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New Features in Update- 8 to Meghdoot 7.0

New Features in Update-8 to Meghdoot 7.0

I)  Point of Sale

           

Provision for booking IFS Moneyorder and the related reports.

Provision for booking Business Reply Speed Post Articles.

Revision of ePayment Tariff.

Revision of ePayment Tariff for Rebooked transactions.

Provision for acceptance of service tax and education cess with PLI and RPLI transactions.

Provision for entering Mobile Number for all registered articles.

Revision of Internation EMS Tariff.

Revised the maximum limit of MOs that can be send to Bhutan.

Currencies for which exchange rate is available only will be available while doing MOVidesh Eurogiro transactions.

Validation for invalid PINCode.

Separate classification of WNX revenue and commission on WNX articles.

Enhanced the maximum weight of articles that can be booked through WNX.

DOP Commission, Service Tax and Education Cess are made available in the WNX Reports.

Provision for configuring Service tax for WNX Transactions

Bugs Fixed

Updated the SPCs and Linked Post Offices.

Updated the list of foreign countries.

Updated the PINCodes.

Negative values are validated while uploading the text file containing bulk MO data.

Error in VP Express Parcel Tariff.

Errors while doing WNX Transactions.

Duplicate receipt printing for WNX Transactions.

Rectified the error in User Account Report for Cancelled IPOs.

Rectified the error while uploading data from Franchised Outlets.

II) Despatch

                Provision made to Close Unregistered Letter Bags in the following option.

Despatch -> Operator -> Prepare -> Prepare UnRegistered Letter Bag.

Provision made to Despatch the Unregistered Letter Bags closed  along with the Registered Bagclosed in the following option.

                Despatch -> Operator -> Prepare -> Despatch Bags

Reports for the Un Registered Bags closed available in the following option.

Despatch -> Operator ->  Report -> Other Reports -> UnRegistered Bags Closed.

Reports for the Un Registered Bags despatched available along with the Registered Bags  Despatched in the following option.

Despatch -> Operator ->  Report -> Bundle/Despatch/Deposit Lists-> Despatch List.

Provision made in Despatch application that any operator can receive the special journal articles once uploaded by  supervisor in BPC/MBC.

As BPCs / MBCs will not do delivery, despatch application will process local special journal articles received  in BPC/MBC.

III)    ePayment

Modifications in e-Payment web site:

                Provision is made for calculating the ePayment commission at the Point Of Sale counters at the time of e-Payment transactions for designated billers. The commission type needs to be configured in ePayment web site while configuring the biller. The commission types as classified as below:

               

Deducted from the bill amount while payment – per bill

Deducted from the bill amount while payment – percentage

Collected from customer at Point Of Sale Counter -  per bill

Collected from customer at Point Of Sale Counter -  percentage

For the first two types the commission along with taxes will be deducted from the amount to be paid to the biller at the time of payment at the treasury of the payment office.

For the last two types the commission along with taxes will be collected in addition to the bill amount from the customer in Point Of Sale counters. The commission and taxes will also be accounted in the office of collection in respective account heads.

IV)     Sub Accounts

New Features

As per the new e-Payment tariff revision for certain e-Payment billers, provision made to  fetch Commission, Service Tax and EC from the sub offices if its HO and rebooking verification for BO rebooked transactions in POS if its SO.

Provision made to upload the e-bill payments text file received from the SOs along with e-bill receipts file.

Bugs Fixed

Rectified the error while uploading Additional Daily Account through Floppy Upload option.

V)     Treasury

New Features

Separate Classification of amounts of IPO value and Commission booked at POS Counter in the Daily Account / Summaries.

Provision for incorporating the amounts of Ebill Commission and taxes collected at POS counter for certain e-payment billers at the office of booking itself in the Daily Account/ Summaries.

Generation of Ebill text file along with other Daily Account files at SOs with biller wise consolidation of amounts of ebill receipts/ ebill payments, Ebill commission, Taxes etc.,.

Provision for making payment through ECS mode of Option in respect of payments made to SPCOD billers (Specific for M/s Amazon SPCOD biller payable at BG GPO).

Separate classification of amounts collected towards WNX transactions booked at the PO under the account heads WNX Revenue, WNX Commission and Taxes in the Daily Accounts/Summaries.

Provision for separate classification of amounts collected/paid toward IFS Money Orders (IEMOissue, IEMOCommission and IEMOPaid) in the Daily Accounts / Summaries.

Rounding off of the total Service Tax due for deduction from the billers while making payment to the billers in Treasury Module. The procedure followed is the same as being done in Point of Sale module at the time booking of Speed Post articles.

Creation of separate account heads and provision for classification of amounts collected/paid for 10 yr NSC IX Issue under SB Category in Daily Accounts/Summaries.

VI)    Postman

Unregistered Letter Bag Receipt scan

Postman Operator has to enter details of unregistered letter bags received at the office, in Postman application. The menu option is “Postman Operator -> Invoicing -> UnRegistered Letters -> Bag Receiving”

Once the form is opened, the virtually received unregistered bags will get displayed. User can select physically received bags among them and click “OK” button to receive the bags. If bags are not received virtually, please use “Physical Bag” option to enter unregistered bag details and then click “OK” to receive the bags.

There is a report provided in the application to get details of unregistered bags received at the office. It is provided at “Postman Operator -> Reports -> Unregistered Letter Bags -> Bag Details” menu option.

BO Transaction Date

The provision to enter BO transaction date in case of articles delivered/ dispatched at BO is provided in BO Remarks option for Reg/Parel/MO/eMO articles. It is provided at Postman Operator à BO Remarks àRegd/VP Letters / Regd/VP Parcels /Money Orders/ eMoney Orders.

VII)   AccountsMIS Client

New Features:

Capturing the data in r/o newly created Account Heads in respect of NSC IX Issue and Discharge amounts and transmitting the same to AccountsMIS Server for MIS purpose.

VIII)     AccountsPBS

Ebill Receipts

Once the form is opened, the operator can enter the details of ebill receipts which include commission.

Ebill receipts –Fetch from counter:  In the provision to fetch the ebill receipts data from counter, the commn is also getting fetched.

Ebill receipts –Fetch from subaccountsNew option is provided for fetching ebill receipts data from sub office

Ebill commission reports

The operator can take the reports of ebill commission

Under Reportsàreceiptsàebillcommn

The operator has to select the ebill commn head and its has to be tallied with the cashbook to generate the reports of ebill commission

Bugs Fixed

Pension:-  String or binary data would be truncated error is  rectified

Latest news on CBS dt 04.06.2013

A revised Data Profiling Tool has been released by M/S Infosys on 03.06.2013 and the same can be downloaded from 

http://tamilnadupost.nic.in/sdc/cbsdpt.htm

Please install in all POs and train the PMs/SPMs to run the tool and upload the same in CBS pre-migration monitoring web site immediately.

The manual released is also attached.

Technology Cell

O/O the Postmaster General

Southern Region(TN)

Madurai-625002

CBS RELATED ISSUES 

1.With the plan fund allotted during Feb2013 100% of post offices have been covered under Plan for Computerisation and Networking.

2. All 38 post offices, for which hardware supply has been placed, should be installed with Sanchaypost and available data should be transferred from the available resource and made online immediately.

3. The "Data Profiling Tool" of Infosys is published in the SDC web portal. This should be downloaded and installed in all the site of our circle immediately. This will give the postmasters a summary of discrepancy where the data need to be cured.

4. The DBA+tool published in the SDC web portal contain the solution document and most of the discrepancy can be fixed by installating DBA+, which is automatic and without human intervention. Some of the items have to be entered and address updated physically by the post offices. 

5. The Divisional Superintendents have to be told to review the status each office under them and make data ready for migration in a shortest possible time.

6. A review is proposed at the regional head quarters with the divisional heads by the end of June 2013.

Hence, it is requested that all post offices be made aware of the tool for rectification and educated of the DPT and BDA+ immediately.