Guidelines for issue & review of Inspection Report

F.No. 17-01/2018-Inspn.
Government of India
Ministry of Communications
Department of Posts
(Inspection Division)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg
New Delhi, dated 05.10.2018

To

1. All Heads of Postal Circles
2. All Directors. Postal Twining Centres
3. Director, RAKNPA
4. Army Postal Service Directorate, New Delhi

Subject: – Review of guidelines for issue & review of Inspection Report.

In supersession of all previous orders on the subject issued from time to time, the following guidelines will be followed with immediate effect for issue and review of Inspection Reports:-

1. Inspection Reports of Post Offices/Mail Offices/other Offices should be issued by strictly observing the following periodicity:-

S.no	No. of days mandated for inspection/verification of an office	Period within which IR should be issued from the date of commencement of Inspection
1	1 day	15 days
2	2days & below 8 days	30 days
3	8 days and above	45 days

The inspections mandated for more than one day should be completed in one spell and should not be staggered over days.

2. i) The Reviewing Authorities of Inspection ReportNerification Report vis-a-vis the Inspecting Authority shall be:-

S.No	Office inspected by	IR reviewed by	Period of review from the date of commencement of Inspection and intimation to the office reviewed	Period for initiation of compliance of in-charge/Head of the office inspected & reviewed from the dateof intimation of review remarks by higher authority
1	IP	Next higher authority viz. Asstt. Suptd. (Dn.)/ Asstt. Suptd(HQ)/Dy.	60 days	(a) For HO/GPO – 45 days (b) For all other Offices – 30days
2	ASP	Next higher authority viz. Dy. Suptd. /Divisional Head	60 days
3	Divisional Head	Next higher authority viz. DPS/PMG/CPMG	90 days
4	DPS	Next higher authority viz. PMG/CPMG	90 days
5	PMG	Next higher authority viz. CPMG	90 days

i. The previous IR shall be reviewed at the time of annual inspection by the immediate Inspecting Authority.

ii. The IRS of Heads of Circles need not be sent to Dtte. for review. Compliance on these IRs will however be personally monitored by the Head of the concerned

iii. The cycle of inspection of an office should be complete with action taken for compliance latest, by 4 1/2 months from the date of commencement of inspection of that office.

3. By 28th/29th of February of the year following the inspection calendar year, all Heads of Circles will furnish a certificate in the following format to Directorate:-

“This is to certify that all the inspections allotted for the year ______ have been completed by Inspecting Authorities of ____  Circle and Inspection Reports thereupon have also been issued by all Units in the Circle.”

The above certificate will be taken as one of the targets for APAR writing.

4. Orders for submission of all other reports i.e. quarterly, half yearly, annually etc to the Directorate issued from time to time related to completion of inspections/IR issued is hereby discontinued. However, Circles may continue to monitor timely completion of inspections Si issuance of IRs of all the offices under its jurisdiction.

5. This issues with the approval of competent authority.

(SATISH KUMAR)
ADG (PG)