FNPO-Pathanamthitta: 2013-05-26

Expected DA from Jul 2013 : AICPIN for the month of April 2013

According the press release the All-India CPI-IW for April, 2013 rose by 2 points and pegged at 226 (two hundred and twenty six). This two point increase confirmed 10% increase in Dearness Allowance from July, 2013 as already expected on this site click here to see. Therefore DA from July, 2013 will be 90% and will be announced in September or October in this year. It is also more clear from following table:-

Expect- ation	Increase/ Decrease Index	Month	Base Year 2001 = 100	Total of 12 Months	Twelve monthly Average	% increase over 115.76 for DA	DA announced or will be announced
	1	Nov-12	218	2490	207.50	79.25%	80%
	1	Dec-12	219	2512	209.33	80.83%	80%
	2	Jan-13	221	2535	211.25	82.49%	82%
	2	Feb-13	223	2559	213.25	84.22%	84%
	1	Mar-13	224	2582	215.17	85.87%	85%
	2	Apr-13	226	2603	216.92	87.38%	87%
First	1	May-13	227	2624	218.67	88.90%	88%
	1	Jun-13	228	2644	220.33	90.34%	90%
		Jul-13	Expected DA from July-2013				90%
Second	2	May-13	228	2625	218.75	88.97%	88%
	2	Jun-13	230	2647	220.58	90.55%	90%
		Jul-13	Expected DA from July-2013				90%
Third	0	May-13	226	2623	218.58	88.82%	88%
	0	Jun-13	226	2641	220.08	90.12%	90%
		Jul-13	Expected DA from July-2013				90%

India Post set to open first ATM in Bangalore

BANGALORE, INDIA: When you hear 'ATM', what is the first thing that you relate to it? I am sure, many of us, including me, relate it to savings bank ATM card.

How about an ATM card similar to a debit card/ATM card issued by a bank for postal account? Sounds different right?

Yes, the Department of Posts, in an effort to provide enhanced solutions to its customers is all set to launch the first Automated teller Machine (ATM) in Bangalore GPO premises shortly, through a core banking solution.

Last year, the department of post had announced that it has plans to set up 1,000 ATM centres at different post offices across the country, with an aim provide better customer service through IT enablement of business processes and support functions.

Implementing new banking solution enables postal department to offer all kinds of services that are offered by private banks to more than 200 million post office saving bank (POSB) account holders in 1.55 lakh post offices.

When CIOL enquired about the launch of India's first India Post ATM, an official concerned with the Bangalore post office said, on condition of anonymity, that the ATM facility will be launch shortly with good features.

He further added that the postal ATM card enables POSB account holders to withdraw money from any bank ATM, provided they have enough savings.

"POSB account holder need not rely only on Post Office ATMs," he added.

Recently, TCS announced that it had bagged a Rs 1,100 crore, six-year contract from the Department of Posts to provide end-to-end IT modernisation program to equip India Post with modern technologies and systems to enable it to serve more services to more customers, in an effective manner.

Retirement of Smt.Shoba Koshy,Chief PostMaster General,Kerala Circle

Smt.Shoba Koshy,Chief Post Master General,Kerala Circle is retiring from Indian Postal Service on superannuation on today ie. 31.05.2013.Wishing her a happy and peaceful retired life on behalf of FNPO & FNPO,Pathanamthitta.

TCS will manage data migration, infrastructure, SLA, call centre and centralised 24x7 service desk operation for Department of Posts

Under the deal, TCS will manage data migration, infrastructure, SLA, call centre and centralised 24x7 service desk operation for DoP, it said.

Tata Consultancy Services BSE -1.15 % (TCS) on Wednesday said it has bagged a six-year contract from the Department of Posts (DoP) worth over Rs 1,100 crore.

The end-to-end IT modernisation programme to be implemented by TCS BSE -1.15 % will equip India Post with modern technologies and systems to enable it to provide services to customers in an effective manner, TCS said in a statement.

The scope of the project, dubbed India Post 2012, includes developing and supporting mail, finance and accounts, HR, and customer interaction management solutions for all channels including Rural ICT platform.

Under the deal, TCS will also manage data migration, infrastructure, Service Level Agreement (SLA), call centre and centralised 24x7 service desk operation for DoP, it said.

The end-to-end security solutions, Enterprise Management System (EMS) and over all integration for entire system is the responsibility of core system integrator ( CSI), the statement said.

"India Post has a vision of being a technology-enabled self-reliant market leader and is looking to move from a government service provider to a customer-enabled service provider where the customer will be the focus of multifarious service delivery platforms," DoP Secretary P Gopinath said.