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CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
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Ref: Conf/HQ/GENL Dated 15.12.2013
NOTICE
It is hereby notified that the Extended National Executive Meeting of the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers will be held at NFPE Office (North Avenue PO Building) New Delhi – 110001 on 10.01.2014(Friday, 10th January 2014). The meeting shall commence at 10:00 AM and Continue till close. All Office bearers, Chief Executives of affiliated organisations and General Secretaries of C-O-C are requested to attend the meeting. The following shall be the agenda of the meeting.
AGENDA
1. Modified 15 Point Charter of demands and future course of action including strike.
2. Financial Review
3. Any other items with permission of the chair.
Yours fraternally
(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
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To
Com. S. K. Vyas, Advisor, Confederation – He is requested to attend the meeting.
Com. K. K. N. Kutty, President, Confederation
All office bearers, Chief Executives of affiliated organizations, & General Secretaries of C-O-CsIndia Post's plans for 2014 - As told by Mrs P. Gopinath, Secretary, Department of Posts
India Post has grand plans for 2014. It launched two new parcel services recently - Express Parcel and Business Parcel - which it hopes will generate Rs 100 crore in annual revenue. It is working closely with e-commerce players. It has also begun a campaign urging people to send New Year greeting cards by post.
P Gopinath, Secretary, Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, lists out India Post's plans for 2014.
Employment News : Job Highlights ( 04th – 10th January 2014)
- National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Limited. Name of Post – Trainee Engineer. No. of Vacancies - 180. Last Date - 21.01.2014
- Central Industrial Security Force. Name of Post – Constable (Bandsman-cum-GD). No. of Vacancies - 123 Last Date - 08.02.2014
- Department Of Posts. Name of Post – Multi Tasking Staff (MTS). No. of Vacancies - 82. Last Date - 13.01.2014
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna. Name of Post – Registrar, Junior Engineer, Medical Physicist, Store Keeper etc. No. of Vacancies - 59. Last Date – 31.01.2014.
- Central Employment Exchange. Name of Post – Pharmacist, Navigational Assistant Grade II, and Technician. No. of Vacancies - 32. Last Date - 27.01.2014.
- Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women. Name of Post – Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professors. No. of Vacancies - 23. Last Date - 20.01.2014.
- Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Name of Post – Deputy Controller of Accounts, House Keeper, Kitchen. Supervisor, Pharmacist ‘B’ etc. No. of Vacancies - 15. Last Date - for online application is 10.01.2014 upto 05.30 p.m. & receiving. hard copy of online applications is 17.01.2014.
- Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi. Name of Post – Assistant Professor. No. of Vacancies – 23. Last Date – 25.01.2014.
- National Board of Examination. Name of Post – Multi Skill Assistants. No. of Vacancies – 15. Last Date – 60 days after publication.
- Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Kanpur. Name of Post – Pharmacist (Allopathic), Staff Nurse Grade I, Pharmacist cum Clerk etc. No. of Vacancies – 13. Last Date – 21 days after publication.
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Louis Braille’s
4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired. As a small child, Braille was blinded in an accident; as a boy he developed a mastery over that blindness; and as a young man – still a student at school – he created a revolutionary form of communication that transcended blindness and transformed the lives of millions of persons. Almost two centuries later, the braille system remains an invaluable tool of learning and communication for the blind, and it has been adapted for languages worldwide.
Braille was determined to fashion a system of reading and writing that could bridge the critical gap in communication between the sighted and the blind. In his own words: "Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we [the blind] are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending sighted people. We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals – and communication is the way this can be brought about.
Braille worked tirelessly on his ideas, and his system was largely completed by 1824, when he was just fifteen years of age. From Barbier's night writing, he innovated by simplifying its form and maximizing its efficiency. He made uniform columns for each letter, and he reduced the twelve raised dots to six. He published his system in 1829, and by the second edition in 1837 had discarded the dashes because they were too difficult to read. Crucially, Braille's smaller cells were capable of being recognized as letters with a single touch of a finger.
Braille created his own raised-dot system by using an awl, the same kind of implement which had blinded him. In the process of designing his system, he also designed an ergonomic interface for using it, based on Barbier's own slate and stylus tools: by soldering two thin bars across the slate, he created a secure area for the stylus which would keep the lines straight and readable. By these modest means, Braille constructed a robust communication system: "it bears the stamp of genius" wrote Dr. Richard Slating French, former director of the California School for the Blind, "like the Roman alphabet itself
Although Braille was admired and respected by his pupils, his writing system was not taught at the Institute during his lifetime. The successors of Valentin Haüy, who had died in 1822, showed no interest in altering the established methods of the school, and indeed, they were actively hostile to its use. Dr. Alexandre François-René Pignier, headmaster at the school, was dismissed from his post after he had a history book translated into braille.
Braille had always been a sickly child, and his condition worsened in adulthood. A persistent respiratory illness, long believed to be tuberculosis, dogged him, and by the age of forty, he was forced to relinquish his position as a teacher. When his condition reached mortal danger, he was taken back to his family home in Coupvray, where he died in 1852, two days after he had reached the age of forty-three.
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Latest Current Affairs- December 2013 Fourth Week (PDF Download)
Latest Current Affairs from Fourth Week of December 2013 in PDF- useful for all competitive Examinations!!!!!
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Q1. Arvind Kejriwal, the convener of the newly launched Aam Aadmi Party sworn in as the ......th Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013 at a function in Ramlila Maidan?
Ans. Seventh
Note: Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung administered the oath of office and secrecy to Kejriwal. Apart from Kejriwal, six other MLAs namely Manish Sisodia, Somnath Bharti, Saurabh Bhrdwaj, Rakhi Birla, Satyendra Kumar Jain and Girish Soni also took oath as Cabinet Ministers.
Q2. Which High Court on 26 December 2013 banned the junk food items in plastic packing and directed to implement the ban in the state from 26 January 2014?
Ans. Himachal Pradesh
Q3. Who was appointed as new head of NSG (National Security Guard) on 26 December 2013?
Ans. J.N.Chaudhary
Note: He will take his charge from incumbent Arvind Ranjan. He had also served in Intelligence Bureau. He is due to retire in May 2015.
Q4. Who was appointed the full time chief of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on 26 December 2013?
Ans. Arvind Ranjan
Note: Ranjan took over his charge from January. He will take his charge from incumbent Director General Rajiv.
Q5. Who won her sixth consecutive title at the 34th National Archery Championships at JRD Tata Stadium of PSPB, Jamshedpur on 25 December 2013?
Ans. Deepika Kumari
Note: Deepika by winning the sixth National title consecutively has set the record of winning the most individual titles at the national meet. Earlier it was Dola Banerjee who won five national titles.
Q6. Name the South African cricket all-rounder who will retire from test and first class cricket after the second Test against India in Durban as announced by him on 25 December 2013?Visit: www.currentaffairs4examz.com
Ans. Jacques Kallis
Q7. Who took an additional charge of the Environment and Forests Ministry after the exit of Jayanthi Natarajan on 24 December 2013?
Ans. M. Veerappa Moily
Q8. Name the inventor of the AK47 weapon who died at the age of 94 due to ill-health on 23 December 2013 in Izhevsk, Udmurtia province of Russian Republic?
Ans. Mikhail Kalashnikov
Q9. Who took the charge as the President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on 21 December 2013?
Ans. Sidharth Birla
Note: He is the Chairman of Xpro India Limited. Sidharth Birla succeeded the HSBC India Country Head Naina Lal Kidwai.
Q10. Who has been appointed the new Governor of Manipur on 23 December 2013?
Ans. Vinod Kumar Duggal
Note: He was the former Home Secretary
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Q11. Who won the men’s and women’s titles respectively at the 78th Senior National Badminton Championship in Siri Fort Sports Complex at New Delhi on 23 December 2013?
Ans. Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu
Q12. Which international airport in India was awarded the Sword of Honour for safety management in London in the second week of December 2013?
Ans. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Hyderabad
Q13. Which club defeated Raja Casablanca 2-0 in the finals of the third club World Cup 2013 and became the new world champions?
Ans. Bayern Munich
Q14. First human artificial heart implantation performed in which country on 18 December 2013?
Ans. France
Q15. Name the person who developed a vaccine for the chicken pox virus who died at the age of 85 due to heart failure on 23 December 2013 in Osaka, Japan?
Ans. Dr. Michiaki Takahashi
Note: Takahashi developed the vaccine for the chicken pox in 1972.
Q16. Who became the fourth Indian bowler to claim 300 wickets in Test Cricket by claiming wicket of Jacques Kallis on 22 December 2013?
Ans. Zaheer Khan
Note: Other Indian bowlers to claim more than 300 wickets are Kapil Dev (434 wickets), Anil Kumble (619 wickets) and Harbhajan Singh (413 wickets).
Q17. Name the safety application that enables friends and family of Windows phone users to track them in real time introduced by Microsoft India on 26 December 2013 in Hyderabad?
Ans. Guardian
Q18. Name the Veteran Bollywood actor who died on 28 December 2013 due to heart attack in Dubai?
Ans. Farooq Sheikh
Note: He was best known for roles in films like Garam Hawa (1973), Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977), Noorie (1979), Chashme Baddoor (1981), Umrao Jaan (1981), Bazaar (1982) and Kissi Se Na Kehna (1983). He won 2010 National Film Award for best supporting actor in Lahore (a sports film).
Q19. Union Cabinet on 26 December 2013 approved the pension proposal for 43000 employees of which organization, who joined the public sector company from the Department of Telecom (DoT)?
Ans. MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd)
Q20. Union Cabinet on 26 December 2013 approved the constitutional status to a proposed which commission for appointment and transfer of judges to the higher judiciary?
Ans. Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC)
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Q21. Ministry of civil aviation on 26 December 2013 appointed whom as new Civil Aviation Secretary?
Ans. Ashok Lavasa
Note: He would take his new post on 1 January 2014.He will take charge from incumbent K.N.Srivastava.
Q22. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 26 December 2013 approved the proposal of which bank to increase its foreign investment from 49 percent to 62 percent?
Ans. Axis Bank
Q23. Government of India in a major step to allow more autonomy to CBI placed the agency’s which wing under the command of the CBI Director, making his word final in investigations on 25 December 2013?
Ans. Legal Wing
Q24. Name the saving bonds launched by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 23 December 2013?
Ans. Inflation Indexed Saving Bonds
Q25. Government of India puts a way ahead to launch Cash subsidy on ......... after the successful implementation of cash subsidy on LPG for BPL (below poverty line) families?
Ans. Kerosene
Q26. Which bowler was declared on the No. 1 position in the latest ICC Test rankings in bowling released on 24 December 2013?
Ans. Vernon Philander of South Africa
Q27. Which day was observed across India on 24 December 2013 with the objective of providing better protection of consumer’s interest?
Ans. National Consumers Right Day
Q28. Who became the Indian Ambassador of US recently?
Ans. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Note: He is the successor of Nirupama Rao and his position in Beijing will be taken by Ashok k. kantha.
Q29. Name the nuclear capable ballistic missile which was successfully test-fired by India on 23 December 2013?
Ans. Agni-III
Q30. Name the England spinner who announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket midway through the Ashes Series on 22 December 2013?
Ans. Graeme Swann
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Q31. Which day was observed across the country on 23 December 2013 to celebrate the birthday of Chaudhary Charan Singh?
Ans. Kisan Diwas
Note: Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 Dec 1902 - 29 May 1987) was the fifth Prime Minister of India. He served as the Prime Minister from 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980. Chaudhary Charan Singh holds the record of being the only Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliamentary floor for a single day after assuming the office.
Q32. Who became the youngest person to reach the summit of Aconcagua, the highest mountain of America on 27 December 2013?
Ans. Tyler Armstrong
Note: The nine year old boy of United States climbed the mountain in the Argentine Andes with his father and Tibetan Sherpa, Lhawang Dhondup.
Q33. Which country on 28 December 2013 adopted a resolution that eases the one child policy of the country?
Ans. China
Note: The resolution was passed by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC). The resolution has allowed the couples of China to have two children if either parents is an only child.
Q34. Union Government on 24 December 2013 launched which project to make people e-literate?
Ans. e-inclusion
Q35. High Court asked Telugu actors Mohan Babu and actor Brahmanandam to return the Padma Awards as the recipients carried the Padma Shri as prefix in the title cards of the movie Denikina Ready violating which article of the Indian constitution?
Ans. Article 18(1)
Note: According to the article 18(1) of the constitution the award does not carry any monetary grant and the award cannot be used as a prefix or suffix to the recipient’s name.
Q36. Beverages and snacks major PepsiCo India planned to invest over 1200 crore rupees to build a new beverage manufacturing facility in Sri City of which state recently?
Ans. Andhra Pradesh
Q37. Name the veteran journalist and first editor of The Statesman who died on 22 December 2013 at the age of 92?
Ans. Pran Chopra
Q38. Name the renowned Kannada poet who died on 23 December 2013 in Bangalore?
Ans. Rashtrakavi G. S. Shivarudrappa
Q39. To combat Obesity and Diabetes, which country opened world’s first standing classroom?
Ans. Australia
Q40. Egypt’s ruling Government declared which group a terrorist group on 25 December 2013?
Ans. Muslim Brotherhood
Note: The decision came after government officials blamed the Brotherhood for a suicide bombing at a police headquarters in north of Cairo that killed 16 people. Founded in Egypt by Hassan al-Banna in March 1928, the group spread to other Muslim countries but has its largest, or one of its largest, organizations in Egypt.
Q41. Group of Islamic Scholars in Kashmir issued a fatwa on 26 December 2013 that women, whose husbands are missing for the past ...... years, can remarry?
Ans. Four
Q42. Centre for Economic and Business Research (CERB) study released in December 2013 has predicted that which country will overtake Germany as Europe’s largest economy by 2030?
Ans. UK
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Minimum wage & Pay fixation forumala for 7th CPC worked out
Providing proper minimum wage of Rs 27000/- for CG Employees including that of GDS employees and pay fixation formula for 7th CPC worked out .
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E-BILLER FEE RECEIPT/TRANSACTION ID PROBLEM
E-BILLER FEE RECEIPT/TRANSACTION ID PROBLEM
Some times System Administrators are in fix, when customer (who have deposited their fees e.g. CBSE, AIPMT etc. in e-Post Office) ask for Transaction ID in lieu or complains that Receipt No. Printed on MPCM Receipt is shown as Invalid or Not accepted by E-Biller’s software on Website.
It repeatedly shows the error “Please Enter your Transaction ID” while they are taking Final Confirmation Print of their Application. Concerned SPM is being pressed to execute e-Payment client, repeatedly, but in vain. This not only a tough time for System Administrator & PM/SPM but also a huge Loss of Revenue to our Department as Private Shopkeepers/Typists incourage applicants to deposit their Fees in Banks only, because Banks provides Transaction ID as per the formate of E-Biller.
The Simple Solution is :................
If E-Biller Website asks, Transaction ID of Nine digits and Our MPCP Receipt No. is 2, then Fill the Column as 000000002 (Put eight 0s before 2 to complete Nine Digits) if Transaction ID is of 13 digits then Fill the Column as 0000000000002 (Put twelve 0s before 2 to complete 13 digits).
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