Kavery Banerjee is new Secretary at Department of Posts

 

The government today approved Ms Kavery Banerjee as Secretary of Department of Posts following retirement of Ms P Gopinath on May 31.

"The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms Kavery Banerjee, IPoS (Indian Postal Services-78), as Secretary, Department of Posts, Chairperson, Postal Services Board and Director General, Postal Services," an official statement said.

Banerjee was serving as Member (Technology) in Postal Services Board before being elevated to the new post.

Her predecessor P Gopinath, too, was elevated to the position of Secretary from Member (Technology) of PSB.

Gopinath during her tenure played key role on project of Post Banks concepts floated by former telecom minister Kapil Sibal.

Though DoP failed to get banking licence, it will have the opportunity to apply again when Reserve Bank of India again opens up application for new licences.

The future of Post Banks now depends largely on view of new government if it would like Department of Posts to enter in to full time banking operations.

India Post has already set up ATMs at few locations and about 2,800 more ATMs are expected to be in place by March 2015 as part of its core banking system project.

The challenges before Banerjee includes completion of CBS project and modernising about 1.3 lakh out of 1.55 lakh post offices across country and look at revenue streams to curb loss at India Posts which was last reported around Rs 6,300 crores.

Around 25,000 department of Post offices have been computerised under UPA regime.

Source : http://www.business-standard.com/

Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde passes away after a road accident in Delhi

 

NEW DELHI: Rural DevelopmentMinister and senior BJP leader from Maharashtra Gopinath Munde on Tuesday died here in a road accident.

64-year-old Munde was on his way to airport when his car was hit by another vehicle at around 6:30 a.m. at Prithviraj road-Tughlak road round about in the heart of the capital, said Union Minster Nitin Gadkari.

He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him dead around 7:50, said Gadkari.

Though Munde did not suffer any injuries, he apparently suffered a shock in the impact of accident.

Munde asked for water from his security guard Nair who was sitting in front of the car and told him to take him to the hospital.

Munde was rushed to the AIIMS Trauma Centre by his personal assistant and a driver.

When he was brought to the hospital, he did not have pulse and blood pressure. There was no cardiac activity, said an AIIMS doctor.

Despite all measures, Munde could not be revived and was declared dead.

His funeral will take place at his village in Latur tommorow.

Source : Economic Times

Transfer and Posting under South Bengal Region

Order of the competent authority regarding transfer/posting of the following officer under South Bengal Region are issued to have immediate effect vide RO South Bengal Region Memo No : PMG (SB)/SFA/ASP/Arrgt./11-13 dated 30.05.2014

Sl No	Name of the Officer	Present Posting	Posted on transfer	Remarks
1.	Sri Soumya Chatterjee	IP (Direct) , Balasore Dn , Odisha Circle	IP , Garbheta Sub Dn under Midnapore Dn	Vice Vacant post

Amalapuram Head Post Office (AP) rolled out to CBS

 

While addressing in the meeting Smt. Sharda Sampath, Postmaster General told that nearly 30 thousand account with a balance of Rs.78 crores has been migrated to the CBS in Amalapuram HO.

Amalapuram Head Post Office is in 4^th place in starting of CBS Operations in Andhra Pradesh Circle. She further stated that the CBS will provide (i) Anytime anywhere banking (on line mediums / SMS) (ii) Standardised, simple and automated processes (iii) Increase in quality of the service provided to the customers (iv) Timely and accurate information for management decision making and (v) To increase the number of customers (vi) To provide multiple delivery channels like Internet, mobile banking, ATMs thereby bringing access to financial services to the door steps of the customers (vii) To enable faster money fund transfers to reach-out to more customers.

The meeting was presiding over by Shri P.V. Suryaprakasa Rao, Superintendent of Post Offices, Amalapuram Division, Amalauram. Superintendent of Post Offices, Kakinada and Rajahmundry Shri Md. Azmatulla and Shri S.M.S.S.V. Prasad, Amalapuram ASPOs Shri KVSL Narasimha Rao, IP, Amalapuram. Shri N. Anil Kumar, IP (Tech) Shri A. Narayana, NISG Advisor Shri Suresh Kumar, Amalapuram Head Postmaster Shri Ch.R.K. Murthy, CBS OA, Shri S.G.K. Acharyulu, System Administrators of Amalapuram HO and Divisional Office, Amalapuram S/Shri Ch. Trimurthulu and S.S. Sastry, DPM (SB), Amalapuram HO Shri K.D. V.S.V. Bhadra Rao, other Postal Staff and customers have attended.

Schedule of PA/SA Examination 2014

1. Jammu & Kashmir - 18-05-2014 - From 10.00 AM to 12.00 NOON

2. Punjab - 18-05-2014 - From 10.00 AM to 12.00 NOON

3. Andhra Pradesh - 25-05-2014 - From 02.00 PM to 04.00 PM

4. West Bengal - 25-05-2014 - From 02.00 PM to 04.00PM

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