Promotion/Posting orders to PS Gr B in Punjab Circle.

Punjab Circle vide memo no. STB/9-11/2012-II dated 30.12.2013 issues promotion and posting orders of Shri Dev Raj Rata, ASP Pathankot Gurdaspur Division to Sr Postmaster Jalandhar with immediate effect. He has been promoted to PS Group B cadre on regular basis in PB2 Rs 9300-34800 with GP of Rs.4800/- in accordance with DG Posts letter no. 9-33/2013-SPG dated 10.10.2013. 

Association congratulates the comrade for his promotion and wishes him all the best.

LETTER TO DTE FROM GS

No. GS/AIAIASP/PS Gr.B/DPC/2013 dated 30/12/2013

To,

Ms P. Gopinath, 

Secretary,

Department of Posts, 

Dak Bhavan, Sansad Marg, 

New Delhi 110 001. 

Subject: Request for convening supplementary DPC on actual calculation of vacancies, linking to repatriation of existing Group B officer working outside their Circles.

Respected Madam,

IPASP Association intends to bring to your kind notice that there is promotional hierarchical imbalance at different level of IP to Group B and JTS Group A due to miscalculation of vacancies while convening DPC. As a result department is resorting to the officiating arrangements time and again or handing over dual changes of divisions to the suffering of cadre that further leads to deteriorating of postal services. But unfortunately no care is being bestowed towards the welfare of IP cadre and their timely promotions, supplementary DPC and repatriation as well. In order to avoid such an effect and the best way for improving the efficiency of a given task, the association has suggested many ways and means by writing on different issues but all these letters have been discarded without any remedial actions. Some of the instances are as under: 

Supplementary DPC of the left out vacancies from the extended zone of consideration is a part of main DPC and should be convened immediate after completion of one month against left out vacancies so as the officers in the extended zone may not be deprived of their legitimate right and benefits. It is also the established law that if the consideration for promotion gets delayed for no fault of the employee who is found fit for promotion in that vacancy year, then natural justice would require grant of the benefit of promotion with retrospective effect from the date of occurrence of the vacancy. This has held by the court of law in various cases. In the year 2012 but after regular DPC-2011, 23 vacancies were left vacant depriving equal number of senior most officer of this right that too keeping DOP&T instructions at stake. In the vacancy year 2013, vacancies occurring in December 2013 have not been taken into account leaving a chunk of vacancies of the given year. It is not understood how to fill this gap. Now no action to convene supplementary DPC has been initiated.

In the recently held DPC another glaring irregularity of promoting far-far junior ignoring right of senior was pointed out vide this association letter No. CHQ/AIAIPASP/PS Gr.B/DPC/2013 dated 16-11-2013 but no action to rectify the irregularity by conducting review/ supplementary has been taken. It will not be wrong to mention that rules are interpreted to the individual suitability as no uniformity is being maintained while repatriating the Group B officers. It is not understood why the department is adopting tortuous attitude towards the demands of IP cadre whereas all other cadres are given due and timely settlements to their demands even if it may be a case of choice posting of any individual officers/ officials.

IP/ASP Association in the recent past raised issue on the arbitrary and illogical orders issued by Directorate, prescribing a compulsory service of minimum of 2 years in RMS/Postal side for being eligible for promotion to the cadre of ASP and a compulsory service of minimum of 3 years in RMS/Postal side for being eligible for promotion to the cadre of PS Group B. Nobody sitting at the helm of affairs tried to explore the actual position and know how possible would it be to implement the aforesaid orders when there is a ration gap of 90:10 in IPO/ASP: IRM/ASRM. Now, the result is that all the promotions from IP to ASP have been blocked by circles jeopardizing the promotional prospects of IPs/ASPs in all the Circles.

As there is wide spread discrimination toward the cadre so this association request your kind honour to review the cases of IP/ASP and issue orders for convening supplementary DPC, cause immediate repatriation of all Group B officers completed one year in outside Circles and take necessary action to withdraw the mandatory condition of aforesaid service, which is per-se detrimental to the interest of the cadre and department.

We shall be grateful to you.

Thanking you, 

Yours sincerely,

(Vilas Ingale)

General Secretary 

Copy forwarded to : 

1. Shri V. P. Singh, DDG (P), Department of Posts, Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi 110001. 

2. Ms Trishaljit Sethi, DDG (Estt.), Department of Posts, Dak Bhawan, SansadMarg, New Delhi 110001.

Calender of Departmental Examination for the year 2014

Sl No.	Name of the Examination	Proposed Schedule tentatively
(A) Centralised Examination
1	Inspector of Posts Examination	23rd and 24th August 2014
2	Ps Gr ‘B’ Examination	15-06-2014
3	Postmaster Grade – I Exam	15-06-2014
4	LGO Examination for PAs/SAs in Circle	24th August 2014 Sunday
5	Junior Engineer( C&E)Examination	Will be notified after receipt of Question Banks and syllabus revised . For the vacancies of previous years.
6	Assistant Engineer ( C&E)Examination	Same as Above
7	Sr. Postmaster Examination	Tentatively proposed to be held on October 2014, by which time it is expected that court verdicts will be pronounced.
8	PAs/SAs Direct Recruitment Examination	March 2014 for 2013 vacancies. Another recruitment in November 2014 for 2014 vacancies.
9	Assistant Manager ( MMS)	Will be notified after receipt of revised Recruitment Rules /Question Banks and syllabus revised.
10	Assistant Accounts Officer (AAO)	As Above.

Sl No.	Name of the Examination	Proposed Schedule tentatively
(B) De-centralised Examination
1	Confirmation Examination for direct recruit Jr Accountants in PAO	17th & 18th may 2014
2	LDCs to Junior Accountants in PAOs	14th &15th June 2014
3	LGO Examination for promotion to Assistants of other wings i.e. MMS , Foreign Post, RLO, Stores Depot and CO/RO	20th July 2014
4	Postman Examination Direct Recruitment to Multi tasking Staff	To be held in October for 2014 vacancies.
5	PO&RMS Accountant Examination	25th May,2014
6	Departmental Examination for promotion to LDCs in PAOs from Sorters and MTS.	27.7.2014
7	Departmental Examination for promotion to LDCs in PAOs from MTS qualified in matriculation	17.08.2014

INVITATION TO 38th ALL INDIA CONFERENCE AT AHMEDABAD

The 38^th All India Conference of our Association is going to be held at Ahmedabad on 7^th & 8^th February 2014. Since there is an open invitation to all of you so Punjab IPASP Association requests our members to send their willingness to attend the open session at Hotel Tune, Visat Cross Road, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad-380005 (Gujarat). The willing members may contact Sh. Gopal Krishan Sharma, President and Sr Postmaster Patiala HO before 26/12/2013 so that nomination may be made well in time. The delegation/visitor fee and to and fro fare will be borne by the association. However the members can also avail LTC facility if they desire so. No request will be entertained after submission of delegation/visitor list to the Circle Office for grant of trade union facilities to the nominated delegates. It is pertinent to mention here that no trade union facility can be granted to visitors, hence they will have to bear with us.

Shri Jaspal Singh bids farewell to Punjab Circle on 29.11.2013.

It was a huge gathering in the conference Hall of Circle Office, where Mr Jaspal Singh was garlended on his retirement farewell by entire staff. Speaking on the ocassion Chief PMG expressed that it is hard to visualize Punjab Circle without Mr. Jaspal. He said that it is hard to feel that Mr Jaspal Singh is retiring today. He has been the main strength of the Circle for almost 26 years at a stretch. During the period he worked with 14-15 Circle Chiefs and 18-19 DPSs and been successfull in maintaining excellent rapport. Mr Jaspal is a tireless, hardworking, sincere worker and his day and night contributions would be remembered for a long time to follow. He is a man of high integrity and was lucky charm to many aspirants, who got jobs both in public and private sector, after they got their forms attested from him. 

Association wishes him good luck for his future endeavours and pray to Almighty for equally successful retirement life ahead.