CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
1st Floor, North Avenue New Delhi
Website:
www.confederationhq.blogspot.com
Circular No:
15 Date:
5/4/2014
Dear Comrade,
The National Convention of Central Government employees as scheduled was held
at Nagpur
The Draft resolution prepared by the
National Secretariat was presented to the house by Com. M.S. Raja, Working
President, Confederation. Com. K.K.N. Kutty, President, read out the two
amendments received at the CHQ. In the deliberations that ensued
thereafter 31 comrades participated. Com. M. Krishnan, Secretary General, summed
up the discussion and indicated the acceptance of the suggestions made by the
delegates who participated in the deliberations. A copy of the final
version of the resolution as adopted by the Convention unanimously is
enclosed. Before the adoption of the resolution in its final form by the
house, Com. S.K. Vyas, Advisor, Com. Narasimhan, Vice President and Com. K.P.
Rajagopal, Secretary, Confederation addressed the house.
The National Secretariat of the Confederation met on the same day at
7.00PM. It took the following decisions to carry out the directives of
the Convention.
1. The State Committees of the Confederation and its
affiliated Federations will take steps to translate the resolution in the
respective local languages immediately and ensure that the same is circulated
amongst the members.
2. Meetings will be organised in all offices to explain
the contents of the resolution adopted by the National Convention.
3. The National Secretariat members who are assigned the
responsibility (as per the details in the annexure) will interact with the
State Secretaries and ensure that the campaign programme of reaching out to all
members is carried out in all States.
4. The State Committees will solicit and enlist the services
of the Pensioners organisations to carry out the campaign amongst the mass of
the people.
All affiliates and State Committees are
requested to take immediate steps to carry out the above decisions of the
National Secretariat.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
M. Krishnan
Secretary General.
Name of the
Secretariat Member: State
Assigned.
1. M. Krishnan and
R.Seethalakshmi.; Karnataka and Kerala.
2. Com . K.K.N. Kutty and Com.
Duraipandian. Tamilnadu.
3. Com. Narasimhan, Nageswara Rao and
P.Suresh: Andhra Pradesh
4. Com. R.P.Singh and Com. P.
Jeyaraj. Mumbai.
5. Coms. P.K. Das. Gupreet Singh. & Nilesh
Nasre
Vidharbha.
6. Com. Yeshwant Purohit and Com.T.K.R. Pillai.
Mdhya Pradesh.
7. Com. R.N. Parasar T.
Sathyanaryana.
Gujarat .
8. Com.
Suresh.
Chattisgarh.
9. Com. Vrighu Bhattacharjee and Giriraj
Singh.
Jhararkhand.
10. Com. R.N.
Dhall
Orissa.
11. Vrighu Bhattachary
and Giriraj
Singh.
Bihar .
12. Com.R.N.
Parasar.
U.P.
13. Com. Somaiah,
Ashok Kanojia.& K.P.Rajagopal
. Haryana. And Punjab ,
14. Com. M.S.
Raja. H.P. and Utrakhand
15. Com. S.K. Vyas and
Com.N. Somaiah
Rajasthan
16. Com.R.N. Parasar,
Vrigu Bjattacjarya, A.K. Kanojia & Giriraj Singh.: Delhi
RESOLUTION
adopted at the National Convention of Central
Government employees on 4th April, 2014 at Nagpur
1. The National Secretariat of the Confederation places
on record its appreciation over the massive and magnificent participation of
the largest number of our members in the 48 hour strike on 12thand
13th Feb. 2014. It was a great manifestation of the confidence the
members had reposed in the organization and their determination to win the
demands through struggles. The reports, the Confederation CHQ
received both from the affiliates and the State Committee indicate the massive
participation of the employees in the strike action throughout the
county. In some of the affiliates, the participation had been cent
percent. This must embolden the Confederation to pursue the issue
with determination and organize further action programmes to ensure that the
demands are got settled.
2. The Secretariat has noted that the Government had
pretended to ignore the massive action of the employees. There had
been no response from them so far. In the wake of the strike
action, it announced the composition of the 7th CPC
disregarding the united demand raised by the Staff side of the JCM National
Council for the inclusion of a labour representative. The Government
also chose not to convene the meeting the staff side to discuss the draft terms
of reference submitted. It did not make any announcement on the
question of merger of DA, Interim Relief, and inclusion of GDS within the ambit
of the Commission and rejected the demand for making the recommendation of the
Commission effective from 1.1.2014.
3. On every issue, which is included in the 15 point
Charter of demands, the Govt. continued with its nugatory
attitude. In the last session of the Parliament, they ensured
that the PFRDA bill becomes an Act despite the strongest objection and
resistance of the employees by eliciting and receiving the support and
patronage of the dominant opposition party, the BJP. Even on an
issue like compassionate appointments, no positive response
emerged. The period witnessed increased outsourcing of
governmental functions. Almost a third of the workforce is presently
casual and contract workers with abysmally poor wages taking advantage of the
acute unemployment situation in the country. There had been no
settlement of any issue raised by the Staff Side in the National Council
JCM. The JCM scheme has been made ineffective as not a single
meeting of the Council was held in the last three years and even the decision
taken at the National Anomaly Committee was thwarted through political intervention.
4. The plight of the three lakh Gramin Dak Sevaks of the
Postal Department is highly deplorable. They constitute almost half of
the Postal work force. But for them, the functioning of the Postal system will
come to a grinding halt. Their service conditions are presently worse off
than even a causal/daily rated worker. Despite the Supreme Court’s decisions
that they are holders of Civil Post and consequently are entitled to the
benefits and privileges of a civil servant, there had been no improvement in
their service conditions worth mentioning. In spite of repeated
presentation of their case both inside and outside the Parliament by people
from all walks of life irrespective of party affiliation, the Government had
been silent to the pleading for bringing them within the ambit of the Pay
Commissions. Confederation is duty bound and determined to change the
situation and to bring them within the purview of the 7th CPC.
5. During its five year tenure the UPA-II was in power,
it intensified the neo-liberal reforms; phased out all welfare measures;
accentuated the unemployment situation; divested the PSUs; allowed unbridled
entry of Foreign capital to subjugate the Indian people; ruined the indigenous
industry; destroyed the livelihood of the farmers and agricultural labourers;
allowed the prices of all essential food items to soar; privatised education
and health care services; ensured that each of its decision was to favour the
rich; granted huge tax concessions to the corporate; indulged in large scale
corruption; squandered away the national wealth; siphoned off the poor man’s
earning into the hands of a few rich in the country; sided with the
entrepreneurs in all labour disputes; took each and every political
decision to sub-serve the interest of the imperialist powers especially the
USA. The pursuance of the neo liberal policies at the behest of the
advanced capitalist countries drove the majority of Indian population to be
below the poverty levels. In the comity of nations, India
6. Those who were responsible in driving our country men
to unprecedented deprivation have to now seek mandate, for their tenure is to
end shortly. No different is the approach of the major opposition party,
BJP. There is nothing to choose from these two political
dispensations. They were hand in glove together to demolish the
sovereignty of the country; pauperisation of the people and supported every
legislation to intensify the neo liberal exploitation of the common man.
They supported to hilt the corporate houses. But for the support
extended by the BJP, the PFRDA bill would never have been made into a
law. The Act now provides for the extension of the new contributory
pension scheme to those who were recruited prior to 1.1.2004 and the existing
pensioners. Despite the refusal of the Government to accept their suggestion
to guarantee minimum pension, the BJP unashamedly supported the Bill, for they
were the proponents of the neo liberal economic policies. They supported
this Government to increase the FDI and FII in all sectors of economy and
announced that they would intensify the reform process if elected to
power. The conglomeration of Corporates in the country has now appointed
the leader of that party to be the next CEO to run the country. They have
no use for the discredited UPA howsoever subservient it could be. They
know in a democratic system demagogy can play a vital role. They are
certain that BJP and its allies if elected to power will be much more pliant
and compliant.
7. The Corporate controlled media has created an illusion
to the effect that there exists a consensus across the political spectrum in
the country that the neo liberal policies will spur economic growth and the
only point to be clinched in the forthcoming election is as to which political
combination, whether the UPA led by Rahul Gandhi or the NDA of Narendra Modi is
more efficient in pursuing the IMF dictated economic policies vigorously.
Economic growth is not akin to development. In the initial years of the
introduction of the LPG, no doubt, the economy grew phenomenally, but the large
majority of Indian people suffered. It permanently halted the bringing up of an
egalitarian society. It only enlarged the scope for maximisation of
profit of the corporate giants; opened up larger and bigger avenues for
corruption at the top of administration, whereby the ruling party and its
leaders could amass wealth. The scams unearthed by the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India during the last five years of UPA II Rule speak
volumes of the cancerous growth of corruption in our country. The 2G
spectrum involving Rs. 1.76 lakh crores, the Coalgate of the dimension of
Rs. 1.86 lakh crores, the corruption involved in the Commonwealth games, the
Rs. 40,000 cr deal in the Delhi Airport Privatisation scheme, The KG Basin
related Gas price deal with Reliance, topping with Rs 48 lakh crores are a few
that surfaced during this period.
8. As part of the economic policy, concerted and
continuous efforts were made to the job killing process in all sectors, through
contractorisation, casualisation, outsourcing, privatisation etc. Contract
workers now constitute 80% of the total work force in the private sector.
After the implementation of the 6th CPC recommendations
about 35% of the workforce in the Governmental sector is either contract or
casual workers. They are paid quarter of or even less the wages of the
regular workers.
9. This election is not only to decide who should govern
this country but more so to determine for whom the governance is. UPA having
been totally discredited in the eyes of the common man has no chance
whatsoever. NDA must not have a chance once again for it is bound to
pursue the neo liberal policies more vigorously than even the UPA. That is the
one and only reason why the Indian corporate houses and the corporate controlled
media solidly back the BJP and the BJP led NDA. The Political combination
outside the NDA and UPA has a predominant presence in the 15th Lok
Sabha. They are capable of being the largest segment in the 16th Lok
Sabha too.
10. It is in this
background that the workers must assess the political situation. In the
forthcoming electoral battle, every worker must discharge his salutary
responsibility. Since the present state of affairs is the product of the
neo- liberal policies and since both the UPA and the NDA are the proponents of
those policies, one must have clear vision and exercise the franchise
effectively to ensure that a pro-worker, pro-people combination of parties is
in governance. In the forthcoming election to the 16th Lok
Sabha, the Central Government employees must become a vehicle for change in the
interest of the common people; rise above the divisive ideologies and
misleading propaganda; identify their friends especially in the Left parties;
and ensure the success of those who stood with them and fought for the cause of
the workers and common people.
11. The Secretariat came
to the inescapable conclusion that the settlement of the demands in the charter
will only be possible through intensification of the struggles. It
recognised the need for larger unity. It will strive for bringing about such a
united platform for joint action. The inevitability of an indefinite
strike action has to be emphasised. The Confederation and its affiliates
must prepare its members for such an eventual and unavoidable action, if the
proposed 7th CPC is to really revise the wages. It is
needed to ensure the withdrawal of the pernicious contributory pension
scheme. It only will ensure that there are no casual or contract system
of employment in Government service. The Government employees must
be bestowed with democratic rights and above all must enjoy the facility for
collective bargaining and right to strike. The Gramin Dak Sevak
system is a colonial legacy and no civilised country must endure such brutal
exploitation. All is possible through united and sustained action.
The Confederation has proved beyond any iota of doubt that it has built up an
organisation capable of carrying out such an action.
12. To ensure that the
Indian people have food security, the farmers are not driven to commit suicide,
the workers do have decent job environment and emoluments, the prices of
essential commodities do not soar, there is universal public distribution of
essential food articles; India has an independent foreign policy, this great
Nation is not enslaved by western imperial powers once again, all communities
and people of different faiths are allowed to live in peace and harmony; no
communal violence erupts; all able bodied people have jobs and livelihood, there
must be a Government which exist for the sake of the poor inhabitants of this
country. Central Government employees must take an active role in the
ensuing General election and strive with their best to bring about such a
Government.
13. This convention
calls upon every worker of the Confederation to fan out and reach out to the
rank and file of its membership, explain the stupendous task ahead; to work in
consonance with the understanding depicted in this resolution and ensure that
they become instruments for a great political change in our country.
14. The Convention
authorises the National Secretariat to review the political situation emerging
after the election and take appropriate decision to mobilise the rank and file
of the workers for an eventual industrial action to seek settlement of the 15
point charter of demands.
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