General Secretary’s Desk

General Secretary’s Desk

Dear Comrades,

The AIPEU-GDS CHQ is intensely observing the current situation on the issues viz., Membership verification, GDS Pay committee issues besides struggle programmes.

Membership Verification :

For the Recognition of Service Associations in GDS cadre, the membership verification is going on in all the divisions and all corners of the country. The AIPEU-GDS had utilized all opportunities for the last five years and formed divisional branches in almost all divisions of 23 circles and is well established with more percentage of members in favour of the Union. It has proved that almost all programmes of AIPEU-GDS & NFPE and made success in all the divisions / Circles and at all India level also, for these period of time.

With good awareness on the AIPEU-GDS organization, activities, achievements and confidence on NFPE and united struggles, more and more members are attracted to our AIPEU-GDS and along with the leaders of other GDS unions, leading our organization in many divisions in all the Circles.

The CHQ is receiving inspiring information that the collection of Letters of Authorization in favour of AIPEU-GDS in the divisions is increasing day-by-day and creating confidence amongst the leadership that our AIPEU-GDS will be recognized as NUMBERONE union in the present verification process. Even though some other GDS union creating hurdles to our exercise in many ways, our Comrades are succeeding over it and the efforts of root level leaders by taking all pains and risk to make it all favour to AIPEU-GDS is very much appreciable.

One month time has been over and hardly one more month remained for the conclusion of the process of collection and submission of Letters of Authorization from GDS comrades in the Divisions. Unfortunately, in some places/divisions, seasonal rain & flood etc., detained the process for some time, the Divisional Comrades assured to win over it and can get Letters of Authorization from the GDS comrades with in the stipulated period for submission. This inspires all others and creating some more enthusiasm created in the process of verification.

The AIPEU-GDS CHQ heartfully wishing all the Comrades with many more thanks on their best efforts in favour of AIPEU-GDS.

Last date for submission of Letters of Authorizaton to the Divisional Head : 05th September 2017.

Union Subscription recovery will be started from the month of September i.e., TRCA drawn for the month of September 2017 itself.

AIPEU-GDS CHQ has already been sent letters to all SSPO/SPO/SRM, specifying the Authorized Representative for the respective divisions along with a copy to Divisional Secretary & Circle Secretary for favour of information. If any, not received the same please inform over phone or through e-mail to CHQ, it will be arranged immediately without any further delay or requires any further information/clarification on the process also.

Moble: 09849466595

e-mail: aipeugdsnfpe@gmail.com

GDS Pay Committee :

It is learnt from the sources that the approval of the Ministry of Finance for the recommendations of the Committee is awaited. Up to August 11th, the Parliament sessions continued, further up to 15th August, holidays etc., and the process may be concluded at MoF after 15th only.

Further information, if any, will be published in our website “aipeugdsnfpe.blogspot.com” and from other means of communication also, immediately.

One day strike on 23-08-2017:

The strike notice has been served to the Department on 26-07-2017 for Nationwide ONE DAY STRIKE by NFPE & AIPEU-GDS on 10 point charter of demands. The third phase of programme “Dak Bhawan Dharna” has been conducted infront of Dak Bhawan, Delhi on 26th July 2017 by NFPE along with AIPEU-GDS & AIPCPCCWF with the participation of more than 300 comrades of all affiliated Unions of NFPE representing from most of the Circles along with General Secretaries of all Unions of NFPE.

Strike campaign and tour programm by the leaders of NFPE is going on in Circles. All the CHQ Office bearers / Circle Secretaries / Divisional / Branch Secretaries of AIPEU-GDS is requesting to participate in the meetings, campaigning & programmes in the respective divisions / Circles and make the one day strike on 23rd August 2017 a grand success. 

With fraternal greetings

Date : 31-07-2017

P.Pandurangarao

General Secretary

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Mint office begins sale of commemorative coins on Gandhi

Mint office begins sale of commemorative coins on Gandhi

New Delhi, Jul 30 (PTI) Coin collectors and numismatists will have enough to celebrate this year as the Government Mint, Mumbai has kick-started sale of commemorative coins to mark the centenary of Mahatma Gandhis return from South Africa and the Komagata Maru incident.

The coins have been made on the theme Centenary of Mahatma Gandhis Return from South Africa and will be available in denominations of Rs 100 and Rs 10.

The Komagata Maru incident dates back to May 23, 1914 when the ship carrying 376 passengers, majority of whom were Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus -- was denied entry into Canada after an immigration dispute. Some of the passengers were killed in protests on their return to India.

The government mint office in Mumbai has put up for sale these commemorative coins which can be booked from July 26 till September 26, both online and offline.

Centenary of Komagata Maru Incident themed coins are available in Rs 100 and Rs 5 denominations.

The proof coins cost Rs 3,225 each while uncirculated coins (UNC) carry a tag of Rs 2,644 each which are all inclusive of the goods and services tax (GST), the India Government Mint, Mumbai said in an advertisement.

"The coins will be delivered through India Post within six months from the date of closure of booking," it said.

The coin on Gandhis return from South Africa in 1915 bears two images of the Father of the Nation -- a young man in western attire and the other is the legendary thinly clad old man wearing round-shaped spectacles.

The centenary completion year 2015 is engraved at the opposite corner to that of 1915. The proof coin embossed letter M -- meaning printed at Mumbai -- have a frozen effect on the surface design with a mirror finish.

The coin commemorating Komagata Maru incident depicts a big ship named Komagata Maru sailing in the sea, with year 1914-2014 printed at the periphery of the coin.

These types of coins commemorate events of historical and social importance as well celebrates achievements of public or private organisations.

These high quality coins hold great value for collectors and those who study currencies, tokens, paper money and related articles -- the numismatics.

The Mumbai mint, a unit of Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India Ltd (SPMCIL), has been manufacturing these commemorative coins apart from circulation coins.

The first commemorative coin was issued in 1964 in the memory of Indias first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

In 2016, the mint had come up with only one commemorative coin themed on Centenary of Banaras Hindu University.

Year 2015 saw issuance of three commemorative coins on International Yoga Day, 125th birth anniversary of B R Amdebkar and Golden Jubilee of Indo Pak War 1965.

In 2014, coins were issued to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru. While in 1972, coins were issued to mark the 25th year of Indias independence.

Also, 2010 was a dedication to 1000 Years Of Brihadeeswarar Temple and birth centenary of C Sbramaniam as well as platinum jubilee of Reserve Bank of India.

The mint office has been issuing commemorative coins all through the years since 1964 on various themes. PTI KPM JM

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Transport dept to dispatch RC via speed post

Transport dept to dispatch RC via speed post

Now, vehicle buyers will no more have to do the rounds of the Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) to get their vehicle registration certificate (RC). Starting Tuesday, the transport department will start dispatching RCs right at your doorsteps via speed post.

Usually an applicant gets an RC a week after applying for it. But now, one will get the same via post in around two days. The department has tied up with India Post to ensure speedy dispatch of smart card RC via post. This will not only provide hassle-free service to the applicants, but also help deliver the important document safely without much formality.

The applicants will only have to pay an additional Rs 30 to receive their smart cards at their homes. It is set to benefit around 5,000 people a month.

The move assumes significance as over 70,000 RCs are issued in the state annually. Of these, around 50,000 are issued against new cars including those under ‘transfer of ownership’ or on resale of used cars. Besides, approximately 20,000 RCs are issued to two-wheeler owners.

The transport department officials claim that almost 90 per cent of applicants who apply for the RC come through the car/bike agency from whom they buy their vehicles as a result licencing officers engage in corrupt practices with the car or bike dealers and give preference to those who shell out more money.

According to officials in the transport department, the new initiative will not only make things easier for the vehicle owner, but eliminate corruption as well. “This system would remove the scope of malpractices between the dealers and the licencing officers as all documents will collectively reach for dispatch and there will be no preference given to anybody. Vehicle owners will also get alerts through SMS about the status of their RC,” a transport official said.

The official said that after printing of registration cards, the document will be delivered to the post office on the same day and within a day or two, these will reach the applicant’s doorstep.

Apart from this, the process of transfer of ownership of vehicles will also get simplified with the transport department starting the process through GEL to upgrade the existing online portal for the same.

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Huge incentives to staff has led to mis-selling: RBI

Huge incentives to staff has led to mis-selling: RBI

Huge incentives to staff has led to mis-selling: RBI

MUMBAI: Senior Reserve Bank of India official has said that the huge incentives given to the staff has been one of the root cause for mis-selling of financial products while urging banks to work portability of account number for customers satisfaction. 

Speaking at the annual conference of Banking Ombudsmen, deputy governor S S Mundra blamed "challenging targets set for employees, incentive linked quotas, lack of training and fast rotation of frontline staff" for mis-selling and asked the top management to look into it. 

The DG also urged the banks to work towards Account Number portability in line with the telecom industry whereby a customer can retain their account number even if they switch to another bank. Mundra said that this move "will be a far-reaching step towards enhancing competition and improving customer service." 

Addressing the conference, Mundra directed that banks to move away from seeking ‘negative confirmation’ from customers on legal agreements that often have several fine prints. He said that banks should obtain ‘positive confirmations’ from the customers that they have read and understood the terms and conditions of the product or the service

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Trade Union action call given by Federation of National Postal Organisations (FNPO) in support of their demands.

Trade Union action call given by Federation of National Postal Organisations (FNPO) in support of their demands.

No. 08-12/2017-SR

Government of India

Ministry of Communications

Department of Posts

(SR Section)

Dak Bhawan, New Delhi

                                   Dated:  01^st August, 2017

To,

The Secretary General,

Federation of National Postal Organisations,

T-24, Atul Grove Road,

New Delhi- 110001.

Subject:        Trade Union action call given by Federation of National Postal Organisations (FNPO) in support of their demands.

Sir,

            I am directed to refer to your letter No. Strike/2017 dated 20.06.2017 on the above mentioned subject. The charter of demands has been examined by the concerned Divisions and replies to each item of demands showing the present status are enclosed herewith.

2.         As many of your demands have been settled and few are under active consideration of the Department, it is requested that the proposed agitation may be called off.

Yours faithfully,

Encl: As Above

      -sd/-

                                                                                                                     (P. S. Verma)

Director (SR & Legal)

Charter of demands submitted by FNPO vide letter dated 20.06.2017:

Sl. No.	Demands	Reply
1.	Filling up of all vacant posts in all cadres of Department of Posts i.e. PA, SA, Postmen, Mailguard, Mailmen, Drivers,  and Artisans in MMS, MTS, PACO and GDS.	GDS: Process of online engagement of GDS has already been started to fill up vacant post of GDS in 17 Circles. Due to technical snags in the online engagement software, process in remaining Circles will be started only after process in 17 Circles will finalize. PA/SA: Result of PA/SA for the year 2015 is kept in abeyance as the matter is subjudice. Vacancies of PA/SA for the year 2016 have already been intimated to SSC.         LGO exam for promotion to the cadre of PA/SA for deputation to APS has been conducted on 04.06.2017.             LGOs exam for promotion to Assistants in MMS, Foreign Post, RLO, Stores Depot and CO/RO has been held on 16.07.2017.             In r/o other exams, viz. IP Exam 2016-17, PM Grade I and PS Group B 2017-18, LGOs to PAs/SAs 2016-17 and 2017-18, engagement of new approved Agency is in the pipeline. MoU between Department and Agency is to be signed.             For the Postman/Mail Guard and MTS cadre exams, instructions have been issued to all the Circles to fill up the vacancies by giving top priority.             Calendar of departmental Examinations scheduled to be held in the year 2017-18 has already been issued to all the Circles by giving tentative schedule for filling up the vacancies of decentralized examination i.e. PO & RMS Accountant Examination, LDCs to Junior Accountants in PAOs (Exam has been conducted by respective Circles), LGOs examination for promotion to Assistants of other wings i.e. MMS, Foreign Post, RLO, Stores Depot and CO/RO and other exams.
2.	Implementation of positive recommendations of GDS Committee Report. Grant of civil servant status to GDS. Request to ‘Removal of 3-A (I) of GDS Conduct & Engagement Rules, 2011, Grant pension to all GDS without absorption as regular Group D – As per Principle CAT, New Delhi Judgement, Request to count service to all erstwhile GDS service to who have been absorbed as Group D/Postman – As per Principle CAT, New Delhi Judgement.	The recommendations of the Kamlesh Chandra Committee have been considered by the Department of Posts and mandatory approval is being obtained in this regard.        As far as grant of civil servant status to GDS is concerned, it is stated that according to Rule 3-A (v) of GDS Conduct Rules 2011, a Sevak shall be outside the Civil Service of the Union. Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in the matter of Superintendent of Post Offices Vs PK Rajamma (1977) (3) SCC held that the Extra Departmental Agents {now called Gramin Dak Sevaks} are holders of the civil post outside the regular civil services. Moreover, they are part time employees being engaged for maximum of 5 hrs a day. In the light of above legal position demand of the union cannot be acceded to.
3.	Request to grant of a new scale to the temporary status MTS on par with 7th CPC. Conversion of temporary status casual labourers into permanent as per the Directorate letter No. 25-07/2017-PE-I dated 16.05.2017.	In pursuance of the instructions issued by the Department of Expenditure, vide its O.M. No. A-11012/11-EG dated 19.12.2016, all the HoCs have been instructed, vide this office letter dated 16.05.2017, to convert the temporary posts into permanent ones up to the level of Dy. Secretary (i.e. having Grade Pay of Rs. 7600/- or less in the pre-revised scale excluding GDS posts), subject to the condition that these posts have functional justification and are in existence for more than three years. Thus, Casual labourers don’t come under the purview of this order.
4.	Stop all types of harassment and victimization in the name of new schemes and technology induction and under contributory negligence factor and Trade Union victimization.	FS Division has informed that no new schemes are launched by that Division on behalf of DoP. The DoP is operating Small Savings Schemes on behalf of MoF. PLI Directorate has informed that they have completed roll out of Core Insurance Solution (CIS) as on 25.01.2016 to 808 HOs and 24598 Sub Post Offices as per the information provided by Circles. Roll out of RICT has not been initiated so far. They have also informed that at no point of time any case of harassment & victimization of staff has come to their notice.
5.	Payment of revised wages and arrears to the casual, part-time, contingent employees and daily rated mazdoors as per 6th & 7thCPC and settle the other issues of casual labourers.	The orders in respect of minimum pay for calculation of pay of casual labourers (without temporary status) has already been issued vide this office letter no. 7-10/2016-PCC dated 31.03.2017.
6.	Implement cadre restructuring for left out categories i.e. RMS, MMS, PACO, Postmaster Cadre Postal Civil wing etc. and accept the modifications suggested by NAPE-C before implementation of cadre restructuring in Postal Group ‘C’ & demands of National Union of Postal Civil Wing Employees.	The cadre restructuring of left out cadres, i.e. RMS, PACO and PASBCO is currently under examination in consultation with the Department of Expenditure. The matter of cadre restructuring of Postmaster Cadre will be examined thereafter.          A Committee has been constituted, vide this office letter no. 25-04/2012-PE-I dated 09.06.2017, under the chairmanship of Shri Charles Lobo, CPMG Karnataka Circle, to examine the issues arising out of implementation of Cadre Restructuring of Group C employees.            Cadre review of MMS is under active consultation with Ministry of Finance, DoE.
7.	Provision of CGHS facilities to Postal Pensioners also as recommended by 7th CPC.	The CGHS facilities have been extended to the pensioners of Post and Telegraph Department by the M/o Health & Family Welfare vide O.M. No. S-11016/2/2015-CGHS(P)/EHS dated 19.07.2017 and the same has been circulated by the Dte. To all the Circles vide letter no. 2-3/2009-Medical dated 25.07.2017. The issue of merger of 33 Postal Dispensaries is under consideration with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
8.	Withdraw NPS (Contributory Pension Scheme). Guarantee 50% of last pay drawn as minimum pension.	The demand for withdrawal of NPS (Contributory Pension Scheme) is outside the purview of this Department. As regards guarantee of 50% last pay drawn as minimum pension, it is mentioned that govt. has already enhanced minimum pension to Rs. 9000/- w.e.f. 01.01.2016. The pension of retiring employees is fixed at 50% of emoluments or average emoluments, whichever is more beneficial under Rule 49(2) of CCS (Pension) Rules.            Government has also decided to revise pension of pre-2016 pensioners to 50% of notional pay in pay matrix of 7thCPC by fixing pay on notional basis during each intervening Pay Commission.
9.	Implement five days week working for operative staff in the Postal Department.	Since the Department of Posts is a service oriented Department, decision of 5 days week lead to public inconvenience and further, to public complaints.          This decision will also results in revenue loss to the Department as customer will go for other alternatives when Post Offices are closed on Saturday.
10.	Stop Privatization, Contractorization and outsourcing.	There is no proposal of corporatization/privatization at this juncture.  The Department is making efforts to give better and competitive services to the customers specifically in the areas of insurance, banking and parcels.

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Mandating Aadhaar linkage to PAN cards

Mandating Aadhaar linkage to PAN cards

Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Finance

01-August-2017 17:46 IST

Mandating Aadhaar linkage to PAN cards 

Permanent Account Number (PAN) is the key identifier of taxable entity and aggregator of all financial transactions undertaken by one person. One PAN for one person is the guiding principle for allotment of PAN. However, for achieving the objective of one PAN to one assessee it is required to maintain uniqueness of PAN. The uniqueness of PAN is achieved by conducting a de-duplication check on all already existing allotted PAN against the data furnished by new applicant. Under the existing system of PAN only demographic data is captured. Some instances are found where multiple PANs have been allotted to one person or one PAN has been allotted to multiple persons despite the application of de-duplication process based on demographic data. Linkage of Aadhaar number into PAN database will allow a robust way of de-duplication as Aadhaar number is based on biometric attributes of finger prints and iris images. Further seeding of Aadhaar will allow the Income-tax Department to weed out any undetected duplicate PANs. It will also facilitate resolution of cases of one PAN allotted to multiple persons.

As on 27.7.2017, 11,44,211 PANs have been identified and deleted or de-activated in cases where multiple PANs were found allotted to one person. Similarly, as on 27.7.2017, 1,566 PANs have been identified as ‘Fake’ which were allotted to either non-existent person or in the names of persons with false identities. In this regard, the PAN service provider carries out onsite verification of PAN applications to verify identity and addresses of the applicant and share the report of such verification to the concerned Assessing Officer. On receipt of such report the assessing officer also conducts enquires and mark the PAN as “Fake”. If information of allotment of more than one PAN is received, the facility to delete or de-activate the PAN is available with the Assessing Officer through application software. Further, during 2004 to 2007, an exercise for de-duplication of PAN was conducted in the Department to identify probable duplicate PANs, which were consequently deleted or de-activated by the concerned assessing officers after examinations.

This was stated by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State for Finance in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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UIDAI Introduce mAadhaar Mobile Android App to Carry your Aadhaar on Mobile

UIDAI Introduce mAadhaar Mobile Android App to Carry your Aadhaar on Mobile

mAadhar is most convinent way to have your Aadhaar Card deatils along with you anywhere in India at anytime. According to UIDAI Mobile Android App mAadhaar helps Aadhaar holders can download from Google Play Store using official Link from the Authorities. Unique Identification Authority of India it helps holders to carry soft copy of their Aadhaar to anywhere anytime throught the India on Android App. mAadhaar Mobile Android App is official Application developed by the UIDAI uidai-maadhaar-mobile-android-app-download-google-play-store

Important things about mAadhaar Mobile Android App

1. mAadhaar app asks for Pass word immediately after downloading and trying to open. Then we have to set up a password with 8-12 characters containing alpha numeric with a alpha capital along with special charactors
2. An Aadhaar Profile can be downloaded only on mobile having registered mobile number linked with Aadhaar
3. If your mobile is not registered with Aadhaar, please visit nearest Aadhaar Enrollment Centre
4. There is no Manual entry provision because of Security cautions
5. Users are advised not to navigate from mAadhaar while trying to get OTP through SMS. mAadhaar reads the OTP automatically once it recieved
6. The mAadhaar app enables users to carry details of more than one Aadhaar card in the digital form. If any other member of your family has the same mobile number registered as yours with Aadhaar, you can also add his or her profile using the mAadhaar app. The app allows a user to add a maximum three profiles in digital form on a particular device.
7. Once a user enables the Biometric Locking system, his or her biometric remains locked till the Aadhaar holder chooses to either unlock it (which is temporary) or disable the locking system.
8. One Aadhaar profile can be active on only one device at a time. If you create a profile on another device by inserting the SIM in another device, the previous profile would become inactive and would be deleted from the older device whenever any operation is attempted within the mAadhaar app from that device.
9. Sharing of QR code and eKYC data: A user of mAadhaar can share demographics-related information with service providers using the QR code, instead of manual entry.
10. mAadhaar comes with TOTP or Time-based One-Time Password generation feature. Users can use this automatically generated temporary password instead of SMS-based OTP
11. Click here to Download Mobile App for Aadhaar Card

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HOW TO FIND NO.OF ACCOUNTS OPENED/CLOSED IN A PERIOD

HOW TO FIND NO.OF ACCOUNTS OPENED/CLOSED IN A PERIOD

 HOW TO FIND NO.OF ACCOUNTS OPENED/CLOSED IN A PERIOD

OPENED A/Cs: 

  HACS→SOL/SET ID→GENERAL LEDGER SUBHEAD CODE→SCHEME CODE              
           →OPEN DATE(LOW)→OPEN DATE(HIGH)→SUBMIT(F10)

CLOSED A/Cs: 
   HACS→SOL/SET ID→GENERAL LEDGER SUBHEAD CODE→SCHEME CODE         
         →CLOSE DATE(LOW)→CLOSE DATE(HIGH)→SUBMIT(F10)


       Eg: HACS→53424701→30042→SSA→01-07-2016→31-07-2016→SUBMIT.

SNO	SCHEME TYPE	SCHEME CODE	GENERAL LEDGER SUBHEAD CODE
1	SAVINGS ACCOUNT	SBGEN	30001
2	RECURRING DEPOSIT	RDIPN	30010
3	MONTHLY INCOME SCHEME	MISN1	30016
4	1 YEAR TERM DEPOSIT	TDIP1	30011
5	2 YEAR TERM DEPOSIT	TDIP2	30012
6	3 YEAR TERM DEPOSIT	TDIP3	30013
7	5 YEAR TERM DEPOSIT	TDIP5	30014
8	SUKANKYA SAMRIDDI ACCOUNT	SSA	30042
9	KISAN VIKAS PATRA	KVP14/KVP16	32002
10	NATIONAL SAVINGS CERTIFICATES	NSC8	32016
11	SENIOR CITIZEN SAVINGS SCHEME	SCSS	30020
12	PUBLIC PROVIDENT FUND	PPF	33001
13	10 YR NSC	NSC9	32024

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Operating and Accounting Procedure of POS Machine at Post Offices for provision of Cashless transactions

Operating and Accounting Procedure of POS Machine at Post Offices for provision of Cashless transactions

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

MERCHANT ACQUIRING BUSINESS INSTALLATION OF POS MACHINES AT POST OFFICES FOR PROVISION OF CASHLESS TRANSACTIONS

Preamble:

In order to provide digital payment options to the customers of India Post, the Department has approached the largest Bank in the country viz. State Bank of India to provide the Point of Sale (POS) terminals which can be used to make card-based payments. These POS machines will be initially used to book domestic and foreign speed post, Registered Letters/Parcels, Money Orders & buying stamps and any other transactions being done by Post Offices (except Banking/Insurance transactions).

OPERATING PROCEDURE:- 

1. The Postal Assistant (PA)/Sub Postmaster (SPM) in respect of counter operations will accept valid debit/credit & prepaid cards 
2. CEPT Mysore has release the updates to modify the Point of Sale module in Meghdoot to accept cash/card mode. 
3. PA/SPM will enter the category of transaction, Transaction number (eMO/SP/Regd) and amount for the transaction for which data will flow to CEPT server at the day end.
4. Counter PA at the end of the day while handing over the transactions to the Treasurer will account for the card based transactions amount as part of cash and handover related vouchers along with the daily report thereof generated in the desktop application
5. The treasurer will enter the total of such card based swipe machine receipts in his Treasurer’s Cash Book (TCB) and preserve the daily consolidated report alongwith the receipts which are received from the counter PAs.
6. Respective entries will also be made in the HO summary and HO cash account.
7. Similarly in respect of Sub Post Offices (SO) the daily account will show the details of cash and swipe vouchers in respect of each category of accounts.
8. The entries will be entered in the SO summary at HO. Necessary fields of swipe machine receipts in the Treasury modules of Meghdoot can be customized by installing the updates released by CEPT. 

Accounting Procedure:

1. One Nodal office for DOP (Hyderabad GPO) has been identified for the purpose of settlement of payments by SBI to the Postmaster Account. This settlement will be made on T+1 basis one consolidated entry (remittance to bank).
2. Accountant of the nodal HO will tally the T+1 settlement entry with reference to the MIS daily report provided by the CEPT and with the amount in the HO cash account under the head Card Swipe machine charges category wise provided to the user of the nodal office. The nodal office will also reconcile the information with reference to the Bank scrolls and take it into account of “Card Swipe machine receipts” in receipt side and as bank remittance towards the “Card Swipe machine payments”. Any discrepancy is to be reported by the Postmaster to settle the issue with SBI.
3. At accounts section, One schedule will be generated for the Card Swipe machine transactions and the same will be reconciled with the MIS provided by SBI.
4. For generation of MIS, SBI will share all the details of machine transactions like date, machine number, office name, office pincode, Transaction number, category of account and amount to CEPT server.
5. CEPT taking the transaction data from Meghdoot application of post offices where POS machines are installed will develop a MIS portal which shows all the MIS reports for the day and the fortnight and Month.
6. Circle DA(P) of each Circle will carry out the monthly reconciliation of payments by means of Schedules of “Card Swipe machine Receipts” and “Card Swipe machine Payments” received by each HO and consolidated amounts will be certified to the DA(P) of AP Circle so as to carry the consolidated reconciliation with the Bank Scrolls of the Nodal HO in respect of the All India Receipts and Payments.
7. CEPT Mysore should develop a module whereby reconciliation is automated by matching the card based transactions made by all Circles with the amount received by SBI.

Card Usage Instructions:

1. The Post Office should not levy any charges on the card holder for permitting the customer to use a valid card.
2. The Post Office shall not place any minimum transaction limit for using a valid card. 
3. The Post Office shall ensure that the card is a Valid Card and shall swipe the card on the PoS terminal and enter the details of the transaction as displayed and ensure that Reserve Bank of India guidelines which requires entering of PIN (as applicable) as well as Non PIN cards are also accepted. 
4. Post Office shall ensure entering of PIN by the card holder and to ensure that while entering of PIN sufficient privacy is given to the card holder.
5. The Post office shall obtain the signature of the card member on the charge slip and verify the same with the signature of the Card Member on the back of the Valid Card. In case of a photo card, Counter PA shall also verify that the photograph on the card matches with the card holder.
6. The Post Office will initially not allow or make any cash advances and/ or cash refunds directly to the Card Members. The Post Office will allow card holders to perform transactions equivalent to the amount utilized for the service.
7. DOP will be responsible to the demurrages due to official negligence otherwise the regular maintenance of the machine to be covered by AMC with SBI.

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