REVISED CAMPAIGN PROGRAMME OF CONFEDERATION OFFICE BEARERS
FOR THE 20TH JANUARY 2009 INDEFINITE STRIKE PROGRAMME.

Name of Comrade. Date Place of Programme.

S.K.Vyas & KKN Kutty. 3.1.09 New Delhi

S.K.Vyas. 6.1.09 Thiruvananthapuram


S.K.Vyas,Selvaraj &
N.Krishnan 7.1.09 Bangalore

SK Vyas , K.V.Jayaraj & 9.1.09 Mumbai
Giriraj Singh

C.C.Pillai ,S.P.Mukheji & 6.1.09 Ranchi
Jagannath Singh 7.1.09 Patna

SK Vyas , N Somaiyya 12.1.09 Ahmedabad
D.K.Rahate.

K.K.N.Kutty 26.12.08 New Jalpaiguri(WB)

KKN Kutty ,GS Asiwal 6.1.09 Bhopal
& R.N.Parashar.

KKN Kutty. 7.1.09 Lucknow
K.Raghavendran.

KKN Kutty ,Brigu Battacharya &
P.Rajanayagam 8.1.09 Hyderabad

KKN Kutty ,Brigu 9.1.09 Chennai.
Battacharya & K.V.Sridharan.

M.S.Raja &K.Raghavendran 6.1.09 Allahabad

M.S.Raja & 8.1.09 Guwahati
Somnath Mukharjee. 9.1.09 Shillong.


P.V.Ramachandran
& PK Das,Giriraj Singh 7.1.09 Nagpur

PV Ramachandran,
G.S.Asiwal & R.N.Parashar 8.1.09 Raipur
.
N.Somayia,Baswanand & 8.1.09 Shimla
K.K.Sharma.

Baswanand, N.Somayia 9.1.09 Chandigarh
&Ishwar Singh Dabas

T.Narasimhan,P.Suresh 6.1.09 Bhubaneswar
& Gautham Parmanik

R.K.Gupta , KV Jayaraj 7.1.09 Dehradun
Iswar Singh Dabas.

Circular No.22

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS

Manishinath Bhawan A/2-95 Rajouri Garden

New Delhi.l 110 027

Phone: 2510 5324

Fax: 2510 5324 

Cell: 98110 48303

E mail: confederation06@yahoo.co.in

D/11/22/2008

Dated: 19^th December , 2008

 

 

 

Dear Comrades,

 

The global economic recession in developed countries and its reflection in Indian economy due to the neo liberal economic policies pursued by the successive Govts in India during the last one and half decade forced the Govt. to stimulate selected sectors of industry.. However it seems to have not learnt its lesion.   In spite of the bankruptcy and closure of the so-called world  financial institutions and Insurance  giants, the Govt. of India is bent upon  in its pursuit of further liberalizing the economy and privatizing the assiduously built public sector organizations like LIC.. The Govt. is introducing the bill to amend LIC Act (to increase equity from 5Crores to !00 Cr.) in Lok Sabha on Monday  22.12.2008.  Another Bill  to raise money from Market (disinvestment) is to be introduced in Raja Sabha on the same day to allow public Sector Insurance Companies to raise money from market.  Unions in LIC and General Insurance Companies are preparing for a one day protest Strike on the next day i.e. 23^rd December, 2008. The State COCs and all affiliated organizations are therefore requested to organize solidarity  protest a demonstration on that day.  The COCs may chalk out and organize programmes on 23.12.2008 alongwith the Unions in the Banking sector, as we have been informed that BEFI has also conveyed similar decision to all its units..

 

With Greetings,

Yours fraternally,

 

KKN Kutty,

Secretary General.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confederation Circular No. 21 dated 17.12.2008

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS

Manishinath Bhawan A/2-95 Rajouri Garden

New Delhi.l 110 027

Phone: 2510 5324

Fax: 2510 5324

Cell: 98110 48303

Website: confederationhq.blogspot.com.

E mail: confederation06@yahoo.co.in

D/11/21/2008

Dated:17^th December, 2008

Dear Comrade.

This is in continuation of our Circular No. D-20/ dated 13.12.08. As discussed in National Executive, the modified Charter of Demand is enclosed.

The National Executive has decided to organize campaign conventions in all state capitals preferably between 6^th and 9^th Jan.2009. The tour programme of the members of the Sect. of the Confederation is enclosed. The COC may kindly take steps to convene the convention on the prescribed dates without fail. It will be difficult to change the date as such change will bring about a cascading effect and will make the programme impracticable. Therefore, the COCs may adhere to the date. The Convention for Gujarat has to be changed for 12^th Jan. 09 beyond the time schedule prescribed by the National Executive. This was unavoidable due to the reason that Com. S.K.Vyas would not be able to reach Mumbai on 8^th Jan. 2009.

The Rally to be organized at Delhi on 2.01.09 must have representative participation from all over the country. The No. of comrades who must be deployed by the concerned COC for the purpose of joining the said rally is indicated hereunder. The COC may kindly ensure that they do deploy the stipulated No. of Comrades i.e. the minimum for participation in the rally.

With greeting

Yours fraternally

KKN. Kutty

Secretary General

Charter of demand

Part I. 6^th CPC related issues

1. Grant Rs 10000 as minimum wage as per 15 ILC Norms.

2. Grant minimum fitment benefit of 2.625 times of pre-revised basic pay to bring about uniform rise of 40% in emoluments and raise grade pay to 50% of the maximum of the pre-revised scales in respect of PB 1,2 & 3 as has been done in the case of PB 4.

3. No abolition of Gr.D. Posts and functions. Lift ban on recruitment, fill up all vacant posts and scrap screening Committee.

4. Grant 10% of pay+ Grade pay as minimum benefit on promotion or financial up gradation.

5. Fix the date of effect of all allowances as 1.1.2006.

6. No performance related pay or bonus scheme

7. Revise the Transport and daily allowances as demanded by the staff side JCM National Council.

8. Remove the condition of 6 months for applying the uniform date of Ist July as increment dates.

9 . ACP to be on hierarchical system obtaining in each department.

10. Retain and improve CGHS and make insurance scheme optional

.

11. Implement flexitime working hours for women/disabled employees as recommended by the 6 CPC and remove clause (iv) of OM No.13019/2/2008-Estt.(L) dated 18th Nov. 2008 on Child Care Leave.

12. Direct all the Departmental Heads to settle 6^th CPC related department specific demands/problems within a stipulated time.

13. Grant civil servant status and Pension to 'Gramin Dak-Sevaks.'

14. No reduction in the commutation value and restoration of full pension after 12 years.

15. Compute the pension entitlement on the basis of notional pay as on 1.1.1996

Part II

Demands pending settlement for long in the National Council JCM

1. No outsourcing or contractorisation of Govt. functions.

2. Grant statutory defined pension scheme to the employees recruited after 1.1.2004 and withdraw the PFRDA Bill from Parliament.

3. Implement the Board of Arbitration Awards.

4.Remove the arbitrary 5% ceiling and 3 years condition on compassionate appointment and withdraw court cases and absorb all waitlisted RRR candidates.

5. Implement the revision of bonus ceiling @ 3500/- in the case of all personnel employed by the Government including casual/contingent and daily rated workers and Grameen Dak Sewaks. Replace adhoc bonus with the PLB and remove the 60 days ceiling.

REVISED CAMPAIGN PROGRAMME OF CONFEDERATION OFFICE BEARERS

FOR THE 20^TH JANUARY 2009 INDEFINITE STRIKE PROGRAMME.

Name of Comrade Date Programme.

S.K.Vyas & KKN Kutty. 3.1.09 New Delhi

S.K.Vyas. 6.1.09 Thiruvananthapuram

SKVyas & Selvaraj 7.1.09 Bangalore

SK Vyas & K.V.Jayaraj 9.1.09 Mumbai

C.C.Pillai & Jagannath 6.1.09 Ranchi

Singh 7.1.09 Patna

SK Vyas & N Somaiyya 12.1.09 Ahmedabad

K.K.N.Kutty 26.12.08 New Jalpaiguri(WB)

KKN Kutty &GS Asiwal 6.1.09 Bhopal

KKN Kutty. 7.1.09 Lucknow

Brigu Battacharya & 8.1.09 Hyderabad

KKN Kutty. 9.1.09 Chennai.

M.S.Raja 6.1.09 Allahabad

8.1.09 Guwahati

9.1.09 Shillong.

P.V.Ramachandran

& PK Das 7.1.09 Nagpur

PV Ramachandran

& G.S.Asiwal 8.1.09 Raipur

N.Somayia & 8.1.09 Shimla

Baswanand 9.1.09 Chandigarh

T.Narasimhan & 6.1.09 Bhubaneswar

Gautham Parmanik

R.K.Gupta & KV Jayaraj 7.1.09 Dehradun

The National Executive has decided to request the following COCs to send the number of comrades indicated against each (in bracket) to Delhi for the mass demonstration scheduled for 2^nd January, 2009 for serving the strike notice.

Kerala (20); Karnataka (30); Tamilnadu (50); Pondichery (10); Andhra Pradesh (75);

Maharastra: Mumbai (50); Pune (20); Nagpur (30);: Gujarat: Surat (10); Baroda (20); Ahmedabad (30); Rajkot (20); Jamnagar (10);

Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgrah: Bhopal (50); Gwaliaor (50); Indore (20); Jabalpur (20); Raipur (30)

Ujjain (10); Ratlam (20); Neemuch(10);

Rajasthan: Jaipur (150); Jodhpur (50); Udaipur (10); Bikaner(10); Alwar (20); Ajmer (10); Bharatpur (10); Kota (20); Sikar (10); Jhunjhunu(10);

Uttar Pradesh: Licknow (50); Allahabad (50); Kanpur (50); Meerut (100); Agra (50); Gaziabad (100); Barelly (20): Uttarakand: Dehradun (50);

Haryana: Gurgaon (50); Faridabad (100); Rohtak (20); Panipat (20); Ambala (20);

Punjab: Chandigarh (50); Jallundar (20); Ludhiana (20); Amritsar (20); Patiala (20);

Kapurthala (20);

Himachal Pradesh: Simla (30); Solan (10):

Bihar: Patna (50); Other towns (50): Jharkhand: Ranchi and other towns (50);

Orissa: Bubneswar (15); Cuttack (15); Puri (10): Rurkhela (10); Others (10);

West Bengal: (50); North Eastern: Guwahathi (10); Shillong (10).Delhi. 5000

The above minimum target has been fixed taking into account the distance and strength of CG Employees. The nearby state COCs may strive hard to bring more comrades than what has been fixed as the minimum to make the demonstration as massive and impressive one and to show our strength and unity. All the affiliated organizations may direct their units to send their comrades for the Demonstration.

Secretary General.

Circular Number 20/2008

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS

Manishinath Bhawan A/2-95 Rajouri Garden

New Delhi.l 110 027

Phone: 2510 5324

Fax: 2510 5324 

Cell: 98110 48303

Website: confederationhq.blogspot.com.

E mail: confederation06@yahoo.co.in

D/11/20/2008

Dated:13^th  December, 2008

 

Dear Comrade,

 

            The National Executive of the Confederation met today as per the notice issued.  The meeting was presided over by Com. S.K.Vyas.  The meeting reviewed the implementation of the decision taken at the meeting held at New Delhi on 26^th August, 2008.  Taking into account that most of the affiliates have endorsed the decision taken to organize an indefinite strike action in pursuance of the 20 point charter of demands.  The meeting took the following decision.

 

a)      To delete point No. 10  (in part I of the charter of demands) i.e. SDA to employees ion NE Region.

b)      To amend point No.4 in part II of the charter of demands as under:

"Replace adhoc bonus with PLB and remove the 60 days ceiling.  Implement the decision of raising the Bonus computation ceiling (Rs 3500) to all persons employed by Govt. of India.

c)      To serve the strike notice on 2.1.2009 by all affiliates and the Confederation    CHQ at Delhi to the respective Heads of Department and Cabinet Secretary respectively.  by holding  a massive demonstration on that day.  Comrades from Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, UP and selected comrades from all other states will participate in the rally. The number of Comrades each state should deploy to participate will be intimated in our next circular letter. The meeting desired that atleast ten thousand comrades should assemble at Jantar Mantar for the rally in order to manifest our unity and determination in organizing the indefinite strike.  

d)      Such Demonstrations will be held on 6^th Jan. 2009 in all State capitals with massive mobilization of members and will serve the copy of the strike notice on each heads of Offices.

e)      The indefinite strike will commence from 20^th January, 2009.

f)       Besides the 20 point common charter of demands the affiliates may add the sectional demands as is decided upon by the respective organizational fora.

g)      The State COCs will hold state level conventions as part of campaign Programme at the respective State Capitals between 6^th to 9^th January, 2009.  The National leaders of the Confederation and of the affiliates will participate in such conventions.  The meeting decided to have the following dates for the conventions.

14.12.2008-              Jaipur

25.12.2008-              New Jalpaiguri-West Bengal

03.01.2009-       Delhi.  

06.01 2009        Bhopal, Allahabad, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi,Trivandrum.

07.01.2009        Lucknow, Nagpur, Ahmedabad Dehradun, Bangalore, Patna

08.01.2009        Shimla, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Raipur.

09.01.2009        Chennai, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Shillong.

 

h)      Campaign material will be sent in a week's time.  Strike notice proforma alongwith the amended Charter of demands will be circulated alongwith the next circular.  The comrades from the CHQ. who will be attending the state level conventions will be intimated in the next communication.  All affiliates will draw out their campaign Programme separately for the strike action.

 

The meeting appealed all comrades, affiliates and COCs to take every step for the successful conduct of the Strike action, which will commence on 20^th January, 2009.

 

With greeting

Yours fraternally

KKN. Kutty

Secretary General

 

Confederation Circular letter

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

 EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden

New Delhi. 110 027

Phone: 011 2510 5324

Fax: 011 2510 5324

Website:www.confederationhq.blogspot.com

Email.confederation06@yahoo.co.in,itefcentral@gmail.com

 

 D/11/19/2008

Dated: 2^nd December  2008

 

 

Dear Comrade,

 

National Convention on Global Financial Crisis

and the need to protect the Banking, Insurance and Pension Sectors –

 

As indicated in our Circular Letter No.D/11/18/2008 dated 21^st November 2008, a National Convention on the above subject will be held at New Delhi on 12^th December  2008. The Venue will be the FICCI Auditorium, near Mandi House, New Delhi. The Convention is slated to be between 11.00 AM to 3.00 PM. It is being co-sponsored by All India State Govt. Employees Federation, Bank Employees Federation of India, All India Insurance Employees Association and the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers. The Convention is conceived to be of not only educative but also to co-ordinate and canalize all efforts to register an emphatic protest against  the proposed reforms in the Banking, Insurance and Pension Sectors being attempted by the UPA Govt. at the fag end of their tenure.

 

We are entitled to have a minimum hundred participants in the Convention to represent Confederation. Since the National Executive of the Confederation is to meet on 13^th December, our Comrades may avail of this opportunity of reaching Delhi on 12^th itself to participate in the Convention. We shall be grateful if the Comrades will inform us in advance of their willingness to take part in the Convention so that we can make necessary arrangements for collecting Badges etc.. All affiliates and COC may kindly inform us of the number of Comrades, who will participate the Convention by the 8^th December 2008.

 

It has also been decided to organize a mass demonstration in all State Capitals on the same day jointly by the Comrades of the Sponsoring Organisations. The COC Secretary of the State Capitals are requested to get in touch with the leaders of AIIEA, BEFI and AISGEF and finalise the local programme as to the local requirements.     

 

 

Yours fraternally,

 

 

K.K.N.Kutty

Secretary-General

Circular No:18

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS

Manishinath Bhawan A/2-95 Rajouri Garden

New Delhi.l 110 027

Phone: 2510 5324

Fax: 2510 5324

Cell: 98110 48303

E mail: confederation06@yahoo.co.in

D/11/18/2008

Dated: 21^st November, 2008

Dear Comrade,

Kindly refer to our letter written to the Hon'ble Prime Minister and the Cabinet Secretary demanding settlement of our 20 point charter of demands placed on the website on 7.10.2008. Before the Prime Minister, we had pleaded for refering the issues to the Group of Ministers already set up for looking into the grievances of the Defence personnel. Our demand before the Cabinet secretary was to settle these issues through a discussion. We have not been favored with a response from either.

It would be therefore appropriate and desirable that we follow it up with a demonstrative Programme of action. The affiliates and C-O-Cs may kindly advise their members to hold a lunch hour demonstration on 8^th December 2008 in front of all offices and send the following telegram to the Prime Minister / Cabinet Secretary.

Solicit kind reference to the Confederation's letter D-16/2008 dated 6.10.2008 and request settlement of demands.

The National Executive had decided upon organizing a Strike Ballot as a method of intensive campaign of the charter of demands amongst the employees and seek their approval for the indefinite strike Programme. Some of the affiliates had asked the confederation of exploring the feasibility of preparing a common format for the same. We suggest the following format for taking the Strike ballot.

"I hereby agree to participate in the indefinite strike action as suggested by the National Executive of the Confederation to pursue the 20 point charter of demands.

YES  NO 

Place a √ mark in Yes or No as you deem fit.

Recently the Department of Personnel has issued instruction regulating grant of child Care leave in No 13018/2/2008.ESH(L) dated 18^th Nov.2008. One of the conditions imposed for the grant of Child Care leave is that:

' CCL can be availed only if the employee concerned has no Earned Leave at her credit'

We have demanded for the exclusion of the said condition as it goes to nullify the very purpose of the grant of CCL.

The National Executive of the Confederation will meet at Delhi on 13^th December 2008. Notice for the meeting is enclosed. On 12^th December,2008, a convention will be held at New Delhi (FICCI Auditorium- Mandi House) Co-sponsored by Confederation, AIIEA,BEFI and AISGEF on the subject of Impact of Global financial Crisis on Indian Economy in the light of the further liberalization proposal of the Govt. of India in Banking Insurance and Pension Sectors". The Convention is slated to commence at 11.A.M and will be concluded by 3,00 PM. The National Executive Committee members who are interested to participate may reach Delhi one day in advance.

With greeting

Yours fraternally

Sd/

KKN. Kutty

Secretary General

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS

Manishinath Bhawan A/2-95 Rajouri Garden

New Delhi.l 110 027

Phone: 2510 5324Fax: 2510 5324

Cell: 98110 48303

E mail: confederation06@yahoo.co.in

Dated: 21^st November, 2008

NOTICE:

Notice is hereby given for a meeting of the National Executive of the Confederation on 13.12.2008 at Manishinath Bhawan, A/2/95 Rajouri Garden, New Delhi. 110 027. The meeting will commence at 2.30 PM. The Secretaries of the State COCs as also the Secretaries of the State Capital COCs are requested to kindly attend the meeting. The agenda for the meeting is as under:

(a) Review of the implementation of the decisions taken at the last meeting of the NE held at New Delhi. On 26^th August, 2008 by the affiliates/COCs.

(b) Future Course of Action (as proposed in the last meeting) in pursuance of the 20 point charter of demands including the modification required to the charter of demands if any.

K.K.N. Kutty,

Secretary General.

GDS report brief resume.

 

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS.

Manishinath Bhawan

A/2/95 Rajouri Garden

New Delhi. 110 027.

 

Phone: 2510 5324

Dated: 30^th October, 2008

Website: confederationhq.blogspot.com

E mail: confederation06@yahoo.co.in.

 

Dear Comrade,

 

Placed hereunder is a brief summary of the GDS Committee's report as is obtaining at the NFPE website.  The report is yet to be analysed in its entirety.  A glance through does not indicate any significant improvement.  The GDS  are not treated as Government employees even though they constitute the largest chunk of Postal Workers.  The sad fact is that a postal employee in whatever capacity he functions in rural post offices is to bear the brunt of a heavy workload, which is not capable of getting discharged even if he functions for <8 hours a day.  He is paid for much less than what ought to have been and the injustice has been perpetuated further.  Those who are in the trade union movement had no expectation from this Committee for  they know that the political ambience in the  era of neo liberal economy does not nurse any egalitarian pretensions. 

 

For more details we advise our comrades to visit the NFPE website.  The Confederation will hear from the NFPE leaders shortly on this issue and then formulate its reaction.

 

With greetings,

 

Yours fraternally,

 

K.K.N. Kutty

Secretary General

 

 

 

 

 

 

GDS COMMITTEE REPORT – AN ANALYSIS

 

Dear Com

rades! The GDS Committee headed by Shri.Nataraja Murthi has submitted its recommendations to the Honourable Minister of Communications & IT on 29.10.2008. The Report contains more than 450 pages. A detailed study of the whole report is being undertaken by the Federation and the GDS CHQ. It may take some time to make a complete evaluation. However here we place our immediate reaction to the GDS Committee Report. NFPE is unhappy over the denial of basic issues of Status and Statutory Pension even though a social security scheme is suggested by the GDS Committee in lieu of lump sum grant of severance amount. Comrades are requested to send comments on their opinion and analysis by clicking on the 'comments' at the end of this article.

                      

Wage increase from 1.1.2006.

 

Arrears will be paid by two instalments @ 40% this financial year and 60% next financial year.

 

1.86 times of multiplication factor as like regular government employees is not recommended but only 1.74 times. Even the 5% increased TRCA in lieu of 50% DA Merger is to be adjusted in future increments. This is a heavy blow.

 

Even Prorata wages not recommended. The minimum wage of 7000/- implemented for upgraded Group C and for other cadres not reflected in TRCA computation.

 

Allowances are with prospective date of effect only.

 

Many Allowances like HRA, Transport Allowance, SDA, Compensatory Allowances etc are virtually denied.

 

Great discrimination on DA is being recommended.

 

PLB Bonus – Discrimination against GDS is introduced.

 

Performance Related Incentives Concept is introduced like 6^th CPC instead of grant of time factor to facilitate departmentalisation of GDS.

 

Despite Court Verdicts, Statutory Gratuity is rejected by GDS Committee.

 

GDS is considered as Part Time only by the GDS Committee.

 

Even the GDS Conduct and Employment Rules is recommended to be changed as GDS Conduct and Engagement Rules.

 

Some improvement on Welfare Measures recommended.

 

Group Insurance Cover very meagre increase only.

 

No improvement in Leave except 3 months maternity TRCA + DA for two child births, which is also denied if abortion or miscarriage occurs.

 

Retirement age reduced from 65 to 62.

 

Recruitment methods tightened.

 

Existing transfer rights also snatched – Only for spouse women employee and compassionate appointee to be considered for transfer.

 

Disciplinary Rules not democratised – no classification of major and minor penalties.

 

Attack on 1946 settlement of 50% PA vacancies to Postmen by reducing it to 25% and offering remaining 25% vacancies to outsider quota.

 

Trade Union rights curtailed – Monthly meetings at divisional level reduced – No right to affiliate with Federations etc. – ID Act coverage being removed -

 

 

TRCA Determination:

 

Nomenclature of TRCA will continue.

 

74% DA as on 1.1.2006 has been taken into account for arriving at the hourly rates of GDS as follows:

 

GDS BPM:     Rs.915/- per hour

GDS MD/SV: Rs.888/- per hour

GDS MC etc: Rs.765/- per hour.

 

The above per hour amount will be multiplied by the number of working hours of the respective GDS for arriving at the minimum of the TRCA.

 

BPM

 

BPM Minimum Working Hours 3 Hours

For 3 Hours the Points will be 75 = Minimum TRCA is           Rs.2745/-

For 3 Hours 30 Min. will be 87.5 Points = Minimum TRCA is Rs.3200/-

For 4 Hours the Points will be 100 = Minimum TRCA is         Rs.3660/-

For 4 Hrs 30 Min the Points will be 112.5 = Minimum TRCA is Rs.4115/-

For 5 Hours the Points will be 125 = Minimum TRCA is            Rs.4575/-

 

But for estimating the workload of BOs the present norm of Rs.1000/- = 1 Point is changed adversely into Rs.20,000 = 1 Point on ad-hoc basis. This is too high. This will affect the work load of BOs resulting in lower TRCA.

 

GDS MD:

 

GDS MD up to 3 Hours is newly introduced in the name of decreasing work load due to fall in mail traffic. This will be applicable only for future recruits.

GDS MD for 3 Hours = Minimum TRCA Rs.2665/-

GDS MD for More than 3 Hrs but upto 3 Hrs 45 Mins = TRCA Rs.2870/-

GDS MD for more than 3 Hrs 45 Mins but upto 5 Hrs = TRCA Rs.3635/-

 

ANNUAL INCREASE:

 

Not even the 3% annual increment allowed by Government for regular employees is recommended to GDS. Only an Annual Increase in TRCA for 1.74% to 1.96% is permitted as follows:

 

 

DEARNESS ALLOWANCE

 

A new consumer basket based on rural area to be worked out for payment of DA to GDS. Till such time the present All India Consumer Price Index [Industrial Workers] be continued for payment of DA. This is a negative approach to deprive the present rate of DA available to GDS on par with regular employees.

 

 

PRODUCTIVITY LINKED BONUS

 

Committee wants to reduce the Bonus Act guaranteed bonus ceiling to GDS. It has recommended to fix only 50% of the ceiling fixed to the lowest category of regular employee until a new formula is worked out as recommended by 6^th CPC for Postal PLB. This is very negative in character and need to be resisted.

 

PERFORMANCE RELATED INCENTIVES

 

GDS Committee gives emphasis on performance related incentives as recommended by the 6^th CPC. Recommends continuation of incentives for all type of savings and PLI/RPLI work and marginally increasing incentive percentage in some cases but refusing time factor for any such work.

 

EX-GRATIA GRATUITY

 

From 18,000/- increased to a maximum of 60,000/- or 16.5 months of basic allowance whichever is less. The minimum service is reduced from 15 to 10 years for entitlement of Gratuity. The GDS Committee discussed about the Punjab & Haryana High Court and Apex Court on the matter or Gratuity and in a callous manner rejected the statutory gratuity ordered by the Honourable Courts by stating that the matter is still open to law.

 

GROUP IINSURANCE COVER

 

The present group insurance cover of 10,000/- is increase to a paultry 50,000/- with monthly subscription of 50/-.

 

 

WELFARE SCHEMES

 

Some welfare schemes presently available to GDS are enhanced. The death while on duty by terrorists etc is doubled from 50,000 to 1 lakh and while not on duty from 10,000 to 20000. New benefit of 1,50,000 introduced for death due to enemy action like war or action against terrorism etc. Financial assistance for prolonged illness is increase from 1500/- to 5000/-. Some marginal increases are recommended in some other cases.

 

MEDICAL BENEFIT

 

Recommended to Government to consider introducing a contributory health scheme. It has also recommended to consider a contributory insurance scheme. After discharge from service the retired GDS and Spouse may be allowed benefit without any contribution from GDS.

 

LEAVE

 

EL etc are denied. The present 10 days per six months is converted into 20 days paid leave in a year instead of 10 days in six months but without permitted to carry over the leave.

 

Instead of maternity leave a financial compensation of three months TRCA and DA will be considered from the Welfare Fund for female GDS for first two child births. This will not be allowed if there is miscarriage or abortion.

 

TRADE UNION FACILITIES

 

1. A channel of correspondence to effectively address the problems of GDS at Divisional, Regional, Circle & Directorate levels needs to be ensured.

 

2. Formal meetings to discuss unresolved issues through correspondence be held once in 3 months at Divisional level, once in 4 months at Regional level and once in 6 months at Circle and Directorate level.

 

3. The cost of a substitute wherever it is necessary to engage be met from the Department upto 2 members for periodical meetings subject to the provision that the combination of the duties is not feasible.

 

4. The present periodicity of holding All India Conference may be revised to 3 years with a grace per six months.

 

5. Formal regular meetings with Recognized GDS unions once in six months at Directorate Level with Member (P), as Chairman, the participation of concerned Deputy Directors General with Directorate (SR) as the convener be conducted. The unresolved issues in six monthly meeting with Member (P) if any may be placed before Secretary, Posts for perusal and action as deemed necessary.

 

6. The Department may consider amending the existing Rule 4(d)(i) of EDAs (RSA) Rules, 1995 for the purposes of recognizing second association. The existing percentage of 15% of membership may be revised to 30,000 verifiable membership.

 

Thus it can be seen though the GDS Committee has gone way away to recommend for changing the ED[RA]Rules for recognizing second union without fulfilment of 15% minimum condition, it has on the other hand taken total negative decisions in matters of affiliation with Federations; Special leave for Conferences, Foreign Service to General Secretaries etc. Even the existing facility of monthly meetings at divisional level is being curtailed.