CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
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North Avenue PO Building, New Delhi – 110001
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Circular No:
15
Date: 5/4/2014
Dear
Comrade,
The National Convention of
Central Government employees as scheduled was held at Nagpur on 4th April,
2014. The convention was inaugurated by Com. A.K. Padmanabhan, National
President, CITU and was addressed by Com. B.N.J. Sharma, President, AITUC,
Nagpur District Committee .
The
Draft resolution prepared by the National Secretariat was presented to the house
by Com. M.S. Raja, Working President, Confederation. Com. K.K.N. Kutty,
President, read out the two amendments received at the CHQ. In the
deliberations that ensued thereafter 31 comrades participated. Com. M. Krishnan,
Secretary General, summed up the discussion and indicated the acceptance of the
suggestions made by the delegates who participated in the deliberations. A copy
of the final version of the resolution as adopted by the Convention unanimously
is enclosed. Before the adoption of the resolution in its final form by the
house, Com. S.K. Vyas, Advisor, Com. Narasimhan, Vice President and Com. K.P.
Rajagopal, Secretary, Confederation addressed the house.
The National Secretariat of
the Confederation met on the same day at 7.00PM. It took the following
decisions to carry out the directives of the Convention.
1. The State Committees of the Confederation and its affiliated
Federations will take steps to translate the resolution in the respective local
languages immediately and ensure that the same is circulated amongst the
members.
2. Meetings will be organised in all offices to explain the contents of
the resolution adopted by the National Convention.
3. The National Secretariat members who are assigned the responsibility
(as per the details in the annexure) will interact with the State Secretaries
and ensure that the campaign programme of reaching out to all members is carried
out in all States.
4. The State Committees will solicit and enlist the services of the
Pensioners organisations to carry out the campaign amongst the mass of the
people.
All
affiliates and State Committees are requested to take immediate steps to carry
out the above decisions of the National Secretariat.
With
greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
M.
Krishnan
Secretary
General.
Name of the Secretariat Member:
State Assigned.
1. M. Krishnan and
R.Seethalakshmi.;
Karnataka and Kerala.
2. Com . K.K.N. Kutty and Com. Duraipandian.
Tamilnadu.
3. Com. Narasimhan, Nageswara Rao and P.Suresh:
Andhra Pradesh
4. Com. R.P.Singh and Com. P.
Jeyaraj.
Mumbai.
5. Coms. P.K. Das. Gupreet Singh. & Nilesh Nasre
Vidharbha.
6. Com. Yeshwant Purohit and Com.T.K.R. Pillai.
Mdhya Pradesh.
7. Com. T.N. Pstasar T.
Sathyanaryana.
Gujarat.
8. Com.
Suresh.
Chattisgarh.
9. Com. Vrighu Bhattacharjee and Giriraj Singh.
Jhararkhand.
10. Com. R.N.
Dhall
Orissa.
11. Vrighu Bhattachary and Giriraj
Singh. Bihar.
12. Com.R.N.
Parasar.
U.P.
13. Com. Somaiah, Ashok Knojia.& K.P.Rajagopal .
Haryana. And Punjab,
14. Com. M.S.
Raja.
H.P. and Utrakhand
15. Com. S.K. Vyas and Com.N. Somaiah
Rajasthan
16. Com.R.N. Parasar, Vrigu Bjattacjarya, A.K. Kanojia & Giriraj
Singh. Delhi.
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RESOLUTION adopted at the National Convention of Central Government
employees
on
4th April, 2014 at Nagpur.
1.
The National Secretariat of
the Confederation places on record its appreciation over the massive and
magnificent participation of the largest number of our members in the 48 hour
strike on 12thand 13th Feb. 2014. It was a great manifestation of
the confidence the members had reposed in the organization and their
determination to win the demands through struggles. The reports, the
Confederation CHQ received both from the affiliates and the State Committee
indicate the massive participation of the employees in the strike action
throughout the county. In some of the affiliates, the participation had been
cent percent. This must embolden the Confederation to pursue the issue with
determination and organize further action programmes to ensure that the demands
are got settled.
2.
The Secretariat has noted
that the Government had pretended to ignore the massive action of the
employees. There had been no response from them so far. In the wake of the
strike action, it announced the composition of the 7th CPC
disregarding the united demand raised by the Staff side of the JCM National
Council for the inclusion of a labour representative. The Government also chose
not to convene the meeting the staff side to discuss the draft terms of
reference submitted. It did not make any announcement on the question of merger
of DA, Interim Relief, and inclusion of GDA within the ambit of the Commission
and rejected the demand for making the recommendation of the Commission
effective from 1.1.2014.
3.
On every issue, which is
included in the 15 point Charter of demands, the Govt. continued with its
nugatory attitude. In the last session of the
Parliament, they ensured that the PFRDA bill becomes an Act despite the
strongest objection and resistance of the employees by eliciting and receiving
the support and patronage of the dominant opposition party, the
BJP. Even on an issue like compassionate appointments, no positive
response emerged. The period witnessed increased outsourcing of
governmental functions. Almost a third of the workforce is
presently casual and contract workers with abysmally poor wages taking advantage
of the acute unemployment situation in the country. There had been
no settlement of any issue raised by the Staff Side in the National Council JCM.
The JCM scheme has been made ineffective as not a single meeting
of the Council was held in the last three years and even the decision taken at
the National Anomaly Committee was thwarted through political
intervention.
4.
The plight of the three lakh
Gramin Dak Sevaks of the Postal Department is highly deplorable. They
constitute almost half of the Postal work force. But for them, the functioning
of the Postal system will come to a grinding halt. Their service conditions are
presently worse off than even a causal/daily rated worker. Despite the Supreme
Court’s decisions that they are holders of Civil Post and consequently are
entitled to the benefits and privileges of a civil servant, there had been no
improvement in their service conditions worth mentioning. In spite of repeated
presentation of their case both inside and outside the Parliament by people from
all walks of life irrespective of party affiliation, the Government had been
silent to the pleading for bringing them within the ambit of the Pay
Commissions. Confederation is duty bound and determined to change the situation
and to bring them within the purview of the 7th CPC.
5.
During its five year tenure
the UPA II was in power, it intensified the neo-liberal reforms; phased out all
welfare measures; accentuated the unemployment situation; divested the PSUs;
allowed unbridled entry of Foreign capital to subjugate the Indian people;
ruined the indigenous industry; destroyed the livelihood of the farmers and
agricultural labourers; allowed the prices of all essential food items to soar;
privatised education and health care services; ensured that each of its decision
was to favour the rich; granted huge tax concessions to the corporate; indulged
in large scale corruption; squandered away the national wealth; siphoned off the
poor man’s earning into the hands of a few rich in the country; sided with the
entrepreneurs in all labour disputes; took each and every political decision to
sub-serve the interest of the imperialist powers especially the USA. The
pursuance of the neo liberal policies at the behest of the advanced capitalist
countries drove the majority of Indian population to be below the poverty
levels. In the comity of nations, India became the poorest and the last ranking
in all fields. Indian youth were driven to be beggars at the doors of
transnational corporations and developed countries.
6.
Those who were responsible in
driving our country men to unprecedented deprivation have to now seek mandate,
for their tenure is to end shortly. No different is the approach of the major
opposition party, BJP. There is nothing to choose from these two political
dispensations. They were hand in glove together to demolish the sovereignty of
the country; pauperisation of the people and supported every legislation to
intensify the neo liberal exploitation of the common man. They supported to the
hilt the corporate houses. But for the support extended by the BJP, the PFRDA
bill would never have been made into a law. The Act now provides for the
extension of the new contributory pension scheme to those who were recruited
prior to 1.1.2004 and the existing pensioners. Despite the refusal of the
Government to accept their suggestion to guarantee minimum pension, the BJP
unashamedly supported the Bill, for they were the proponents of the neo liberal
economic policies. They supported this Government to increase the FDI and FII
in all sectors of economy and announced that they would intensify the reform
process if elected to power. The conglomeration of Corporates in the country
has now appointed the leader of that party to be the next CEO to run the
country. They have no use for the discredited UPA howsoever subservient it
could be. They know in a democratic system demagogy can play a vital role.
They are certain that BJP and its allies if elected to power will be much more
pliant and compliant.
7.
The Corporate controlled
media has created an illusion to the effect that there exists a consensus across
the political spectrum in the country that the neo liberal policies will spur
economic growth and the only point to be clinched in the forthcoming election is
as to which political combination, whether the UPA led by Rahul Gandhi or the
NDA of Narendra Modi is more efficient in pursuing the IMF dictated economic
policies vigorously. Economic growth is not akin to development. In the initial
years of the introduction of the LPG, no doubt, the economy grew phenomenally,
but the large majority of Indian people suffered. It permanently halted the
bringing up of an egalitarian society. It only enlarged the scope for
maximisation of profit of the corporate giants; opened up larger and bigger
avenues for corruption at the top of administration, whereby the ruling party
and its leaders could amass wealth. The scams unearthed by the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India during the last five years of UPA II Rule speak volumes
of the cancerous growth of corruption in our country. The 2G spectrum involving
Rs. 1.76 lakh crores, the Coalgate of the dimension of Rs. 1.86 lakh crores,
the corruption involved in the commonwealth games, the Rs. 40,000 cr deal in the
Delhi Airport Privatisation scheme, The KG Basin related Gas price deal with
Reliance, topping with Rs 48 lakh crores are a few that surfaced during this
period.
8.
As part of the economic
policy, concerted and continuous efforts were made to the job killing process in
all sectors, through contractorisation, casualisation, outsourcing,
privatisation etc. Contract workers now constitute 80% of the total work force
in the private sector. After the implementation of the 6th CPC
recommendations about 35% of the workforce in the Governmental sector is either
contract or casual workers. They are paid quarter of or even less the wages of
the regular workers.
9.
This election is not only to
decide who should govern this country but more so to determine for whom the
governance is. UPA having been totally discredited in the eyes of the common man
has no chance whatsoever. NDA must not have a chance once again for it is bound
to pursue the neo liberal policies more vigorously than even the UPA. That is
the one and only reason why the Indian corporate houses and the corporate
controlled media solidly back the BJP and the BJP led NDA. The Political
combination outside the NDA and UPA has a predominant presence in the
15th Lok Sabha. They are capable of being the largest segment in the
16th Lok Sabha too.
10.
It is in this background that
the workers must assess the political situation. In the forthcoming electoral
battle, every worker must discharge his salutary responsibility. Since the
present state of affairs is the product of the neo- liberal policies and since
both the UPA and the NDA are the proponents of those policies, one must have
clear vision and exercise the franchise effectively to ensure that a pro-worker,
pro-people combination of parties is in governance. In the forthcoming election
to the 16th Lok Sabha, the Central Government employees must become a
vehicle for change in the interest of the common people; rise above the divisive
ideologies and misleading propaganda; identify their friends especially in the
Left parties; and ensure the success of those who stood with them and fought for
the cause of the workers and common people.
11.
The Secretariat came to the
inescapable conclusion that the settlement of the demands in the charter will
only be possible through intensification of the struggles. It recognised the
need for larger unity. It will strive for bringing about such a united platform
for joint action. The inevitability of an indefinite strike action has to be
emphasised. The Confederation and its affiliates must prepare its members for
such an eventual and unavoidable action, if the proposed 7th CPC is
to really revise the wages. It is needed to ensure the withdrawal of the
pernicious contributory pension scheme. It only will ensure that there are no
casual or contract system of employment in Government service. The Government
employees must be bestowed with democratic rights and above all must enjoy the
facility for collective bargaining and right to strike. The Gramin Dak Sevak system is a colonial legacy and no civilised
country must endure such brutal exploitation. All is possible through united
and sustained action. The Confederation has proved beyond any iota of doubt
that it has built up an organisation capable of carrying out such an action.
12.
To ensure that the Indian
people have food security, the farmers are not driven to commit suicide, the
workers do have decent job environment and emoluments, the prices of essential
commodities do not soar, there is universal public distribution of essential
food articles; India has an independent foreign policy, this great Nation is not
enslaved by western imperial powers once again, all communities and people of
different faiths are allowed to live in peace and harmony; no communal violence
erupts; all able bodied people have jobs and livelihood, there must be a
Government which exist for the sake of the poor inhabitants of this country.
Central Government employees must take an active role in the ensuing General
election and strive with their best to bring about such a Government.
13.
This convention calls upon
every worker of the Confederation to fan out and reach out to the rank and file
of its membership, explain the stupendous task ahead; to work in consonance with
the understanding depicted in this resolution and ensure that they become
instruments for a great political change in our country.
14. The Convention authorises the
National Secretariat to review the political situation emerging after the
election and take appropriate decision to mobilise the rank and file of the
workers for an eventual industrial action to seek settlement of the 15 point
charter of demands.
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