Thursday, April 30, 2015

PJCA MEETING


PJCA MEETING
Meeting of PJCA Leaders with Secretary Posts held at Dak Bhawan, New Delhi on 30.04.2015 inconnection with Strike Charter of Demands.
Talks inconclusive.

Keep the tempo on.

TRANSFER & POSTING

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, INDIA
Office of the Superintendent of Post Offices,
Keonjhar Division, Keonjhargarh-758001
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Memo No.      B3/Ch-VI        Dated at Keonjhargarh the 29th April, 2015.

PART-I
The following transfer and posting is hereby ordered to have immediate effect in the interest of service.
Sl. No.
Name of the official
Present place of posting
Post to which posted on transfer
1
Sudiptabhanu Hota
SA, Keonjhargarh HO
Extension one year
2
Amulya Kumar Mishra
SA, Keonjhargarh HO
Extension one year
3
Smt. Ava Das
OA, Divisional Office, Keonjhar
Extension one year
4
Aswini Kumar Singh
PA, Anandapur MDG
PA, Joda SO

PART-II
            The following transfer and posting is hereby ordered to have immediate effect at their own request. 

Sl No
Name of the official
Present place of posting
Post to which posted on transfer.
1
Dillip Kumar Maharana
SPM, Kushaleswar SO
SPM, Ghasipura SO
2
Niranjan Rana
PA, Keonjhargarh HO
SPM, Kushaleswar SO
They are not entitled to TA & TP as their transfer is made at their request.

PART-III
The following posting is hereby ordered to have immediate effect in the interest of service.

Sl.No.
Name of the official
Present place of working
New place of posting
5
Soumya Ranjan Pattanayak
Attached to Keonjhargarh HO
PA, Ghatgaon SO
6
Rajesh Behera
Attached to Keonjhargarh HO
PA, Anandapur MDG
7
Ramiz Fatima
Attached to Keonjhargarh HO
PA, Jhumpura SO
8
Vishanu Kumar Jha
Attached to Keonjhargarh HO
PA, Champua SO
They will join at their new place of posting after returning from PTC, Darbhanga after successful completion of induction training.

The official at Sl. 4 of Part-I and all officials of Part-II will be relieved on office arrangement. No leave of any kind will be granted till joining in their place of posting.
Supdt. Of Post Office,
Keonjhar Division,
 Keonjhargarh-758001
A Copy of this memo is issued to:-
1.      The Postmaster, Keonjhargarh HO for information and necessary action.
2.      The Postmaster, Anandapur MDG/SPM, Kushaleswar/Ghasipura/ Ghatgaon/ Jhumpura/ Champua/ Joda SO.
3.      The DA (P), Cuttack-753004
4.      The ASP(I/c)/All IPs in Keonjhar Division.
5.      Officials concerned.
6.      P.F. of the officials.
7.      Budget Branch, Divisional Office, Keonjhar.
8.      Office copy/spare.
Supdt. Of Post Office,
Keonjhar Division,
 Keonjhargarh-758001

EDITORIAL POSTAL CRUSADER MAY -2015 FIGHT FOR EMANCIPATION OF GDS


            At the insistence of the Postal JCA the Postal department again wrote to the Government for referring the GDS issues to 7th CPC last month but it is confirmed that the Government has rejected it unjustifiably. There appears to be no place in the heart of the Prime Minister and all his words of Man Ki Baat do not show any reference to this toiling and exploited section of postal family. The Postal Department accordingly is preparing to constitute another Nataraja Murthy type of Officer Committee to go into the wage structure issues of the GDS. This exercise will no doubt result in repetition of our age old experience of denial of justice to GDS and will not even be useful to rectify some fundamental errors in fixation of pay to various categories of GDS on par with its historically comparable category of regular employees. The Postal Employees movement cannot tolerate this type of callous attitude from the Government that spends more time only with the issues of Indian and foreign corporates.

            NFPE and the Postal JCA are committed to fight for the cause of GDS and for their inclusion in the ambit of 7th CPC. NFPE was successful in unifying the entirety of the CG Employees movement including the Railways and Defence to effectively place before the government through the Staff Side JCM as well as an important demand in the charter for struggle by the CG Employees. The distraction caused by the industrial action of GDS at the call of some other organisation has been taken advantage of by the government to foist an officer committee by applying divide and rule theory. NFPE and Postal JCA are not going to fall for the tactics of the Government but will raise the banner of struggle as promised time and again since the formation of the Pay Commission.

            There can be only a single reason for the adamant attitude of the Government. It is clear that if a Pay Commission gives out its recommendations it will be highly difficult for it to reject it but it can reject easily the recommendations of any judicial committee as was done to Justice Talwar Committee recommendations. It can of course obtain a very favourable report through an officer committee. But the movement had lived through this game of the Government throughout its existence. We cannot allow the Government to succeed this time and once again cheat the two and a half lakhs of GDS, who always stood strongly in all struggles of the Postal Employees movement by undergoing all types of sacrifices including during the times of bonus ceiling struggle. It is time to repay to the cause of GDS by the Postal regular employees work force.

            The Task Force Committee’s recommendations to effect a complete structural change of the India Post and open the doors for the ultimate privatisation of the India Post pose a serious challenge to the entire postal movement. The recommendations cannot be ignored as the same are coming out of the high power committee constituted by the Prime Minister and headed by a former Cabinet Secretary. Any let up on our side will result in a fate-accompli situation and once the Government takes a final decision on the recommendations it will be too late for the existence of the Postal Department as a Government Service. The Postal JCA cannot be a silent spectator to the destruction of the entire edifice of Postal Department before its own eyes.

            There are other serious issues in the Charter but the existence of the Postal Department as a government department and referring the wage issues of two and a half lakhs of GDs to 7th CPC as against the decision of the Government to constitute once again an officer committee and cadre restructuring  of all  cadres, are the important  issues  on which no compromise can be made by the postal movement.

            Time to get into the arena of struggle with total confidence that united struggles always win. We appeal to all GDS employees that irrespective of their loyalties all should join this crusade against injustice being perpetrated against them time and again. We appeal to all departmental regular employees that it is time for our movement to be ready for making any sacrifice for the cause of our downtrodden GDS brothers and sisters. Let us march ahead in the path of indefinite strike and register victory.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

1st POSB ATM of Odisha Postal Circle inaugurated by Sri Tilak De, Chief PMG, Odisha on 27.04.2015 in the campus of Circle Office, Bhubaneswar

 
 

2nd POSB ATM of Odisha Circle inaugurated in the campus of Cuttack GPO

 
 
 

More photographs on historic Parliament March of National JCA on 28.04.2015

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

MASSIVE AND IMPRESSIVE RALLY AND PARLIAMENT MARCH OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES – 28.04.2015

NATIONAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION DECLARES NATIONWIDE INDEFINITE STRIKE FROM 23RD NOVEMBER 2015
  
PRESS STATEMENT

            We send herewith a copy of the resolution adopted by the massive rally of the Central Government employees held today 28.4.2015 at Jantar Mantar. New Delhi declaring that if no settlement is brought about  on the ten points charter of demands, the Central Government employees in all the De-departments of the Government of India will go on indefinite strike action from 23.11.2015.

            The rally was held under the chairmanship of Shri M. Raghavaiah, General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen.  Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra convenor of the NJCA conducted the proceedings.   The resolution was moved by Com. K.K.N. Kutty, President, Confederation of Central Government employees and workers, New Delhi.  Besides, the Chairman and Convenor of the NJCA, the other who spoke at the rally include S/Shri Rakal Dasgupta, President, All India Railwaymen Federation, Guman Singh and Bhatnagar of the National Federation of Indian Railwaymen, Shri M. Krishnan, Secretary General, Confederation of Central Government employees and workers, R.N. Parashar, Secretary General, National Federation of Postal Employees, Shri D. Theagarjan, Federation of National Postal organisations, Shri Sreekumar and Pahak of All India Defence Employees Federation, Srinivasan of the Indian National Defence Workers Federation, Harbhajan Singh Sidhu, General Secretary, HMS and many others. It was decided that the Railway and Defence Federation will take the strike ballot in the month of October, 2015.  More than a lakh of workers participated in the rally.  The copies of the resolution were handed over to the honourable Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Honourable Prime Minister by a delegation of the National Joint Council of Action

            We shall be grateful for favour of coverage of the decision in your esteemed daily/Newspaper /weekly.

            Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

Shiv Gopal Mishra
Convenor

NATIONAL JOINT COUNCIL OF ACTION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
4, STATE ENTRY ROAD,
NEW DELHI

RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT THE MASSIVE RALLY AT JANTAR MANTAR (PARLIAMENT STREET) ON 28 APRIL 2015

The massive congregation of the representatives of Central Govt Employees who have come from various parts of the country held at Jantar Mantar before the Indian Parliament on 28-04-2015 decided to commence the indefinite strike action from 23rd November 2015 from 6 AM having failed to elicit any positive response from the Government in settlement of the 10 point Charter of Demands submitted months back. It was also decided that the Railways and Defence organizations will conduct the strike Ballot as per the provision of the Industrial Disputes Act and Recognition Rules before commencing the strike from 23-11-2015.

The massive gathering adopted the resolution unanimously exhorting the central Govt. Employees to prepare for the eventual strike action in all earnestness and make it a historic one.

The meeting congratulates the employees for forging exemplary unity and carrying out various programmes chalked out by the National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) after the national convention on 11th December 2014. Even though the Govt. was compelled to set up the 7th CPC on account of the sanctions generated through the action programmes, Govt. has refused to grant Interim Relief and merger of DA and excluded the Gramin Dak Sewaks of the Postal Department from the ambit of the 7th CPC.

It is a matter of regret that in spite of public admission of non-privatisation of Indian Railways by Prime Minister of India and assurance of Minister of Railways on various occasions, including Parliament, Dr. Deb Roy Committee had submitted a report which is a clear roadmap for privatisation of IR. 

The meeting noted that the Government has purposely ensured the closure of Joint Consultative   
Machinery, the negotiating forum set up in 1966 for Central Government Employees to discuss and bring about settlement of their demands.

The meeting chaired by Secretary (Personnel) on 25th February 2015  did not bring about settlement on any single issue of the Charter of Demands.

The meeting unanimously decided to demand before the Government to convene the meeting of National Council, JCM immediately and settle the following charter of demands, if at all it wants to avoid confrontation with its own employees.

CHARTER OF DEMANDS:

1.    Effect wage revision of the Central Government Employees from 01.01.2014, accepting the memorandum of the Staff Side JCM; ensure 5-year wage revision in future; grant Interim Relief and Merger of 100% of DA. Ensure submission of the 7th CPC report within the stipulated time frame of 18 months; include the Grameen Dak Sewaks within the ambit of the 7th CPC.  Settle all anomalies of the 6th CPC.

2.    No privatisation, PPP or FDI in Railways and Defence Establishments and no corporatisation of postal services.

3.    No Ban on recruitment/creation of post.

4.    Scrap PFRDA Act and re-introduce the defined benefit statutory pension scheme.

5.    No outsourcing; contractorisation, privatisation of governmental  functions; withdraw the proposed move to close down the Printing Presses; the publication, form store and stationery departments and Medical Stores Depots; regularise the existing daily rated/casual and contract workers and absorption of trained apprentices.

6.  Revive the JCM functioning at all levels as an effective negotiating forum for settlement of the demands of the CGEs.

7.    Remove the arbitrary ceiling on compassionate appointments.

8.    No labour reforms which are inimical to the interest of the workers.

9.    Remove the ceiling on payment of Bonus.

10. Ensure five promotions in the service career.


The meeting authorized the National JCA to take appropriate and necessary steps needed to make the indefinite strike beginning from 23rd November 2015 an unprecedented and grand success.

                                                                                                       (Shiva Gopal Mishra) 
                                                                                                                    Convener
28.04.2015                                                                          National Joint Council of Action