Thursday, October 6, 2016
Minister of Railways Modifies Senior Citizens Concession Rules
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Railways
Government of India
Ministry of Railways
03-October-2016 17:35 IST
Minister of Railways Modifies Senior Citizens Concession Rules
Ministry of Railways has decided to grant concession only to senior citizens of Indian Nationality, permanently residing in India.
It has been clarified that Senior Citizen concession shall not be admissible to the senior citizen of foreign nationals & NRIs.
The revised rule for concession to Senior Citizen should be as under:
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Existing Rule
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Revised Rule
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Senior Citizen
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Male Senior Citizen of the age of 60 years and above and 58 years & above in case for women senior citizen.
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A Senior Citizen of Indian Nationality, permanently residing in India of the age of 60 years and above for Men Senior citizen and 58 years and above in case of Women Senior Citizen shall only be eligible for concession in passenger fare.
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This has been come into effect from 29th September 2016.
India Post Payments Bank starts recruitment
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
03-October-2016 17:28 IST
India Post Payments Bank starts recruitment
India Post Payments Bank, IPPB has started its recruitment drive with the release of the advertisement for the post of the Chief Executive Officer/ Managing Director, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), other CXOs who will be heading its Operations, Risk and Compliance, Finance, HR & Administration and Sales and Marketing Departments. It has also advertised for some contractual positions across multiple Departments. Regular recruitment for other positions across scale I-VII will also be announced in the coming weeks. IPPB has also called for deputations from Public Sector Banks for some corporate HQ positions and will shortly be seeking deputations from banks, post office & other Government Departments for its branch locations. IPPB plans to recruit about 3,500 professionals in the coming months. Details are available on the India Post website.
IPPB will be headquartered in New Delhi and plans to launch 650 branches across the country by the next year. The India Post Payments Bank will leverage the widespread reach and the trust that the Post office enjoys in the minds of the citizen to truly drive financial inclusion.
With all 1.54 lakh Post offices, including 1.39 lakh rural post offices as its access points and 650 Payments bank branches in district Headquarter locations, it will be the most accessible bank in the world in terms of reach. It will deploy state of the art technology to make banking both simple and convinient to its customers. IPPB calls upon dedicated and committed professionals who would want to be part of the journey to create a national financial architecture which will connect every citizen with the financial services that they need to access.
It may be recalled that the India Post Payments Bank Limited has received the Certificate of Incorporation from the Registrar of Companies, Ministry of Corporate Affairs on 17th August, 2016 under the Companies Act 2013. This would be the first PSU under the Department of Posts. This has happened in the wake of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address, raising the expectations of the people from the soon to be set up India Post Payments Bank. With this move the Department of Posts has cleared an important milestone on this journey.
The Department of Posts is expected to complete the roll out of its branches all over the country by September 2017. This could be the fastest roll out for a bank anywhere in the world.
Design of 10-14 year kids selected for Swachh Bharat stamp
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UNION MINISTER FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND INFORMATION & BROADCASTING, M. VENKAIAH NAIDU AND MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS (I/C), MANOJ SINHA RELEASE A COMMEMORATIVE POSTAL STAMP ON ‘SWACHH BHARAT’ IN NEW DELHI ON SUNDAY. PTI PHOTO
Government on Sunday released postal stamps on Swachh Bharat Mission that were designed by kids in the age group of 10-14 years, who have been awarded for their winning entries. As a part of Swachh Bharat Mission, Department of Posts had organised a nation-wide competition inviting entries for designing the commemorative postage stamps of denominations of Rs 25 and Rs 5 and a miniature sheet.
“Postal department has worked as per the will of the Prime Minister that whenever we have to issue commemorative stamp or any other work we should look at opinion of people. I am obliged to kids who have suggested these idea. We will facilitate these kids whenever we get opportunity on other occasion,” Communications Minister Manoj Sinha today said.
He was speaking after jointly releasing the stamp, miniature sheet, First Day Cover and brochure on Swachh Bharat Mission theme with Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu.
First prize of Rs 10,000 went to 12 year old Binita Biswajeeta, second prize of Rs 6,000 to 10 year old Sanjula S and third prize of Rs 4,000 to 14 year old Arushi Agarwal.
Sinha said that Swachh Bharat campaign has successfully completed 2 years and now there are 1 lakh villages in this country where no one is going for open defecation.
“Due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi there has been change in mindset of people across country. In 1901, Bapu in Congress Summit said that there is need to give push to this mission and it is more important than freedom. The mission initiated by Bapu gave inspiration to people. I think that inspiration was losing momentum which has been rejuvenated by the Prime Minister,” Sinha said.
He said that the mission has now become people’s movement.
“We have heard that young women have refused to marry if there are no toilets at home. The kind of news we hear around the mission are inspirational,” Sinha said.
Naidu said that people across country are joining the campaign and there is need to change mindset of people to accelerate it.
“Some people think that they know everything about cleanliness. I agree but many don’t think about their neighbourhood, temple, mosque, church etc. Everyone has to come together for development of nation. Money is not enough for progress but people need to change mindset,” Naidu said.
He said that central government, state government, panchayat everyone has to work together as Team India.
“You have to be clean from mind, body and money. You may heard about money becoming clean yesterday. Borders are also now becoming comparatively cleaner,” Naidu said.
He cited example of a Muslim lady in Guntur has gifted a toilet to her daughter-in-law, a 14 year girl in Karnataka going on hunger strike to get toilet built in all 70-80 in her village as encouraging sign of people getting involved in the Swachh Bharat campaign.
Source : http://indianexpress.com
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