6th Pay Panel has not recommended 50% DA merger with Basic pay

The 6th Pay Commission had recommended not to merge 50 per cent ofDearness Allowance (DA) for government employees with their basic pay, Parliament was informed on 30-8-2013. 

"The 6th Central Pay Commission had recommended not to merge Dearness Allowance with basic pay at any stage," Minister of State Finance Minister Namo Narain Meena said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. 

Government accepted this recommendation, he said, adding that the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission were given effect from January 1, 2006. 

Some Central Government Employees Associations have been demanding for the merger of 50 per cent DA with Basic Pay and the constitution of 7th Pay Commission. 

Meena said the setting up of the next Pay Commission is considered normally after a gap of 10 years between two successive Pay Commission. 

DA to central government employees is revised twice a year, with effect from January 1 and July 1, calculated on the basis of percentage increase in all India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers.

Source:-The Economic Times

Retirement on Superannuation

Shri Sanatan Modi, SPOs, Koraput Division, Jeypore and Shri S.P.Rajalingam, PMG, Berhampur Region are retiring from Govt. Service on 31.08.2013(A/N) on superannuation.

On the occasion of their retirement from Govt. Service, All India Association of Inspectors and Assistant Superintendents of Posts , Odisha Circle Branch bids them a respectful farewell and wishes them a good-health and peaceful life in their post-retirement days.

Extension of Jurisdiction of CAT.

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Adhoc Promotion in JTS Group-A in Odisha Circle

          Shri Abhimanyu Behera, SPOs, Sambalpur Division, a PS Gr-B officer, is promoted to JTS Gr-A cadre on temporary and ad hoc basis and allotted  to Sambalpur Region vide C.O Memo No. ST/2-34(3)/2012 dated 30/8/2013.  

Ad-hoc Promotion to PS Group 'B' Cadre in Odisha Circle

The following ASPs are promoted to the cadre of PS Gr-B purely on temporary and ad hoc basis and allotted to Regions noted against each below vide CO Memo No. ST/2-4(3)/2013 dated 26-08-13.

Sl No	Name of the Officer	Present place of Posting	Allotted to Region
1	Sh. B N Purohit	ASP, RMS K Division, Jharsuguda	Sambalpur
2	Sh. B B Negi	ASP(HQ), Bolangir	Berhampur

Transfers and Posting of officers in JTS cadre in Odisha Circle

CO Memo No. ST/2-34(2)/2012 dated 30-08-13.

Sl No	Name of the officer	Present place of posting	Place of posting on transfer	Remarks
1	Sh. Aditya Kumar Nayak	SSPOs, Bhubaneswar Division	Cuttack City Division	Vice Sh. B C Mohanty proceeded on long leave
2	Sh. Subash Ch. Barik	SSPOs, Sundargarh Division	Bhubaneswar Division	Vice Sh. A K Nayak transferred

Cyber-spying fallout: Govt may restrict usage of Google's Gmail for employees

The government will soon ask all its employees to stop using Google's Gmail for official communication, a move intended to increase security of confidential government information after revelations of widespread cyber-spying by the US.

A senior official in the ministry of communications and information technology said the government plans to send a formal notification to nearly 5 lakh employees barring them from email service providers such as Gmail that have their servers in the US, and instead asking them to stick to the official email service provided by India's National Informatics Centre.

"Gmail data of Indian users resides in other countries as the servers are located outside. Currently, we are looking to address this in the government domain, where there are large amounts of critical data," said J Satyanarayana, secretary in the department of electronics and information technology.

Snowden Fallout

The move comes in the wake of revelations by former US National Security Agencycontractor Edward Snowden that the US government had direct access to large amounts of personal data on the Internet such as emails and chat messages from companies like Google, Facebook and Apple through a programme called PRISM.

Documents leaked by Snowden showed that NSA may have accessed network infrastructure in many countries, causing concerns of potential security threats and data breaches. Even as the new policy is being formulated, there has been no mention yet of how compliance will be ensured.

Several senior government officials in India, including ministers of state for communications & IT Milind Deora and Kruparani Killi, have their Gmail IDs listed in government portals as their official email.

A Google India spokeswoman said the company has not been informed about the ban, and hence it cannot comment on speculation. "Nothing is documented so far, so for us, it is still speculation," Google said in an email response.

A senior official in the IT department admitted on condition of anonymity that employees turn to service providers such as Gmail because of the ease of use compared with official email services, as well as the bureaucratic processes that govern creation of new accounts.

"You can just go and create an account in Gmail easily, whereas for a government account, you have to go through a process because we have to ensure that he is a genuine government user."

Last week, IT Minister Kapil Sibal said the new policy would require all government officials living abroad to use NIC servers that are directly linked to a server in India while accessing government email services. Sibal said there has been no evidence of the US accessing Internet data from India.

Sunil Abraham, executive director of Bangalore-based research firm Centre for Internet and Society, said he agrees with the government's decision to ban Gmail for official communication and that any official violating this needs to be punished.

"After Snowden's revelations, we can never be sure to what extent foreign governments are intercepting government emails," he said. Abraham, however, called the government's decision a "late reaction", as the use of Gmail and other free email services by bureaucrats has increased in the past.

"Use of official government email would also make it easier to achieve greater transparency and anti-corruption initiatives. Ministers, intelligence and law enforcement officials should not be allowed to use alternate email providers under any circumstance."

Source:-The Economic Times

Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of IP 2012 held on 13th and 14th October, 2012- declarationof recasting/revised result thereof

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Use of integrity pact by Ministers/Department implementation of ARC recommendations. 4_2_2011_FC(Posts)Dtd15April2013

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Risk Allowance to Central Government employees - clarification reg.

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6 tips to improve your laptop's battery life

Working on the go and your laptop has run out of juice? This problem plagues most laptops as they tend to lose their battery capacity over time. But worry not, as there are several ways to improve laptops' battery life without too much trouble.

So, here are 6 ways to improve your laptop's battery life.

Display

Similar to phones, laptop screen is also a power guzzler. Keep the brightness as low as possible. Also, If you also have keyboard backlighting, turn it off.

External devices

Any external device plugged in the USB port constantly draws power from your laptop. Removing them after use conserves battery.

verheating

Overheating leads to the internal fans to run faster - which in turn consume more battery. Use a laptop cooler to keep the temperature at bay.

Hibernate

Instead of putting your computer on standby, choose to hibernate - it saves the state of your computer and shuts down the computer and saves battery.

Windows power plans

Laptops running windows have built-in power plan settings. You can choose various items such as display brightness, when to turn off the display/hard-drives and USB power. Use these to improve your laptop battery life.

Battery Case

This application records the battery discharge cycle and also shows a detailed battery status including consumption, manufacturer, wear level etc. It also shows CPU and hard drive temperature to indicate any overheating.

Source:-The Times of India

Modification in Transfer and Posting in HSG-I Cadre

C.O. Memo No.ST/26-15/20 13  Dated 29.08.2013

Part-I

Sl.No.	Name	Present place of working	Posting on transfer
1.	Shri Sarathi Kar	Postmaster, Saheed Nagar MDG	Manager, PSD,Bhubaneswar-751007 vice Shri Rama Ch. Behera transferred
2.	Shri Rama Ch. Behera	Manager, PSD, Bhubaneswar-751007	DPM-II, Cuttack GPO

Part-II

Sl.No.	Name	Present place of posting	Posting on promotion	Change in Posting
1.	Indradyumna Mohanty	SPM, Bhoinagar SO	PM, Khurda HO	Postmaster, Saheed Nagar MDG vice Shri Sarathi Kar transferred
2.	Sarat Chandra Behera	PM, Athagarh HO	PM, Jaleswar HO	PM,  Jagatsinghpur HO
3.	Bijaya Ketan Patnaik	DPM, Kendrapara HO	PM, Athagarh HO	Postmaster,  Kendrapara HO
4.	Pramod Kumar Sethy	PM, Salipur MDG	PM, Kendrapara HO	PM, Salipur MDG
5.	Suresh Ch.Swain	In transit	PM, Paradeep MDG	PM, Athagarh HO vice Shri S.C.Behera transferred

 Part-III

Sl.No.	Name	Present place of posting	Posting on promotion	Change in Posting
1.	Shri S.C.Sundhy	PM, Baripada HO	PM, Balasore HO	PM, Jaleswar HO