Wednesday 22 May 2013


Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Whether Service Book of an Employee can be supplied under RTI


This question if gets an answer as ‘yes’ may sound a bit weird and unwarranted in employee’s point of view as nobody would like supply of personal records to public.

Of Course there is sense in employee’s case in this issue as Service book of an Government Employee contains very important information about his/her service including disciplinary proceedings taken against him/her.

More seriously, Service Book of a Government Employee would also contain certain personal information such as nominees, present health status, whether undergone any family planning procedures etc., which could be misused against an employee by unscrupulous elements under the cover of RTI.

However, Central Information Commission has decided in a case recently which came for appeal that PIO to supply a copy of the service record of employee under RTI after invoking Sec.10(1) of the RTI Act to sever all those portions that are exempt from disclosure u/s 8(1)(j) of the Act as personal information.

An Extract of order portion in this case is as follows.

“The Commission however, holds that the Public Authority is obligated under section 4(1)(b) the RTI Act to disclose information related to the service of its employees and is not convinced by Shri D’Costa’s argument that such disclosure will endanger his physical safety as all this information is anyway expected to be placed in the public domain.The Commission accordingly directs the PIO to supply a copy of the service record of Shri Allan D’Costa to the Appellant after invoking Sec.10(1) of the RTI Act to sever all those portions that are exempt from disclosure u/s 8(1)(j) of the Act as personal information. The information should reach the Appellant within four weeks of receipt of this order.”

Though CIC ruling contains a rider for safeguarding private information of a Government employee out of purview of RTI, officials who actually supply information under RTI may find it difficult to differentiate between public and private information related to an employee. In the process, RTI information seeker with profit or malicious motive could sneak in with private information of Government employees.

We hope Government would come up with a meaningful classification of public and private information of a Government Employee and notifiy the same for effective implementation at lower level, which could find an effective soultion to this issue.

Source: rtiIndia.org

IDL Colony Post Office, Rourkela robbed


Three miscreants looted IDL Colony Sub-Post Office in Rourkela at gunpoint on Monday. One miscreant came to the Post Offices and asked for a money order form. Soon two other masked miscreants entered and one of them put a gun to the Sub Postmaster Shri Rabi Narayan Sahu's(53) head. They opened drawer of a table and looted Rs.67,000/-, severely beating Shri Sahu. 

Source:-The Times of India

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Promotion and posting to the Grade of Member, Postal Services Board IPoS Group A

Click here to view Postal Directorate order  no 1-19/2013-SPG dated 21.05.2013 on the above subject matter.

HSG I Postings in Vijayawada Region

R.O Vijayawada memo no STI/HSG-I(Postal)/Misc dated 20.05.2013.


Monday, May 20, 2013

Promotions to the cadre of HSG I (Postal)

Circle Office, Hyderabad, vide memo no ST/4-1(P)/2013 dated 20.05.2013, has ordered the following promotions in   the cadre of HSG-I (Postal) in the pay band-2 of  Rs.9300-34,800 with Grade Pay Rs.4,600/- to the following HSG-II(Postal) officials  and allotted to the regions noted against their names with immediate effect until further orders.

The following promotions are subject to the outcome of  Hon’ble CAT, Hyderabad Bench interim orders dated 1/5/2013 of OA NO.582/2013 filed by K.Dayanand & 11 others. 
PART-A(Allotments) 
                                   
SL NO
           Name & Designation(Sri./Ms)
Cat
Region in which working
Region to which allotted
1
G.Nageswara Rao ,Postmaster , Amadalavalasa HO
ST
VM
Visakapatnam
2
B L Sandhya Rani   A/cs,PM,Hanamkonda Dn
SC
HR
Hyderabad
3
S.Sreeramulu,,DPM, Vijayawada HO
ST
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
4
D.Bala Raju,DPM, Tekkali HO
OC
VM
Visakapatnam
5
S.Ch.Durgaiah, APM(Accounts), Adoni HO
ST
Kurnool
Kurnool
6
PBS Prasad, PM Waltair RS HO
ST
VM
Visakapatnam
7
K.V.Subba Rao, Postmaster Gudur HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
8
K.Ananda Rao,  Dy PM, Visakapatnam HO
SC
VM
Visakapatnam
9
K.Ravindra Kumar,PM , Begum Bazar
OC
HCR
HCR
10
K.Ganesh, PM, Kurnool HO
OC
Kurnool
Kurnool
11
B.Murali Krishna Murthy,SPM,Sanath Nagar IESO
OC
HCR
HCR
12
P.Janardhan Naidu, PM, Chandragiri HO
OC
Kurnool
Kurnool
13
M.Shivaratnam, PM,Eluru HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
14
SVS Padma, APM, Hyd GPO
OC
HCR
HCR
15
S.UmaMaheswara Reddy-A/Cs,APM, Vijayawada, HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
16
M.Tirumala Rao,PM,Tenali HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
17
K .Vasanthi, DPM(SB), Chandra Giri HO
OC
Kurnool
Kurnool
18
M.Subramanyam, SPM , VK Puram SO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
19
S.Ramalingeswara Rao, PM, Avanigadda HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
20
K.Subbanjaneyulu, PM, Srikalahasthi HO
OC
Kurnool
Kurnool
21
YSSV Prasad, Offtg PM, Amalapuram HO
SC
VM
Visakapatnam
22
BVN Suresh, APM(RD), Nellore HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
23
B.Phani Kumar, PM, Kothagudem Colls HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
24
Sk.Khader Basha, Mangalgiri HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
25
G.Bala Showry, DPM, Mangalagiri HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
26
B.Sunanda, Madanapalle HO
OC
Kurnool
Kurnool
27
Ch Eswara Prasad, SPM, Gandhi nagar SO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
28
K.Naga Srinivas, DPM, Sattenapalle HO
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
29
V.Rajesh, SPM, Dargamitta SO
SC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
30
S.Chandrasekhar, Manager PSD, Vijayawada
OC
Vijayawada
Vijayawada
31
G.V.Satyanarayana, Brig. APS HQ Eastern Command
OC
APS
APS
32
T.V.Krishna Rao, APM, Vijayawada HO
OC
Vijayawada
Hyderabad
33
N.Padmaja, DPM, Musheerabad DSO
OC
HCR
HCR
34
B.V.Srinivasa Rao,APM(SB HO), Sec’bad HO
OC
HCR
HCR
35
K.Naga Malleswari, Asst Manager PSD, Vijayawada
OC
Vijayawada
Hyderabad
36
TBR Prasad, PM, BK Pet HO
OC
Vijayawada
Hyderabad
      37
R.Nirmala, APM(SB), Anantapur HO
OC
Kurnool
Kurnool
38
B.Satyanarayana, Asst Manager PSD, Hyd
OC
HCR
HCR
39
T.S.R Prasad,Offtg PM, Bapatla HO
OC
Vijayawada
Hyderabad
40
P.Sreenivasa Rao, PRI(P), Hyderabad Jubilee HO
OC
HCR
HCR
41
Sk.Karimulla, APM(SB), Gudur HO
OC
Vijayawada
Hyderabad
42
P.Sudhakar, DPM(SB), Srikalahasthi HO
OC
Kurnool
Kurnool
43
G.RamaKrishna Reddy, APM , Hyd GPO

OC
HCR
HCR
44
B.Subhakara Rao, APM SB, Rajahmundry HO
SC
VM
Visakapatnam
45
G.Shyam Kumar,, DPM, CHirala HO
SC
Vijayawada
Hyderabad
46
Y.Prasad, PM , Razole HO
SC
VM
Visakapatnam
47
K.Ranganatham,APM(A/cs, ), Tirupati HO
OC
Kurnool
Kurnool

PART-B(POSTINGS IN HCR)

The posting orders in respect of officials allotted to Hyderabad City Region is as below and the officials are directed to join their posting immediately .

SL NO
Name (Sri./Ms)
 Present posting
posting on promotion to HSG-I
1
K.Ravindra Kumar,
SPM, Begum Bazar
SPM, Begum Bazar
2
B.Murali Krishna
SPM, Sanath Nagar IE SO
DPM, Khairatabad HO
3
SVS Padma
APM, Hyderabad GPO
DPM, Delivery , Hyderabad GPO
4
N.Padmaja,
DPM, Musheerabad DSO
DPM, Station, Kacheguda
5
BV Srinivasa Rao
APM(SB HO), Secunderabad HO
DPM-I Secunderabad HO
6
B.Satyanarayana
Asst Manager, PSD, Hyderabad
Manager , PSD, Hyderabad
7
P.Srinivasa Rao
PRI(P), Hyderabad Jubliee HO
DPM, Hyderabad Jubliee
8
G.Rama Krishna Reddy
APM, Hyderabad GPO
DPM, Treasury , Hyderabad GPO

The Postmaster General, Kurnool Region,  Vishakapatnam Region , Vijayawada & Hyderabad Region will issue necessary posting orders to the officials allotted to their regions by 20.05.2013.