Re-classification of Saharanpur as "Y" class city for the purpose of HRA

No. 2(14)/2010-E.II(B)

Government of India

Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure

New Delhi, 15th June, 2011.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Re-classification of Saharanpur as “Y” class city for the purpose of House Rent Allowance – regarding.

The undersigned is directed to invite attention to this Ministry’s O.M. No.2(21)/E.II(B)/2004 dated 18.11.2004 & O.M. No.2(13)/2008-E.II(B) dated 29.08.2008 regarding re-classification of cities on the basis of the population figures of 2001 census for the purpose of HRA to the Central Government employees and to say that the Government of Uttar Pradesh vide their Notification No.2176/9-7-09-53J/1998 dated 01.10.2009 reconstituted the area of Saharanpur (M.B.) by adding certain areas within its Municipal limits and renamed it as Saharanpur Municipal Corporation, which resulted in an increase in population of ‘Saharanpur Municipal Corporation’ to qualify it for classification as ‘Y’ class city for the purpose of House Rent Allowance to the Central Government employees.
2. The President is, accordingly, pleased to decide that Saharanpur city (within its Municipal limits) shall stand re-classified as “Y” class city for the purpose of grant of House Rent Allowance to the Central Government employees posted there.
3. These orders shall be effective from 1st June, 2011.
4. The orders will apply to all civilian employees of the Central Government. The orders will also be applicable to the civilian employees paid from the Defence Services Estimates. In respect of Armed Forces personnel and Railway employees, separate orders will be issued by the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Railways, respectively.
5. In so far as the persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, these orders issue in consultation with the Comptroller & Auditor General of India.

sd/-

(Anil Sharma)

Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

How to Disable the Shutdown Event Tracker in Server 2003 / 2008?

A nice feature that can sometimes by annoying is the Shutdown Event Tracker, that allows you to comment every time you shut off a server. While I do understand the auditing requirements to have this in place on production server, this feature is unnecessary for development and test servers and can be disabled.

To disable Shutdown Event Tracker we need to open the Group Policy Editor, the Group Policy Editor can be opened from pressing "START > RUN > GPEDIT.MSC " then press ENTER

From the navigation menu on the left side navigate to "Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System", then on the right side double click "Display Shutdown Event Tracker"

Change the option from "Not Configured" to "Disabled" > Press "Apply" then press "OK

Note you can also use this to enable Shutdown Event Tracker in Vista although I have no idea why someone would want to do that.

A restart is not required for this change to take effect.

MS Office Key Remover 1.0.0.4

Office Key Remover 1.0.0.4

Office Key Remover is a small tool which removes Microsoft Office's license information on your machine! This way you're able to change the license key of Microsoft Office.
This application may require administrator rights!

Screenshots:

Office Key Remover:

Instructions to change your Office product key

1. Run Office Key Remover
2. Choose which version's license data you want to be removed
3. Start one of the Office products
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Requirements: 
· NET Framework 3.5 (or higher versions)

Changelog

Version 1.0.0.4:

• Updated installer (can uninstall now)
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• False installer AV detection was fixed
• Installer can uninstall the application now   

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India's $35 Tablet "Sakshat" to Launch this month...finally....

The Indian government had in July this year, declared its intentions of launching a $35 tablet, Sakshat, for students and teachers. It looks like this project is finally set to take off with the laptop being expected to be launched sometime this month.

These tablets will be powered by Linux Operating System and will be made by HCL Technologies. It is rumored that Microsoft had offered Windows CE to the Govt of India, but looks like the Govt finally settled on Linux.

Specifications:

• Operating System: Linux
• Display: 7-inch Touch Screen
• Keyboard: Built in
• RAM: 2GB
• 32GB hard drive
• Connectivity: WiFi, USB port
• Power: 2 watt
• Video conferencing facility
• Multimedia content
• Will support Open/Libre Office, SciLab and Internet browsing.

To begin with, 10,000 Sakshat tablets will be delivered to the Indian Institute of Technology, Rajasthan in late June. Over the next four months more than 90,000 tablet units will be made ready for delivery

They will cost Rs 2,200, but the government plans to further subsidize the cost by 50 per cent. This will bring down the cost to end-users to Rs 1100/-, that’s around $35.