CITU Congratulates the Gramin Dak Sevaks for the magnificent united all India strike
Demands the Government immediately implement the pro employee
recommendations of Kamalesh Chandra Committee Report
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) congratulates the nearly
three lakh Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) of the Postal Department for the magnificent
united all India Strike. All the four GDS Unions (AIPEU-GDS, AIGDSU, NUGDS
& BPEDU) are on an indefinite strike from 22 May 2018. All the postal
employees’ unions have supported the strike. As per reports the strike is total
and 1,29,500 Branch Post Offices remained closed.
More than 60% of the employees of the Postal Department are GDS
and more than 80% of the Post Offices are GDS Branch Post Offices. Major
revenue of the department comes from GDS. They are not treated as Postal
employees and were paid a pittance. The Gramin Dak Sevaks have a great legacy
of struggles and whatever facilities they are enjoying at present is the result
of their bitter struggles along with the postal employees.
This strike was forced by the NDA government which not only
denied to address the long pending demands of the Gramin Dak Sevaks for
regularisation as government employees, but refused to implement the
recommendations of Kamalesh Chandra Committee Report on the service conditions
of the GDS. The Committee which was appointed by the government to look into
the service conditions of the Gramin Dak Sevaks had submitted its report as early
in November 2016. The Union Minister had promised to implement the pro-employee
recommendations of the report. Even after eighteen months the orders are still
awaited. The GDS and their unions were forced to go on an indefinite strike
after the government had failed to meet even the latest deadline of April 2018,
it had promised.
CITU expresses solidarity with the striking employees and
demands that the NDA government must immediately settle the issue by agreeing
to the just demands of these grass root level workers who deliver valuable
service to the common people.
Issued by
Tapan Sen
General Secretary
Tapan Sen
General Secretary
