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27 December 2012

Supply of CTS 2010 Standard Cheque Books to POSB customers


DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, INDIA
O/o the Superintendent of Post Offices, Namakkal Division, Namakkal – 637 002
Phone No : 04286 – 220 953, 230 192. E-mail id – spo_namakkal@rediffmail.com,
No       : IR/Bank/Dlgs
Date    : 26.12.12
To,
All the PMs / SPMs
In Namakkal Division

            Sub : Supply of CTS 2010 Standard Cheque Books to POSB customers – reg

            Ref : This office letter of even no.dated 07.12.12
           
            Kindly refer to the above.

            Circle Office, Chennai has intimated that the time line for supply of CTS 2010 standard cheque books to the customers are extended by 31.03.13.
           
Hence all are requested to withdraw the notice if already placed on the notice boards of the office (which was previously instructed to place on the notice board).

1.    Also kindly cause to inform the receipt of cheque books as and when supply is received from HOs to SOs.

2.    On receipt of CTS 2010 cheque books at HOs and SOs a notice may be put on the notice board for the awarness of the depositors to replace the cheque books with new CTS 2010 standard cheque books.

3.    While replacing old cheque books, preference should be given to those depositors who are frequently using cheques for clearance purpose and a cancellation stamp should be placed on the unused cheques of the old cheque books collected. Procedure for disposal of old cancelled cheque books will be circulated separately.

4.    Old cheques should continue to be accepted at the counter of the Post office for withdrawal till new cheque books are not supplied to the POSB customers.

           

Superintendent of PO’s
Namakkal Division,
Namakkal – 637 002 

18 December 2012

All India Potal Kabaddi Tournament - Tamilnadu Team is the Winner



The 26 th All India Postal Kabaddi Tournament 2012 being held at Rail Stadium Vijayawada was concluded today. In the final match played today , Tamilnadu  circle  team emerged as winners by defeating Maharastra with a margin of 32 points( TN- 41, Maharastra- 9). In the play off match for third place played between Gujarat and Kerala,  Kerala won by 3 points ( Kerala - 25, Gujarat - 22). 


Pranjal.T.Pawar of Maharastra has won the"Best Rider" Trophy and C.Ranjit of Tamilnadu won the 'Player of the Tournament" Trophy.

Sri K.P.Sethy, PMG Kurnool attended the closing ceremony as Chief Guest and Sri A.K.A Joshi,PMG Vijayawada presided over the function. Kum M.Kalyani, Beejing Asian Games Gold Medal winner in Kabaddi and Employee of South Central Railway has gave away medals and Trophies to the players and teams.Sri D.S.V.R.Murthy, DPS Vijayawada has also attended the function.  

13 December 2012

Supply of CTS 2010 Standard Cheque Books to POSB customers - Display of notice


DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, INDIA
O/o the Superintendent of Post Offices, Namakkal Division, Namakkal – 637 002
Phone No : 04286 – 220 953, 230 192. E-mail id – spo_namakkal@rediffmail.com,
No       : IR/Bank/Dlgs
Date    : 13.12.2012
To,
All the PMs / SPMs
In Namakkal Division

            Sub : Supply of CTS 2010 Standard Cheque Books to POSB customers - reg
           
            As per Cheque Truncation System, only standard CTS cheque book is to be supplied to the POSB customers and now the same is under supply from CSD Nasik to the PSDs. In this connection Circle Office has instructed to do the following.

1.    All the head of the office to put a notice on all notice boards of the Post Offices requesting POSB cheque account houlders, not to issue any cheque from existing cheque books after 15.12.12.

2.    Also kindly cause to inform the receipt of cheque books as and when supply is received from HOs to SOs.

           
Superintendent of PO’s
Namakkal Division,
Namakkal – 637 002 

10 December 2012

Release of New version of e-Post Software.



     The enhanced new version of e-Post software is ready for release.  The main features of new version are given below for all the three types of users (Retail, Prepaid and Corporate):


a)    Multilingual feature has been added in the Text editor where Operator type the message in the Text box in the desired language.  11 languages have been provided for  in our system – Hindi, Tamil (Ambili, Karthika, Revathy), Malyalam, Orriya, English, Assam, Gujarat, Konkari, Sanskrit, Marathi, Manipuri.
b)    *.Pdf  file Upload
c)    Many to One-Many Senders sending message to One person/recipient.
d)    Pre-Paid Cash module - On line registration and then payment of CASH at the ePost – Post Office counter to get the account activated
e)     Re-Printing of ePost message-here operator send a request to Circle, once gets approved by the Circle ePost coordinator the message printout could be taken by the operator.
f)     Creation of ePost centre and its user ID at the Circle level, creation of Region user ID, creation of Division user ID at the Regional level, creation of PM user at the Division level and re-setting of pwd  by the circle of it’s region/division as per their hierarchy.
g)    Download of MIS – Report etc. in. pdf, excel format.
h)   Auto Corporate Bill generation and its’s delivery on the corporate user e-mail account.
i)     eGreetings-Uploading of greeting by the directorate and provision for  sending of eGreetings has given to Retail, Prepaid and Corporate user.
j)     Circle can change the mapping of the pincode.
k)    Corporate user have been given privilege to create Template using Multilingual feature, they have been also provided Scan, Text, PDF option for sending ePost.

Feature for APS Users:-

l)     Corps Mapping incorporated into this new system
m)  FPO Pincode-Display of FPO pincode only while booking of ePost, no name of the centre will come now onwards – this is as per instruction from APS Directorate.
n)   Debit Army ePost option provided.
o)    Now all the data pertaining to APS would reside at APS on their server at their location at 1CBPO – ePost centre.
p)    Now on the main ePost system i.e. central server data will have the record of message send from or to APS.
q)    Communication between central server and APS server would get established through Web services.

2.       Corporate Customer have to be informed by their respective Postal Circle that they would be losing all their created templates and have to create new template in the new version of application s/w using Multilingual font feature

3.       The new version of ePost software will be released on 12th December 2012.

7 December 2012

Circulation of Fake Currency Notes



National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has informed that the total number of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) seized and recovered in the years 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 has been as follow:-

Period
Total No. of FICN
Total Value (Rs.)
2009-10
670631
26,81,54,186
2010-11
556970
24,76,78,200
2011-12
538502
26,50,16,311

In terms of the statistics provided by NCRB, as mentioned above, it is seen that the number of counterfeit notes detected in the country during the year 2011-12 was less than the year 2010-11. However, the total value of these notes was more in the year 2011-12 than the year 2010-11.

The government has also constituted a Terror Funding and Fake Currency Cell (TFFC) in NIA in 2010 to focus on investigation of Terror Funding and Fake Currency Cases.  Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also strengthened the mechanism for detection of counterfeit notes by the banks.

             This was stated by the Minister of State for Finance, Shri Namo Narain Meena in written reply to a question in the  Rajya  Sabha.

Source : PIB

DOP proposes to open 80 Branch Post Offices and 50 Sub-Post Offices in the country during 2012-13



India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world. However, 5,00,327 villages are without Post Offices in the country. Opening of Post Offices is an on-going process. New Post Offices are opened as per the prescribed norms and subject to availability of Plan funds and manpower. It has been proposed to open 80 Branch Post Offices and 50 Sub-Post Offices in the country during the current financial year (2012-13).

24,969 departmental Post Offices have been computerized, out of which 21,606 Post Offices have been provided electronic money order facilities. The Department has a plan to provide these services through all Post Offices in phased manner and it is expected to be completed during the current Plan.

This information was given by Dr. (Smt.) Killi Kruparani, Minister of State for C&IT in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.

6 December 2012

42nd UPU Letter Writing Competition to be held on 06.01.2013


The Department of Posts has proposed to conduct 42nd Universal Postal Union (UPU) letter writing competition at Namakkal on 06.01.2013. Applications are invited from the students by the Superintendent of Post Offices, Namakkal Division, Namakkal on or before 24.12.2012 with required certificates / information. The detail of the competition is furnished below.

1.        Subject

“Write a letter about why water is precious”

2.        Participants eligibility

Children up to 15 years of age as on 31.03.2013

3.         Content and form

Composition must be presented in the form of letter not exceed 800 words length on the given subject.
4.        Date and Time
08.01.2013 (Sunday), 10.00 am to 11.00 am
5.         Language

English or any Language listed in the 8th Schedule of the constitution of India
6.        Last date for Submission of forms
24.12.2012

7.        Prizes (at National level)
          a.         One First prize
          b.         One Second prize
          c.          One Third prize
          d.         Consolation Prizes



Rs.2000/- and a certificate
Rs.1500/- and a certificate
Rs.1000/- and a certificate
Rs.250/- to the best entry from eachPostal Circle and a certificate
  
“The best entry at the National Level shall qualify as the official
Indian Entry fort the International competition”

            The Universal Postal Union shall select the award winning entries. The top three entries will be awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze medal respectively along with Certificate and album of UPU official postage stamps from UPU. Since the competition is going to be conducted at National level, it is requested to nominate the best entries from your school and forward the applications in the prescribed proforma enclosed herewith for each student directly to the Superintendent of Post Offices, Namakkal Division, Namakkal – 637002 before last date to this office.

Holiday list for the Central Government Employees for the year 2013


Holiday
Date
Day
PONGAL
Jan-14
Monday
MILAD - UN- NABI
Jan-25
Friday
REPUBLIC DAY
Jan-26
Saturday
GOOD FRIDAY
Mar-29
Friday
MAHAVIR JAYANTHI
Apr-24
Wednesday
BUDHA POORNIMA
May-25
Saturday
IDU'L FITR
Aug-09
Friday
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Aug-15
Thursday
VINAYAKA CHATHURTHI
Sep-09
Monday
ONAM
Sep-16
Monday
GANDHI JAYANTHI
Oct-02
Wednesday
DUSSEHRA
Oct-13
Sunday
BAKRID
Oct-16
Wednesday
DEEPAVALI
Nov-02
Saturday
MUHARRAM
Nov-14
Thursday
GURU NANAK'S BIRTHDAY
Nov-17
Sunday
CHRISTMAS DAY
Dec-25
Wednesday