Reply received from the
Department of Post on One Day Strike notice and 10 points charter
of demands on 23.08.2017 (23rd August-2017) is not
satisfactory. (Letter is placed below):
WE WILL NOT WITHDRAW OR DEFER OUR STRIKE
MERELY ON ASSURANCES
WE WANT RESULT.
OUR STRIKE DECISION STANDS
All General Secretaries / Circle / Divisional and Branch
Secretaries are requested to make extensive preparations to Make One Day Strike
on 23rd August-2017 a grand success.
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REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT OF POSTS
No.
08-12/2017-SR
Government
of India
Ministry
of Communications
Department
of Posts
(SR
Section)
Dak Bhawan, New Delhi
Dated: 01st August, 2017
To,
The Secretary
General,
National Federation
of Postal Employees,
1st Floor,
North Avenue P.O. Building,
New Delhi – 110001.
Subject: Trade Union action
including one day strike on 23.08.2017 call given by National Federation of
Postal Employees (NFPE) in support of their demands.
Sir,
I am directed to refer to your letter No.
PF-12-C/2017 dated Nil on the above mentioned subject. The charter of demands
has been examined by the concerned Divisions and replies to each item of
demands showing the present status are enclosed herewith.
2.
As many of your demands have been settled and few are under active
consideration of the Department, it is requested that the proposed agitation
including the one day strike called by you on 23.08.2017 may be called off.
Yours faithfully,
Encl: As Above
-sd/-
(P. S. Verma)
Director (SR &
Legal)
Charter of demands submitted by NFPE vide letter dated 05.06.2017:
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Demands
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1.
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Filling up of all vacant posts in all cadres of Department
of Posts i.e. PA, SA, Postmen, Mailguard, Mailmen, MTS, PACO, PASBCO, Postal
Accounts and GDS.
REPLY
GDS: Process of
online engagement of GDS has already been started to fill up vacant post of
GDS in 17 Circles. Due to technical snags in the online engagement software,
process in remaining Circles will be started only after process in 17 Circles
will finalize.
PA/SA: Result
of PA/SA for the year 2015 is kept in abeyance as the matter is subjudice.
Vacancies of PA/SA for the year 2016 have already been intimated to SSC.
LGO exam for
promotion to the cadre of PA/SA for deputation to APS has been conducted on
04.06.2017.
LGOs exam for promotion to Assistants in MMS, Foreign Post, RLO, Stores Depot
and CO/RO has been held on 16.07.2017.
In
r/o other exams, viz. IP Exam 2016-17, PM Grade I and PS Group B 2017-18,
LGOs to PAs/SAs 2016-17 and 2017-18, engagement of new approved Agency is in
the pipeline. MoU between Department and Agency is to be signed.
For
the Postman/Mail Guard and MTS cadre exams, instructions have been issued to
all the Circles to fill up the vacancies by giving top priority.
Calendar of departmental Examinations scheduled to be held in the year
2017-18 has already been issued to all the Circles by giving tentative
schedule for filling up the vacancies of decentralized examination i.e. PO
& RMS Accountant Examination, LDCs to Junior Accountants in PAOs (Exam
has been conducted by respective Circles), LGOs examination for promotion to
Assistants of other wings i.e. MMS, Foreign Post, RLO, Stores Depot and CO/RO
and other exams
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2.
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Implementation of positive recommendations of GDS Committee
Report. Grant of civil servant status to GDS.
REPLY
The recommendations of the
Kamlesh Chandra Committee have been considered by the Department of Posts and
mandatory approvals are being obtained in this regard.
As far as grant of civil servant
status to GDS is concerned, it is stated that according to Rule 3-A (v) of
GDS Conduct Rules 2011, a Sevak shall be outside the Civil Service of the
Union. Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in the matter of Superintendent of Post
Offices vs PK Rajamma (1977) (3) SCC held that the Extra Departmental Agents
{now called Gramin Dak Sevaks} are holders of the civil post outside the
regular civil services. Moreover, they are part time employees being engaged
for maximum of 5 hrs a day. In the light of above legal position demand of
the Federation cannot be acceded to.
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3.
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Membership verification of GDS and declaration of result of
regular employees’ membership verification.
REPLY
GDS Verification:
The instructions have already been issued to all Circles to conduct
the re-verification of membership of GDS employees vide this office letter
No. 13-01/2016-SR dated 20.06.2017.
Declaration of result of regular employees’ membership verification:
The concerned file is being processed and the result is likely to be
declared shortly
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4.
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Stop all types of harassment and victimization in the name
of new schemes and technology induction and under contributory negligence
factor and Trade Union victimization.
REPLY
FS Division has
informed that no new schemes are launched by that Division on behalf of DoP.
The DoP is operating Small Savings Schemes on behalf of MoF.
PLI Directorate has
informed that they have completed roll out of Core Insurance Solution (CIS)
as on 25.01.2016 to 808 HOs and 24598 Sub Post Offices as per the information
provided by Circles. Roll out of RICT has not been initiated so far. They
have also informed that at no point of time any case of harassment &
victimization of staff has come to their notice
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5.
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Payment of revised wages and arrears to the casual,
part-time, contingent employees and daily rated mazdoors as per 6th &
7th CPC .
REPLY
The order in
respect of minimum pay for calculation of pay of casual labourers (without
temporary status) has already been issued vide this office letter no.
7-10/2016-PCC dated 31.03.2017
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6.
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Stop Privatization, Contractorization and outsourcing.
REPLY
There is no proposal of corporatization/privatization at this
juncture. The Department is making efforts to give better and
competitive services to the customers specifically in the areas of insurance,
banking and parcels.
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Implement cadre restructuring for left out categories i.e.
RMS, MMS, PACO, PASBCO, Postmaster Cadre PostalSSSSSSSSSS Accounts etc. and
accept the modifications suggested by Federation before implementation of
cadre restructuring in Postal Group ‘C’.
REPLY
The cadre
restructuring of left out cadres, i.e. RMS, PACO and PASBCO is currently
under examination in consultation with the Department of Expenditure. The
matter of cadre restructuring of Postmaster Cadre will be examined
thereafter.
A
Committee has been constituted, vide this office letter no. 25-04/2012-PE-I
dated 09.06.2017, under the Chairmanship of Shri Charles Lobo, CPMG Karnataka
Circle, to examine the issues arising out of implementation of Cadre
Restructuring of Group C employees.
Cadre
review of MMS is under active consultation with Ministry of Finance, DoE.
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Provision of CGHS facilities to Postal Pensioners also as
recommended by 7th CPC.
REPLY
The CGHS facilities
have been extended to the pensioners of Post and Telegraph Department by the
M/o Health & Family Welfare vide O.M. No. S-11016/2/2015-CGHS(P)/EHS
dated 19.07.2017 and the same has been circulated by the Dte. To all the
Circles vide letter no. 2-3/2009-Medical dated 25.07.2017.
The issue of
merger of 33 Postal Dispensaries is under consideration with the Ministry of
Health & Family Welfare.
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Withdraw NPS (Contributory Pension Scheme). Guarantee 50% of
last pay drawn as minimum pension.
REPLY;
The demand for
withdrawal of NPS (Contributory Pension Scheme) is outside the purview of
this Department. As regards guarantee of 50% last pay drawn as minimum
pension, it is mentioned that govt. has already enhanced minimum pension to
Rs. 9000/- w.e.f. 01.01.2016. The pension of retiring employees is fixed at
50% of emoluments or average emoluments, whichever is more beneficial under
Rule 49(2) of CCS (Pension) Rules.
Government has also decided to revise pension of pre-2016 pensioners to 50%
of notional pay in pay matrix of 7th CPC by fixing pay on
notional basis during each intervening Pay Commission.
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10.
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Implement five days week working for operative staff in the
Postal Department.
REPLY
Since the Department
of Posts is a service oriented Department, decision of 5 days week lead to
public inconvenience and further, to public complaints.
This decision will also
results in revenue loss to the Department as customer will go for other
alternatives when Post Offices are closed on Saturday.
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