POSTAL JCA - FIVE DAYS DHARNA PROGRAMME COMMENCED ON 27/10/2014 IN ODISHA CIRCLE IN FRONT OF CHIEF PMG OFFICE, BHUBANESWAR

POSTAL JCA - FIVE DAYS DHARNA PROGRAMME COMMENCED ON 27/10/2014 IN ODISHA CIRCLE IN FRONT OF CHIEF PMG OFFICE, BHUBANESWAR

 

 

HOLDING OF NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL (JCM) (STAFF SIDE).

DOPT Notification ---- Appointment of Chief Information Commissioner

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UPU News : FORUM ON THE INTERNET OF POSTAL THINGS

The development of the Internet of Things — sensor technologies that enable physical objects to collect and communicate data via the Internet in real-time — is the latest in a series of technology revolutions that have the potential to radically change how postal organizations drive innovation, efficiencies and customer satisfaction.

By 2020, there could be as many as 80 billion internet-connected devices continuously collecting and communicating data helping organizations increase productivity, cut costs and develop new products. Postal operators, with their unparalleled physical presence and interconnected global network, are ideally positioned to benefit from the opportunities offered by the Internet of Things. In the future, the possibility of equipping the postal infrastructure with low-cost sensors – The Internet of Postal Things – will exponentially expand the capability of postal operators to collect valuable data able to improve operational, business, and strategic decision-making. During this forum, experts, postal organizations and industry representatives will define the Internet of Things and discuss what opportunities it presents for global postal operators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Govt Employee Can’t Seek Promotion After Refusing It: SC

PostMan examination question paper held 26/10/2014

NFPE DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATION AT THRISSUR DIVISION (KERALA).

Govt Employee Can’t Seek Promotion After Refusing It: SC

New Delhi: A government employee, whose promotion is canceled owing to his refusal to accept it, cannot ask for it at a later stage, the Supreme Court has said.

The apex court set aside the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court which had directed the state government to restore the promotion of one of its employees whose promotion was cancelled after he turned down the offer as he did not want to get transferred to some other place.

“As we find that it is the respondent himself who is responsible for cancellation of the promotion order as he did not join the promoted post, the impugned order of the high court is clearly erroneous and against the law,” a bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said.

The court passed the order on an appeal filed by Madhya Pradesh government challenging the high court order.

The government had submitted that the high court failed to consider that Ramanand Pandey himself sent back the promotion order and continued on his post and approached the court after two years when it cancelled his promotion.

It said that at the time of promotion, Pandey was posted in Bhind district where he remained for almost 15 years and his intention was to stay at that place only.

The apex court, after hearing both sides, quashed the high court order.

“It is clear that he wanted to remain in Bhind district, where he had continued since 1990, as he was ready to go on leave instead of joining the place of transfer. Moreover, for more than two years from the date of cancellation of the order of promotion, the respondent kept totally mum and maintained stoic silence.

“There was not even a semblance of protest as to why his promotion order was cancelled or that he wanted to join the promotion post after the alleged inquiry into the so-called complaint was over. He filed the writ petition on October 24, 2008, i.e. almost two years after cancellation of his promotion order,” it said.

The Rs 2,66,000 crore NREGA boondoggle; for every Rs 5 spent, the poor get Re 1 - NEWS

It is not surprising that any talk of revamping the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA for short) brings forth a deluge of protest from jholawala economists and vested interests. The Left loves government spends in the name of the poor, regardless of corruption and unmindful of actual results.

The Modi government’s proposal to change the spending mix on NREGA from 60:40 (for material and wages) to 51:49 and to focus the scheme on the 200 poorest districts (or 2,500 blocks) has brought forth a open letter from 28 “leading” economists to abandon the effort. “Despite numerous hurdles, the NREGA has achieved significant results. At a relatively small cost (currently 0.3 percent of India's GDP), about 50 million households are getting some employment at NREGA worksites every year. A majority of NREGA workers are women, and close to half are Dalits or Adivasis. A large body of research shows that the NREGA has wide-ranging social benefits, including the creation of productive assets.”

This is, of course, largely bunkum. Nobody needs to deny that some good must have come from spending a massive Rs 2,66,000 crore on NREGA over the last eight years, but even better results could have been achieved by abandoning the charade of providing employment at such huge cost and showering this kind of money from a helicopter in poor areas.

In fact, the evidence is to the contrary: the money is largely going down the drain.

As economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya note in a critique of the scheme in The Times of India, NREGA (after taking corruption and leakages into account) essentially spends as much as Rs 248 in order to deliver a net Rs 50 per person per day. In other words, the scheme is highly inefficient even as a poverty alleviation scheme as it takes nearly Rs 5 to deliver Re 1 worth of benefits to the poor. Would not the poor have benefited more from direct cash transfers of a higher amount without hassles and middlemen?

Quite clearly, NREGA is going the same way as the food subsidy scheme, where too just 12 paise out of every rupee spent reaches the right beneficiary .

To make matters worse, state governments are now dragging their feet on implementing the scheme, which promises one member of a household 100 days of employment every year, failing which some kind of unemployment allowance is paid by the states. A report in The Indian Express today (24 October) quotes from the minutes of an internal review of the rural development ministry on the scheme as saying that “states expressed their inability to continue the uninterrupted implementation of MGNREG, given the situation of an overall fund shortage.”

It is not as if the scheme, even now, is working to full potential. As against the 100 days of employment promised, it has seldom managed to provide even 50 mandays on an average per household per year. Mostly it has been in the forties. This year, the figure is down to 31.4 mandays per household till mid-October.

What this suggests is that both demand (for work) and supply (by state governments) is weak – raising questions about the viability and utility of the scheme. It is quite possible that demand for NREGA work may not be as robust as presumed, thanks to the general improvement in rural incomes with the steady and increased fund flows to rural areas, which includes investments in infrastructure and consistently rising minimum support prices (MSPs) for foodgrain.

If NREGA had been a big driver of rural incomes, it should have left its impact on food inflation too, but a Reserve Bank of India study found that MSPs and rising rural wages impacted food inflation more than NREGA wages. If the scheme had actually had that big an impact on rural incomes, one would have thought it would have been a major factor in boosting food prices since only the poorest of the poor opt for work under NREGA. And the poor spend more of their incomes on food than the non-poor.

It is quite clear from all this that NREGA is a costly boondoggle which is not achieving even its core objectives of providing enough work to the poor and building durable assets that can increase productivity. If assets had been built, they should have improved rural productivity and impacted food prices downwards. And if only 31 mandays of work are being provided against the mandated 100, it means either the work is not needed or not being provided.

There are thus three possible remedies now.

First, the centre could offer to transfer the funds allocated to NREGA in the budget as a direct grant to states to spend it on any poverty alleviating scheme that works for them. This would be in keeping with Modi’s federalist thinking.

Second, the funds can be converted to direct income support to the poorest of the poor using the Aadhaar-enabled inclusive banking scheme, the Jan Dhan Yojana. Not only will the money go directly to the poor, but their bank accounts would also start getting used.

Third, the best option would be to use the money to build rural infrastructure and assets in the 200 poorest districts where poverty levels are high. This way the projects will generate real jobs at real wages – and not just pointless work and corruption.

Any which way you look at it, NREGA has been a disaster. The NDA has to rework it to get better bang for the buck.

Postal JCA (NFPE & FNPO) Five days Dharna Programme from 27th to 31st October.....

Conducting of Inspector Posts and LGO Examination, 2014

Department of Posts (DE Section) vide its letter no A-34012/04/2014-DE dated 17/10/2014 has communicated the schedule of limited Departmental Examination for promotion to the cadre of Inspector Posts (66.66%) Departmental quota for the year 2014 and promotion of LGOs to the cadre of PA/SAs.

LDCE for promotion to the cadre of Inspector Posts for the year 2014.

Date of Examination	Paper No.
22/11/2014 (Suturday)	Paper-I & II
23/11/2014 (Sunday)	Paper-III & IV

LDCE for promotion of LGOs to the cadre of Postal Assistants / Sorting Assistants for the year 2014.

Date of Examination	Paper No.
23/11/2014 (Sunday)	Paper-I & II

Postal Exam : Update as on October 26, 2014

Postal Exam : Update as on October 26, 2014 

 

Postal Exam : Update as on October 26, 2014

Schedule of Paper II (Computer Skill Test) for the following Postal Circle is as follows:

Postal Circles	Exam Date	Exam Time
Maharashtra (24)	08 November to 13 November 2014	09:00AM onwards in Batches. Please check your Admit Card for timings

Candidates for the above mentioned Postal Circles may check their status for Paper I by Logging into the website. Candidates, shortlisted to appear in the Paper II, may download the Admit Cards.

Please keep visiting the website for exam schedules for other Postal Circles & updates.

    On completion of Paper II & subsequent processing respective Postal Circle shall publish Result of PA/SA Direct Recruitment Examination 2014 on its website. 

Candidate is requested to visit the website of the Postal Circle for updates on regular basis.

Source : http://pasadrexam2014.in/

 

 

Current Affairs : October 2014 (Third Week) PDF 

 

Current Affairs PDF October 2014

Third Week

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1) Who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics on 13 October 2014?

Ans. French economist Jean Tirole

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2) Who was chosen as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of India’s Incheon Asian Games campaign at a felicitation of the medal winners by contingent sponsors, Samsung India on 13 October 2014?

Ans. MC Mary Kom

Note: She is the first Indian woman boxer to win a gold medal in Asian Games.

3) Who won the Man Booker Prize 2014 on 14 October 2014?

Ans. Australian author Richard Flanagan

Note: He won the Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This was the first year that the Man Booker prize was open to all authors writing in English, regardless of nationality.

4) Which bank on 14 October 2014 launched Facebook-based funds transfer platform KayPay?

Ans. Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB)

5) Who was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Union Finance Ministry on 16 October 2014?

Ans. Arvind Subramanian

6) ISRO on 16 October 2014 successfully launched third navigation satellitein IRNSS series named?

Ans. IRNSS 1C.

Note: IRNSS- Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C26 injected IRNSS 1C into the designated orbit from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. This was the 27th consecutive successful flight of PSLV.

7) Union government on 16 October 2014 launched Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram. What is the aim of the scheme?

Ans. Scheme is aimed at creating conducive environment for industrial development and doing business with ease.

8) Who was appointment as the Union Finance Secretary on 16 October 2014?

Ans. Rajiv Mehrishi

Note: Mehrishi, an IAS of the 1978-batch of Rajasthan Cadre, replaced his batch-mate Arvind Mayaram, who was appointed as the Union Tourism Secretary.

9) Who was conferred with Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014 in Washington 10 October 2014?

Ans. Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India

10) Name the Cyclonic Storm which struck the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on 12 October 2014?

Ans. Hudhud

11) India on 30 September 2014 signed which convention on Mercury?

Ans. Minamata Convention

Note: The convention is named after the Japanese city Minamata that has become synonymous with deadly mercury contamination since 1950.

12) Which Indian shuttler won the Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament on 12 October 2014?

Ans. Ajay Jayaram

13) What was India's rank in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) which was released on 13 October 2014 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)?

Ans. 55

14) World Food Day was observed across the world on 16 October 2014 with the theme?

Ans. Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth.

15) Name the Indian-born scientist who received the World Food Prize 2014 on 16 October 2014?

Ans. Sanjaya Rajaram

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16) International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was observed across the world on?

Ans. 17 October 2014

Note: The theme for the day was Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty.

17) India on 17 October 2014 successfully test fired its first long range subsonic cruise missile named?

Ans. Nirbhay

18) International Cricket Council (ICC) on 10 October 2014 awarded the global broadcast agreement rights for ICC Events from 2015 to 2023 to?

Ans. Star India and Star Middle East.

19) Which countries were elected as non-permanent members of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 16 October 2014?

Ans. Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain

20) Global Handwashing Day (GHD) was observed across the world on?

Ans. 15 October 2014

Note: Theme for 2014 is "Clean Hands Save Lives". 

21) Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 13 October 2014 flagged off which train from Palai after 25 years?

Ans. Yal Devi Express

22) Which country will host first leg of Asia Cup Archery Tournament in Delhi in January 2015 as announced recently?

Ans. India

Note: Asia Cup will replace the Asian GP. The first leg will be conducted in Delhi in January 2015 while the second and third legs was allotted to Bangkok and Tehran.   

23) Which MP of present Lok Sabha died on 13 October 2014 in Kolkata following a lung failure?

Ans. Kapil Krishna Thakur

24) Who was appointed as the new Managing Director (MD) of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) on 14 October 2014?

Ans. Gautham Roy

25) Union Home Ministry on 17 October 2014 announced to rename 12 cities and towns of which state?

Ans. Karnataka

Note: Cities will be named as per pronunciation in Kannada language.

26) Who was appointed as Prime Minister of Yemen on 13 October 2014?

Ans. Khaled Bahah

27) NASA on 21 September 2014 successfully installed and activated its first Earth-observing instrument ............... on the International Space Station (ISS)?

Ans. ISS-RapidScat (ISS Rapid Scatterometer)

28) Who was honoured with the National Kishore Kumar Award for the year 2012-13 on 13 October 2014?

Ans. Noted lyricist Sameer

29) Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) on 11 October 2014 removed whom as its President?

Ans. Lalit Modi

Note: He was removed after a no—confidence motion against him was passed in Jaipur in which 23 of the 33 districts voted against Lalit Modi.

30) Who won the inaugural Russian Grand Prix of Formula One on 12 October 2014?

Ans. Lewis Hamilton

Source : http://www.currentaffairs4examz.com/

 

 

Current Affairs : September 2014 Complete PDF 

 

Dear Friends.. Here is the complete current affairs pdf for the month of September 2014. This will be very helpful for all upcoming examinations. Do comment your suggestions/feedback for further improvement. Thank You..

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List of Nobel Prize Winners 2014 

 

Dear Viewers,   The Royal Swedish Academy has announced the Nobel Prizes for the year 2014 during October 2014. Here is the complete list of winners.

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Area	Recipients	Awarded for
Physiology or Medicine 2014	John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser	"for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"
Physics	Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura.	“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”
Chemistry	Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner.	“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.
Literature	Patrick Modiano	“for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”.
Peace	Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay	for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
Economics	Jean Tirole	“for his analysis of market power and regulation”.

 

Government employee can't seek promotion after refusing it: Supreme Court

 

NEW DELHI: A government employee, whose promotion is canceled owing to his refusal to accept it, cannot ask for it at a later stage, the Supreme Court has said.

The apex court set aside the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court which had directed the state government to restore the promotion of one of its employees whose promotion was cancelled after he turned down the offer as he did not want to get transfered to some other place.

"As we find that it is the respondent himself who is responsible for cancellation of the promotion order as he did not join the promoted post, the impugned order of the high court is clearly erroneous and against the law," a bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said.

The court passed the order on an appeal filed by Madhya Pradesh government challenging the high court order.

The government had submitted that the high court failed to consider that Ramanand Pandey himself sent back the promotion order and continued on his post and approached the court after two years when it cancelled his promotion.

It said that at the time of promotion, Pandey was posted in Bhind district where he remained for almost 15 years and his intention was to stay at that place only.

The apex court, after hearing both sides, quashed the high court order.

"It is clear that he wanted to remain in Bhind district, where he had continued since 1990, as he was ready to go on leave instead of joining the place of transfer. Moreover, for more than two years from the date of cancellation of the order of promotion, the respondent kept totally mum and maintained stoic silence.

"There was not even a semblance of protest as to why his promotion order was cancelled or that he wanted to join the promotion post after the alleged inquiry into the so-called complaint was over. He filed the writ petition on October 24, 2008, i.e. almost two years after cancellation of his promotion order," it said.

Source : http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-10-24/news/55397829_1_promotion-high-court-order-apex-court

 

 

HC sets aside govt order dismissing employee on theft charge 

 

Terming as "harsh" the Centre's decision to dismiss a government employee from service for stealing government property, the Bombay High Court has set aside the impugned order and instead lowered the punishment to compulsory retirement from service. 

Justices Naresh Patil and BP Colabawalla set aside the July 27, 2010, order of dismissal of Ramchandra Goya Sadhu, who was caught stealing copper rods on May 14, 2010, by the Defence Security Corps Platoon at Tiger Gate here. He was found to have tied the rods around his waist, hiding them inside his clothes. 

The court also set aside the March 15, 2013, order of the Central Administrative Tribunal which had upheld his dismissal from service for committing theft of government property. 

Instead, the bench ordered that the said employee be slapped with the penalty of compulsory retirement under Rule 40 of CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972, and paid pensionary benefits in accordance with law. 

Sadhu had cited a government order wherein four employees who were facing a similar charge of stealing property were not dismissed but given a lesser punishment. Some of them were compulsorily retired from service while others were not given increments for two years. 

"Taking into consideration the period of service of the petitioner and his unblemished record in serving his employer, we are of the view that the punishment meted out... namely dismissal from service, was harsh," the bench noted in its order, which was delivered recently. 

"We find that the interest of justice would be met if the order of dismissal of the petitioner is set aside and, instead, the lesser punishment of compulsory retirement from service is imposed," the bench said. 

"We are not for a moment condoning the actions of the petitioner. The charge of theft is indeed a serious one, but looking to the totality of the facts, we feel that in the present case it would be punishment enough if the petitioner is compulsorily retired from service so that he receives pensionary benefits as per the rules," the judges observed. 

The bench said it had taken a sympathetic view in the case only because the petitioner has an unblemished record of 22 years of service and other similarly-placed employees found guilty on theft charges were slapped with penalties lighter than what was meted out to him.

Source : http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/hc-sets-aside-govt-order-dismissing-employee-on-theft-charge-114102300131_1.html

 

 

Regional allotment in Inspector Posts cadre

Sri R.Rama rao, PA SBCO Karimnagar HO who came out successful in IP examination for the year 2012 and approved for promotion to the cadre of Inspector Posts vide Directorate letter no A-3403/07/2012-DE dated 23.09.2014 is now alloted to Vijayawada Region vide CO letter no ST/2-2/2014-I dated 22.10.2014.