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CHQ Letter to Hon'ble Minister of Communications & IT,
GDS/CHQ/10/2 /2008 Dated: 03-10-2008
To,
Shri A. Raja,
Hon'ble Minister of Communications & IT,
Government of India,
Electro Niketan, 6, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi 110003
Sub;-Treatment of strike period from 5.12.2000 to 18.12.2000
of the Postal employees as leave – case of Gramin Dak Sevaks.
Respected sir,
The news in the air is very thick – some web sites are also displaying it – that you have ordered that the period of general strike by the Postal employees from 5.12.2000 to 18.12.2000 be treated as leave due. It is a laudable decision which deserves laurels from the Postal employees. You have implemented your announcement in the convention of G.D.S. employees at Dindigul (T.N) in the month of October 2007.
But sir, the question about the treatment of the period in respect of Gramin Dak Sevak employees working in every nook and corner of rural India remains unresolved. We seek to explain the matter in short:
Gramin Dak Sevaks are entitled to ten days paid leave in two installments in a year- 10 days from January to June and another 10 days from July to December. This paid leave has to be availed within the concerned six-monthly period or is treated as lapsed, as this period is not allowed to accumulate. In short the G.D.S. employees do not have any leave due on 19.12.2000 for the strike period to be converted into.
In these circumstances, the question arises: what will happen to the G.D.S. employees? Shall the G.D.S. employees again be discriminated and remain bereft of the benefit of the benevolence shown by you. We feel that certainly the spirit of your decision is not like this and your intention certainly must have been that the benefits should percolate down to all sections of the Postal employees including the Gramin Dak Sevaks.
Therefore, we suggest that the G.D.S. employees may be granted special leave for 14 days which should be adjusted against the period of strike in accordance with your kind orders or some other mechanism may be found for the purpose. This will solve the issue on a short term basis.
In order that the long standing discrimination of G.D.S. employees by denial of due leave is rectified , it will be worthy of you sir, to order that leave at par with departmental employees is also granted to the G.D.S. employees with the facility of accumulation.
We, therefore, request you with all humility that the above suggestions be considered sympathetically, accepted and necessary orders issued that the discrimination against G.D.S. employees ends and they are not kept bereft of the benefits of your orders.
With profound regards,
(S।S. Mahadevaiah)
General Secretary