TODAY GDS NATIONAL CONVENTION BY AIPEDEU .
VOICE OF GDS CREATED THUNDERS IN THE PARLIAMENT STREET FOR THE CAUSE OF JUSTIFIED DEMANDS ON 12-12-13 …!!!
AIPEDEU MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO HON’BLE PM & OTHERS.
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ALL INDIA POSTAL EXTRA DEPARTMENTAL EMPLOYEES UNION
(Central Head Quarter)
First Floor, Post Office Building, Padamnagar, Delhi 110007
President: D.N. Giri
General Secretary S.S. Mahadevaiah
To
Dr. Man Mohan Singh Jee,
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India,
Government of India,
New Delhi – 110001
Shri P. Chidhambaram Jee,
Hon’ble Minister for Finance,
Government of India,
North Block,
New Delhi – 110001
Sri Kapil Sibal jee,
Hon’ble Minister of Communications & I.T.
Government of India,
Electronic Niketan, CGO Complex,
New Delhi-110003
The Secretary,
Department of Posts,
Dak Bhavan,
New Delhi-110001
MEMORANDUM
Respected Sir,
Most respectfully we are submitting herewith a memorandum on most urgent and pressing problems of the Gramin Dak Sevak employees for your kind perusal.
The Department of Posts is the only department of the Government of India where there is a special category of employees working called Gramin Dak Sevaks. In fact the Gramin Dak Sevaks are the backbone of the postal department. The postal functions rendered at the nook and corner villages of the country covering 74% of population by the Gramin Dak Sevaks are of high order and quality. Almost every postal service i.e. M.N.R.E.G.S., Postal Life Insurance ( P.L.I/R.P.L.I) old age pension is provided in one or the other way at the Branch offices manned by the Gramin Dak Sevaks. The GDS officials are working more than ten hours a day to serve effectively to the villagers. But they are getting wages only for three to five hours work. Unfortunately, most of the facilities granted by the department to the departmental employees are denied to these low paid poor employees where as the duties, services, functions, risks and responsibilities of the G.D.S employees are similar and equal to those of departmental employees. Unlike other Bureaucratic committees, the independent committee headed by a retired Justice Charanjit Talwar had studied the service conditions of GDS, traveling length and breadth, and recommended all benefits due at par with Departmental staff but unfortunately the same were not implemented by the then Govt. in 1999. A few benefits were extended to them, that too with the same tradition of continuing exploitative policies. In fact the recommendations were based on rational and justified reasoning!
All India Postal Extra Departmental Employees Union (GDS) on behalf of Two lakh Sixty Thousand GDS employees would like to bring the following unsettled and most pressing issues of Gramin Dak Sevaks on the occasion of Parliament March by Ten Thousand Gramin Dak Sevaks on 12.12.2013.
CHARTER OF DEMANDS
- Departmentalisation of Branch Post offices.
- Grant Civil Servants Status to Gramin Dak Sevaks.
- Inclusion of GDS wage structure and Service Conditions in the preview of 7th Central Pay Commission.
- Merger of 50% D.A with Pay for GDS.
- Provide cent percent compassionate appointments to the wards of deceased GDS employees.
- Revise BPM cash handling norms Rs. 20,000/- per one point.
- 25% Postman, MTS vacancies are filled by the senior GDS officials on the basis of seniority cum fitness.
- Stop 25% Postman/MTS vacancies offer to open market. Those vacancies also should be filled up by GDS.
- Enhance the office maintenance allowance (House rent) of the Branch Post offices.
- Regularization of causal, Part time, contingent employees and revision of their wages with effect from 01.01.2006 and grant of DA.
We once again respectfully crave your indulgence for judicious settlement of the issues.
With high regards
Dated: 12.12.2013
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(S.S. Mahadevaiah)
General Secretary