ALL INDIA
GRAMIN DAK SEVAK UNION (AIGDSU)
ALL INDIA
POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION – GDS (AIPEU-GDS)
NATIONAL UNION OF GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS(NUGDS)
______________________________________________
No.GDS JCA/CHQ/6-1/2018 Dt.12-07-2018
To
Shri Manoj Sinhaji
Hon’ble Minister of State
for Communications (IC)
Govt. of India
Sanchar Bhawan
New Delhi – 110 001
Respected Sir,
The
three above GDS Unions has given a deep and serious consideration to the
implementation orders on the report of Kamalesh Chandra Committee on GDS issues
and expresses its deep disappointment, anguish, pain and resentment on the way
in which the GDS employees have been ditched and robbed of their due wages and
arrears.
The
Department of Posts, intentionally delayed 18 months to implement the GDS
Committee recommendations. The confidence of the GDS on the department has been
dashed by the ground by manipulative orders issued after some 20 days of the
Cabinet decision.
The
Gramin Dak Sevaks are hugely shocked and disappointed that report of the
Committee has been wrongfully manipulated and amended. This manipulation and
unjustified amendement of the report of the Committee has been given the
serious detriment of the GDS employees and has put them to the cumulative loss
of lakhs of rupees.
The
GDS unions have felt that the major and important recommendations of GDS
Committee has been over looked and neglected. We are demanding for
implementation of major recommendations of the Committee and modifications
suggested by GDS Unions enclosed in the Annexure within one month.
We
humbly requesting our Hon’ble Minister for Communications for intervention and
utilize his good offices to make suitable instructions to the Department of
Posts for implementation of major and
positive recommendations of Kamalesh Chandra Committee .
Yours
sincerely,
Sd/- Sd/- Sd/-
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S.S.MAHADEVAIAH
General Secretary
AIGDSU
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P.U.MURALIDHARAN
General Secretary
NUGDS
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P.PANDURANGARAO
General Secretary
AIPEU-GDS
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ALL INDIA
GRAMIN DAK SEVAK UNION (AIGDSU)
ALL INDIA
POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION – GDS (AIPEU-GDS)
NATIONAL UNION OF GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS(NUGDS)
______________________________________________
No.GDS JCA/CHQ/6-1/2018 Dt.12-07-2018
To
The Secretary
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan
New Delhi – 110 001
Respected Sir,
The
three above GDS Unions has given a deep and serious consideration to the
implementation orders on the report of Kamalesh Chandra Committee on GDS issues
and expresses its deep disappointment, anguish, pain and resentment on the way
in which the GDS employees have been ditched and robbed of their due wages and
arrears.
The
Department of Posts, intentionally delayed 18 months to implement the GDS
Committee recommendations. The confidence of the GDS on the department has been
dashed by the ground by manipulative orders issued after some 20 days of the
Cabinet decision.
The
Gramin Dak Sevaks are hugely shocked and disappointed that report of the
Committee has been wrongfully manipulated and amended. This manipulation and
unjustified amendement of the report of the Committee has been given the
serious detriment of the GDS employees and has put them to the cumulative loss
of lakhs of rupees.
The
GDS unions have felt that the major and important recommendations of GDS
Committee has been over looked and neglected. We are demanding for
implementation of major recommendations of the Committee and modifications
suggested by GDS Unions enclosed in the Annexure with in one month.
Otherwise
non-cooperation action will be initiated regarding IPPB, RICT and DARPAN after
one month. If the department of Posts is not implemented the major and positive
recommendations mentioned in the Annexure, the three GDS unions are compelled
to go on indefinite strike with proper notice.
Yours
sincerely,
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S.S.MAHADEVAIAH
General Secretary
AIGDSU
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P.U.MURALIDHARAN
General Secretary
NUGDS
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P.PANDURANGARAO
General Secretary
AIPEU-GDS
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ANNEXURE-i
Note on modifications in the orders issued on
GDS Committee recommendations.
The orders, so far issued, by the
Postal Directorate shows that there has been wide gap between the recommendations
of the committee and implementation orders issued by the department of posts.
The sanctity of the pay commission or committee has been greatly compromised.
We agree that the Govt. does not accept a few recommendations or makes some
amendments in other few and mostly in favour of the employees. But, here, the
entire report of the Kamlesh Chandra committee has been changed to the
detriment of the G.D.S. employees, We discuss hereunder some recommendations as
a token :
1. Date of implementation of the recommendations: The committee recommended that the report as a whole be
implemented with effect from 01.01.2016. We also were assured that the
committee’s report would be implemented w.e.f from 01-01-2016. But to our
dismay we find that according to the orders issued the recommendations that have
been implemented take effect from 01.07.2018. We discuss the adverse effects of
such orders below :-
(i)
Pay Fixation : The effect of the
recommendation from 01.07.2018 in stead of 01.01.2016 has severely eroded the
salary of the GDS employees – the lowest paid employees of the department. The
cumulative effect of the same will run into several thousands and even may go
up to lacs. The table below shows the effect of the manipulative orders giving
effect to pay fixation from 01.07.2018 vis-à-vis fixation with effect from
01.01.2016
Table – I
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Pay fixation from 01.01.2016
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Pay fixation from 01.07.2018
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Sl.
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Date
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Old Pay
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Product of 2.57
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New Pay
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Old Pay
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Product of 2.57
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Old Pay with DA
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Loss per Month (5-8)
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Remarks
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
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5
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6
|
7
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8
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9
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10
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1
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01.01.2016
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2790
|
7170
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10,000
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2790
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7170
|
6278
|
3722
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DA 125%
|
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2
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01.07.2016
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2790
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7170
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10,000
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2790
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7170
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6473
|
3527
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DA 132%
|
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3
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01.01.2017
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2835
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7286
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10,300
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2835
|
7286
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6691
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3609
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DA 136%
|
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4
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01.07.2047
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2835
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7286
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10,300
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2835
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7286
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6776
|
3224
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DA 139%
|
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5
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01.01.2018
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2880
|
7402
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10,610
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2880
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7402
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6970
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3640
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DA 142%
|
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6
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01.07.2018
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2880
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7402
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10610
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2880
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7402
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10,000
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610
|
|
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7
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01.01.2019
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--
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---
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10930
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--
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--
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10,000
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930
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|
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8
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01.07.2019
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--
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---
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10,930
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--
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--
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10,300
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630
|
|
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9
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01.01.2020
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--
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--
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11,260
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--
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--
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10,300
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960
|
|
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10
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01.07.2020
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--
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--
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11,260
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--
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--
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10,610
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650
|
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And so on…..
The amount
shown in col.-9 represents the loss per month. The loss to be suffered over the
next ten years may kindly be well imagined.
(ii)
The formula of product of 2.57 is a
way of pay fixation and not a way for calculation and payment of arrears. The
given formula of the payment of arrears : Calculating the arrears by product of
2.57 results in serious and irreparable
loss of several thousands to the GDS employees. The following table-II
illustrates the situation:
Table – II
A BPM drawing
pay of Rs 4115 in the old pay scale of Rs 4575-85-7125 DNI 01-01-2016
Net matrix = 1500-35480
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Sl.
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Date
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Pay
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D.A.
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Total Pay
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New Pay
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Due
Amount
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Old Pay 2.57
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Paid Amount
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Loss
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Loss in 6 Months
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|
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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1
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01.01.2016
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4715
|
125
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10,609
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14,500
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3891
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12,118
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1509
|
2382
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14,292
|
|
2
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01.07.2016
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4715
|
132
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10,932
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14,500
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3568
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12,778
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1186
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2382
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14,292
|
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3
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01.01.2017
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4800
|
136
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11,328
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14,940
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3612
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12,336
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1008
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2604
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15,624
|
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4
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01.07.2017
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4800
|
139
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11,472
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14,940
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3468
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12,336
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864
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2604
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15,624
|
|
5
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01.01.2018
|
4885
|
142
|
11,822
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15,390
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3568
|
12,554
|
732
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2836
|
17,016
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2.
(i)
Payment of gratuity : The
committee recommended payment of gratuity at the rate of half month’s salary
for every completed year of service subject to a maximum of Rs 5 lacs. The
maximum of amount of Rs 5 lacs has been, without any justification, sliced down
to Rs 1.5 lacs. To illustrate the point we take here an example of a GDS who
has rendered 36 completed years of services, and draws pay of Rs 24,000 on the
date of his retirement. His gratuity will work out to Rs 4.32000; but will have
to be limited to Rs 1.5 lacs. Can this loss of Rs 2.82000 to this particular
GDS be justified by any standard of justice. Giving effect to the payment of
gratuity from 01-07-2018 denies due gratuity to a number of GDS who have spent
the golden period of their life in service of the people on befalf of the
Government. If the bureaucracy in the postal Directorate, who gladly receive
gratuity on the same lines upto 20 lacs could decide the issue without any
justification on ad hoc basis, why the platitude of appointing a pay committee!
(ii) Pension contribution: The committee
recommended that 10% of the pay of the GDS should be recovered towards pension
contribution and the Government should contribute like amount towards the
scheme. The department has made wonderful unilateral and baseless change
that a sum of Rs 300, per month from the GDS and like amount would be
contributed by the Government. There cannot be any justification for this
baseless change. The recommendation of the committee has to be wholly accepted.
3.
Recommend actions the fate of which
are not known :-
(i)
Leave :- The committee has recommended that the GDS should be granted
30 day’s earned leave in a year and the unutilized leave should be allowed to
be carried forward subject to the maximum of 180 days. The committee also
recommended grant of half pay leave and emergency leave. Nothing is known about
the fate of these recommendations. Only orders on maternity leave up to 6
months have been issued. The recommendation may kindly be got implemented.
(ii)
Time bound promotions: The committee
has recommended that the GDS employees should be granted three promotions on
completion of 12, 24 and 36 years of service. We donot know as to the fate of
these recommendations. This may kindly be looked into.
(iii)
Children education allowance: The
Committee has made specific recommendations on this subject which has still to
see light of the day as far as implementation is concerned.
(iv)
Employees State Insurance Scheme (ESI) Gramin
Daks Sevaks should be included in the ESI scheme. The ESI Scheme covers even
persons working in unorganised sectors. ESI despensaries and hospitals are
available throughout the Country.
(v)
The rate of monthly subscription and amount
of insurance cover under the Gramin Dak Sevaks group insurance scheme as rate
of monthly subscription Rs. 500/- and Insurance cover Rs. 5,00,000/-
(vi)
Composite allowance to ABPMS Rs. 2400/- for
‘X’ Class Cities, Rs. 1600/- for ‘Y’ Class Cities and Rs. 800/- for ‘Z’ Class
Cities. for BPMs should be enhanced from Rs.500/- (recently approved) to Rs. 1600/-. Composite allowance should be
granted.
(vii)
Limited transfer facility to GDS on request
should be relaxed. There will not be any drop in wage scale on account of a
request transfer. The transfer of GDS will be approved by divisional head if
the transfer is with in the division, by Regional PMG if the transfer is within
the region, by HOC if the transfer is within Circle.
(viii)
Voluntary Discharge Scheme for the GDSs who
are willing to leave the post before the discharge age of 65 years should be
implemented.
(ix)
All discharge benefits (retirement benefits)
should be implemented from 01-01-2016.
(x)
Put off duty may be averted by Transferring
the GDSs to another place.
(xi)
Minimum qualifying service of 5 years should
be reduce to three year for GDSs to appear MTS/ Postman / Mailguard / PA / SAs Examination.
(xii)
Incentive system should be abolished for
schemes introduced and to be introduced by the Department of Posts. Enhance the
working hours of Branch Post Offices upto 8 hours to implement these schemes.
(xiii)
GDSs should be allowed to get discharged from
the service on the last day of the month in which She/He attains the 65 years
of Age.
(xiv)
All single handed Branch Post Offices should
be provided with one more hand.
The
following basic issued should also be considered for settlement in favour of
GDS.
1) Civil servant
status should be granted to GDS as the committee has clearly stated that GDS
are PART AND PARCEL of Department of Posts. Hence we urge upon the
Government and the department to extend all facilities at par with regular employees.
2) The restriction 5 hours duty
as MAXIMUM is neither practicable nor supported by any law and hence should be
removed. 8 hours work should be granted to all Branch Post Offices and
GDS Officials. Rule 3A(i) of GDS (conduct and engagement) Rules 2011 should
accordingly be amended immediately.
3) that the long pending demand
of Pension should be granted under the provisions of CCS (pension) Rules 1972
to all Gramin Dak Sevaks, who have been retired as Gramin Dak Sevaks without
absorption as regular Group-D staff. Rule 6 of GDS (conduct & engagement)
Rules 2011 should accordingly be amended.
Respected Sir,
These
are some to the important issues on which the recommendations of Kamlesh
Chandra committee have gravely been manipulated which has made a big whole in
the small pay packets of GDS. This has been seriously agitating the minds of
the GDS.
We
approach your goodself on behalf of 2.60 lacs Gramin Dak Sevaks kindly to look
personally into the matter and take necessary action for proper remedy which
will earn you or the Government the satisfaction of the GDS employees.
With high
regards.
Yours sincerely,
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S.S.MAHADEVAIAH
General
Secretary
AIGDSU
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P.U.MURALEEDHARAN
General
Secretary
NUGDS
|
P.PANDURANGARAO
General
Secretary
AIPEU-GDS
|
Copy forwarded,
with regards, to Sri A. N. Nanda secretary, Department of Posts for similar
action.