Postal Assistant- Circle and Regional Offices (PA CO/RO) Group ‘C’ Post Recruitment Rules, 2014

Department of Posts has changed the Recruitment Rules for selecting Postal Assistants in Circle and Regional Offices (PA CO/RO) and has been published in the official Gazette of India dated 27 January 2014. The new recruitment rule will be called Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Department of Posts, Circle and Regional Offices, Postal Assistant, Group ‘C’ Post Recruitment Rules, 2014. It will replace the existing Department of Posts (Postal Assistant in Circle and Regional Offices) Recruitment Rules, 1996.

Click Here to see the official gazette.

And the good news for Postal Assistant Aspirants is that this time the vacancies will be more in this cadre. During the last recruitment conducted by CMC limited for filling the vacancies of the year 2011 & 2012, recruitment for PA (CO/RO) were not called in any of the circles as the new recruitment rules were not cleared. So in the next recruitment vacancies have to be filled for the year 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014. Recruitment can be expected very soon as the Recruitment rules are now out. Keep visiting this blog for latest updates!!!

Click Here to see Postal/Sorting Assistant (PA/SA) Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2014

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Postal/Sorting Assistant (PA/SA) Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2014

Friends... Happy News for all Postal/Sorting Assistant Aspirants. Department of Posts has amended the Postal Assistants and Sorting Assistants(PA/SA) (Group C non- Gazetted), Recruitment Rules, 2011.

Earlier to be eligible for applying to the post of PA/SA:

1) General Candidates had to secure at least 60% marks in their 10+2 exam

2) Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidates had to secure at least 55% marks in their 10+2 exam

3) Schedule Castes/ Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) candidates had to secure at least 45% marks in their 10+2 exam

But as per the new amendment, a pass in 10+2 or 12th class will be sufficient to be eligible for applying for the post. The official extraordinary gazette in this regard has been published by Government of India on 27 January 2014.

Click Here to see the official gazette.

The above amendment has also been made in respect of Postal Assistant in Savings Bank Control and Internal Check Organisations, (PA SBCO) Group C non-Gazetted posts Recruitment Rules, 2012 also.

Click Here to see the official gazette.

Further new recruitment rules for Postal Assistants in Circle/Regional Offices - PA(CO/RO) have been published & will be known as Department of Posts, Circle and Regional Offices, Postal Assistant, Group ‘C’ Post Recruitment Rules, 2014. Click Here for details.

So with these amendments published we can expect PA/SA recruitment for filling the vacancies of the year 2013 & 2014 very soon. As per the Calendar of Exams published by DoP, recruitment for PA/SA is tentatively scheduled for March 2014. Whether it happens as per the schedule is a big question...we can expect another recruitment soon. Keep visiting this blog...we will be updating you the latest status!!!

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IndiaPost: Calendar of Departmental Examinations 2014

Good News for all waiting for next Postal/Sorting Assistant exam… Department of Posts published its calendar of Examinations for the year 2014. As per the tentative schedule there will be two PA/SA recruitment for the year 2014. One in March and other in November!!!

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) Decentralised 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 vcancies.
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

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Government releases postage stamps on Sachin Tendulkar on the occasion of 200th & last Test of the legend

Government releases postage stamps on Sachin Tendulkar on the occasion of 200th & last Test of the legend

>> Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal released commemorative postage stamps to pay tribute to Sachin Tendulkar on 14 November 2013 (Thursday) at Wankhade Stadium, Mumbai before the start of 2nd Cricket Test match between India and West Indies.

>> The 40-year old batting great is only the second person after Mother Teresa to have a stamp released after him, when he is alive.

  

>> Union Minister for State for Communication and IT Milind Deora, Union Minister Sharad Pawar, BCCI President N.Srrenivasan and MP Rajeev Shukla were also present on the occasion of honouring the legend.

>> Designed in-house, India Post has 30.1 lakh sets of two stamps, 24.1 lakh sets of miniature sheets, and 16.1 lakh sheetlets of the stamp — all for Tendulkar’s fans.The stamp will be available at all major post offices.

>> The day began with a series of tributes to Tendulkar - the BCCI president N Srinivasan handed him a memento, a painted portrait was presented to him, the West Indies side gave him a framed autographed shirt, the coin at the toss was specially minted in his likeness - and ended with fans euphoric over having watched him bat one more time.

>> The Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni presented Sachin Tendulkar with a cap, at the start of the day. He led the team out to the field with a huge crowd of fans cheering him and waiting to see him bat, though India opted to field first against the West Indies.

>> After bundling out West Indies for 182, thanks to five wicket haul from Pragyan Ojha, the home team is at 157 for 2 at the end of the first day. Tendulkar 38* and  Cheteshwar Pujara 34* were at the crease at the end of the day.

>>  Sachin mania might reach a mind-boggling crescendo in the second day and fans across the world hope for a spectacular performance from the Master which they could see no more.

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Salary of a newly appointed Postal/Sorting Assistant (PA/SA)

Salary of a newly appointed Postal/Sorting Assistant (PA/SA)

Friends…we have been receiving many queries regarding the salary structure of a newly appointed PA/SA. In this post we are bring you the details on the same. Hope this helps you…

The salary structure of  Postal Assistants/Sorting Assistant (PA/SA) cadre in Department of Posts, Government of India is based on the following parameters:

B.P = Basic Pay

D.A = Dearness Allowance

H.R.A = House Rent Allowance

T.A = Travelling Allowance

The above parameters are used in calculating the total salary of a Postal/Sorting Assistant.

PA/SA cadre, as per sixth central pay commission which came into effect in 2006, is included in the Pay Scale of  5200-20200  with a grade pay of 2400. And the good news is that Finance Minister has already announced the setting up of seventh central pay commission and Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur has been appointed as commission and  it will come into effect in 2016!!!!

Calculation:

1)     Basic Pay (BP) = 9910 ( 7510 + 2400)

2)     Dearness Allowance = Dearness Allowance (DA) is given by the Government in every six months ie, in January and July every year. From January 2014 the Dearness Allowance is 100%. Thus the present DA is 100% of 9910 which works out to 9910.

3)     House Rent Allowance (HRA) = HRA is calculated based on the city where you are working. In India the cities have been classified into three categories as “X”, “Y” and “Z”.

                                   X' Cities - 30% HRA

States	Cities Classified as "X"
Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad (UA)
Delhi	Delhi (UA)
Karnataka	Bangaluru (UA)
Mahrashtra	Greater Mumbai (UA)
Tamilnadu	Chennai (UA)
West Bengal	Kolkatta (UA)

                                                                  

                                                                    Y' Cities - 20% HRA 

States	Cities Classified as "Y"
Andhra Pradesh	Vijayawada (UA, Warangal, (UA), Vishkhapatnam (UA), Guntur
Assam	Guwahati (UA)
Bihar	Patna (UA)
Chandigarh	Chandigarh
Chattisgarh	Durg-Bhilai Nagar (UA), Raipur (UA)
Gujarat	Ahmedabad (UA), Rajkot (UA), Jamnagar (UA), Bhavnagar (UA), Vadodara (UA), Surat (UA)
Haryana	Faridabad*
Jammu & Kashmir	Srinagar (UA), Jammu (UA)
Jharkhand	Jamshedpur (UA), Dhanbad (UA), Ranchi (UA)
Karnataka	Belgaum (UA), Hubli-Dharwad, Mangalore (UA), Mysore (UA)
Kerala	Kozhikode (UA), Kochi (UA), Thiruvananthapuram (UA)
Madhya Pradesh	Gwalior (UA), Indore (UA), Bhopal (UA), Jabalpur (UA)
Maharashtra	Amravati, Nagpur (UA), Aurangabad (UA), Nashik (UA), Bhiwandi (UA), Pune (UA), Solapur, Kolhapur (UA)
Orissa	Cuttack (UA), Bhubaneswar (UA)
Punjab	Amritsar (UA), Jalandhar (UA), Ludihiana
Pondicherry	Pondicherry (UA)
Rajasthan	Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur (UA), Kota (UA)
Tamilnadu	Salem (UA), Tiruppur (UA), Coimbatore (UA), Madurai (UA)
Uttarkhand	Dehradun (UA)
Uttar Pradesh	Moradabad, Meerut (UA), Ghaziabad*, Aligarh, Agra (Ua), Bareilly (UA), Lucknow (UA), Kanpur (UA), Allahabad (UA), Gorakhpur, Varanasi (UA)
West Bengal	Asansol (UA)

 Remaining cities –      Z' Cities - 10% HRA 

In X cities = 30 % of 9910 = 2973

In Y Cities = 20 % of 9910 = 1982

In Z Cities = 10 % of 9910 = 991

4)     Travelling Allowance = TA is fixed as Rs.800 + the DA % of 800. So at present TA is 800 + 100% of 800 = 1600.

Gross Salary works out to:

·        In X class cities salary will be = 9910+9910+2973+1600 = 24,393

·        In  Y class cities will be = 9910+9910+1982+1600 = 23,402

·        In Z class cities will be = 9910+9910+991+1600= 22,411

(Note: Deductions as applicable including New Pension Scheme (NPS) Subscription etc will be made from this). 

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