Department of Posts issued orders to keep in abeyance the orders on abolition of posts for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008

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Department of Posts issued orders to keep in abeyance the orders on abolition of posts for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008

      The All India Unions of AIPEU Postman & MSE/Gr.D, AIPEU GDS (NFPE) & NUPE P-IV filed a case in Principle CAT, Delhi (during May 2012) praying not to abolish the vacant posts (DR) of Postman & Gr.D (MTS) of the years 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008. The Pr. CAT issued stay orders (in OA No.1736/2013) on the issue and now the Department of Posts issued orders to all Chief Postmasters General to keep the orders in abeyance on abolition of posts in the circles.

Copy of order of Department of Posts:

 

Second Day News of the Silver Jubilee AlC of P4-NFPE being held at Cuttack from 29.12.2013 to 31.12.2013

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PHOTO NEWS OF THE SECOND DAY OF THE SILVER JUBILEE ALL INDIA CONFERENCE OF AIPEU, POSTMAN & MTS/GROUP-D, CHQ

 

 Comrade A.K.Padmanabhan CITU National President inaugurating the delegates session

 General Secretary AIPEU GDS[NFPE] P.Pandurangarao addressing the session

 Com.S.Ragupathy Assistant Secretary General NFPE addressing 

 Com.Milan Bhattacharjee former CHQ President P4 addressing

Leader of Bank Employees Federation of India addressing

 General Secretary Com. Ishwar Singh Dabas presenting the draft Biennial Report to Subjects Committee

 NFPE President Com.Giriraj Singh addressing the session

General Secretary R4 Com.P.Suresh addressing the session

New Year, New Hopes. We are on the struggle path

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New Year, New Hopes.

We are on the struggle path

                   By the time this issue of “Postal Crusader” reaches your hand, an eventful year 2013 will be over and a new year 2014 is born.  From our experience in the past, especially during the last year, we can definitely say that the year 2014 shall be an year of struggle for betterment of the living conditions of the common people of our country and the toiling masses including the Central Government Employees & Postal employees.

                   General election to the Parliament is scheduled to be held in the year 2014.  The ruling class and also the corporate media have started their campaign, well in advance, in support of those who are ready to carry forward the rigorous implementation of neo-liberal globalisation policies.  We have witnessed that when it comes to policy of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, both UPA and NDA Government are two sides of the same coin.  Concerted efforts are being made by the corporate media to relegate the issues raised by the working class in February 20,21 All India Joint Strike and 2013 December 12th massive Parliament March to the background.  We should identify our friends and foes from our own experience and shall frontload the working class issues and conduct intensive campaign against those who are in favour of neo-liberal policies and also in support of those who are opposing the anti-people, anti-labour policies of the ruling class.  Remember, in democracy ballot is more powerful than bullet.  Let us use this weapon prudently and discreetly and move forward in our struggle by further strengthening those forces who are continuously fighting against this neo-liberal policies and for the cause of working class. 

                   Eventhough the Government has announced constitution of 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC), the terms of reference and appointment of chairperson etc. are yet to be finalised.  The unanimous proposal on terms of reference submitted by the staff side includes date of effect from 01-01-2014, DA merger, Interim relief, inclusion of GDS, statutory pension to those employed after 01-01-2004, minimum wage as per 15th ILC formula, settlement of anomalies and cashless, hassle free medical facilities.  Now the ball is in the court of Government.  In case the Government deliberately delay the appointment of CPC or reject the terms of reference submitted by the staff side, confrontation shall become inevitable.

                   Postal employees have put up stiffest resistance to the Government’s policy, to privatise the Postal sesrvices by amending Indian Postoffice Act 1898 for granting licence to private couriers, to close down 9797 departmental post offices, to merge about 300 RMS sorting offices and also to continue the ban on recruitment.  Postal department is the only department where mass-scale recruitment and promotion through departmental examinations has taken place.  The united struggle under the banner of JCA has prevented the Government to a great extent from implementing the neo-liberal policies in the Postal Sector.

                   Regarding 7th CPC, Postal employees have every right to get a better deal from Pay Commission and Government.  The pay scales of each category of Postal and RMS employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks should be upgraded taking into consideration the fact that the cadre of PA, SA, Postmen, Mail guard, MTS exchanging mails and clearing letter boxes, Gramin Dak Sevaks are all unique to the Postal Department.  Further IT modernisation project will be rolled out in full swing in 2014 and the skill of the postal employees including GDS in dealing with high technology will be further enhanced.  Due to non-creation of additional posts in commensurate with the increase in workload due to introduction of new schemes and procedures and also due to abnormal delay in filling up of vacant posts, the workload of the Postal and RMS employees have increased manifold and this factor of extra-productivity should be taken into account while deciding the pay scales of postal and RMS employees including GDS.

            Three lakhs Gramin Dak Sevaks and Casual, Part-time, Contingent employees are the worst sufferers of the Postal department.  NFPE & FNPO has already decided to go for indefinite strike, if the Government rejects our demand for inclusion of GDS in the ambit of 7th CPC and revision of wages and regularisation of casual labourers.

            NFPE & AIPEU-GDS (NFPE) had filed a writ petition in the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India praying for implementation of the 1977 Supreme Court judgement declaring GDS as civil servants and grant of all benefits of departmental employees to GDS.  The Hon’ble Supreme Court has ordered the Delhi High Court to consider and decide the case and the writ petition is accordingly transferred to Delhi High Court.  Thus the final legal battle for departmentalisation of GDS has begun and 2014 will be a turning point in the history of GDS

            In short, 2014 is going to be an year of struggle and advancement of the working class of India and also the Central Government employees including Postal, RMS & GDS employees.  Let us welcome the new year with a pledge to continue our fight for a better tomorrow.

All India Postal Employees Union – Postman & MTS/Gr.D 25th ( Silver Jubilee)All India Conference is being held at Cuttack for three days; 29th 30th & 31st of December 2013.

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All India Postal Employees Union – Postman & MTS/Gr.D  25^th ( Silver Jubilee)All India Conference is being held at Cuttack for three days;  29^th 30^th & 31^st of December 2013.

A colourful and big rally was conducted along the streets of Cuttack town from GPO to the Venue of the Conference with the participation of hundreds of comrades with red flags and slogan shouting. The rally led by Com.R.N.Dhal, Com.D.B.Mohanthy, Com.R.C.Mishra, Com.N.C.Singh  with the participation of NFPE leadership, General Secretaries and many other leaders of Orissa. Many organizations of Orissa offered their floral greetings to the participants and the rally.

Open session :

At the venue, National flag hoisted by Shri Jagannath Patnaik, Chairman, Reception Committee, NFPE flag  by Com.M.Krishnan, Secretary General, NFPE, AIPEU flag by Com.SK.Humayun, All India President and all the invitees  Com.Basudeva Acharya, Hon’ble M.P., Com.Janardhan Pathi, CITU and all the leaders paid their homage to the martyrs column with floral tributes.

Comrades of Orissa welcomed all the Invitees, delegates with their cultural &  traditional song to the city of Cuttack for the success of this Silver Jubilee conference.

Com.D.B.Mohanty, General Secretary, Reception Committee welcomed the Chief Guests, Invitees,   Leaders, Delegates, Visitors to the session.

Com.Jagannath Patnaik , Chairman, Reception Committee made the welcome speech and invited all the participants to made the conference a grand success.

Com.Basudeva Acharya, Hon’ble Member of Parliament inaugurated the Silver Jubilee Conference by giving a valuable message on the policies of the Govt. and emphasized the significance of Postal trade union movement to safeguard the Govt Sector.

Shri S.J.Tilak De, Hon’ble Chief Postmaster General, Orissa Circle & Shri P.K.Bisoi, Postmaster General, Berhampur were attended as Chief guests for the session.

Com.Janardhan Pati, Vice President, CITU, Orissa, Com.R.N.Malik, Convener, Shramik Ekta, Orissa, Com.M.Krishnan, Secretary General, NFPE were addressed the session. Reception Committee honoured all the Guests & Leaders by covering shawl and presenting the AIC mementos.

Com.K.Raghavendran, Former Secretary General, NFPE & General Convener, AIPRPA, Com.I.S.Dabas, General Secretary, AIPEU PM&MTS/Gr.D., Com.Girirajsing, General Secretary, R-III, Com.P.Suresh, General Secretary, R-IV, Com.Pranab Bhattacharya, General Secretary, AIPAOEU, Com.P.Pandurangarao, General Secretary, AIPEU GDS (NFPE), Com.Milan Bhattacharya, Former President, P4 CHQ, Com.S.Raghupathi, Asst. Secretary General, NFPE,  Com.R.Sitalakshmi, Asst. Secretary General, NFPE were also present on the dais.
Com.R.N.Dhal , Working Chairman,  Reception Committee expressed heartfelt thanks and greetings to all the guests and invitees of the open session.
Leaders & Delegates Rally :

Flag Hoistation :

Warm Welcome by the Reception Committee:

: Shri Jagannath Patnaik, Chairman, Reception Committee addressing :

Inaugural address by Com. Basudeva Acharya, Hon'ble Member of Parliament :

Shri Jagannath Patnaik, Chairman, Reception Committee honoured by Com.R.N.Dhal

: Shri S.J. Tilak De, Hon'ble Chief Postmaster General, Odisha Circle addressing :

: Com.Janardhan Pati, Vice President, CITU, Odisha addressing :

Consolidated Instructions on Forwarding of Applications of Government Servants for Outside Employment- DoPT Instructions

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Consolidated Instructions on Forwarding of Applications of Government Servants for Outside Employment- DoPT Instructions

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Handbook on adoption of governance enhancing and non-legislative elements of the draft Indian Financial Code

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Handbook on adoption of governance enhancing and non-legislative elements of the draft Indian Financial Code

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GOOD GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES : SIMPLIFICATION OF PROCEDURE FOR PAYMENT OF FAMILY PENSION

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GOOD GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES SIMPLIFICATION OF PROCEDURE FOR PAYMENT OF FAMILY PENSION

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NEXT MEETING OF THE CADRE RESTRUCTURING COMMITTEE WILL BE HELD ON 9TH JANUARY 2014 (THURSDAY) AT 3.00 PM AT DAK BHAWAN, NEWDELHI

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NEXT MEETING OF THE 

CADRE RESTRUCTURING COMMITTEE 

WILL BE HELD ON 9^TH JANUARY 2014 (THURSDAY) 

AT 3.00 PM 

AT 

DAK BHAWAN, NEWDELHI

Revised Delivery Norms for Speed Post

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Revised Delivery Norms for Speed Post

 D.G. Posts No. 13-45/2008-D dated 10/11/.12.2013

The norms for delivery of Speed Post articles have in the past been revised from time to time and are also contained in the Citizen’s Charter of the Department. The existing delivery norms for Speed Post are follows:

(a)   Local (within municipal limits) : 2 days

(b) Between one to another metro city (included the six metro cities i.e. Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad) and limited to Municipal limits of these cities: 2 days

(c)    Rest of the country: 4 to 6 days.

2.       The norms mentioned above are further qualified by stating that they exclude the day of posting, Sundays and Holidays that they denote maximum time and apply only to the articles booked before the cut-off time.

3.       The matter relating to revision of the existing norms for delivery of Speed Post articles was under consideration of this Directorate, and the following has been decided in this regard:

(a)      New delivery (transit) norms have been worked out on a city-to-city      basis for 87 cities where Speed Post Sorting Hubs are located (excluding 1           CBPO & 2 CBPO). The new delivery norms are being circulated to all concerned by e-mail along with this O.M. The same may be downloaded.

(b)      The new norms for a pair of cities have been prescribed in terms of a range. For example,

 the delivery norms between Mumbai and Pune is “1 to 2 days, i.e. D+1 to D+2 where “D”  is the day of booking.

(c)      The new norms would be restricted to the municipal limits of a city       (covering only TD PIN codes) under reference.

4.       The new delivery norms for Speed Post would be subject to the conditions that:

*         They are limited to 87 cities, and municipal limit within these cities,

*         They do not apply to the articles booked after the cut-off time on a day(normally) taken as 3 or 4 pm for booking counters at post offices or as decided by the Circle concerned) and an extra day may be added in       such cases,

*         The delivery norms do not include Sundays and holidays,

*         Delay occurring due to curfew, bandh or strike in a particular city mayadversely affect delivery norms,

*         Delay occurring due to cancellation of flights/trains/buses/other means of transport for carriage of mail  or off-load / non-carriage of mail by the   carriers due to any reason is beyond the control of the Department, and therefore, the same may adversely affect delivery norms.

*         Beyond the cities mentioned under the delivery norms document, extra days may be required which would vary from place to place..

5.       Circles may give wide publicity to the new norms among the public and display the norms in the shape of a matrix of prominent/frequently-used destinations at the post office as display of entire matrix perhaps may not be possible.

6.       The new delivery norms would also be placed on India Post website in a user-friendly format so that a user could easily find delivery/transit norms between a pair of cities. In the interim, a PDF version of the document is being uploaded on the Departmental website.

7.       This O.M. supercedes all previous instructions on Speed Post Delivery Norms issued by this Directorate/Business Development Directorate.

Indiapost Started Internet Banking

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Indiapost Started Internet Banking

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PFRDA--EXPOSURE DRAFT ON PROPOSED OPERATIONAL WITHDRAWAL PROCESS FOR NPS SUBSCRIBERS

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PFRDA--EXPOSURE DRAFT ON PROPOSED OPERATIONAL WITHDRAWAL PROCESS FOR NPS SUBSCRIBERS

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CAT CHENNAI quashes fresh proceedings against retired employee

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                                               THE TIMES OF INDIA   

PRESS NEWS    

                                            

           CHENNAI: 27.12.2013.  Can an employee be punished twice for the same offence? No, said the Chennai bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Wednesday quashing an order of the ministry of communications and IT to initiate fresh proceedings against a retired assistant postmaster who had undergone punishment for his supervisory lapses.

      The matter pertains to V Muthukannu, sub-postmaster in Karur division, who was accused of irregular closure of a recurring deposit and non-account of deposits. In his submissions to the tribunal, Muthukannu said in March 2010, the superintendent of post offices ordered recovery of Rs 8,000 per month from his salary for the loss caused to the postal department. After seven months, it was increased to Rs 12,000. For his contributory negligence, he paid Rs 5.07 lakh to the department. Also, for a year, his salary was reduced and no increments were provided, said Muthukannu.

     However, in April 2012, a month before his retirement, the member (personnel), department of posts, dropped the earlier concluded proceedings and initiated a fresh proceeding for the same lapses. He was also issued a memo stating his retirement benefits had been withheld. He asked the CAT to set aside the order for fresh proceedings.

     In the counter, the department of post denied the averments and said Muthukannu was involved in a fraud to the tune of Rs 17.46 lakh at the Karur head post office. Fresh proceedings were initiated according to the rules and there was no question of "double jeopardy." Further, it was an exceptional case and had to be dealt with accordingly.

    The bench comprising judicial member B Venkateshwara Rao and administrative member P Prabhakaran said, "Once the punishment imposed is undergone, no one can direct a fresh inquiry in the same set of charges."

       The bench quashed the order for fresh proceedings and directed the department to pay all retrial benefits to Muthukannu.

Guidelines on implementation of suo-motu disclosure under Section 4 of RTI Act, 2005 - DoPT Letter

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Guidelines on implementation of suo-motu disclosure under Section 4 of RTI Act, 2005 - DoPT Letter

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Number of Posts Sanctioned, Filled and Vacant of Regular Civilian Employees in Central Government

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THE BELOW DETAIL WAS SUBMITTED IN A WRITTEN REPLY IN THE PARLIAMENT BY THE MINISTER OF DOPT SHRI V.NARAYANASAMY ON 12TH DECEMBER 2013 TO A QUESTION REGARDING THE NUMBER OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES IS CONSTANTLY DECREASING DUE TO NON-FILLING UP OF VACANCIES FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS...

The Minister said that the details of the number of posts sanctioned, filled and vacant of Regular Civilian Employees in Central Government & Union Territory Administrations as per the ‘Brochure on Pay and Allowances of Central Government Civilian Employees for 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-12 brought out by the Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure), as on 1st March of the relevant year are as under:

As on	Number of sanctioned posts	Number of incumbents in position	Number of  vacant posts
1.3.2010	3602295	3068359	533936
1.3.2011	3663529	3081938	581591
1.3.2012	3684543	3084530	600013

The Ministries/Departments are required to fill the vacancies as per Recruitment Rules and extant guidelines. This Department issues instructions from time to time to all Ministries/Departments to fill up the vacant posts on timely basis. The data in this regard is not centrally maintained.