18/10/2014
India Post to play an important role in online shopping now.
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The machine installed on latest 'Automated Mail Processor Center' was also displayed
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Keeping in view the enormous growth of the e-commerce sector in the country in recent years, India Post has recently joined hands with the e-retail giants Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon. India Postal Department will soon be delivering products of these online companies in every corner of the nation in the near future.
The prospects of collaboration were discussed in a press conference held on Saturday on the occasion of 'mail diwas' during 'National Postal Week'. The machine installed on latest 'Automated Mail Processor Center' was also displayed.
John Samuel, Member of the Postal Service Board informed that the Indian Post will soon convert 1.55 lakh post offices of the country to the high-tec 'Parcel hubs' and an investment of Rs 4.90 crore is being pitched for this plan.
“India Post will play a major role in e-commerce industry and would be using latest machines. It would be transforming according to the needs of the world,” he further added.
Chief Post Master General Vashumitra stressed that automated mail processing centre built at IGI airport, is important for the modernisation of India Post. He also shared that letter sorting machine, mixed mail sorter machines installed in the centre work quickly. The letters and parcels are sorted out as per the different states and different areas (as per Pincodes).
33,000 letters per hour can be sorted by this machine. He urged the customers as well to write the addresses and pincodes on the letters and parcels correctly , avoid using coloured envelopes, so that there may be no problems in sorting of the letters and parcels.
17/10/2014
Modeled on the lines of Jharkhand government’s
attendance website, it has a dashboard which gives an overview of daily
attendance activity of every employee registered with it, and will very soon
become a centralised database of and for all central government employees.
40% of registered central government employees absent from
work – attendance.gov.in
Blame
it on Urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu. He made a couple of surprise
visits to his ministry in June and July and a government attendance website was
launched, which is throwing up stunning figures of attendance in central
government offices. If attendance.gov.in is to be believed, nearly 40% of
central government employees tend to be absent from work on any single working
day of the week. Attendance.gov.in is a live website and tracks attendance
minute by minute
For
example, on Friday, October 10, of 50,587 central government employees
registered with attendance.gov.in, the recently launched “attendance website”
by the Modi government, only 27,553 were present. The remaining 22,000 odd
employees had not turned up for work for whatever reason.
The
story of this bureaucratic-lethargy started when, soon after taking charge of
the Urban development ministry, Naidu checked into Nirman Bhavan, once on June
12, and then on July 28. “That is when late coming to office was noticed. Shri
Naidu then directed ministry officials to take necessary measures to ensure
punctuality at work,” says a PIB note issued on August 13.
Very
soon biometric attendance marker systems were installed in Nirman Bhavan. Other
ministries followed suit, and the ‘Babu’ was forced to answer to an electronic
roll-call, mornings and evenings. Attendance.gov.in was simultaneously
launched. It took some days but now the website is in full flow, and throwing
up numbers that tell the story in numbers.
Modelled
on the lines of Jharkhand government’s attendance website, it has a dashboard
which gives an overview of daily attendance activity of every employee
registered with it, and will very soon become a centralised database of and for
all central government employees.
The
numbers on attendance.gov.in show that the biometric attendance system has so
far not done much to change Babu-behaviour. Playing truant continues though
“late coming to office” might have stopped to an extent.
The
figures are graphic on attendance.gov.in. Bureaucratic-lethargy is seen across
the board, cutting across ministries and departments. For instance, in Naidu’s
ministry of urban development (MOUD), where it all started, 345 employees were
present on Friday, out of a total of 463 biometric-registered employees.
Other
departments did not depart from the script. Out of the 1006 self-registered and
department-verified employees of the department of rural development, only 429
marked attendance on Friday. In the case of ministry of water resources, the
numbers were 1034 and 439. Directorate general of supplies and disposals
(DGS&D): 1143 and 409. Department of Science: 351/889. The total at all
these four departments: 3487/9846.
In
CPWD, which too is governed by the MOUD, of the 6444 registered employees, on
754 were on attendance on Friday. Contacted by dna, CPWD’s nodal officer for
biometric attendance, K C Singh, said, “I am not competent to speak on this
issue.” He was dead serious. A call to the Ministry of Finance elicited a
somewhat similar reply. The person who answered the call said, “Please call on
Monday. I do not know the name of the nodal officer.”
As
of Friday, 149 government organisations & departments had registered with
this unique attendance website. More are expected to sign in. The ubiquitous
Babu is finally under the scanner, and unwilling to talk of the experience.
Attendance.gov.in is doing all the talking.
source
: DNAINDIA.COM.
PFRDA will approach FM seeking tax exemption for NPS withdrawals
Pension regulator PFRDA will soon approach
Finance Ministry seeking tax exemption for withdrawals under the National
Pension System (NPS), its Chairman Hemant G Contractor has said.
This will be the first time PFRDA– after getting
statutory recognition in February 2014– will seek a tax break for NPS.
The Finance Ministry will soon start the budget
preparation exercise for Budget 2015-16, which will be the first comprehensive
budget of the new Modi-Government.
Prior to the statutory recognition, the interim
pension regulator had sought tax exemption on NPS withdrawals, but that tax
break was not provided by the erstwhile UPA Government.
In his first interaction with mediapersons here
on Wednesday, the new PFRDA Chairman, Contractor said there was need for some
“fiscal” push from the Government to make NPS popular in the country.
A tax exemption on NPS withdrawals would address
the “adequacy” aspect of retirement monies and ensure that taxes don’t eat into
the retirement corpus of a subscriber.
Under the current income tax law, there is no tax
incidence on contribution or accumulation phase, but tax would be levied at the
withdrawal stage
A tax exemption on NPS withdrawals would level
the playing field with products such as provident funds.
The direct taxes code proposed by the UPA regime
had suggested that ‘Exempt-Exempt-Exempt’ regime be adopted for financial
savings products like NPS.
Indications are that the new dispensation at the
Centre will look to bring its own version of new income-tax law.
SWAVALAMBAN
PFRDA Chairman Contractor said the Swavalamban
scheme has been made an integral part of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
(PMJDY), the flagship financial programme of the Modi-led Government.
PFRDA has fixed a target of fifty five lakhs
subscribers of Swavalamban under PMJDY.
This target of fifty five lakhs subscribers has
been allocated to all the banks working as aggregators. Targets have also been
allocated to other categories of aggregators.