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Latest Patches deployed in Finacle CBS dated 02/03/2021

Respected Sir / Madam,

Details of CBS patches deployed in last 15 days is provided below:

  • SCSS accounts can be closed prematurely within one year with closure reason code as EXP; penal interest will be deducted automatically during closure; user needs to visit Closure Details tab to check penal fee / penal interest related parameters before submitting closure.
  • During account opening, nomination is mandatory for all schemes, irrespective of mode of operation – SB / RD / TD / MIS / KVP / NSC / SCSS / PPF / SSA.
  • Nature of entitlement is mandatory for nominees and needs to be updated while adding nominee for new accounts / existing accounts; during modification of accounts, nominee details are to be updated.
  • Error thrown during cancellation of modification of MIS / TD accounts is resolved.
  • PLI Mccamish is integrated with CBS. For PLI policies monthly subscription can be paid by POSB cheques / debiting from POSB accounts and PLI payments can be credited to POSB accounts of the customers.
  • In addition, customers can also pay their PLI subscription through E-Banking / Mobile Banking.
  • Charges for cheque leaves more than 10 in a calendar year will be deducted automatically from the customer’s SB account.
  • Charges to be collected for various operations like transfer of accounts / pledging / duplicate passbook issue as per GSPR can be collected using HGCHRG menu and receipt printed through HADVC can be handed over to the customer. Detailed SOP is sent to Circles via SB order no. 01/2021 dated 23/02/2021​

With regards

Giriraj Ponnambalam
CBS Team Lead
Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology, Chennai 600002

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Cheque book fee deduction from SB account – Patch Deployment

Dear Teams,

 
From today onwards in CBS offices, charges for issue of cheque book will be deducted automatically from SB account during HICHB verification. No fee will be collected for the first 10 leaves in a calendar year and thereafter will be charged at Rs. 2 per cheque leaf plus applicable GST (presently 18%).  Before deduction of charges, system will check for the number of cheques  issued during the current calendar year in Finacle.
 
Note:  

If cheques have not been issued for the current calendar year and  cheque book with 20 leaves is  issued in HICHB for an account, an amount of 20 + 3.60 GST (Rs.23.60) will be deducted automatically from SB account during HICHB verification 

If 10 cheques were already issued during this calendar year,  if a cheque book with 20 leaves is  issued in HICHB, an amount of 40 + 7.20 GST (Rs.47.20) will be deducted automatically from SB account during HICHB verification.

 
With regards

Giriraj Ponnambalam
CBS Team Lead

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Long Book issue reported – Patch deployed in finacle

Subject: Issues Reported in Long Book rectified – Patch deployed – Important



Dear Sir/Madam,



I am directed to convey the following



This is regarding deployment of patch for the issues reported in Long Book Detailed and Consolidated report.



The following issues which were reported in Long Book is fixed





Default fee collected in RD Agent list getting listed below bulk list.
Post maturity Interest for TD closure is reflected in Debit side in Longbook detailed report and consolidation
SBA products like SB,PPF,NSS, SSA – Interest on closed accounts (Current year interest) which is reflecting in Credit side is removed. Current year interest excluded in both the receipt and payment side.
KVN scheme code to be excluded like NS8,NSC9 and KVP. Only KVP16 and NSC16 accounts to be included.
Reflection of RD Rebate in receipt side
Removal of BO new account opening in BRN long book.
Removal of Agent commission transactions from Long Book
Removal of IPPB reversal Transactions.
Removal of HRMS transactions
Removal of TTUM transactions
Removal of Loan interest demand transaction
MIS Premature closure – Penal fee not included in long book consolidation
APY automatic transaction through SI is excluded from Long Book
SCSS Interest Closure shown in the Consolidation of NSC16 instead of SCSS


The above information may please be forwarded to all POs.



CPCs are requested to send us issues if any reported by POs as Consolidated report post deployment of this patch to us for solution.

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Finacle patch deployment dated 02/11/2020

*Patch Deployment in Finacle*

Respected Sir / Madam,

An update on the CBS patches deployed in last one month are provided below and the required operational details for he POs / CPCs have been circulated separately:
1. RICT CBS App Version 1.4.2 is deployed in 5 BOs as Pilot run and it will be soon deployed in all BOs. In this version, an option for reconciliation of pending transactions is provided and minimum / maximum limits for account opening is checked at device end itself, thereby reducing processing time.
2. Facility to register request for new ATM Card / Pin request for ATM card through Mobile Banking.
3. Nominee details are mandatory for RD / TD account opening through EBanking; in EBanking, nominee details as available in debit SB account will be updated for the newly opened RD / TD accounts.
4. Post maturity interest is applied for completed number of days instead of completed months for matured TD / MIS / SCS / NSC / KVP accounts.
5. Regular credits are allowed in SB pension accounts (SBPEN & SBPWC).
6. Issue faced in Mobile Banking login if previous device is not deactivated properly, is resolved.
7. Issue faced in duplicate passbook issue for NSC / KVP certificates (issued before 01/07/2016) is resolved.
8. Long book reports (Today & Previous day) for SOLs / BOs are deployed.
9. SCS accounts are to be opened with new scheme codes from November 2020 so that interest will be applied on gi1st day of every quarter. For accounts opened prior to November 2020, interest will be applied on last day of every quarter and will be continued in the old schemes.
10. CBS DWH reports can be viewed in SAP BI.


With regards

Giriraj Ponnambalam
Team Lead CBS
Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology, Chennai 600002
044-28543481, +91 94441 08080
giriraj@indiapost.gov.in

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Finacle Patch deployment 11.09.2020

Subject: Patch Deployment in Finacle

Dear Teams,

Details of CBS patches deployed in last one month is provided below:

Transfer-in option is provided for SCSS in account opening menu


Bulk Transfer of BO accounts linked to a BO from one SOL to another


Patch for fixing the issue faced in interest generation during RD closure. Also preventive fix for non-generation of interest transaction during RD closure is provided.


Preventive fix for non-generation of agent commission transaction during account opening


APY modification module to accept non-financial / financial modifications with respect to APY active policies and to update voluntary exit / death closure status APY policies.


GSPR changes
Changing renewal scheme code is disabled during renewal of TD accounts
Transferring of TD accounts from one scheme to another is restricted during scheme transfer through HACXFRSC
During charge collection through HGCHRG, transaction types T/BI and C/CP are only allowed.
Restriction of TD accounts renewal to 2 times only through HTDREN is provided.
Validation of denomination and flow amount during RD account opening verification is provided.
Funding of SB account opening with a minimum amount of Rs.500- is validated.
For defaulting charge collection flag as Y in HICHB menu

With regards

Giriraj Ponnambalam
Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology, Chennai 600002
044-28543481, +91 94441 08080
giriraj@indiapost.gov.in

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Patch deployment for RD/PPF/SSA without default fee – SB order 16/2020

Dear Teams,
​Patch for implementing SB order No.16/2020 dated 11/04/2020 for RD default fee is deployed in Production. RD default fee is to be collected only for the deposits defaulted on or before 29th February 2020.  Default fee is waived off for RD installments from March 2020. This is implemented for deposits made through FINCORE / all channels (EB / MB / RICT / IPPB).
Patch for accepting previous financial year transactions of PPF / SSA accounts without default fee through EBanking is now deployed. In EBanking, while depositing in PPF / SSA accounts, users need to select financial year (2019-2020 or 2020-2021) for which deposit is made. Customers are to be instructed to deposit​ for previous FY and current FY separately. For matured PPF accounts, deposits can be made only after the account is extended at the SOL.​

With regards

Giriraj Ponnambalam
Deputy Manager (CBS)
Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology, Chennai 600002
044-28543481, +91 94441 08080
giriraj@indiapost.gov.in

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Finacle Patch Deployment 22.04.2020 • Read Important Instruction & Functionality Change || Deputy Manager (FSI), CEPT

For implementing SB Order No.16/2020 dated 11/04/2020, patch for accepting previous financial year transactions  in PPF / SSA accounts without default fee is being deployed tonight in Finacle.

Finacle Patch Deployment 22.04.2020

C1920 – COVID-19 20
New Report Code Introduce For PPF and SSA Account Transaction For Financial Year 2019-2020
SOL users should follow the instructions given below:

For PPF / SSA accounts with which deposits less than 1.5 lakhs made in previous FY (maximum allowed amount in a financial year),

👉 A single deposit can be made for previous FY through CPDTM with report code as C1920
For PPF / SSA accounts discontinued in FY 2019-2020,
👉 A single deposit without default fee can be made for the FY 2019-2020 through CPDTM with report code C1920 with a maximum amount of Rs.1.5 lakhs
For PPF / SSA accounts discontinued prior to FY 2019-2020,
👉 A single deposit with default fee for financial years prior to 2019-2020 can be made for the FY 2019-2020 through CPDTM with report code C1920 with a maximum amount of Rs.1.5 lakhs
For PPF accounts matured on 31/03/2019 but not extended till 31/03/2020, if the customer comes for deposit for previous FY 2019-2020,
Approval is to be obtained from Divisional Head for extension and scanned copy is to be sent to CEPT team through CPC and CEPT team will do extension.
After extension,
👉 A single deposit for previous FY without default fee with report code C1920 through CPDTM wlth a maximum amount of Rs.1.5 lakhs is to be accepted.
For PPF accounts matured on 31/03/2020 but no deposits are made in FY 2019-2020,
👉 A single deposit can be made with report code C1920 through CPDTM with a maximum amount of Rs.1.5 lakhs can be accepted. After this deposit, the account can be extended and current FY deposit can be accepted.
For PPF Invalid accounts opened in the financial year 2019-2020 but minimum deposit amount of Rs.500- is not made in the account,
Deposits cannot be done now.
If any customer wants to deposit for previous FY and current FY,
👉 Then 2 deposits are to be made by the SOL –
• One for previous FY with report code C1920 and another
• One for current FY with report code CONTR
If any cheques cleared before 01/04/2020 and pending for deposit in PPF / SSA accounts,
👉 Deposits are to be made with report code C1920 and value date. 
For all deposits except cheque deposits value date should be SOL BOD date as interest is applicable from date of deposit only as per SB order.
For cheque deposits value date should be date of clearance.
Deposits for current FY only can be accepted through Mobile Banking / IPPB / RICT channels.
Patch will be deployed for E-Banking to accept previous FY deposits;
Confirmation will be sent after deployment. 
IPPB / RICT customers who want to deposit for previous FY, should be advised to deposit at the counters of nearest PO.
In addition to the above patch, the following functional patches are deployed.
• Patch to resolve the issue in RD discontinued account closure through EBanking
• Signature files uploaded through SFTP are not properly moved to Finacle when network connectivity issue is faced.
To overcome this issue, retry mechanism is introduced for moving signature files to Finacle.
• Patch for allowing cancel operation in CSCCAAC menu for accounts frozen with freeze code SCWFR.
• RICT unique number is not validated in CASBAM Modify option.
​Regards
Giriraj Ponnambalam
Deputy Manager (FSI)
CEPT Chennai 600002
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Regarding deployment of Patches for acceptance of SSA / PPF Deposit from 01/04/2020 without penal fee duce to COVID19

Madam/Sir,

This is with reference to MOF orders to accept PPF/ SSA deposits for 2019-2020 till June 2020.

Post Offices may be made aware that all SSA / PPF deposits accepted from 01/04/2020 onwards will be apportioned towards current financial year only. The same is applicable for RICT / EB / MB / IPPB transactions. 

We are working on a solution for accepting previous year deposits without penal fee; instructions will be shared later, once the patch is deployed in Finacle. Customers may be advised to wait, if they have to make any deposits for the previous year. If any of the customers who have already paid the minimum subscription for last year and want to deposit additional subscription (up to a maximum of 1.5 lakhs) they may also be advised to wait as they are eligible to do so till June 2020.

With Regards.
Sachin Kishore,DDG (FS)
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi Ph 23096101
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Patch Deployment in Finacle Dated 07.02.2020

Subject: Patch Deployment in Finacle
Dear SPOCs,
The following CBS functionality patches are deployed in production in this week, the details are shared below for further intimation to field units.
1. SMS Alerts for change in CIF ID in CMRC Menu:
​a.  SMS will be sent to old and New Mobile numbers if the mobile number is changed in CMRC. 
b.  For mobile number addition in CMRC  SMS will be sent to the newly added mobile number. 
2. Correction of error message in PPF Loan Account Opening:
Displaying correct error message “LPPF account can be opened between 3rd and 5th FY of PPF account. Please select such account’ during PPF loan account opening instead of current error message.
3. MIS Reports :
Last Balance report (SBA/TDA) reports are made available for SU users in MIS.
4. Error Message in CMRC  for suspension functionality:
Proper error message “Active accounts are linked to the CIF. Hence cannot be suspended” during CMRC Suspend functionality if active accounts are linked with the CIF ID.
5. Agent commission Report:
Patch  for fine-tuning Agent Commission Report to display records based on transaction SOL ID instead of SOL ID to which agent is attached.
Thanks & regards,
CEPT – CBS Team
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Changes made in Sanchay Post || Patch dated 20.12.2019

SANCHAY POST Init_Schemes_Dec2019

(a) PPF – Initialization for minimum deposit amount (Rs.500)in account opening, subsequent deposit (Rs.50), multiple factor has been incorporated.
(b) SSA – Initialization for minimum deposit amount (Rs.250)in account opening, subsequent deposit (Rs.50), multiple factor has been incorporated.
(c) SB – Initialization w.r.t to account opening(Rs.500) , subsequent withdrawal of Minimum Rs.50 have been incorporated. 
(c) Opening of MIS account with minimum deposit of Rs.1000/- and in multiples of Rs.1000/- has been incorporated.
(d) Opening of RD accounts with minimum deposit of Rs.100/- has been incorporated. Multiples of Rs.10/- could not be incorporated in sanchay post now. Patch is expected from FSI vendor.
(e) TD accounts with minimum deposit of Rs.1000/- has been incorporated. Multiples of Rs.100/- could not be incorporated in sanchay post now. Patch is expected from FSI vendor.
(f) KVP accounts can be opened with minimum deposit of Rs1000/- and in multiples of Rs.1000/-.In Multiples of Rs.100/- could not be incorporated in sanchay post now. Patch is expected from FSI Vendor
  • Minimum, multiples deposits as per SB order 13/2019 are to be handled procedurally by Post offices. Below said Configurations are to be handled manually as Patch is expected from FSI Vendor. 
  • NSC accounts with minimum of Rs.100/- and in multiples of Rs.100/- can be opened in Sanchay Post. Hence Post Offices are requested to ensure manually ensure that, accounts of less than minimum deposit of Rs.1000/- are not opened.
  • Savings Account – Acceptance of subsequent deposits not less than Rs.10/- to be ensured manually.