HEAD POST OFFICES TO HAVE ATM FACILITY FROM JUNE

     All the three head post offices in Kollam district will be provided with the automatic teller machine (ATM) facility of the India Post from the first week of June. The head post offices (HPO) are at Chinnakada in Kollam city, Kottarakara and Karunagapally. Initially people with accounts in postal department can use the services of the ATM.

All the 52 HPOs across the State are being provided with the facility. India Post, which has already received licence for starting a Payments Bank, proposes to link all the post offices across the country to the core banking system (CBS).

A proposal is also being sent to the Reserve Bank of India for allowing ATMs of India Post to work on the platforms of all other banks.

Thereafter, the India Post ATMs would be integrated with other bank networks.

The Payments Bank of India Post is expected to be launched early next year. Postal authorities in Kollam said that out of the 94 post offices in the district, 92 had migrated to CBS.

The facility enables people having account with the Postal Department to carry out transactions from any post office in the country.

Debit cards for India Post ATMs will be provided to anyone opening an account with just Rs.50.

The authorities here expect the integration of India Post ATMs with other banks to materialise within six months.

Source : www.thehindu.com

ONLY FOR DOP AGENT - HOW TO PREPARE RD LIST IN BCP IF AGENT PORTAL/FINACLE IS NOT RUNNING

Only For DOP Agent - How To Prepare RD List In BCP If Agent Portal/Finacle Is Not Running

Finacle has not been stable from Last two week. The HAGTXP command which used to post Agent Bulk RD List created at Portal, is also not accessible. Now Directorate has issued an order 02/2016 dated 25.05.2016 regarding use of BCP. Offices as well Agent should aware how to create a Txt. file which has to be uploaded in Finacle for posting Bulk RD list. Many Agents are familiar with Computer and they want to adopt BCP and avoid such situation of levy default fees from their account. The following process is given here to prepare bulk list in BCP mode for Agent. They will send the file via email or any other mode to concern SOL. 

• First BCP Macro enable Excel file has to be downloaded to their PC. 

Click Here to Download Excel File

• Now open File 
• The file looks as below screen shoot.

• You see three different sheets are created in File i.e. RD_Cash_Tran_Details, RD_DC_Tran_Details, RD_NDC_Details.
• Click on RD_Cash_Tran_Details if your Bulk list mode is only case.
• After click it the following screen will be displayed.

Fill the Agent IDFill the RD account
Fill the RD Denomination.
Fill the No of Installment.

Note :- The default fee/ Rebate is not filled in this file. Only RD denomination amount has to be filled. Finacle will automatically calculate the RD default fee/Rebate.

• Click on Home button. The following screen will be displayed.

• Click on Generate Cash Data File
• The following screen will be displayed.

• Now a file name of such MIG00012545_C_2016_05_27_13_52_55.txt will created in D:\ Drive.
• Open the My Comupter > Click on D: Drive

• Open the D:/ The file is highligted in Red rectangle.

• Please send this file to your concern Post office via mail or other device.
• If you want to prepare Bulk List with DOP Cheque.
• Click on RD_DC_Tran_Details sheet.
• The following screen will be availble

Fill the Agent ID
Fill the RD account
Fill the RD Denomination.
Fill the No of Installment.

Note :- The default fee/ Rebate is not filled in this file. Only RD denomination amount has to be filled in RD Installment Amount column. Finacle will automatically calculate the RD default fee/Rebate.

Bank Name should be DOP
Fill the cheque No.
Fill the SB account no. of Cheque.
Go to Home

• Click on Generate DC Data File.
• This file is available in D: Drive. Process is already mention in above.
• If you have a Non DOP Check the following things will be adopted.
• Click on RD_NDC_Tran_Details sheet.

Fill the Agent ID
Fill the RD account
Fill the RD Denomination.
Fill the No of Installment.

Note :- The default fee/ Rebate is not filled in this file. Only RD denomination amount has to be filled in RD Installment Amount column. Finacle will automatically calculate the RD default fee/Rebate.

Bank Name
Fill the cheque No.
Fill the SB account no. of Cheque.
Go to Home

• Click on Generate DC Data File.
• This file is available in D: Drive. Process is already mention in above.

Secretaries Group To Revise 7th Pay Commission Recommendations

New Delhi: Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha who is heading the Empowered Committee or Secretaries group is likely to hand over a report on the revised pay structures of 7th pay commission recommendations to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley by the end of next month.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said government had requisite fund to implement 7th pay commission award. Cabinet Secretary Sinha will finally make his appearance before the the Empowered Committee or Secretaries group on June 11 to make a proposal on the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission before cabinet nod.

recommendations to be submitted by June “The proposal will be placed before the Cabinet after the finance ministry’s review. We don’t think it will take more time for Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s consideration and the new pay structures will be implemented from July after cabinet nod,” said a top official from the Finance Ministry who did not wish to be named.

The 7th Pay Commission headed by Justice A K Mathur submitted the report on November 19. It had proposed the highest salary at Rs 250,000 and the lowest at Rs 18,000. The commission also recommended 14.27 per cent increase in basic pay, 23.55% overall increase in salary, allowances and pensions.

The increase in allowances was recommended 63% while pension was proposed to rise 24%. Finance Minister Jaitley is likely to agree with the Secretaries group. “I think it should not be touched again,” the official said. Once the new structure is implemented, salaries of around 48 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners will rise by 30 percent. The Finance Minister already said the 7th pay commission award would not make the commodity prices to go up.

The central government employees and pensioners will also spend more money on a variety of goods after receiving the 7th Commission award with arrears from January 2016. “This means higher consumption similar to what happened in the past. But the previous two Pay Commission awards came with a lag of two years. So the arrears were large.

This time, it will not be so,” says Pronab Sen, former Chief Statistician, government of India and now Country Director, International Growth Centre, a think tank based at LSE, run in partnership with University of Oxford.

The official also agrees with Sen and said there was no possibility of any impact of the report on the market at this stage of implementation as there were no impacts when the Pay Commission had first submitted the report. The government formed a 13 member secretary-level Empowered Committee or Secretaries group headed by Sinha in January to review the report of the 7th Pay Commission before cabinet nod. The 7th pay commission was set up by the UPA government in February 2014. It submitted the report after around 22 months. After getting the 7th pay commission report, the finance minister Jaitley while introducing the Seventh Pay Commission report on November 19, already said that the final decisions on the Seventh Pay Commission report took five and a half months including the process of Secretaries group. Finance Minister also said, government had requisite fund to implement it.

The secretary group is likely to propose pay structure of minimum at Rs 21,000 and the maximum at Rs 2,70,000 Accordingly, the Secretaries group is likely to reach the conclusion to propose 30 percent basic pay raise instead of 14.27 per cent, which was recommended by 7th Pay Commission.

They are also mulling for doubling of existing rates of such allowances and advances, which has been recommended for abolition by the 7th Pay Commission, sources said. TST

CLARIFICATIONS ON ATM CARDS

Clarification sought 

Whether ATM cards can be issued to the following depositors:

1. SB Accounts of illiterate depositors.

2. SB Accounts opened by minor above 10 years and.

3. SB Accounts opened in the name of minors and operated through guardian.

Clarification received 

ATM Cards can be issued to the minors of above 10 years of age if account is directly operated. In other two cases, ATM Cards should not be issued.

JCA WILL SERVE STRIKE NOTICE ON 30.06.16 IF PROBLEMS FACED BY EMPLOYEES WORKING IN FINACLE, CSI AND CIS NOT SOLVED

AIPEU to hold demands day on 10.06.2016. JCA will serve strike notice on 30.06.16 if problems faced by employees working in Finacle, CSI and CIS not solved 

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION GROUP ‘C’

CHQ: Dada Ghosh Bhawan, 2151/1, New Patel Road, New Delhi - 110008

Ref: P3/Circular/2016 Dated – 27.05.2016

CSI, CBS, CIS

DEMANDS DAY – 10.06.2016

There is no need to elaborate the miseries and sufferings we are facing at base level after the implementation of Finacle, (CBS & CIS) and the mental torture.

The CHQ is aware of the issues and properly placed before the Department vide its letter dated 22.01.2016, 11.02.2016 & 25.04.2016. Further it was brought to the personal notice of the Hon’ble Minister of communication. However, the progress in resolving the Finacle issues is in slow nail causing resentment and unrest amidst officials.

The assurance of the Department on 28.03.2016 in providing two more server by Infosys to solve the Finacle problem has not been carried out yet. The increase in the bandwith as per the requirement of the office has not been carried out in any circle.

Adding fuel to fire, the department’s recent decision in implementing the Business hours of Post office to the extent of 5 hours for monetary transactions has not been exercised. Some circles like Tamilnadu, Haryana etc. have sought clarifications to prevent the implementation of the decision without minding the existing sufferings of officials due to faulty functioning of Finacle & others and the officials are forced to remain in office in late hours. There is every risk for the women employees to leave office late every day.

For the last ten days, there is poor access and even no access in Finacle continuously throughout the nation affecting the public and staff very badly. This is nothing but due to the incapacity of the servers provided by Infosys. The department is not in a position either to correct things or apply the penal provisions against the vender. The existing position in Finacle is nothing but the last straw on camel’s back.

The recent conversations unofficially held between the Infosys and some staff exhibited in the website will reveal the fact. We must know who is committing mistake after mistake. Whether the officers dealing the Finacle are aware of all the software and hardware oriented issues. Are they simply hearing and acting as per the dictums of the vendors? Howe many times we are going to alter our rulings to suit the requirement of vendors? Will there be any time to the officials to go through the routine daily circulars on CBS functioning in the pressure of work?

We lost our patience. Even though, we suffer voluntarily a lot as we feel it is the transition period, in the implementation of Finacle, it is felt now that without settlement of the Problems, the Department is inclined to proclaim that it has implemented the Finacle more in numbers than the leading banks and also without any Quality and good service to the customer.

Under these circumstances, the CHQ has elaborately written a letter to the Department on 26.05.2016, detailing all the problems being existed in Finacle and McCamish and sought remedies within a fort night. In the event of non-settlement, the CHQ has decided to launch the following programme of action culminating to strike action.

10th June - Demands Day - Demonstration at divisional/branch levels
17th June - Dharna in front of Circle office.
30th June - Demonstration in front of Dak Bhawan & issue of strike notice. (The date will be decided with consultation of NFPE & JCA constituents)

The major demands put forth in the programme of action.

1. Provide additional servers and solve the Finacle problem

2. Increase the bandwidth as per the requirement.

3. Implement the decision of Directorate on Business hours.

4. Drop all Memos & Charge sheets issued due to Finacle minor mistake.

5. Implementation of action on all the points put forth in the CHQ letter dated 26.05.2016.

This programme is nothing but to save the Postal Service from the existing chaos and confusions. Even though we desire peace, we have been pushed in to the wall. We could not tolerate furthermore.

All Divisional/Branch and circle secretaries are requested to organize the programme very effectively and intimate compliance. The CHQ will leave no stone unturned in the event of no settlement is seen in this serious issue.

With fraternal greetings,

Comradely yours,

(R. N. Parashar)

General Secretary, P3

& Secretary General, NFPE

CADRE RESTRUCTURING OF GROUP 'C' EMPLOYEES IN DOP

PROCEDURE TO SOLVE TRANSACTION VERIFICATION ERROR - E4221 - NOT AUTHORIZED TO VERIFY PART TRAN 1 IN DOP FINALCE

• When we try to verify the transaction in the supervisor login most often we will face the error "E4221 Not authorized to verify part tran 1 ".

The Detailed Procedure To Solve This Error Is Mentioned Below.

Scenario in which the said error Occurs ?

• When both the entered user and verified user are same the said error will occur i..e, for example if a user say X entered the transaction then if the same user X tried to verify then the system will throw the error "E4221 - Not authorized to verify part tran 1 ".
• Let us try to resolve such error I would like to quote real time example in the below procedure.

Step by Step Procedure to Solve the Above Error

• Sometimes the system will throw the above said error when we try to verify the transaction which is mentioned in the below screen shot

• When a user ( RMREDDY_SU ) for example tried to verify the tran id IN2129630 the system thrown the above said error.
• Then invoke the error HTI menu then the system will show the below screen

• Then in the next enter the tran id as shown in the below screen

• Then click on GO then the system will show the transaction details as shown in the below screen
• • Now in Restore Values select the value "O-OTHER/PART TRANSACTION DETAIL " as shown in the figure
  
  • Then click on GO then the system will open a new window as shown in the below figure
  
  • From the above screen shot is clear transaction created and posted by the user RMREDDY_SU hence if we try to verify the transaction with the same user i..e, RMREDDY_SU then the system will throw the error "E4221 - Not authorized to verify part tran 1 " as mentioned in the first screen shot.
  • As Finacle follows the maker-checker concept both posted user and verified user will be different hence in this example if we try to verify the transaction in the user id RMREDDY then the system will verify successfully.
  • Always make a practice not to post the transactions in the supervisor id as cash account will not be linked for supervisor roles in Finalce which is wrong procedure.Hence avoid posting the transactions in Supervisor ID.