CONFIRMATION EXAM REMOVED IN NEW PA RECRUITMENT RULE

In the revised PA recruitmentrules, the confirmation examination has been removed. There is no confirmation examination hereafter.All eligible PAs will be confirmed by DPC as per 6 (i) (12) of the said rules.

LIST OF CLOSED HOLIDAYS & RESTRICTED HOLIDAYS TO BE OBSERVED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN ORISSA IN THE CALENDER YEAR, 2012

LIST OF CLOSED HOLIDAYS & RESTRICTED HOLIDAYS TO BE OBSERVED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN ORISSA IN THE CALENDER YEAR, 2012

 In accordance with Postal Directorate Letter No-21-1/2010-PE dated 18.07.2011 and Central Government Welfare Co-ordination Committee , O/O the Commissioner ,Central Excise , Custom & Service Tax , Bhubaneswar-II & Secretary ,CGEWCC, Bhubaneswar Letter No.IV (16) 39/CC/CGEWCC/BBSR/2011-12/23008-68-A Dated 12.10.2011 , all the Administrative /Operative officer in Orissa Postal Circle will observe 17 ( seventeen ) Closed Holidays as shown in Annexure –I. in addition to these 17 holidays , each employees of Orissa Postal Circle will be permitted to avail 2 (two) Restricted Holidays to be chosen by him /her out of the list of Restricted Holidays shown in Annexure-II during the calendar year ,2012. The list of holidays may kindly be circulated among all the sub ordinate offices/officials under your control at the earliest as possible.

As regards Idul’I fitar, Idul Zuha, Muharram and Id-e-Milad, the final dates will depend on the decision of state Government of Orissa and if necessary is liable to change without any formal orders.  

ANNEXTURE-I

CUMPULSORY GAZZETTED HOLIDAYS (17 NOS) TO BE OBSERVED BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IN ODISHA , DURING 2012

Sl no	Gazetted Holiday	Date	SAKA ERA 1933
1.	Republic day	Thursday, January 26,2012	Magha 06
2.	Mil-Un—Nabi or E-Milad	Sunday, February 05, 2012	Magha 16
3.	Holi	Thursday, March 08,2012	Phalguna 01
			SAKA ERA 1934
4.	Mahavir Jayanti	Thursday, April 05,2012	Chaitra 16
5.	Good Friday	Friday, April 06,2012	Chaitra 17
6	Buddha Purnima	Sunday, may 06,2012	Vaisakha 16
7.	Ratha Yatra	Thursday, june 21,2012	Juaishtha 31
8.	Indepence Day	Wednesday, August 15, 2012	Sravana 24
9.	Idu’l Fitr	Monday,August 20 ,2012	Sravana 29
10	Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday	Tuesday, October 02, 2012	Aswin 10.
11	Dussehra (Maha Astami)	Monday,October 22,2012	Aavina 30
12	Dussehra(Vijaya Dashami)	Wednesday,October 24,2012	Kartika 02
13	Idu’l zuha(Bakrid)	Saturday,October 27,2012	Kartika 05
14	Diwali(Deepavali)	Tuesday,November 13,2012	Kartika 22
15	Muharram	Sunday,November 25,2012	Agrahayana 04
16.	Gurunanak’s Birthday	Wednesday,November 28,2012	Agrahayana 07
17.	Christmas  Day	Tuesday,December 25,2012	Pausha 04

CONFIRMATION EXAM RESULTS-2011 KALAHANDI DIVISION

 

The following official have come out successful in the confirmation examination of postal assistant held on 22.05.2011 Sunday as communicated vide circle office memo no RE/30-14/2011 dated 25.10.2011.

Sl NO	Name of the official with Designation	Community	Roll No
1.	Abhishek Panda PA Bhawanipatna HO	UR	KLD/PA-Conf(01)/2011
2	Aditya Kumar Rout PA Dharamgarh SO	UR	KLD/PA-Conf(02)/2011
3	Tapan Kumar Naik PA Junagarh SO	UR	KLD/PA-Conf(03)/2011
4	Hemakanti Bag PA Khariar SO	SC	KLD/PA-Conf(04)/2011
5	Bibhu Prasad Mishra PA Kesinga SO	UR	KLD/PA-Conf(05)/2011
6	Lingaraj Meher PA Bhawanipatna HO	UR	KLD/PA-Conf(06)/2011
7	Jagannath Pradhani PA Bhawanipatna HO	OBC	KLD/PA-Conf(07)/2011
8	Trilokpati Sagar PA Bhawanipatna HO	SC	KLD/PA-Conf(08)/2011
9	Manoj Kumar Meher PA Khariar Road SO	UR	KLD/PA-Conf(09)/2011
10	Hemanta Kumar Rana PA Sinhapali SO	OBC	KLD/PA-Conf(10)/2011

UPU Letter writing competition on 08.01.2012

Department of Posts proposes to conduct 41st Universal Postal Union ( UPU) Letter Writing Competition on Sunday, 08th January 2012. Click here to view the Directorate letter in original.

The details are as follows:

1 Subject

“Write a letter to an athlete or sports figure you admire to explain what the Olympic Games mean to you”.

2 Participants eligibility

Children up to 15 years of age as on 31.03.2012

3 Content and form

Composition must be presented in the formof letter about 500 to 800 words length on the given subject

4 Date & Time

Sunday, 8 th January,2012, 10.00am to 11.00am

5 Language

English or any language listed in the 8 th schedule of the Constitution of India

RECRUITMENT RULES FOR PA/SA 2011

Postal Assistant/Stg Assistant- Revised recruitment rules 2011

Department of Posts has notified Department of Posts ( Postal Assistants andSorting Assistants) (Group-C Non-gazetted) Recruitment Rules, 2011. These have been published in Official Gazette on 3.11.2011. They come into force from the date of publication in Official Gazette.

For direct recruitment 10+2 or 12 Standard candidates with atleast 60% marks with English as compulsory subject [ excluding vocational stream], 55% for OBC and 45% for SC/ST will be eligible.

GDS should have obtained 50% marks in +2 or 12th standard with English as a Compulsory subject and should have put in minimum 5 years service. They should be within 30 years of age (35 years for those belonging to Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes and 33 years for other Backward Classes).

POST OFFICE INTEREST RATES HIKED

In a bid to lure millions of small savers who had exited the National Small Savings Fund (NSSF) schemes in pursuit of higher returns, the government on Friday raised the interest rates on post office savings account (POSA), time deposit schemes of various tenures, monthly income scheme (MIS) and Public Provident Fund (PPF).

According to a Finance Ministry statement here, while the interest rate on POSA stands increased to 4 per cent from 3.5 per cent for the current fiscal, deposits in schemes such as MIS and PPF will fetch attractive returns of 8.2 per cent and 8.6 per cent respectively, as compared to the existing interest rates of 8 per cent.

While all time maturities will fetch significantly better returns by way of higher interest rates than hitherto, the biggest gainer is set to be the one-year fixed deposit scheme with its interest rate pegged at 7.7 per cent as compared to the prevailing 6.25 per cent.

 

To be notified soon

As per the decision approved by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the new rates are to be made applicable from the date of notification to be announced soon.

The move to make the small savings schemes more attractive and align them with current market rates is in line with the recommendations of the Shyamala Gopinath Committee, which was set up to look into the matter, as was advised by the 13th Finance Commission.

 

New NSC instrument

Alongside, however, the government has decided to discontinue the Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) scheme. It has also reduced the maturity period for MIS and National Savings Certificate (NSC) schemes to five years from the existing six years and has introduced a new 10-year NSC instrument with its interest rate pegged at 8.7%.

 

Limit increased

Another bonanza for small savers is that the annual investment ceiling in PPF savings accounts has been raised to Rs. 1 lakh from the current limit of Rs. 70,000.

At the same time, what may irk investors is that loans against such savings would be at a higher interest rate of 2 per cent as against 1 per cent at present.

 

Bonus scrapped

The government has also scrapped the 5 per cent bonus on maturity of MIS schemes and abolished the commission for agents on PPF and Senior Citizens Savings Schemes.

KALAHANDI POST EXCLUSIVE :-Solved Question Paper of GPEO Exam held on Dt. 06.11.2011

(PART:1-From Q No. 1 to Q No. 20 )

GPEO/PA-2011-SET-9GA
Time:1 hour 30 min.

Full Marks:100
The questions are of equal value.Answer all question.
There is nagative marking @0.25 marks for each wrong answer.

PART:1-From Q No. 1 to Q No. 20
PART:2-From Q No. 21 to Q No.40
PART:3-From Q No. 41 to Q No. 60
PART:4-From Q No. 61 to Q No. 80
PART:1-From Q No. 81 to Q No. 100

Kalahandi Utsav Ghumura 2012

The Kalahandi Pratistha Diwas and Kalahandi Utsav Ghumura 2012 was inaugurated at the Town Hall Bhawanipatna.

Organised by the District Cultural Council, a mashal yatra began on Monday from the Randomajhi Smrutipitha of Urladani, Manikeswari Shaktipitha of Thuamul-Rampur, Budharaja of Ampani, Maa Bhandar Ghareni of Dharmagarh, Saivapitha of Sapsilet and Saivapitha of Belkhandi to Bhawanipatna, where the citizens of Kalahandi district welcomed them at different Chowks before the procession was taken out across the town.

Later, district collector Dukhishyam Satpathy inaugurated the Kalahandi Utsav Ghumura 2012.

A logo on Ghumura 2012 was also unveiled.

Among others, district SP Sudha Singh, former MP Manmohan Mathur, CDMO Gunasagar Saha, ADM Ashok Kumar Nayak, sub collector Satya Narayan Das, PD DRDA Ashok Kumar Bhuyan, DPC Nruparaj Sahoo, Jagannath Mund, Durga Prasad Mishra and Jayanta Kumar Behera were present during the inaugural ceremony.

Legal way to handle fake currency

If you are found to posses fake currency notes, and you cannot explain where you got them from, you can even go to jail. Most people do not want to deal with this problem in a legal way because our law enforcement (police) and legal system (courts) are not so easy to deal with. Unlikemost developed countries where a common person feels free to report even a smallest problem to the police, in India it is quite different as most people avoid contacting police because those investigations can be painfully inconvenient and especially because many people in law enforcement are not exactly honest. The legal system is even more troublesome, even a small court case in India can easily drag for months and years.

Myth broken: Drink 8 glass of water every day for good health ?

All I can tell you is that since my childhood Ihave repeatedly heard from everyone that"Drink at least 8 glasses of water" for goodhealth. Honestly, I am not a "natural" big water drinking person, so whenever I realize that I have not taken water for a while, I take a glass of water and gulp it down my throat regardless I am thirsty or not.

Well, it turns out I do not necessarily have to do it that way anymore according to a recent study.

How much water should we drink every day ?

Drink water when you feel thirsty, and if you feel you are drinking too little water (or consuming less fluids) then drinking a glass or two extra is a good idea.

Validity of cheques, drafts cut to 3 months:- New RBI Guideline

From April 1, 2012, your cheques and bank drafts will have a life of just three months instead of the earlier six.
In a notification on Friday evening, the Reserve Bank of India said these instruments will have to be presented within three months from the date of issueas it has been brought to its notice by the government that some persons were taking undue advantage of the six month validity of cheques/drafts/pay orders/banker's cheques by circulating them like cash for this period.
For customer awareness, banks have been asked to print the change on cheques and drafts that will be issued from April 1, 2012.

Orissa becomes Odisha

The name of Orissa was officially changed to Odisha and its language from Oriya to Odia following presidential assent today to the bill passed by Parliament and issuance of a notification.

In the first official letter using Odisha in the letterhead, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik thanked President Pratibha Patil for her"historic decision".

"I convey to you the deep sense of gratitude of our people for the state to be known now as Odisha," Patnaik wrote.

There were celebrations with fire crackers burst tonight following the notification.

At the secretariat the chief minister, ministers and officials watched a sparkling display of fireworks.

The chief minister declared a holiday tomorrow. All government offices, schools and colleges will remain closed.

Sweets were distributed among those present at the celebrations, organised at short notice following instruction from Patnaik.

Earlier an unanimous resolution was passedin the state assembly for change in the name of the state from Orissa to Odisha in 2008 which received the nod of both the houses of the Parliament in 2010.

The President's assent and notification was issued today.

The state which was formed on linguistic basis on April 1, 1936, was known as Orissa and its language was Oriya since then.

Ms. Manjula Prasher is new Secretary, Posts

Ms. Manjula Prasher is new Secretary, Posts


Ms. Manjula Prasher , an IPoS (1976) has taken over the charge of the Secretary (Posts)/ Chairperson, PSB/ DG (Posts), Department of Posts, DakBhawan, New Delhi-110001 wef  01.11.2011F.N.

TRAI raises SMS limit to 200 SMS per day per SIM

Telecom consumers will now be able to send up to 200 SMSes per day from a SIM, asagainst the earlier limit of just 100 SMSes per day imposed by the Telecom

Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). "The authority has received representations from some of the service providers and

consumers to increase the limit of 100 SMSes per day per SIM. The authority has considered these representations and decided to increase the limit of 100 SMSes per day per SIM to 200 SMSes per day per SIM," Trai said in a statement today.

To deter unsolicited SMSes by telemarketing companies, Trai had earlier restricted the number of non-commercial SMSes that can be send from a SIM to 100. There was no restriction on commercial messages sent through telemarketing companies registered with Trai.

The new cap of 200 SMSes per sim per day will be effective from today.

Renaming of the Postal Staff College India.

No.2-04/2009-Trg.

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts, (Training Division)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi – 110001

Dated : 31.10.2011

1. All Heads of Circles,

2. Additional Director General APS, West Block-III, RK Puram, New Delhi-110066

3. Chief General Manager, Business Development Directorate, New Delhi-110001

4. Chief General Manager, Postal Life Insurance, New Delhi-110 021

Subject: Renaming of the Postal Staff College India.

A proposal for change in the name of the Postal Staff College India (PSCI) was placed before the Postal Services Board. The Board, in its sixth meeting held on 21.09.2011, after detailed discussion, has agreed that in order to reflect the true character of the institution and its future aspiration, PSCI needs to be upgraded as a National Academy. The Board has, accordingly recommended that PSCI be renamed after Shri Rafi Ahmed Kidwal, the first Communication Minister of Independent India, a freedom fighter and one of the foremost nation builders of the post independence era as “Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA)”. The recommended actions of the Board have been approved by the Competent Authority.

2. It is, therefore, hereby notified for information of all concerned that the Postal Staff College India, C.G.O. Complex Ghazibad 201 002, and will hereafter be known as Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA ), C.G.O. Complex, Ghaziabad – 201 002.

Sd/- ( A.Kumaraswamy) Assistant Director (Training).