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Labourers to get higher wages under MNREGS
Wages under the government's flagship rural job guarantee
scheme are set to rise 11.4% from April 1, according to people close to the
development. The rural development ministry has decided to increase wages under
the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme from an average
of Rs 156.4 per person, per day at present to Rs 174.3 in fiscal 2014-15 , the
same persons said.
The proposed wage hike is expected to cost the government
an additional Rs 1,000 crore under the scheme from next fiscal. The government
is spending over Rs 30,000 crore on the scheme in 2013-14 . MNREGS is widely
seen as a plank on which the UPA government returned to power in 2009. The
scheme entitles millions of workers enrolled under it to Rs 100 a day for a
minimum of 100 days of work in a financial year.
On an average, 25% of rural households seek employment
under it every year. The wage revision is based on the rise in the inflation
rate as measured by the consumer price index for agricultural labourers (CPIAL
). The CPI-AL is based on data collated by the 38th round of the National
Sample Survey Organisation's household consumption expenditure survey for
1986-87 . For the first nine months of the current fiscal, inflation based on
CPI-AL stood at 12.4% compared with 12.6% for 2013 (January-December ). The
wage increase will be different for most states.
At Rs 212, Kerala will see the highest increase -- up
17.7% from 2013-14 . This will be followed by Lakshadweep -- up 17.4% at Rs
195. For Bihar, wages will rise 16.6% to Rs 153 while Jharkhand will see a
14.9% increase to Rs 158.
Wages in Andhra Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland , Sikkim and
Tripura will increase 14.8%. In absolute terms, however, Haryana tops the wage
increase list at Rs 236 per person, per day, compared with Rs 214 at present,
followed by Andaman and Nicobar at Rs 228 (Rs 204) and Chandigarh at Rs 227 (Rs
209). At the list's bottom is Bihar at Rs 153. Despite the annual increase in
wages under MGNREGA since 2011, minimum wages in more than a dozen states are
still higher than MGNREGA wages. The government is looking at ways to remove
this disparity.
Electronic Indian Postal Order-extension of service to Indian Citizens residing in India
No.1/44/2009-IR
Government of
India
Ministry of
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Personnel
& Training
North Block, New
Delhi
Dated the 13th
February, 2014
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject :
Electronic Indian Postal Order-extension of service to Indian Citizens
residing in India.
In continuation to this Department’s O.M. of even number
dated 22/03/2013, it is intimated that Department of Posts has extended the
“e1P0″ (electronic Indian Postal Order) service to Indian citizens residing in
India also w.e.f. 13.02.2014, for purchasing Indian Postal Order electronically
by paying a fee online through e-Post Office Portal i.e.
http://www.epostoffice.gov.in. It can also be accessed through India Post
website www.indiapost.qov.in
2. It is reiterated that:
i) This facility has been provided for Indian citizens to
facilitate them to seek information from the Central Public Information
Officers (CP10s) under the RTI Act, 2005. Debit or Credit Cards of any Bank
powered by Visa / Master can be used to purchase e-IPO
ii) The user needs to get registered at the website. He
has to select the Ministry / Department from whom he desires to seek the
information under the RTI Act and the elP0 so generated can be used to seek
information from that Ministry / Department only. A printout of the elP0 is
required to be attached with the RTI application. If the RTI application is
being filed electronically, elP0 is required to be attached as an attachment
iii) This facility is only for purchasing an Indian
Postal Order electronically. All the requirements for filing an RTI application
as well as other provisions regarding eligibility, time limit, exemptions etc.
will continue to apply.
3. An eIP0 so generated must be used only once with an
RTI application. To check any multiple use of the same elP0, the Public
Authority shall maintain a record of the eIPOs so received. In case of any
doubt, the details of elP0 can be verified from the above mentioned site /
portal of India Post.
(Sandeep Jain)
Director(IR)
1. All Ministries / /Departments of the Government of
India
2. Union Public Service Commission, Lok Sabha
Secretariat, Rajya Sabha Secretariat, Cabinet Secretariat, Central Vigilance
Commission, President’s Secretariat, Vice-President’s Secretariat, Prime
Minister’s Office, Planning Commission, Election Commission.
3. Central Information Commission
4. Staff Selection Commission
5. 0/o Comptroller & Auditor General of India, 10,
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi
India Post to install 3000 ATMs,1.35 lakh micro-ATMs by September 15
Even as its application to start a commercial bank is pending, India Post has drawn a massive plan to install as many as 3,000 ATMs and 1.35 lakh micro-ATMs at the ubiquitous post offices across the country for savings account holders by September 2015, a top official has said.
"We will be starting with three ATMs to be installed in New Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore on February 5 and then ramp it up gradually," postal department secretary Padmini Gopinath told a select group of reporters here over the weekend.
She said 1,000 ATMs with the India Post branding will be put in within the first year, which will be ramped up massively to 3,000 in the next 18 months.
To start with, the ATMs can be used only by 26 crore savings account-holders who save with the postal department, but Gopinath exuded confidence that within six months of the launch, they will get the interoperability permission from the Reserve Bank.
Postal savings are worth around Rs 6.05 trillion, which is half the savings in the largest lender SBI and more than double that of the largest private sector lender ICICI Bank.
Through interoperability, India Post will join the National Financial Switch, which will benefit India Post account holders to transact at the banks' ATMs and vice versa, she added.
India Post has been working with software major Infosys on this project, she added.
The micro ATMs will be handheld devices to be operated at the post office level while the ATM will be similar to the one operated by any commercial bank, she added.
The postal department, which has 1.55 lakh post offices over 90 per cent of which are in villages, offers the savings account to people across the country and pays an interest of 4 per cent per annum for such deposits. The account offers cheque facility at present.
It can be noted that the Department of Posts is fighting a very contentious battle to convert itself into a full fledged bank, asserting that its reach can help achieve the goal of financial inclusion.
However, the finance ministry has expressed some reservations about the idea, while Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has exuded confidence of winning over his Cabinet colleagues to get the go ahead for the 'Postal Bank'.
Source:-The Economic Times
Reserve Bank to withdraw all pre-2005 currency notes from circulation
In a move that is likely to hit currency hoarders and
counterfeiters, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to withdraw from
circulation all currency notes issued prior to 2005.
“From April 1, the public will be required to approach
banks for exchanging these notes. Banks will provide exchange facility for
these notes until further communication,’’ the RBI said on Wednesday,
clarifying that notes issued before 2005 would continue to be legal tender.
“The public can easily identify the notes to be withdrawn
as the notes issued before 2005 do not have on them the year of printing on the
reverse side,’’ the RBI said.
From July 1, however, those wanting to exchange more than
10 pieces of 500 and 1000 rupee notes in a bank where they do not have an
account will have to provide proof of residence and identity. The RBI’s move
will have the effect of flushing out black money, according to bankers.
A former bank official said the RBI announcement would
leave currency hoarders with no option but to liquidate their unaccounted
holdings by spending or exchanging them. The move is a well thought out
exercise by the RBI to capture the ``money flows’’ into the system and also
help flush out counterfeit notes, said another banker. Notes issued after 2005
have added security features that make counterfeiting difficult. Dharmakirti
Joshi, Chief Economist at ratings agency CRISIL, agrees that the spillover
effect of the move will be to flush out black money. “Money has value as long
as it is a medium of exchange and store of value. It loses its value when it
ceases to be a medium of exchange. It’s like holding a dead body,’’ he said.
Pointing out that when the notes are exchanged in banks
it will have the effect of bringing the money back into the system, Mr. Joshi
felt it was a very good move for the economy.
With the RBI setting terms for exchange of these notes
and income-tax authorities scrutinising big spends, it will now become that
much simpler for the authorities to track these transactions.
SB ORDER NO-1/2014
SB Order 01/ 2014 : Printing of modified Standardised uniform SB Passbooks for CBS Post offices and change in text of information printed in the Passbook about Small Savings Scheme
Expected DA from Jan 2014 - 11%
The one more and another additional Dearness allowance to
Central Government employees and Pensioners from Jan 2014 will be announced in
the middle of March 2014.
This is too early and predict the enhancement in
percentage of Dearness allowance with effect from January 2014. The prediction
and announcement of this hike make us cool, that the additional DA will jump to
101% and another word, an additional DA would be 11%.
But, still we have to wait for one more month, that
the magic number of AICPIN would be increased by 3% and more..! From the
existing level of the AICPIN is now 243, if it becomes 246 in end of December
2013, out prediction will be right…or otherwise certainly we would cross
century in total Dearness allowance…
The table describes the prediction of additional DA
from Jan 2014…
Month
|
Year
|
AICPIN (IW) BY 2001=100
|
Points Increasing in AICPIN
|
Total
|
Average
|
App. DA
|
DA
|
Jun
|
2013
|
231
|
3
|
2648
|
220.67
|
90.62
|
90
|
Jul
|
2013
|
235
|
4
|
2671
|
222.58
|
92.28
|
|
Aug
|
2013
|
237
|
2
|
2694
|
224.5
|
93.93
|
|
Sep
|
2013
|
238
|
1
|
2717
|
226.42
|
95.59
|
|
Oct
|
2013
|
241
|
3
|
2741
|
228.42
|
97.32
|
|
Nov
|
2013
|
243
|
2
|
2766
|
230.5
|
99.12
|
|
Dec
|
2013
|
Expected 246
|
3
|
2793
|
232.75
|
101.06
|
101
|
Help Desk Management System (HDMS) to be made operational from 10/01/2014 by CEPT Mysore.
The newly developed ‘Help Desk
Management System (HDMS)’ to be made operational from 10.01.2014 is an attempt
to standardize the mechanism of providing support to the field units in respect
of various technical issues in a number of application packages developed by
CEPT, Mysore. At present the technical support is being provided through email
using the support email id (support@ceptmysore.net).
This existing system has a
number of limitations of which the most important is the limit of sending
emails via Gmail on a particular day resulting in delayed replies to the field
units. Moreover a particular issue is being raised at various levels e.g. PO /
Division / Region / Circle multiple times resulting in multiple handlings of
same case thereby delaying the new cases. “Help Desk Management System
(HDMS)" is developed as a solution to a number of such issues. This
application is hosted over the website of CEPT i.e. http://cept.gov.in under
the ‘Support’ Menu.
The Salient features of this
application are as follows:
1. Only registered users
having valid user id and password (registered for logging into the CEPT
website) can raise a technical issue, called “Ticket”, in respect of
pre-defined modules. Any departmental employee can register as a user of CEPT
Website & resultantly use the HDMS following due procedure detailed under
the Signup link on the Home Page of http://cept.gov.in.
2. The technical issues can be
raised for all types of applications developed / maintained by CEPT & being
used at all types of offices in the department. However in the first phase of
HDMS, a ticket can be raised in respect of 25 major modules / application /
website being used at 06 major types of operative offices. The remaining
applications / office type is planned to be included under HDMS in second phase
subsequently.
3. Each technical issue raised
is allotted a unique identity called “Ticket Number” automatically. All correspondences
in connection with a particular issue may be seen under this unique ticket
number. The user / ticket raiser may remind the CEPT in case the ticket raised
by him is not replied within a pre-fixed time frame.
4. Each operative unit shall
be mapped to the concerned Division / Region / Circle, which in turn will be
able to view the tickets raised for the units under their administrative
control. They can also remind on the pending tickets.
5. All the issues raised and
solution provided by CEPT will be available for scrutiny at any time and thus
in long run, the replies furnished by CEPT will be used to build a knowledge
base.
6. The users are encouraged to
provide their feedback on the application as well as on the individual tickets.
7. Please click on User Manual
for Ticket Raiser to understand the functionality of the various options under
HDMS
Source: cept.gov.in
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