Thursday, August 2, 2012
India Post Announces Special Discount of 6.5% on Gold Coins for Raksha BandhanFor this Raksha Bandhan, India Post has announced a special discount of 6.5% on purchase of Gold coins.
On 1st August 2012 any
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These gold coins bear
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packaging having benefits like internationally recognized certification, low
risk of duplication, quality packaging, product standardization and numbering
with assayer certification.
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BK/ AT/PM
(Release ID :85606)No. PF-01(e)/2012 DATED 31.07.2012 CIRCULAR
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
1ST FLOOR NORTH AVENUE
POST OFFICE BUILDING
NEW DELHI-110001
No. PF-01(e)/2012 DATED 31.07.2012
CIRCULAR
To,
All
General Secretaries / NFPE office bearers /All All India office bearers of
affiliated unions all Circle/Divisional /Branch Secretaries
MORE THAN 20,000 MARCH IN THE
CONFEDERATION RALLY
At the call of the Confederation of
CG Employees and Workers, more than 20,000 employees and workers of various
organisations of Central Government marched in the rally before Parliament on
26th July, 2012. Thousands and thousands of employees surged into
the national capital to take part in the March to Parliament demanding
implementation of 15 Point Charter of Demands including immediate formation of
7th CPC to revise the wage structure of Central Government Employees
once in five years with the revision with effect from 1.1.2011; Merger of 50%
DA with the basic pay for all purposes as was done from 1.1.2004 based on the
recommendations of IV CPC; Revision of wages of three lakhs of Grameen Dak
Sevaks of Postal Department through the 7th CPC itself;
Regularisation of both GDS and Casual labourers through formation of
appropriate schemes of regularisation; Ending the discrimination in grant
of Compassionate appointments between
Railways and other CG Departments; Scrapping PFRDA Bill; Grant of five
promotions in the career of an employee etc.
The response to the call of the
Confederation for the rally before Parliament was so intense that employees
from all States and belonging to all affiliates of Confederation in thousands
reached the Jantar Mantar venue of the beginning point of the rally even before
the scheduled time of start of the Rally. Later with all leaders of
Confederation and its affiliates leading the rally under the banner of
Confederation at the head of the procession, the rally reached the designated
spot.
Veteran Parliament Members Comrade
Basudev Acharya; Comrade Tapen Sen and AITUC All India Leader Comrade Amarjit
Kaur addressed the rally. The rally was presided over by the President Comrade
S.K.Vyas. The rally was addressed by Comrades K.Ragavendran Working President
of Confederation; M.Krishnan Secretary General of NFPE; and several other
leaders.
Comrade K.K.N.Kutty Secretary
General of Confederation declared the decisions of the national secretariat
that if within three months the demands are not accepted by the Central
Government and 7th CPC not constituted, the entirety of CG Employees
under the Confederation will launch an all India Strike on 12th
December, 2012. Other decisions of the Secretariat about holding of State level
Conventions and District level Conventions as well as holding of Mass Dharnas
and Mass Rallies to Raj Bhawans /Chief Ministers etc to submit memorandum
before the Strike etc were also pointed out by the Secretary General in his
address.
A Memorandum to the Honourable
Prime Minister of India with the explanatory note on all the items of 15 Points
of Charter will be submitted to the Prime Minister by the delegation of the
Confederation along with the senior Parliamentarian Comrade Basudev Acharya.
The full text of the Memorandum can be obtained from the website of
Confederation.
ROLE OF NFPE ORGANISATIONS IN
CONFEDERATION STRIKE CALL
NFPE organisations from several circles
including from the distant circles like Kerala, Tamilnadu, Andhra, Assam and
NE, West Bengal, Maharashtra as well as from many other circles surrounding
Delhi like U.P, Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, Rajasthan,
Gujarat, M.P etc representing all affiliates of NFPE constituted the major
contingent of the Confederation rally. The participation of thousands of
regular employees as well as Grameen Dak Sewaks under the banner of the newly
formed GDS [NFPE] Union including casual workers under the banner of Casual
Labour Union ensured the role of NFPE as a major constituent of Confederation.
NFPE congratulates all the leaders who took serious attempts to mobilize our
rank and file in large numbers to the rally and calls upon the leadership at all
levels to take up this task of organising for the intended strike on 12th
December very seriously, keeping in mind that the role of the Postal
Organisations is very vital in
converting the call of the Confederation a huge success.
NFPE All India Convention on 26th
July
After the rally was over, a
national convention of NFPE was organised at Dr.Ambedkar Bhawan in the
afternoon of 26th July. The All India Convention was presided over
by Comrade K.V.Sridharan Ex-General Secretary P3 and addressed by large number of leaders including the General
Secretaries of different affiliates of NFPE and other All India leaders. The
Convention was addressed by Comrades M.Krishnan [Secretary General];
B.G.Tamhankar [Ex-President NFPE]; R.Sivanarayana [General Secretary P3];
Ishwar Singh Dabas [General Secretary P4]; Giriraj Singh [General Secretary
R3]; P.Suresh [General Secretary R4]; Pranab Bhattacharjee [General Secretary
Admn]; Sathyanarayana [General Secretary Postal Accounts]; P.Panduranga Rao
[General Secretary GDS (NFPE)]; Appanraj [General Secretary SBCO]; Mohan
[General Secretary Casual labour]; Com.K.K.Sharma Vice President of NFPE
R.N.Parashar [Assistant Secretary General NFPE]; R.Seethalakshmi [Assistant
Secretary General]; S.Ragupathy [Assistant Secretary General NFPE]; S.K.humayun
[President P4]; Samir Bardhan [President R3]; Bijoy Gopal Sur [President
GDS(NFPE)]; Y.Nagabhushanum [Working President Casual Labour]; Balwinder Singh
[Finance Secretary P3]; C.P.Shobana [Chair Person Confederation Mahila Committee];
Amaresh Thakur [Ex-General Secretary Postal Accounts] and others.
The All India Convention endorsed
the decisions of the Confederation to launch a strike on 12.12.2012 to win the
15 Point Charter of Demands and called upon the entire rank and file of NFPE organizations
to take all organizational efforts for the total success of the strike action.
Various decisions to organize struggles.
GDS DHARNA ON 27.07.2012
A massive Dharna in which more than
a thousand GDS employees and also from the regular employees organizations
under the banner of the AIPEU GDS(NFPE) was held at Dr.Ambedkar Bhawan on 27th
July, 2012. The Dharna was organised as per the decisions of the CWC of the GDS
[NFPE] union to focus attention on a 32 Point Charter of Demands pertaining to
GDS employees. The demands like 7th CPC going into the issues of GDS
instead of any formation of a separate committee etc; grant of 50% DA with
Basic Pay to GDS on par with the regular employees; Departmentalization of GDS
by evolving a scheme; Ending the discrimination on Bonus Ceiling between the
GDS and other employees; and many other demands were given effective focus in
the Dharna.
Comrade Basudev Acharya senior
Parliament Member addressed the Dharna and assured all support inside the
Parliament to the cause of GDS and advised the leadership to prepare a
comprehensive memorandum on the important GDS problems and submit it to the
Honourable Speaker of Parliament. He assured that there will be serious follow
up action by him with the Speaker.
Comrade R.N.Parashar Assistant
Secretary General NFPE anchored the proceedings of the Dharna. Comrade
P.Panduranga Rao General Secretary GDS(NFPE) elaborately spoke on all the
demands of the GDS Charter and called upon the GDS all over the country to get
prepared for greater movement and struggle under the guidance of the mighty
National Federation of Postal Employees. Comrade M.Krishnan [Secretary General
NFPE] who declared that the NFPE will not rest until the basic problems of GDS
are fully sorted out and that there will be greater struggles of united postal
employees’ movement in this regard in future.
Comrade S.K.Vyas [President Confederation] assured total support to the
GDS(NFPE) Union and assured that the Confederation will seriously take up the
issue to include the GDS wage review by the 7th CPC itself. Comrade
K.Ragavendran [Working President Confederation] traced the developments like
disruption of a united joint movement of Postal Employees that contributed to
the failures of major issues of GDS including permitting the Nataraja Murthy
Committee and the consequential negative recommendations implemented on the
GDS. Comrade K.V.Sridharan [Ex-General Secretary P3] spoke in detail about the
ways and means of departmentalization of GDS. Comrade K.P.Rajagopal [Secretary
General ITEF]; VAN Namboodiri President BSNLEU; R.Sivannarayana [General
Secretary P3]; Ishwar Singh Dabas [General Secretary P4]; Giriraj Singh
[General Secretary R3]; Pranab Bhattacharjee [General Secretary Admn];
Sathyanarayana [General Secretary Postal Accounts]; Bijoy Gopal Sur [President
GDS (NFPE)]; Y.Nagabhushanam [Working President Casual labour] and other
leaders spoke extending total support to the cause of GDS.
BUILD STRONGER THE GDS (NFPE) UNION:
All appreciated the role of the
newly formed GDS (NFPE) Union in taking up the agitational path as soon as its
formation. The participation of all regular employees’ organisations in the GDS Dharna
enthused all the GDS participants. NFPE Headquarters stresses once again that
in line with the decision of the NFPE Secretariat to accord ‘Associate
Membership’ to the AIPEU GDS(NFPE) Union and the Central Working Committee
Meetings of both P3 and P4 resolving to strengthen the newly formed GDS (NFPE)
Union at all circles by extending total cooperation and help in building that
union, all should on priority basis take up this task also to complete the
formation of this GDS (NFPE) Union within a period of two months to facilitate
emerging as the ‘First Union’ in the Postal Services.
ONE DAY STRIKE DATED 12.12.12
Confederation
of Central Government Employees and workers has decided for one day strike on
12.12.12 and NFPE in its Federal Secretariat has endorsed the decision of
confederation.
Campaign
programme for preparation of strike from Confederation and NFPE will be sent separately.
All are requested to start preparations for strike.
FINANCIAL POSITION OF NFPE
Comrades,
Financial position
of NFPE is going to be weak day by day as most of the branches are not
remitting due quota and subscription of Postal Crusader. All General
Secretaries All India Office bearers, Circle, Divisional and
Branch Secretaries
are requested to cause full remittance of quota and Postal Crusader
subscription so that NFPE HQ may function effectively and efficiently to serve
the membership to the maximum extent.
With revolutionary
greetings
Yours Comradely,
(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
CGHS-GUIDELINES FOR REFERRING THE CASES TO HEALTH MINISTRY
Department of Health and
Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has observed that issues
relating to CGHS Matters are referred by various Ministries and Departments to
Department of Health in a routine manner which could have been settled at the
CGHS beneficiary’s own Ministry or Department.
Hence, it is informed by Department of Health and Family Welfare that
cases related to CGHS matters are to be examined thoroughly as per the CGHS
guidelines and instructions and clarification on CGHS policy matter or
relaxation of rules is required, the administrative Ministry/Department may
refer the case to Department of Health and family welfare with specific
recommendation of Joint Secretary/Head of Department with justification along
with all supporting documents.
The Office
Memorandum dated 27.06.2012 issued in this regard is as follows.
Government of India
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Department of Health & Family Welfare
Nirman Bhawan, Maulana Azad Road
New Delhi 110 108
No.S.11011/1/2012-CGHS (P)
Dated the 27th June, 2012
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Sub: Guidelines to be
followed by Ministries/Departments while referring cases to Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on CGHS matters
— reg.
Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) was introduced in 1954
to provide comprehensive medical care for serving/retired Central Government
employees and their family members. Instructions have been issued from time to
time to regulate this medical facility to ensure that Ministries and
Departments of Government of India including the CGHS beneficiaries have a
clear idea on different aspects of CGHS.
2. Various instructions on eligibility, dependency, CGHS
contributions, issue of CGHS cards, medical advance, settlement of medical
claims and medical facilities provided under CGHS have been issued. These
instructions are by no means exhaustive but an effort has been made to ensure
that most cases are settled at the beneficiary’s own Ministry / Department.
3. Despite issuing a number of guidelines on settlement of
reimbursement claims and delegation of powers for referral and approval cases,
it has been observed that cases are being referred to this Ministry in a
routine manner without adequate examination. Instances of cases have come to
notice where despite the lack of documentary evidence, cases have been
recommended and referred to this Ministry for examination, with or without the
approval of the concerned Joint Secretary/Head of Department.
4. In such cases, it becomes difficult to examine the legitimacy
of the claims and much time and effort is spent in collating and verifying the
facts of the case. Accordingly, it is
impressed upon all the Ministries/Departments of the Government of India to
ensure that cases are examined thoroughly as per the CGHS guidelines and
instructions. If any clarification on CGHS policy matter/relaxation of rules is
required, the Administrative Ministry / Department may, if they are satisfied
with the justification/merit of the case, refer it to this Ministry with the
specific recommendation of the concerned Joint Secretary /Head of Department
along with all supporting documents.
5. This issues with the approval of Additional Secretary &
Director General (CGHS).
sd/-
(V.P.Singh)
Deputy Secretary to the
Government of India
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CGHS-DISTRIBUTION
OF LIFE SAVING MEDICINES IN WELLNESS CENTRES
Directorate General of CGHS has favourably considered the
representations of CGHS beneficiaries residing in NCR towns of Noida,
Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad to make available the life saving medicines
and anti cancer medicines at the CGHS Wellness Center itself. Until now, these
medicines are to be obtained only from Medical Store Depot (MSD), Gole Market,
New Delhi. The full text of the Office Memorandum F.No:
1-32/2012-13/CGHS/MSD/IMP dated 24.07.2012 issued in this regard is as follows.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF CGHS
No: F.No. 1-32/2012-13/CGHS/MSD/IMP
Dated the 24th July, 2012
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Distribution of Life Saving Medicines/Anti Cancer Medicines
to CGHS beneficiaries in NCR towns at Wellness Center level.
The undersigned is
directed to refer to the subject mentioned above and to state that the Ministry
has been receiving requests from CGHS beneficiaries residing in the NCR towns
of NOIDA, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad, for providing the delivery of life
saving medicines/anti cancer medicines at the CGHS Wellness Centre level as
against the present system in which these are provided at the Medical Store
Depot (MSD). Gole Market, New Delhi. In view of the hardships faced by the CGHS
beneficiaries in collecting the above medicines, it has been considered
sympathetically by the Ministry and it has now been decided to arrange delivery
of the life saving drugs and anti cancer drugs to the CGHS beneficiaries in the
above cities at the CGHS Wellness Centre level.
The life saving
medicines and anti cancer medicines will be delivered at the Wellness Centre by
the supplier between 11AM to 1 PM on third day of placing the indent. The
beneficiaries can collect their indented medicines from the Wellness Centre
accordingly. In case of emergency they can also collect medicines from Medical
Store Depot (MSD), Gole Market, New Delhi, itself on the next working day after
due confirmation from the Medical Store Depot(MSD).
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(V.P .Singh)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
CIRCULAR NO.13/2012 DATED: 29TH JULY, 2012 To All National Sectt. Members:
DRAFT PROPOSALS FOR ALL INDIA AND STATE LEVEL CAMPAIGN PROGRAMME FOR
STRIKE ON 12TH DECEMBER,2012
CIRCULAR NO.13/2012
DATED: 29TH JULY,
2012
To
All National Sectt. Members:
Dear Comrade,
Kindly recall the discussions we had at our meeting held at the CHQ on 25th. For paucity of
time, we could not carry out the discussion for finalising the campaign
programme on that day. The house said that another meeting after the 26th programme might be convened to finalise the campaign programme
for the impending strike action. Most of the Comrades expressed the
difficulty in undertaking another visit to Delhi in the month of August,
2012. Taking into account that the strike action is slated for 12th December, 2012, and hardly four months are at our disposal and
in view of the fact that October and November being festival months, we propose
the following programme for your consideration. Your views in the matter
may please be communicated to the CHQ through e-mail latest by 10th August,
2012. We are to deploy the Sectt. Members to different States. The
Secretary General will intimate the final decision after the feed back on 10th August, 2012. Kindly
ensure that you send in your views well before 9th August,
2012.
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programme in September, 2012
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11,
12 and 13; 18,
19 and 20th and 25,
26 and 27September: The proposal is that a team of Sectt members will be in charge of the
States indicated in the Annexure. The group of
dates indicated will be chosen by them to finalize the programme in
consultation with the concerned State Committee. The State Convention will be held on the last date of the
group of Date and
the two dates prior to the State Convention will be used for the purpose of
office wise meeting in which the National Sectt. Members will participate.
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to 12th October 2012
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In
the same manner as indicated above, district level convention and meetings
will be held. The State Committee of
Confederation Office Bearers and Circle Secretaries of
affiliates will participate in those meetings/conventions. The
State Committees can explore the possibility of Vehicle jathas to cover
important stations of the states.
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19th
November 2012
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Mass Deputation and Serving Strike Notice to
the respective heads of Departments/Office as the case may be. At the
National level, the notice will be served on the Cabinet Secretary.
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20,21,22
and 23rd Nov. 2012
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Relay evening Dharna for three hours (between
17 hours and 21 hours) at a common place to be organised by the Confederation
State Committee with the participation of all affiliated organizations.
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11th Dec.
2012
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Lunch hour /evening massive demonstration in
front of respective offices for mobilizing the employees for the strike the
next day.
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2012
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The one day token Strike.
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Kindly indicate the changes you wish to make this programme and
inform the undersigned as quickly as possible.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General
Annexure
List of comrades deployed for the purpose of the Campaign.
S.No. Name of the Comrades States to be covered
1.
S.K. Vyas and P.
Suresh
Rajasthan & Madhya Pradesh
2.
K. Ragavendran & Mani
Achari
Tamilnadu & Chhattisgarh
3.
K.V. Sreedharan & M.
Krishnan
Kerala & North Eastern States
4.
K.P. Rajagopal & I.S.
Dabas Bihar
& West Bengal
5.
N. Somayya & M.Durai
Pandian. Karnataka
6.
K.K.N.Kutty & Narasimhan.
Andhra Pradesh and Delhi.
7.
Giri Raj Singh & V. Bhattacharya
Punjab, Haryana & J&K.
8.
M.S.Raja & A.K. Kanojia U.P.
and Uttarakhand.
9.
Ashok B Salunkhe & Jayaraj. Gujarat
& Maharashtra
10. Pijush Roy and
Nageswar Rao Orissa
& JharkhandDISBURSEMENT OF SALARY TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WORKING IN THE STATE OF KERALA ON 25TH AUGUST, 2012 ON ACCOUNT OF ONAM FESTIVAL
Manihsinath Bhawan,
A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,
New Delhi. 110 027
Dated: 28th July, 2012
E mail: confederation06@yahoo.co.in.
Website: confederationhq.blogspot.com.
D-16/2012
To
The Controller
General of Accounts,
Ministry of Finance,
Department of
Expenditure
Lok Nayak Bhawan
New Delhi.. 110 002
Dear Sir,
Sub: Disbursement of Salary to Central Government employees working in
the State of Kerala on 25th August, 2012 on Account of Onam Festival.
Onam is the
State festival of Kerala. The Festival
commences on 21st August, and culminates on 29th August, 2012. This is also a social festival and is
celebrated by one and all. It had been
the normal practice to draw and disburse the salary of the employees in the
month in which the festival falls well prior to the commencement of the
festival.
We shall be
grateful if orders are issued to all Departments to disburse the salary for the
month of August, 2012 by 20th August,2012 in respect of all officials working
in the State of Kerala including the Pensioners. While orders were issued last
year, the pensioners were not covered in the said order with the result the
matter had to be taken up by at the last moment. . A copy of the order issued by your office
on 25th August 2009 in this matter is enclosed for ready reference.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
K.K.N. Kutty.
Secretary General.
Copy to the Joint Secretary (Per), Department of Expenditure,
Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi.
Copy of Order in No. V. 16011/CTR/41/MF-CGA/122, Ministry of
Finance, Department of Expenditure, Controller General of Accounts, Lok Nayak
Bhawan, Khan Market, New Delhi. Dated 25th August, 2009.
OFFICE MEMORANDUM.
Subject: Disbursement
of salary/wages to the Central Government employees in the State of Kerala for
the month of August, 09 on account of ONAM festival.
In view of the
ONAM festival, the Government have decided that the salary of all Central
Government employees in the State of Kerala for the month of August,09 may be
drawn and disbursed by the Central Government offices (including Defence, Posts
and Telecommunications) on 28th August, 09
The
salary/wages so disbursed are to be treated as advance payments and will be
subject to adjustment after the full month’s salary/wages of each employee is
determined. The adjustment, if any, will
be made without exception from the salary/wages as the case may be from the
month of September, 2009.
The concerned
Ministries/Departments are requested to bring these instructions to the notice
of their offices located in the State of Kerala for necessary action immediately.
(Vibha Pandey)
Jt. Controller General of
Accounts.
To
All Ministries/Departments of Government of India.
NFEDERATION CIRCULAR No. : 12/2012 DATED 28TH JULY, 2012
Dear Comrades
THE GRAND MARCH TO PARLIAMENT
IN PURSUANCE OF THE 15 POINT CHARTER OF
DEMANDS
The National Sect. of the Confederation places on
record its appreciation and gratitude for the tireless efforts of the State
Committees and the affiliates in making the programme of 26th July, 2012, i.e.
the March to Parliament a grand success. The gathering at Jantar
Mantal had been magnificent and far higher than our expectation. As
per the initial information supplied to us, every State has strived to mobilize
maximum number of comrades to participate in the programme so as also was the
endeavor of the affiliates. More than 20,000 comrades converged at the
Parliament Street with placards, banners, flags and wearing different colour
caps. We anticipated quite an amount of difficulties and problems on 26th due
to the decisions taken by the “Anna Hazare Committee against corruption”
to organize indefinite dharna/fasting programme at the same venue. At the
last minute, the Police authorities had to shift the spot at Jantar Mantar
where we were to commence the procession. We could not get sufficient
time to convey the changes made to our comrades, who had already started from
different stations.
We
also note with satisfaction that the leaders who had been entrusted to
undertake the country wide campaign programme had done so with dedication and
sincerity. As per the report we have at the CHQ, the campaign programme
as chalked out had been carried out in all places except in Madhya Pradesh. The
inability of the MP State Committee due to some unavoidable reasons had its
adverse impact on mobilization of the comrades from that State. Similarly, we
have been informed that the expected number of comrades had not reached from
the North West Region, especially Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. Perhaps,
we might have placed the target for these states unrealistically.
The
procession commenced at 11.30 AM and the first contingent reached the rallying
point at 12.15 PM. The meeting commenced immediately thereafter.
Com. President, Working President and the Secretary General, National
Federation of Postal Employees on behalf of the Confederation addressed the
gathering. Com. Tapan Sen, Secretary General, CITU, Com, Amarjeet Kaur,
Secretary AITUC, Com. Basudeb Acharya, MP and leader of the CPI(M) in the
Parliament were the other speakers. The Secretary General while
concluding the programme conveyed the decisions of the National Secretariat to
go in for a serious campaign programme in the form of Mass Dharna,
Demonstrations, Rally before the Governor’s house etc. He also declared
that the Central Government employees under the banner of the Confederation
will be on a day’s strike on 12th December, 2012. (12.12.12). Our next step
must be to draw inspiration from the success of our March to Parliament
programme and advance our movement to the impending strike action to create
sufficient sanctions so that the Government will announce the setting up of the
7th CPC and hold meaningful negotiation for the settlement of the other
demands in the charter. The National Secretariat will meet in the first week of
August, 2012. Notice is being issued separately. All Sectt. ,
members are requested to attend the meeting.
We have published quite a number of photos of the rally in our Website.
The Press Statement issued on 27th along with the copy of the
Memorandum to the Prime Minister has also been placed. Kindly use the
explanatory memorandum for the intensive campaign you will have to undertake
for the strike action.
MACP JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING AND DECISIONS
The joint Committee set up by the National Anomaly Committee to consider the
MACP related issues met on 27th July, 2012. The Staff Side was
represented at the meeting by the following comrades:
Com.
M. Raghaviah
Com.
Umraomal Purohit
Com.
S.K. Vyas
Com.
C. Srikumar
Com.
K.K.N. Kutty
Com.
Shivgopal Misra
Com.
Bhosle
The
report prepared by the sub-committee after three rounds of discussions was
reviewed at the meeting. The points that came up for discussion and the
decisions taken are as under:
Grant
of MACP in the promotional hierarchy: The Staff Side pointed out that the
ACP which was in vogue till the advent of MACP had been on promotional
hierarchy. In the name of improvement of the scheme, the Government
cannot unilaterally change it, especially when the concerned employees do not
consider it as advantageous. They suggested that the employees must be
allowed to retain the ACP for the first two promotions and for the third
promotion MACP can be extended. However, the Official Side said that it
would not be possible to have any hybrid scheme. In fact, they added that
the 6th CPC had suggested for two career progressions only and that too on
grade pay hierarchy. The govt. had improved upon and therefore it was not
possible for them to agree for the suggestion of the Staff Side. They
also stated that the reason for bringing about grade pay hierarchy was to bring
about uniformity in the scheme across the Departments as the promotional
hierarchy varies from one department to another. They declined to
consider the suggestion for promotional hierarchy based MACP.
The
Staff Side then pointed that in the last meeting of the Committee, the Official
Side taking into account the difficulties and disadvantages experienced by the
employees in many departments which were presented by the Staff Side had agreed
to consider department wise/cadre wise options. The Staff Side further
pointed out that the suggestion of the Official Side would not go to resolve
the issue. They said that option must be provide for each individual
employee to choose either the ACP or MACP whichever is beneficial to him as is
provided in the CCS(RP) Rules. The unilateral withdrawal of a benefit
from an employee is not permissible. They also stated that the Official
Side has not pointed out the difficulties in agreeing to this proposal.
After some discussions, the Official Side said that they would re-examine the
issue of individual option and will come up with their considered view at the
next meeting of the NAC.
Counting
50% of service of the Temporary status/casual labourers for the purpose of
MACP: In the light of the discussion at the meeting, the Official Side
agreed to examine the matter.
Treatment of employees selected under
LDCE Scheme and GDCE Scheme: The Official Side agreed to issue orders on
the same lines as has been issued under the ACP Scheme. The Staff Side
stated that wherever examination is the criterion for promotion/fast track
promotion, the service rendered by such employees in the lower post must be
ignored and such promotion should be treated as appointment and the promotion
scheme to commence from the date of such appointment. This was not agreed
to by the official side on the plea that such appointments are against
promotion quota and therefore, they are to be considered as promotion
only. The Staff Side them pointed out that this issue had been the
subject matter of judicial consideration before the Tribunal and the Tribunal
has given the decision in favour of the employees. The Official Side
wanted a copy of the judgement to react to this.
Date
of effect of the Scheme: The Staff Side pointed out that the date of
effect of MACP Scheme must be from 1.1.2006. The analogy of the 5th CPC
has no application as ACP was introduced after discussion with the Staff Side
on a later date. Since the Government issued the orders of the 6th CPC
and the acceptance of the MACP with modification almost simultaneously, it
should have been made effective from 1.1.2006. They also pointed out that
the MACP is not an allowance to be made application from 1.9.2008. The
Official Side pointed out that the benefit emanating from the MACP i.e. the
third promotion was applicable to all existing employees who were in service
after 1.9.2008. The Staff Side demanded that the benefit has been denied
to those who retired between 1.1.2006 and 30.8.2008. The Official Side
agreed to consider application of the new MACP with effect from 1.1.2006 for
those who retired/died between 1.1.2006 and 30.8.2008.
Financial
up-gradation under MACP in the case of staff who join another unit/organization
on request. It was agreed at the last meeting that the services
rendered in another recruiting unit/organization will be taken into account for
counting service for promotion under MACP. The Staff Side however,
pointed out that in many cases, the employees are compelled to seek reversion
in order to be transferred to another recruiting unit. In their case, the
promotion so earned at the present recruiting unit and which have been foregone
is being counted as one promotion under MACP. The Official Side agreed to
look into this matter and issue necessary clarificatory orders.
Stepping
up of pay of senior incumbent with the junior as a consequence of
ACP/MACP. The Official Side stated that in the light of the judgments
delivered in the matter they will have the case looked into and necessary
instructions issued. They also stated that certain instructions in the
matter has already been issued, copy of which will be made available to the
Staff Side.
The
bench mark question for promotion under MACP. The Official Side agreed to
issue a clarificatory order stating that if the promotion is on seniority cum
fitness basis, MACP will also be on seniority cum fitness basis.
There had been no discussions on other points incorporated in the
report. The stand taken by the Official side in those matters remains
unchanged. You may kindly access the report from the website of the
Department of Personnel along with the relevant orders.
With
greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
K.K.N.
Kutty
Secretary
General