INTERACTION WITH 7th CPC
NFPE LEADERS MET CHAIRMAN 7th CPC
A delegation of NFPE headed by Secretary General
Com.Krishnan along with the General Secretaries of all wings appeared in the
Office of the Pay Commission at the call of the Chairman, in Janpath Hotel, New
Delhi at 10.30am on 29-05-2014 and met the 7th CPC Chairman,
Honourable Justice Mr.A.K.Mathur and his Members in full quorum. The
interactive session / meeting lasted for one and half hours.
Various points
regarding the revision of wqges and service conditions of Postal ;employees and
functioning of the Department of Posts were discussed which are summarized as
follows :
1) Role
and Functioning of the Department of Posts towards the people of India.
2) Various
staffing pattern of our Department and huge reduction of Staff strength due to
unjustified abolition of posts.
3) GDS
who run 1,29,000 Post Offices – a factual account and their sufferings. NFPE urges for bringning the GDS within the ambit of 7th CPC.
4) Duties
and responsibilities of various cadres of staff of the Department of Posts including Postal Assisatants, Sorting Assistants, PA(CO), PA(SBCO), Postal
Accounts Staff, Postmen, Mail Guard, MTS and Civilwing Staff.
5) Justification
for upgradation of their pay scales.
6) Improvement
in the promotional avenues of postal staff of different categories with a
special emphasis on the Grade Pay for MTS, Gr.C employees (Rs.1800/- to 1900/-
& Rs.1900/- to 2,000/- i.e., only a paltry amount of Rs.100/- in every 10
years)
7) Postman
duty and their poor promotional avenues.
8) Specialities
of the Assistants and Supervisors and their poor promotional avenues and many
other issues.
The concept of Pay Band and Grade Pay, whether beneficial and
the principle of determination of minimum pay was also discussed.
Regarding merger of DA and Interim Relief , the Chairman
made it clear that unless the Govt. asks the Pay Commission specifically, to
submit interim report, Pay Commission will not submit any recommendations on DA
merger & IR.
(M.KRISHNAN)
GENERAL SECRETARY
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