IMPORTANCE OF THE 16th
MARCH 2017
ONE-DAY STRIKE
The meeting of the
National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) was held on 17th January 2017,
Leaders of Railways, Defence, Postal and Confederation attended the meeting,
Unfortunately, there was no consensus regarding revival of the deferred
indefinite strike of the 11th July 2017. Hence
no decision could be taken.
The
clear picture that emerged from the NJCA meeting held on 17.01.2017 is that
there is no possibility of a joint strike or revival of deferred indefinite
strike in the near future. It is also a fact that Government may implement the
recommendations of Allowances Committee, Pension Committee etc before or
immediately after March 2017; It has become certain that the Pension Committee has
rejected Option. I recommended by the 7th Central Pay Commission,
which is the one and only favorable recommendation, and the Implementation Cell
of the Finance Ministry is processing the recommendation, of Pension Committee
for Cabinet approval.
Whether
the Allowances Committee will recommend any change in the recommendation of the
7th CPC (i.e. %ge of HRA etc.), nobody can predict. The request of
the Secretary, JCM staff side and NJCA Convener to convene one more meeting
with staff side was not conceded by the chairman of the Allowance Committee
(finance Secretary ) till date. There is every possibility that the Government
may not implement the revised allowances from 01.01.2016, instead it may
implement it from 01.01.2017 or 01.04.2017, thereby denying arrears on
allowances. After Government unilaterally implementing everything, declaring a
strike is a futile exercise and betrayal of employees. We should strike when
the iron is hot.
The
unilateral decision of the Government to implement “Very good” bench mark for
MACP promotions has cast shadow on the future promotional prospects of a large
number of employees who are not in the good book of the Government and
administration for reason best known to them. The NPS Committee constituted by
the Government is not mandated to recommend scraping of New Pension Scheme, but
it is for recommending cosmetic changes in NPS in the name of streamlining the
NPS as recommended by the 7th CPC.
Regarding increase in Minimum Pay and Fitment formula, no
High Level Committee is constituted till date, as assured by the Group of
Senior Cabinet Ministers to NJCA leaders on 30.06.2016. A Group of Senior
Officers held two round discussion with the staff side, but surprisingly they
had not come prepared to discuss increase in Minimum wage and Fitment formula.
They made a mockery of the meeting by disclosing in the first meeting that they
are not fully aware of the details of the issue and in the second meeting they
told that they came for discussing Allowances (another committee for Allowances
is already constituted) and not Minimum wage and fitment formula!!! The last
meeting was held in October 2016 and thereafter no meeting is notified. All the
anomalies arising out of implementation of 7th CPC recommendations
remain unsettled.
There is no improvement in the issues relating to Gramin Dak
Sevaks (GDS). It will take time for implementation of GDS Committee report
which is published on 19.01.2017. Other demands submitted to Government by NJCA
on 10th June 2016 along with the strike notice are also pending. The
four months time fixed for Allowance committee already extended to six months.
The four months time for increasing Minimum pay and fitment formula expired on
30.10.2016.
All the employees and pensioners are totally disappointed
and are voicing their anger and protest through various forums and social
media. In the above circumstances, everybody expected that NJCA shall revive
its deferred indefinite strike. Inspite of our best efforts, that is not
happening.
When the three Cabinet Ministers including Shri Rajnath
Singh, Home Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister and Shri Suresh
Prabhu, Railway minister have gone back from their assurances and betrayed the
entire employees and Pensioners, when the Government is unilaterally going
ahead with all retrograde measures, we cannot remain silent spectators and
accept every decision of the Government lying down, without any protest,
Somebody should come forward to protest and, if necessary, to suffer and sacrifice
and history has bestowed that responsibility on Confederation.
It is in this background the Confederation of Central
Government Employees and Workers has decided to go for one day strike on
16.03.2017. As the biggest affiliate of Confederation, NFPE and all its
affiliates shall implement the decision in its true spirit and make the one day
strike a thundering success.
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