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PA/SA DIRECT RECRUITMENT APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE
IN ONLINE.
Good news for
applicants of PA / SA Recruitment 2011 & 2012. You can get it through
Online.
Dte has
requested the outsourced agency to print 10 lacs OMR kits for sale
throughout India thro selected POs. Due to huge sale of forms, it is
difficult to print within short period. Hence Dte is
decided to upload the forms in www.indiapost.gov.in so as to download by the applicants.Online
application kits will be available in www.indiapost.gov.in from
03.09.12 to25.09.12 only.Those applied thro OMR
kits need not apply again.
Online Procedure :
Click “Register Online” link.
Enter the details like a. Name b.DoB c.e mail
ID d. Alternative e mail ID.
Click Submit button.
The following forms will be
sent to the provided e mail ID within 24 hrs.
a. Special instruction sheet.
b. Application form.
c. Instruction sheet / Information brochure
(11 sheets).
Fees :
Cost of Application form - Rs.50
Exam fee – Rs.200. Female, SC, ST & PH
applicants are exempted, however they should pay Rs.50.
Total Rs.250 should be paid under
Unclassified Receipts thro any POs and attach Original alongwith the
Application form. Applicants can keep Xerox copies.
Applications should forward thro either Speed
Post of Regd Post (other meant not accepted)to the following address.
Direct Recruitment Cell,
New Delhi HO,
New Delhi 110 001
Applicants can check the status of receipt of
Cell on www.indiapost.gov.in
For more details,
pl refer the advertisement of the concerned Circles.
Dte Memo No : A-34012 / 5 /2011-DE Dt. 31.08.12.
MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON 28th AUGUST, 2012 REGARDING •
REVISION OF PPOs FOR PRE-2006 PENSIONERS/FAMILY PENSIONERS INCLUDING PRE-1990
PENSIONERS FAMILY PENSIONERS
A meeting was held on 281h
August, 2012 at 11:30 AM in the Conference Room, 5th Floor, Sardar Patel
Bhavan, New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Shri Sanjay Kothari, Secretary
(Pension, AR&PG) with the officials of 15 Departments/Ministries having
maximum number of unrevised Pension Payment Orders (PPOs) pertaining to
pre-2006 pensioners/Family pensioners. The objective of this meeting was to
review the progress made by these Ministries/Departments in the revision of
PPOs in respect of pre-2006 pensioners.
2. The list of
participants is at Annexure — I.
3. Opening the discussion,
Secretary (Pension, AR & PG) said that the areas of concern for this
Department were the outstanding cases of pre-2006 pensioners. He felt the cases
of pensioners should be dealt with sympathetically emphasizing the fact that
all of us would be pensioners in future.. He stated Ministries where pendency
was quite large and it .was not feasible to clear the pending cases with the
existing staff, avenues. for appointment of Consultant may be explored so that
the work of revision of pension for pre-2006 pensioners does not suffer.
4. Secretary (Pension, AR
& PG) then took up the Ministry-wise figures, starting with Ministry of
Home Affairs (MHA), which has the largest number of pending cases. The
representative of MHA, informed that in pre-1990 cases there are limitations of
availability of records and finding out the status whether pensioners are alive
and non-receipt of Annexure III. The cases falling under Extraordinary Pension
Rules and Liberalized Pension Awards have to be processed manually. Therefore,
their clearance may take longer time. Ministry of Home Affairs informed that
information contained in Annexure III may not be sufficient in the case of
pre-1990 cases. Ministry of Home Affairs also stated that despite publishing an
advertisement in the newspapers for getting the missing information with
respect to pre-.2006 pensioners, they had not received adequate response to the
same. It was further informed that information required for the purpose is not
being provided by the _pensioners/family pensioners concerned either. Secretary
(Pension, AR & PG) advised them to launch a drive to clear the pending cases.
5. Secretary (Pension
& AR &PG) suggested that all Departments should make one more effort to
elicit response from pensioners. An advertisement may be posted on. the website
of Department of Pension and PW indicating therein to contact DD0s/HOOs in the Departments
who are willing to respond to the queries of the pensioners in this regards.
Department of Personnel Sr. Training, Department of Financial Services, CBDT,
CBEC and D/o Pension & PW were agreeable to putting up an advertisement on
the web-site of Department of Pension & PW for the pensioners to provide
the information specific to them which is required for revising the cases. In
case other Ministries also desire they will also be included.
(Action-Ministries desirous of putting up the advertisement)
6. Some of the salient
points emerged during the discussions are as under:-
i). CPAO. Informed that they had taken a meeting with the
representatives of all Associations of Pensioners and requested them to help
pensioners to send their information for revision of their PPOs. CPAO also
informed that the Department- wise pendency was already available in the
web-site which may be referred to by the Ministries/Departments while clearing
the cases.
(ii) In cases of family pension, date of birth of the spouse is a
mandatory figure. it is informed that in cases where no information is
available, instruction about treatment of date of birth as circulated vide
Department of Pension & Pensioner Welfare OM No. 38/37/08-P&PW(A),
dated 21/05/2009 and No. 1/19/2011- P&PW(E), dated 03/08/2011 (copies
enclosed) may he followed. CPAO had raised some queries in this regard
recently. A copy of this Department’s ID Note, dated 15/05/2012 in response
thereto is also enclosed for information.
A special drive may be undertaken by all Departments to liquidate
the pending cases. Efforts should be made to liquidate pre-2006 cases by 31sE
December, 2012 and pre-1990 cases by 31st March, 2013. (Action-All
Ministries/Departments)
In respect of pre-2006 pensioners, Ministry of Home Affairs agreed
to reduce the pendency to less than 5000 by the end of December, 2012. Ministry
of Urban Development agreed to reduce the number to 1000 by this period.
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting agreed to bring down the pendency to
50%. Other Ministries agreed that pendency figures will be reduced to less than
500 by the end of December, 2012. (Action – all Ministries/Departments)
(v) It was felt that since the pensioners were in direct contact
with the Banks, the system of nodal officers in various Banks may be
strengthened. In this regard necessary action may be taken by Department of
Financial Services. The banks could provide guidelines to the pensioners to
approach the concerned Pay & Accounts Officer/HODs concerned for getting their
PPOs revised, in such cases which are not yet revised. As the Banks were
continuously sending Annexure III in duplicate and at times in triplicate also,
it was felt that the Ministries in coordination with PAOs and with the help of
CPAO may send pensioners’ specific information to the Banks for the remaining
pending cases so that information received from the Banks can be used more
fruitfully. The Department of Pension & PW will also place the link of the
nodal officers of various banks in their website for the benefit of pensioners.
(Action – all Ministries/Departments, CPAO, Department of P&PW, Department
of Financial Services)
7. In view of the huge
pendency of pre-2006 revision of pension cases, Secretary (Pension, AR &
PG) stated that he would be writing to all the Secretaries concerned- asking
them to review the pendency regularly. He also asked that various Ministries
may include this as an agenda item for the senior officers meeting being held
regularly in various Ministries so that the pendency can be reduced to zero.
8. The meeting ended with
a vote of thanks to the Chair.
NEW HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME FOR CG EMPLOYEES
AND PENSIONERS
We all know Sixth Pay
Commission recommended for New Health Insurance Scheme in lieu of present CGHS.
Though employees covered under CGHS have apprehensions whether this proposed
new scheme would be better than existing CGHS, in respect of employees residing
in Non-CGHS area this scheme is definitely a boon.
The present CS Medical
Attendance Rules under which employees residing under non-CGHS area are covered
has no real intention to provide for proper medical treatment be it In-Patient
or Out-Patient treatment as the cost reimbursed under CS Medical Attendance
Rules would be a paltry sum compared to the actual cost of medical treatment in
non-CGHS areas.
In the case of Pensioners
too residing in non-CGHS areas, the fixed medical Allowance of Rs.300 per month
provided to them may not be even sufficient to meet out the cost for one visit
to a nearby Doctor for cold.
Under these circumstances,
Central Government Employees and Pensioners residing in non-CGHS are really in
need of good medical treatment at par with their colleagues in CGHS Areas. When
New Medical Insurance Scheme was proposed by Government in the year 2008 as per
the recommendations of 6CPC, it was believed that it would come as a relief for
employees and pensioners in non-CGHS area.
But this scheme is still
not a reality as in spite of repeated promises in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
that the scheme would be implemented soon, it it yet to take off.
Now, on 28.08.2012, there
was another query regarding implementation of this Scheme for which Health
Ministry has replied as follows
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
RAJYA SABHA
HEALTH
INSURANCE FOR CGHS BENEFICIARIES
UNSTARRED
QUESTION NO-1775 by SHRI BASHISTHA NARAIN SINGH
a) whether it is a fact that in the year 2010, Government mooted a
plan to provide health insurance scheme to its serving and retired employees;
(b) if so, the present status of that scheme;
(c) whether it is also a fact that beneficiaries including Members
of Parliament are not getting required medicines from dispensaries specially
Ayurvedic dispensary of North Avenue and elsewhere; and
(d) if so, by when Government would seriously consider providing
health insurance cover to CGHS beneficiaries in order to provide better
healthcare?
ANSWERED
ON-28.08.2012
(a) & (b): There is a proposal for introduction of a health
insurance scheme for central government employees and pensioners on pan-India
basis with special focus on pensioners living in non-CGHS areas. As per the
directions of the ‘Committee of Secretaries’, a proposal for inclusion of this
scheme in the 12th Five Year Plan has been sent for consideration of the
Steering Committee of the Planning Commission, before placing the same for
approval of the competent authority.
(c) : No.
(d): No specific time frame can be given for introduction of the
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