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INDIA POSTAL EXTRA DEPARTMENTAL EMPLOYEES UNION
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Head Quarter)
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President: D.N. Giri
General Secretary S.S. Mahadevaiah
GDS/CHQ/43/1/2013 Dated. 06-02-2013
To
Ms. P. Gopinath,
Secretary,
Department of Posts,
Dak Bhavan,
New Delhi – 1.
Madam
Sub:- Most urgent and
pressing problems of the Gramin Dak Sevak employees.
We are submitting herewith a short note on most
urgent and pressing problems of the Gramin Dak Sevaks for your kind perusal and
favourable action.
1.
Gross injustice
and discrimination has been done to Gramin Dak Sevak employees by denying Bonus
Ceiling of Rs. 3500/- at par with Departmental Staff. Bonus Ceiling of Rs.
2500/- to GDS is nothing but discrimination. Bonus is granted on the basis of profits earned by the
department of posts. The major source of the department’s income is from rural
postal life insurance. Gramin Dak Sevaks Procured 1,22,03,345 active policies
and 661,322,3 million rupees deposit were collected. Besides this NREGS is
being implemented effectively in branch post offices. GDS officials got equal
bonus at par with departmental employees till 2008. In 2008 the bonus ceiling
was enhanced from Rs. 2500/- to Rs. 3500/- unfortunately enhanced bonus was
denied to GDS officials. The discrimination still continues despite court
verdict in several states. It is high time to remove this discrimination and
grant Rs. 3500/- bonus to GDS employees.
2.
Removal
of tightening of norms for GDSBPMs, Rs.20,000/- Cash handling per point is
unreasonable and unscientific. Hither to
Rs.1000/- per point for Cash handling was in force which was the basis for
computation of their TRCA. Similarly no
norm is fixed for transactions done under MNREGS up to 20 transactions, Stamps
sales norms Rs.900/- is unreasonable against the former norms of Rs.45/- per
point. We request immediate review as
the officials undergo REDUCTION IN THEIR MONTHLY EMOLUMENTS/TRCA. No pay committee has suggested downward
revision of pay/TRCA and such peculiarity/discrimination is only towards this
section! In reality their pay should have been on the basis of minimum hours of
attendance like Departmental staff, not on the basis of workload assessed
unscientifically and irrationally.
ANOTHER PERTINENT POINT IS THAT THEIR SERVICES ARE UTILISED OUTSIDE THE
DUTY HOURS TO MOBILISE R.P.L.I, MGNREGS AND OTHER SMALL SAVINGS WORK.
3.
Hither
to Compassionate appointment to the wards of GDS have been given as a welfare measure, without any condition or
restrictions. Imposing unethical and
unreasonable conditions and norms prescribed recently is against the principles
of natural justice and law of the land.
Introduction of irrational and unscientific methods to assess indigent
circumstances of the family are quite unreasonable and unjust. Earning MINIMUM POINTS OF 50 is highly
impracticable and unjust, live examples have been furnished already for urgent
review. Please look into this issue
objectively, compassionately and ON PRIORITY.
4.
Scrap the new
recruitment rules for appointment of postman/MTS. Stop 25% recruitment from
open market. Restore the previous Recruitment Rules. Senior GDS officials have
been denied to promote as postman/MTS. The avenue of series be convey
departmental is blocked the most enhman action.
5.
Most of the GDS
posts have been abolishing stating that there is not justified workload for the
post. Stop abolition of GDS Posts and filling up of all vacant post in all
cadres of GDS. To fill up the GDS posts (other than GDS BPM), powers may be
vested to Divisional Heads to save delay. As per the Annual report of
Department of post and the information obtained by RTI Act, there are above 40
thousand GDS post vacant left unfilled in the Branch post offices Necessary
action may be taken in this regard as GDS are traced to undergo combination of
2 to 3 duties, working beyond 5 hours without any compaction.
6.
Casual labour,
contingent, part time workers are working in the post offices along with postal
staff years together. They are getting the wages along with D.A they are also
low paid employees under finitely payment of D.A. has been stopped to them for
four years. Reasons are not know. Hence you are requested to restore D.A and
grant pro-rate revised scales.
We, therefore, most respectfully
solicit your kind intervention and early settlement of the issues for which we
shall be highly grateful.
With
regards,
Yours
faithfully Sd/-
(S.S. Mahadevaiah)
General Secretary