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Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Lists and rates of artificial appliances for CGHS / CS(MA) beneficiaries and General Guidelines for eligibility criteria therefore

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Revised Recruitment Rules of HSG-I cadre published in The Gazette of India

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AN ODE TO OUR LEADER



“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”

The man who shouldered the burden of multitudes
The man who simmered the anger of anguished
The man who trimmed the egos of many at Authority
The man who burned the midnight oil to light the way
The man who bridged the hearts and minds
The man who broke the walls of inertia
The man who oiled the wheels of NFPE
The man who toiled to spread the wings and span the sky
The man who unfurled the legacy
The man who hoisted the spirit of sacrifice
The man who tread the path of struggle
Walking free to hug and celebrate the comradery.
He is our flag Mast; He is our Long March.
Com. Krishnan Long Live! Com. Krishnan Zindabad!!
NFPE Zindabad!!!
**************

COPIED FROM AIPAEA WEBSITE

Soon, attendance of govt staff to be tracked online through attendance.gov.in


In what could be a revolutionary step towards monitoring and tracking the work of government officials, the NDA government has launched an “attendance website” to serve as a centralised database for all central government employees.

Though the website, attendance.gov.in, is still in the process of being developed, officials said it is expected to be modelled on the lines of similar websites of the Jharkhand government and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

To illustrate, the home page of the Jharkhand government’s attendance website gives the total number of employees present on the given day, along with graphical representations of “real-time attendance” and statistics on the percentage of people logging into office during different time slots, giving an idea of how many officials come to office during the designated timings. Further, a search for any REGISTERED employee yields complete details, along with the employee’s attendance/leave status.

Officials said the Centre’s website is likely to emulate most of these features and is expected to be as open to the public. “This level of open tracking takes transparency to another level, a key focus of this government,” said an official.

The Narendra Modi government had recently directed all central government offices to introduce Aadhaar-based biometric attendance systems. Officials said this website is the next step in that direction. The attendance record entered on the biometric devices in government offices will feed the data to this website, which will act as a centralised management information system (MIS) for attendance.

The database for all central government staff will be maintained centrally with a unique six digit ID provided for each employee, based on either the last six or first six digits of the Aadhaar number. Currently, the website has over 16,000 registered users, spread across 113 organisations. The maximum number of officials registered currently are from the Planning Commission. There are no active users or active devices yet.

For an organisation/ department to be registered, the nodal officers of that department will have to login to the website and create a master list of locations of their offices, designation of their offices and divisions/ units/ groups within their organisation. Following this, each employee can start REGISTERING online by submitting the relevant details along with Aadhaar numbers.






Exclusivity of Central Government Health Scheme to be phased out

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

29-August-2014 10:46 IST

Exclusivity of Central Government Health Scheme to be phased out 
Health Minister ushers in new era of transparency in departmental working.

Beginning September 1, 2014 the doors of 20 Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) wellness centres in Delhi will be thrown open to senior citizens from among the public for free consultation.

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, unveiled today a pilot project with wide ramifications for the future of public health care. There was wide criticism of the CGHS’ closed door policy towards people in need of medical help who were not family members of central government employees.

This is a pilot project for now. We will see how much demand accrues for the CGHS clinics and the ability of the clinics to handle demand from the general public before extending the service to more people in more cities,” Dr Harsh Vardhan said.

The service for senior citizens will be available on all working days between 1.30 pm and 3 pm. They will however not be given free medicines which is only for central employees.

On his first day in office, Dr Harsh Vardhan had announced that governance in all the outreach departments of the Ministry of Health would be made transparent. Within the first three months, the CGHS has completed a thorough review of its operations with the intention of identifying vulnerable spots which often OFFERscope for corruption.

The Minister has ordered that all information regarding medical claims that are pending for more than 30 days be put on the website, http://msotransparent.nic.in/cghsnew/index.asp. Over the years complaints had been piling up over the opaqueness of the process of reimbursing claims.

There were also complaints of CGHS doctors prescribing branded drugs beyond the approved list. Taking all factors into consideration, it has been decided that all beneficiaries and the public at large ought to know which the drugs are on the list and so they will be on view on the above-mentioned website, the Health Minister stated.

Dr Harsh Vardhan reiterated that henceforth only 1,447 generic and 622 branded medicines will be prescribed. Exceptions will be made only for patients suffering from cancer and similar diseases.

Additionally, it has been decided that CGHS beneficiaries will be provided with medicines for a maximum of one month. In case they are going abroad for extended periods, the medicines will be given for three months, he informed.

The CGHS doctors will be forbidden to prescribe investigations or implants that are not listed. A technical committee has been constituted to update the list of medicines, investigations, procedures, implants and other procedures of treatment.

Dr Harsh Vardhan said he is considering broad reforms in all wings of the ministry. “I encourage people, especially the media, to probe our affairs so that over time the employees realize the futility of trying to be corrupt. In addition, I will use information technology to prevent corruption at source.” 


1,84,68,000 Accounts Opened in more than 70000 Camps Under Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
29-August-2014 

1,84,68,000 Accounts Opened in more than 70000 Camps Under Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana

Banks to hold such Camps on Weekly Basis, from 8 am to 8 pm on all saturdays to Achieve the Target of Covering Unbanked Households well in Time.

Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojna, an ambitious programme on FINANCIALInclusion to cover about 7.5 crore unbanked households in the country was launched here by the Prime Minister yesterday from Vigyan Bhawan. The Prime Minister has also asked that the target of opening 7.5 crore bank accounts is to be completed by 26th January, 2015.

Simultaneous launch functions were held in State Capitals and Districts through 79 Mega Camps in presence of the Union Ministers, the State Chief Ministers, MPs/MLAs and other dignitaries. In all more than 70000 camps were held all over the country and 1,84,68,000 accounts were opened.

It has been decided that henceforth, the bank will be holding such camps on weekly basis, from 8 am to 8 pm on all Saturdays so that the target of covering unbanked households is achieved well in time.

Under the scheme, a person from an unbanked household, opening an account will get a RuPay debit card with a Rs. 1 lakh accident insurance cover. An additional Rs. 30,000 life insurance cover for the accounts opened up to 26th January, 2015 was also announced by Hon’ble Prime Minister. The modalities of this additional life cover are being worked out by the Department of FINANCIALServices.

Beneficiaries, who already have a bank account, are also eligible to take benefits of accident insurance of Rs. 1 lakh and life insurance of Rs. 30,000 under this scheme by getting a RuPay card issued from their bank branch before 26th January, 2015. 


25 AWESOME TIPS FOR BEAUTIFUL LIFE!!!



1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. 

3. When you wake up in the morning, Pray to ask God’s guidance for your purpose, today. 

4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants. 

5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, broccoli, and almonds. 

6. Try to make at least three people smile each day. 

7. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. 
Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment. 

8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card. 

9. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 

10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive them for everything ! 

11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 

12. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 

13. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present. 

14. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 

15. No one is in charge of your happiness except you. 

16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’ 

17. Help the needy, Be generous ! Be a ‘Giver’ not a ‘Taker’ 

18. What other people think of you is none of your business. 

19. Time heals everything. 

20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 

21. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch. 

22. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. 

23. Each night before you go to bed ,Pray to God and Be thankful for what you’ll accomplish, today ! 

24. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed. 

25.Inform these tips to everyone and help them lead a happier life…!!!!

Facts about GOOGLE"


1. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.


2. Google’s Home Page Has 63 Validation Errors. Don’t believe it?: Check Google Validation

3. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.

4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

5. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.

6. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.

7. Google has the largest network of translators in the world.

8. Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

9. Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.

10. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.

11. Googal is a mathematical term 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasne.

12. Number of languages in which you can have the Google home page set up, including Urdu, Latin and Klingon: 88

13. Google translates billions of HTML web pages into a display format for WAP and i-mode phones and wireless hand held devices.

14. Google uses Page rank algorithm for search, in which each is page is given a weight and pages are weighed based on the maximum no. of views the page has and relevance to the search keyword....


ay God Bless You
Originating from the Land of God
Holding the name “Krishnan”,
Embraces the Working Class with love
And serves the entire nation.


Oh! Proud son of the soil
Hi! Sincere friend,
You have no retirement
Your work has no end.
Govt. job defines retirement
But service to mankind not,
Work is still ahead of you
To proceed without but.
You will retire from a particular field
And that’s a mere formality,
You can’t give up the work we know
Superannuation won’t make any disparity.
An ardent lover and accredited leader you are
Not worried about your retirement day,
Work is not past of you
Allow me these words to say.

Not seen martyrs of P&T Trade Union Movement
Neither Babu Tarapada nor Dada Ghose,
Sacrificing their lives for benefit of Postal employees
Including Henry Barton and K G Bose.
But we are the fortunate witness of all your activities
Pioneering the past glories of our ancestors,
Crusading quite effervescently   without rest
Really! A veritable follower of the proud leaders.
You just continue your hard works silently
Allow success to make the noise,
Division to CHQ / NFPE to Confederation
What a great poise!
All India Postal Employees Union Group-C
And National Federation of Postal Employees,
Leaded by you efficiently with recoded achievements
Including Confederation of Central Govt. Employees.
You are the one and only one to lead as such
The entire working class is blessed and obliged,
Postal employees are too proud of you
For your bargaining skill and stands uncompromised.
Growth of the oppressed undulates your heart
Welfare of the working class remains the only aim,
Work for the GDS and Casual Workers even
Amidst onslaughts circumventing flawed blame.
Coalescing leadership and abundant confidence
Compelled the Govt. to form 7th Pay Commission,
The Central Government Employees’ Movement
Under your leadership really got a new dimension.
Performed throughout meticulously
Remaining chirpy and brisk,
Worked hard against injustice
Shouldering horrendous risk.
The Postal Workers have no words
To express their thanks and gratitude,
You have sacrificed your entire career
Redressing their grievances in positive attitude.
May you always have work for your hands to do
May the sun shine bright on your window pane,
May your pockets hold always a coin or two
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.

May the hands of a friend be always near
May God fill your heart with joy to cheer,
May God bless you to work better
May God sanctify you to perform smarter.
= Bruhaspati  Samal =
Secretary, AIPEU, Gr.-C
Bhubaneswar
Source : http://aipeup3bbsr.blogspot.in/

WinRAR 5.11 released for download




WinRAR is an archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits. It supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. It also offers the ability to create self extracting and multi volume archives. With recovery record and recovery volumes, you can reconstruct even physically damaged archives.
What's new in this version, fixed bugs:

  • WinRAR can unpack TAR archives containing folders with pax extended headers. Previous versions failed to unpack them.
  • "Keep broken files" extraction option is supported for 7-Zip archives.
Bugs fixed:
  • WinRAR 5.10 did not set "hidden", "read-only" and "system" file attributes when unpacking ZIP archives.
  • WinRAR 5.10 failed to update self-extracting RAR archives containing nested ZIP archives stored without compression.
  • ZIP archive created with "Do not store paths" option included unnecessary empty name records for folders.
  • Archived files could have 1 hour modification time error in Windows XP.
  • Deleting a file in RAR5 solid archive containing files stored with -ver switch caused such files to lose version information.
  • Black rectangles were displayed instead of toolbar buttons in 16- and 24- bit screen color modes and Windows custom text size larger than 100%.
Download: WinRAR 32-bit | WinRAR 64-bit | ~1.8 MB (Shareware)

Free software to lock Windows using USB Pen Drive


Protecting your computer with a USB has always been an additional feature for securing your Windows computer. If you leave your PC alone for short intervals, then using a USB for locking your Windows PC is recommended for you, as it is instant and safe. You just need to take out your USB drive and boom, your PC is locked – and the instant you plug it back again, it will be unlocked. It is a fast way of locking and unlocking Windows as compared to other methods.
 Today we will list a few free software that will allow you to to password protect, lock, unlock Windows PC using USB Pen Drive. Let us have a look at them.

Lock Windows using USB

Predator

predator usb 400x356 Free software to lock Windows using USB Pen DrivePredator is a free software that turns a USB drive into a key that can be used to lock or unlock your computer. Even if you are logged into your computer and you plug out the USB drive, the computer will automatically stop responding. As soon as you remove the USB drive, the keyboard and mouse will stop working and when and the screen will turn dark. And when you again plug the USB back to its place, the computer will revert back normal. 
WinLockr
edit 400x255 Free software to lock Windows using USB Pen DriveWinLockr is another freeware that lets you lock or unlock your Windows computer using a USB flash drive. It supports automatic Keyboard Locking. In addition to this, it comes with a nice Shutdown prevention feature, that prevents shutdowns or restarts while it is active. The full screen mode hides away everything from the screen so that no one can view your activity. Read more about WinLockr here.

USB System Lock

USL is an open source USB locking freeware that lets you lock and unlock your device using a USB flash drive. The software can run on almost all USB devices, including MP3 players, Card Readers, etc. There is a limitation of this software, and that it can protect your computer only under normal boot. It fails to run under Safe Boot. Despite its limitations it is a good software overall. Click here to download USB System Lock.
442591 Free software to lock Windows using USB Pen Drive
These apps are very good at their task and can help you out in maintaining an addition layer of security for your Windows computer. If you frequently leave your desk then you must have one of these apps, so that while leaving your desk you can instantly lock your computer by plugging out the USB and again instantly unlock your computer by plugging in the USB drive.

Courtesy : http://bnjho.blogspot.in/

Andhra mulls roping in Postal Dept for various govt schemes


Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary I Y R Krishna Rao on Saturday emphasised the need to leverage rural post office networks for financial inclusion and delivery of state government releases, including salaries to anganwadi workers and payment of utility bills, among others.

"The utilisation of the rural postal network by the State government should be further explored and expanded," an official release quoted Rao as saying.
He was reviewing the aspect of coordination with the Postal Department for financial inclusion programme of the state government at the Secretariat here.
The Postal Department is already involved in the distribution of wages of NREGS and pensions in 383 mandals out of a total of 661 in the state.
"The department had 8,793 branch post offices and 1,503 sub post offices and 59 head post offices spread across 661 mandals of the state. All of them could be utilised for delivery of all government services and releases to farmers, widows, students and also SHG groups as part of the financial inclusion programme," Rao added.
He said the State Rural Development Department would be asked to give a feed back on the ongoing programmes and the feasibility of utilising the entire postal network in other remaining mandals for a variety of other services and deliveries.
According to the official, the number of other government schemes that could be brought under the postal network were disbursements of the 'Ma Inti Mahalakshmi' scheme, salaries to anganwadi workers, Janani Suraksha scheme of Health department, collection of electricity, water and other bills, municipal taxes, sales tax, etc, payment of scholarships, allowances to the disabled in areas in which their network exists.
Possibility of sale of non-judicial stamp papers through rural post offices involving government schemes like sale of agricultural inputs would also be examined, he added.

PTI
Source : http://zeenews.india.com/


Worlds 8 Superb Sentences


Worlds 8 Superb Sentences

Shakespeare.
"Never Play With The Feelings Of Others Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For A Life Time".


Napoleon.
"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, But because of the silence of good people!"

Einstein.
"I am thankful to all those who said NO to me It's because of them I did it myself."

Abraham Lincoln.
"If friendship is your weakest point then You are the strongest person in the world."

Shakespeare.
"Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It".

William Arthur.
"Opportunities Are Like Sunrises, If You Wait Too Long You Can Miss Them".

Hitler.
"When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You."

Shakespeare.
"Coin Always Makes Sound But The Currency Notes Are Always Silent. So When Your Value Increases Keep Quiet.


Government notifies new pension rules to check delays


In a step aimed at checking harassment of government employees in grant of pension, a head of office will now be responsible for any failure to ascertain non-qualifying service period and will undertake preparation of paper work one year before an employee is due to retire. 

According to new pension rules notified by the government, retiring employees will not have to face any delay in determination of pension due to deficiency in application forms and authorities can go ahead with determining the amount of provisional pension and provisional retirement gratuity. 

Till now, employees had to run from pillar to post in many cases to get their service record verified. 

As per new rules, every head of office shall undertake the work of preparation of pension papers in Form 7 one year before the date on which a government servant is due to retire on superannuation, or on the date on which he proceeds on leave preparatory to retirement, whichever is earlier. Earlier, the time period to undertake such work was two years. 

Also, if any portion of service rendered by a government servant is not capable of being verified in the manner specified in rules, then the government servant shall be asked to file a written statement on plain paper within a month, stating that he had in fact rendered service for that period, and shall, at the foot of the statement, make and subscribe to a declaration as to the truth of that statement. 

The head of office shall, after taking into consideration the facts in the written statement admit that portion of service as having been rendered for the purpose of calculating the pension of that government servant, it said. The rules, notified on Friday, also fix responsibility on head of office for failure to verify service records of a retiring employees. The head-of-office is responsible for verifying service book of a government servant in a time bound manner. 

"If at any time thereafter, it is found that the head of office and other concerned authorities had failed to communicate any non-qualifying period of service, the Secretary of the administrative ministry or department shall fix responsibility for such non-communication," the new rules said. 

There are many other provisions in the new rules to remove hurdles faced by a retiring employee or dependent family members (after the employee's death) in processing of pension papers. "If the person eligible for family pension is a minor or is suffering from any disorder or disability of mind or is mentally retarded, the guardian may submit a claim in Form 14 on behalf of such person," the rules said. There are about 50 lakh central government pensioners. 

In cases where the pension papers have been returned to the head of office for eliciting further information before issuing pension payment order, the head of office shall rely upon such information as may be available in the official records, and without delay, determine the amount of provisional pension and the amount of provisional retirement gratuity, it said. "If a government servant is found to have given any incorrect information wilfully, which makes him or her entitled to any benefits which he or she is not otherwise entitled to, it shall be construed as a grave misconduct," the rules said. 

"The head of office shall write to the Directorate of Estates at least one year before the anticipated date of retirement of the government servant who was or is in occupation of a government accommodation for issuing a 'No demand certificate' in respect of the period preceding eight months of the retirement of the allottee," the rules notified by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions said. 

Earlier, the time period for writing to the Directorate of Estates was two years.

Source : The Economic Times


INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR - UBUNTU LINUX


INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR - UBUNTU LINUX : VIEW / DOWNLOAD


Thanks to

Shri. Debashis basu
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Sunday, 31 August 2014


OUR SECRETARY GENERAL COM.M. KRISHNAN RETIRES





THE LEGEND RETIRES

"You can be taken out of the workforce officially, but the work force can never be taken out of you ". 

"You will be remembered ever, for the things that you did here. We are confident your services will be in the extended platform for the cause of common workers and downtrodden and this is the beginning of another leaf "....


KAVALIPOST TEAM CONGRATULATES ON YOUR RETIREMENT AND WISHING A LONG, HEALTHY, PROSPEROUS LIFE FOR YOU ON THE DAYS TO COME ....


Govt to increase DA to 107 %


Govt to increase dearness allowance to 107 p.c

The Government is likely to approve a hike in dearness allowance (DA) to 107 per cent from the existing 100 per cent, benefiting around 30 lakh Centre’s employees and its 50 lakh pensioners including dependents.

“The average rate of retail inflation for industrial workers from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014 works out to be 7.25 per cent. Thus the Central government will hike dearness allowance for it employees by 7 per cent,” an official said.

He said the Finance Ministry will now put a Cabinet proposal for approval of 7 per cent DA hike from July 1 this year as the revised Consumer Price Index-Industrial Workers data for June was released by Labour Ministry on Saturday.

With increase in DA, the pensioners will also gain as the benefit provided to them as dearness relief will be hiked to 107 per cent of basic pay.

The previous UPA government had increased DA to 100 per cent from 90 per cent with effect from January 1, 2014, on February 28 on the basis of agreed formula for revision of the allowance.

However, the central government employees’ union is not very enthused by the 7 per cent hike in the dearness allowance as their long pending demand of merger of DA with basic pay has not been given heed by 7th Pay Commission and the government.

“The erosion of value of wages is unbearable at 50 per cent dearness allowance. Now it will be 107 per cent. It is high time to merge DA with basic pay to provide relief to employees,” Confederation of Central Government Employees’ President KKN Kutty told PTI.

“We had summited our memorandum in this regard to 7th Pay Commission. They forwarded it to Central Government. We have apprised about the issue to the newly elected NDA government.

But no decision has been taken so far,” he said.

With merger of DA with basic pay, the salary and allowances paid in proportion of basic pay are increased. As per earlier practise DA was merged with basic pay once it breached 50 per cent mark. But the 6th Pay Commission has disallowed that.

Source : http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-to-increase-dearness-allowance-to-107-from-100/article6366781.ece


Postal Exam : Update as on August 30, 2014




Update as on August 30, 2014 

Revised Answer Keys of Paper I conducted on April 27, 2014 at Assam (12), North East (25), on May 11, 2014 at Maharashtra (24), on May 25, 2014 at Andhra Pradesh (11) and West Bengal (32)Postal Circles are accessible. Candidates may LOGIN to view till September 02, 2014.


Revised Answer Keys of Paper I conducted on April 27, 2014 at Odisha (14) Postal Circle with few changes are accessible once again. Candidates may LOGIN to view till September 02, 2014.


Update as on August 29, 2014 


Revised Answer Keys of Paper I conducted on May 04, 2014 at Jharkhand (20) and on June 01, 2014 at Gujrat (16) are accessible. Candidates may LOGIN to view till September 01,



PM Narendra Modi plans digital cloud for every Indian




Prime Minister Narendra Modi's next big push to free up service delivery from the hold of the lower bureaucracy will be in the form of a 'digital cloud' for every Indian. Certificates issued by the government — education, residential, medical records, birth certificates etc — are to be stored in individual 'digital lockers' and a communication protocol established for government departments to access them without physically having to see the hard copy.

Information and technology secretary Ram Sewak Sharma, who is overseeing the ambitious MyGov.in programme of the government, told ET that this was one of the ideas Modi had frequently flagged as something that would resonate with all Indians.

"The Prime Minister was very clear that he didn't want copies of certificates issued by the government itself to be carried around by people to government offices for various services. For example, if a student is applying for a government college and has studied in a government-aided school, his birth certificate, identity details and educational certificates, school-leaving details et al should be accessible by organisations where he is applying. Similarly for medical records," he said.

The first step in this endeavour is floating the idea on the MyGov.in portal, where suggestions for working out a "communication protocol" or what is called an applications programming interface (API) will be solicited. "There is a vast resource of talent out there which we are engaging with now," Sharma said.

Top sources in the government confirmed that the decision to take the programme to the public through the MyGov.in interface along with inviting suggestions for what should happen to the Planning Commission was part of Modi's effort to liberate policy formulation from what's referred to as the 'India International Centre' clique. "This is very much what he did during the election campaign in terms of sourcing new ideas and suggestions, and going with it," said a source in the government.

Sharma terms MyGov.in as on its way to being the "world's largest platform in citizen engagement in policy making." Others in the government said that it kicked off on May 16, the day the BJP registered its massive win. "Every message of congratulations was responded to with a link, a form which solicited your areas of interest and skill sets, the idea, even then was to go off the Beltway, as Barack Obama put it, and source ideas from people with talent and qualifications but who, for professional reasons, are outside of the policy ecosystem," said a source.

As of now, more than two lakh people have registered on the portal. Two tasks — designing the Independence Day e-greeting to be issued by the government and the logo of the finance ministry — have already been completed. Ideas for Digital India have received the maximum number of suggestions, followed by 'Clean India' and job creation. "As of now a small team from the National Informatics Centre is manually sifting through the suggestions, but we are looking at a more man-machine hybrid sifting process," added Sharma.

Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/


All India Holiday Homes List under Department of Posts




Recruitment of 2986 Probationary Officers (PO) in SBI Associate Banks 2014


State Bank of India (SBI) has released notification for recruitment of 2986 Probationary Officers (POs) in Associate Banks of State Bank of India. Eligible Indian Citizens can apply online from 01-09-2014 to 18-09-2014. Details are as follows:

Important Dates:
Starting date for Online Registration of Applications: 01-09-2014
Last date for Online Registration of Applications: 18-09-2014
Dates for Payment of fees through Online: From 01-09-2014 to 18-09-2014
Dates for Payment of fees through Offline: 03-09-2014 to 20-09-2014.
Date of Examination: November 2014.

Vacancy
 
Age Limit: Candidates age limit should not be below 21 years and not above 30 years as on 01-09-2014, i.e candidates must have been born not earlier than 02-09-1984 and not later than 01-09-1993 (both days inclusive). Age relaxation will be applicable as per the rules.

Educational Qualification: Candidate should possess Graduation in any discipline from a recognised University or any equivalent qualification recognised as such by the Central Government. Candidate having integrated dual degree (IDD) certificate should ensure that the date of passing the IDD is on or before the eligiblity date.

Selection Process: Candidates would be selected based on their performance in Objective Test , Descriptive Test, Group Discussion and interview.
Examination consisting Objective Tests for 200 marks and Descriptive Test for 50 marks.
The Objective Test will be online. Immediately after the online Objective Test, Descriptive Test will be administered. Questions relating to Descriptive Test will be available on computer (Online) and candidates will have to write the answers on the answer sheet (Offline) provided to them on Paper/Pen mode.
(i) Objective Test: The Objective Test with 2hours duration consists of 4 Sections with 50 marks each (Total 200 marks) as follows:
a) Test of English Language (Grammer, Vocabulary, Comprehension etc.)
b) Test of General Awareness, Marketing & Computers
c) Test of Data Analysis & Interpretation
d) Test of Reasoning (High Level)
The candidates are required to qualify in each of the Tests by securing passing marks, to be decided by the Bank.

How to Apply: Eligible candidates can apply online through Bank’s website www.statebankofindia.com or www.sbi.co.in from 01-09-2014 to 18-09-2014. After completion of registration process, take print out of the online application form & fee payment receipt and keep it for future purpose.

For more details see official notification from below link.

Read Official Notification: English and Hindi
Apply Online: Click Here (After 01.09.14)


Saturday, 30 August 2014

Download PDFCreator 1.9.5



PDFCreator

PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer. PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.
PDFCreator 1.9.5 is now available in 10 languages. If your language is missing, you can help translating PDFCreator here.
Key Features:

  • Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
  • Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
  • Send generated files via eMail
  • Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
  • AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
  • Merge multiple files into one PDF
  • Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
  • Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
What's new in this version:
  • More detailed manual on how to use the COM interface
  • ActiveX interface for outlook
  • Automated fixing for broken permissions in the spool folder
  • New command line parameter /ManagePrintJobs to collect multiple print jobs even when using Auto-Save
  • Let Auto-Save either overwrite existing files or ensure unique filenames
  • Tokens in script action
  • Set a title template (with tokens)
  • Includes Ghostscript 9.14
Note: PDFCreator includes 3rd party (optional) software.
Download: PDFCreator 1.9.5 | 24.1 MB (Freeware)

Courtesy : http://bnjho.blogspot.in/

Result of SBI PO Online Exam 2014 Published




Friends.. State Bank of India has published the results of its PO Exam(Phase-1) held in June- July 2014. You can check your result from the below link. Roll Numbers of Candidates Shortlisted for Phase - II are only available in the PDF. The dates and details of next phase ie, Group Discussions and Interview will be published shortly by SBI. We will update you..Keep visiting All the Best.


Check Result from official siteClick Here

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