This article provides topic wise study materials for LDCE of Inspector of Posts with latest amendments as per the revision of pattern and Syllabus in LDCE for the post of Inspector of Posts.

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Topic wise Study materials for LDCE of Inspector of Posts

 

PAPER-I

1. ACTS

a) Indian Post Office Act, 1898

b) Government Saving Bank Act, 1873

c) Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 and its Amendments (Necessary on account of AML/CFT Norms)

PMLA (Amendment) 2012

FAQ on PMLA

Master circular of AML/CFT

Additional info on AML/CFT

d) Consumer Protection Act, 2019

e) Information Technology Act, 2000

IT (Amendment) Act, 2008

2.Rules: 

a) Indian Post Office Rules, 1933
b) Government Saving Promotion General Rules, 2018 

From (c) to (k)  please DOWNLOAD HERE

c) Post Office Savings Account Rules, 2019

d) National Savings Recurring Deposit Rules, 2019

e) National Savings Time Deposit Rules, 2019

f) National Savings (Monthly Income Account) Scheme, 2019

g) Senior Citizens' Savings Scheme, 2019

h) National Savings Certificate (VIII Issue) Scheme, 2019

i)  Kisan Vikas Patra Scheme, 2019

j) Public Provident Fund Scheme, 2019

k) Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme, 2019

l) Post Office Life Insurance Rules, 2011 and its ammendments
For latest circular visit

http://www.postallifeinsurance.gov.in/

m) Book of BO Rules

n) Janasuraksha Scheme :

                                     i) Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)

                                    ii) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)

                                    iii) Atal Pension Yojana (APY)

3. Guidelines/Instructions relating to Inland/Foreign Post

a) Post Office Guide Part — I
b) Post Office Guide Part - II, except Section VII & VIII
c) Domestic/Foreign Post guidelines issued by Directorate

4. Mail Operations and Money Remittances:

a) Postal Manual Volume V, except Appendix -1

b) Postal Manual Volume VI, Part -1, Chapter -1

c) Postal Manual Volume VI, Part ~ II, except Telegraphic Money Orders, British & Irish Postal Orders (to be deleted)

d) Postal Manual Volume VI, Part - III, except Appendices

e) Postal Manual Volume VII

f) Guidelines issued by Directorate on Mail Network Optimization Project and Parcel Network Optimization Project.

MNOP

MNOP_Guidelines issued by Directorate

PNOP_Guidelines issued by Directorate

g) Guidelines issued by Directorate on eMO, iMO, IMTS, MMTS and IFS MO

eMO/iMO/MMTS/IPO

IFS MO

MMTS Discontinued order

iMO discontinuation order

5. Savings Bank and Savings Certificates:

a) Post Office Savings Bank Manual Volume I, II and III read with SB orders issued by Directorate from time to time

SB Orders 

POSB Manual Vol I

POSB Manual Vol II

POSB Manual Vol III

b) Guidelines issued by Directorate from time to time on Core Banking Services

6. Postal Life Insurance and Rural Postal Life Insurance:

a) Guidelines issued by Directorate from time to time on PLI/RPLI and Core Insurance Solution

for more details please visit

http://postallifeinsurance.gov.in/innerpage/insurance-plans-in-pli.php 

b) Annual Reports and Book of Information of Department of Posts

Annual Report 2019-20

Book of Information 

7. Information Technology:

a) IT Modernisation Project 2012 and its update

Add info on IT Modernization project

b) Working knowledge on Core Banking Solutions, PLI-CIS, CSI and DARPAN.

CSI Hand Book

RICT Hand Book

(Source: Prepared by : Instructor, DTC Mandya, Madya Division, Karnataka Circle)

8. India Post Payments Bank

9. Preservation and disposal of Postal Records

10. Swachha Bharat

 

Paper II 

1) Chapter 2 and 6 of General Financial Rules, 2017 

GFR 2017

GFR (Amendments), 2017

2) CVC guidelines on Public procurement, guidelines and instructions on e-Procurement in Government of India

CVC Guidelines

CVC Guidelines 2

eProcurement

eProcurement 

3)Manual on policies and procedures for purchase of goods and services available on website of Ministry of Finance

4) Schedule of Financial Powers of Divisional Heads, Heads of Circle, etc 

Director of Postal Services

Head of the Circles

Head of the Division_PO

Head of the Division_RMS

Members-PSB

5) Welfare measures available to Departmental Employees and Gramin Dak Sevak of DoP 

Departmental Employees and Gramin Dak Sevak  

Revision of Welfare Scheme for Postal Employee

6) RTI Act, 2015 and RTI Rules, 2012 

RTI Act 2005

RTI Rules 2012

7) Fundamental Rules (FR) and Supplementary Rules (SR)

FRSR Part I     : General Rules                          :   Download

FRSR Part II   : Travelling Allowances             :   Download

FRSR Part III : Leave Rules                              :   Download

FRSR Part IV : DA/DR/HRA Rules

8) P&T FHB Volume I and Postal FHB Volume II 

FHB_Vol_I

FHB_Vol_II

9) Rules relating Children Education allowance and reimbursement of Tuition fees 

10) CGEGIS Rules, 1980 

11) CCS(GPF) Rules, 1961 

12) Central Services (Medical Attendance)Rules, 1944 and CGHS Guidelines issued by Directorate

CGHS Guidelines issued by Directorate

13) New Pension Scheme, 2004 and its amendments

14) CCS Pension Rules, 1972 and its amendments

CCS Pension (Amendment) Rules, 1972 

15) CCS commutation of Pension Rules, 1981

16) Postal Manual Volume II, except:

a) Chapter III - Appeals and Petitions

b) Chapter IV - Personal matters 

c) Chapter V - Security Deposits

d) Chapter VII - Forged Counterfeit stamps, defaced postage stamps, coins and currency notes

Download

17) Postal Manual Volume IV — Leave, Pension, Gratuities, Dealings on Examination, Recruitment rules of all Cadres and Establishment norms

18) Service Discharge Benefit Scheme, 2010  

SDBS Order 

 

 

PAPER III

1) Postal Manual Volume II

a) Chapter III - Appeals and Petitions

b) Chapter IV — Personal matters

c) Chapter V - Security Deposits
d) Chapter VII - Forged Counterfeit stamps, defaced postage stamps, coins and currency notes

2) Postal Manual Volume III

3) Postal Manual .Volume VIII

4) CCS (Conduct Rules), 1964

5) CCS(CCA) Rules, 1965 

6) CCS(Temporary Service) Rules, 1965

7) GDS (Conduct and Engagement) Rules, 2020

8) Brochure on Casual Labourers and instructions on Casual labourer issued byDoP&T from time to time

9) Constitution of India

10) The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908:

a) Section 1 - Short title, extent, commencement

b) Section 2 - Definition

CPC   (Read code No.1 and 2 )

11. The Code of Criminal Procedure

a) Section 1 - Short title, extent, commencement

b) Section 2 - Definition

c) Section 82 - Proclamation for person absconding

d) Section 83 - Attachment of property of person absconding

e) Section 84 - Claims and objections to attachments

f) Section 85 - Release, sale & restoration of attached property

CrPC  (Read code No. 1 and 2,  82 to 85)

12) Indian Evidence Act:

a) Section 1 - Short title, extent & commencement

b) Section 5 :  Evidence may be given of facts in issue and relevant facts

c) Section 6 : Relevance of facts forming part of same transaction

d) Section 7 : Facts which are the occasion, cause or effect of facts in issue

e) Section 8 : Motive, preparation and previous or subsequent conduct.

f) Chapter III ( Section 56 to 58 ) : Facts which need not be proved.

g) Chapter IV ( Section 59 to 60 ) : Of oral evidence

h) Chapter IV ( Section 61 to 73A ) : of documentary evidence

Download  (Read code No.1 to 8,  59 to 90A)

13) Indian Penal Code:

a) Chapter II : General Explanation:

b) Chapter III : Of punishments

c) Chapter IX : Of Offences by or relating to public servants

d) Chapter X : Of Contempts of the lawful authority of public servants

e) Chapter XIX : Of the criminal breach of contract of service

Download    (Read code No. 6 to 75, 161 to 190, 490 to 492)

14) Instructions issued by Directorate and DoP&T on maintenance of APAR 

15) Central Administrative Tribunal Act, 1985

CAT (Amendment) 1985

16) Revenue Recovery Act, 1890 

17) Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 

16) Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988

PCA (Amendment) 1988

 

 

PAPER IV

1) 25 Questions on English language

2) 50 questions on Current Affairs (Minimum 10 questions each from field of Indian Economy and Polity, Sports, Culture & Science)

3) 50 questions on Reasoning, Interpersonal Skills, Mental Aptitude, Intelligence and Ethics

4) Noting (approx. 200 words) and Drafting (approx. 200 words) on a given topic [25 marks each]

Manual on Noting and Drafting

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