STANDING COMMITTEE STAFF SIDE MEETING AT 11:30 AM ON 24th OCTOBER 2016 AND STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING WITH GROUP OF SENIOR OFFICERS AT 04:00 PM ON 24th OCTOBER 2016

October 22, 2016, 10:31 am

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To
All Standing Committee Members

of the National Council (Staff Side) JCM

Sir,
I am directed to enclosed herewith a letter No. 30-4/2016-IC dated21.10.2016 fromMinistry of Finance, Department of Expenditure (Implementation Cell)for your kind information please

And your kind attention is invited to this office mail dated11.10.2016 now it has been decided to hold Internal Meeting of theStanding Committee members of the National Council (Staff Side) JCMat 11.30 AM in place of 3.30 PM on 24th October 2016 in JCM Office.

You are requested to kindly make it convenient to attend the meetingon the date and time mentioned above.

Thanking you

Yours faithfully,

(Shiv Gopal Mishra)

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CONFEDERATION NEWS : TWO DAYS POSTAL STRIKE ON 9TH & 10TH NOVEMBER 2016

October 22, 2016, 10:32 am

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Confederation National Secretariat calls upon all C-O-Cs and Affiliated organisations to extend full support and solidarity to the Postal employees strike and Conduct demonstrations on 9^th& 10^thin front of important Postal/RMS offices.

M. Krishnan

Secretary General

Confederation

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October 22, 2016, 10:37 am

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US Postal Service has no intention of discontinuing Forever Diwali stamp

October 22, 2016, 10:41 am

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Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Oct 21, 2016

The stamp design, unveiled by the US Postal Service (USPS), is a photograph featuring a traditional oil lamp lit in a sparkling gold background. (Picture courtesy: USPS website)

The US Postal Service (USPS) has rejected reports will discontinue the “forever” Diwali stamp if there aren’t enough sales.

“The Postal Service is excited about celebrating the festival of Diwali on a Forever stamp and has no plans to remove them from sale,” Mark Saunders of the corporate communications division of USPS headquarters, told Indian American Times.

Some Indian American organizations, in mass emails addressed to the community, had claimed the stamp, issued earlier this month, would be discontinued.

Saunders reiterated the record-breaking popularity of the stamp, saying, “Due to the popularity of the stamp some Post Offices may have temporarily sold out. The easiest way to purchase the stamps is online at usps.com and then click the buy stamps icon and scroll down to the Diwali stamp.”

Indian American organizations and individuals, including Maryland-based social activist Mayur Mody, had urged members of the community to order the stamp and use it to send Diwali and New Year cards. They had claimed that the stamp would be discontinued if it does not sell enough.

On October 5, the USPS commemorated Diwali by issuing the stamp and holding a first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony at the Indian consulate in New York. This was the first stamp to also commemorate Hinduism.

The stamp bears a picture of a ‘diya’ or Diwali lamp. The diya was photographed by Sally Andersen-Bruce, the stamp was designed by Greg Breeding, and William J Gicker of the postal service was the project’s art director.

Ranju Batra, an Indian American, spearheaded the Diwali Stamp Project for years.

USPS vice president of mail entry and payment technology Pritha Mehra had said, “We hope these stamps will light up millions of cards and letters as they make their journey through the mailstream.”

Indian Americans first began working for a Diwali stamp 16 years ago, according to MR Rangaswami, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has been involved in the project.

Source : http://www.hindustantimes.com

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October 22, 2016, 11:04 am

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Much-sought change blowing through govt postal services

October 23, 2016, 8:31 pm

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A wind of positive change is blowing through the government's postal services as huge opportunities will open up for more entrepreneurs in Khulna and Barisal divisions with the imminent digitization of the postal services.Officials at the Postal Department informed that the government has taken up a project to incorporate e-centers in 249 post offices in the two divisions to facilitate various e-services to people that will also create spaces for entrepreneurship in the sector.

Currently, 2,590 entrepreneurs have been engaged in providing the e-service through the e-centers already existing in the post offices in 22 districts under the divisions. Tahmina Akter, an entrepreneur from Nelahpur village of Rupsha Upazila in Khulna, told this correspondentthat how this entrepreneurship has changed her life.

She used to work as a postmaster of the village post office. It was much difficult for her to manage her family with the poor salary, she said, but is earning Tk 15,000-20,000 per month after the conversion of the post office into an e-center.

Like Tahmina, a good number of educated youngsters have turned the wheel of fortune up. All of them are not necessarily employees of the Postal Department.

Source : http://dailyasianage.com

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Circle Union ( AIPEU, Gr-C, Odisha) Circular on forthcoming agitational programmes

October 23, 2016, 9:19 pm

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N F P E

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION

GROUP-C, ODISHA CIRCLE BRANCH

BRANCH,BHUBANESWAR-751007

Trilochan Parida R.C.Mishra
President Circle Secretary
Vice-President CHQ & Leader RJCM
E-mail ID-p3orissa@rediffmail.com

No. UN/AIPEU, Gr-C/Odisha/10-2016 , Dated-24-10-2016.

All Circle Office Bearers

All Divisional Secretaries

Dear Comrade,

Pl. Refer to General Secretary AIPEU, Gr-C, CHQ, New Delhi letter No P3/CIRCULAR/2016 dated 03-10-16 wherein it has been emphasized for vigorous campaigning programmes to mobilize employees for total participation in 2 days strike on 9^th & 10^th November 2016 to make the strike a thundering success. The strike notice by Postal JCA Odisha circle has been served on 20-10-2016. It is requested to make Divisional Postal JCA and ensure mobilization of all cadres of employees for all out success of above 2 days strike.

Further, AIPEU, Gr-C, CHQ has given quota to Odisha circle for participation of 200 P3 members in the March to Parliament, scheduled to be held on 15-12-2016, but, practically we cannot meet the expectation and the quota as under for the divisions have been given for participation in the MARCH TO PARLIAMENT at New Delhi on 15-12-2016. Therefore, it is requested to book train tickets to & fro immediately to participate in the same. The Circle Office bearers and Divisional Secretaries are requested to participate in the above programme at Delhi along with other comrades of the division without fail. All comrades are requested after reaching in Delhi should assemble at JANTAR MANTAR at 09 AM on 15-12-2016 to start rally from Odisha Circle. The divisional Secretaries/ Circle office bearers are requested to intimate the circle about number of participants from the divisions and their booking trains etc.

QUOTA

1- Aska----03 2- Balangir----03 3- Balasore-----05

4-Berhampur---04 5- Bhadrak----03 6-Bhubaneswar—08

7-Cuttack City—04 8- Cuttack N—04 9-Cuttack “S”---03

10-Dhenkanal---04 11-Keonjhar----03 12-Koraput-------05

13- Mayurbhanj—04 14-Phulbani----04 15- Puri----------04

16-Sambalpur---09 17- Sundargarh-07

Yours Comradely,

(R.C.Mishra)

Circle Secretary

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Now, get postcards and stamps at your doorstep

October 24, 2016, 9:38 pm

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CHENNAI, October 24, 2016

Now, customers don’t have to travel to post offices to buy stamps or postcards. The postman would instead deliver it at their houses.

The latest initiative of the Postal Department has postmen who are out to deliver mails also to sell postal stationery. Postmen will carry postage stamp, revenue stamps, envelopes, postcards and inland letters to be sold to the residents. This is a pilot project launched in the Chennai city region.

The postmen will also collect registered post and speed post from the residents.

Customers can also affix stamps and hand over the mails to them instead of visiting the post office or searching for a postbox.

The postmen will carry a rate chart with them and will issue receipt for the speed posts and registered articles either on the same day or next day. The initiative will be particularly useful to commercial establishments and residents in suburban areas, an official said.

There are over 1,000 postmen in the city. Each will carry Rs. 350 worth postal stationery whenever they step out for delivery. Nearly 50 per cent of the stationery are sold everyday, the official added.

Welcoming the move, residents said it would help senior citizens save the trips to post offices. Consumer activist, T. Sadagopan, meanwhile, suggested that the postmen also carry identity cards.

Source : http://www.thehindu.com/

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Era of e-postal ballots dawns, courtesy EC’s new initiative

October 24, 2016, 9:40 pm

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NEW DELHI, October 25, 2016

A change in ‘The Conduct of Election Rules, 1961’ now empowers a returning officer in any constituency to send postal ballots to an eligible voter “by electronic means as specified by the Election Commission.”

The new rule was published in a central gazette notification issued on the night of October 21.

The change will go a long way in easing logistical issues involved in ensuring that the ballot paper of the constituency, where a voter is eligible to vote, is sent in time.

In the 2014 general elections, over one million voters used postal ballots. “The change will cut time in transmission of the ballot paper and help the EC overcome logistical problems”, S.K. Mendiratta, Legal Adviser to the EC told The Hindu.

Till now, postal ballots were sent through the Department of Posts.

OTP for voters

With the new rule, the returning officer can send it through a web portal with a ‘One Time Password’ to voters. The voter needs to download the ballot for voting.

However, the “process of physically returning the ballot through post remains unchanged”, another official in the EC explained.

In India, postal ballots have played a critical role in extending the electoral process to voters unable to exercise their franchise— due to either the nature of their job or geographical location of their posting. The armed forces best illustrate the point.

Source : http://www.thehindu.com

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October 24, 2016, 9:46 pm

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October 24, 2016, 9:47 pm

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October 24, 2016, 9:51 pm

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ET Bureau | Oct 25, 2016,

NEW DELHI: The Department of Post (DoP), which is racing against time to ready its Payment Bank, has had to re-tender its technology contract after it failed to get bids from any of the major Indian technology firms such as Infosys, Wipro, TCS or the multinationals.

In its first attempt to find a technology vendor to build the backbone for its ambitious payment bank, DoP found itself in a single bid situation – with the lone application of Polaris India. The development may push the launch of the postal payment bank by another few months giving a lead to its rivals — Paytm and Airtel — which are about to start soon.

Officials of technology companies told ET that they decided to give the opportunity a miss since the contract didn’t make “business sense” and its terms and conditions were very “vague” and “open ended”. An executive of one of the top IT firms said that the department is under a lot of pressure to start the operations and wanted the implementation to happen within six weeks, which is impossible for companies to pull off.

“They wanted the IPR of the banking platform to be handed over to them, nobody will do that,” said the executive who requested anonymity. The person added that who funds the cash flow was also very adverse and there were lots of other sticky issues. “We are looking for a fair agreement and it was not fair,” said the person. As per the current plan, India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) - as it has been termed - will eventually have 650 branches across the country. The department has to submit a final proposal to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – which had granted it in-principal approval in August 2015 – before March 2017.

Another official of a large tech company said, “While all of us are Indians and we want to work for the country, it should also make business sense. We are making 15-20% profit on an international contract, our CFO will agree even if we are making about 10% margin in a domestic contract, but if they put a lot of conditions making even that much profit will be virtually impossible.”

The executive who also requested anonymity said the contract took a very long term view on the payment terms with approval cycles only running close to 200 days to 300 days. “It required to be signed off by different people which is not a sellable model.” The person added that another point of contention was that it imposed “unlimited liability” on the vendors. The department of Post could not be reached for a comment.

Posts has now come up with a fresh tender last week and officials said that they are currently studying the feasibility of it and will take a call in a few days on whether to be participate in it. “It looks better than last time, but we are still studying the `details,” said the first official quoted above. The RBI gave in-principle approval to 11applicants in August last year, including the Department of Posts, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Airtel M Commerce Services, Fino PayTech, National Securities Depository, Reliance Industries, Tech Mahindra and Vodafone m-pesa, for setting up payments banks. Three of the 11entities have already decided to back out, citing unviability. Alibaba-backed Paytm had appointed Infosys and its core banking software Finacle in June this year and is planning to launch its Payment Bank around Diwali.

Source : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com

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October 25, 2016, 3:32 am

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IMPORTANT

ALL AFFILIATES & C-O-CS – YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE

CONFEDERATION – NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

As already intimated in the last circular, the National Executive Committee meeting of the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers will be held at New Delhi on 16^th December 2016 (next day of Parliament March) at 10 AM. Venue: MP’s Club Opp. NFPE office, North Avenue. All National Secretariat Members, Chief Executives of Affiliated organisations (with minimum 500 membership) and General Secretaries of C-O-Cs are requested to attend the meetingWITHOUT FAIL. Please book your travel tickets accordingly.

(M. KRISHNAN)

SECRETARY GENERAL

1^ST MEETING OF THE NEWLY ELECTED WOMEN’S COMMITTEE OF CONFEDERATION

1^st meeting of the newly elected Women’s Sub Committee of the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers will be held on 15^th December 2016 (on the day of Parliament March) at 4 PM at NFPE office (1^st Floor, North Avenue Post office, building, Near Ram Manohar Lohiya (RML Hospital). All Women’s Committee members are requested to attend the meeting in time. List of Women’s Committee Members published below. All Affiliates and C-O-Cs are requested to inform the Women’s Committee members (nominated by them) and ensure their participation in the meeting.

USH BONEPPALLI R. SEETHALAKSHMI M. KRISHNAN

Chairperson Convenor Secretary General

Mob: 08985971009 Mob: 09868114355 Mob: 09447068125

CONFEDERATION – WOMEN’S SUB COMMITTEE

1. Chairperson : Com. Usha Bonepalli, ITEF (Hyderabad)

2. Vice Chairperson : Com. Monisha Mazumder, Ptg & Stationary (West Bengal)

3. Vice Chair person : Com. K. N. Jayashree Raj, Audit & Accounts (Bangalore)

4. Convenor : Com. R. Seethalakshmi, NFPE (Delhi)

5. Joint Convenor : Com. Gita Bhattacharjee, AIPEU Group ‘C’ (Delhi)

6. Joint Convenor : Com. Saritha Divakaran, Atomic Energy (Mumbai)

COMMITTEE MEMEBERS

7. Com. A. Manjula, ITEF (AP)

8. Com. P. Anju, ITEF (Kerala)

9. Com. Reba Gupta, ITEF (West Bengal)

10. Com. Mompal, ITEF (Delhi)

11. Com. Neelu Gautam, ITEF (Uttar Pradesh)

12. Com. Lalita Surendran, ITEF (Mumbai)

13. Com. Bandana Bhattacharjee, Audit & Accounts (Assam)

14. Com. Jaya Jyothy, Audit & Accounts (Chennai)

15. Com. Rekha Narsikar, Audit & Accounts (Nagpur)

16. Com. Aparajitha Roy Chowdhary, Civil Accounts (West Bengal)

17. Com. Barnali Dolui, Civil Accounts (West Bengal)

18. Com. Kamalesh Kumari, Civil Accounts (Delhi)

19. Com. Madhuri Sharma, Atomic Energy (Mumbai)

20. Com. Nirmala Pandagle, Atomic Energy (Mumbai)

21. Com. Rupali Mohite, Atomic Energy (Mumbai)

22. Com. Swati Roy Bera, AIPEU Group ‘C’ (West Bengal)

23. Com. Shalini Bhardwaj, AIPEU Group ‘C’ (Punjab)

24. Com. M. R. Chaitra, AIPEU Group ‘C’ (Karnataka)

25. Com. D. Sarala Bai, AIPEU Group ‘c’ (Karnataka)

26. Com. C. Lilly, AIPEU Group ‘C’ (Kerala)

27. Com. Rosamma Thomas, AIPEU Group ‘C’ (Kerala)

28. Com. P. Rema, AIPEU Group ‘C’ (Kerala)

29. Com. Angel Sathyanathan, AIPEU Group ‘C’ (Tamilnadu)

30. Com Ashalatha Devi, Passport Employees Association (Kochi)

31. Com. Anita Thakur, Postmen & MTS Union (West Bengal)

32. Com. Tripti Mitra, Postmen & MTS Union (West Bengal)

33. Com. G. Jamuna, Postmen & MTS Union (Kerala)

34. Com. A. S. Baby, Sree Chitra Institute Staff Union (Trivandrum)

35. Com. Mariamma K. E., Sree Chitra Institute Staff Union (Trivandrum)

36. Com. M. Nalini, RMS. & MMS Employees Union Group ‘C’ (Hyderabad)

37. Com. N. Anuradha, RMS & MMS Employees Union Group ‘C’ (Bangalore)

38. Com. Stephya Babu, RMS & MMS Employees Union Group ‘C’ (Kerala)

39. Com. Aruna C. Pachapur, RMS & MMS Employees Union Group ‘C’ (Bangalore)

40. Com. Shakuntala Namdeo, RMS & MMS Employees Union Group ‘C’ (Indore)

41. Com. Meera Vithal Kamble, RMS & MMS EU Mail Guard MTS (Mumbai)

42. Com. T. Bakyavathy, Pondicherry State Govt. Employees Association (Pondicherry)

43. Com. Swapna Rani, ISRO, NRSA Employees Union (Department of Space) (Hyderabad)

44. Com. Manishi Chaudhary, Postal Accounts Employees Association (Telangana)

45. Com. M. Rajalakshmi, Postal Accounts Employees Association (Telangana)

46. Com. S. Jyothi Naidu, IBM Employees Association (Nagpur)

47. Com. Kanij Gauri, Ground Water Board Employees Association (Rajasthan)

48. Com. H. G. Sumithra, AIPEU-GDS (Karnataka)

49. Com. A. Janaki, AIPEU-GDS (Kerala)

50. Com. Shyamala Gopu, ICMR Employees Association (Tamilnadu)

51. Com. Jasmine Jalal Begum, SBCO Employees Association (Tamilnadu)

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Confederation's Special Circular : CHALO DELHI – CHALO PARLIAMENT

October 25, 2016, 3:42 am

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Ref: Condn/Genl/2016-19 Dated – 24.10.2016

SPECIAL CIRCULAR

CHALO DELHI – CHALO PARLIAMENT

MAKE THE 15^TH DECEMBER 2016 PARLIAMENT MARCH A HISTORIC SUCCESS

20000 CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WILL MARCH TO PARLIAMENT

To,

1. All National Secretariat Members (office bearers)

2. Chief Executives of all affiliated organisations

3. General Secretaries of all C-O-Cs.

Dear Comrades,

Please refer to the previous circulars on the above subject. Reports so far received at CHQ shows that all affiliates and C-O-Cs have started preparations for the Parliament March, to ensure participation of employees as per the quota fixed by the National Secretariat meeting held on 30.09.2016. we have requested the affiliates and C-O-Cs to fix quota to their lower units and affiliates.

ONLY 50 DAYS ARE LEFT FOR THE HISTORIC PARLIAMENT MARCH.

Comrades coming from far – away states should book their travel ticket without any further delay.

AFFILIATES & C-O-CS IN DELHI AND NEAR BY STATES SHOULD ENSURE PARTICIAPTION OF HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES.

All affiliated organisations and C-O-Cs in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Bihar etc. are requested to mobilise hundreds and thousands of employees for the Parliament March.

CONDUCT CAMPAIGN PROGRAMMES

Please commence campaign programmes now itself. Print notices, posters, circulars etc. and circulate widely among employees and public. Book special conveyance. Bring maximum flags, banners and Placards. Convene your organization’s managing bodies and make effective planning for bringing maximum employees to Delhi. Take it seriously. If leaders plan seriously, definitely the employees will respond in a big way. Use social media also effectively for campaign.

ACCOMMODATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

The national Secretariat has decided that the accommodation for the participants from major organisations is to be arranged by the respective organization. For others, if accommodation is required, they are requested to contact the following CHQ office bearers (office bearers of Delhi COC).

1. Com. Vrigu Bhattacharjee 2. Com. Giriraj Singh

General Secretary, COC Delhi State President, COC Delhi State

& Financial Secretary, Confederation CHQ & Vice President Confederation CHQ

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CLIMATE

Climate in Delhi in December will be cold (Sometimes severe cold). Participants may bring warm clothings.

FLAGS, BANNERS & PLAYCARDS

Participants are requested to bring flags, placards with slogans and banners in large number

PUBLICITY IN LOCAL MEDIAS

Maximum effort may be made to give wide publicity for the Parliament March through local print & electronic media, social media etc.

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE MEETINGS OF CONFEDERATION

National Executive Meeting of the Confederation will be held on 16^th December 2016 (next day of the Parliament March) at New Delhi at 10 AM. Venue: MP’s Club, OPP. NFPE office, North Avenue, New Delhi. Notice for the meeting enclosed herewith. All National Secretariat members, Chief Executives of all affiliated organisations (with minimum 500 membership) and General Secretaries of C-O-Cs are requested to attend the meeting without fail. Meeting will continue upto 5 PM. Please book your travel tickets accordingly.

The main agenda of the National Executive meeting is organisational review for further strengthening the Confederation at all levels.

1^ST MEETING OF THE NEWLY ELECTED WOMEN’S COMMITTEE OF CONFEDERATION

1^st Meeting of the newly elected Women’s Committee of the Confederation will be held on 15.12.2016 (Day of Parliament March) at 4 PM at New Delhi. Venue: NFPE office, 1^st Floor, North Avenue Post office building. All affiliated organisations and C-O-Cs are requested to ensure participation of the women committee members nominated by them in the meeting on 15.12.2016 at 4 PM. List of the Women Committee office bearers and members is enclosed herewith.The full Postal address with pincode of each women committee member may please be emailed to Confederation CHQ for updating the mailing list. Mobile number, E-mail ID may also be furnished.

MAKE THE 7^TH NOVEMBER 2016 MASS DHARNA PROGRAMME A GRAND SUCCESS

1^st phase of the agitational programmes was conducted at all centres on 20.10.2016 as per reports received at CHQ. The next phase of programme is mass dharna at all important centres. All affiliates and C-O-Cs are requested to start preparations for ensuring maximum participations of employees in the mass dharna on 7^th November 2016.

ALL INDIA TRADE UNION STUDY CAMP

Next All India Trade Union Study Camp of Confederation will be held in 2017. COC which are ready to take the responsibility of organizing the camp are requested to intimate their willingness to the Confederation CHQ before the National Executive meeting to be held on 16.12.2016, so that advance planning can be made. Camp will be conducted only after March 2017.

Fraternally yours,

(M. Krishnan)

Secretary General

Mob: 09447068125

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e-Postal Ballot System for Service Voters

October 25, 2016, 3:57 am

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Government of India
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology

25-October-2016 11:46 IST

e-Postal Ballot System for Service Voters

Decision:

The Government has issued Notification on 21st October, 2016 amending rule 23 of the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 enabling service voters, including armed forces personnel, to cast their vote in elections through e-postal ballot. Under this system a blank postal ballot paper would be transmitted to them electronically. This would cut short the delay experienced in the present system in two-way transmission of ballot paper by the postal services. The armed forces personnel serving in remote and border areas would be greatly benefitted since the present system of two-way transmission of ballot paper by the postal services has not been able to meet the expectations of the service voters.

Background:

The difficulties and hardships encountered by the service voters, especially by the armed forces personnel serving the border and remote areas of the country, have been receiving the attention of the Government in recent times. The issue was also agitated before the Hon’ble Supreme Court, in the matter of Neela Gokhale vs. Union of India & Anr. (Writ Petition No. 1005 of 2013) pleading for creating effective mechanism for the Armed Forces Personnel (AFP) and their families to exercise their right to vote easily and effectively.

In the above backdrop, the Government approached the Election Commission with a view to mitigating the difficulties faced by service voters in the matter of exercising their franchise. The technical team of the Election Commission has developed a system whereby blank postal ballot could be electronically transmitted to the voter, namely, e-postal ballot system. Voters entitled to postal ballot such as service voters, can download the postal ballot and print the blank postal ballot. After marking his vote in the blank postal ballot, the same would be returned to the concerned Returning Officer by post as in the present system of postal ballot. The Election Commission proposed that the categories of voters mentioned at rule 18 of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 may be made eligible for e-postal ballot system. However, on a pilot basis, e-postal ballot system has been introduced by Notification dated 21st October, 2016 for service voters consisting of (a) armed police forces of the Union; (b) other forces subject to the provisions of the Army Act, 1950; (c) armed forces of a State serving outside that State; and (d) those employed under the Government of India in a post outside India.

Two-way electronic transmission has not been recommended by the Election Commission for security and secrecy reasons.

Major Impact:

One-way electronic transmission of blank postal ballot would considerably cut short the delay in receipt of the marked postal ballot by the Returning Officers on or before the date fixed for the counting of votes. Major beneficiaries would be the entire category of service voters as stated above, especially the armed forces personnel posted in border and remote areas of the country. With the issue of the aforesaid notification, a long-pending and near-unanimous demand of the service voters, including the armed forces personnel, has been fulfilled.

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AIPEU, Group-C, Bhubaneswar Division extends a generous welcome to Kamila Sir as the new Chief Postmaster General of Odisha Circle.

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ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION

GROUP-C, ODISHA CIRCLE BRANCH
BHUBANESWAR - 751007

Trilochan Parida                                                                                      R.C.Mishra
President                                                                           Circle Secretary
                                  Vice-President CHQ & Leader RJCM
                                  E-mail ID-p3orissa@rediffmail.com

No. UN/AIPEU, Gr-C / Odisha / 10 - 2016 Dated-25-10-2016.

Col. Sri J.Kanhar, IPoS.

Chief Post Master General,

Odisha Circle, Bhubaneswar-751001

Sub - Strong protest against the CO order for opening of delivery Post offices on Sundays & holidays to clear up e-commerce parcels-request for immediate roll back of the order.

Respected Sir,

Apropos to the discussions with the kind-self on 07-10-2016 on the matter on the subject, we expected withdrawal of such inhuman order which has denied staff to take the week end off (Sunday) and also the legitimate holidays. The staff have been forced to open the Post offices on 09-10-2016 (Sunday) and festive holidays Dushera on dated 10-10-2016, dated 11-10-2016 & holiday for Moharam on dated 12-10-2016. The tragedy of employees is not yet been over as the order envisages for opening of Post offices even on Sundays & holidays up to January 2017. We strongly oppose such arbitrary order which violates Directorate’s statutory order not to open offices on Sundays as week end off to the employees. Great resentment of staff from all corners of the Circle has been received against such arbitrary & inhuman order & we urge for immediate withdrawal of the order.

Further, we have collected from other circles that during festive occasion Dushera, order were issued to open one day for delivery work on falling of three days consecutive holidays, when we have observed complete exception in Odisha circle.

Therefore, it urged to roll back such arbitrary & unjustified order to open the post offices on Sundays & holidays till January 2017 to maintain peace & tranquility in entire circle.

ANTICIPATING IMMEDIATE RESPONSE & A LINE OF REPLY.

Yours faithfully,

(R.C.Mishra)

Circle Secretary

Copy to:- 1-All Circle office bearers/ Divisional Secretaries.

2- S.G. NFPE & G.S. AIPEU, Gr-C, NewDelhi. Circle Secretary

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