Wednesday, January 24, 2018
INDIA POST PAYMENTS BANK WILL GIVE POSTMEN SMART PHONES FOR DOORSTEP BANKING TO CUSTOMERS PREDOMINANTLY IN RURAL AREAS
New Delhi: India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) will press into service postmen equipped with smartphones to go door to door and will open 3,250 customer access points across 650 districts when it launches operations in March, seeking to cater largely to under-banked rural areas.
The bank will leverage the 155,000 technologically upgraded post offices, of which 129,000 are in rural areas, as well as the existing customer base of India Post, Anant Narayan Nanda, secretary, department of posts, and chairman of IPPB, said in an interview.
A special dispensation from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will enable the payments bank to link accounts of existing post office savings bank customers and let them access both on the same screen and perform transactions.
According to Nanda, this will give a huge fillip to existing customers. India Post has around 170 million savings bank accounts.
“By December 2018, 2 lakh postmen and gramin dak sewaks carrying mobile phones will offer doorstep banking to customers predominantly in rural areas. Eventually, this number will increase to 3.5 lakh,” Nanda said.
The bank plans to start with 3,250 access points—five each in 650 districts—and scale up the number every month. It will employ 3,000 people—roughly half the staff will be on deputation from state-run banks and India Post.
The bank is in the process of training postmen to carry out basic banking facilities such as opening bank accounts and conducting transactions on the mobile phone. Besides assisting customers, the postmen will also teach them how to perform transactions on their own. They will receive monetary incentives for both assisted and eventually self-service transactions.
Customers will be able to access a range of services including net banking, National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT), Real-time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and Immediate Payment Service (IMPS). They will be able to pay utility bills, invest in mutual funds and buy insurance products on the app.
The gramin dak sevaks and postmen will be trained by banking institutions. An internal survey by the department showed that between 70% and 80% of postmen use smartphones for personal use and are active on social networking sites and should be able to use the app with ease, Nanda said.
At present, the post office accepts payments of around Rs46,000 crore in cash every year. With the entire network moving towards accepting digital payments, a significant portion of this amount could be handled by the banking network, an indication of the potential available for business.
IPPB is 100% owned by India Post; it received a payments bank license from RBI in January 2017 and has begun operations on a pilot basis in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
India has three other operational payment banks—Airtel Payments Bank, Paytm Payments Bank and Fino Payments Bank.
“India Post does have the largest reach in the rural parts of the country and the idea of financial inclusion through postmen seems very promising,” said Ashish Aggarwal, a consultant at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. “However, the execution has to be well done to have mass impact. The postmen need to be well-trained and equipped as even basic banking involves much more than delivering courier (packages) and letters,” he added.
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Friday, January 19, 2018
GUIDELINES ON PROCESS TO BE FOLLOWED BY SUBSCRIBERS AND NODAL OFFICE/POP/AGGREGATOR FOR PROCESSING OF PARTIAL WITHDRAWAL REQUEST (Click here to the view)
Thursday, January 18, 2018
For Personal Attention of All Circle / Divisional & Branch Secretaries
Please mobilize maximum number of participants in 5 days Maha Dharna at New Delhi from 12th to 16thFebruary 2018, but not less than quota allotted.
Make all efforts to make Maha Dharna, A Grand Success.
R. N. Parashar
General Secretary
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
NOTICE
National Federation of Postal Employees
1st Floor North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001
Phone: 011.23092771 e-mail: nfpehq@gmail.com
Mob: 9868819295/9810853981 website: http://www.nfpe.blogspot.com
NO.PF-12/2018 Dated.:17 January,2018
NOTICE
It is hereby notified that National Federation of Postal Employees will organize 5 days Relay Dharma from 12th to 16th February 2018 in Chief PMG Office Campus ., Meghdoot Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001.
All Members/Leaders of NFPE Unions are requested to participate in Dharna in maximum number as per schedule enclosed herewith for settlement of 15 Points Charter of Demands.
(R.N. Parashar)
Secretary General
Enclose as above:
Copy to
1. The Secretary Deptt. of Posts , Dak Bhawan New Delhi-110 001.
2. The Addl. DG/DDG (SR) /Director (SR), Dak Bhawan,New Delhi-110 001
3. The Chief PMG, Delhi Circle, New Delhi.
4. The S.H.O. Mandir Marg, Police Station. New Delhi.
5. All General Secretaries/All India Office Bearers, Circle Secretaries/Divisional & Branch Secretaries of NFPE Unions.
(R N Parashar)
Secretary General
________________________
SCHEDULE OF PARTICIPATION IN 5 DAYS RELAY DHARNA AT MEGHDOOT BHAWAN, NEW DELHI
FROM 12th TO 16th FEBRUARY-2018
DATE
|
CIRCLES
|
QUOTA FOR EACH CIRCLE
|
REMARKS
|
12.02.18
|
Andhra Pradesh
|
100
|
(1) All NFPE Unions Circle Secretaries should convene meetings and allot quota to each union and book the tickets to and fro journey in advance to avoid inconvenience.
(ii) All General Secretaries /NFPE Office bearers and All India leaders of All NFPE unions will remain present all the days. Respective CHQ will make their arrangements for stay.
|
Telengana
|
75
| ||
J&K
|
15
| ||
Himachal Pradesh
|
30
| ||
Punjab
|
50
| ||
Delhi
|
100
| ||
13.02.18
|
Kerala
|
100
| |
Karnataka
|
100
| ||
Haryana
|
50
| ||
Uttarakhand
|
30
| ||
Rajasthan
|
100
| ||
14.02.18
|
Tamilnadu
|
100
| |
Maharashtra
|
100
| ||
Assam
|
30
| ||
North East
|
15
| ||
UP(Eastern)
|
75
| ||
15.02.18
|
West Bengal
|
100
| |
Odisha
|
75
| ||
Bihar
|
75
| ||
Jharkhand
|
50
| ||
16.02.18
|
UP (West)
|
100
| |
Madhya Pradesh
|
100
| ||
Chhattisgarh
|
50
| ||
Gujarat
|
100
|
CHARTER OF DEMANDS
1. Implementation of positive recommendations of Kamlesh Chandra Committee Report for GDS
2. Membership verification of GDS and declaration of result of regular membership verification.
3. Filling up of all vacant posts in all Cadres of Deptt of Post i.e P.A.S.A, Postmen, Mail guard, mailmen, MTS,MMS Drivers and artisans, P.A CO. P.A SBCO, Postal Actts and GDS. Drop the move of amendment in P.A. S.A., P.A.CO & P.A. SBCO Recruitment Rules.
4. Implement CSI, and RICT only after providing all required infrastructure including band width and stop harassment , victimization in the name of new schemes , technology induction, under contributory negligence factor and trade union victimization.
5. Stop out sourcing privatization and Corporatization.
6. Payment of revised wages and arrears to the casual, part time, contingent and daily rated mazdoors as per 6th & 7th CPC and settle other issues of Casual Laboures.
7. Implement cadre restructuring for left out categories i.e. RMS, MMS, PACO, PASBCO Postmaster Cadre, Postal Actts etc and accept the modifications suggested by federation before implementation of cadre restructuring in Postal Group ‘C’.
8. Withdraw N.P.S (contributory Pension Scheme) Guarantee 50% of last pay drawn as minimum pension.
9. Implement 5 days week in Postal Operative offices.
10. Stop move of diversion of business of P.O SB Schemes to Banks (Nationalized and Private)
11. Stop move of closure of Army Postal Service.
12. Grant OSA and OTA to RMS staff and special allowances for P.O & R.M.S Accounts.
13. Finalization of Recruitment Rules of AAOS IN Postal Accounts with 40% S.C.F quota as approved by DOPT.
14. Status of Audit to SBCO.
15. Benefit of SDBS to retried GDS employees.
National Federation of Postal Employees
1st Floor North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001
Phone: 011.23092771 e-mail: nfpehq@gmail.com
Dated: 04th January, 2018
APPEAL
TO
ALL GENERAL SECRETARIES /ALL INDIA OFFICE BEARERS, CIRCLE SECRETARIES, DIVISIONAL SECRETARIES & BRANCH SECRETARIES OF ALL NFPE UNIONS:
****************************
Kindly make all efforts to make the 5 days Dharna at New Delhi from 12th to 16th February -2018 a grand success by mobilizing maximum number of participants as per quota allotted to each Circle as per schedule issued by NFPE HQ(which is again reproduced below)
CIRCLE WISE AND DATE WISE PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME FOR 5 DAYS RELAY DHARNA AT NEW DELHIFROM 12th TO 16th FEBRUARY-2018
DATE
|
CIRCLES
|
QUOTA FOR EACH CIRCLE
|
REMARKS
|
12.02.18
|
Andhra Pradesh
|
100
|
(1) All NFPE Unions Circle Secretaries should convene meetings and allot quota to each union and book the tickets to and fro journey in advance to avoid inconvenience.
(ii) All General Secretaries /NFPE Office bearers and All India leaders of All NFPE unions will remain present all the days. Respective CHQ will make their arrangements for stay.
|
Telengana
|
75
| ||
J&K
|
15
| ||
Himachal Pradesh
|
30
| ||
Punjab
|
50
| ||
Delhi
|
100
| ||
13.02.18
|
Kerala
|
100
| |
Karnataka
|
100
| ||
Haryana
|
50
| ||
Uttarakhand
|
30
| ||
Rajasthan
|
100
| ||
14.02.18
|
Tamilnadu
|
100
| |
Maharashtra
|
100
| ||
Assam
|
30
| ||
North East
|
15
| ||
UP(Eastern)
|
75
| ||
15.02.18
|
West Bengal
|
100
| |
Odisha
|
75
| ||
Bihar
|
75
| ||
Jharkhand
|
50
| ||
16.02.18
|
UP (West)
|
100
| |
Madhya Pradesh
|
100
| ||
Chhattisgarh
|
50
| ||
Gujarat
|
100
|
All all India Leaders of All NFPE Unions have to stay in Delhi for all the 5 days i.e. from 12th to 16th February-2018.
Stay arrangements have been made by respective CHQs.
R.N. Parashar
Secretary General
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