Part Time Contingent Employee's Issue:

A Meeting of Part Time Employees were held at Ottapalam HPO premises on 02-01-11 to discuss about the present situation. After discussions, we decided to submit individual representations to SPOs, with a request to kept the orders in abeyance, till a uniform procedure is finalised. A report published in Desabhimani Daily to day.

All Group Leaders are requested to collect the name and details of P/T employees of his area and convey the same to HQ urgently.

SCHEME FOR ENGAGEMENT OF GDS ON COMPASSIONATE GROUNDS

MERIT POINTS AND PROCEDURE FOR SELECTION.

No. 17-17/2010-GDS

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

(GDS Section)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg.

New Delhi-110116

Dated: 14 Dec. 2010

To,

Chief Postmaster General

Postmasters General

General Managers (Finance)

Director of Accounts (Postal).

Subject: SCHEME FOR ENGAGEMENT OF GDS ON COMPASSIONATE GROUNDS-MERIT POINTS AND PROCEDURE FOR SELECTION.

Sir/Madam,

To objective of the Scheme for engagement of Gramin Dak Sevaks on compassionate grounds is to engage dependent family member of a Gramin Dak Sevak dying in harness, thereby leaving his family in penury and without adequate means of livelihood.

2. Keeping in view the objective of the Scheme, the existing instructions relating to compassionate engagement have time and again been reviewed/modified/simplified so that the system finally derived at shall be more transparent, efficient and uniform in nature.

3. Currently, there is no laid down transparent criteria for adjudging degree of indigence of the GDS family while considering their cases for compassionate engagement. Therefore, a need is felt to lay down transparent criteria for considering a request for engagement on compassionate grounds by a Committee. A balanced and objective assessment of the financial condition of the family has to be made taking into consideration of his/her assets and liabilities, and all other relevant factors such as presence of an earning member, size of the family and the essential needs of the family including social obligations, etc. in order to assess the degree of indigence of all the

applicants to be considered for compassionate engagement. The Department of Personnel &Training has provided for limiting compassionate appointment of wards of departmental employees to 5% of the total vacancies and no such stipulation has been made for this purpose in respect of GDS. This, however, does not mean that all applicants are to be engaged as GDS on compassionate grounds in relaxation of normal and only the exceptional and deserving cases are to be considered for compassionate engagement as the scheme stipulates that compassionate engagement is to be given only in indigent and deserving cases.

4. The existing procedure has been reviewed in this Directorate and it has been decided by the competent authority that to achieve the objective of the scheme of the compassionate engagement and to ensure complete transparency, merits of the cases can be conveniently indicated by allocating points to the applicants based on various attributes. Accordingly, the Department has worked out a system of allocation of points to various attributes based on a hundred point scale as indicated in the tables below:-

1. NO. OF DEPENDANTS:

Ser	Points	Proposed for GDS Dependants
1	10	3 & above
2	7	2
3	3	1

2. OUTSTANDING LIABILITIES FOR EDUCATION/MARRIAGE OF

DEPENDANT CHILDREN

Ser	Points	Criteria
1	10	For education of minor children
2	15	For marriage of daughter

3. LEFT OVER SERVICE FOR DICHARGE

Ser	Points	Proposed slabs for left over service in context to maximum age for discharge
1	10	Over 20 years
2	8	Over 15 & up to 20 years
3	6	Over 10 & up to 15 years
4	4	Over 5 & up to 10 years
5	2	0-5 years

4. OWN AGRICULATURAL LAND AND HOUSE

Ser	Points	Criteria
1	10	No house and land
2	5	Own house only or land
3	0	Own house and land

5. FAMILY EARNINGS OF MEMBERS OF FAMILY PER MONTH

Ser	Points	Proposed slab for family earning
1	10	No income
2	8	2500 or less per month
3	6	2501 to 3500 per month
4	4	3501 to 4500 per month
5	2	4501 to 5500 per month
6	0	5501 & above

6. DICHARGE BENEFITS i.e. EX-GRATIA GRATUITY, SERVERANCE AMOUNT, SERVICE DISHCARGE BENEFITS UNDER NPS LITE AND GROUP INSURANCE BENEFITS RECEIVED BY FAMILY

Ser	Points	Proposed slabs for benefits discharge
1	10	Below Rs. 25000
2	8	25000 to 50000
3	6	50001 to 75000
4	4	75001 to 100000
5	0	Above 100000

7. EDUCTATIONAL QUALIFICATION OF APPLICANT:

Ser	Points	Proposed slab on education of applicant
1	25	Graduate
2	20	10+2
3	2	Below 10+2

5. The above system of weightage not only brings more objectivity to the method but also ensures complete transparency and uniformity in the selection process. The above method is being introduced for considering cases of compassionate engagement to the dependents of the GDS in the event of death of the bread winner. The cases which are more than five years old or having an earning members (s) in the family shall continue to be referred to this Directorate as hitherto before.

6. Shri RS Nataraja Murti Committee had recommended in Para 17.20.2 as under:-"Keeping the spirit of compassionate appointments as enunciated by the Nodal Ministry and also the ruling of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, there is need to provide compassionate appointment to the dependents of GDS in hard and deserving cases. The purpose would be served if the engagement of GDS on the division in a year. The vacancies may be computed separately for GDS BPM and other categories.

The period of consideration of deserving cases may be kept as three years. While considering the cases there need not be any relaxation in educational qualification for the post of BPM. In hard and deserving cases requiring relaxations of educational qualification, the engagement may be offered in other categories of GDS subject to the condition that the incumbent can satisfactorily discharge the duties assigned". While the intention behind the scheme of engagement of GDS on compassionate grounds is to allow engagement of GDS on compassionate ground in hard and deserving cases only and not in all cases, the recommended percentage is twice the percentage prescribed for regular Government employees. The above recommendations have been examined

in this Directorate and it has been decided to accept the same. However, in view of the

Department's plan to computerize the Branch Offices and to use hand held devices etc. besides the requirement of combination of duties in various circumstance, it all categories of Gramin Dak Sevaks including GDS BPM.

7. The number of vacancies and ceiling of 10% now being proposed may be calculated in the following manner:-

(a) The vacancies occurring in a calendar year age to be computed separately for the GDS BPM and other categories of GDS by their appointing authorities for each division well in advance. The appointing authorities while calculating the same shall take into account the vacancies that are likely to occur due to discharge of Gramin Dak Sevaks on attaining the age of 65 years for this purpose during the ensuing calendar year. However, the vacancies arisen due to absorption of Gramin Dak Sevaks in regular departmental posts and due to death occurring during the currency of the calendar year will be added to the vacancies occurring in the next calendar year for computation. The requisite information therefore needs to be compiled at all levels and finally sent to the Head of the Circle concerned by 30th Nov in advance along with cases complete in all

respect.

(b) Circle Relaxation Committee shall consider all cases and approve the same subject to guidelines on the subject and ceiling of 10% of the vacancies calculated separately for GDS BPM and other categories of GDS strictly on application of the Point System for determining the indigence. Cases prescribed to be sent to the Directorate more than 5 years old and cases in which one or more member is earning shall continue to be recommended as per existing provisions subject to this overall 10% limit to be applied on divisional basis.

(c) In units where on application of the ceiling percentage, the number of vacancies for consideration of cases for compassionate engagement works out less than 1 (not zero), one vacancy may be earmarked in that division/unit for compassionate engagement.

(d) This percentage of 10% shall only apply to cover cases of wards of deceased GDS and not to GDS acquiring disability during service defined in the persons with Disabilities Act, 1995. Section 47 of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 provides that no establishment shall dispense with or reduce in rank an employee who acquires a disability during his service as also no promotion shall be denied to a person merely on the ground of his disability. In case a GDS acquires a disability during his service and is considered to be unsuitable for the GDS post he was holding, could be shifted to some other post with the same TRCA.

(e) Period of consideration of deserving cases is prescribed as three years i.e. in case where it is not possible to offer engagement of GDS on compassionate grounds due to the application of prescribed ceiling, the case may be considered by the CRC in the subsequent CRC meetings of the next two years to the maximum.

(f) No relaxation in educational qualification for the post of GDS BPM or any other category of GDS would be permissible.

The above instructions will be applicable for all the compassionate engagement case to be considered on or after 01.01.2011. These issues with the approval of Secretary Posts.

These instructions may be communicated to all concerned.

Yours faithfully,

(Surender Kumar)

Asst. Director General (GDS

DEPARTMENT ISSUED ORDERS TO FILLING UP OF GDS POSTS IN BRANCH POST OFFICES – REVIEW OF GUIDELINE REGARDING

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

(GDS Section)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110001

No. 17-103/2007-GDS Dated : 29 Dec 2010

To

All Chief Postmaster General

All Postmasters General

Sub: Filling up of GDS Posts in Branch Post Offices-review of guideline regarding.

Sir/Madam,

Reference in invited to this Directorate letter No. even dated 14^th Jul 2009 on the subject cited above which provided for the manner of filling up of GDS vacant posts in single handed branch offices and branch post offices having two or more hands.

2. Provisional appointment for a brief may be resorted to only on account of sudden death, dismissal, removal, put off duty, absorption against the departmental post of Gramin Dak Sevaks and unauthorized absence for long period in case regular arrangements cannot be made immediately.

3. In the case of posts falling vacant due to discharge form service of the GDS BPM or absorption of the GDS BPM on the regular departmental posts, efforts should first be made to fill up the posts by adjusting identified surplus GDS fulfilling the prescribed qualification & other prescribed conditions failing which action should be taken in advance to fill the vacant post of GDS BPM on a regular basis by following the prescribed procedure and following other conditions prescribed under letter No. 17-103/2007-GDS dated 14 Jul 2009. The list of all the GDS, category wise, due to be discharged from service in calendar year may also be displayed on the Department's website in the month January of each calendar year.

This issues with the approval of competent authority.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-
(AK Sharma)
Deputy Director General (Estt.)
Phone No. 011-23096098

CHILD CARE LEAVE TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

No. 13018 /1/2010-Estt. (Leave)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions

(Department of Personnel & Training)

New Delhi, the 30 the December 2010

Office Memorandum

Sub: Child Care Leave to Central Government employees - regarding

The undersigned is directed to say that subsequent to issue of this Department OM of even number dated 07/09/2010, this Department has been receiving references from various Departments, seeking clarifications. The doubts raised are clarified as under:-

1. Whether Earned Leave availed for any purpose can be converted into Child Care Leave? How should applications where the purpose of availing leave has been indicated as 'Urgent Work' but the applicant claims to have utilized the leave for taking care of the needs of the child, be treated?

Child Care Leave is sanctioned to women employees having minor children, for rearing or for looking after their needs like examination, sickness etc. Hence Earned Leave availed specifically for this purpose only should be converted.

2. Whether all Earned Leave availed irrespective of number of days i.e. less than 15 days, and number of spells can be converted? In cases where the CCL spills over to the next year (for example 30 days CCL from 27^th December), whether the Leave should be treated as one spell or two spells'?

No. As the instructions contained in the OM dated 7.9.2010 has been given retrospective effect, all the conditions specified in the OM would have to be fulfilled for conversion of the Earned Leave into Child Care Leave. In cases where the leave spills over to the next year, it may be treated as one spell against the year in which the leave commences.

3. Whether those who have availed Child Care Leave for more than 3 spells with less than 15 days can avail further Child Care Leave for the remaining period of the current year'?

No. As per the OM of even number dated 7.9.2010, Child Care Leave may not be granted in more than 3 spells. Hence CCL may not be allowed more than 3 times irrespective of the number of days or times Child Care Leave has been availed earlier. Past cases may not be reopened.

4. Whether LTC can be availed during Child Care Leave?

LTC cannot be availed during Child Care Leave as Child Care Leave is granted for the specific purpose of taking care of a minor child for rearing or for looking after any other needs of the child during examination, sickness etc.

Sd/-

(Simmi R. Nakra

Director

CALENDAR OF DEPARTMENTAL EXAMINATIONS 2011

No. A – 34012/02/2010-DE
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT
Departments of Posts
(DE Section)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg
New Delhi – 110116
Dated 29.12.2010

To,
All Head of Circles,
The Additional Director General, APS, New Delhi

Sub: - Calendar of Departmental Examinations scheduled to be held in the year 2011.

Sir/Madam,

I am directed to say that the competent authority has approved the following schedule of Departmental Examination to be held in the year 2011: -

Name of Examination Exam schedule to be held on To be conducted by

	Name of Examination	Exam schedule to be held on	To be conducted by
	(1)	(2)
1.	LGOs for PAs/SAs cadres & PAs cadre in Cos/ROs	February 2011	Directorate
2.	Postal Assistants/Sorting Assistants Direct Recruitment	May 2011
3.	Inspector of Posts Exam 2010	June 2011
4.	A. E. (C & E) Exam	July 2011
5.	J. E. (C & E) Exam
6.	PS Group 'B' Examination, 2010
7.	Postmaster Grade – I	April 2011
8.	LDCs to Junior Accountants in PAOs	August 2011	Circle Offices
9.	Confirmation Exam for Dr. Jr. Accountants in PAO	August 2011

2. It is intimated that the above schedule is tentative and examination will be held subject to availability of vacancies and as per the administrative convenience.

Necessary action may please be initiated to complete to pre-examination formalities to ensure smooth conduct of examinations.

Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(L. Mohan Rao)
Assistant Director General (DE