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Friday 7 March 2014
JCA Writes to DOP&T on Terms of Reference of the 7th CPC
NATIONAL
FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
1st
Floor, North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi – 110001
FEDERATION OF
NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS
T-24, Atul
Grove Road, New Delhi - 110001
Ref: JCA/Postal/2014 Dated – 06.03.2014
To
The Secretary
Department of Personnel & Training
Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances & Pensions,
North Block, New Delhi – 110001
Dear Sir,
Sub: - Terms
of Reference of the 7th Central Pay Commission.
We have gone through the Terms of
Reference of 7th Central Pay Commission approved and notified by the
Government on 28.02.2014. We find that the Terms of Reference finalized by the
Government is at variance in many respects to the Draft Terms of Reference the
Staff Side had submitted to you on 25.10.2013 after holding in-house discussion
on 24.10.2013.
At the conclusion of the meeting
held on 24.10.2013, it was agreed that the Government would consider our
suggestions in the matter and will convene another meeting with the presence of
the Secretary (Expenditure) to iron out the differences, if any, and explore
the possibilities of an agreement in the matter.
We regret to inform you that no
such meeting was convened and no attempt was made by the Official Side to
arrive at an agreed Terms of Reference. We find that the Government has
rejected the suggestions of Staff side for either taking a decision in the
matter of Interim Relief, Merger of DA, representation of labour nominee in the
Commission itself, inclusion of the Grameen
Dak Sewaks within the purview of the 7th CPC, bringing parity in
pension between the past and present pensioners, covering the employees
appointed on or after 01.01.2004 within the ambit of the Defined Benefit
Pension Scheme, date of effect, settlement of the pending items in the National
Anomaly Committee etc. or referring those issues to the Commission itself for
an Interim Report.
Besides, we are to state that the
existing Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) Scheme, being a bilateral agreement,
cannot be subjected to scrutiny and examination by the 7th CPC.
We, therefore request you to
kindly convene a meeting of the Standing Committee of National Council (JCM) to
discuss the issue, so as to make amendments to the Terms of Reference finalized
by the Government arbitrarily.
Yours faithfully,
(D. Theagarajan) (M. Krishnan)
Secretary General, FNPO & Secretary General, NFPE &
Member, National Council - JCM Member, National Council - JCM
Mobile: 09968349422 Mobile: 09447068125
E-mail: theagarajannachi@hotmail.com E-mail: mkrishnan6854@gmail.com
Thursday 6 March 2014
Vote out Neo-Liberal Globalisation Policies.
Vote for Alternative Pro-People, Pro-Working Class
Policies
Once again our country is going
for a general election. India is the
biggest democratic country in the world and general election is an opportunity
to every citizen to express their opinion about the future Government and also
future of our country.
We, the Central Government
employees including Postal employees are well aware of the fact that future of
the Central Government Employees and various Central Government departments
depends upon the policy of the Central Government. As we are working directly under the Central
Government, the policies are first experimented on us. Upto 1991, the policy of the Government was
to strengthen and expand the Central services and Public sector. Based on this policy more and more offices
were opened and employees are recruited and appointed to fill up vacant posts
and also newly created posts. The total
number of Central Government employees went upto 40 lakhs.
From 1991 onwards, the policy of
the Government changed and started implementing the neo-liberal globalisation
policies. Ban on filling up of vacant
posts and creation of new posts was imposed.
The process of converting Government departments into corporation
started with the hidden agenda of ultimate privatization. Attack came on the Telecom department first,
and it is converted into three Corporations.
Expenditure reforms committee under the former Finance Secretary Geetha
Krishnan was constituted and it recommended sweeping changes in all Central
Government departments in tune with the liberalisation, privatisation and
globalisation (LPG) policies of the Government.
Government started large scale outsourcing of the Government functions
and many small departments were closed and many are in the verge of
closure. Downsizing has reached its peak
and thousands of posts are abolished.
Casual and Contract worker employment has become the order of the day
and in some departments the number of casual/contract workers exceeded the
number of regular employees.
When the NDA government came to
power defeating the Congress government, employees were under the impression
that the above policies of earlier government will be changed. But to their dismay, the new government also
persued the same policies. A separate
portfolio for disinvestment was created and a Cabinet Minister is appointed as
incharge of the Disinvestment Ministry.
Downsizing, outsourcing, contractorisation and privatisation continued
unabated. Attack on the Central
Government departments and employees continued.
Finally New Pension Scheme called Contributory Pension Scheme was also
introduced.
UPA Government led by Congress
which again came to power continued the same policy more vigourously. The Pension Privatisation bill called PFRDA
Bill was introduced in the Parliament with the help of main opposition party,
BJP and again when the bill was passed both the NDA and UPA voted in favour of
the bill. Only left parties opposed the
bill. Regarding the main demands of the
Central Government employees also the attitude of both the Governments was
negative. Only due to the continuous
struggle conducted by Confederation and NFPE some improvements could be
achieved. In Postal, entire employees
went on 14 days strike in 2000 but the then NDA Government constituted a
cabinet committee of group of ministers under the then Home Minister and
rejected all the demands. Now also the
UPA government rejected all our main demands.
Both the governments tried to
privatise postal sector by amending Indian Post Office Act for granting licence
to private courier services. The move to
close down 9797 post offices and 300 RMS offices were defeated only because of
the united resistance of the Postal employees.
The attitude of both the Government towards departmentalisation of
Gramin Dak Sevak was totally negative.
Even after the pronouncement of Supreme Court that GDS are Civil
Servants the government is not ready to grant Civil Servant status to GDS.
From the above we can understand that
future of the Central Government employees including Postal employees depends
upon the policies of the Government.
Without changing the policy, we cannot except any positive action from
Government. Hence the coming general
election is very crucial to us. From our
past experience we should recognise our friends and foes. We have to defeat the anti -people,
anti-worker neo liberal policies at any cost.
NFPE calls upon the entire Postal employees to vote out the Neo Liberal
Globalisation Policies and to vote for an alternative pro-people, pro-working
class policies.
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REVISION OF INTEREST RATES FOR SMALL SAVINGS SCHEMES
FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 2014-15
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Various decisions taken by the Government of India on the recommendations of
the Shyamala Gopinath Committee for Comprehensive Review of National Small
Savings Fund (NSSF), were communicated to all concerned by the Government
through its Office Memorandum dated 11th November, 2011.
One of the decisions of the Government based on the recommendations of the
Committee relates to revision of interest rates every financial year, to be
notified before 1st April of that year. Accordingly
with the approval of the Finance Minister, the rates of interest on various
small savings schemes for the Financial Year 2014-15 effective from 01.04.2014,
on the basis of the interest compounding/payment built-in in the schemes,
shall be as under :
The necessary notifications will be notified separately in this regard in due
course.
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DSM/KA
(Release ID :104482)(PBI 04.03.14) |
Monday 3 March 2014
CONFEDERATION Circular No. 13
CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL
GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
1st Floor, North Avenue PO
Building, New Delhi – 110001
Website: www.confederationhq.blogspot.com
Email: confederationhq@gmail.com
Circular No. 13
Dated 2.3.2014
GOVERNMENT REFUSED
TO ACCEPT THE MAIN DEMANDS OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.
CONFEDERATION
NATIONAL SECRETARIAT CALLS UPON THE ENTIRE CG EMPLOYEES TO PROTEST AGAINST THE
ARBITRARY AND UNILATERAL DECISION OF THE GOVERNMENT.
HOLD NATION WIDE PROTEST DEMONSTRATION IN
FRONT OF ALL OFFICES AND AT ALL IMPORTANT CENTRES ON 7TH
MARCH 2014 OR
AT ANY IMMEDIATE CONVENIENT DATE.
SEND
PROTEST SAVINGRAM TO THE PRIME MINISTER.
PREPARE for AN INDEFINITE STRIKE IMMEDIATELY
AFTER GENERAL ELECTION DEMANDING , MERGER OF DA , INTERIM RELIEF , INCLUSION OF
GDS UNDER 7TH CPC, PARITY IN PENSION, DATE OF EFFECT 1/1/2014, SCRAP
NEW PENSION SCHEME, SETTLE ANOMOLIES,INCLUSION OF LABOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE
PAY COMMISSION AND OTHER DEMANDS IN THE 15 POINT CHARTER OF DEMANDs.
CONDUCT INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN
AND MAKE THE 4TH APRIL NAGPUR NATIONAL CONVENTION A GRAND SUCCESS
Dear Comrades,
The
Union Cabinet approved the Finance Ministry’s proposal on terms of reference of
the 7th CPC. We have placed
the full text of the same on our website.
None of the suggestions made by the Staff Side was accepted by the
Government.
However,
our concern over the date of effect seems to have been taken note of. The terms of reference has left the effective
date of its recommendations to be decided by the Commission itself. A united stand backed up by struggles will
enable us to clinch this demand in our favour.
Undoubtedly it has been our endeavours and the two days strike action
that has compelled the Government to have a rethinking on their earlier stand
of Decennial (Ten years} wage revision for Central Government employees and the
date of effect as 1/1/2016
Unlike
on the earlier occasion, the Government has not decided to grant Interim Relief
and merger of Dearness allowance. Nor
has it asked the Commission to consider and make appropriate recommendation in
this regard specifically. As pointed out in our earlier communication, inclusion
of a labour representative in the Commission being not an idea the UPA
Government cherishes, for it is diametrically opposite to its economic policies
and ideology, they have stuck to the position of sandwiching the Honourable Judge
with bureaucrats. In the light of the
agreement penned by Com. Mahadeviah, the General Secretary of the recognised GDS
union with the Postal Board to the effect that a separate one man committee
will look into the service conditions of the Grameen Dak Sewaks, it is not
surprising that the Government chose to ignore our demand to cover them within
the ambit of the 7th CPC.
Our demands for parity between the past and present pensioners and
scrapping of the new pension scheme also stand rejected.
As
you are aware, the 6th CPC (and the earlier Commissions also) had
refused to entertain the demand for removal of anomalies despite Government
referring the same to the Commission specifically. Therefore, the omnibus clause in the terms of
reference requiring the Commission to submit interim reports may not be of any
help to us to raise the anomalies before the 7th CPC.
At
the conclusion of the meeting held on 24/10/2013 by Secretary, DoPT, with the
staff side on terms of reference of the 7th CPC, it was agreed that
the Government will consider our suggestion in the matter and will convene
another meeting with the presence of Secretary (Expenditure) to iron out the
differences, if any, and explore the possibilities of an agreement in the
matter. But no such meeting was convened and no attempt was made by the
official side to arrive at an agreed Terms of
Reference.
We
must now react to the arbitrary and unilateral decision of the Government. We appeal all the State Secretaries, District Secretaries and Branch
Secretaries of the affiliated organisations and the State/District COCs to
immediately send the following Savingram to the Prime Minister.
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
WORKING IN THE .......
(NAME OF THE STATION)/ OFFICE OF...........................CONDEMN THE
ATTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN NOT HONOURING ITS COMMITMENT OF HOLDING
DISUCSSION WITH THE STAFF SIDE JCM NATIONAL COUNCIL BEFORE FINALISING THE TERMS
OF REFERENCE OF THE 7TH CPC AND DEMAND IMMEIDATE ACCEPTANCE OF :
(i)
Interim Relief
(ii)
Merger of DA
(iii)
Bringing the Grameen Dak
Sewaks within the ambit of the 7th CPC
(iv)
Date of effect from
1/1/2014
(v)
Parity in pension
entitlement between the past and present pensioners
(vi)
Coverage of the existing
defined benefit pension scheme to employees recruited on or after 1.1.2004.
(vii)
Include a representative
of the Labour in the 7th Central Pay Commission.
(viii)
Settle the anomalies
raised in the National Anomaly Committee
While
the National Convention scheduled to be held at Nagpur will chalk out detailed
and phased programmes of action, we call upon our State Committees and Affiliated
Unions to organise massive demonstration in
front of all offices and important centres on 7th March, 2014 (Friday) or any other immediate convenient
date. Kindly instruct all the Branches to
mobilise their members so that the demonstration has the participation of cent
per cent of the membership of the concerned branch. The State Units and affiliated Unions may
issue pamphlets and posters and ensure its wide circulation throughout the
country.
As
already declared by the National Secretariat of the Confederation, we shall have to go for an indefinite
strike action immediately after the General Election if our demands are to be
settled.
With
Greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
M. KRISHNAN.
Secretary General.
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