Homage to Mother of Com. Karan Chudasama DS Bhavnagar

Com. Karan Chudasama DS Bhavnagar lost his
Mother on 22th June.

A mother is always a flow of love, peace and inspiration at any stage of life.

We express our grief on sad demise of beloved mother and pray almighty for eternal peace to the holy soul.

FINACLE CBS push us in DEBACLE ; NFPE writes to DIRECTORATE for RESCUE

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES

1st Floor, North Avenue Post office Building, New Delhi - 110001

Ref: PF/NFPE/CBS                                                                                      Dated – 27.06.2014

To

Ms Kaveri Banerjee

Secretary

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, New Delhi – 110001

Madam,

Sub: -  Incalculable miseries and untold suffering to the operative staff in CBS rolled out offices – Immediate remedial and rescue operations sought for – reg.

At the outset, we appreciate the efforts leads to technological advancements and extend our fullest cooperation in the journey to reach the desired goals of implementing innovative customer centric services and operational efficiency enhancement by inducting state of art technology.

But to our dismay, the CBS migrated offices are now facing incalculable miseries and untold sufferings due to lack of adequate network capabilities and software support of the vendors. The following are the issues to be set right in war foot manner at the initial stage itself otherwise leads to garboil and distress among the stake holders especially among the working staff.

1)      Insufficient bandwidth Network:

            Providing of strong and stable network is base of successful implementation of India Post project.   Now almost all HOs have been given 2 MBPS bandwidth line, LSG SOs 512 KBPS line and B and C class offices have been given 256 KBPS line. If ‘India Post Project-2012’ is fully implemented, all the work of Post Offices will depend on these network. Present bandwidth speed is very less and due to low bandwidth, Finacle page is either not opening and  some time opening very slowly.   Due to this PO staff are forced to work up to night 10 pm many days. In many occasions in every CBS migrated office, the ‘Login’ is inconsistent and for each transaction “Login” is forced.

If CSI and PLI are migrated and placed on this network the situation may further worsen. Hence we request to provide at least 4 MB bandwidth line to HOs, 2 MB bandwidth line to LSG SOs and 1 MB bandwidth line to B and C class offices.

2) Failure of Sify:

            In India Post Project 2012, NI Vender is Sify. On observation of quality and quantity of service being provided by them it is very much proved that  M/S Sify is incapable to give service to this  big department.  They do not have sufficient skilled manpower and it seems that they are not intending to give good quality service also.   At initial stage itself they have not made proper survey of all offices.  Before installing and commissioning they were very keen on taking installation report from concerned Postmasters/Sub Postmasters. 

            It is told that, as per MOU, all offices should be provided with NSP-1 and NSP-2 lines.  In almost all offices, NSP-1 is BSNL line and NSP-2 is either Sify line or Airtel datacard.   It is observed that in many offices they have installed Airtel datacard ,where as  Airtel signal is  not available at that place.

            It is also observed that M/S Sify is not recharging Airtel datacard  installed.  Instead they are recharging on receipt of complaint from concerned offices.  By doing this they are deviating from MOU and leaving the staff in the field in distress.

3) Finacle Problem:

            If we come to Finacle part, it is another tragedy.   Initially it was boosted that Finacle is fully foolproof software and successfully implemented in many banks.  We could not understand why Infosys is not utilizing experience gained in banks and  implementing  here.  There are so many bugs in the software and  more surprisingly  even after lapse of 6 months of implementation, nothing is changed.   All the issues raised at the time of January-2014 is still not resolved.  Moreover Finacle server becomes inaccessible many time in peak business hours or responds very slow. It is a naked truth that we are losing clientle and distancing from the customers only due to faulty service of vendors.

4) Lack of Guidance:

            No separate rulings are received to suit Finacle Environment. No authorities are giving authoritative guidance on many issues. 

For example

§  Role of SOSB in HO after implementation of Finacle at SOs,

§  Role of SBCO at HO

§  Fate of manual records on transfer accounts from one Finacle office to other etc.

5) Supply of Printers and Computers:

            At initial stage  new Computers and printers are supplied to pilot offices.  Rest of the offices are having   more than 5 year old  Computers and Printers  which are not suitable to present scenario.  Administration is pressing  hard to migrate offices without supplying required hardware. The old computers and peripherals either to be revamped or replaced to make it compatiable to the present environment.

6) Problem of User credentials:

            One each User credential is given to  trained staff.  But it is not clearly told what action to be taken while SPM/PA goes on leave especially in B class offices.   As sharing of  user credential is very  risky and dangerous, alternative arrangement  should be made immediately.

7) Due to slow network and frequent failure of server customers of the department are frustrated and moving out the department and needed immediate attention.

8. You may aware that we are struggling with outdated Computers and peripherals, which were purchased during the year 2000 to 2005 and immediate supply of needy new hardware to ensure the technological transformation in and effective manner.

9. Even proper up gradation of CPU is not made in many areas and the Software loaded is upto Windows XP in most of the offices. Presently it is a fact that windows XP is not supported by the Microsoft with updates.

10. Finacle can be better loaded with Windows 7 and hence the officers at ground level are pressurized to use pirated version of Windows 7, which may lead to litigation with Microsoft apart from non supporting with updates.

11. The MOU made with M/s Sify, for net work integration is limiting to low bandwidth such as 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps in many areas, serving with 1 server and 4 to 5 nodes, resulting in sluggish connectivity and takes hours together to transform the data. This results in hang over and the transactions could not be able to be made at the instant, as the Department expects, It requires atleast 2 to 4 Mbps and M/s Sify refused to increase the bandwidth now.

12. Further in the Data Centre, it requires to the level of 400 Mbps on the Network to receive the Data transmitted at a time from all the 680 offices but Sify is learnt to be provided with a minimum of 200 Mbps capacity. This affects the receipt of data from the end users at a time and take hours to complete the process. Further expansion is required when there is further migration.

13. The area of occupation in the main server at Mumbai maintained by M/S Reliance Ltd. is also not sufficient, which results in sluggish transmission of data from the entire 680 offices at present, at a time and even the validation cannot be made before 8:00 PM or 10:00 PM on all the days.

14. End of day process cannot be made even on daily basis and the staff have to wait for the nod from the Infosys even after midnights on several days and at times it can be made on the next day morning. Even the women employees are compelled to complete the EOD process in midnights and their husbands or wards waiting till midnights to take them to home.

15. Even the Help desk provided is not answering and the end users are taken to task and receiving brick bats from the irate public.

16. This results in closing of accounts in large numbers that too, can be made not on the date of presentation but after few days and our Department looses large chunk of customers, because of the miscalculations, wrong estimations and over ambitious activities and inadequate technological support.

17. Even the first and prestigious ATM of our Department unveiled by the ex Finance Minister Sri. P. Chidambaram at T. Nagar HO is not functioning from the date of installation and only 10 ATM cards are supplied on the first instant, that too only to the staff and some friendly users of T. Nagar HPO. But the ATM is provided with 24x7 A/C and a paid Guard, making huge loss to the Department and receiving severe criticism from the Print media.

18. The women employees should be relieved from this area of operation, till the situation improves, in order to avoid late night stays at offices inviting gender problems and unsafe returns to their home at midnights.

19. Further, adequate hardware and infrastructure should be given immediately to the CBS migrated offices with sufficient man power and proper remuneration for the extended hours, the staffs re serving.

20. In spite of all above cited problems the Postal staff is being worked on finacle software as matter of challenge and trying to give best services to the customers. In spite of all efforts the customers are not satisfying/delighting which hampers the reputation of the department. No PO which is upgraded with finacle are being closed before 8 PM every day. We are ready to work hard provided, solution for above problems are to be solved.

It is requested to sort out all the issues arising out of the CBS Migration and all the vendors need to be instructed to provide all the technological support as required by the field staff. As this is the pilot and sorting stage, if we failed to pull up the vendors to the level of expectation and necessity, later full implementation, restoration may be difficult with this vendor support.

It is further requested to spare some time and provide opportunity to present and brief our case in person for the welfare of our department staff and the clientle. Your immediate intervention as if house on fire is requested.

A line in reply is highly appreciated.

With profound regards,

Yours faithfully,

(M. Krishnan)

Secretary General

Letter to CPMG

Hon.sir, 

Many Divisional Heads have not issued Rotational transfer orders so far. One other hand academic terms of schools and colleges have already started. 

Staff side urges to consider hardships to employees if there is change of HQs beyond 20 Kms because their school going children cannot be shifted. 

RTRs are normally issued before commencement of academic year as per Dte guidelines. Delay in Rajkot region is because of vacant post of DPS.

 Staff side urges to instruct dnl heads to refrain from ordering transfers to long distance beyond 20kms due to reason that schools and colleges have started.

 Soliciting kind action and a line in reply. 

Yours sincerely 

Rashmin Purohit

CS P3

Letter to CPMG

Hon.sir, 

Many Divisional Heads have not issued Rotational transfer orders so far. One other hand academic terms of schools and colleges have already started. 

Staff side urges to consider hardships to employees if there is change of HQs beyond 20 Kms because their school going children cannot be shifted. 

RTRs are normally issued before commencement of academic year as per Dte guidelines. Delay in Rajkot region is because of vacant post of DPS.

 Staff side urges to instruct dnl heads to refrain from ordering transfers to long distance beyond 20kms due to reason that schools and colleges have started.

 Soliciting kind action and a line in reply. 

Yours sincerely 

Rashmin Purohit

CS P3

Letter to CPMG

Hon.sir, 

Many Divisional Heads have not issued Rotational transfer orders so far. One other hand academic terms of schools and colleges have already started. 

Staff side urges to consider hardships to employees if there is change of HQs beyond 20 Kms because their school going children cannot be shifted. 

RTRs are normally issued before commencement of academic year as per Dte guidelines. Delay in Rajkot region is because of vacant post of DPS.

 Staff side urges to instruct dnl heads to refrain from ordering transfers to long distance beyond 20kms due to reason that schools and colleges have started.

 Soliciting kind action and a line in reply. 

Yours sincerely 

Rashmin Purohit

CS P3

Letter to CPMG

Hon.sir, 

Many Divisional Heads have not issued Rotational transfer orders so far. One other hand academic terms of schools and colleges have already started. 

Staff side urges to consider hardships to employees if there is change of HQs beyond 20 Kms because their school going children cannot be shifted. 

RTRs are normally issued before commencement of academic year as per Dte guidelines. Delay in Rajkot region is because of vacant post of DPS.

 Staff side urges to instruct dnl heads to refrain from ordering transfers to long distance beyond 20kms due to reason that schools and colleges have started.

 Soliciting kind action and a line in reply. 

Yours sincerely 

Rashmin Purohit

CS P3

Letter to CPMG regarding delay in issue of Rotational Transfer Orders

RTRs are normally issued before commencement of academic year as per Dte guidelines. Delay in Rajkot region is because of vacant post of DPS.

 Staff side urges to instruct dnl heads to refrain from ordering transfers to long distance beyond 20kms due to reason that schools and colleges have started.

 Soliciting kind action and a line in reply. 

Yours sincerely 

Rashmin Purohit

CS P3

A grand Farewell Ceremony to Com.R.S.Malek CS P.4 at Gujarat Vidhyapith Ahmedabad on 31.05.14 Late evening

CO issued memo for grant of Spl CL to all delegates who attended Seminar at Delhi on 26-27 May 2014. All should now apply for conversion of CL/EL in to Spl CL

Glimpses of Circle Conference of P.4 Gujarat Circle at Vadodara on 29-30 May 2014

Delegates of Ahd City, Amreli, Bhuj,Bardoli, Junagadh,Gandhinagar, Navsari and Rajkot areattending this workshop.

Special CL for attending Seminar on 7th CPC at New Delhi....Pl apply to your leave sanctioning authority for grant of Spl CL today

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION GROUP ‘C’

(Affiliated with National Federation of Postal Employees)

Gujarat Circle

No.CO/All India Seminar/Spl CL/2014-15                                                              Dated : May 21, 2014

To,

The Chief Postmaster General

Gujarat Circle, Ahmedabad 380 001

Subject :

All India Seminar on 7^th CPC - Postal Assistants & allied cadre to be held on 26^th & 27^th May, 2014 at New Delhi- Request for grant of Special Casual leave to delegates.

Reference:

Directorate letter No.17/09/2014-SR   dated 20^th May 2014 addressed to the GS AIPEU Gr.C.

Hon’ble sir,

The Directorate has asked our General Secretary to refer to its instructions contained in 54-1/83 SPB.II dated 6.12.83 regarding grant of Special Casual leave for the purpose of attending above cited Seminar.

Accordingly I enclose herewith an attested copy of the notice for the above said seminar with a request to immediately issue instructions to all concerned to grant Special Casual Leave to all delegated from divisions who are attending Seminar at Delhi on 26^th and 27^th June 2014 to enable them to attend and perform journey to and from Delhi.

All Divisional Secretaries along with maximum two delegates (total 3) and all Circle office bearers will attend the seminar.

With a request to do needful very urgently, as the directorate instructions came in just yesterday and dates for journey are very close.

With regards,

Yours Sincerely

Rashmin Purohit

Circle Secretary

Postal Store Depot, Shahibag, Ahmedabad 380004 M.9427208408 Eml.rashminpurohit@rediffmail.com. http//aipeugujarat.blogspot.com

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Letter to CO regarding uniform approach in the matter of LGO candidates

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION GROUP 'C'

GUJARAT CIRCLE

NO.CO/lgo/2014.                         Date: 28.4.2014

To,

Hon.Chief PMG

Gujj.Circle,

Ahmedabad.

Subject: Regarding uniform approach to the matter of inhouse training and appointment LGO candidates

Respected sir,

Namaskar. It has been a point of discussion and puzzle in minds of successful candidates in LGO exam in Gujarat circle this year because there in no uniform treatment to them in various divisions.

For example, candidates in BK division and Ahmedabad city division has been imparted In-house training and also appointed as PAs . In Rajkot region, SP Kachchh and Bhavnagar imparted in-house training and other SPOs like SP Junagadh are of the opinion that in-house training can be given only under clear orders of the Circle Office.

I urge to take this issue into consideration and issue such instructions to all concerned that a uniform proceedure may prevail in the Circle.

This may be attended on priority.

with regards,

Yours sincerely

Rashmin Purohit

CS AIPEU Gr.'C'

A memorable farewell was given to Com.B.B.Rohit DS P.4 Anand Dn at Anand HO on 27-4-2014. He retires on superannuation on 30 April. This occasion was linked with CWC of P.4 at Anand. 

This event was glorified by presence of all Divisional Secretaries and CWC members of P.4 union. Ex. Circle union Leaders also graced the function by their presence. Com. K.B.Barot, Com. R.G.Parmar, Com. Manubhai Parmar, Com.S.S.Vaishya and other retired comrades of the division also attended the function and appreciated dedicated contribution of Com.Rohit in trade union movement.

Com. S.T.Teraiya Circle President P.4/CHQ leader presided over the function.  Com.Rashmin Purohit CS P.3, Com.R.S.Malek CS P.4, Com.M.K.Pandya Circle Org. Secretary & DS Kheda also attended the function. Com.J.J.Jadav DS P.3 Anand anchored the function very nicely.

It was decided to hold next Circle Conference at Vadodara on 29-30 May 2014. There will be magnificent Farewell to retiring Com.R.S.Malek CS P.4 in the conference as well at a special program at Ahmedabad on 31.5.14. These functions will be attended by many CHQ leaders and Circle representatives from all unions in Gujarat Circle.

CWC of P.4 Gujarat Circle and Farewell to Com.B.B.Rohit DS P.4 at Anand on 27.4.14

Glimpses of Amreli Divisional Conference held on 30 March 2014

JointvDivisional Conference of P3, P4 & GDS (NFPE) was held at Amreli on 30-3-14. Com.S.K.Vaishnav Circle President P.3, Com.S.T.Teraiya Circle President P4, Com. Rashmin Purohit CS P3, Com.R.S Malek CS P4, Com.K.B.Chudasama Asst CS P3, Com.R.B.Nimbark I/C DS P3 Junagadh, Com.Rajen Desani DS P3 Rajkot and leaders from various divisions remained present including Com.K.A.Kanada and Com.M.P.Mangrolia Senior Comrades of 

Amrelu Dn itself. It was nice to have graceful  company of Com.D.S.Vaidhya Ex.Circle President P3 who is till active at the age of 75.

Com.Ajmera a young comrade was elected unanimously as New DS Amreli. List of office bearers will be published later on.

Circle union greets newly elected office bearers.

Pl clear Quota to all higher ups before 30 April 2014

Dear Comrades,

I am receiving letters and frequent telephonic reminders from CHQ and Federation regarding clearing outstanding quota up to 31.3.14 

A letter has already been sent by CHQ to all DS.If any DS has not received, pl contact CS urgently. You know April is a grace month and each division has to remit quota to get credentials in next AIC. This is very important. Pl do not invite action as per constitutional provisions as CHQ directs to stop payment of subscription to defaulting divisions till quota is cleared.

Circle union is very much upset regarding slackness in remittance of quota by divisions. Calculations given to all during CWC meetings but most of divisions are sending lump sum amount. It is hereby made clear that by delaying remittances, no division can be allowed to skip from clearing arrears. You have received the amounts and a prescribed part is to be remitted without reminder and delay.

Circle union requests to take this seriously and to clear entire outstanding amounts before 30/4/14 failing which circle office bearers will personally visit divisions for the purpose.

Up to 30June 2013

Dn.14.50 /Circle.8.00/CHQ.6.00/NFPE.1.50/

1 July 2013 onwards

Dn.24.50/Circle.15.00/CHQ.8.00/NFPE.2.50

CWC of P.4 at Anand on 27th April

Circle Working Committee of All India Postal Employees Union Postman and MSE/Group.D Gujarat Circle will be held at An and HPO on Sunday 27th April 2014.

A farewell ceremony will also be organised to honour Senior Comrade B.B.Rohit who retires on superannuation.

There will also be discussion regarding arrangements and planning regarding Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of NFPE at Jamnagar on 23-24 November 2014.

Circle Secretary AIPEU Gr.C will attend the meeting.

Good Friday

AN INSPIRING MEETING WITH OFFICIALS

WORKING IN POSTMASTER’S CADRE

It was a rousing and bright day on 16^th April 2014 when officials working in Postmaster’s cadre called upon Circle Secretary and proposed that all of them in Gujarat Circle desires to come under one umbrella of All India Postal Employees Union Group ‘C’. They informed that most of them are already member of AIPEU Gr.’C’ but few are members in other unions and they all desire to be united under our union to ensure that their problems and pains are given appropriate hearing and representation.

A meeting was held at Lal Darwaja PO on 16^th April 2014 evening which was attended by most of the officials working in Postmasters cadre working at Ahmedabad. Mainly Com.N.K.Nayak SPM Lal Darwaja, H.K.Bhattacharya SPM SA Roza, V.V.Purohit SPM Saijpur Bogha, M.R.Parmar SPM Naroda IE, K.K.Paynikar RPM Rajpur Gomtipur, R.C.Panchal SPM Isanpur, D.G.Rathod SPM Sola HBC attended the meeting.

Com.M.G.Dulera Circle FS, Dinesh Patel President P3 Ahd City dn., N.D.Patel DS P3 Ahd City Dn and other office bearers Com.C.M.Nayak, V.W.Cristian, Malli and others also attended the meeting.

All officials working in Postmaster’s Cadre discussed about problems faced by them and expressed that most of them are members of AIPE Union Group ‘C’ but if any official is member of any other union, all will first of all become united under banner of AIPEU. They also discussed about few problems about non preparation of Gradation List by C.O., ambiguity in names of offices identified for posting of officials of PM’s Cadre, their postings at distant offices and need to retransfer them to parent divisions as and when possible etc.

Circle Secretary also discussed at length about all features taken in discussion together with promotional avenues and inclusion of various points to be taken up before 7^th Pay Commission through a Memorandum to be submitted by the CHQ and Federation.

All officials filled up required forms for becoming members of AIPEU Group C and it was promised that they will contact all officials of Postmaster’s Cadre in whole Gujarat Circle and if any official is not a member of AIPE Union Group ‘C’, they will manage to ask them to become member and resign from other union before 30^th April 2014. All active members should take this task in their hand to enroll new members.

 The Circle Secretary greeted and welcomed all and assured for all co operation to them.

As a beginning a letter has been addressed to CPMG Ahmedabad today which is also placed here.

This is a good beginning and it is surely half done. Circle Secretary appeals all Divisional Secretaries to enroll new members as many officials as possible before crucial date i.e. 30.4.14.