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Sunday, 19 April 2020

10:07

Postal Employees will get coverage of 10 Lakhs Compensation

Postal Employees will get coverage of 10 Lakhs Compensation 

Ministry of Communications
Compensation of Rs.10 lakhs to all Postal employees
Posted On: 18 APR 2020 12:56PM by PIB Delhi
The Department of Posts comes under essential services and reiterated at   para -11 (iii) of MHA OM No. 40-3/2020-DM-I (A) dated 15.04.2020. The  Postal employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks are performing various duties  to provide customers mail delivery, Post Office Saving Bank, Postal Life Insurance,  the ease of money withdrawal at his/her doorstep from any bank and any branch under the AePS facility. Additionally, the Post Office is also delivering COVID-19 kits, food packets, rations and essential medicines etc. across the country by liasioning with local State administration and police authorities. Thus, Post Office is performing departmental duties as well as serving the social cause in the COVID-19 crisis times.
In the context of COVID -19 situation, it has been decided to extend payment of compensation of Rs.10 lakhs to all Postal employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) succumbing to the disease while brought on duty.  The guidelines will come into effect immediately and continue for the entire period till the crises of COVID-19 is over.

Source:PIBNEWS

Wednesday, 8 April 2020

21:17

Income Tax ,GST,Custom Refunds to be Released to benefit Business Entities and Individuals-Ministry of Finance

Income Tax ,GST,Custom Refunds to be Released to benefit Business Entities and Individuals-Ministry of Finance



Ministry of Finance
IT Department to release all pending income tax refunds up to Rs 5 lakhs immediately ; Around 14 lakh taxpayers to benefit
All GST & CUSTOM refunds also to be released ; to provide benefit to around 1 lakh business entities including MSMEs Rs 18,000 crore of total refund granted immediately
Posted On: 08 APR 2020 6:16PM by PIB Delhi
In the context of the COVID-19 situation and with a view to provide immediate relief to the business entities and individuals, it has been decided to issue all the pending income-tax refunds up to Rs. 5 lakh, immediately. This would benefit around 14 lakh taxpayers.
It has also been decided to issue all pending GST and Custom refunds which would provide benefit to around 1 lakh business entities, including MSME. Thus, the total refund granted will be approximately Rs. 18,000 crore.

Source:PIBNEWS

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

20:38

Additional 5% Dearness Allowances to Central Government Employees and Pensioners

Additional 5% Dearness Allowances to Central Government Employees and Pensioners

Cabinet approves 5% additional DA/DR due July, 2019
Posted On: 09 OCT 2019 2:40PM by PIB Delhi
The Union Cabinet Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today approved to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f. 01.07.2019 representing an increase of 5% over the existing rate of 12% of the Basic pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise.  This increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission. 
The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief would be Rs. 15909.35 crore per annum and Rs. 10606.20 crore in the financial year 2019-20 (for a period of 08 months from July, 2019 to February, 2020).  This will benefit about 49.93 lakh Central Government employees and 65.26 lakh pensioners.
The additional financial implication on account of this increase in Dearness Allowance is estimated at Rs 8590.20 Crore per year; and Rs 5726.80 Crore in the current Financial Year of 2019-20 (for 8 months from July 2019 to February 2020).
The additional financial implication on account of the Dearness Relief to pensioners is estimated to be Rs 7319.15 Crore per annum and Rs 4870 Crore in the current FY.
Dear Allowance/Dearness Relief is paid to Central Government employees/pensioners to adjust the cost of living and to protect their basic pay/pension from erosion in the real value. Dear Allowance/Dearness Relief is revised twice a year from 1st January and 1st July.

Thursday, 11 July 2019

08:19

Compulsory Retirement of Government Officials

Compulsory Retirement of Government Officials

Posted On: 10 JUL 2019
 3:36PM by PIB Delhi
As per the applicable Disciplinary Rules, Government has the right to proceed against corrupt officials on the basis of available evidence.  The Government also, has the absolute right to retire Government officials prematurely on the ground of lack of integrity and ineffectiveness, in public interest, as per the provisions of Fundamental Rules (FR) 56(j)(l), Rule 48 of Central Civil Services (CCS) Pension) Rules, 1972 and Rule 16(3) (Amended ) of All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) [AIS(DCRB)] Rules, 1958.  These rules lay down the policy of periodic review and premature retirement of Government servants, which is a continuous process.
For the period July 2014-May 2019, a total of 36,756 Group-A and 82,654 Group-B officers have been reviewed under FR 56(j)/similar provisions, out of which FR 56(j)/ similar provisions have been invoked /recommended against 125 Group-A and 187 Group B officers.
This information was provided by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, DrJitendra Singh in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on 10.07.2019.

Source:PBINEWS

Monday, 2 April 2018

17:36

Digital Signatures are not a Scanned Handwritten Signatures

Digital Signatures are not a Scanned Handwritten Signatures

Digital Signatures
A digital signature is an electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document, and to ensure that the original content of the message or document that has been sent is unchanged. Digital signatures are easily transportable, cannot be imitated by someone else, and can be automatically time-stamped. A digital signature can be used with any kind of message, whether it is encrypted or plaintext. Thus Digital Signatures provide the following three features:-
Authentication- Digital signatures are used to authenticate the source of messages. The ownership of a digital signature key is bound to a specific user and thus a valid signature shows that the message was sent by that user.
Integrity - In many scenarios, the sender and receiver of a message need assurance that the message has not been altered during transmission. Digital Signatures provide this feature by using cryptographic message digest functions (discussed in detail in section 4.4).
Non Repudiation – Digital signatures ensure that the sender who has signed the information cannot at a later time deny having signed it.
4.2 Digital Signature Versus Handwritten Signatures
A handwritten signature scanned and digitally attached with a document does not qualify as a Digital Signature.
A Digital Signature is a combination of 0 & 1s created using crypto algorithms.
An ink signature can be easily replicated from one document to another by copying the image manually or  electronically. Digital Signatures cryptographically bind an electronic identity to an electronic document and the digital signature cannot be copied to another document. Further, paper contracts often have the ink signature block on the last page, allowing previous pages to be replaced after the contract has been signed. Digital signatures on the other hand compute the hash or digest of the complete document and a change of even one bit in the previous pages of the document will make the digital signature verification fail. As can be seen in the underlying figure, a Digital Signature is a string of bits appended to a document. The size of a digital signature depends on the Hash function like SHA 1 / SHA2 etc used to create the message digest and the signing key. It is usually a few bytes. 

Tuesday, 2 January 2018

07:21

Indian Railway Passenger Train Ticket Transfer to Another Name :-Rules

Indian Railway Passenger Train Ticket Transfer to Another Name :-Rules

Change in the Name of Passenger Holding Confirmed Reservation  
1. Save as otherwise, a berth or a seat reserved in the name of a person shall be used only by the person and shall not be transferable to any other person.
2. Chief Reservation Supervisor of important stations are authorized by Railway Administration to permit the change of name of a passenger having a seat or berth reserved in his name in the following circumstances namely :
(a) Where the passenger is a Government Servant, proceeding on duty and appropriate authority, makes a request in writing 24 hours before the scheduled departure of trains
(b) Where the passenger makes a request in writing 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the train that the reservation made in his name may be transferred to another member of his family, meaning, Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Son, Daughter, Husband and Wife.
(c) Where the passengers are students of a recognized educational institution and the Head of the institution makes a request in writing 48 hours before the scheduled departure of the train, that the reservation made in the name of any student be transferred to any other student of the same institute.
(d) Where the passengers are members of a marriage party and any person deemed to be Head of such party makes a request in writing 48 hours before the scheduled departure of the train that the reservation made in the name of any member of the marriage party be transferred to any other person.
(e) Where the passengers are a group of cadets of National Cadet Corps and any officer who is the head of the group, makes a request in writing at least 24 hours before the departure of the train that the reservation made in the name of any cadet be transferred to any other cadet.
Such request will be granted only once. Regarding item no. (c), (d) and (e), such request for change in excess of 10% of the total strength of group shall not be granted.

Source:KR