LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 2394 ON OPENING OF POST OFFICES

CONFEDERATION NATIONAL SECRETARIAT MEETING

NOTICE

            An urgent meeting of National Secretariat of Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers will be held at Confederation  H.Q. at 1^st Floor North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110001 on 18^th February-2014 at 11 AM.

            All National Secretariat Members are requested to attend the meeting in time.

            The following will be the agenda of the meeting:

AGENDA

(1)       2014 February 12^th & 13^th Strike Review.

(2)       Organizational matters.

(3)       Any other items with the permission of chair.

(M. KRISHNAN)

SECRETARY GENERAL

 Copy to:

1.         Com. S.K. Vyas, Advisor.

2.         Com. K.K.N. Kutty President.

3.         All National Secretariat Members.

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 2394 ON OPENING OF POST OFFICES 

 

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 2394

ANSWERED ON 05.02.2014

OPENING OF POST OFFICES

2394 . KAMLA DEVI PATLE

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:-

(a) the number of post offices in the rural and urban areas in the country, circle/category-wise;

(b) the number of post offices opened in villages during each of the last three years and the current year, circle-wise;

(c) whether the Government has received proposals for opening of post offices and branch post offices in the country separately in urban areas and villages from various States including Chhattisgarh;

(d) if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereon; and

(e) whether there is a shortage of postal employees and dak sevaks in post offices and if so, the details thereof along with the action taken by the Government in this regard?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (DR. (SMT.) KILLI KRUPARANI)

(a) The Circle-wise and category-wise number of post offices in rural and urban areas in the country as on 31.03.2013 is at Annexure-I.

(b) The Circle-wise number of post offices opened in villages during each of the last three years and current year is at Annexure-II.

(c)&(d) Yes, Madam. The Circle-wise number of proposals received for opening of post offices including branch post offices and status of action taken on the proposals is at Annexure-III.

(e) No, Madam. Vacancies, whenever arises, is due to reasons like promotion, retirement, death or leave. Vacant positions are managed through ad-hoc appointments by redistribution and combination of duties and paid substitutes in post offices for delivery of postal services. Filling up of such vacancies is an on-going process. Departmental Promotion Committees are held at regular intervals to fill up promotional posts and Departmental examinations are held wherever prescribed and action is taken regularly for holding examinations to fill up posts through direct recruitment according to the provisions of the Recruitment Rules.

Shortage of Grameen Dak Sevaks in post offices does occur from time to time on attaining the age of superannuation, absorption to regular departmental posts, resignation, death, etc. The shortage is met through on going process of engagement, combination of duties or alternatively by allowing the Grameen Dak Sevaks of the neighbouring offices to function as part of stop gap arrangement.

As on 01.01.2013, there had been a shortfall of 12.40% of the sanctioned posts of approved categories of Grameen Dak Sevaks in the country and instructions have already been issued to concerned Postal Circles for filling up of all vacant posts of different categories of Grameen Dak Sevaks within a set time frame after following provisions of the recruitment rules and policy guidelines on the subjects.

LOK SABHA ANNEXURED UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2394 DATED 5.02.2014 

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Grameen Dak Sevaks (GDS) - Working Strength, Service benefits & Welfare Schemes 

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 1402

ANSWERED ON 06.03.2013

GRAMEEN DAK SEVAKS

1402 . Shri DILIP SINGH JU DEV
Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:-

(a) the number of Grameen Dak Sewaks working in post offices in various States including Chhattisgarh tribal region, State-wise;

(b) the monthly stipend being paid to these Sewaks;

(c) whether the Government proposes to increase their stipend in view of steep rise in inflation and also introduce welfare measures for them; and

(d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (Dr. (Smt.) KILLI KRUPA RANI) 

(a) As on 01.01.2013, the total working strength of various categories of Grameen Dak Sewaks is 263326 including 2458 Grameen Dak Sewaks working in Chhattisgarh Tribal Region. State-wise and UT wise details is at Annexure I.

(b) Grameen Dak Sewaks are paid Time Related Continuity Allowance (TRCA) & other admissible allowances as approved by Cabinet and not stipend, the details of which are at Annexure II.

(c) Grameen Dak Sewaks are in receipt of Dearness Allowance which is linked to price rise/ inflation on the admissible TRCA at the same rate as allowed to regular Central Government employees and which is revised twice in a year based on price index. The Government has also introduced various welfare measures for these Grameen Dak Sewaks.

(d) The details of welfare measures introduced for the Grameen Dak Sewaks are at Annexure III.

LOK SABHA ANNEXURE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1402 DATED 6.03.2013

ANNEXURE I

S. No.	Name of Circle/State/UTs	Working Strength of Gramin Dak Sevaks as on 01.01.2013
		GDS SPM	GDS BPM	GDS MD	GDS MC	GDS MP	GDS SV	Others	Total
1	Andhra Pradesh	0	13139	4694	4242	1941	175	2646	26837
2	Assam	0	3216	2906	1639	283	39	371	8454
3	Bihar	0	6307	5165	2598	360	86	553	15069
4	Chhattisgarh	0	2423	855	1545	147	13	26	5009
5	Delhi	0	77	26	14	24	30	6	177
6	Gujarat	0	6768	4619	1396	702	63	296	13844
6a	Dadar & Nagar Haveli (UT)	0	5	45	0	0	0	0	50
6b	Daman & Diu (UT)	0	7	17	0	0	0	2	26
7	Haryana	0	1972	1050	708	233	18	4	3985
8	Himachal Pradesh	0	2247	2614	1068	312	13	61	6315
9	Jammu & Kashmir	0	1368	506	754	95	8	0	2731
10	Jharkhand	0	2461	1539	1286	154	35	407	5882
11	Karnataka	0	7777	4681	1235	1789	66	249	15797
12	Kerala	0	3443	5765	852	1259	138	165	11622
12a	Lakshadweep (UT)	2	1	1	0	5	0	0	9
12b	Puducherry (UT)	0	3	5	1	1	0	0	10
13	Madhya Pradesh	0	5632	2498	4056	290	22	229	12727
14	Maharashtra	0	10122	6939	1644	1115	46	27	19893
14a	Goa (State)	0	147	128	21	54	1	2	353
	North East	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Arunachal Pradesh (State)	0	198	166	27	30	2	11	434
16	Manipur (State)	0	591	495	627	40	1	1	1755
17	Meghalaya (State)	0	332	389	262	41	0	0	1024
18	Mizoram (State)	0	285	234	281	12	0	98	910
19	Nagaland (State)	0	279	254	237	35	3	0	808
20	Tripura (State)	0	514	416	290	53	1	65	1339
21	Orissa	1	5798	4863	3209	929	41	110	14951
22	Punjab	0	2831	1642	960	227	15	0	5675
22a	Chandigarh (UT)	0	8	13	0	16	2	0	39
23	Rajasthan	0	7460	2371	3014	439	37	49	13370
24	Tamil Nadu	0	8656	8475	1325	2168	269	682	21575
24a	Puducherry (UT)	0	41	49	0	15	4	0	109
25	Uttar Pradesh	0	12659	10991	4127	1311	315	1262	30665
26	Uttarakhand	0	2122	2218	1322	236	9	217	6124
27	West Bengal	0	5370	4985	3337	777	315	339	15123
28	Sikkim (State)	0	53	74	19	5	0	0	151
28a	Andaman & Nicobar (UT)	0	171	203	102	0	8	0	484
	Total	3	114483	81891	42198	15098	1775	7878	263326
	Chhattisgarh Tribal Region	0	1068	422	911	48	2	7	2458

Annexure II

Time Related Continuity Allowance (TRCA) of Gramin Dak Sevaks

[Implemented w.e.f. 01.01.2006]

S. No.	Category of Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS)	TRCA effective from 01.01.2006	For Work  load ( in hours )
1	GDS Branch Postmaster	Rs 2745-50-4245	Up to 3 hours
		Rs 3200-60-5000	More than 3 hours and up to 3 hours 30 min
		Rs 3660-70-5760	More than 3 hours 30 min and up to 4 hours
		Rs 4115-75-6365	More than 4 hours and up to 4 hours 30 min
		Rs. 4575-85-7125	More than 4 hours 30 min and up to 5 hours
2	GDS Mail deliverer/ Stamp vendor	Rs 2665-50-4165 [for new entrants]	Up to 3 hours
		Rs 3330-60-5130	More than 3 hours and up to 3 hours 45 min
		Rs 4220-75-6470	More than 3 hours 45 min and up to 5 hours
3	GDS Mail Carrier/ Packer/ Mailman	Rs 2295-45-3695 [for new entrants]	Up to 3 hours
		Rs2870-50-4370	More than 3 hours and up to 3 hours 45 min
		Rs 3635-65-5585	More than 3 hours 45 min and up to 5 hours

Note:

Besides the TRCA, the GDSs also get Dearness Allowance at the same rate as admissible to Central Government employees. Gramin Dak Sevak Branch Postmasters get Office Maintenance Allowance @Rs.100/- per month & Fixed Stationery Charges @Rs.25/- per month.  Other categories like Gramin Dak Sevak Mail Deliverers and Mail Carriers get Cycle Maintenance Allowance @ Rs.60/- per month.

Annexure III

EXISTING WELFARE SCHEMES INTRODUCED FOR GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS

1	Maternity Grant	Women GDS are provided Maternity Grant for each child up to the birth of maximum of two children limited to maximum of two confinements resulting into birth of first two children only during the entire engagement period of a Woman GDS equivalent to three months TRCA with DA.  Women GDS’s like Mail Deliverer and Mail Carrier have also been prescribed to be considered for lighter duties wherever possible during the pre and post confinement period.
2	Maternity Leave	Women GDS have also been provided to be granted maternity leave not exceeding six months covering the pre and post confinement period.
3	Extra Departmental Group Insurance Scheme	Gramin Dak Sevaks are provided with insurance coverage of Rs. 50000/- under the Group Insurance Scheme available to them on death.
4	Service Discharge Benefit Scheme	A Service Discharge Benefit Scheme has been introduced by the Government for the benefit of Gramin Dak Sevaks working in the Department of Posts on monthly contribution basis (from Department’s side only @ Rs. 200/-pm) devised on the basis of New Pension Scheme (NPS)-Lite scheme launched by the Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority (PFRDA). This Scheme has been offered in lieu of the existing Severance Amount Scheme on an optional basis for the existing Gramin Dak Sevaks while it is mandatory for the new Gramin Dak Sevaks entering into service with effect from 01.01.2011.  The Scheme provides a certain percentage as lump sum at the time of discharge plus mandatory investment of certain percentage in annuity that would provide them monthly benefits in the shape of pension.
5	Leave	Gramin Dak Sevaks are allowed to be granted 20 days paid leave in a year without accumulation.
6	Limited Transfer Facility	Gramin Dak Sevaks are provided with the facility of limited transfer in cases of posting at a distant place on redeployment in the event of abolition of the post, on being appointed on compassionate grounds and posted at distant place, on marriage/remarriage of woman GDS, on suffering extreme hardship due to a disease and for medical attention/treatment of self on production of valid medical certificate from the medical officer of a Government Hospital and on requirement of looking after the welfare of a physically handicapped/mentally handicapped person/dependant requiring to move to different places to give support to such dependant. Such facility is provided for only one transfer during the entire career and on rendering a minimum service of 3 years subject to fulfillment of other conditions. Based on recommendation made by one man Committee, an exception has been made for women Gramin Dak Sevaks, who availed the transfer facility on the ground of extreme hardship due to a disease and for medical attention/treatment before their marriage and now they can avail the facility for a second time in the event of their marriage/re-marriage.
7	Assistance from Welfare Fund	Following assistance from welfare fund are allowed to the Gramin Dak Sevaks:- S. No. Name of Welfare Scheme Admissible amount of Financial Assistance 1 Financial Assistance in case of death Rs. 7000/- 2 Death occurring due to enemy action in war or border skirmishes or action against militants, terrorists, extremists, etc. Rs. 1,50,000/- 3 Funeral Expenses* Rs.500/- 4 Nutritional diet to the GDS suffering from Tuberculosis : (a)     Indoor treatment. (b)   Outdoor treatment. Rs.400/- p.m. Rs.200/- p.m. 5 Financial Assistance in case of prolonged and serious illness / major surgeries Rs. 5000/- 6 Scholarship and book award scheme To ensure better coverage for GDSs, their wards be granted relaxation by 10% marks as in case of SCs/STs and OBCs, in so far as grant of book award is concerned. *Payable from the Circle Welfare Fund, only in cases in which last rites of deceased Postal Employee are performed by brothers or sisters or near relatives in the absence of any other next of kin.
8	Compassionate Engagement	A new transparent Scheme for engagement of dependents GDS on compassionate grounds with merit points and procedure for selection has been introduced allocating points for each attribute of indigence on a 100 Point Scale. Spouse [widows] has been allowed 15 grace points over and over. Hard and deserving cases have been prescribed as cases over and above 50 Points.
9	Medical Facilities	GDS being a separate and distinct category, they are not covered by CS (MA) Rules and they are also not extended the CGHS facility. Under the existing provisions, they are allowed financial assistance to the extent of Rs. 5000/-from Circle Welfare Fund provided such GDS must have put in at least six years of service in the Department, treatment should have been taken from Government hospital and produced medical certificates and the illness is at least 2 months old. Regional/Circle Heads have been conferred discretionary powers to sanction financial assistance to the extent of Rs. 10000/- in each case. In rare and exceptional circumstances, further financial assistance can also be considered from Central Welfare Fund.
10	Avenues for absorption on regular departmental posts	GDS being Extra Departmental, their absorption as departmental employee to the cadre of MTS/Postman/PA is through direct recruitment under the statutory recruitment rules. Under the statutory Recruitment Rules of the cadre of MTS, GDS are considered for 25% vacancies against seniority quota and further 25% vacancies through Limited Departmental Examination (LDE). As per Recruitment Rules of Postman cadre, GDS are considered against 50% vacancies through LDE. In addition, GDS can also be considered for direct recruitment to the post of Postal Assistant (PA) / Sorting Assistant (SA) against unfilled promotion quota vacancies of PA/SA on the basis of examination subject to fulfillment of the following conditions as on 01st January of the vacancy year:- (i)                 GDS should have obtained at least 50% marks in 10+2 standard or 12th class with English as a compulsory subject (excluding vocational streams) and have put in a minimum service of 5 years (ii)               They should be within 30 years of age (35 years for SC/ST & 33 years for OBC)

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Railway Recruitment Board: Common Examination for the ALP & Technician 

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

RAILWAY BOARD)

RRCB NO. 01/2014 

No. 2013/E(RRB)/25/28

New Delhi, Dated. 17.01.2014

The Chairpersons,
All Railway Recruitment Boards.

Sub.: Streamlining of working of RRBs-Holding of common RRB examination for the ALP & Technician.

Ref.: Board's letter No.2009/E(RRB)/25/20 dated 28.10.2009 (RRCB No. 04/2009).

Vide Board's letter under reference comprehensive orders on the streamlining of functioning of RRB were issued. This process has been under constant review and scrutiny based on the experiences of examination held against CEN of 2010, 2011 & 2012 so that the RRBs exams can be held in more efficient and cost effective manner. It has been noticed that minimum educational qualification for the two categories of ALPs & Technicians being common ( i.e. ITI in the relevant trade) , most of the candidates applying for these categories are common. Still, conventionally two different notifications and exams have been issued/organized for these two categories separately. This results in holding two different exams for same set of candidates on two different occasions and also if the candidate is selected in both the exams, he joins against one category of posts leaving the other vacant. This is also one of the reasons for short Panels.

2.  To streamline and standardize selection procedure and also to address the problem of short panels in critical safety categories like ALP & Technicians, Board has decided for holding a common RRB examination for the ALP and Technicians categories from 2014 onwards, For this, the following changes in the existing recruitment system are being introduced with immediate effect.

Post	Times in Minutes	No. of questions
ALP & Technician	90	Gen. Awareness	Arithmetic	Gen. Intelligence & reasoning	General Science	Technical Ability	Total
		20	20	15	15	30	100

(i) Nodal RRB/Chennai will issue a common Centralized Employment Notification on behalf of all the participating RRBs for these two categories of post viz. ALPs & Technicians.

(ii) For the selection of ALP & Technician, a common written examination will be conducted on the same day simultaneously by all the participating RRBs in one or more sessions depending upon the numbers of candidates applying for the examination on that RRB.

3.  A common structure of question papers for the written examination of the categories of ALP & Technicians should be followed/adopted as detailed under, which is in supersession of Boards letter No. 2009/E(RRB)/25/20 pt. dated 05.01.2011(RRCB No. 1/2011) for these two categories :

4.  As per the existing instructions, candidates to the tune of five times the vacancies are short listed for appearing in the Psycho- Tests for ALPs. It has now been decided that the number of candidates to be short-listed for Psycho Test may be increased to eight times of the vacancies subject to securing minimum qualifying marks prescribed for respective community in the written examination on the same lines as ASMs communicated vide Board's letter No. 2013/E(RRB)/25/23 dated 08.10.2013 (RRCB No. 1/2013)

5.  With a view to avoid shortfall while preparing the panels, if any, the zone of stand by/waiting list is also being increased from present 30% to 50% for the above mentioned categories combined together

6.  It should be clearly brought out in all the communications to the candidates that a candidate once empanelled for any of the posts depending on his choice/merit position will not be considered for alternative appointment later if he is found medically unfit. Therefore, the candidates, in their own interest, should satisfy themselves about fulfilling the prescribed medical standards before opting for various posts.

These modifications are issued with the approval of Board and may be implemented from CEN01/2014 onwards.

Joint Director, Estt. (RRB)

Railway Board

Source: http://www.airfindia.com/Orders%202014/RRCB%201_2014_17.01.2014.pdf

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SANCHAY POST DATABASES CONSISTENCY ISSUE AND SOLUTION 

SQL Databases Consistency Error And Solution

In most of the time SQL database shows error or not accessible while we check database using DBCC, it shows consistency error.

Example:

DBCC results for SIGN database : 

CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 125 consistency errors in table 'DCL.scan_record_table' (object ID 1977058079).

CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 125 consistency errors in database 'SIGN'

Solution

1. The problem relates to corrupted tables in the SIGN database.
2. Run the  query given below from SQL Query Analyser after taking a backup.
3. Run the queries one by one. On successful execution of first query, you run the second query.  On successful execution of first query, you run the second query. After running the second query for each set of queries, copy down the results and send it to us.
4. Also ensure that all users are logged out of sanchaypost.

sp_dboption 'SIGN', 'single user', 'true'
go

dbcc checkdb ('SIGN', REPAIR_REBUILD)
go

sp_dboption 'SIGN', 'single user', 'false'
go

After this, once again run 'DBAnalyzer >> DB Utilities >> Check database consistency' for SIGN database.

If any issue with above query kindly contact SDC Chennai

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