Dear Comrades,
postal
assistant cadre deserves higher pay scale from 7th central pay commission
Government of India has
constituted 7th Central Pay Commission.
All Federations and Unions/Associations will be submitting their
memorandums to the Pay Commission, either jointly or separately. Everybody wants Pay Commission to examine and
consider their demands regarding revised pay scales of their category,
judiciously and dispassionately, so that justice will be done to each
cadre. National Federation of Postal
Employees (NFPE) and all its affiliates will be submitting memorandum on each
and every cadre of the Department of Posts and shall try its best to get a
favourable recommendation from Pay Commission in respect of Pay Scales of each
cadre including Gramin Dak Sevaks. We
are also exploring the possibility of submitting a joint memorandum by the
entire staff side of the Department of Posts.
Regarding common demands of entire Central Government Employees staff
side, JCM National Council and Confederation of Central Govt. Employees &
Workers shall submit memorandum to 7th CPC.
Before that every attempt including agitation will be made to get the
terms of reference of the Pay Commission amended, to include the proposal
submitted by the Staff Side viz; date of effect from 01-01-2014, DA merger,
Interim Relief, inclusion of GDS, inclusion of those appointed after 01-01-2004
in the old statutory pension scheme, Labour representative in Pay Commission,
settlement of existing anomalies, Norms of fixing minimum wage, Party in
Pension, Cashless-hassle free medical facilities etc.
As far as AIPEU Group-C (CHQ) is
concerned our main concern and responsibility is to ensure justified and better
pay scales and other benefits to the Postal Assistant and allied cadre. We firmly believe that this time the Postal
Assistant cadre and also all its allied cadres and promotional cadres shall get
better pay cales from 7th CPC. In all
other Central Government departments each cadre is performing a particular
nature of work only. Income Tax
Employees performs the duties related to Income Tax only. Audit & Accounts employees perform the
duties relating to Audit & Accounts only.
Bank Employees perform the duties related to Banking work only. Insurance Employees perform the work related
to Insurance only. Likewise we can
illustrate any number of examples. In
all these cases, it can be seen that the employees of all other departments are
specialised to work in their own particular stream of office work only.
Contrary to this, there is only
one cadre in the entire Central Government departments which performs more than
ten types of different specialised duties related to different sections and the
name of that cadre is Postal Assistant.
They have to learn and perform Banking work related to Savings Bank and
Savings Certificates. They have to learn
and perform Insurance work relating to Postal Life Insurance including
acceptance of policy proposal, premium collection to maturity closure and
payments etc. They have to perform the
Accounts work in Accounts Branches of each Head Post Offices, they have to do
Treasury work in all Post Offices, they have to perform the duties related to
Mails, Sorting, delivery of all types of postal articles, they have to run
financial services such as Money Orders including Electronic Money transfer,
they have attend counter duties relating to booking of Registered, Speed Post,
Money orders etc., They have to sell stamps and also application forms. They have to perform the work of Public Relation
Inspectors. They have to perform the
duties of Business Development activities and also as Marketing
Executives. After introduction of
high-Technology in all areas of work in Post Offices including Multi-purpose
counter machines, Core Banking, PLI Computerisation, Online transactions,
Accounts computerisation etc. each and every Postal Assistants is well versed
with the computer-related work and some Postal Assistnts are engaged as System
Administrators to set right the faults in the system and also to train the
staff as and when new technology softwares are introduced. Government has allotted 5000 crores for 100%
computerisation of Post Offices. Over
and above all Postal Assistants are performing the duties of Postmasters which
involves supervision of all the above mentioned work.
Thus unlike, any employee working
in any other departments of Central Govt, or public sector undertakings, Postal
Assistant Cadre is an all-in-one-cadre and hence called a “unique” cadre
without any comparison. Naturally such a cadre deserves a better deal from the
7th Central Pay commission.
The same is the case with all the
allied cadres and promotional cadres of Postal Assistant such as LSG, HSG-II,
HSG-I, Postmaster Grade I, II & III, P.O & RMS Accountants, Treasurers,
System Administrators, Business Executives etc. AIPEU Group-C (CHQ) is
convening a two days Special National Convention and Workshop on 2014 May 26th
&27th at New Delhi, exclusively for discussion, debate and finalisation of
7th CPC memorandum relating to cadres represented by AIPEU Group-C. All circle
secretaries and Branch/Divisional secretaries are invited to participate in the
special convention and workshop and also to present their valuable suggestions
to be included in the memorandum. The draft memorandum prepared in the National
Workshop will be published in the websites calling for further suggestions from
the members. After that the memorandum will be finalised by the Central Working
Committee of AIPEU Group-C to be held in the month of August or earlier in
Andhra Pradesh. This is a serious business and a first step for ensuring
betterment of our pay scales and service conditions and in this process we want
to ensure total participation and involvement of the rank and file leaders and
members, in a most democratic and transparent manner.
