INFORMAL MEETING WITH SECRETARY.
TODAY THE GENERAL SECRETARY of NAPE-C ALONG WITH SRI B.SIVAKUMAR,AGS &CS KARNATAKA AND SRI V.S.SINGH VICE PRESIDENT CHQ MET SECRETARY AND DISCUSSED ABOUT THE UNWARRANTED CLOSURE OF CREATION OF BANGALORE NORTH DIVISION BY CLOSING CHANNAPATNA DIVISION WHICH CREATED CONCERN FOR THE POSTAL EMPLOYEES OF BANGALORE.EARLIER THE DELEGATION MET SRI ANANTAKUMAR HONORABLE MINISTER FOR CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS AND THE MINISTER WAS KIND ENOUGH TO INTERVENE PERSONALLY..SECRETARY ASSURED TO RE LOOK TO THE ENTIRE ISSUE.
THE TEAM ALSO DISCUUSED THE PROBLEMS OF FINACLE NEW SOFTWARE AND RELEASE OF FUNDA FOR PLI INCENTIVE ETC.
Replace affidavits with self-attested documents – Orders will be issued soon, said Dopt minister
Government to replace affidavits with self-attested documents; order soon
The Centre will replace the requirement of furnishing affidavits with self-attested declarations in a major chunk of government-related work and an official order in this regard will be issued soon, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said today.
“This thought (to promote self-attestation) was in the process. But it was not been implemented in the full way. No notification has been issued on it. It will be done soon,” he told a press conference on works done by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions during the 100 days of the NDA government.
He said different departments have different sensitivities. However, self-attestation would be pushed to the maximum extent possible, the minister said.
“There may be a problem when you go to some place and an officer may say he will not receive a self-attested document. He will say there is no such order. So, the order will be issued by us. But, till then all stakeholders including the state governments need to work together for it,” said Singh.
He said self-certification of documents is going to be a great boon for the unemployed youth. “In certain security- related matters, gazetted certification might have to be retained, after a dispassionate look,” he said.
“For the first time in independent India, the practice of documents being attested by gazetted officers will be done away with. We have broadly focused on making governance good and simple in the last three months,” Singh said, referring to the work done by the ministry.
He said the promotion of self-certification in place of notarised affidavits will be a significant step in making life easier for the common man and building trust. “As India goes into the 21st century, everyone would recognise the stakes involved in false attestation,” he said.
Source : The Economic Times.
Lokpal rule on declaration of assets of government employees’ wives stayed
In Lokpal Act’s first brush with courts, the Delhi high court on Tuesday stayed one of its rules on public declaration of assets of spouses and dependent children of government employees.
A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Vipin Sanghi directed that information on asset liabilities of spouses or dependent children will not be revealed to the public by government departments. It said such information will only be furnished to respective departments in a sealed cover.
Till its further orders in November, the court made it clear the sealed envelopes reaching all departments shouldn’t be opened.
The court order comes as a huge relief to harried civil servants and central government employees forced under the Lokpal Act to file declarations of their assets and liabilities and those of their spouses and dependent children. HC granted conditional stay on the Lokpal rules on a petition by the wife of a central government employee who termed the government dictate a violation of her “fundamental rights of equality, life, personal liberty and privacy as flowing from Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.”
Vinita Singla, through her lawyer Manish Jain, questioned the government’s decision to seek her assets with the intention to display the information on its website.
“Even otherwise the constitutional and legal rights, privileges and liberties of the Petitioner cannot be jeopardized and/or affected, just because of the reason that the Petitioner is married to a public servant.
“The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, which is inter-alia unreasonable, arbitrary, unjustified and unconstitutional, as the same is seeking declaration in the form of information from the public servant even for the assets of the spouse and dependent children, which has not been generated from the income and/or contribution of the public servant in any manner whatsoever and that the said information is further directed to be published on the website of such ministry or department, which will make the said information visible to the public at large, which inter-alia may be detrimental and cause prejudice to the said spouse and/or children of the public servant,” Singla argued in HC.
source : The Times Of India
Lokpal rule on declaration of assets of government employees’ wives stayed
In Lokpal Act’s first brush with courts, the Delhi high court on Tuesday stayed one of its rules on public declaration of assets of spouses and dependent children of government employees.
A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Vipin Sanghi directed that information on asset liabilities of spouses or dependent children will not be revealed to the public by government departments. It said such information will only be furnished to respective departments in a sealed cover.
Till its further orders in November, the court made it clear the sealed envelopes reaching all departments shouldn’t be opened.
The court order comes as a huge relief to harried civil servants and central government employees forced under the Lokpal Act to file declarations of their assets and liabilities and those of their spouses and dependent children. HC granted conditional stay on the Lokpal rules on a petition by the wife of a central government employee who termed the government dictate a violation of her “fundamental rights of equality, life, personal liberty and privacy as flowing from Article 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.”
Vinita Singla, through her lawyer Manish Jain, questioned the government’s decision to seek her assets with the intention to display the information on its website.
“Even otherwise the constitutional and legal rights, privileges and liberties of the Petitioner cannot be jeopardized and/or affected, just because of the reason that the Petitioner is married to a public servant.
“The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, which is inter-alia unreasonable, arbitrary, unjustified and unconstitutional, as the same is seeking declaration in the form of information from the public servant even for the assets of the spouse and dependent children, which has not been generated from the income and/or contribution of the public servant in any manner whatsoever and that the said information is further directed to be published on the website of such ministry or department, which will make the said information visible to the public at large, which inter-alia may be detrimental and cause prejudice to the said spouse and/or children of the public servant,” Singla argued in HC.
source : The Times Of India