SAS AGENTS BUSINESS ACCEPTANCE REGARDING SBORDER NO 6/2013

Change of mode of dispatch of Out station Cheques of POSB

Courtesy : IPasp andhra

Sri B.V.Sudhakur is the New Chief of AP Postal Circle

Sri B.V.Sudhakur, IPoS is posted as Chief Postmaster General, A.P.Circle vide Directorate order dated. 30.04.2013.Welcome to AP Circle with best wishes

Coutesy: Ipaspandhra

DA orders Released by MOF

DA will reach 90% by next DA hike

After long wait, the central government employees have finally got the approval for the hike in the dearness allowance. The government has announced the hike in the dearness allowance following the cabinet approval. The central government employees and the pensioners will be eligible for an 8% hike i.e. DA of 80% from January 2013. About 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners are to benefit from this hike. The employees and pensioners will be eligible for arrears for the three months.

The hike comes after a long wait. The staff associations have threatened protests on April 23 against the delay in DA hike. This was the first time since 1986, since the concept of Dearness Allowance was introduced for the central government employees, the announcement got delayed by almost four months.

Eventhough the hike is announced, the demand for the DA merger with the basic remains as main unresolved issue. As per usual practice, DA is merged with basic pay when it breaches the 50% cap. This helps employees get higher allowances as those are paid as proportion of the basic pay. Various unions including the Confederation of Central Government Employees while welcoming the move, demanded the merger. We demand that they should merge up to 50 per cent DA with the basic pay as per the practice and set up the seventh pay commission at the earliest", Secretary of Confederation , K K N Kutty said. As per the practice, the DA is merged with basic pay when it breaches the 50 per cent cap. This helps employees get higher allowances as those are paid as proportion of the basic pay. 

The next DA hike that will be effective from July 2013 will be announced around September end. It is expected that the DA will be 90% then

DA 80% What if >100%

DA reached 80% – what will happen, if DA crosses 100%

What will happen DA reaches 100%..!

At present DA is getting ready to touch 80% level. We can expect that it will reach to 100% level near future.

Dearness Allowance Vs Price Rise

The central government employee’s confederation opined that The Dearness allowance which the cg employees are receiving now is not enough to meet the price rise of essential commodities. (see here)

The retail price of those commodities which go into making of minimum wage have risen by about 160% between 1.1.2006 to 2011 in comparison to D.A. compensation, which on the date had been just 51%

The effect of 50% Dearness allowance on our Pay

The sixth pay commission recommended that Whenever the DA reaches 50% level , Some allowances have to be increased by 25 % . Where as in Fifth CPC , it had been recommended when the DA reaches 50 % it should be merged with Basic Pay. It has been implemented with effect from 2004. And the fifth cpc also recommended that the Pay and Allowance should be revised after every five years. But it was not accepted by the Government.

The objectives of increasing Allowances by 25% as per the 6 CPC or merging DA with Basic pay as in the case of 5CPC, when ever DA reaches 50%, is to make the central government employees to balance the financial burden caused by Price Rise through increasing their pay package.

The impact of DA Reaches 100%

According to fifth CPC the 50 % DA had been merged with Basic Pay and in 6CPC , some allowances have been increased by 25%. But 5CPC didn’t say anything about what should be done when DA touch 100% level. Because the govt servants receiving their pay as per pre revised pay were not granted merging of another 50% of DA in 5CPC scale.

7th Pay commission

Even after the rate of DA is increased to 50% level it is not enough to increase some allowance by 25% as it will not help to handle the expenses caused by inflation. So The central government employees are expecting that government should constitute 7th pay commission immediately.

Source: www.govtempdiary.com
[http://www.govtempdiary.com/2013/03/what-will-happen-da-reaches-100/]

Bits Pilani Dubai Campus

Dubai: BITS Pilani has acquired the infrastructure of its Dubai campus from its long term partner ETA LLC Group, ending a 12-year collaboration. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani made the announcement here, adding that all the statutory requirements for acquisition had been met.
BITS had set up its only international branch in Dubai in 2000 in collaboration with ETA LLC Group. Under the agreement, the latter provided infrastructural facilities and administrative support while the former managed the academics.
Talking about the move, Syed M Salahuddin, Managing Director of ETA remarked that the campus had grown a lot in past 12 years. "Now we pass on the responsibility to BITS Pilani to take it to further heights of excellence in Engineering and Technology education in the Middle East region," he said.

BITS had set up its only international branch in Dubai in 2000 in collaboration with ETA LLC Group.

Professor Bijendra N Jain, Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani in India, said: "Now that BITS Pilani has taken full responsibility as an infrastructure-provider for its Dubai Campus, it will aggressively work to expand opportunities for education and applied research at its Dubai Campus."
"BITS Pilani brand is looking forward to strengthening its Dubai campus by expanding programme offerings, student enrolment, faculty strength, research and community outreach activities, with a view to attracting best of talents," added Professor Ravi Kant Mittal, Director of Dubai campus.
Currently, the Dubai campus offers seven undergraduate programs in Engineering besides several postgraduate and doctoral programmes, with a student strength of over 1500.

Examination for Direct Recruitment to the posts of Postal Assistant/Sorting Assistant-2013

Examination for Direct Recruitment to Postal Assistant/Sorting Assistant is scheduled to be held on 21.04.2013 Sunday from 10 hrs to 12 hrs in the following five postal circles selected under 1^st phase. The Approved Outsourcing Agency  will conduct the  Examination.

The Examination for eligible Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) to fill up the unfilled vacancies of LGO Examination 2010 will also be held on the same day.

 Candidates attended late beyond 15 minutes of the scheduled time will not be allowed  to take the examination.   

Sl no	Name of the Circle	No of Cities in which Exam is conducting	Names of Cities in which Exam is conducting	Total no of Examination Venues	Total no of candidates attending the Exam
1	Andhra Pradesh	5	Hyderabad, Sec’bad, Kurnool,Vijayawada, Viskhapatnam	157	89,219
2	Gujarat	3	Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Vadodra	101	69,576
3	Karnataka	3	Bangalore, Dharwar, Mysore	53	42,362
4	Maharastra	5	Aurangabad,Pune, Nagpur, Panaji, Mumbai	229	1,08,528
5	Tamilnadu	5	Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai,Tiruchurapalli, Puducherry	52	52,418

In AP Circle, 89,219 candidates are appearing for the examination, the details of  which are furnished below.

Sl no	Name of the City	No of Venues in each City	No of Candidates attending in each City
1	Vijayawada	44	21,519
2	Visakhapatnam	22	12,617
3	Kurnool	23	12,322
4	Hyderabad	68	38,958
5	Secunderabad		3,803
	Total	157	89,219

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