CEPT, through its Technolo-

gy expertise and continuous

endeavour, supports the

Business Services of the

Department.

Let us make Technology our

core strength - being the

Master of it rather than a

Slave!

In this edition, we bring about

brief on the updates carried

out to our legacy software -

Meghdoot & Speednet in the

wake of introduction of GST

and IT Modernization Project

2012.

On a closing note, negotiating

Ransomware ‘Wannacry’ is-

sue has been one of the ma-

jor challenges during the re-

cent times. India Post has

come out unscathed due to

timely intervention of CEPT. I

take this opportunity here to

appreciate the Team’s effort!

Dear Colleagues,

India is the fastest emerg-

ing economy in the world and

becoming ‘An Empowered

Society and Knowledge

Economy’. The IT Services

and Resources would enable

seamless integration of ser-

vices in real time through

online and mobile platforms,

electronic and cashless finan-

cial transactions, e-

governance and complaints

redressal mechanism, all of

which aid in ‘Ease of doing

Business’.

Digitalisation has changed

the role of the Postal Sector,

as mail volumes decline and

parcel volume grows. Though

the decline has slowed some-

what in the recent years, rev-

enue have risen with the

scope of e-commerce. India

Post continues to play an

important role in this seg-

ment as the only end-to-

end provider across the

Indian stretch for delivery

services.

The IT alone may not be

the solution to all our prob-

lems. However, it is an ena-

bler to solve and cater to

the socio - economic de-

mands of the country

through its services. India

Post is contributing in a big

way to realise the dream of

‘Digitisation’ by pushing its

Rural ICT and creating a

complete networked IT

solution for all its products.

With this approach, citizens

in remote areas are equally

served with the postal facili-

ties as enjoyed by the

urban society. The coming

generations shall reap the

benefit of this Digital Revo-

lution!

July - September 2017 VOLUME III, ISSUE 1

GM’S PEN SPEAKS…

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

01/05/2017 - Sri K K Sharma, takes over charge as General Man-ager, CEPT

11/07/2017 to 13/07/2017 - CPMG, AP Circle, Sri K Balasubra-manian visits CEPT

28/07/2017 - Member [O], Ms Usha Chan-drashekhar visits CEPT

09/08/2017 to 14/08/2017 - RICT UAT held at CEPT

28/08/2017 to 30/08/2017 - workshop on COD

04/09/2017 - CEPT ANNIVERSARY DAY

Inside this issue:

Meghdoot Update 7.9.8

2

Speednet 4.5 Up-date 1

2

IT Modernization Project 2012 Update

3

Meet THE Techie 3

Techknowledgee 4

e-News Letter from the Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology , Mysore 570010

INDIA POST & RANSOMWARE Due to sudden out break of Ransomware ‘Wannacry’ , windows security patch updates

activity is carried out in all legacy DC servers.

Follow-up is made with Project vendors to ensure the completion of the same activity in Data Centre, Mumbai / Data Recovery Centre, Mysore servers.

Instructions are sent to all circles for updating windows security patches released by Microsoft in connection with Ransomware. For this purpose necessary URLs have been white listed for GUP servers. This activity is first initiated in Tamil Nadu Circle for testing and later extended to all circles.

As on 31.07.2017, this activity is completed on 20000 systems in field Post Offices. Activity is in progress on remaining systems.

According to the orders of Directorate, following modifications with respect to migration to Goods & Services Tax (GST) re-gime, Invoicing Proce-dures and Tax rates have been carried out and in-cluded in the Meghdoot Update 7.9.8.

Point of Sale

Changes in the counter receipts to display CGST, SGST & UTGST, for PLI/RPLI, Express, Foreign &

Speed Post services.

Automatic updation of GST rates. Treasury

Creation of separate new account heads relat-ed to GST at both receipt and payment side.

Modification done in Payment forms and relat-ed reports with respect to GST.

Bills Paid Option is mod-ified for capturing GST

related information. BNPL Parcel

Migration to new rates of GST for BNPL Custom-ers.

New option of invoice generating for BNPL Cus-tomers along with the ex-isting Bill. Accounts

Migrating the existing PLI/RPLI Policies to new GST Rates.

Income tax calculation

Data entry for SP-COD articles with following changes

Display of Customer in-formation based on eBillerID entered during data entry for SPCOD articles and

Option for data entry for SP-COD RTS article; en-abled only on validation of the RTS office based on customer master

Printing of Addressee

Following features / modifi-cations are available:

Restrictions on Shift End process in case returns information is not updated for Postman beat and BO articles

Mandatory capture of ‘Delivered To’ information w.r.t delivery of Speed Post articles including articles delivered to Security per-sonnel, Mail Receipt Room and Others

mobile number in the delivery slip if the same is available in the elec-tronic data for the article received at Delivery office

Integration with Post-man Mobile App and col-lection of COD amount through Swipe transac-tion. [POC completed at Hyderabad GPO]

Modification in Speednet Communication to resolve

MEGHDOOT UPDATE 7.9.8

Speednet Version 4.5 Update 1

New Features/Modifications Available in Meghdoot Update 7.9.8 Modification done in

BPCOD, EPCOD, SPCOD and e Payment forms and related re-ports with respect to GST.

Bills Paid Option is mod-ified for capturing GST related information, sep-arate option is provided for capturing details like GSTN number, HSN number etc.

BNPL ParcelBNPL Parcel

New GST Invoice Re-port provided in billing option.

Provision for configura-tion of GST number of H.O in office Configuration in Supervisor.

Provision for configuring

GST Rates in Tax config-uration option in Supervi-sor. AccountsAccounts

New option for configur-ing GST Rates in Ac-counts Module.

Option for GST Number in Accounts General Mod-ule.

New tool PLIGst.exe for migrating the service tax in PLI /RPLI to GST for existing policies. AccountsPBSAccountsPBS

Fetching of GST Data (Both Collection and Pay-ment) from Treasury for HOs.

Data Entry window for

Point of SalePoint of Sale

Please configure the GSTN number of your office, along with office situated in State or Un-ion Territory (based on your circle whether your circle is state or Union Territory) through Su-pervisor login under My-Office-->Environment. Configuration of these values is must for work-ing with GST rates.

Provision to capture GSTN of customers for Speedpost & Express-Parcel booking is includ-ed.

TreasuryTreasury Option to Configure

CGST, SGST and UGST rates provided.

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modified as per the lat-est IT Slab . Accounts PBS

New Schedules for GST (Collection and Payment).

Provision made for tallying GST collected and paid with cash book. For further details, please logon to ftp://cept.gov.in/Meghdoot7/Updates/meghdootupdate7.9.8/

GST collection is config-ured in Compliance with GST requirements.

New Data Entry win-dow for GST payments associated with Bills-Paid is included.

New format for PLI/RPLI GST Schedule is introduced.

Account Head-wise Reporting and Tallying Facility for GST is in-cluded.

New Window is includ-ed for month wise view and electronic transfer of GST to Central Serv-ers through Account MIS.

Minor errors reported in estimation of Income Tax and Pensioner de-

the Missing Scans issue

Implementation of GST replacing old tax system. For further details, logon to ftp://cept.gov.in/SpeedNet/Speednet_4.5_update_1/

In case of any issues or problems in upgradation or installation - please raise tickets on HDMS at http://cept.gov.in/

Pilot Rollout

Pilot rollout started with migration of 07 BOs on 17/06/2016.

4617 BOs in14 DOs in 06 Circles are targeted for Pilot Rollout.

Pilot Rollout in 13 DOs is completed by 28/01/2017.

Average rollout pace during Pilot is 700 BOs / Month.

Pilot DOs mandated for RICT CBS Rollout on

09/11/2016.

4168 BOs in 14 DOs across 06 Circles targeted for RICT CBS in Pilot.

Remaining 449 BOs [4617-4168] are Non CBS BOs.

Phase I Rollout

Phase I rollout activi-ties commenced with effect from 09/12/2016.

39,436 BOs in127 DOs across 18 Circles are targeted for Phase I rollout.

As on 31/07/2017, 27917 BOs across 103 Divisions are rolled out.

Rollout pre-requisites i.e. Device Testing, Train-er & BPM Trainings etc is in progress in remaining 24 DOs.

Average rollout pace in Phase I is 4,000 BOs / Month.

Phase II Rollout

84,454 BOs in 290 DOs across 20 Circles are targeted for Phase II rollout.

INDIA POST IT MODERNIZATION PROJECT 2012

Meet THE Techie

Mohan V Pattar born at Belgaum, Karnataka on 21/07/1972 had his schooling at Swadyaya Vidya Mandir, Tilakwadi, Belgaum, and he finished his Bachelor of Engineering from B D T College of Engineering, Davangere. He possesses the knowledge of C#, ASP.net, SQL Server. He joined the postal fraternity on 11/01/1999 as Sorting Assistant and worked at the Belgaum Sorting Office. He is an Inspector Posts of 2005 batch and got his promotion as Assistant Superintendent of Post Offices in May 2014. He joined the CEPT on 12/02/2001 as Programmer. He has handled PLI Circle Office claims settlement module for DPLI Kolkata, Speednet 3.1 & 3.2, Speednet central Server application migration from Oracle to SQL server, Maintenance of Speednet central server from 2009-2010, ePayment User / Office management module, Maintenance and Support for Address Web Verifi-cation, in the eIOD Web Module - Web based booking and delivery of eIOD service articles, MNOP module - Initial Study and Design, UIDAI Aadhar Card Bulk Registration Module. He currently handles Corporate Complaints Module, CCC MIS reports for pend-ing complaints, Auto Closure, Auto status update for complaints, CCC trend reports. He also functions as the Deputy Manager in the prestigious India Post Information Technology Mod-ernization Project 2012. Mohan is proficient in Kannada, Marathi, Hindi & English. He likes to play cricket and Chess. His favourite star personalities are Kishore Kumar, Amitabh Bachhan & Sachin Tendulkar. In 2001, he married Ms Ramya - a B Com Graduate who is a home maker. They are blessed with two daughters - Uma and Unnati, studying in 9th and 7th standards respectively at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Mysore.

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MOHAN V PATTAR

Deputy Manager

RURAL SYSTEM INTEGRATOR Update

Device Supply plan is based on Division which has highest number of BOs where priority is accorded to Circles with difficult

geographical area so as to have buffer time for rollout.

RH will supply devices @ 17500 BOs per month starting from September 2017.

Rollout is planned to be completed by 31/03/2018.

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