Thursday, 2 May 2013

Limited Departmental Competitive Examination for promotion to the cadre of Postmaster Grade I ,2013 to be held on 30th June 2013

Date of exam
Paper
Time
 30th  June 2013( Sunday)
Paper I(without the aid of books)
10.00AM to 11.30 AM

Paper II(without the aid of books)
12.30 PM to 02.00 PM
SYLLABUS FOR THE LIMITED DEPARTMENTAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION  FOR PROMOTION TO THE CADRE OF POSTMASTER
GRADE I


Paper 1

(i)                                    Customer Service and Grievances.

a)     Compendium of processing and disposal of public complaints.
b)    Knowledge about DOPG, DOARPG and RTI cases.
c)     Consumer Forum/Post forum/Citizen charter.
d)    Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules.
e)     Conduct rules.
f)      Financial hand books.

(ii)                                   Postal Operations

                Acts/Rules/Guidelines relating to inland and foreign post/mail operations, money remittance, savings bank schemes and certificates, rural and postal life insurance.
Latest administrative and operational instructions/guidelines issued by the Department.

PAPER II
a)     Knowledge of products and services of Department of Posts.
b)    Marketing:-  Principles of marketing , assessment of relating products and services.
c)     General awareness and Current affairs including general mental ability test covering logical reasoning(verbal and non verbal) numerical analysis( arithmetic) and basic mathematical equations and statistical rules like mean, median , mode , graphical representation of data, comprehension and basic language skills,
d)    General principles of technology.
e)     Basic technology requirement – computer, server, laptop.
f)      Connectivity of computers. 


Sunday, 21 April 2013

Postal Assistant / Sorting Assistant exam 21st April 2013 ,Questions with Answer Key (Booklets series D)

      The present deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha is elected Member of Parliament from which state of India.
                      Kerala (P.J Kurien)

2      The constitution of India was adopted on 
26 November 1949
3     The present strength of rajya Sabha members is ___out of which ____are representatives of states and UT of delhi and pudhucherry and ___ are nominated by president.
245,233,12

   4   Which of the following glands produces insulin in  human body 
  Pancreas
        5 Which  of the following is food poisoning organism
(A) Clostridium botulinum (B) Streptomyces fecalis  
 (C) Lacto Bacillus (D) None of these


      6   Development of goiter (Enlarged thyroid gland ) is mainly due to deficiency of 
Iodine


7        The emission of which causes global warming.
   carbon dioxide

      8  Who was adjudged player of the tournament by scoring most number of  runs in the tournament in women world cup cricket held recently.

Suzie Bates
       9  Who won the inaugural hockey India league ended in Ranchi recently?
    Ranchi Rhinos
      10     Wanchoo Committee  dealt with 
    Direct Taxes
     11  Kyoto Protocol is 
     An International agreement to reduce the green houses gases


         12 Kyoto Protocol is 
Answer: An International agreement to reduce the green houses gases


      13 India successfully completed its 101th space mission by lauching indo French satellite SARAL recently this satellite is for 
Oceanographic Study

       14  Government of India has recently granted “Maharatna” status to two more navratna Public  Sector  Enterprises which are the these new companies joining the club of maharatna Public  Sector  Undertaking   
      Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd & Gas Authority of India Limited 

    15.   India newly built and tested missile “Astra” Meant for
Air to Air Strike


      16   The governor general who adopted a policy of Europeanization of bureaucracy and an exclusion of Indian from higher posts
Cornwallis 

    17.   During which movement bal Gangadhar tilak was given the epithet Lokmanya and Gandhiji give the slogan “Swaraj in a year” respectively
        Home Rule Movement and non cooperation movement


      18  Recently dargah muinudin chisti at Ajmer was in news due to visit of Pakistani prime minister dargah Muinuddin chisti at Ajmer was built by

Alauddin  Khilji

      19  Bauxite is an ore of 
Aluminium

     20    Which is one of the following is the land area I the extreme south of India.
Cape Comorin near Kanyakumari
     21.   The ozone layer lies in the 
   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

22.
   In union budget 2013-2014 “Voluntary Compliance encouragement scheme” was launched by government of India. This scheming is related to 
  Service tax

       23  Economic survey 2012-2013 states that nonperforming assets of increased from 2.36% to 3.57% in September 2012. The description of nonperforming assets was with reference to which sector.
 Banking sector


      24 This is the rate at which reserve bank of India borrows money from commercial banks

                 Reverse Repo rate

     25 As per election  commission of  India, how many recognized national political parties are there in India.
   6

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Thursday, 18 April 2013

International Gandhi Peace Prize Details from 1995 to 2006

As a tribute to the ideals espoused by Mahatma Gandhi, the Government of India had launched the International Gandhi Peace Prize in 1995 on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. It is a very prestigious Award and carries an amount of Rs.10 million, a citation and a Plaque. The Award for every year is selected by a Jury under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister

List of award winners from 1995 to 2006
1995 Julius Nyerere

1996 A. T. Ariyaratne

1997 Gerhard Fischer

1998 Ramakrishna Mission

1999 Baba Amte

2000 Nelson Mandela

Grameen Bank Bangladesh

2001 John Hume

2002 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

2003 Václav Havel

2004 Coretta Scott King

2005 Desmond Tutu

2006 Shabana Azmi

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Post office Savings Bank Rules with year




The  government  savings  bank  act 1873

The  Government  Savings  certificate  Act 1959

The post  office  Savings  Bank  General  Rules  1981

The  post  office  Savings  Account  Rules  1981

The  Post  office  Recurring  Deposit  Rules 1981

The  post  office  Time  deposit  Rules 1981

National  Savings  Scheme Rules  1992

Post  Office  (Monthly Income Scheme)Rules  1987

Indira  Vikas  Patra  Rules  1987

National  Savings  Certificate  (VIII Issue) Rules  1989

Kisan  Vikas  Patra Rules  1988

National Savings  Scheme  Rules  1987

The  Post office  Savings  Certificate  Rules  1987

The Post office  Savings  Certificate  Rules  1960

Senior  Citizens  Savings  Scheme  Rules  2004

Saturday, 13 April 2013

History of Kerala Postal & Telegraph Circle

Kerala Postal & Telegraph Circle was formed on the 1st July 1961, bifurcating the then Madras Circle. Prior to integration with Indian Post Offices on 1st April 1951, there were separate postal systems in the former states of Travancore and Kochi called 'Anchal Service'. The Anchal Service was meant for communication within the State only. Indian P & T Department also had its own Posts and Telegraph Offices in these States. Consequent on integration of the 'Anchal Service', all the then existing Anchal Offices were either amalgamated to the nearby Indian Post Offices or re-designated as Post Offices in the same location.

On formation of a separate Circle in 1961 for the whole state of Kerala, the development of the Post and Telegraph services in the state got accelerated. The Circle was initially under the charge of the Director, Posts and Telegraphs. With effect from 25th February 1965, the Circle was upgraded into a major Circle and placed under the charge of a Postmaster General. The functional bifurcation of the P & T Circles in the year 1974 took place in Kerala also. Accordingly, on 1st September 1974, Kerala Postal Circle came into existence.

Friday, 12 April 2013

Useful websites for Maths

  Here we provide  three  links for  useful  website  to  improve   your knowledge  in  Mathematics

   

Revised date for Postal/Sorting Assistants Examination for Kerala Circle

The date for aptitude test for Holding of PA/SA Direct Recruitment for the vacancies of the years 2011 and 2012 for Kerala circle has been changed as 12 May 2013 and Admit Cards for the permitted candidates in respect of Kerala Circle will be dispatched by 25-04-2013 besides displaying them in the Indiapost website

Sunday, 7 April 2013

Postal organisation in India

            The  India  Post  Organized postal system in India started in 1837

                First postal stamp for issued in Karachi in 1852 and first
 
               postal department came into existence in 1854.

                Facility of money order was introduced in 1880.

                Post office banking service was started in 1882
.
                PIN codes system was introduced in 1972.

                Speed post service came into existence in 1986.

            This facility was introduces for the people who want to deliver the mail as quickly as possible. This service delivers mail in a definite time frame with money back guarantee for service defect.

            World’s first official flight carrying mails took place only in India on February 18, 1911. This journey took 27 minutes and covered 18 kilometers

           This journey was made to support the charity named Holy Trinity Church

          The Government of India decided that a weekly off should be given to every P & T employee to give rest and relaxation to them, vide Postal Notice No.10 dated 26th April 1950
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Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Typing test for Postal /Sorting Assistants Examination 2013



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Typing skill

Typing tests measure two things, speed and mistakes, so when you take our typing speed test, do not look only at your speed, look also at the number of your mistakes and concentrate on reducing your mistakes in future tests rather than increasing your typing speed. The end result will be increased productivity.

 WPM

WPM is an abbreviation of Words-Per-Minute. Confusingly this does not literally mean whole words, as one might find in a dictionary, but rather word-units.
For speed to be comparable, it must be measured in standard units. In the case of typing speed if we used actual words for the WPM measurement then typing speed test results would not be comparable unless everyone used the same texts for their respective typing speed tests - which would give us the additional factor of memorisation so, the word-units we use are artificial.
One word-unit is five keystrokes. Thus, "typed" is one word-unit, "type on it" is two word-units (spaces count as keystrokes too).

Typing technique

Before you begin the typing speed test make sure you are sitting up straight, your feet flat on the floor. Keep your elbows close to your body, your wrists straight and your forearms level.

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Aptitude and data entry test details for Postal/Sorting Assistants Examination

PART A

25 Questions  on  General  Knowledge , Question on  current  events, sports, history  , geography, basic economics, general  polity, Indian  constitution, science environment etc 25  marks
PART B
25 question s on  Mathematics  of matriculation standard which  may  cover number system , simplification , decimals  corrections  simple and  compound  interest , percentage  average , profit& loss , discount  menstruation  , time  & work and  time  & distance etc 25 Marks

PART C
25 questions  on  English covering  grammer( Prepositions adverbs, conjunction  , Direct/indirect  speech  , singular & Plural  tenses  , antonyms/synonyms  etc  25 Marks

PART D

25 questions  on  reasoning  and  analytical  ability 
25 marks


Computer  /Typing   Test  (Paper II)
The  typing test shall be for a  duration  pf 30 minutes  (15 minutes  each  for typewriting and  data  entry )  consisiting  of one  passage of 450 words in  English  or 375 words  in Hindi  to  be  typed  with   a minimum  speed  of  30/25 words  per minute  respectively &  data entry  of some  figures  and  letters each  carrying  marks  on  computers  . The  typing  test  and  test  of  data entry  will  be  conducted pn  computer  but do  not on  type  writer.

Saturday, 30 March 2013

Holders of Bharat Ratna award . Republic of India's highest civilian award

Bharat Ratna
Republic of India's highest civilian award, for performance of highest order in any field of human endeavour.
the recommendations for Bharat Ratna are to be made by the Prime Minister of India to the President of India.
The holders of the Bharat Ratna rank 7th in the Indian order of precedence; however they do not carry any special title nor any other honorifics

List of Bharat Ratna holders are furnished below with year

Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
1954
Sir C. V. Raman
1954
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1954
Bhagwan Das
1955
Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya
1955
Jawaharlal Nehru
1955
Govind Ballabh Pant
1957
Dhondo Keshav Karve
1958
Bidhan Chandra Roy
1961
Purushottam Das Tandon
1961
Rajendra Prasad
1962
Zakir Hussain
1963
Pandurang Vaman Kane
1963
Lal Bahadur Shastri
1966
Indira Gandhi
1971
V. V. Giri
1975
K. Kamaraj
1976
Mother Teresa
1980
Vinoba Bhave
1983
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1987
M. G. Ramachandran
1988
B. R. Ambedkar
1990
Nelson Mandela
1990
Rajiv Gandhi
1991
Vallabhbhai Patel
1991
Morarji Desai
1991
Abul Kalam Azad
1992
J. R. D. Tata
1992
Satyajit Ray
1992
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
1997
Gulzarilal Nanda
1997
Aruna Asaf Ali
1997
M. S. Subbulakshmi
1998
Chidambaram Subramaniam
1998
Jayaprakash Narayan
1999
Ravi Shankar
1999
Amartya Sen
1999
Gopinath Bordoloi
1999
Lata Mangeshkar
2001
Bismillah Khan
2001
Bhimsen Joshi
2008

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Useful Facts about Nobel Prize

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established 
The Prize in Economics, as it is referred to by the Nobel  Foundation, was established and endowed by Sweden's central bank Syeriges  Riksbank  in 1968 on the occasion of the bank's 300th anniversary, in memory of Alfred Nobel
Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 was awarded jointly to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
Nobel Prize in Literature 2012
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary
Nobel Peace Prizein  Peace 2012
The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union (EU) "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe".
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic 
Two Americans, Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley, were Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic on Monday for their work on market design and matching theory, which relate to how people and companies find and select one another in everything from marriage to school choice to jobs to organ donations
The  Indian  who  got  Nobel prize

Ronald Ross
Ronald Ross, born in Uttrakhand, , in 1857 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  in 1902 for his work on  Malaria
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling, born in  Mumbai , 1865 , was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
C.V.Raman
C.V.Raman was born at Thiruvanaikaval, Tamil Nadu. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics n 1930 for the effect named after him.
Mother Teresa
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace -  1979 to Mother Teresa in recognition of her "work in bringing help to suffering humanity
Amartya Kumar Sen  
Amartya Kumar Sen  who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 '"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, born in Tamil Nadu, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as a US Citizen.
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