Saturday, August 27, 2011

Department of Posts has won the Today’s Traveller Award for Best Customer Service Organisation

Department of Posts has won the Today’s Traveller Award for Best Customer Service Organisation

Department of Posts has won the Today’s Traveller Award for Best Customer Service Organisation for the year 2011. The award was presented by Shri Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister of Tourism here on 23rd August 2011.

The award citation says “Department of Posts has done a commendable job in reaching every citizen of India with its path-breaking innovations. There has been a major transformation in Department of Posts’ manpower development, whereby both the front and back office staff and the entire personnel make sincere efforts to understand and address customer’s needs, respond to their inquiries/complaints and provide efficient and reliable services with a good degree of enthusiasm.”

Monday, August 22, 2011

VIEWS REQUIRED FOR SUBMITTING TO THE DIRECTORATE REGARDING TRANSFER POLICY OF MINISTERIAL CADRES IN CIVIL WING



ATTENTION OF ALL CIRCLE SECRETARIES AND DIVISIONAL
SECRETARIES AND ALL MEMBERS

The Directorate has called for the views of the association regarding the transfer policy to be adopted in the case of ministerial cadres in Postal Civil Wing from our association vide their letter dated 17-8-2011. The letter is placed under for your information and for sending your views to the General Secretary without further delay as a reply is to be given to the Directorate. Hence, all Circle Secretaries and Divisional Secretaries and other members are directed to give their views over this issue for giving a reply to the Directorate within four days positively.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Dearness Allowance close contact with AICPIN

Dearness Allowance for Central Government Employees as per 6th CPC.

We are all well known that the Dearness allowance calculation is based on All India Consumer Price Index numbers. AICPIN has been published by Labour Bureau in every month,and an attached office of the Ministry of Labour & Employment, has been compiling Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers (CPIIW) since its inception in the year 1946.

Earlier the Government of India accepted the recommendation through a scheme called “Cost of Living Index Numbers scheme” in the year 1941.

In 1946, started compiling and publishing an interim series of All India Average Working Class Cost of Living Index Numbers by Labour Bureau.

The Labour Bureau compiled and published centre-wise and all India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers with base year 1960=100 from August, 1968 to September, 1988.

Working Class Family Income & Expenditure Surveys were conducted by the Labour Bureau during the period 1970-71 at 60 centres and during the period 1981-82 at 70 centres belonging to All India and 6 additional centres. On the basis of the results of 1981-82 survey, a new series of centre-wise and all India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers with base year 1982=100 was compiled and published during the period October, 1988 to December, 2005.

The current series of Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers with base year 2001=100 had been released with effect from January, 2006 index.

This series is based on the Working Class Family Income & Expenditure Surveys conducted during the period 1999-2000 at 78 important industrial centres throughout the country.

These Consumer Price Indices measure the changes in the level of retail prices of a fixed set of goods and services consumed by an average working class family in a given area, over time with reference to a base year.

These indices are utilised for regulation of wages and dearness allowance of millions of workers and employees in the country. These indices serve as important indicators of retail price movement in the country.

These are all the base information’s about AICPIN for calculating dearness allowance to Central Government employees. We just go through the enhanced percentage of dearness allowance month by month in the below table.

Month /
Year

B.Y.
2001=100

Total of
12 Months

12 Months
Average

% Increase
over 115.763

App. DA

DA
%

Enhanced DA %

AICPIN Low

AICPIN High

AICPIN
Diff.

DA
Increasing %

Jan-06

0

Jun-06

123

721

60.08

2

119

123

4

Dec-06

127

1475

122.92

7.16

6.18

6

4%

123

127

4

200%

Jun-07

130

1523

126.92

11.16

9.64

9

3%

127

130

3

50%

Dec-07

134

1569

130.75

14.99

12.95

12

3%

130

134

4

33%

Jun-08

140

1623

135.25

19.49

16.84

16

4%

134

140

6

33%

Dec-08

147

1700

141.67

25.91

22.38

22

6%

140

147

7

38%

Jun-09

153

1775

147.92

32.16

27.78

27

5%

147

153

6

23%

Dec-09

169

1885

157.08

41.32

35.70

35

8%

153

169

16

30%

Jun-10

174

2015

167.92

52.16

45.05

45

10%

169

174

5

29%

Dec-10

185

2111

175.92

60.16

51.97

51

6%

185

189

4

13%

Jun-11

189

2203

183.58

67.82

58.59

58(Expected)

7%

185

189

4

14%