Railways: A New Dimension In Indian Railways Ticket Booking

Railways: A New Dimension In Indian Railways Ticket Booking

Book your train tickets in just 2 Simple SMS's ANY TIME! ANY WHERE! Gone are the days when people used to stand and wait in queues for long hours for booking train tickets at the counters!! Pre-requisites to book a ticket through SMS on 139 – User should be registered on IRCTC’s website (www.irctc.co.in) User should have MMID & OTP (One Time Password) for IMPS Transaction Same Mobile Number should be registered with Bank & IRCTC Step 1 (Booking the ticket):Send below SMS with Journey & passenger information to 139 BOOK <TrainNo> <FromCity> <ToCity> <TravelDate(DDMM)> <Class> <Passenger1-Name> <Age> <Gender> <Passenger2-Name> <Age> <Gender> (upto 6 passengers) For Example: BOOK 12420 NDLS GZB 2606 2S Rakesh 55 M Sarita 53 F If the format sent is valid, you will receive a response SMS from 139 Trans Id: 34004567 Ticket Amount: 120 IRCTC SC: 11.24 Total Amount: 131.24 Seat: AVAILABLE-0095. For Payment SMS PAY <34004567> IMPS <MMID> <OTP> IRCTCUserID to 139 to book ticket. Step 2 (Paying for the ticket):For payment, send SMS with the following information to 139 PAY <Transaction ID as received> IMPS <MMID as received from bank> <OTP as received from bank for this transaction> <IRCTCUserID> For Example: PAY 340045667 IMPS 98453672 453289 Rakesh Confirmation SMS will be received from 139 on successful booking of the ticket Your ticket booked successfully. PNR is: 2345678901 Ticket No: :0672261674  Booking Status: Rakesh CONFIRM C1 76 WS Sarita CONFIRM C1 77 Ticket Amt: 120.0 SC: 11.24 Src: New Delhi Dst: Ghaziabad Date of Journey: 26/06/2013 Sch Dep 12:30 hrs Cancellation Procedure: Case 1: If the ticket has to be completely cancelled Send below SMS with the following information to 139 CAN <10 Digit PNR> <IRCTC UserID> For Example:CAN 2345678901 Rakesh If the entered information is valid, you will receive the following response SMS from 139 We have received your request for cancellation of tickets for < Passenger 1 Name> for PNR Number 2345678901. Please confirm the cancellation by sending YES to 139 or for any change in cancellation data, send a fresh request. Once the cancellation is confirmed, you will receive the following response SMS from 139 Your ticket for <Passenger 1 Name> with PNR Number: 2345678901 is cancelled. Amount: 60 will be refunded in your account. Case 2: If the ticket has to be partially cancelled Send below SMS with the following information to 139 CAN <10 Digit PNR> <IRCTCUserID> <Passenger Number> For Example: CAN 2345678901 Rakesh 1/2/3 (Upto 6 Passenger) If the entered information is valid, you will receive the following response SMS from 139 We have received your request for cancellation of tickets for < Passenger 1 Name> for PNR Number 2345678901. Please confirm the cancellation by sending YES to 139 or for any change in cancellation data, send a fresh request. Once the cancellation is confirmed, you will receive the following response SMS from 139 Your ticket for <Passenger 1 Name> with PNR Number: 2345678901 is cancelled. Amount: 60 will be refunded in your account.

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RAILWAYS: Railway staff seek constitution of Seventh Pay Commission

RAILWAYS: Railway staff seek constitution of Seventh Pay Commission

All India Railwaymen Federation, Confederation of Central Government Employees’ Association and All India Defence Employees Association have threatened to go on strike if the Centre fails to meet their charter of demands, including constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission.

Addressing a meeting of Southern Railway Mazdoor Union members here, its zonal president C.A.Raja Sridhar said the three trade bodies will wait till August for a positive response from the Centre, and will go on a nation-wide strike if they did not get any.

Around 25 lakh employees will join the agitation, he noted. Among the demands are merger of dearness allowance with basic pay, regularisation of services of gramin dak sevaks, rolling back of new pension scheme, scrapping of ceiling on bonus and appointment on compassionate ground.

Move flayed
Southern Railway Mazdoor Union has also condemned the Railway Ministry’s move to provide the drawings and designs of coaches of Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, to five private coach manufacturing factories to come up in the country.

“This move is nothing but plundering of the national wealth for the benefit of private companies,” said Mr.Sridhar.

He wondered what was the necessity for the railways to have private coach factories, when the Ministry had proposed to set up its own units at Rai Bareilly and Palghat and a second unit of the ICF.

“The process of recruitment of around 700 employees at Rai Bareilly unit was under way, while the certificate for production from the Ministry was awaited for the Palghat unit,” Mr.Sridhar said, and added that the budget proposal had been made for the second unit of the ICF, he said.

Stating that the Railways had paid Rs.150 crore to Germany to get patent right for the design of LBH coaches in the past, Mr.Sridhar asked why should the decades of toil of the ICF employees go free of cost to private companies in the form of its drawings and design.

The conditions laid for the five coach factories were highly favourable to private companies. Private companies would be making only steel shells while specialised tasks like manufacturing axle, wheel and traction equipment would be done by the ICF, he added.

Source :http://www.thehindu.com

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RAILWAYS: Railway Board clarification order on granting of one increment in pre-revised pay scale to Railway employees

RAILWAYS: Railway Board clarification order on granting of one increment in pre-revised pay scale to Railway employees

Those who were due to get their annual increment between February, 2006 to June, 2006 may be granted one increment as on 01/01/2006 in the pre-revised pay scale as a one time measure,  and, thereafter, will get the next increment in the revised pay structure on 01/7/2006.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
(Railway Board)

 

S.No.PC-VI/322
No.PC-V1/2012/1/RSRP/1

RBE No. 63/2013
New Delhi, dated 03.07.2013

The GMs/CAOs(R),
All Indian Railways & Production Units
(As per mailing list)

Sub: Grant of one increment in pre-revised pay scale - Board’s letter dated 23/03/2012 - clarification regarding.

Board’s letter of even number dated 23.03.2012 provides that, those Railway employees who were due to get their annual increment between February, 2006 to June, 2006 may be granted one increment as on 01/01/2006 in the pre-revised pay scale as a one time measure and, thereafter, will get the next increment in the revised pay structure on 01/7/2006.

2. As per Board’s letter No.PC-VI/2008/I/RSRP/1 dated 11/9/2008 fitment tables have been prescribed in Annexure-E thereto, specifying the stage of revised pay in the revised pay band with reference to each stage of pre-revised pay in various pre-revised pay scales. As per the fitment tables, the stage of revised pay in the pay band has been mentioned at the same stage in respect of two consecutive pre-revised stages of pay in cases of certain pre revised pay scales.

3. References have been received seeking clarification as to whether in cases where the fitment table provides for the same revised stage in case of two consecutive pre-revised stages in a particular pre-revised scale of pay, the benefit of bunching is admissible after grant of one increment in the pre revised pay scale by virtue of Board’s letter dated 23/03/2012.

4. The matter has been considered and it is clarified that Fitment Table contained in the aforesaid letter dated 11/9/2008 is to be strictly followed for fixation of pay in the revised structure without any deviation.

5. In cases where the stages of fixation of pay in the revised pay band as per fitment table contained in the aforesaid letter dated 11/9/2008 provides for the same revised stage in the Pay Band with reference to two consecutive stages of pre-revised pay in the corresponding pre-revised scales, then in such cases due to application of Board’s letter dated 23/3/2012, there will be no change in the revised pay as on 01/01/2006, if the revised stage with reference to the pre-revised pay after accounting for one increment in the pre revised scale does not undergo any change as per the Fitment Table. It is also clarified that no further bunching will be allowed in such cases and no re-fixation of pay will be admissible in the revised pay as on 01/01/2006.

6. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

sd/-
(Hari Krishan)
Director, Pay Commission II
Railway Board.

No.PC-VI/2012/I/RSRP/1

New Delhi, dated 03.07.2013

Source: www.indianrailways.gov.in
[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/pay_comm/PC6/2013/RBE_63_2013.PDF]

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Number of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seats in each State and Union Territory of India

Number of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seats in each State and Union Territory of India

States / Union Territories	No. of Seats in Rajya Sabha	No. of Seats in Lok Sabha
Andhra Pradesh	18	42
Arunachal Pradesh	01	02
Assam	07	14
Bihar	16	40
Chhattisgarh	05	11
Goa	01	02
Gujarat	11	26
Haryana	05	10
Himachal Pradesh	03	04
Jammu and Kashmir	04	06
Jharkhand	06	14
Karnataka	12	28
Kerala	09	20
Madhya Pradesh	11	29
Maharashtra	19	48
Manipur	01	02
Meghalaya	01	02
Mizoram	01	01
Nagaland	01	01
Orissa	10	21
Punjab	07	13
Rajasthan	10	25
Sikkim	01	01
Tamil Nadu	18	39
Tripura	01	02
Uttarakhand	03	05
Uttar Pradesh	31	80
West Bengal	16	42
Andaman and Nicobar	-	01
Chandigarh	-	01
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	-	01
Daman and Diu	-	01
Delhi (NCT)	03	07
Lakshadweep	-	01
Pondicherry	01	01
Nominated members	12	02
Total	245	545

Courtesy : http://tnpsc.wordpress.com/

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First All Women Post Office of Odisha Circle opened at Odisha Assembly NDTSO under Bhubaneswar Division

First All Women Post Office of Odisha Circle opened at Odisha Assembly NDTSO under Bhubaneswar Division

Odisha Assembly NDT SO under Bhubaneswar GPO was opened today i.e.01.07.2013 as the first All Women Post Office of Odisha Circle by Sri S.K.Chakraborty, Principal Chief Post Master General, Orissa Circle in the presence of Sri Pawan Kumar Singh, DPS ( Hq.), Sri Aditya Kumar Nayak, SSPOs , Bhubaneswar Division and Sri Bijay Kumar Patra , ASP (OD ), Bhubaneswar Division.

Smt. Sugi Baske joined as 1st woman Sub Postmaster and Smt. Umarani Devi as MTS of the Odisha Assembly All Women Post Office .

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Consolidated List of empanelled Private Hospitals as on 2.5.2013 for BSNL Employees

Consolidated List of empanelled Private Hospitals as on 2.5.2013 for BSNL Employees

List of Empanelled Private Hospitals Validity of agreement is for 2 years from date of agreement / renewal as on 2nd May 2013 :-

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited published a new list of private hospitals to take treatment permissible under CGHS from 2nd May 2013 for its employees. The validity of agreement is for two years from 2.5.2013 and the list contains the empanelled hospitals at New Delhi...

S.NO	"Name of the Hospital/Diagnostic Centre"	"Recognized for treatment"	"Date of agreement/ Renewal"	"NABH Accreditation valid upto"	"On CGHS panel"
GENERAL PURPOSE HOSPITALS
Central Delhi
1	Delhi Heart and Lung Institute  3 MM II Panchkuian Road New Delhi 110 055	General purpose	6th February 2012*	22nd Feb. 2014
2	Jeewan Nursing Home & Hospital 2-B, Pusa Road New Delhi	General Purpose	19th April 2011*	26th Oct. 2013	Yes
North Delhi
1	Jeewan Mala Hospital Pvt. Ltd.,  New Rohtak Road, New Delhi 110 005 Mrs. Sweta, Panel Manager, Ext. 4109 23523275, 23511474-77, 25734533-37 www.jeewanhospital.in"	"General Purpose and cardiology, cardio-vascular surgery and Orthopedics"	23rd June 2011*	No	Yes
2	Sunderlal Jain Charitable Hospital, Ridge Heart Centre Ashok Vihar Phase III Delhi 110 052 Contact person: Shri Dinesh K. Khandelwal Tel. No. 9811958500"	"General Purpose and cardiology, cardio-vascular surgery and Orthopedics"	23rd June 2011*	No	Yes
West Delhi
1	Park Hospital  Outer Ring Road,  West Delhi (Near Kesavpur Depot), New Delhi Tel. No. 28332424 – 27; 55956767 9891424242; 9891747372"	General purpose	19th May 2011*	28th July 2014	Yes
2	Kukreja Hospital  C-1,3,4,14, Vishal Enclave Rajouri Garden, New Delhi 110027"	General purpose	23rd June 2011*	No	Yes
3	RLKC Hospital Metro Heart Institute  Naraina Road, Pandav Nagar New Delhi"	General purpose	17th June 2011*	2nd Oct. 20	Yes
4	Maharaja Agrasen Hospital  Punjabi Bagh New Delhi"	General purpose	10th January 2012*	No	Yes
5	Shree Jeewan Hospital  67/1, New Rohtak Road New Delhi 110 005"	General purpose	5th May 2010*	No	Yes
6	Kalra Hospital SRCNC Pvt. Ltd.  A4,5 & 6, Kirti Nagar, Main Najafgarh Road, New Delhi 110 015"	General purpose	19th April 2011*	No	Yes
South Delhi
1	G.M. Modi Hospital & Research Centre for Medical Sciences  Mandir Marg, Saket, New Delhi 110017 Phone: 26852112-16, 26568110 Fax 26963801"	"General Purpose including joint replacement"	9th July 2011*	2nd Feb. 2015	Yes
2	Primus Ortho & Spine Hospital Chandra Gupt Marg, Chanakyapuri New Delhi 110 021 Tel. Nos. 66206630; 66206640 fax 66206650; 26112633 Contact Person: Dr. Dinesh Batra, CEO, 9811051157 Website: www.primushospital.com"	"Orthopedic surgery including Arthroscopic surgery and joint replacement."	12th August 2010*	5th Dec. 2013	Yes
3	Bansal Hospital  A-1, New Friends Colony New Delhi 110 025"	General purpose	17th June 2011*	No	Yes
4	Rockland Hospital  B-33-34, Qutab Institutional Area New Delhi 110 016"	General purpose	17th October 2012*		No
East Delhi
1	Jeevan Anmol Hospital Mayur Vihar Phase I, Delhi Mr. Bhupesh, PRO 9811580403 22750380; 22795237 Telefax: 22755993"	General purpose	9th April 2011*	No	Yes
2	Garg Hospital  8-9 AGCR Enclave, Opp. Kakardooma Courts, Delhi 110092"	General purpose	25th June 2011*	No	Yes
3	Khandelwal Hospital & Urology Centre B-16 Main Road, East Krishna Nagar Delhi 110 051"	"General purpose, Urology and Uro surgery"	22nd May 2012*	No	Yes
4	Malik Radix Health Care  C-218, Nirman Vihar, Vikas Marg Delhi 110 092"	"Laparoscopic Endoscopy surgery"	27th November 2012*	No	Yes
NCR Region
1	Narinder Mohan Hospital  Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad 201007 Phone: 95120-24732522, 24732522, 24732523, 24732718 Fax 24732659 Website: www.narindermohanhospital.com"	General purpose	7th May 2011*	No	Yes
2	Yashoda Hospital & Research Centre  III M, Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad Sekhar – 9717491011"	"General and all purpose hospitalization"	27th Jan. 2013*	13th June 2015	"Yes as super- specialty hospital"
3	Yashoda Super speciality Hospital  H-1, Kaushambi, Ghaziabad Sekhar – 9717491011"	"General and all purpose hospitalization"	27th Jan. 2013	26th Oct. 2013	Yes
4	Metro Hospital & Heart Institute X-1, Sector 17, Noida 201301"	General purpose	20th March 2013

SPECIALITY (SELECTIVE) HOSPITALS
DELHI
1	National Heart Institute  49-50, Community Center, East of Kailash New Delhi 110 065 Contact person: Sushima Gopal Tel. No. 9810379455	Cardiology & Cardio Vascular Surgery, and all purpose hospitalization except,obs.gyne, eye, ENT, Dental	1st June 2011*	10th Aug. 2014	Yes
2	SMH-Curie Cancer Centre Shanti Mukund Hospital, # 2, Institutional Area, Vikas Marg Extn., Kakardooma, Delhi 92	Cancer and Comprehensive oncology (medical, surgical and radiation)	25th July 2012*	No	Yes
3	RG Stone Urology & Laparoscopy Hospital F-12, East of Kailash New Delhi 110065	Urology & Minimal surgery	15th October 2012*	20th June 2015	No

NCR Region
1.	Metro Heart Institute  Sector 16-A Faridabad 0129-4277777 fax 4277799 Contact person: Shri Deepak Kumar 9650592111	General and all purpose hospitalization Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Function Test	29th December 2011*	2nd June 2015	Yes
2.	Sarvodaya Hospital & Research Centre  YMCA Road, Sector 8 Faridabad Contact person: Aakash Bhatia (head Institutional Marketing) 0129-4184444 Mobile No. 7838858517	General and all purpose hospitalization	13th March 2012	19th June 2014	Yes

  

SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITALS
EYE CARE CENTRES
1	Mohan Eye Institute  11-B, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg New Delhi 110 060 Tel. Nos. 25787655; 25852048; 25781357, 25728969, Fax: 25813676 Contact Person: Arvind Gupta – 9818435778"	Eye	14th May 2012* No	Yes
2	Sharp Sight Centre  (East) 81, Defence Enclave, Opp. Preet Vihar Vikas Marg, New Delhi 110 092 Tel. Nos. 65259615; 22461134; Fax – 22461150 Contact Person: Ms. Deepshikha Shukla 9873320777"	Eye	25th May 2012* No	Yes
3	Centre for Sight (New Delhi Centre for Sight Pvt. Ltd.)  B-5/24 Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi Contact Person: Ms. Kawaljit Kaur Tel. 41644000, 41653401-07"	"All eye related ailments hospitalization"	24th June 2011* No	Yes
4	Chaudhary Eye Centre & Laser Vision  4802, Bharat Ram Road, 24 Darya Ganj, New Delhi 110 002"	Eye and Eye care services	3rd July 2012* No	Yes
5	Dr. Kapur’s The Healing Touch Eye Centre  D-8, Vikaspuri, New Delhi Contract person: Shri Mohit Arora Contact No. 9871789999"	Eye and Eye care services	27th July 2012* No	Yes

PATHALOGICAL LAB/DIAGNOSTIC FACILITIES

The agreement shall be valid if not renewed for a period of one year beyond 2 years on the same terms & conditions unless not specifically revoked by BSNL. 

List of Specialized Hospitals providing services on Cash payments allowing discounts on the hospital rates to BSNL employees.
Employees can avail services of the hospital with prior authorization and thereafter prefer claim for reimbursement as per CGHS rates:

S.NO	"Name of the Hospital Contact Person"	"Services on CGHS Rates"	Other Services	"Date of empanelment/ Renewal"	"NABH Accreditation valid upto"	On CGHS Panel
1	Moolchand Hospital  Lajpat Nagar III New Delhi Phone 4200 0000, Fax 4200 0300 Contact Person – Praveen Chauhan, Sr. Executive 9811891737"	"a) Cardiac Specialities b) Joint replacement surgeries (Hip, Knee, Ankle,Shoulder, elbow & Wrist) c) Opthalmology d) Medical Oncology e) ENT f) Nephrology with renal transplant Credit facility is extended for treatment under CGHS rates"	"For other specialities: 10% discount in in-patient treatments other than the treatments agreed to undertake on CGHS rates (except drugs, consumables, disposables, blood components packages and implants)"	26th April 2011	"18th Mar. 2013 (NABL valid upto 7-July-12)"	Yes
2	Dr. B.L. Kapur Memorial Hospital,  Pusa Road, New Delhi Contact person – Shri M. Affan Atiq, Area Sales Manager 9810500813"	"a) Cardiology & Cardio-thoracic surgery b) Joint Replacement (knee & hip) c) Nephrology & Urology d) Endocrinology e) Gastroenterology & GI Surgeries f) Neurosurgery g) Oncology as per CGHS super specialty rates as applicable to CGHS beneficiaries h) All services as notified in CGHS rate list**"	"For other specialities:  10% discount on Indoor treatments excluding drugs, consumables, implants & packages.  10% discount on all OPD’s diagnostic & Laboratory services. 15% discount on preventive health checkups."	7th April 2012*	"8th Sept. 2013 (NABL valid upto 26th October 2012)"	Yes
3	St. Stephen’s Hospital,  Tis Hazari, Delhi 110054"	All Services on cash basis		"26th November 2012"	No	Yes
NCR Region
1	Medanta – The Medicity (Hospital) Sector 38 – Gurgaon 122001 Tel. No. 0124-4141414 Fax No. 0124-4834111 Contact Person: Paras Duggal Dy. Manager 9818971007 (renewal approved agreement is to be signed)"	"a) Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Thoracic Surgery b) Orthopedics & Joint replacement Credit facility extended for treatments under CGHS rates s ubject to settlement of bills within a period of 35 days from the date of receipt of the bill from the Hospital."	"Other Specialties:  15% discount in in-patient treatments (except drugs, consumables, disposables, blood components packages and implants)  15% discount on OPD investigations  15% discount Medanta Health Checkups"	10th January 2011	22nd March 2014	Yes

Source: www.intranet.bsnl.co.in
[http://intranet.bsnl.co.in/retired/circulars/List%20of%20empanelled%20Hospitals%20as%20on%202nd%20May%202013.pdf]

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SBI to charge customers Rs 60 per year for SMS alerts

SBI to charge customers Rs 60 per year for SMS alerts

State Bank of India (SBI) customers will have to pay Rs 60 per year for getting SMS alerts, a move which is likely to be followed by other public sector lenders.

"With effect from quarter ending June 2013, SMS charges of Rs 15 inclusive of service tax per quarter will be recovered," SBI said in an announcement. The country's largest bank, which has about 18.5 crore customers, did not specify whether the charges are for special alerts only or even debit or credit card transaction alerts sent as per regulatory guidelines will also come under this.


Private sector banks ICICI and HDFC are already charging Rs 60 per year, excluding service tax, for sending special SMSes other than withdrawal and deposit alerts to its customers.

At present, service tax rate is 12 per cent and education cess is 3 per cent of the service tax amount. Kotak Mahindra Bank charges Rs 25 per quarter for SMS alerts and updates.

SBI's fee income during the fourth quarter of 2012-13 declined by 8.13 per cent to Rs 3,873 crore as compared to Rs 4,216 crore in the corresponding quarter. On an annual basis, the fee income fell by 5.02 per cent to Rs 11,484 crore as against Rs 12,091 crore in 2011-12.

Last month, Canara Bank announced a levy of about Rs 112 as annual fee on its ATM debit cards from July 1.

The bank, which currently issues the cards free of cost, said in a circular that a need has been felt to offer the services at competitive rates in tune with "market trends".

"It has been decided to charge a nominal fee of Rs 100 per card plus applicable service taxon completion of one year from the date of issue/renewal of the card and thereafter to be charged yearly," it said.

Several other banks, including SBI, also charge an annual fee in the same range.

Canara Bank further said the annual fee will not apply to debit cards issued to customers with Canara Small Savings Account, Basic Savings Bank Account and Financial Savings Bank Account.

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