POSTMASTER CADRE:- A QUICK REVIEW

Postmaster cadre introduced in our department to meet present day requirements and need for professional managers to man the postoffices and in view of Core Banking.

Postmaster Grade-I  ---Five years in PA Cadre (5200-20200 + GP 2800)--Competitive exam
Postmaster Grade-II ---Six years in PM Grade-I(including service in LSG)--(9300-34800+4200)
Postmaster Grade-III-- Five years in PM Grade-II(Including service in HSG-II)-(9300-34800+4600)
Senior Posmaster------25% from PM Grade-IIIwith 2yrs service and 75% from IP with 5 yrs service
                                    (9300-34800+4800)

Class of offices to be identified by CPMG out of LSG,MDG,Head Post offices in prime locations and CBS
offices and informed to Directorate.

Maximum allotted for Tamilnadu circle by directorate

Postmaster Grade--I --------270 Offices
Postmaster Grade-II-------52 Offices
Postmaster Grade-III------50 Offices

Postmaster Grade-I Exam Scheduled on 12.06.2011
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GROUP B EXAM

Copy of Directorate letter No. A-34012/1/2011-DE dated 6th April 2011 is reproduced below.




Sub: Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of Postal Service Group’B’-2011 to be held on 15th May 2011.

Sir/Madam,

I am directed to refer this office letter No. .A-34012/2/2010-DE dated 16th March, 2011 wherein the calendar of PAs/SAs Direct Recruitment and Departmental Examinations for the year 2011 was communicated.

2. Accordingly the PS Gr. B examination 2011, will be held as under :-



DATE OF EXAM /PAPER TIME

15th May 2011 (Sunday) Paper-I (Without the aid of Books) 10.00 AM to 01.00 AM

Paper-II (without the aid of Books) 02.00 PM to 05.00 PM

1. As per the existing Recruitment Rules of the Postal Service Group B following category of officials are eligible to appear for the examination.

i) Inspectors of Posts with 5 years regular service in the grade as on 01-01-2010.

ii) Clerical line officials working in Post Offices / Postal Divisional Offices with 5 years regular service in the Lower Selection Grade 9LSG) only and above as on 01-01-2010.

Note : Postal / Sorting Assistants placed in TBOP/BCR/MACPs scales, which are only Financial Up-gradations, are not entitled to appear for the Examination.

2. The syllabus for the PS Group B Examination 2011 is enclosed at Annexure-I and the schedule for conducting the Examination is enclosed at Annexure-II. The Examination will be of Objective Type Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and with the use of carbonless (duplicate) Optical Mark Reader (OMR) Answer Sheets. A separate sheet will be provided for writing of Paragraph other than MCQ Test Booklet.

3. It is intimated that the Question Papers for the said Examination (other than the Paragraph Writing & Current Affairs) will be set within the ambit of the various Postal Manuals which are made available on the Indiapost Website/various instructions issued by the Department from time to time/approved reference books notified in the enclosed modified syllabus. However, the Examination will be held without the aid of Books.

4. The category-wise break-up of vacancies to be filled through the PS Group B Examination 2011 is indicated below:

Examination for Category-wise break up of vacancies

OC SC ST Total

Inspector Posts Line Officials (19%) 23 07 02 32

General Line Officials (6%) 09 0 01 10
Note : The result will be subject to the outcome of the judgements of various CAT Benches relating to previous Examinations.
5. The Application Form kit will contain Application OMR Form (Mangental Colour), Instruction Sheet, Acknowledgement Card and envelope for mailing the Application Form to CMC Ltd.
6. It is requested to bring the contents of this letter as well as Annexure-I and II to the notice of all concerned.

7. Hindi version will follow.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

(L. Mohan Rao)

Assistant Director General (DE)
ANNEXURE-I

Syllabus for Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of PS Group ‘B’.

Paper-I :

(1) Acts/Rules/Guidelines /Instructions relating to Inland and Foreign Posts, Mail Operations, Money Remittances, Savings Bank Schemes and Certificates, Rural and Postal Life Insurance.

(2) Organisation of Department, Office Procedure and Material Management for optimum utilization of network, Establishment and Administrative Matters.

(3) Paragraph Writing and Current Affairs.

Paper-II :

CCS (Conduct) Rules, CCS (CCA) Rules, Accounts, GFR, FRs and SRs and FHBs.

Annexure-II

Schedule for conducting the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of PS Gr. ‘B’

Sl. No. Activity Schedule

1 Receipt of application form willing candidates on plain paper with service details to decide the eligibility to Divisional Office / Circle Office/Controlling Unit 11.04.2011 onward

2 Receipt of Application form kits by Nodal Officer [DPS(HQ)] of Circle from CMC Latest by 11.04.2011

3 Receipt of Application form kits by Divisional Office/Regional Office/Circle Office/Controlling Unit from Nodal Officer [DPS(HQ)] of Circle for making available to the eligible candidates Latest by 15.04.2011

4 Last date for receipt of Application Form (duly filled in) at Divisional Office / Regional Office/ Circle Office/ Controlling Unit 25.04.2011

5 Receipt of duly filled in Application forms by Nodal Officer [DPS(HQ)] of Circle sent by Divisional Office / Regional Office /Circle Office / Controlling Unit Latest by 27.04.2011

6 Submission of duly filled in Application Forms by ([DPS(HQ)] of Circle to CMC Latest by 29.04.2011

7 Issue of Hall Permits by CMC to eligible candidates Latest by 05.05.2011

Date of Examination 15.05.2011



IT Modernization Project for DOP

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the IT Modernization Project – Phase-II proposal of the Department of Posts. The decision is to computerize all the Departmental and Grameen Dak Sevak (GDS) posts offices in the country. The approval has also been accorded for creation of IT infrastructure including establishment of Data Centre, Networking of the Departmental post offices, development of scalable, integrated and modular software for all the operations of the Department of Posts. The Project will be implemented over a three year period covering 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13.




The total expenditure involved in this project will be Rs.1877.20 crore and it will cover all the Post Offices throughout the country in all the State and Union Territories. The Department of Posts will be floating tenders for procurement of hardware and development of software. Pilots will be held in rural and urban post offices. The final roll out will be completed by September 2012.



Handheld devices will be provided to all the Grameen Dak Sevak (GDS) Post Offices in the rural areas and necessary software application developed. Banking solution will be implemented for the Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) scheme. Software Integration solutions will be developed for mail operations enabling tracking solutions for all registered and Speed Post articles.



The Postal Life Insurance services will be available in all the Post Offices including rural pot offices in the country through computers and rural ICT devices. Comprehensive training will be given to staff in Customer relations, application, IT management and system training skills.



Background: The Post Office presently handles 654 crore pieces of mail annually. POSB has a corpus fund of Rs.5,63,000 crore. Significant trends like liberalization and globalization; urbanization, increased demand for financial services, increased funding by government for weaker sections and rural sector, make it imperative that India Post develop new processes and supporting technology

Upgradation of Grade Pay of IP with ASP

                         Letter No.CHQ/IASP/SCPC Dated: 07-09-2010

To

Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy,
Director General,
Department of Posts,
Dak Bhawan,
New Delhi-110001

Sub:Up- gradation of Grade Pay to the cadre of Inspector Posts-regarding


Ref: Postal Directorate No.4-12/2009-PCC dated 22-03-2010.

Respected Madam,

In continuation of this Association letter no. even dated 09-08-2010 and further discusssions with the DDG(Estt.) on 16-08-2010, it is submitted as under :-

Post of Inspector, Posts may be merged with the post of Asstt. Supdt. Posts with Grade Pay of Rs.4600/- with nomenclature as Asstt. Supdt. Posts as JAO(Non gazetted) was merged with AAO(Gazetted) with nomenclature as AAO. If ,it is not possible then post of Inspector, Posts may be retained as Inspector, Posts (Non-Gazetted Group-B) with Grade Pay of Rs.4600/- and post of Asstt. Supdt. Posts as Asstt. Supdt. Posts(Gazetted Group-B) with Grade Pay of Rs.4600/- as post of Senior AO and its promotional post of ACAO are in the same pay band of PB-3 with Grade Pay of Rs. 5400/-. Documentary proof in this regard is also attached.



Yours Faithfully,

(ROOP CHAND)
General Secretary
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