29/04/2016
Reservation
in promotion
Press
Information Bureau
Government
of India
Ministry
of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
28-April,
2016
Reservation
in promotion
Extant
instructions of DoPT provide that reservation in promotion by non-selection
method is available to SCs and STs in all Groups i.e. Group A, B, C & D. In
case of promotion by selection method, reservation is available to SCs and STs
upto lowest rung of Group A. There is no reservation in promotion by selection
within Group A. Reservation in posts by promotion under the existing scheme is
applicable in which the element of direct recruitment, if any, does not exceed
75%.
In
accordance with Supreme Court judgment dated 15.07.2014, results of Limited
Departmental Competitive Examination 1996 for Section Officer grade were
revised by UPSC. Appellants, who were declared successful in the modified
results of SO LDCE 1996, were included in SOSL 1996 by this Department. Later
the benefit was extended to similarly placed SC/ST officers who were declared
qualified in the modified results of SO LDCE 1996. On their inclusion in SOSL
1996, these officers have become eligible for consideration for promotion to
the next grade (Under Secretary) on completion of eight years of approved
service in SO grade i.e. they become eligible for consideration in USSL 2004
onwards subject to the size of the zone. A proposal for review of USSLs 2004
and 2005 has been forwarded to UPSC in which these officers have been included
in the zone.
This
was stated by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of
North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions,
Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by
Shri Ronald Sapa Tlau in the Rajya Sabha today.
Source:
PIB Press
Information Bureau
Review of performance of public servants
Government
of India
Ministry
of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
28-April-2016
15:09 IST
The
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions is aware that review of
performance of public servants occurs only after attaining age of 50 years or
completion of 30 years of service. As per Fundamental Rule (FR) 56 (j):
“The
Appropriate Authority shall, if it is in the opinion that it is in the public
interest so to do, have the absolute right to retire any Government servant by
giving him notice of not less than three months in writing or three months’ pay
and allowances in lieu of such notice:
If
he is in Group ‘A’ or Group ‘B’ service or post in a substantive,
quasi-permanent or temporary capacity and had entered Government service before
attaining the age of 35 years, after he has attained the age of 50 years.
(i)
in any other case after he has attained the age of fifty-five years”.
(ii)
In addition, as per Rule 48 of CCS(Pension) Rules, 1972, at any time after a
Government servant has completed thirty years' qualifying service, he may be
required by the appointing authority to retire in the public interest, and in
the case of such retirement the Government servant shall be entitled to a
retiring pension provided that the appointing authority may also give a notice
in writing to a Government servant at least three months before the date on
which he is required to retire in the public interest or three months' pay and
allowances in lieu of such notice.
Further,
as per Rule 16(3) (amended) of the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement
Benefits) Rules, 1958, the Central Government may, in consultation with the
State Government concerned, require a Member of the Service to retire from
Service in public interest, after giving such Member at least three month's
previous notice in writing or three month's pay and allowances in lieu of such
notice, -
after
the review when such Member completes 15 years of qualifying Service; or
(i)
after the review when such Member completes 25 years of qualifying Service or
attains the age of 50 years, as the case may be; or
(ii)
if the review referred to in (i) or (ii) above has not been conducted, after
the review at any other time as the Central Government deems fit in respect of
such Member.
(iii)
The above provisions have been reiterated from time to time and recently vide
DoPT’s O.M. No. 25013/02/2005-AIS-II dated 28.06.2012 and 03.08.2015, and O.M.
No. 25013/1/2013-Estt.A-IV dated 11.09.2015.
Disciplinary
cases are conducted as per prescribed procedures. Normally, the details and
monitoring of disciplinary cases is to be done by the respective cadre
authorities. The Central Government has also from time to time been stressing
on the need to complete disciplinary cases expeditiously and monitoring the
same.
This
was stated by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of
North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions,
Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by
Shri Vivek Gupta in the Rajya Sabha today
MoU signed for delivery and
collection of water bills through Post Offices in Odisha circle
Delivery and
Collection of water bills on behalf of Engineer-in-Chief, PHEO Odisha,
Bhubaneswar under Housing & Urban Development Department, Government of
Odisha through Post Offices in Odisha Circle.
Standard
Operating and Accounting Procedure
1. Introduction:
i. This scheme will be carried out in all HOs, MDGs and S.Os having e
Payment facility only in Odisha Circle.
ii. The water bills will be accepted in the Post Offices only in shape of
cash. The counter of the Post Offices will ensure that at least the Present Bill Amount as
mentioned in the Bill is fully collected and no partial amount is permissible for collection. Arrear amount, if any, may be collected fully or
partially.
iii. The data would be stored in a Central Data Server. Authorized users in
Post offices can access and do the transactions.
iv. The Application Software provides options for acceptance of water bills
of PHEO Odisha. Billers are created
at Circle level on the authority of Head of the Circle.
v. The Head Post Offices attached in (Annexure-A) have been identified as
the Nodal Post Offices for the delivery of BMS articles and also collection and
payment of water Bills of PHEO Odisha under e Payment.
vi. The Nodal Officers will collect the water bills from the identified
P.H.Divisions of PHEO Odisha as per Annexure-A of the concerned Urban Local
Body (ULB) within 4 (four) working days of the 1st week of each month and the
same will be distributed to consumer within 10th of each month.
vii. The Nodal Officers will make necessary arrangement to collect the water
bill statements from the identified P.H.Divisions of PHEO Odisha for delivery.
The identified P.H.Divisions of PHEO Odisha will make necessary arrangement to
handover the BMS articles to the representative of DOP, Odisha before the cut
off time.
viii. The cut off time to receive the Bill Mail Service articles in the
identified P.H.Divisions of PHEO Odisha is 10.00hrs.
2. Mode of payment of bill collection:
(i) E Payment here allows bill collection only in shape of cash.
(ii) The service provider PHEO
Odisha who has agreed to avail the service would be available on the computer
screen and it would be updated automatically through central server. The
interface will be biller specific. Therefore, the bill collection transaction
should be done carefully after identifying and selecting the correct biller
from the screen.
(iii) Commission/ transaction fee would be levied as per agreement and this
would be configured and a unique biller ID would be created by the Circle Administrator based on the area of operation of service for a particular service
provider and instruction in this regard will be sent to all concerned.
(iv) The collections made in the post offices would be uploaded to central server. If a sub office under
a Head post office is designated as e Payment office for a particular biller,
its attached HPO shall by default have to be identified as e Payment office for
that biller.
3. Bill Collection:
(i) E Payment option is inbuilt in Meghdoot software 7.9.4 Version under
Financial Services.
(ii) On accessing the e Payment module, the lists of all biller services for
which payments are accepted at the post offices are displayed as selectable
option.
(iii) Counter PA will receive the amount of the bill in cash from the
customer. The Counter PA depending on
the biller and mode of payment (by cash only) a customer wants to pay, will
select the appropriate biller service option.
(iv) Biller service specific
option payment screen is displayed.
(v) The counter PA keys in (the Consumer no of the customer and click on
fetch button . If the data for the said consumer no is available in the central
server , the data in all relevant field will be popped up automatically) the required payment information with reference to the bill and
clicks on PRINT button, after confirming the correctness of the information and
complete the entries in other fields also, if any.
(vi) Receipt is printed on the pre-printed stationery as is being done for
BSNL billers. As it is computer generated, no signature of counter staff or
date stamp of the office is required to be affixed in both the copies of the
computer generated receipt.
(vii) PA can cancel the payment operation, at any time during the display of the
payment entry screen by clicking on the cancel button on the payment entry
screen.
(viii) Counter PA hands over both the copy of the receipt to the
customer .
(ix) If the customer failed to submit the bill and only provide the SMS for the bill or only consumer
number than also the counter PA should collect the bill . As there will be mapping with the central
server for all the biller. After selecting
the biller when the Counter Asst entered the consumer number and
click on fetch button the entire amount to be paid by the customer will be fetched by the system and accordingly the amount to be collected, provided there is internet connection in the system to fetch the data from central server.
(x) At the end of counter transaction, the PA made over the cash to
treasurer and after treasurer acknowledge the cash, PA takes print out of
submit account. The counter PA should not perform his shift end , until
supervisor verifies the submit account data.
(xi) The Supervisor will login to the Point of Sale and verify the accounts.
While verifying the transactions, if the Supervisor finds any mistake, he can
cancel the transactions and ask Operator to re-do the transaction. Such action
will find a mention in the Error Book with brief of reasons. Of the newly generated two receipts, both the copy to be pasted in the Error Book. . The correct receipt may be
given to the customer in case available and the receipt issued to him earlier will be obtained and cancelled and
pasted in the Error Book.
(xii) Then follow the procedure for transfer cash to treasury and receipt of
cash from counter etc. should be followed again. Then supervisor should verify
the accounts, as prescribed in the rule books.
(xiii) After verification, the operator calls Central Server and synchronizes
(Sync) the data through epayment communication module. The daily reports (in
duplicate) are generated for e Payment transactions for all biller(s)
separately and consolidated list for the day.
(xiv) The Postmaster/Supervisor logs in to the e Payment website (https://services.cept.gov.in/epayment ) and verifies the statistics and amount to confirm that the statistics
and amount in respect of his/her office on the Website tallies with the actual
transactions done and accounted for in respect of each biller. One copy of each
report, duly signed in token of having carried out the prescribed checks,
should send to its attached HO duly entered on the back side of daily account.
The user ID and password for checking e Payment transaction is :USER ID: dop, password : ePmt
4. Procedure at the Nodal Post Office:
(The name of the Nodal Post Offices for payment of cash to PHEO Odisha
is attached in Annexure-A as per requirement of the biller and approval of the
competent authority. )
The Sr.PM/PM of the Nodal Post Offices will deposit the cheque issued in
favour of the Treasury officer of the District Treasury Office (As per Annexure-A) through a messenger on office arrangement during office hour of the post
office daily.
(i) PA in the Nodal / Identified Post Office receives biller list from the
attached Post Offices and prepares the consolidation at his office in a register.
(ii) The register will be maintained in the Nodal office in the following
format, in respect of biller (H & UD Department) who has agreed to pay the
commission/ service charges to be deducted from the amount collected. The entries in the register as
per the format given below will be made by PA and duly checked by
Supervisor/Postmaster with provision for signature of both of them:-
Date
|
Name of
ePayment office
|
Bills collected in cash
|
e Payment commission & service tax
|
Net amount to be paid after deducting
commission & ST
|
Signature of the supervisor
|
||
Total No.
|
Total Amount
|
Total Commission in Rupees
|
Total Tax in Rupees
|
||||
(iii) Postmaster of the Nodal Post Office checks the list with reference to
the transaction report (s) and prepares the consolidation and tally the
accounts.
5. Accounting: Sub Office:
(i) The SO will collect water and sewerage charges directly from the
customers.
6. Head Office :- Sub Accounts Branch:
(i) After epayment data received from sub offices through daily account, the
sub account PA will feed the data in sub account module under the proper head
i.e ePayments Receipts.
(ii) In accounts branch, there is provision in Accounts (PBS) module to
prepare the schedule for epayment receipts/payments for submitting the schedule
return to account office(DAP) and the PA will prepare the same and compare the
schedule figure with subaccount figure for correctness.
7. Payment to the Biller (by Nodal Office):
(i) The identified divisions of PHEO Odisha shall deposit in advance every
month against Proforma Invoice the amount equivalent to one month expenditure
for delivery of water bill statements through (BMS) and service charge plus
service tax for collection of water/sewerage charges as per Para-1.5 & 1.13
of MoU signed.
(ii) The Nodal Post Office will maintain two registers. One for Bill Mail
Service articles tendered for delivery and another for collection of
water/sewerage charges through e Payment.
(iii) The monthly expenditure for delivery of BMS articles will be deducted
from the advance deposit made by respective PHEO Odisha and it will be strictly
maintained in the register.
(iv) Similarly, for collection of water/sewerage charges the total amount so
collected will be paid to the respective PHEO Odisha without deducting the
service charge.
(v) The service charge due to be collected from the respective PHEO Odisha
shall be deducted from the advance deposit made by respective PHEO Odisha.
(vi) At the time of making payment through Treasury module, system will
automatically deduct the service charge and service tax as per the
configuration done at the time of biller creation. The treasurer will make
payment through cheque for the system generated net amount . Another cheque will
be prepared by the treasure and paid to PHEO for the
deducted amount (service charge+servicetax deducted at the time of making
payment) from the corpus fund provided to DOP
earlier by PHEO ,
(vii) The Nodal Office will ascertain the amount of payment to biller from the
Treasury Mode.
(viii) The Nodal Post Office will
(make payment) transfer to the biller the net amount arrived from the treasury
mode which will automatically deduct the service charges and service tax, as applicable on the date/day as agreed
to or as mentioned in the Agreement. This amount should also be tallied with Cash Account maintained at HO.
(ix) Payment will be made by Account payee cheque to the biller along with
the details of total amount collected less service charges and service tax
deducted and the net amount due to the biller. The frequency (daily) of payment will be as per the agreement entered
into with that particular biller.
(x) The commission /service charges deducted by the Nodal office at the
agreed rate will be accounted for under the head “Commission on Cuttack-WBC” and the Service Tax under head “Service Tax”.
8. At DAP Office:
i. The accounting procedure customized for e Payment for other billers may
be followed
9. MIS
(i) MIS report in respect of each bill separately for Cash.
(ii) MIS for e Payment bill or fees acceptance offices contains details of
bills accepted in that office (The details should tally with the details in the
daily transaction report of that office).
(iii) MIS for the Nodal Post Office for the transactions of attached e Payment
offices.
(iv) MIS for the Nodal paying office, Biller, Division, Region, Circle and
Directorate.