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Saturday, June 9, 2007

Filling up of Residual Vacancies

Filling up of Residual Vacancies


Reference: P/4-1/RV Date: 09 June 2007

All CHQ Office Bearers / Circle Secretaries &
Branch / Divisional Secretaries,
AIPEU Group 'C',

Dear Comrades,

The CHQ is happy of announce that the Directorate has already issued a detailed letter addressed to all the Circle Heads, vide Directorate number DG (P) Cir. Lr. No. 60-5/2007-SPB-I dated 15-05-20007, in connection with "Filling up of Residual Vacancies" in PA cadre in all the circles.

You are perhaps well aware that as per the latest Recruitment Rules of PA / SA cadre, 50% of the total vacancies in a year are to be filled up by way of Direct Recruitment and the remaining 50% vacancies are required to be filled up Departmental Examination held for Lower Grade Officials (LGOs), failing which the unfilled vacancies are offered to the Gramin Dak Sevaks (formerly ED agents) subject to their fulfilling the prescribed age and educational qualifications. It may so happen that adequate numbers of LGOs may not pass the examination and also that sufficient number of eligible GDS may not become available. It is to be noted that as per the Recruitment Rules, if the vacancies remain unfilled by the GDS, such residual vacancies of PA / SA cadre (in Departmental Quota only) are required to be filled up by subsequent Direct Recruitment from open market candidates in the next / subsequent year.

Furthermore, the Optimisation of Direct Recruitment to Civil Posts, ordered vide Department of Personnel & Training's O.M. dated 16-05-2001 is applicable to only Direct Recruitment portion of vacancies. The unfilled Promotion Quota vacancies, i.e., the Residual Vacancies will not in anyway come under the purview of Screening Committee or the Annual Direct Recruitment Plans even if these are subsequently required to be filled up by direct recruitment.

Comrades, it is happy to note that all such Residual unfilled Promotion Quota Vacancies, as detailed in Para supra, since 2000-2001 to 2005-2006 are to be filled up now in consequent upon issuance of the order under reference from the Postal Directorate.

It is therefore requested to pay vigilant attention on the subject matter under reference and furnish detailed statistical information to the CHQ, as per the annexed proforma, as early as possible from the date of receipt of this communication positively.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,


Somenath Mukherjee
Offg. General Secretary

Attachment: Proforma
Statistical Information for filling up of Residual Vacancies in PA cadre

Name of the Division / Unit:-

Name of the Postal Circle:-

Year
(1)
Total Vacancies in PA cadre
Vacancies Filled UP

Departmental
Quota
(2)
Outsider Quota
(3)
By Direct Recruitment
(4)
By LGO Exam / from GDS
(5)
2000




2001




2002




2003




2004




2005




2006






Calculation of Residual Vacancies:-

Year
Residual Vacancies
{Col.(5)-Col. (2) of the above Table}
2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006


N.B. --- CHQ Office Bearers and Circle Secretaries should take utmost care to ascertain as to whether the vacancies meant for Departmental Quota of a particular year were subsequently amalgamated with the outsider quota vacancies of the subsequent year and whether the same was simultaneously forwarded to Screening Committee erroneously or filled up according to the Recruitment Rules.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

General Secretary' Desk

General Secretary Desk - 07th June 2007
To
All CHQ Office Bearers,
All Circle Secretaries,
AIPEU Group 'C'

Dear Comrades,

q Confederation Meeting: The National Executive Committee Meeting of the Confederation of Central Government Employees has been held at New Delhi on 05-06-2007 under the Presidentship of Com. S.K. Vyas. After long discussions, it was decided to observe one day Token Strike during the first / second week of August 2006 demanding settlement on the following issues.

(i) Grant of interim relief with minimum of Rs. 1000/-.
(ii) Date of effect of the 6th CPC should be 01-01-2006.
(iii) Formation of Judicial Committee to effect wage revision in case of Gramin Dak Sevaks in Postal Dept.
(iv) Ending discrimination in the matter of compassionate appointments.
(v) Scrap the order of abolition of post, stop downsizing, privatisation and contractization.
(vi) Withdrawal of the new pension scheme.
(vii) Regularise the casual / contingent/daily rated workers.
(viii) No replacements of CGHS by Medicare insurance.
(ix) Remove the quantum ceiling on Bonus of Rs. 2500/- and effect payment on the basis of actual pay drawn.
(x) Implementation of pending arbitration awards.

It was also decided to approach other Organisations and Federations for a united movement and the date of one-day token strike will be announced after exhorting efforts with other Federations / Unions but before the end of this month.

It is also resolved to observe 28-06-2007 as 'STRUGGLE COMMENCEMENT DAY' by holding demonstrations at all work spots.

All the Circle Secretaries are requested to cause necessary action in their circle for the effective conduct of 28-06-2007 programme and intimate compliance reports to CHQ.

The copy of the Confederation Circular is enclosed herewith. All are requested to popularise the demand by issuing circular in regional language.

q Observe 4th Death Anniversary of Com. K. Adinarayana: The NFPE has directed all the branches to observe the 4th Death Anniversary of Com. K. Adinarayana on 17th June 2007 as "UNITY DAY". His contributions to the working class be remembered on the day and let us salute and pay tribute to our beloved leader. All are requested to observe the day as "Unity Day" to strengthen our movement further to restrict the attacks.

q Filling up of Residual Vacancies: The Directorate vide its order No. 60-5/2007-SPB.I dated 15-05-2007 directed to fill up all the vacant posts under residual categories in Postman / Postal Assistants etc. as per Recruitment Rules and also directed to send proposals if any required for revival of the posts.

However, I feel that the gravity of the issue is not properly known and rigorous monitoring at Circle level is lacking. The unfilled posts earmarked for LGOs in PA cadre since 2000-01 to till date should be filled up immediately as per the latest orders. In many circles, they have simply abolished such posts as those posts were kept vacant for more than one year. Since the exam was held and also the process of filling up the posts had been started, such posts should not be brought under axing. Hence the Directorate sought proposals for such posts for revival in case of earlier abolition. If those posts were not abolished but simply kept in skeleton, such posts should be filled up immediately as per the Recruitment Rules. (i.e. If no GDS is eligible, the posts may be filled up by open market methods.)

All Circle Secretaries are requested to verify the position of residual vacancies and cause appropriate action to fill up them immediately as per the orders cited in para supra. A report on this may please be sent to CHQ.

q GDS Working Committee Meeting: The Central Working Committee meeting of the AIPEDE Union has been held at Aggarwal Dharmshala, Model Town, New Delhi on 03-06-2007 & 04-06-2007. Com. K.V. Sridharan, General Secretary inaugurated the open session. In his speech, he detailed the exact position on recognition and the need for the unity to counter the onslaughts on GDS and also to take serious efforts for the affiliation with NFPE in future. Com. C.C. Pillai, Secretary General, NFPE explained the position in detail and asserted that the NFPE has not expelled the GDS Union as alleged and the need to fight unitedly to modify the stand of the Government on the recognition of Federation. Many other leaders like Com. B.G. Tamhankar, Com. R.A.P. Singh, Com. G.S.Asiwal, Com. N. Balu greeted the occasion with their address.

q General Secretary on Tour: As I am attending Circle Working Committee meeting of Andhra Pradesh Circle from 16-06-2007 to 17-06-2007, I will not be available at Headquarters from 11-06-2007. I will be returning only in the last week of this month. Com. Somenath Mukherjee, Deputy General Secretary will officiate as General Secretary during this period. So, let us meet in the first week of July 2007 or before.


With greetings,


Yours fraternally,


K.V. Sridharan
General Secretary

Confederation Circular

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS
Manishinath Bhawan,
A.2/95 Rajouri Garden
New Delhi. 110 027
Phone: (011) 2510 5324 Fax No (011) 25105324
Mobile:98110 48303

No. D/11/06/2007
Dated 7.06.2006

Dear Comrade,

The National Executive of the Confederation met at New Delhi on 05.06.2007 at Manishinath Bhawan. The decision taken on various agenda items slated for discussions are as under:-

Agenda item No. 1 & 2

Review of decisions taken at the last meeting of the National Executive held on 06.02.2007.
(a) Observance of demands day on 14.03.2007 and 20.03.2007.

It was noticed that quite a number of affiliates had not submitted the sectional charter of demands. They are requested to submit the same to the respective HOD and endorse copy thereof to Confederation without any further delay.

(b) Solidarity action in supporting the struggle of GSI/IBM employees

The programme had been carried out successfully by all COCs.

(c) Action against PFRDA Bill

The Raj Bhawan march had been organized by most of the COCs. At Delhi a massive dharna was held under the joint banner of Confederation/AISGEF.

It was stated by the Secretary General that reporting for CoCs and affiliates of the manner in which the programmes are carried out, which had registered a discernible improvement at the end of 2006, has again been slipped back. There had been very few written reports from the affiliates and the CoCs of the programmes carried out in March, 2007. The meeting decided to appeal the State CoCs and affiliates to provide the CHQ with a report of the extent of participation in the programmes of action.




Agenda item No. 3

Reporting of discussions the staff side had with the 6th CPC;

Com. Secretary General stated that on 20th April, 2007 itself the Confederation had circulated a brief resume of the discussion, the staff side had with the CPC. That was a factual presentation of the events as it took place from 16th to 18th April, 2007. The Confederation had not made any comments on those events, as it was thought that the fact as it is should reach the members.

Thereafter, Com. S.K. Vyas, President presented to the house, the impressions gained by the representatives of the Confederation i.e. he himself and the Secretary General who were members of the staff side delegation. He said that in spite of the positive response of the Commission to the formulation on Minimum Wage allowances, Pension etc, the same should not be taken on the face value or should it be considered as an indication of things to materialize. H added that it should only be taken as a free expression and exchange of ideas and must be construed as a cover up to circumvent the others in untenable position taken by the Commission on the question of Interim Relief. The setting up a the three study groups with an elaborate terms of reference on vital questions affecting the service conditions of the Central govt. employees is indicative of the direction with which the CPC would look at matters. The reluctance of the Govt. to set up the CPC was reflective of its eagerness to suppress the wages of the Central Govt. employees and on that pretext of the PSU workers too. He also stated that the representatives of the Confederation prior to the discussion with the CPC and thereafter too tried to have a JCA meeting of all constituents of the JCM to review and take necessary decision to bring up a common resistance movement., which could not unfortunately fructify.

Com. Secretary General, said that having failed to enlist the co-operation of all concerned for a common movement to realize the demand of I.R, the Confederation ought to have met earlier than 5th June, 2007, but could not do so in view of the impending struggle of Postal workers, which was to commence from 24th May, 2007 onwards.

In so far as the allegation leveled by the AP CoC in their written communication placed at the N.E meeting. Com Vyas refuted it by stating that the staff side had neither diluted the demand for I.R nor had its submission been hollow. According to him the case of the CGEs, as is articulated in the memorandum had been admirably presented by the staff side and had substantiated every of its contention with facts, figures, precedence and comparison. He said that the AP State committee’s observation in the matter was unfortunate and inexplicable in the absence of any details as to what further should have been presented. In the light of the decision taken at the last meeting he opined that the NE should discuss as to the course of action, the Confederation to pursue in realization of the charter of demands.
Agenda item No.4 & 5

Com. Secretary General informed the house that a meeting of the CoC Secretaries was convened on 10.04.2007 at Nagpur and for the eastern zone at Kolkata on 25.05.2007. Very few Secretaries participated in the meeting. The formation of the State CoCs in all states other than the following was stated to be progressing well:

a) Western U.P b) Punjub, Haryana & J & K
c) Bihar d) Orissa

The following N.E members were requested to interact with the respective comrades in setting up the State CoCs

Bihar - Com C.C Pillai
Western UP - Com. K.K.N. Kutty and Com Deshraj Sharma
Punjub, Haryana & J & K - Com. S.K. Vyas and Som. K. V. Shreedharan
Orissa - Com. M.S. Raja

(b) Meeting of the Central executives of Kolkata based unions/association

A meeting of the Kolkata based affiliates was convened on 25.05.2007. Out of 18 affiliates 16 participated. Various issues were discussed. It was decided that Com. Gautam Pramanik, Organising Secretary of the confederation would make periodical interaction with these organisations. It was decided that Com. Gautam Pramanik will arrange similar meetings prior to and after every N.E. meeting to have proper interaction.

Agenda item No. 7

a) Amendment to the Charter of Demand :

The meeting decided to add the following two issues and make it a 10 point charter of demands.

Points No. 9 : Implement all arbitration awards immediately.

Point No. 10 : Remove the quantum ceiling of Rs.2500/- and pay
bonus on the basis of actual pay drawn.

b) Future course of action

The house decided that the 10 point of demands should be pursued through struggles and the first phase of action should culminate in a days strike in the first week of August, 2007. The Secretary General will write to all organizations to explore the possibilities of organizing a joint action of one day strike in the first week of August, 2007. The date will be fixed after such consultation and mutual agreement. The resolution adopted by the house in this regard is enclosed. The CHQ will intimate the date of strike after such consultations. All affiliates must send a list of sectional demands which they would like to include in the charter of demands, while submitting the Strike Notice.

The house also decided to observe 28th June, 2007 a “STRUGGLE COMMENCEMENT DAY” by organizing lunch recess demonstration/dharna etc. to explain the demands to the mass of the employees. At Delhi efforts will be taken by the state CoC in association with Central Secretariat Non-Gazetted employees Association so as to hold a day long dharna before the North Block where the Ministry of Finance is located.

Agenda item No.6

Com. C.C. Pillai explained the various aspects of the negotiations, the Postal Federations had between them and the Postal Department in settlement of the charter of demands and the decision to suspend the indefinite Strike programme .

Agenda item No 8:

Any other matter with the permission of chair:

1. The house discussed at length the various problems faced by the affiliates in getting recognition from the Govt. under CCS(RSA) Rules. It was decided that the CHQ on going through the letters received by it will prepare a comprehensive Note for submission to the DOPT. The affiliates may send in their communications, if not already done, in this regard by 15.06.2007.
2. Com. M.S. Raja will collect the requisite information of autonomous organizations as was decided at the last meeting.

3. The CoCs expedite formation of daily rated/Casual Workers as per last N.E. decisions.


With greetings,

Yours fraternally,


(K.K.N. Kutty)
Secretary General
Copy forwarded to All CHQ Office Bearers / Circle Secretaries for information & appropriate action.

Yours fraternally,
Sd/-
K.V.Sridharan
General Secretary
Date: June 7, 2007






Resolution adopted at the National Executive Committee Meeting of the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers on 05.06.2007


This meting of the national Executive of the Confederation held on 05.06.2007 in New Delhi take a serious note of the fact that no action has been taken by the Govt. despite notice given by the Confederation to the Cabinet Secretary on 20.04.2007 to settle the following demands :-

1. Grant of Interim Relief of Rs.1000/-

The Central Government employees were entitled to have the wage revision as on 01-01-2006. As per the 5th CPC recommendations, the Government ought to have set up the 6th CPC in April, 2003 itself. The notification setting up the Commission was issued in October, 2006 and even according to the terms of references; the Commission is expected to take 18 months to formulate its views. Therefore, the report of the Commission is not expected before 31-03-2008. If one is to go with the past experience, the submission of the report is bound to be delayed further.

The Government had granted Interim Relief prior to the setting up of the 4th and 5th CPC. Because there had been an unavoidable delay in the submission of the report, both the 4th and 5th CPC granted second and third interim relief.

The demand of the employees to grant Interim Relief was not conceded by the Government while setting up the 6th CPC and no reason whatsoever was advanced for such denial.

During the discussions, with the Finance Secretary before the notification was issued, the staff side was categorically assured that the Pay Commission would be specifically asked to submit a report within a specified time frame on Interim Relief. However, the notification has only asked the Commission to look into the feasibility and desirability of an Interim Relief. The 6th CPC has categorically conveyed that they had no intention of suggesting any I.R to the Central Govt. employees on the specious plea that such infusion of money would further stoke the inflation. In the circumstance, the Govt. should come forward to grant Interim Relief @ 15 % of the emoluments, subject to a minimum of Rs.1000/-

2. Date of effect of the 6th CPC to be 01-01-2006

The 5th CPC made a specific recommendation to the effect that the periodicity of wage revision in the case of Civil servants should be decennial. This suggestion was made as an alternative; to the setting up of a permanent wage review Committee. In the case of Public Sector Undertakings, the wage agreement indicates the date of next wage revision. Therefore, as and when the wage revision takes place, the same is made effective retrospectively. In the case of civil servants, the date of effect of the revised wages is arbitrarily decided by the Commission. We expected the Government to mandate the Commission with the stipulation that the date of effect must be 01-01-2006. By asking them to suggest the effective date of their recommendations, the Government has sought to unsettle a settled issue. The Government should announce that the date of effect of wage revision would be 01-01-2006.

3. Judicial committee to effect Wage revision in the case of Grameen Dak Sewaks:

The Grameen Dak Sewaks are part time employees engaged by the Postal Department. Most of them are engaged for full time work and are exploited. They do not get full salary and allowances and are also denied pension on par with the regular employees in the Postal Department.. The Supreme Court has declared them to be holders of Civil post for the purpose of Article 311 of the Constitution. In December, 1993 the Postal Department through a written agreement categorically assured the employees that the Committee to go into the issue of wage revision of GDS would not be headed by a serving or retired Postal Officer. Accordingly, they set up a judicial Committee under the Chairmanship of Justice Charanjit Singh Talwar. Our plea before the Government was to include the Grameen Dak Sevaks within the ambit of the 6th CPC. This was however, not agreed to. An understanding was reached that the Government would set up a judicial committee to consider the issue pertaining to Grameen Dak Sevaks immediately after the setting up of the 6th CPC. It is now more than months and the Government has not honored its commitment. The Postal Department going back on their assurance made in 1993 has decided to constitute a committee under the chairmanship of a retired Postal Officer.

In the recent negotiations, the Postal Federations had in the wake of an indefinite strike action, the Postal department has agreed to take orders from the Govt. to refer the wage revision of Gramin Dak Sewaks to the 6th CPC in effect conceding the demand raised by the ab-initio. However, no order has been issued so far. The Govt. must take immediate steps to honour the agreement.


4. Ending discrimination in the matter of compassionate appointments

At the discussions, the Staff side representatives had with the Govt. in January 2003 to explore the possibilities of bringing about a negotiated settlement on the 20 point charter of demand, the Cabinet Secretary indicated that the discrimination in the matter of compassionate appointment between the Railway workers and the other civilian employees of the Government of India, being unjust would be removed. Thereafter, on quite a number of occasions, the issue had been discussed with the Secretary (Personnel) and at the instance of the Cabinet Secretary with the then Finance Secretary, prior to the National Council meeting held in October, 2006. The Department of Personnel has not so far taken any steps to mitigate the problem and end the unjust discrimination. There are thousands of poor applicants waiting for appointment who are in a highly distressed circumstance. The 5% ceiling instituted by the Department of personnel since 1998 has no legal basis and inoperable administratively. The Department of Personnel should withdraw the instructions issued by them instituting a 5% cap on compassionate appointments and advise the administrative departments to appoint the deserving candidates immediately.

5. (a) Scrap the order of abolition of post, stop downsizing, privatization and contractization.

In may 2001, the Government issued instructions withdrawing the authority from the concerned Heads of Department to fill up the vacant posts through recruitment and assigning the same to a Screening Committee. As per the stipulation the said screening committee is entitled to authorize filling up only 1/3rd of the direct recruit vacancies ( subject to a maximum of 1 % of the sanctioned posts), the rest 2/3rdbeing abolished permanently. The intention of the order was to reduce the existing manpower drastically. No post was allowed to be created even for justified functional requirement. Not only it killed the job opportunities for thousands of unemployed youth in the country, but also in the process crippled the functioning of the Departments raising the burden of workload on employees. Even though the said instruction was prima facie applicable to all cadres, categories and groups of civil servants, the Group A Cadres has invariably been excluded by almost all the Departmental Heads. In other words, the abolition of posts had only been in Group C and Group D Cadre only.

Having given a choice, the Heads of Departments have invariably abolished almost all Gr. D. Posts. Since the Posts are abolished, neither the employees who are in temporary status could be regularized, nor the application of the family members of those Gr. D. Employees who died in harness could be considered for appointment.

It had been repeatedly asserted by the official side on many occasions that the above cited order is meant to be effective only for a limited period of 5 years and the recruitments to fill up the vacancies might commence from the Recruitment years 2006-07 onwards. It is, therefore, surprising to note that the Government has decided to extend the operation of the instruction for another 3 years on the specious plea that the 6th CPC has been set up. It is incomprehensive as to why the stipulation for 3 years had been made while the 6th CPC has been mandated to submit its report within 18 months.

The Department of Personnel must withdraw the instructions extending its operation for another 3 years and allow all Departments to fill up the existing vacancies.

(b) Stop Downsizing, Privatization and Contractorisation

The Government have been implementing the recommendations of the expenditure Reforms Commission for quite some time now without explaining the justification for these recommendations and without any negotiations with the Employees organizations. The result is that in some Departments like Geological Survey of India drastic curtailment of staff strength is taking place,; in postal Departments recourse has been made to outsource the postal functions by franchising the post offices; major functions in Income tax Department like allotment of PAN/TAN, challan processing , processing of returns and all care taker functions are outsourced or contemplated to be outsourced; almost entire Department of Development Commissioner of Iron and Steel had been shut down and employees declared surplus and re-deployed elsewhere; Text book printing presses were shut down, in Audit Department where there are 15000 vacancies against the total strength of about 50000, a new method of selective audit is being resorted to in the name of Audit Planning. The very audit norms has been diluted. Some of the Audit functions are being entrusted to Private parties.. In the name of non core functions entire Gr.D staff is being replaced by men supplied through Contractors. In all these exercises it is only the Group C & D staff who are thrown out. On the other hand there is an increase in the Group A posts. In some offices in order to create more Gr. A posts, Group C posts are being curtailed by way of maching contribution. Almost in all the Departments and Ministries such exercise have been implemented or contemplated to be implemented. The implementation of these downsizing devices privatization, outsourcing, contractorization etc. must be stopped.

6. Withdrawal of the new Pension Scheme.

The Pension system for the Government Employees was evolved as a social security Scheme decades back. Under this system the employer was expected to set apart a certain percentage of employees” wages under a fund. The Government scrapped this system in respect of employees who entered service on or after 1-1-2004. There is no law or rules under which such a step could be taken by them and as such this was an illegal measure. Under the new system the Government Employee is required to contribute 10 % of his pay plus DA and the Government also contributes the matching amount. The fund created during the entire tenure of the Service will be invested in the market through private promoters. It is a defined contributory pension scheme, for those who entered service after 1-1-2004 while entire personnel recruited prior to the cut off date would continue to be governed by a defined benefit scheme of Pension under the CCS ( Pension ) Rules. This is a gross discrimination and illegal measure too.
The Committee set up by the Government to recommend Pension Reforms had in fact suggested a hybrid system, where both the defined benefit and contributory system would co-exist. Since, under the new scheme, pension is depended on the vagaries of market, it is not at all acceptable. In any case there is no justification for recovering a contribution from the employees who entered service on or after 1-1-2004 as their wage structure is what was recommended by the 5th Pay Commission on the premise that the pension was the liability of the Government. The Govt. is aware that the Contemplated change in the pension scheme requires Parliamentary Sanction. That was why PFRDA Bill was introduced in the Parliament. Thanks to the principled position taken by the left parties, the Bill has not yet been passed, whereas the Govt. has gone ahead with its implementation through executive fiats: 5% of the accumulated contribution has already been diverted for stock exchange operation. Fund managers have been appointed. The sovereign authority of the Parliament has been allowed to be eroded. The Govt. must stop these mechinations and scrap the New Contributory Pension Scheme and refund the funds collected from the employees recruited after 01.01.2004

7. Regularize the casual/contingent/daily rated workers

On the basis of the discussion, the staff side had in the National Council, the Government introduced a scheme for regularization of casual/contingent/daily rated employees as a one time measure, by virtue of which all those who were in the Rolls as on September,1993 were absorbed and regularized. The Department of Personnel issued instructions to all Departments banning recruitment on casual/contingent basis. However this instruction was constantly flouted, mostly due to the ever-increasing workload and insufficiency of men-in-position. The ban on recruitment, the instructions to implement austerity measures and the abolition of posts carried out in the last 5 years all accentuated the problem. Presently in the most of the Departments, the number of casual/contingent/daily rated workers has phenomenally increased and these employees are not paid the requisite wages. This is nothing but exploitation taking advantage of the acute unemployment situation in the country. The stipulation that if one has been in continuous employment for more than 206 days in a year is entitled for regularization has to be adhered to and abided. The Govt. should immediately issue instruction for regularization of the daily rated/casual/contingent paid workers.

8. No replacement of CGHS by Medicare Insurance

The Government had been contemplating to replace the existing CGHS with Medicare insurance plan. With all the deficiencies, CGHS is considered by both the serving employees and pensioners as the best Medicare system in the country. In the case of Pensioners especially, it is a great relief when they are afflicted with serious illness due to old age. The Insurance scheme can never be a substitute to the present Medicare system, even if the premium for such insurance scheme is borne by the employer. The Government cannot withdraw itself from its primary responsibility of providing Medicare to its present and past employees on the plea of financial stringency. This apart it is also necessary to consider the security of livelihood of the persons employed by the CGHS whose number is sizable. The Government should abandon the idea of replacing CGHS with Medicare Insurance and evolve instead methodologies to strengthen and expand the CGHS.

9. Implementation of the Awards of the Board of Arbitration

Under the JCM scheme, any issue, which is not settled through discussions at the National/Departmental council, is referred to the Board of Arbitration, specifically set up for the purpose. The decision of the Arbitrator is bound to be accepted by both the side i.e. staff side and the Govt. The Govt. is entitled to approach the Parliament for rejection /modification on the following two grounds only i.e.

a) the implementation of the award will adversely affect the national economy
b) it affects the social justice.

The prescribed time limit for getting the Parliamentary sanction for rejection of an award is six months. While the request to Parliamentary sanction had been few and few between in the 1960s, 70s and even in the earlier part of 80s, the Govt. began to approach the Parliament as a matter of routine to reject invariably all awards given in favour of the employees. Neither the time limit of six months was adhered to nor was it explained as to how the implementation of these awards would have affected the National economy or the Social justice.

Being one of the charter of demands, the settlement for which the JCA of organizations participating in the JCM threatened to go on strike from 01.03.2006, it was decided that the Govt. would look into the matter afresh and settled the same through mutual discussions. Accordingly 16 such awards were identified for further discussion and settlement. The process of consultation was scheduled to be completed by end of June, 2006. On none of the issues, settlement has been brought about so far, despite the lapse of more than a year. The Govt. is morally and legally bound to implement these awards.

10. To remove the quantum ceiling on Bonus:

Presently a quantum ceiling of Rs.2,500/- operate on Bonus payment. Whatever is the pay of an employees he/she is entitled to Bonus computed on the notional salary limit of Rs.2,500/-. The said limit was stipulated nearly two decades back. The abysmally low ceiling limit was not removed or raised despite demand to that effect raised on several occasions. This gross injustices is perpetuated to deny the workers their legitimated duea. The Govt. should bring in an amendment to Bonus Act to remove the quantum ceiling and order payment of Bonus on the basis of one’s actual salary/emoluments.

The meeting taking into account the total nugatory attitude of the Govt. decided that the Central Govt. employees have to manifest their extreme discontent over the indifferent attitude of the Govt. to settle these demands by organizing a day long strike sometime in August, 2007 and also to give serious warning thereby to the Govt. that incase these demands are not satisfactorily settled within a reasonable time, they will be compelled to go on indefinite strike.


Sd/-
S.K.VYAS
President
Confederation of CGE & Workers

New Delhi
5th June, 2007

Copy forwarded to All CHQ Office Bearers / Circle Secretaries.

Please popularize the demands in regional language and prepare for One Day Strike in August 2007.

Yours fraternally,
Sd/-
K.V.Sridharan
General Secretary
Date: June 7, 2007

Confederation Circular

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS

Manishinath Bhawan,
A.2/95 Rajouri Garden

New Delhi. 110 027

Phone: (011) 2510 5324 Fax No (011) 25105324
Mobile:98110 48303
 
No. D/11/06/2007                                                            
Dated 7.06.2006
 
Dear Comrade,
 
          The National Executive of the Confederation met at New Delhi on 05.06.2007 at Manishinath Bhawan. The decision taken on various agenda items slated for discussions are as under:-
 

Agenda item No. 1 & 2

 
Review of decisions taken at the last meeting of the National Executive held on 06.02.2007.
(a) Observance of demands day on 14.03.2007 and 20.03.2007.
 
It was noticed that quite a number of affiliates had not submitted the sectional charter of demands. They are requested to submit the same to the respective HOD and endorse copy thereof to Confederation without any further delay.
 
(b) Solidarity action in supporting the struggle of GSI/IBM employees
 
          The programme had been carried out successfully by all COCs.
 
(c) Action against PFRDA Bill
 
The Raj Bhawan march had been organized by most of the COCs. At Delhi a massive dharna was held under the joint banner of Confederation/AISGEF.
 
It was stated by the Secretary General that reporting for CoCs and affiliates of the manner in which the programmes are carried out, which had registered a discernible improvement at the end of 2006, has again been slipped back. There had been very few written reports from the affiliates and the CoCs of the programmes carried out in March, 2007. The meeting decided to appeal the State CoCs and affiliates to provide the CHQ with a report of the extent of participation in the programmes of action.
 
 
 
 

Agenda item No. 3

 
          Reporting of discussions the staff side had with the 6th CPC;
 
Com. Secretary General stated that on 20th April, 2007 itself the Confederation had circulated a brief resume of the discussion, the staff side had with the CPC. That was a factual presentation of the events as it took place from 16th to 18th April, 2007. The Confederation had not made any comments on those events, as it was thought that the fact as it is should reach the members.
 
Thereafter, Com. S.K. Vyas, President presented to the house, the impressions gained by the representatives of the Confederation i.e. he himself and the Secretary General who were members of the staff side delegation. He said that in spite of the positive response of the Commission to the formulation on Minimum Wage allowances, Pension etc, the same should not be taken on the face value or should it be considered as an indication of things to materialize. H added that it should only be taken as a free expression and exchange of ideas and must be construed as a cover up to circumvent the others in untenable position taken by the Commission on the question of Interim Relief. The setting up a the three study groups with an elaborate terms of reference on vital questions affecting the service conditions of the Central govt. employees is indicative of the direction with which the CPC would look at matters. The reluctance of the Govt. to set up the CPC was reflective of its eagerness to suppress the wages of the Central Govt. employees and on that pretext of the PSU workers too. He also stated that the representatives of the Confederation prior to the discussion with the CPC and thereafter too tried to have a JCA meeting of all constituents of the JCM to review and take necessary decision to bring up a common resistance movement., which could not unfortunately fructify.
 
Com. Secretary General, said that having failed to enlist the co-operation of all concerned for a common movement to realize the demand of I.R, the Confederation ought to have met earlier than 5th June, 2007, but could not do so in view of the impending struggle of Postal workers, which was to commence from 24th May, 2007 onwards.
 
In so far as the allegation leveled by the AP CoC in their written communication placed at the N.E meeting. Com Vyas refuted it by stating that the staff side had neither diluted the demand for I.R nor had its submission been hollow. According to him the case of the CGEs, as is articulated in the memorandum had been admirably presented by the staff side and had substantiated every of its contention with facts, figures, precedence and comparison. He said that the AP State committee's observation in the matter was unfortunate and inexplicable in the absence of any details as to what further should have been presented. In the light of the decision taken at the last meeting he opined that the NE should discuss as to the course of action, the Confederation to pursue in realization of the charter of demands.

Agenda item No.4 & 5

 
Com. Secretary General informed the house that a meeting of the CoC Secretaries was convened on 10.04.2007 at Nagpur and for the eastern zone at Kolkata on 25.05.2007. Very few Secretaries participated in the meeting. The formation of the State CoCs in all states other than the following was stated to be progressing well:
         
                    a) Western U.P                     b) Punjub, Haryana & J & K
c) Bihar                               d) Orissa
 
The following N.E members were requested to interact with the respective comrades in setting up the State CoCs
 
Bihar                              - Com C.C Pillai
Western UP                         - Com. K.K.N. Kutty and Com Deshraj Sharma
Punjub, Haryana & J & K          - Com. S.K. Vyas and Som. K. V. Shreedharan
Orissa                                      - Com. M.S. Raja
 
(b) Meeting of the Central executives of Kolkata based unions/association
 
A meeting of the Kolkata based affiliates was convened on 25.05.2007. Out of 18 affiliates 16 participated. Various issues were discussed. It was decided that Com. Gautam Pramanik, Organising Secretary of the confederation would make periodical interaction with these organisations. It was decided that Com. Gautam Pramanik will arrange similar meetings prior to and after every N.E. meeting to have proper interaction.
 

Agenda item No. 7

 
a) Amendment to the Charter of Demand :
 
The meeting decided to add the following two issues and make it a 10 point charter of demands.
 
Points No. 9 : Implement all arbitration awards immediately.
 
Point No. 10 : Remove the quantum ceiling of Rs.2500/- and pay
   bonus on the basis of actual pay drawn.
 
b) Future course of action
 
The house decided that the 10 point of demands should be pursued through struggles and the first phase of action should culminate in a days strike in the first week of August, 2007. The Secretary General will write to all organizations to explore the possibilities of organizing a joint action of one day strike in the first week of August, 2007. The date will be fixed after such consultation and mutual agreement. The resolution adopted by the house in this regard is enclosed. The CHQ will intimate the date of strike after such consultations. All affiliates must send a list of sectional demands which they would like to include in the charter of demands, while submitting the Strike Notice.
 
The house also decided to observe 28th June, 2007 a "STRUGGLE COMMENCEMENT DAY" by organizing lunch recess demonstration/dharna etc. to explain the demands to the mass of the employees. At Delhi efforts will be taken by the state CoC in association with Central Secretariat Non-Gazetted employees Association so as to hold a day long dharna before the North Block where the Ministry of Finance is located.
 
Agenda item No.6
 
Com. C.C. Pillai explained the various aspects of the negotiations, the Postal Federations had between them and the Postal Department in settlement of the charter of demands and the decision to suspend the indefinite Strike programme .
 
Agenda item No 8:
 
Any other matter with the permission of chair:      
 
1.                 The house discussed at length the various problems faced by the affiliates in getting recognition from the Govt. under CCS(RSA) Rules. It was decided that the CHQ on going through the letters received by it will prepare a comprehensive Note for submission to the DOPT. The affiliates may send in their communications, if not already done, in this regard by 15.06.2007.
2.                 Com. M.S. Raja will collect the requisite information of autonomous organizations as was decided at the last meeting.
 
3.                 The CoCs expedite formation of daily rated/Casual Workers as per last N.E. decisions.
 
 
          With greetings,
 
Yours fraternally,
 
 
(K.K.N. Kutty)
Secretary General
Copy forwarded to All CHQ Office Bearers / Circle Secretaries for information & appropriate action.
 
Yours fraternally,
Sd/-
K.V.Sridharan
General Secretary
Date: June 7, 2007
 
 
 
 
 
 
Resolution adopted at the National Executive Committee Meeting of the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers on 05.06.2007
 
 
This meting of the national Executive of the Confederation held on 05.06.2007 in New Delhi take a serious note of the fact that no action has been taken by the Govt. despite notice given by the Confederation to the Cabinet Secretary on 20.04.2007 to settle the following demands :-
 
1.              Grant of Interim Relief of Rs.1000/-
 
The Central Government employees were entitled to have the wage revision as on 01-01-2006. As per the 5th CPC recommendations, the Government ought to have set up the 6th CPC in April, 2003 itself. The notification setting up the Commission was issued in October, 2006 and even according to the terms of references; the Commission is expected to take 18 months to formulate its views. Therefore, the report of the Commission is not expected before 31-03-2008. If one is to go with the past experience, the submission of the report is bound to be delayed further.
 
                    The Government had granted Interim Relief prior to the setting up of the 4th and 5th CPC. Because there had been an unavoidable delay in the submission of the report, both the 4th and 5th CPC granted second and third interim relief.
 
          The demand of the employees to grant Interim Relief was not conceded by the Government while setting up the 6th CPC  and no reason whatsoever was advanced for such denial.
 
          During the discussions, with the Finance Secretary before the notification was issued, the staff side was categorically assured that the Pay Commission would be specifically asked to submit a report within a  specified time frame on Interim Relief. However, the notification has only asked the Commission to look into the feasibility and desirability of an Interim Relief. The 6th CPC has categorically conveyed that they had no intention of suggesting any I.R to the Central Govt. employees on the specious plea that such infusion of money would further stoke the inflation. In the circumstance, the Govt. should come forward to grant Interim Relief @ 15 % of the emoluments, subject to a minimum of Rs.1000/-
 
2.       Date of effect of the 6th CPC to  be 01-01-2006
 
          The 5th CPC made a specific recommendation to the effect that the periodicity of wage revision in the case of Civil servants should be decennial.  This suggestion was made as an alternative; to the setting up of a permanent wage review Committee. In the case of Public Sector Undertakings, the wage agreement indicates the date of next wage revision. Therefore, as and when the wage revision takes place, the same is made effective retrospectively. In the case of civil servants, the date of effect of the revised wages is arbitrarily decided by the Commission. We expected the Government to mandate the Commission with the stipulation that the date of effect must be 01-01-2006. By asking them to suggest the effective date of their recommendations, the Government has sought to unsettle a settled issue. The Government should announce that  the date of effect of wage revision would be 01-01-2006.
 
3.           Judicial committee to effect Wage revision in the case of Grameen Dak Sewaks:
 
The Grameen Dak Sewaks are part time employees engaged by the Postal Department. Most of them are engaged for full time work and are exploited. They do not get full salary and allowances and are also denied pension on par with the regular employees in the Postal Department.. The Supreme Court has declared them to be holders of Civil post for the purpose of Article 311 of the Constitution.  In December, 1993 the Postal Department through a written agreement categorically assured the employees that the Committee to go into the issue of wage revision of GDS would not be headed by a serving or retired Postal Officer.  Accordingly, they set up a judicial Committee under the Chairmanship of Justice Charanjit Singh Talwar. Our plea before the Government was to include the Grameen Dak Sevaks within the ambit of the 6th CPC. This was however, not agreed to. An understanding was reached  that the Government would set up a judicial committee to consider the issue pertaining to Grameen Dak Sevaks immediately after the setting up of the 6th CPC. It is now more than months and the Government has not honored its commitment. The Postal Department going back on their assurance made in 1993 has decided to constitute a committee under the chairmanship of a retired Postal Officer.
 
          In the recent negotiations, the Postal Federations had  in the wake of an indefinite strike action, the Postal department has agreed to take orders from the Govt. to refer the wage revision of Gramin Dak Sewaks to the 6th CPC in effect conceding the demand raised by the ab-initio. However, no order has been issued so far. The Govt. must take immediate steps to honour the agreement.  
 
 
4.                 Ending discrimination in the matter of compassionate appointments
 
At the discussions, the Staff side representatives had with the Govt. in January 2003 to explore the possibilities of bringing about a negotiated settlement on the 20 point charter of demand, the Cabinet Secretary indicated that the discrimination in the matter of compassionate appointment between the Railway workers and the other civilian employees of the Government of India, being unjust would be removed. Thereafter, on quite a number of occasions, the issue had been discussed with the Secretary (Personnel) and at the instance of the Cabinet Secretary with the then Finance Secretary, prior to the National Council meeting held in October, 2006. The Department of Personnel has not so far taken any steps to mitigate the problem and end the unjust discrimination. There are thousands of poor applicants waiting for appointment who are in a highly distressed circumstance. The 5% ceiling instituted by the Department of personnel since 1998 has no legal basis and inoperable administratively. The Department of Personnel should withdraw the instructions issued by them instituting a 5% cap on compassionate appointments and advise the administrative departments to appoint the deserving candidates immediately.
 
5.       (a) Scrap the order of abolition of post, stop downsizing, privatization and contractization.
 
          In may 2001, the Government issued instructions withdrawing the authority from the concerned Heads of Department to fill up the vacant posts through recruitment and assigning the same to a Screening Committee. As per the stipulation the said screening committee is entitled to authorize filling up only 1/3rd of the direct recruit vacancies ( subject to a maximum of 1 % of the sanctioned posts), the rest 2/3rdbeing abolished permanently. The intention of the order was to reduce the existing manpower drastically. No post was allowed to be created even for justified functional requirement. Not only it killed the job opportunities for thousands of unemployed youth in the country, but also in the process crippled the functioning of the Departments raising the burden of workload on employees. Even though the said instruction was prima facie applicable to all cadres, categories and groups of civil servants, the Group A Cadres has invariably been excluded by almost all the Departmental Heads. In other words, the abolition of posts had only been in Group C and Group D Cadre only.
 
          Having given a choice, the Heads of Departments have invariably abolished almost all Gr. D. Posts.  Since the Posts are abolished, neither the employees who are in temporary status could be regularized, nor the application of the family members of those Gr. D. Employees who died in harness could be considered for appointment.
 
          It had been repeatedly asserted by the official side on many occasions that the above cited order is meant to be effective only for a limited period of 5 years and the recruitments to fill up the vacancies might commence from the Recruitment years 2006-07 onwards. It is, therefore, surprising to note that the Government has decided to extend the operation of the instruction for another 3 years on the specious plea that the 6th CPC has been set up. It is incomprehensive as to why the stipulation for 3 years had been  made while the 6th CPC has been mandated to submit its report within 18 months.
 
          The Department of Personnel must withdraw the instructions extending its operation for another 3 years and allow all Departments to fill up the existing vacancies.
 
(b) Stop Downsizing, Privatization and Contractorisation
 
The Government have been implementing the recommendations of the expenditure Reforms Commission for quite some time now without explaining the justification for these recommendations and without any negotiations with the Employees organizations. The result is that in some Departments like Geological Survey of India drastic curtailment of staff strength is taking place,; in postal Departments recourse has been made to outsource the postal functions by franchising  the post offices; major functions in Income tax Department like allotment of PAN/TAN, challan processing , processing of returns and all care taker functions are outsourced or contemplated to be outsourced; almost entire Department of Development Commissioner of Iron and Steel had been shut down and employees declared surplus and re-deployed elsewhere; Text book printing presses were shut down, in Audit Department where there are 15000  vacancies against the total strength of about 50000, a new method of selective audit is being resorted to in the name of Audit Planning. The very audit norms has been diluted. Some of the Audit functions are  being entrusted to Private parties..  In the name of non core functions entire Gr.D staff is being replaced by men supplied through Contractors. In all these exercises it is only the Group C & D staff who are thrown out. On the other hand there is an increase in the Group A posts. In some offices in order to create more Gr. A posts, Group C posts are being curtailed by way of maching contribution. Almost in all the Departments and Ministries such exercise have been implemented or contemplated to be implemented. The implementation of these downsizing devices privatization, outsourcing, contractorization etc. must be stopped.
 
6.          Withdrawal of  the new Pension Scheme.
 
                    The Pension system for the Government Employees was evolved as a social security Scheme decades back. Under this system the employer was expected to set apart a certain percentage of employees" wages under a fund.   The Government scrapped this system in respect of employees who entered service on or after 1-1-2004. There is no law or rules under which such a step could be taken by them and as such this was an illegal measure. Under the new system the Government Employee is required to contribute 10 % of his pay plus DA and the Government also contributes the matching amount. The fund created during the entire tenure of the Service will be invested in the market through private promoters. It is a defined contributory pension scheme, for those  who entered  service after 1-1-2004 while  entire  personnel recruited prior to the cut off date would continue to be governed by a defined benefit  scheme of Pension under the CCS ( Pension ) Rules. This is a gross discrimination and illegal measure too.
The Committee set up by the Government to recommend Pension Reforms had in fact suggested a hybrid system, where both the defined benefit  and contributory system would co-exist. Since, under the new scheme, pension is depended on the vagaries of market, it is not at all acceptable. In any case there is no justification for recovering a contribution from the employees who entered service on or after 1-1-2004 as their wage structure is what was recommended by the 5th Pay Commission on the premise that the pension was the liability of the Government. The Govt. is aware that the Contemplated change in the pension scheme requires Parliamentary Sanction. That was why PFRDA Bill was introduced in the Parliament. Thanks to the principled position taken by the left parties, the Bill has not yet been passed, whereas the Govt. has gone ahead with its implementation through executive fiats: 5% of the accumulated contribution has already been diverted for stock exchange operation. Fund managers have been appointed. The sovereign authority of the Parliament has been allowed to be eroded. The Govt. must stop these mechinations and scrap the New Contributory Pension Scheme and refund the funds collected from the employees recruited after 01.01.2004  
 
7.             Regularize the casual/contingent/daily rated workers
 
On the basis of the discussion, the staff side had in the National Council, the Government introduced a scheme for regularization of casual/contingent/daily rated employees as a one time measure, by virtue of which all those who were in the Rolls as on September,1993 were absorbed and regularized. The Department of Personnel issued instructions to all Departments banning recruitment on casual/contingent basis. However this instruction was constantly flouted, mostly due to the ever-increasing workload and insufficiency of men-in-position. The ban on recruitment, the instructions to implement austerity measures and the abolition of posts carried out in the last 5 years all accentuated the problem. Presently in the most of the Departments, the number of casual/contingent/daily rated workers has phenomenally increased and these employees are not paid the requisite wages. This is nothing but exploitation taking advantage of the acute unemployment situation in the country. The stipulation that if one has been in continuous employment for more than 206 days in a year is entitled for regularization has to be adhered to and abided. The Govt. should immediately issue instruction for regularization of the daily rated/casual/contingent paid workers.
 
8.      No replacement of CGHS by Medicare Insurance
 
          The Government had been contemplating to replace the existing CGHS with Medicare insurance plan. With all the deficiencies, CGHS is considered by both the serving employees and pensioners as the best Medicare system in the country. In the case of Pensioners especially, it is a great relief when they are afflicted with serious illness due to old age. The Insurance scheme can never be a substitute to the present Medicare system, even if the premium for such insurance scheme is borne by the employer. The Government cannot withdraw itself from its primary  responsibility of providing Medicare to its present and past employees on the  plea of financial stringency.  This apart  it is also necessary to consider the security of livelihood of the persons employed by the CGHS whose number is sizable. The Government should abandon the idea of replacing CGHS with Medicare Insurance and evolve instead methodologies to strengthen and expand the CGHS.
 
9.           Implementation of the Awards of the Board of Arbitration
 
Under the JCM scheme, any issue, which is not settled through discussions at the National/Departmental council, is referred to the Board of Arbitration, specifically set up for the purpose. The decision of the Arbitrator is bound to be accepted by both the side i.e. staff side and the Govt. The Govt. is entitled to approach the Parliament for rejection /modification on the following two grounds only i.e.
 
a)    the implementation of the award will adversely affect the national economy
b)     it affects the social justice.
 
The prescribed time limit for getting the Parliamentary sanction for rejection of an award is six months. While the request to Parliamentary sanction had been few and few between in the 1960s, 70s and even in the earlier part of 80s, the Govt. began to approach the Parliament as a matter of routine to reject invariably all awards given in favour of the employees. Neither the time limit of six months was adhered to nor was it explained as to how the implementation of these awards would have affected the National economy or the Social justice.
 
          Being one of the charter of demands, the settlement for which the JCA of organizations participating in the JCM threatened to go on strike from 01.03.2006, it was decided that the Govt. would look into the matter afresh and settled the same through mutual discussions. Accordingly 16 such awards were identified for further discussion and settlement. The process of consultation was scheduled to be completed by end of June, 2006. On none of the issues, settlement has been brought about so far, despite the lapse of more than a year. The Govt. is morally and legally bound to implement these awards.
 
10.     To remove the quantum ceiling on Bonus:
 
            Presently a quantum ceiling of Rs.2,500/- operate on Bonus payment. Whatever is the pay of an employees he/she is entitled to Bonus computed on the notional salary limit of Rs.2,500/-. The said limit was stipulated nearly two decades back. The abysmally low ceiling limit was not removed or raised despite demand to that effect raised on several occasions. This gross injustices is perpetuated to deny the workers their legitimated duea. The Govt. should bring in an amendment to Bonus Act to remove the quantum ceiling and order payment of Bonus on the basis of one's actual salary/emoluments.
 
          The meeting taking into account the total nugatory attitude of the Govt.  decided that the Central Govt. employees have to manifest their extreme discontent over the indifferent attitude of the Govt. to settle these demands by organizing a day long strike sometime in August, 2007 and also to give serious warning thereby to the Govt. that incase these demands are not satisfactorily settled within a reasonable time, they will be compelled to go on indefinite strike.
 
 
                                                                                                           Sd/-
S.K.VYAS
                                                                                                          President
                                                                      Confederation of CGE & Workers
 
New Delhi
5th June, 2007
 
Copy forwarded to All CHQ Office Bearers / Circle Secretaries.
 
Please popularize the demands in regional language and prepare for One Day Strike in August 2007.
 
Yours fraternally,
Sd/-
K.V.Sridharan
General Secretary
Date: June 7, 2007
 


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