opposite party (India Post) cannot run from its liability under the garb of Section 6. Certainly due to this negligent act, the dream of the complainant is shattered as he missed and could not avail one golden opportunity of becoming a Child Protection Officer as his application could not reach the destination due to the deficient service of the party which caused him a lot of mental agony and physical harassment for which he is entitled to be compensated...," read the court order.

The forum ordered to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation for harassment and deficient service, beside Rs 5,000 as litigation expenses.

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