NAPE Ambattur : 03/10/16

Thursday 10 March 2016

RICT Solution Rollout: Identification Of DoP RICT Trainers

As part of rollout of RICT solution each BO shall be supplied with a Handheld device called 'Main Computing Device (MCD)' along with its accessories e.g Barcode Scanner, PIN Pad, Battery Charger, Pen driver, SD card etc. by the RH Vendor. Suitable training shall also be imaparted to end users i.e. BPMs by tge "DoP RICT Trainers" who shall be trained by the RSI Vendor in Hardware as well Software part of RICT Solution. RSI Vendor is mandated to train approximately 4000 such pre identified DoP RICT trainers. All Circles are requested to identify RICT Trainers for each Postal Division in such way that there should be at least 01 Trained RICT trainer is available for each of 15 to 20 BOs.

Women's Day celebration at APSO, Chennai

APSO CHENNAI

PROBATIONERS OF INDIAN POSTAL SERVICE, INDIAN TELECOM SERVICE AND P&T BUILDING WORKS SERVICE CALL ON THE PRESIDENT

Press Information Bureau

Government of India

President's Secretariat

09-March-2016 18:07 IST

Probationers of Indian Postal Service, Indian Telecom Service and P&T Building Works Service call on the President

A group of Probationers of Indian Postal Service, Indian Telecom Service and P&T Building Works Service called on the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today (March 09, 2016) at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Speaking on the occasion, the President said that the part privatization of Postal and Telecom sector in the era of liberalization has witnessed drastic changes in technology and exponential growth of the consumers. If they have to survive in the competitive world, they have to keep pace with the fast changing Information and Communication Technology.

The President said that India has undergone a telecom revolution during the last two decades. The launch of mobile telephony and faster internet network in India has enabled India tap its vast digital potential. India is emerging as a fast digital hub. It is the need of the hour to have best quality telecom and internet services. India now has about 46 crore internet users and 37 crore mobile users. The numbers are likely to increase exponentially with enhanced levels of education and cheaper rate of internet and mobile telephony. He expressed hope that the Postal Academy and National Telecommunications Institute are providing requisite technical and non-technical inputs to enable the probationers to take up the ensuing challenges in the postal, telecom and building works sector. They have to work with professionalism, transparency and integrity to meet the aspirations of large number of people of India.

The probationers of the Indian Postal Service are presently undergoing professional training at the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Academy, Ghaziabad while probationers of Indian Telecom Service and P&T Building Work Service are undergoing their induction training at National Tele-communications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation & Training, Ghaziabad.

AKT/HS/VK
(Release ID : 137574) (O9.03.2016)

09/03/2016

Notice for meeting with Secretary Generals of NFPE, FNPO and BPEF to discuss the issues relating to the 7th CPC

IMPORTANT NEWS

No.06-04/2015-SR

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

(S.R. Division)

Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg

New Delhi, dated the 09^th March, 2016

Subject: Notice for meeting with Secretary Generals of NFPE, FNPO and BPEF to discuss the issues relating to the 7^th CPC.

It has been decided to convene a meeting with the Secretary Generals of the three Federations on 31.03.2016 at 11:00 AM in G.P. Roy Committee Room, Dak, Bhavan, New Delhi under the Chair of Secretary (Posts) to discuss the issues relating to 7^th CPC.

Kindly make it convenient to attend. The meeting will be followed by lunch.

(Arun Malik)

Consultant (SR & Legal)

Official Side:

1. All Members of Postal Services Board

2. DDG (P), DDG (Estt.), DDG (SR & Legal)

Staff Side:

Secretary Generals, NFPE, FNPO & BPEF

Copy for information to:

1. Sr. PPS to Secretary (Posts)

Copy also to:

(i) ADG (GA) – for booking the G.P. Roy Committee Room and arrangements of Tea/Coffee/Snacks and Lunch, through CPLO. Exact number of persons and Menu etc. will be intimated later.

(ii) Caretaker – To ensure cleanliness of Committee Room and arrange flower vase etc.

(iii) A.E. (Elect) – for ensuring functioning of mikes etc.

Central employees may have to dress in Khadi on friday

Friday dressing may have a new meaning for government employees - wearing khadi to work.

The government is considering a plea from the Khadi & Village Industries Commission to appeal to employees to wear clothes made from the hand-spun fabric at least once a week as part of a plan to boost khadi production and benefit small weavers across the country.

"We are discussing this with the government and we will make an appeal. Employees can wear it to work on just one day," KVIC chairman VK Saxena told TOI, when contacted. Sources in the government said the entire exercise would be voluntary but the idea is to increase sales. "Even if everyone buys one khadi garment, imagine the rise in sales," said an officer. The central government currently has around 35 lakh employees, which does not include the railways and defence personnel.

Officers, however, are not opposed to the plan. "I wear handloom saris most of the time. It's not a big deal," said an officer. Another officer described it as a "good idea" and added that a lot of officers were already wearing Fabindia shirts and will probably need to add one from Khadi to their wardrobe. Separately, KVIC is entering into tie ups with companies such as Fabindia and Raymond to retail high-end khadi at some outlets.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as a brand ambassador of sorts for khadi urging people to buy. This has already provided a fillip to sales. In fact, boosting production is now a major challenge for KVIC, which has separately sought to push khadi for uniform in government schools, defence forces, railways and Air India.

Source : Times of India

Central Government Employees Strength – Task Force Formed to cut jobs if required – Budget speech 2016 indicated that Govt would rationalise its human resource to achieve maximum governance

Here is Business Today’s report on Central Government Employees Strength

The “governance and ease of doing business” section of the Budget speech talks about NDA government’s “unparalleled” emphasis to good governance with special focus on process reforms, IT-enabled government processes, etc. Stating that the whole idea is to remove the irritants for the public in their interface with government agencies, Jaitley explains that a task force has been constituted for rationalisation of human resources in various ministries. A comprehensive review and rationalisation of autonomous bodies is underway, he informs.

The message seems to be favouring automation and less job openings in the Central government services in future. While one can only appreciate the government’s intention to provide quicker, transparent and efficient services to its citizens, reduction of human resources need not always achieve that goal. In some cases, even replenishment of human resources could be the need of the hour.

HERE IS WHY

The Central government is already functioning with less number of employees than what is supposed to be its sanctioned strength.

Of the total sanctioned posts of 37.16 lakh in various Central government services, over six lakh remain vacant today. A huge majority, 5.3 lakh vacancies, are at the clerical and support staff level. There are over 50,000 vacancies among Group B level positions and close to 18,000 at the Group-A officers’ level. A year ago, 4,802 IAS officers were in position against a total sanctioned strength of 6,375.

The Seventh Central Pay Commission, in its report in November 2015, informs that the current sanctioned strength of the Central government is approximately the same as it used to be 10 years ago (37 lakh in 2006). In other words, rationalisation of human resources has been an on-going process because of which the total sanctioned strength of 38.9 lakh in 2014 has come down to 37.16 lakh. The effective employee strength, if one takes out the vacant posts, would be 31 lakh, a figure that is closer to 29.82 lakh of sanctioned strength forty five years ago (in 1971).

The total number of sanctioned posts was perhaps the highest in 1994 (41.76 lakh) as India’s economic liberalisaiton during that period saw disinvestments in sectors like telecom and resultant reduction in government jobs in the following years.

There are more reasons to believe that we may not be able to do away with too many posts immediately. In a submission before the Pay Commission, the Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM)-Staff Side had pointed out that contrary to the common perception, 88 per cent of Central government employees are either industrial or operational staff or not administrative staff. It also points to the increasing trend of outsourcing humanresources through contracts, another reason, perhaps, for less-optimal performance.

Finally, this is not the first time BJP government is attempting to downsize the number of Central government employees. The first NDA government under A.B. Vajpayee had brought in a plan to optimise (not rationalise) the recruitment to Central government jobs in 2001. The government wanted to bring in 10 per cent reduction in total sanctioned strength in a phased manner over a period of time. As per the “Optimisation Scheme”, all ministries and departments were mandated to prepare the Annual Direct Recruitment Plan for each year in order to prioritise the fresh intake of manpower. It continued for five years, and was extended for three more years, even after the change of regime at the Centre.

It was the Sixth Central Pay Commission which recommended the scrapping of the scheme as it felt that while “multiskilling of the government employees would increase their operational efficiency while simultaneously optimizing the staff strength”, a blanket ban on filling up of vacant posts across the board can impact effective functioning of the government.

While appreciating the government’s intend to right size its human resources given the changes in the work process due to technology and consequent reduction of layers, the Commission suggested more flexibility for effective service delivery. “Care has to be taken that administrative delivery structures do not become hollow or thin in critical areas”, it had stated.

By explicitly announcing the government’s decision to revise the pay structure of the Central government employees on the basis of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendation, Jaitley has committed to spend more on salaries. However, it should not result in the finance minister ignoring the warning given by the Sixth Pay Commission.

Rationalisation of human resources is good, if it is purely to improve governance and efficiency. Cutting jobs with the sole objective of reducing the salary burden may not be advisable.

Source: Business Today