Change of pattern and syllabus for IP Exam (Departmental)

 

Directorate vide letter No. 7-14/2011-SPB-II dated 9-3-2011 has circulated revised Pattern and Syllabus for Limited Department Competitive Examination for the post of IPs for filling up 66.66% vacancies in the Department. The examination will now be held without the aid of books. The date for holding of the Examination will be communicated separately by the DE Division. Revised Pattern and Syllabus is as under:

Sl. No.	Heading	Existing Syllabus and Pattern	Revised Syllabus and Pattern
1.	No. of Papers	5	4
2.	Syllabus	Paper I – Postal Manual Vol. V, Postal Manual Vol. IV, Postal Manual Vol II, CCS (Conduct) Rules, Postal Manual Vol. III, MTT	Paper I – (1)   Acts/Rules/ Guidelines Instructions relating to Inland & Foreign Posts, Mail Operations, Money Remittances, Savings Bank Schemes and Certificates Rural and Postal Life Insurance. (2)     Organization of Department, Office Procedure and Material Management for optimum utilization of network, Establishment and Administrative Matters.
		Paper II – Postal Manual Vol VIII, PO Guide Part I and II, Postal Manual Vol VI (Part I, II AND III) POSB Manual Vol. I & II Postal Manual Vol. VII	Paper II – CCS (Conduct) Rules, CCS (CCA) Rules, Accounts, FRs & SRs and FHBs.
		Paper III – FHB Vol. I & II, FRs and SRs, CCS (Pension) Rules, CCS (Leave) rules, CCS (Joining Time ) Rules	Paper III  (1) Constitution of India (2) Short title, extent, commencement and definitions of CPC & Cr PC. (i) Cr PC: Proclamation for person absconding attachment of property of person absconding, claims and objections to attachments, release, sale and restoration of attached property. (ii) Indian Evidence Act: Short title, extent and commencement Of  the relevancy of the facts: Evidence may be given of facts in issue and relevant facts, relevancy of facts forming part of the same transaction, facts which are the occasion, cause or effect of facts in issue; motive, preparation and previous or subsequent conduct. Facts which need not be proved: Of oral evidence: Of documentary evidence (iii) Indian Penal Code: General Explanation: Of Punishments Of offences by or relating to public servants Of contempt of the lawful authority of public servants Of the criminal breach of contract of service (3)     RTI Act and Consumer Protection Act
		Paper IV – Indian Post Office Act., Government savings Bank and Certificate Acts, IPC, Evidence Act, Cr. PC, CAT, Consumer Protection Act	Paper-IV: English Language General Knowledge & Reasoning/ Intelligence
		Paper V – Essay, General Knowledge, Computer Basics and Intelligence Test.
3.	Marks	Each paper carries 100 marks	Each appear will carry 300 marks
4.	Duration	Duration for each paper is 3 hrs.	Duration of each paper would be 3 hrs.
5.	No. of Questions	Subjective type Questions	150 Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) in each paper
6.	Qualifying marks	40% marks in each paper subject to an overall average of 45% for general category and 33% marks in each appear subject to an overall average of 38% for SC/ST	No change
7.	Assessment of APAR / ACR	Not included	The Competent Authority will ensure and certify the following before recommending the  application of the official for examination: (i)      No disciplinary action is pending or contemplated against the applicant (ii)    No punishment is current against the applicant (iii)    No adverse entry in the APAR/ACR in the last five years.

SB ORDER NO. 15/2008

SB ORDER NO. 15/2008

No.111-14/2001-SB

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110001.

Date: 25.7.2008

To

All Heads of Circles/Regions

Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.

Subject:- Amendment in Rule 7 of Post Office RD Rules 1981 regarding number of defaults permissible in RD accounts opened or to be opened by personnel of Defence Services.

Sir / Madam,

The undersigned is directed to enclose copy of Gazette Notification GSR No. 480(E) dated 26.6.2008 received from Min.of Finance vide its letter no. 2/15/2006-NS-II dated 8.7.2008 on the subject.

2. The matter regarding enhancement of number of permissible defaults in RD accounts opened by personnel of Defence Services was taken up by APS Directorate and the same was referred to Min. of Finance. Now Rule 7 of PORD Rules 1981 has been amended and a special provision has been incorporated to accommodate 7 defaults instead of 4 for the RD accounts opened or to be opened by Defence Personnel in Field Post Offices. This amendment will not be applicable to Civilian Defence Employees and other depositors who have already opened accounts or will open RD accounts in future in civil post offices.

3. It is therefore requested that this may be brought to the notice of all post  offices for information and necessary guidance.

4. This issues with the approval of DDG (FS).

Yours faithfully,

(Kawal Jit Singh)

ASP(Savings Bank/Certificates)

SB ORDER NO. 14/2008

No.107-1/07-SB

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110001.

Date: 23.6.2008

To

All Heads of Circles/Regions

Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.

Subject:- Acceptance of business from agents found involved in fraud cases.

Sir / Madam,

The undersigned is directed to say that it has been brought to the notice of this office that when any agent is found involved in a fraud case, the appointing authority either takes time or fails to take suitable action for cancellation of his/her agency and till such decision is taken by the appointing authority, the Post Offices continue to accept further business from that agent.

 2. The Central Vigilance Commission, while reviewing one of such frauds has suggested that such agents should be black listed and no further business should be accepted from them. The suggestion of CVC has been examined in detail and it has been decided that in case involvement of any agent is established in any fraud case, the appointing authority should immediately be asked to cancel his/her agency and all post offices in the Division should be directed not to accept any further business from that agent. In addition to this, his/her name should be displayed in the premises of all Post Offices in the Division clearly stating that Post Office has suspended business with concerned Agent without mentioning his/her involvement in fraud case as it may attract adverse legal action.

3. It is therefore requested that this may be brought to the notice of all post offices for information and necessary guidance.

4. This issues with the approval of DDG (FS).

Yours faithfully,

(Raj Kumar)

ADG (Banking Services)

SB ORDER NO. 13/2008

SB ORDER NO. 13/2008

No.113-3/08-SB

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110001.

Date: 19.6.2008

To

All Heads of Circles/Regions

Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.

Subject:- Investment by NRIs and opening of account by Power of Attorney in Small Savings Schemes- a clarification regarding.

Sir / Madam,

The undersigned is directed to say that some circles have asked for clarifications on the above-subjected issues on the ground that there is no specific provision in the rules of some schemes for investment by NRIs and opening of accounts by Power of Attorney.

2. The matter was referred to Min. of Finance which has now informed that where there is no specific provision for any matter in the rules, it need not to be applied. Hence it is now clarified that NRIs cannot invest in any of the Small Savings Schemes and Power of Attorney cannot open any account in any of the Small Savings Schemes.

3. It is therefore requested that this may be brought to the notice of all post offices and all such matters referred to this office may be disposed off accordingly and in future no such matter needs to be referred to this office.

4. This issues with the approval of DDG (FS).

Yours faithfully,

(Raj Kumar)

ADG(Banking Services)

SB ORDER NO. 12/2008

SB ORDER NO. 12/2008

No.79-8/2004-FS (Vol-V)

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110001.

Date: 13.5.2008

To

All Heads of Circles/Regions

Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.

Subject:- Amendment in Rule 3 of SCSS Rules and regularization of SCSS accounts opened in contravention of proviso to Rule 3 sub-rule(2) of SCSS Rules i.e restriction on opening of more than one account in a calendar month in same deposit office a clarification regarding regularization of accounts already closed before 24.5.2007.

Sir / Madam,

The undersigned is directed to say that some circles were forwarding representations from the depositors of Sr. Citizen Savings Scheme Accounts regarding regularization and refund of interest deducted if any at the time of closure of their accounts found to have been opened in contravention of Proviso to Rule 3 of sub-rule (2) of SCSS Rules 2004 ( i.e opening of more than one account in same calendar month in same deposit office) before issue of amendment vide notification dated 24.5.2007.

2. The matter was referred to Min. of Finance which has now informed vide its  letter no. 15/3/2006-NS-II dated 29.4.2008 that amendment issued to provision to sub-rule (2) of Rule 3 of SCSS Rules 2004 vide MOF Notification No. GSR 390(E) dated 24.5.2007 issue from file No. 2/8/2004-NS-II is applicable to only those  accounts which were still continuing as on 24.5.2007 and the said relaxation cannot be applied to all those irregular accounts which had already been closed before that date and the depositor had withdrawn his money.

3. It is therefore requested that this may be brought to the notice of all post offices and all such cases already referred to this office may be disposed off accordingly and in future no such case needs to be referred to this office.

4. This issues with the approval of DDG (FS).

Yours faithfully,

(Raj Kumar)

SB ORDER NO. 11/2008

SB ORDER NO. 11/2008

No.113-3/2008-SB

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110001, Dated: 1.5.2008

To

All Heads of Circles/Regions

Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.

Subject:- Updating of POSB Manual Vol-I and II and following of rules and procedure regarding.

Sir / Madam,

The undersigned is directed to say that Min. of Finance has taken a very serious view of large number of irregularities being committed in opening of accounts and issue of NSC/KVP by the postal staff and emphasized that strict instructions should be issued to field units for scrupulously following rules and procedure so that investors may not face inconvenience and Government may not face financial loss.

2. It is being informed that POSB Manual Vol-I and Vol-II have been updated up to

31.12.2006. A new book called POSB Manual Vol-III has also been prepared in which all Acts and Rules relating to POSB and SC have been compiled. All these three books are available in the RTI segment of India Post Web-site.

3. It is requested that since printing of these manuals will take some time because of Hindi Translation, which is still under process, one copy of each manual may be downloaded from the web-site and supplied to each post office for day to day  use. One set of latest books of Sh. A.N.Dureja may also be supplied to each post office. As and when any change in rules or procedure is issued, SB orders are issued by this office.

This may also kindly be ensured that these SB orders are kept year-wise in serial order with APM (counter) as well as APM SO group in all HPOs and with SPM in Sub Post Offices so that staff may be aware of latest changes in rules and procedure.

4. Any irregularity in opening of accounts as well as issue of NSC/KVP may be viewed seriously and strict action may be taken against the operative as well as supervisory staff responsible for the same.

5. This may kindly brought to the notice of all post offices.

6. This issues with the approval of DDG (FS)

Yours faithfully,

(Kawal Jit Singh)

ASP(SB&SC)

SB ORDER NO. 10/2008

SB ORDER NO. 10/2008

No.113-3/2008-SB

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi-110001, Dated: 21.4.2008

To

All Heads of Circles/Regions

Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi.

Subject:- Reinvestment of matured certificates / deposits through authorized Post Office agents- a clarification regarding.

Sir / Madam,

The undersigned is directed to say that number of queries are being received from Agents and Circles about the reinvestment of matured certificates / deposits through the authorized Post Office Agents and the procedure to be followed in this regard.

2. In this connection it is clarified that the reinvestment of matured certificates / deposits either in the same scheme or in any other schemes through the Post Office authorized Agents is admissible except in case of redeposit made in TD account under Sub Rule (3) of Rule 6 of POTD Rules 1981 in which redeposit is made retrospectively from the date of maturity. The agents are entitled to get commission on such reinvestments.

For this purpose, procedure to be followed is given below:-

(i) The agent will obtain pass book along with account closure form (SB-7A) duly completed and signed by the depositor on both sides or matured certificates duly signed on the back by the investor. The depositor/investor will write on the top of SB-7A or on the top of backside of matured certificate that “ Passbook/ Certificate(s) handed over to Mr./Ms._____________ Agency  no.____________for re-investment of Rs.________ in _______Scheme” under his/her dated signatures. An application for opening a new account (SB-3) or purchase application for the purchase of certificates duly completed and signed will be obtained from the depositor / investor by the agent. The depositor /

investor will write on the application for opening a new account or application for purchase of certificates under his/her dated signature that “ Amount of  Rs.______________ being maturity value of_______________ the matured deposit / certificates is being reinvested through the agent  ………………………………………..(name of agent and C.A. number). The agent will obtain all the documents in the capacity of an agent not as a messenger.

(ii) Since handling of cash is not involved in such cases, the agent will issue a receipt of the documents from the cheque receipt book with suitable remarks and hand it over to the investor as per normal procedure. Particulars of the matured deposit / certificates which is / are to be reinvested will be written in place of cheque number on the receipt. Postmaster will write the amount reinvested and the balance amount returned to the agent on account closure form or on the back

of matured certificate under his dated signature. For making reinvestment in accounts/certificates, amount as per required denomination under the rules gets reinvested and the residual amount gets paid to the investor through agent by crossed cheque only. Cheque should be handed over to the agent under receipt on the account closure form or on the back of matured certificate. No extra amount can be added to the maturity value to be reinvested.

(iii) Normal procedure will be followed for opening of the new account or issue of the certificates. There is no need to issue cheque for the matured amount in case of reinvestment as no cash handling of Rs.20,000/- or more is involved. The balance amount is to be remitted by crossed cheque only as mentioned in para (ii) above.

3. This may kindly brought to the notice of all post offices.

4. This issues with the approval of DDG (FS)

Yours faithfully,

(Kawal Jit Singh)

ASP (SB&SC)