Editor: K.V.
SRIDHARAN
Vol. XXXVI JUNE 2007
Editorial
CHANGES INEVITABLE
The programmed strike from 24-4-2007 was
deferred before it begins perhaps due to the talks we
had with the Secretary, Dept. of Posts and the
assurances and settlement on many issues.
The prime demand of considering the GDS issues
either by the Pay Commission or Judicial Committee
was clinched. It was decided to refer the issue once
again to Govt. for consideration. Other confronting
issue of exempting the Postal Dept. from the purview
of screening committee ended with the submission
of cabinet note. We reached just the edge of a tunnel
but have to cross many more.
There are improvements in other demands like
filing up of all LSG / HSG.II / HSG.I posts within a
month, Block of benchmark for promotion, utilisation
of retired pensioners to employ for the shortage, grant
of OTA to meet the shortage in operative, formation
of committee to fix incentive / honorarium for various
business activities, filling of all remaining residual
vacancies, liberalising the standard of PA exam, one
more chance to write LGO exam, one time absorption
of approved RRR candidates, consideration of part
time casual labourers for GDS posts, etc. All the
assurances & settlements should be implemented
in true spirit to avert further discontentment,
discouragements and disillusions.
In fact, the doctrine principle of collective
bargaining through JCM, periodical meetings etc. has
been dismantled at present resulting in unrest at all
the levels. No regular periodical meeting is held at
Directorate. No JCM Departmental Council is held
over one year which should have been conducted
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once in four months. Similarly there is no proper
RJCM at Circle level. There is no RJCM in the
newly formed circles. Even in the Circles where
the RJCM is functioning, the Circle Secretaries
holding in the office are not the members, leaders
or Secretary of the RJCM. The old nominations
are still continuing and in many places, it causes
hurdles to be incumbent office bearers and smooth
functioning of the circle unions besides settlement
of problems. The GDS employees are not still
brought under RJCM, Departmental Councils.
There are continuously subjected for the
exploitation. They are not being extended full trade
union facilities at par with the regular departmental
employees.
This should be channalised properly. Periodical
meetings at all levels should be ensured right from
Divisions to Directorate. The office bearers holding
positions should be ensured with the right of
collective bargaining. GDS should be given its lion
share in the collective bargaining. Postal being an
extensive workforce and next to railways, it should
have proper representation at National Council JCM
also. It should be in the position of drivers seat in
this negotiating machinery also. The unfortunate
situation is that the only department even though
six lakh workforce is in existence which is sidelined
its representations in all forums.
Changes are inevitable. The changes should be
in right direction. The changes required in the postal
for the betterment of six lakh workforce and for the
improvement of the service.
 LETTERS TO DEPARTMENT
Letter No. P/4-4/Honorarium, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Enhancement of honorarium to R.D.
premature closure - reg.
Ref.:This union letter of even no. dated 10-11-2006
Apropos reference, while extending the rates
prescribed earlier as honorarium for PMC closure to
sub offices vide your letter No. 113-1/2004-SR (SB order
No. 01/2007 dated 12-01-2007), the request of this union
to enhance the rates has not been considered.
The rates fixed for the RD PMC work a decade
back needs revision since the norms were revised.
During 1996, the PMC was permitted without interest
after one year. Now the PMC is allowed only after
three years with SB interest. Resultantly, the officials
have to work out the IBB for more than three years
consuming more time. After decentralisation of RD at
SO level, it becomes a risky and very arduous job.
It is therefore requested to consider and revise
the honorarium upward at the following rates.
Sub Postmaster - Rs. 5.00 per account.
Postal Assistant - Rs. 10.00 per account.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/4-1/Tenure Posting, Dated: 14 May
2007 addressed to Com. I.M.G. Khan, Secretary,
Department of Posts.
l Tenure posting of officials in single handed
and double handed post offices -- preventive
vigilance measure - reg.
A kind attention is invited to the discussions we
had on the subject during the talks on 19-04-2006.
As a measure of preventive vigilance, the
Directorate in its letter No. 8-4/2005-INV dated 22-09-
2005, caused instructions that once the officials posted
in 'B' & 'C' class offices should not be posted back to
the same station. There may be some rare cases
where fraud would have taken place for which the entire
staff should not be suspected.
At present, difficulties are being experienced for
want of officials for posting at B&C class offices
especially in rural / hill areas which causes strained
relationship. The officials are also deprived to work in
the offices of their choice (i.e.) the officials might be
native of such stations or good environment such as
schools etc. to afford better education for their children.
Under these circumstances, you are requested
to review and relax the condition and the officials with
good record and credence may be considered to post
back to the offices of their choice.
Letter No. P/4-1/Group B Exam, Dated: 14 May
2007 addressed to Com. I.M.G. Khan, Secretary,
Department of Posts.
l Group B Examination - conditions for
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appearing the exam - reg.
A kind attention is invited to this union letter of even
number dated 18-12-2006 wherein we requested to revise
the syllabus as per the job requirements and permit the
private publishers to print the updated manuals.
We also requested to permit TBOP / BCR officials
to appear the Group B exam since none become
eligible among LSG officials who could get LSG
promotion only at the verge of the retirement. Both our
requests have not been considered so far.
At least the minimum service required to appear
the Group B exam under general line quota may be
fixed as 20 years clerical service irrespective of the fact
whether the official is in LSG, TBOP or not. Otherwise,
the purpose of conducting the exam will be defeated.
It is therefore requested to consider the issues
and cause appropriate orders at the earliest and also
to conduct the examination after the consideration of
our request.
Soliciting immediate action.
Letter No. P/4-1/Tfr, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to Shri I.M.G. Khan, Secretary, Department
of Posts.
l Restriction in posting of SPM to minor
penalties / CR entries - reg.
Ref.: This union letter of even number dated 02-
02-2007
A kind attention is invited to the discussions we
had on the subject on 19-04-2007.
A confidential circular has been sent to all divisional
heads from investigation branch on 01-11-2006 that if
an official is awarded with anyone of the minor or major
punishments or adverse entries in the CR, he should
not be posted as SPM throughout his career.
This causes a concern. After lapse of certain
periods, the officials inflicted with such punishments
become eligible to write the promotional exams like
IPO, JAO, Group B etc. As such, mere imposition of
even a minor penalty will be the disqualification to be
a SPM throughout his career is nothing but a farce
and bad in law.
If the suggestions are implemented, at one stage
none will be available for the post of SPM due to
shortage. A well senior official has to work as Postal
Assistant under the supervision of junior most which
will also be a punishment not improvised in the CCS
(CCA) Rules.
It is therefore requested to withdraw the
instructions at once and not to cause any hardships
to the officials which will certainly demoralise the
officials who are working very hard and implementing
various new activities of the department at field level.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
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 Letter No. P/4-3/Exam, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to Sri P.T.S. Kumar, DDG (P), Department
of Posts.
l Request to drop the confirmation
examination - reg.
A kind attention is invited to the discussions we
had on the subject and it was agreed to consider to
discontinue the confirmation exam as it lost its credence.
It is therefore requested to consider and cause
necessary orders at the earliest.
Soliciting response,
Letter No. P/4-4/Funds, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Allotment of funds to grant Computer
Advance to the officials - reg.
Despite the communication of MoF OM No. 12
(1)/E.II (A)/04 dated 13-10-2006 in November 2006 itself
providing Computer Advance to the officials not
exceeding Rs. 30,000/- this has not been paid last
year in many circles due to non allotment of funds.
It is therefore requested to allot sufficient funds
for the current year considering the requirements for
the last year also to all the circles to grant the Computer
Advance liberally.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/4-3/Training, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Counting the training period for benefits of
promotion under TBOP/BCR scheme - reg.
Ref.: This union letter of even number dated 25-
01-2007
Apropos reference, it is constrained to note that
neither the issue is resolved nor replied so far. The
instructions contained in your letter No. 44-47/98-
SPB.II dated 31-07-2000 & 27-07-2001 to count the
induction training period for the qualifying service has
not been implemented properly in many circles.
In Tamilnadu Circle, the circle IFA denied such
benefits to those recruited and deputed for training
before 01-01-86, and based on the objection, the
Chief PMG, Tamilnadu Circle has issued instructions
vide his letter No. STA/80-1/00/Rlgs. Dated 21-02-
2003 in which it was stated that the period of
induction training can be taken for the benefit of
promotion under TBOP/BCR only if the official
selected was under training on 01-01-86 or deputed
for training on or after 01-01-86.
Resultantly the officials granted with BCR
promotions based on the Directorate orders dated 31-
07-2000 taking into account of their training period for
promotion have faced recovery and re-fixation. The
opinion of the circle IFA to cut short the benefits from
01-01-86 is arbitrary and unjust.
It is therefore requested to cause necessary
clarifications to all the circle heads to count the training
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period without any cut off date and stop recovery
immediately.
Soliciting immediate action.
Letter No. P/4-4/Hono, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Enhancement of honorarium for engaging
the officials in departmental examinations -
reg.
Ref.:This union letter of even number dated 30-
11-2006
Apropos reference, it is constrained to note that
neither the issue is considered nor replied so far.
The honorarium now paid to the officials whom
brought for departmental exam was fixed one decade
ago. The remuneration is very meagre while comparing
the strenuous job carried out by the officials.
It is therefore requested to consider and revise
the honorarium appropriately.
Soliciting immediate response.
Letter No. P/4-2/Pay, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Counting of Special Allowance for pay
fixation -- case of PO and RMS Accountants -
reg.
Ref.: This union letter of even number dated 14-
11-2006
Apropos reference, it is rather dismayed to note
that this issue is still remaining unsettled over a
decade. Resultantly, in many circles, recovery is being
ordered from the officials for considering the same for
pay fixation.
It is therefore requested to cause necessary orders
at the earliest and settle this long pending issue.
Soliciting immediate action.
Letter No. P/4-1/LSG, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to Sri P.T.S. Kumar, DDG (P), Department
of Posts.
l Anomalies in the LSG promotion -- request
clarificatory orders - reg.
Apropos discussions on the subject earlier, the
following anomalies arisen due to divisionalisation of
LSG cadre from 1986 to 2006 are yet to be resolved.
i) Since the LSG notional promotion was granted
on divisional basis, in some divisions due to more
number of LSG posts in existence, the juniors could
get LSG promotion. In other divisions, due to dearth
of LSG posts, the seniors even did not get LSG
promotion which affects them in the HSG.II & HSG.I
promotions. Modification of LSG as per the Circle PA
Gradation list as one time measure will be only the
solution in mitigating the anomaly prevailing due to
various charges in the rules since 1986.
ii) As per the provisions of LSG Recruitment Rules
1976 and Vol. IV, the Combined Circle Gradation list
of P.As is the basis for LSG promotion. This has been
sidelined due to the instructions of divisionalisation of
LSG cadre. The officials availed Rule 38 transfers
were the victims. They may be allowed to opt
modification of LSG at par with their juniors.
It is therefore requested to consider the above two
items and cause appropriate orders at the earliest.
Soliciting immediate action.
Letter No. P/2-21/Chamoli, Dated: 10 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Memorandum presented against Sri M.C.
Pandey, SPOs Chamoli division in
Uttarakhand Circle -- request enquiry and
action - reg.
Ref.: (i) This union letter of even no. dated 05-01-
2007 & 02-02-2007
(ii) Your letter No. 16-2/2007-SR dated 05-01-
2007 & --2-07
Apropos reference, despite your letters for proper
enquiry on the misdeeds of the SSPOs, Chamoli
division, nothing has so far been moved.
The memorandum attached with this union letter
dated 05-01-2007 is self explanatory and exhaustive
on all the misdeeds and maladministration of the SPOs
Chamoli. The following are the few examples.
(i) Despite the abolition of steno post, he is engaging
a PA as steno and utilising for his purpose.
(ii) Out of total establishment of 46 Group D posts,
he arbitrarily axed 17 Group D posts in the
divisions and major offices like Chamoli, there is
no Group D in existence. The post of Group D,
Kedarnath was abolished. There is no Group D
or ED Packer at this pilgrimage town and the SPM
is attending the packer duty.
(iii) There are two departmental runners to carry the
mails from Gourikund to Kedarnath considering
the distance height and steep rise in the mountain
he abolished both the posts and the work has
been distributed to GDS MCS which is humanly
impossible. The GDS deployed for this purpose
have to spent whole money for their food and
conveyance while carrying the work. The worst
exploitation of labour.
(iv) The post of IPO Rudraprayag is vacant and when
the union requested for local arrangement, he
ordered the ASP D.O. to look after the duties of
SDI which is practically impossible in the hill areas.
(v) The irregular arrangements he ordered for the
officiating for the post of ASP Gopeshwar has
been cancelled. Now the same irregular
arrangement has been revived to favour an
individual by sidelining the rules.
(vi) To cite an example about his Topsy Turvy activities,
he put off the GDS SPM Goldir EDSO Sri
Madhusudhan Joshi in 2006 orally and reinstated
him after a week without any orders. All these things
are only oral for some extraneous consideration.
(vii) He disconnected Telephone connections to the
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extent of 80%. Even the bigger offices having
computerised like Guptkasi, Augustmuni, Delal,
Twarl, Naranbagh etc. are being no service phone.
(viii) There is no supply of Black ink for stamping. The
SPMs are forced to purchase psycholostyled ink.
(ix) Personal claims are not cleared then and then.
They are pending for years together. Speed Post
incentive bills were rejected with the reason that
they were submitted belatedly. Most of the bills
are rejected like that.
(x) Even for clearance of surplus cash beyond lakhs
rupees, without police escort by taking risk by the
SPMs, he is disallowing the bills and restricting
only to bus fare which is practically impossible.
The SPMs are daily incurring money on their own
for conveyances to clear the surplus cash.
(xi) He is not supplying computer papers to S.O.s,
resulting the SPMs could not take the print out of
B.O. summary and others for office records.
(xii) The Chief PMG instructed to allot tiffin room at
Rudraprayag as the office is kept open from 09:00
am to 10:00 pm and RMS officials are sorting
letters and remaining in the office. Despite his
advise, he is still reluctant and not allot space for
tiffin room causing lot of inconvenience to the staff
while on their duty.
(xiii) Despite the provision to grant immunity from
transfer to the Divisional Treasurer first time, the
Divisional Treasurer of this union working at Thali
has not been ordered to bring to the Headquarters
over one year.
(xiv) The SPOs suggested to hand over the land which
is under our possession since 1960 at Gauchar
to the private parties. This is unwarranted.
(xv) Similarly, at Kedarnath, the Panchayat has offered
2 grounds land to post office by free of cost and
requested to transfer the name by registering the
property in the department title. The SPOs had
written the Panchayat that he did not secure the
land offered by them at free of cost.
(xvi) He has closed down the offices in China Border
like Malari, Bhampa which are tribal areas and
there is no departmental post offices within the
area of 20 kms. He has either closed down many
post offices or down graded the status.
(xvii)He is misusing his official car for his weakly tour
to his residence at Haldwani. This could be verified
from the Diary. His residential electricity
connection is linked with the office main to avoid
electricity bill.
(xviii) According to his whims an fancies, the MDW
has been prepared in D.O. and not as per the
rulings. There is multiple dealing of files by the
Dealing Assistants.
(xix) His threatening and singular usage of words like
'suspend you' is unbearable. When the SPM
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 Tilwara requested the SPOs to replace the plastic
chair with wooden one or to enhance the platform
to the height of the table, he threatened him in
singular and vulgar words.
(xx) Above all, during his visits, the cash and stamps
of the post office is being counted and checked
only by his driver. This will never happen at any
other place.
There are many more skeletons are hidden in the
cupboard and if an enquiry is ordered it will roll down
with many more irregularities.
It is therefore requested to take appropriate action
and rein in the SPOs who is functioning in unbridled
horse style.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/2-18/Sikar, Dated: 09 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Arbitrary recovery under contributory factors
-- case of Sikar and Pali Head Post Offices in
Rajasthan Circle - reg.
It is brought to our notice that the divisional heads of
the above said HPOs are resorting to initiate disciplinary
action against the officials to recover the loss sustained
due to the burglary taken place in these offices.
It is pertinent to note that both the HPOs have
been provided with security arrangements and having
chowkidars to keep vigil over the office. Both the thefts
were taken place by tiding the hands of the chowkidars
and broke the double locks and inner locks.
The officials are not directly responsible for the loss
sustained to the department. Fixing responsibility on
contributory factors for the theft is nothing but farse and
against to the principles of law and justice. Despite the
Directorate's clear instructions, not to impose recovery
in cases if the officials are not directly responsible, the
SSPOs are resorting action to recover the amount.
It is therefore requested to cause necessary
instructions not to recover any amount from the officials
who are not directly responsible and approach police
authorities to apprehend the culprits and recover the
amount.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/2-21/Haridwar, Dated: 09 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Formation of Haridwar Division in
Uttarakhand Circle - reg.
Ref.: This union letter of even number dated 22-
03-2007.
Apropos reference, I wish to request that this issue
may please be given priority on the following grounds.
(i) There is full justification to bifurcate Dehradun
Division since the S.I.U. norms exceeds 2.6.
(ii) After bifurcation of UP Circle resulting bifurcation
of Saharanpur Division, more number of offices
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were attached with Dehradun Division.
(iii) Haridwar is the District Headquarters and the
Secretary during her visit to this HO has remarked
in the V.R to consider the formation of Division.
(iv) The post of Deputy SP post of Dehradun or Supdt.
PSD, Saharanpur may be redeployed for the
proposed division and the present PO building
either at Haridwar or Roorkee will be sufficient to
house the divisional office.
It is therefore requested to consider the same and
order accordingly.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/2-16/Puri, Dated: 09 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Irregular actions of SSPOs, Puri Division - reg.
The circle union has brought the following irregular
action of the SSPOs, Puri Division to the notice of the
circle head in Dec'06 for which no action has been
taken so far by the Circle Administration.
(i) The officials Sri N.C. Mishra, Sri Nilakanta Mishra
& Sri Pratap Patra are still continuing in Puri
Township despite their direct involvement in
massive NSC fraud case at Puri HO.
(ii) Sri H.K. Rath who was also involved in the NSC
fraud case is now working as DO PLI. Even
though Rule 14 is contemplated against him, he
has been favoured with the DO PLI posting.
(iii) The union's allegation about the frequent
disturbance of MMS Jatani - Gania line due to
carelessness of the tenderer Smt. Bishnupriya
Jena w/o Sri Ramesh Chandra Jena, PA Pallabat
SO has not given any credence. No action has
so far been taken to cancel the tender or heard
so far. The SSPOs did not bother about the delay
in transmission and delivery of postal articles on
extraneous consideration.
(iv) The irregular provision of computer with internet
facility to SDI (P) Balugaon. No action has so far
been taken.
Despite the fact that circle union has frequently
insisting to cause action on the above irregularities,
the SSPOs Puri Division has not been corrected so
far which causes a concern.
It is therefore requested to cause necessary action
to set aside the irregular action of the SSPOs, Puri
Division.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/2-8/Cle, Dated: 08 May 2007
addressed to Shri P.T.S. Kumar, DDG (P), Department
of Posts.
l Non filling up of vacant HSG.II and HSG.I posts
- case of Himachal Pradesh Circle - reg.
Complaints are pouring into this union that despite
of clear instructions issued by the Directorate vide letter
No. 4-16/2002-SPB.II dated 20-11-2006 for filling up
the vacant HSG.II and HSG.I posts. Out of 22 HSG.I
and 20 HSG.II posts, 8 posts in HSG.I and 17 posts
in HSG.II are lying vacant in HP Circle the reason best
known to the Circle Administration.
It is needless to mention here that due to non
filling up of HSG.II posts LSG officials are officiating in
vacant HSG.II and HSG.I posts without any financial
benefits. Similarly eligible officials at the verge of their
retirement are being denied their legitimate claim for
promotion to higher cadre.
You are requested kindly to look into the matter
and cause necessary orders for filling up the vacant
posts of HSG.II and HSG.I in Himachal Pradesh Circle
by holding DPC without further delay.
Awaiting your action.
Letter No. P/4-4/Computer, Dated: 09 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Arrangement of Broad Band Connection in
all computerised offices - reg.
It is brought to our notice that the problem of internal
connectivity through modem is at rise and in many
occasions the data could not be sent to the site. This
could be seen in many computerised offices and the
officials are suffering due to non getting connectivity on
computers. Further due to slow functioning of modem,
the transfer of data takes more time.
It is therefore requested to provide Broad Band
Connection to all the computerised offices to avoid
the problems now facing at the work spot.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/2-12/Tvm South , Dated: 27 April
2007 addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Continuous drawal of HRA to Malayinkil at
Trivandrum City rates - reg.
The HRA at par with Trivandrum City drawn to the
officials working in the said office has been stopped
since 01-02-2005 due to the delay in obtaining renewal
sanction for such grant.
After a long delay, the Chief PMG, Kerala has
now sent a proposal on 29-03-2007 with dependency
certificate and other records for the renewal sanction
from 01-02-2005.
It is requested to expedite the sanction and accord
orders early.
Letter No. P/2-20/Fatehgarh, Dated: 28 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Construction of new building of Fatehgarh
HPO, Uttar Pradesh Circle - reg.
It is intimated that the HPO building of Fatehgarh
of Uttar Pradesh Circle is a very old one say about
100 years. It is in a very dilapidated condition and
any portion of it can fall down at any time. Sixty postal
employees are working under its roof and more than
one hundred customers are attending this post office.
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A big mishap may occur in this building any time if it
is not immediately attended. A new building, in place
of this life expired old one, be ordered to be constructed
so that lives of hundreds of employees and customers
may not be put to peril.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/4-4/Rec. Club, Dated: 27 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Enhancement of grant of Recreation Club -
reg.
The grant from the Welfare Fund for formation /
functioning of Postal Recreation Club was fixed a
decade ago. Similarly the grant for excursion trips
with mileage restrictions also requiring relaxation.
It is therefore requested to enhance the quantum
of grant from Welfare Board to Postal Recreation Club
for formation / continued functioning besides relaxing
the conditions for the grant for the towns organised by
the PRCs.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/4-4/FSC,Dated: 27 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Revision of FSC - reg.
The FSC fixed to the offices and officials requires
immediate revision as it does not commensurate the
expenses incurring for the purpose due to spiral
increase of commodities and inflation.
The present amount does not meet at least half
of the requirements and the in-charges of the post
offices are incurring the expenses on their own. This
causes a concern.
It is therefore requested to revise the rate of the
FSC and accord orders at the earliest.
Soliciting immediate action.
Letter No. P/4-4/Post Offices, Dated: 27 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Modernisation of post offices -- replacement
of generators / gensets -reg.
It is brought to our notice that in many circles
during computerisation / modernisation, proper care
has not been taken either to repair the generators or
by replacing with a new one.
Resultantly, even after computerisation and
modernisation, the work suffers during frequent power
failures and the officials are forced to perform the work
manually, which defeated the very purpose of
computerisation.
It is therefore requested to allot sufficient funds to
all the circles to replace / repair the existing generators
and bring them in working condition and ensure
uninterrupted functioning during the power failure.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/4-4/Funds, Dated: 27 April 2007
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addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Non allotment of funds from Circle Welfare
Fund to Circle Heads - reg.
It is brought to our notice that due to non receipt
of fund allotment in respect of Circle Welfare Fund,
many sanctions are pending for payment.
It is requested to allocate sufficient funds to all
circles to clear the pending sanctions.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/2-19/Srirangam, Dated: 18 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Arbitrary recovery of CGEGIS - case of Sri T.
Ramalingam, Ex. Sub Postmaster,
Poolambadi in Srirangam Division - reg.
The above said official died on 12-02-94 and till
his death, a sum of Rs. 30/- was collected every month
towards the subscription for CGEGIS without any
default.
Based on the same, the Chief Postmaster General
has also directed DA (P) Chennai for payment of
benefits under the new CGEGIS 80 scheme. The DA
(P) Chennai has also collected revised Annexure 'C'
in duplicate. A sum of Rs. 27,396/- has also been
paid to the wife of the deceased officials after deducting
the amount of Rs. 5000/- (insurance fund already paid).
After, the DAP Chennai is compelling the family
of the deceased official to credit the amount of Rs.
27,396/- as the case did not come under CGEGIS
1980 scheme. As the recovery was made @ Rs. 30/
- p.m. from the official till his death, the recovery of
subscription should have been made under the scheme
of CGEGIS 1980.
It is requested to cause necessary instructions
to circle head not to insist recovery by applying the
old scheme in his case. The copy of the representation
of the wife of the deceased official is enclosed herewith
for reference.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
Letter No. P/2-19/Cle,Dated: 18 April 2007
addressed to Shri P.T.S. Kumar, DDG (P), Department
of Posts.
l Irregular posting of general line officials as
APM Accounts - case of Tamil Nadu Circle -
reg.
A kind attention is invited to the discussions we
had on the subject earlier and it is dismayed to note
that in Tamil Nadu Circle also, all the APM Accounts
posts in HSG.II have been filled up with the general
line officials terminating the arrangements of Accounts
line officials. This causes a serious concern.
It is nothing but irony that the unqualified officials
are supervising the whole work of the Accounts branch
of the Head Post Offices and defeat the very purpose
of the existence of such specialised exam.
BHARTIYA POST 7 JUNE, 2007
It is also paradoxical to note that the subordinates
like Accountants should possess the Accounts
qualifications; whereas the one supervising such
Accountants need not have the knowledge of accounts
matters, like pay fixation, drawal of arrears of pay and
allowances, maintenance of service books, authorisation
of family pension, drawal of pension arrears, compilation
of cash book etc. which are all important nature of
works and require a specialised skill. The very purpose
of holding PO and RMS Accountants exam will be
defeated by these irregular postings.
It is, therefore, requested to take immediate action
to rectify the anomalies prevailing in the field level and
fill up the posts only with the Accounts qualified officials.
Letter No. P/2-21/Chamoli, Dated: 18 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Pre-tenure transfer of Treasurer of AIPEU
Group 'C', Chamoli Division - case of
Uttarakhand Circle - reg.
Kindly refer to this union letter of even number
dated 2nd February 2007 wherein it was mentioned
about unleashing victimisation against the office
bearers by the SPOs. Now it has been reported that
the Treasurer of our Divisional union has also been
transferred before completion of his tenure.
This union is of considered opinion that pre-tenure
transfer of union office bearer is nothing but a threat to
others raising voice against the misdeeds and
atrocities unleashed by the Divisional Superintendent.
All our earlier references against the misuse of
power and mal-administration of the SPOs Chamoli
division has not properly been enquired so far which
has strengthen him to further unleash repressive
measures against the active union office bearers.
You are once again requested to cause appropriate
action and set right the situation in Chamoli Division
duly ensuring the peace atmosphere to the staff
working in the division.
Letter No. P/2-21/UK Cle, Dated: 18 April 2007
addressed to Shri P.T.S. Kumar, DDG (P), Department
of Posts.
l Non holding of DPC for selection of the
officials for the posts of LSG - case of
Uttarakhand Circle - reg.
This is a sorry state of affair to hear that the
exercise of granting notional promotion to LSG by
holding DPC has not been taken place in Uttarakhand
Circle and all the posts are remained unfilled on regular
basis. The check list issued by the Directorate in
November 2006 has not been adhered and there are
many LSG posts still remaining unfilled up.
It is therefore requested to cause instructions with
time schedule to finalise the DPC process and accord
orders for LSG promotion.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
solicited.
 Letter No. P/2-21/Pithoragarh, Dated: 18 April
2007 addressed to Shri P.T.S. Kumar, DDG (P),
Department of Posts.
l Non filling up of the post of Dy. Postmaster
(HSG.I) of Pithoragarh HO - case of
Uttarakhand Circle - reg.
It has been brought to the notice of this union that
during discussion on the above issue in the four monthly
meeting between Chief Postmaster General and the
union representatives that it was referred to Directorate
seeking some clarifications which is yet to be issued.
The delay in filling up the post of Dy. Postmaster HSG.I
is nothing but sheer injustice to the senior officials in
selection of HSG.II and HSG.I posts in time.
It is therefore requested to direct the Circle
Administration to expedite DPC and fill up the vacant
post without further delay.
Awaiting your immediate action,
Letter No. P/2-1/Eluru, Dated: 28 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Sanction of Special Compensatory
Allowance and Bad Climate Allowance to
employees working in tribal areas -- case of
Andhra Pradesh Circle - reg.
The State Government of Andhra Pradesh vide
GOMS No. 6 dated 12-01-2007 has granted Special
Compensatory Allowance to its employees from the
date of issue of the Gazette Notification i.e. 12-01-
2007 working in the scheduled areas.
The copy of the said G.O. is enclosed herewith
for immediate action. It is pertinent to note that the
Bad Climate Allowance sanctioned to the officials
working in the Andhra Pradesh Circle has been
discontinued w.e.from 01-03-96 vide M.F. OM No. 5/
1/E-II(B)/99 dated 18-09-2000.
Since the state government has revived and
restored the payment of Special Compensatory
Allowances to its employees and issued Gazette
Notification, this may be applied to the Central
Government employees also based on the MoF OM
No. 20012/1/86-E.IV dated 23-09-86.
It is therefore requested to cause immediate action
to sanction Special Compensatory Allowance to the
officials working in those stations.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly solicited.
Letter No. P/4-4/Honorarium, Dated: 28 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Clarification on grant of honorarium for
calculation of interest for RD Premature
Closures - reg.
A kind attention is invited to the Directorate
instructions vide letter No. 113-1/2004-SB dated 12-
01-2007 wherein, there is no specific mention about
the rate for the single handed SPMs who is performing
both the work of clerk and supervisor. This may please
be clarified.
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Further, the rates prescribed is not commensurate
with the performance in the days of inflation. The
amount is very meagre and has been prescribed long
back. This requires revision.
It is therefore requested to enhance the rate of
honorarium also at the earliest.
Soliciting response.
Letter No. P/4-9/TF, Dated: 28 April 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Review of standards of working hours of HO /
SO after decentralisation of RD & MIS scheme
- reg.
A kind attention is invited to the norm fixed for RD
works communicated in the letter No. 4-1/2006-PE.I
dated 01-03-2007.
Even though the work connected with RD
depositors are similar in between H.O.s and S.O.s
after decentralisation, the time factor has been fixed
as 2 minutes for HO and one minute for SO under
Annexure 'A' which is insufficient and incorrect.
Further, the time factor for the work performed by
EDSOs have not been prescribed for sub offices since
many such EDSOs are being attached with major
S.O.s. The time factor prescribed against head 'C'
requires to be extended to sub offices also. Finally,
the coefficient for S.O.s had mistakenly mentioned
'for HO' which requires correction and also this requires
revision as 1.6 as if fixed for Head Offices.
It is therefore requested to accord clarificatory orders
after considering the revisions demanded by this union.
Immediate action is highly solicited.
Letter No. P/4-2/CA, Dated: 14 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Request for Fixed Conveyance Allowance to
Public Relation Inspectors (Postal), Marketing
Executives & Systems Administrators - reg.
Ref.: This union letter of even number dated 06-
10-2006
Apropos reference, it is constrained to note that
no action has so far been taken to mitigate the financial
loss being met by the PRI (P)s, Marketing Executives
and System Managers.
Apart from regular duties of the inspection work,
supervision of delivery staff and addressing the
grievances of public, propagating the new products
launched under the aegis of Business Development
Directorate and canvassing for the various schemes
introduced by the department.
Similar is the case of Marketing Executives and
Systems Manager. Their nature of work has no fixed
working hours and they have to travel miles together to
complete their assignments every day. In metropolitan
cities the amount spent by them to cover vast areas to
discharge their duties exceeds their capacity.
Taking into account the plight of these officials
and the indispensability of their services, a fixed sum
8 JUNE, 2007
of Rs. 1000/- may please be fixed as Fixed
Conveyance Allowance per month.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly solicited.
Letter No. P/2-20/Shahjahanpur, Dated: 14 May
2007 addressed to Shri Harinder Singh, Member (P),
Postal Services Board.
l Mal-administration and authorities caused to
the staff of Shahjahanpur Division, Uttar
Pradesh Circle by the Superintendent of Post
Offices, Shahjahanpur - reg.
It has been brought to notice of this union that the
staff belongs to AIPEU Group 'C' are being harassed
by Superintendent of Post Offices, Shahjahanpur
Division on flimsy and frivolous grounds which causes
strong resentment amongst the general members.
It may not be out of place to mention here that
Shri Arun Pratap Singh, Asstt. Secretary of the
Divisional Union working as SPM, Bahadurganj SO
has been chargesheeted under Rule 16 on the ground
of his attending Circle Conference as delegate from
17th to 18th June 2006 at Mathura and awarded the
punishment of stoppage of 3 increments. Shri J.P.
Shukla, President of the Divisional Union has also been
chargesheeted and awarded with the punishment of
withholding of 2 increments, on the ground of quarrelling
o/s Postman. The SPM has reported about the
intoxicated condition of the o/s Postman for which the
SPM has been awarded with the punishment.
The Superintendent of Post Offices is targeting
the activists of this union and punishing them on flimsy,
fabricated and concocted grounds since this union has
brought many irregularities purported by the divisional
head to the Circle Administration. The terror unleashed
by the divisional head should put to end and peace
amd amity in the division should be ensured.
It is requested to review both the cases and render
justice to the aggrieved officials besides restoring
peace and calm atmosphere to the staff.
Soliciting immediate action.
Letter No. P/4-2/Con. Allowance, Dated: 27 April
2007addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Upward revision of Conveyance Allowance
to PRI (P)s - reg.
Consequent upon the increase in the oil prices,
the PRI (P)s have to spend the double of the amount
while comparing the existing rates fixed earlier.
There is every justification to revise upwardly the
quantum of Conveyance Allowance. It will also be
proper to consider to segregate some of the works of
the PRI (P)s relating to marketing activities, verification
beyond 8 kms etc. and to bring them TA / DA ruels so
that they will be compensated properly besides
avoiding their loss in conveyance.
It is therefore requested to consider the same and
cause appropriate order at the earliest.
An line in reply about the action taken is highly solicited.
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Letter No. P/4-1/Accounts, Dated: 15 May 2007
addressed to Shri P.T.S. Kumar, DDG (P), Department
of Posts.
l Filling up the posts of APM Accounts &
promotional avenues to Accounts line
officials - reg.
A kind attention is invited to the discussions we
had earlier and also on 11-05-2007 and I wish to point
out that there is a great injustice met out to the PO
and RMS Accounts qualified officials throughout all
the circles.
The APM Accounts posts in LSG & HSG.II have
been filled up among the PO and RMS Accountants
qualified officials as per the Selection Grade
Recruitment Rules 1976. The selection was made
based on the date of qualifying the PO and RMS
Accountant examination in accordance with Postal
Manual Volume IV under Rule 276 & 277. The LSG
Accounts cadre remains as a separate entity even
after the divisionalisaiton of LSG for General Line.
After the introduction of FTP vide revised
Recruitment Rules (Memo dated 26-02-2002), there
was no mention about the APM Accounts posts and
the method of filling up the posts in the revised rules.
Resultantly there was an anomaly and lot of confusions
are prevailing at the field levels. The subsequent
clarification issued for FTP vide letter No. 137/10/96-
SPB.II dated 28-01-2003, it was mentioned that the
officials promoted to LSG having Accounts qualification
may be considered for APM Accounts post. This has
also created a bundle of contradictions and freezed
the separate entity of PO and RMS Accounts line.
Now in many circles, unqualified officials have
been posted as APM Accounts HSG.II and thus
defeated the very purpose of existence of such qualified
posts. The APM Accounts should have the knowledge
of accounts matters, like pay fixation, drawal of arrears
of pay and allowances, maintenance of service books,
authorisation of family pension, drawal of pension
arrears. Compilation of cash book etc. which are all
important duties of the APM Accounts. By posting
unqualified officials, the purpose of conducting such a
specialised exam is totally defeated.
The Hon'ble CAT Chennai & Mumbai observed that
the LSG Accountant Recruitment Rules of 1976 still
holds good. No administrative instructions will change
the statutory Recruitment Rules. As such PO and
RMS Accountants should be a separate line of
promotion and the APM Accounts posts in LSG &
HSG.II should be filled up based on the Recruitment
Rules 1976 only.
The following problems erupted in the meantime
in the postings of APM Accounts may please be
mitigated.
(i) The LSG Recruitment Rules 1976 should be
revived for the filling up of APM Accounts posts.
(ii) The year of qualifying the PO & RMS Accountant
exam should be the yardstick for promotion to APM
Accounts posts. The seniority should be decided on
their assumption in LSG post in Accounts cadre.
(iii) During upgradation of 1622 HSG.I posts, many
posts of APM Accounts were upgraded to HSG.II.
Resultantly, there is a dearth of LSG APM Accounts
posts for promotion in the feeder cadre. Hence it is
requested to restore the LSG position for APM
Accounts atleast to the extent of 50% of the total post
and upgrade those posts in general line.
(iv) Keep 50% HSG.II APM Accounts posts which
can be filled up only with the HSG.II officials with
Accounts qualification.
(v) Reserve 20% of the total establishment in HSG.I
promotion for providing promotion to the PO and RMS
qualified HSG.II APM Accounts.
It is therefore requested to cause a crystal
clarificatory orders to end the confusions and render
justice to the PO and RMS Accounts qualified officials.
Letter No. P/4-9/TF Computer, Dated: 15 May 2007
addressed to The Secretary, Department of Posts.
l Posting of PLI Data through HPO TPS - reg.
It is brought to our notice that H.O.s are receiving
floppies from circle offices containing Master Data for
each month for posting of PLI transactions through
HPO TPS Software only. The earlier procedure of
posting the transaction through Meghdoot Software
has been done away.
This has resulted in many disadvantages which
are enumerated below:-
1. The monthly premium receipt entry work takes a
lot of time.
2. When the policy numbers are wrongly entered, it
is difficult to find out the actual number, because there
is no proper search function to find out the same.
3. There is no proper database management. As
because, the whole data is stored in the Hard disk of
the client/ stand alone PC where the HPOTPS program
is functioning.
4. HPOTPS system does not run on a network.
5. It is difficult for many offices; currently using this
software so as to get any support in times when there is
any problem in the HPOTPS program, as we do not know
whether any company is having any contract with the
department or not as far as troubleshooting is concerned.
6. Lastly, facilities namely, provisions to enter service
tax, Education Cess etc., has not been incorporated
into the existing Software.
7. The option in the existing HPOTPS Software in
relation to modification of any information related to a
PLI policy, like Policy Number, Holder's Name, etc.,
is not at all user-friendly to a data-entry operator and
is quite tedious in nature.
8. As far as deletion of any erroneous data entered,
the required option for such deletion not at all exists
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in this Software.
In light of the same, the Meghdoot Millennium
Accounts PBS software is much better and less time
taking as well as user friendly. But, the following
measures have to be taken before its implementation:-
1. The administrative offices, to which the PLI
schedules in text format are being sent, have to be
computerized in such a manner so that, they can
accept schedules sent by the H.Os created in the
Meghdoot software.
2. If the PLI details as to Name of the policyholder,
PLI number and Premium amount can be provided
through floppy as per the provisions available in the
Meghdoot Millennium (MM) Accounts PBS software-
Schedule module, the details can be uploaded into
the system of the H.Os and need not have to be re-
entered.
3. The transfer system for downloading and uploading
of text file/ PLI details through floppy can be substituted
with an enhanced system of transfer through possibly
modem or the usage of internet.
4. Lately, it has been found that the PLI master
details facility cannot be utilized to enter PLI details
such as policyholder name, PLI number and premium
amount in the schedule module of the MM- Accounts
PBS software which has to taken up with PTC Mysore
and get fixed accordingly.
5. The Meghdoot software also has provisions to
enter Service Tax and Education Cess. The Meghdoot
software can be updated as necessarily as and when
required as PTC Mysore updates the software from
time to time.
6. The only difficulty in switching over to MM
Accounts PBS software is huge time that would be
taken for data entry of PLI master details. If the
developers of HPOTPS system can provide with an
auto transfer option of PLI master details from HPOTPS
software to Meghdoot software, then the data entry
work involving huge time can be eradicated.
It is therefore requested to consider the
disadvantages of the HPO TPS Software and also
the advantages of the Meghdoot Millennium with the
above said notification and cause necessary changes
in the usage of software for this specific work of
posting PLI datas.
A line in reply about the action taken is highly
appreciated.
OBITUARY
The son in law of Com. Ishwar Singh Dabas,
Treasurer, NFPE & Circle Secretary, P-IV, Delhi
Circle passed away due to massive heart attack at
Japan on 11-05-2007. We convey our heartfelt
condolences to the bereaved family members and
Com. Ishwar Singh Dabas. We share his grief.
10 JUNE, 2007
 LETTERS FROM DIRECTORATE
D.G.(P) No. 16-66/2006-SR Dated: 25-04-2007
addressed to General Secretary, Group 'C', CHQ.
l Delay in granting transfer to parent Circle -
Case of U.P. Circle- reg.
I am directed to refer to your letter No.P/2-19/
Roorkee dated 5-3-2006 on the above mentioned
subject.
2. The matter has been examined in consultation
with the Circle Office and the position is as follows:
At the time of creation of Uttaranchal Circle in 2001
thirteen officials of PA cadre had exercised their
option for transfer to Saharanpur Dn. (U.P. Circle),
out of these 13 officails, 8 officails have already
been relieved and 4 officials are not willing for
repatriation to Saharanpur division. The remaining
one official presently working as SPM Ikbalpur
(Roorkee) is not pressing for his relief and this circle
is also not in a position to relieve him immediately
due to shortage of staff.
D.G.(P) letter No. 12-17/2003-PF, Dated: 10-05-2007
addressed to the General Secretary, Group 'C', CHQ.
l Non Supply of forms, Passbooks, Stationeries
etc.-case of Chattisgarh Circle.
I am directed to refer to your letter No. P/2-4/cle
dated 27th Feb, 2007 on the subject noted above.
2. In this regard a report was called from CPMG
Chattisgarh and it has been intimated by the CPMG
that all the files are being disposed off regularly in
time. No file is pending in the CPMGs office. The
Stock position of the forms is also satisfactory.
Availability of various forms is being ensured/
monitored by CPMG.
D.G.(P) letter No. 16-36/2007-SR, Dated: 11-05-
2007 addressed to the General Secretary, Group 'C',
CHQ.
l Alleged unbearable work load leading to
suicide - case of late Shri Naryan Majhi, SPM
Gopalpur S.O. in Orissa Circle.
I am directed to refer to your letter No. P/2-16/
Cuttack dated 28-2-2007 on the above mentioned subject.
2. The matter has been examined in consultation
with the Circle offices. As reported, the contention of
the General Secretary that the official was working
single handedly in the 'B' class SO for months is not
correct. He worked from 17-2-07 to 24-2-07. SSPO's
Cuttack City Division on receipt of letter from late Shri
Majhi on 22-2-07 made arrangements by directing one
PA of Medical College S.O. on 23-2-07 to work at
Gopalpur S.O. The PA of the Medical College S.O.
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was relieved on 24-2-07 A/N and proceeded to join at
Gopalpur S.O. on 26-2-07 F/N.
D.G.(P) letter No. 21-38/2005-Medical, Dated: 15-
05-2007 addressed to the General Secretary, Gr. 'C',
CHQ.
l Representation against rejection of medical
reimbursement claim Case of Shri Y.U.
Gorwade, Accountant, O/o the SSPO's
Kolhapur Division.
I am directed to acknowledged receipt of your
letter No. P/2-13/Kolhapur dated the 02nd April, 2007
on the subject mentioned above and to say the matter
is under examination.
D.G.(P) letter No. 66-5/05-BP-I, Dated: 15-05-
2007 addressed to the General Secretary, Gr. 'C', CHQ.
l Construction of new building for Fatehgarh
HO, UP Circle-reg.
I am directed to refer to your letter No. P/2-20/
Fatehgarh dated 28-04-2007 on the above mentioned
subject. The Circle has proposed reconstruction of
Fatehgarh HO building during 11th Plan. The proposal
of Circle will be considered while finalizing the 11th
Plan subject to availability of funds. The Circle has
also been requested to take all precautionary
measures to avoid any mishap.
D.G.(P) letter No. 40-1/2005-Tech (Vol.III), Dated:
11-05-2007 addressed to the General Secretary, Gr.
'C', CHQ.
l Modernization of post office-replacement of
generators/gensets-reg.
Please refer to your reference No. p/4-4/post
offices dated 27/4/2007 on the above mentioned
subject.
2. In this connection, I am directed to state that
funds were allotted to the circles out of the Plan fund
"Computerization and Networking of Post Offices" to
procure gensets for post offices where computers had
been supplied during the Tenth Five Year Plan and
where Generators of required capacity and
specifications were not available. These Gensets are
meant for supply of uninterrupted power supply for
computer operation only and may not cater to the
requirements of entire office.
3. So far as replacement/repair of old generators are
concerned, it will be done by the circles out of the
non-plan fund placed at their disposal.
D.G.(P) letter No. 16-48/2007-SR, Dated: 15-05-
2007 addressed to The Chief Postmaster General,
Orissa Circle and copy to CHQ.
11 JUNE, 2007
l Alleged irregular actions of SSPO's, Puri Dn.-
reg.
I am directed to enclose a copy of letter
No. P/2-16/Puri dated 9-5-2007 received from
t h e G e n e r a l S e c r e t a r y, A l l I n d i a P o s t a l
Employees Union Group 'C' on the above
mentioned subject.
2. It is requested to look into the matter and furnish
a detailed report to this office at the earliest.
D.G.(P) letter No. 16-49/2007-SR, Dated: 15-5-
2007 addressed to the Chief Postmaster General, U.P.
Circle and copy to CHQ.
RETIREMENT
Com. P. Venkatachalam, President,
Gobichettipalayam in Tamilnadu Circle has retired
from service on 31-03-2007. Despite the efforts of
the General Secretary to attend his felicitation
function held on 01-04-2007, he could not
participate. Com. P. Venkatachalam is a staunch
and devoted unionist and had many scars during
his service due to his active participation in trade
union. He donated Rs. 2000/- to CHQ after his
retirement. We wish him a peaceful, pleasant and
healthy retirement life.
l Alleged exemplary case of favouritism by
PMG Agra by granting irregular extension to
Sri Udaivir Singh, Postal Assistant, Vrindaban
(Mathura), U.P. regarding unauthorized
occupation of Govt. quarter at Mathura HO
Campus-reg.
I am directed to enclose a copy of letter No.
P/2-20/Mathura dated 10-5-2007 received from
t h e G e n e r a l S e c r e t a r y, A l l I n d i a P o s t a l
Employees Union Group 'C' on the above
mentioned subject.
2. It is requested to look into the matter and furnish
a detailed report to this office at the earliest.
Encl. As above.
WE SHARE YOUR GRIEF
COM. BALU
Sri B. Kannan, son of Com. N.
Balasubramanian, Ex. Circle Secretary,
Tamilnadu Circle (39 years) breathed his last on
14-05-2007 due to sudden heart attack. He is
having two daughters. An irreparable loss to
Com. Balu and his famly. We share his grief
and pray to gather sufficient strength to sustain
the loss of his son.

INDIA POST TO LAUNCH DEDICATED FREIGHTER

SERVICE, INDIAN TO FOLLOW
India Posts is out to take on the private express industry. The department is planning to launch a
dedicated freighter service and is in talks with the national carrier Indian to lease up to three Boeing 737-200
aircraft. To start with, the operations would be launched with a single aircraft.
"The Department of Posts will take the delivery of the first aircraft soon. They will be in a position to use
this aircraft from June," Minister for Communication and IT Dayanidhi Maran told ET. According to the
Minister, the aircraft would primarily cater to the postal and courier requirements of the North East regions.
"During the night, it will be used to carry couriers and parcels between the four metros," he said. While
starting that DoP had plans to expand its fleet of cargo aircraft, he however, declined to comment on the
estimated fleet strength and plans to get additional aircraft.
Sources in airline industry told ET that DoP's initial plans are for a three aircraft fleet. Domestic carrier
Indian, too, is working on plans to launch a dedicated freighter service in the country. It has been toying with
the idea of converting its ageing fleet of 11 Boeing 737-200 aircraft into freighters. India has been in talks
with several private logistics players for strategic tie-ups in this regard. One such announcement in this
regard is expected early next week with Gati Limited, sources told ET. Following the merger of operations
of Indian and Air India, a combined cargo and freighter service as a separate profit centre is envlsagd.
Express and cargo major Blue Dart too has chalked out plans to expand its freighter fleet by adding six
aircraft over the next five years.
Blue Dart currently operates five boeing 737 and two Boeing 757 freighters across seven major metros
in the country. The express company now plans to connect secondary cities, such as Coimbatore, Pune,
Amritsar and Ludhiana and including some up-coming SEZs. The buoyancy in the retail and manufacturing
sectors has given a fresh fillip to the air express and logistics business in the country.
[Courtesy : The Economic Time 27-04-2007]

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 EVOLUTION OF HIGHER PAY TO POSTAL ASSISTANTS
(Extract from the Memorandum Submitted to Sixth CPC)
3:1 The Postal Clerical employees constitute the
nerve of the Postal Administration and the nature
of work assigned to them spreads over long
hours besides shouldering heavy responsibilities
including monetary and otherwise.
3:1:1 Postal Assistant is the main functionary in the
Postal Network and translate the policies and
planning into practice. He is the first Public
Relation Officer of the department who has direct
dealings with the members of public and
transacts with them at the counters. He is the
main link behind the delivery of all postal mails
and articles. The Postal Assistants are regarded
as the symbol of 'Service Before Self!'
3:2 The history of the recommendations of the earlier
committees considering the pay of the Postal
Assistants is furnished in gist.
3:2:1 The first committee presided over by Mr. H.N.
Haseltine in 1920 enquired into in the conditions
of service of the non-gazetted supervisory, clerical,
sorting, delivery and menial establishments
employed in the postal branch with special
reference to their rates of pay and allowances,
the hours of duty and the principles which have
been laid down for fixing the staff strength.
3:2:2 The committee came to the irresistible
conclusion after an elaborate investigation and
recognised that the Postal Clerk performs duties
of a special nature although the remuneration
did not commensurate.
3:2:3 The Committee further observed that "the
conditions of service of postal clerks differ very
much from those of ordinary clerks of the
Government offices, their hours of work are longer
and much more irregular beginning in some cases
at 5:00 AM and ending at 10:00 PM.
3:2:4 The subsequent committee appointed in the
1940's headed by Sir Gurunath Bewoor while
making his report on Time Test observed
interalia:-
3:2:5 "It is necessary to point out here the peculiar
conditions of work in other offices. In an ordinary
administrative office if the staff cannot finish the
day's work, the unfinished work is left over for
the next day……… in the post offices, the
accumulation of arrears is not possible. Day's
mail must be delivered the same day and
despatched on the same day."
3:2:6 "The accounts and abstracts must be adjusted
the same day and returns to the audit office
must be sent on due dates. The staff of post
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offices cannot leave office unless all this work
is completed. If the staff is inadequate it might
work beyond the fixed hours of duty and late in
the night to finish the work."
3:2:7 Sir Gurnath Bewoor envisaged that to cope with
the intensity of the postal work, the only other
alternative for the Postal Clerk is to ignore the
rules and get through the work somehow or other.
But it invariably leads to losses, commission of
errors, resulting in punishments and recoveries
from the staff.
3:2:8 After considering the Bewoor observations, the
P&T Department sanctioned relief exclusively
for the Postal Clerks in 1946 vide letter No. A17-
8/46 dated 04-08-46 which reads as follows:-
3:2:9 "Taking into consideration also the nature and
conditions of work of the P&T employees, as
special measure of relief for them, Government
decided to increase the "Good Conduct Pay"
and the quantum of this special pay was also
enhanced subsequently."
3:2:10 Thus, it is very clear that the Postal Clerks
were treated as superiors when compared
to other employees in the Government of
India and granted with special pay
considering their hard work and
responsibilities.
3:2:11Meanwhile, the Retrenchment Committee
headed by Sir Gowasjee Jehangir suggested
a combination of graded pay and thus
introduced the time scale system for clerical
cadres. This was the starting point provided
for the reduction of the status of the Postal
Clerk since they were equated with other clerks
in the Government service.
3:2:12 The scale of pay of the other Government
departments should not be considered as a
criterion for fixing the scales of pay of Postal
Clerks who stand on a different footing altogether.
3:2:13 The 1st Pay Commission has pointed out in
their report, "that the work of the post office clerk
which involves split duty, contact with the public
and heavy financial responsibilities is of a more
onerous character. The post offices clerks
should be equated on a pay with the Civil
Accounts and currency office clerks who perform
more or less identical and similar duties."
3:3 The Postal Assistants performs a variety of
duties and shoulders heavy responsibility in
handling valuables besides the cash and
currency. Unless one is fully conversant with
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 the rules and regulations which are changing
every day and month, efficient discharge of duties
cannot be expected of him.
3:3:1 The Postal Assistant who is incharge of post
offices also performs a variety of works. He
acts as a liaison with the public and ensures
secrecy, security and confidence of the people.
He should possess thorough knowledge in the
matter of various rules and regulations and
should have abundant, resourceful intelligence
to tackle the customers - the public.
3:3:2 The Postal Assistant is not doing a "Sedentary
Type" of job in the general run of the category of
clerks. He is responsible for all the transactions
that take place both before and after the
incidence since he is liable to make good the
losses suffered by the department under the
nomenclature of "Contributory Negligence."
3:3:3 In case of loss or fraud or misappropriation the
Operative Staff in Post Offices
Holidays (effective) 18 days
Casual Leave & RH 10 days
Saturdays 0 52 days
Weekly Off / Sundays 52 days
Total in a year 80 days
Working days in a year 285 days
One year 365 days
Working hours converted into hours for Postal Assistants
Working days converted into hours for Assistants working
in Administrative Offices
Excess of work hours for Postal Assistant
3:3:6 Thus it could be seen that the Postal
Assistant working in post offices is doing
300 hours extra work in a year for that
additional work he has not been properly
compensated.
3:4 The working condition of the postal service is
entirely different from the employees of the other
Central Government Services.
(i) The postal staff are subjected to prolonged over
inconvenient hours of attendance. They could
leave the office only after the works of the day
completed. Sometimes they are involving
attendance in split duty barring them to attend
their homely needs and other social obligations;
(ii) They have to shoulder heavy monetary and
financial responsibility;
(iii) They are required to perform duties of a very
arduous nature;
(iv) The postal officials are required to put in longer
hours of duty i.e. 48 hours weekly duty instead
of 42 hours in other Government departments;
(v) The PO is now engaging various business
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liability thereof is squarely put on the shoulders
of the post office clerk whatever be the
circumstances, whether fortuitous or deliberate.
Besides, he is also subjected to disciplinary
action and awarded with severe punishments
for such acts even after making good the loss
sustained by the department.
3:3:4 The Postal Assistant is made to work under
unhygienic conditions. The location of post
office buildings in dilapidated conditions,
inadequacy of space are the glaring examples
to quote at many levels.
3:3:5 The Postal Assistants are performing more
volume of work as compared to the other
Government Administrative Offices. The
comparative figures between other Government
Administrative Offices and post offices will prove
that both should not be equated with the volume
of work done qualitatively and quantitively.
Other Government Administrative Offices
18 days
10 days
52 days
132 days
233 days
365 days
285 X 8 hours = 2280 hours
233 X 8 ½ hours = 1980.5 hours
2280-1980.5 = 299.5 (i.e.) 300 hours
activities and required to do much more
work apart from their conventional work
of transmission and delivery of articles.
3:5 The Postal Assistant in the postal department
does the work of all other departments while
no other department does the work of the post
office. The Postal Assistant,
(i) Does the work of 'Bank' involving huge monetary
responsibility in the Postal Savings Bank, deals
in savings certificates, time deposits, senior
citizen schemes, public provident fund, monthly
income scheme and also sale of debentures,
share certificates etc. etc.
(ii) Does the work of 'Insurance Department' as the
postal department itself runs the PLI / RPLI and
knows the different rules and regulations on the
subject. Besides does the work related to
Oriental Insurance Company and implementing
their scheme through post office;
(iii) Does the work of 'passport' Department by
accepting the passport application forms across
the counters and processing the same;
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(iv) Does the work of 'Pension Payment' work of
other departments as well like Railway,
Telecom, EPF etc.;
(v) Does the work of 'Telecom Assistant' by booking,
transmitting, receiving, delivering telegrams and
also booking trunk calls and accepting
telephone revenue collections, etc. entailing the
'know how' of the 'Rules and Procedures';
(vi) Does the work of Police in issuing identity cards;
(vii) Does the work of various branches like mail and
sorting, Delivery and Deposit, Registration and
Parcel, Money Orders, Indian Postal Orders,
British Postal Orders etc.
(viii) Does the work of enquiry clerk; enquiry covering
multifarious subjects;
(ix) Does the work of 'Treasurer';
(x) Does the work of an 'Accountant';
(xi) Does the work of a 'Counter clerk';
(xii) Does the work of 'Correspondence clerk';
(xiii) Does the work of an Auditor, a Typist, Despatcher
and correspondence clerk when posted in a
divisional office;
(xiv) Does the work of an Accounts clerk;
(xv) Does the work of 'Promoter' in various financial
schemes developed in the Business tie up;
(xvi) Handles lakhs of rupees worth insured / foreign
articles daily involving great risks;
(xvii) Helps the Excise department in checking &
transmission of contraband goods;
(xviii) Has direct contact and moves with different types
of public;
(xix) Expected to know thousands of rules running
in several volumes. Breach of any rule is
attracted to with the severe punishment;
(xx) Has to be conversant not only with the Indian
Postal business but complicated Foreign Postal
business as well;
(xxi) Will not be let off even after 8 hours of work but
will have to work till accounts for the day tally
which in most cases result in long hours;
(xxii) Must be conversant with hundreds of Multiple
letters, circulars etc. issued by the divisional
heads, circle heads and the Director General
which will be changing every day;
(xxiii) Involves great attention, concentration and
intelligence even in ordinary 'mail branch'. If a
tag is mislabelled, thousands of letters will be
delayed for more than a day;
(xxiv) Not only his work is brain killing and nerve eating,
he should also be very honest in word and
deed.
(xxv) Due to introduction of various new schemes and
tying up with UTI, Oriental Insurance Scheme,
Clearance of cheques for various private
companies like TVS, Bajaj Auto, HDFC Bank,
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verification of address proof for Hutch and BSNL,
Direct Posts and other schemes, the Postal
Assistants are put into enormous pressures.
There is also a huge task of filing TDS returns
to the Income Tax returns, Acceptance of IT
returns etc., now shouldered by the Postal
Assistants. Apart from these, several services
were introduced depending on the local needs
like "Sabrimala Prasadams", Sales etc. The
verification / compilation work which is a
laborious job was now looked after by the HO
instead of Director of Postal Accounts. Now
the Postal Assistants are entrusted with the
work of Electoral verification, driving licence
verification work, loan payments through post
offices like NABARD. They are now working
as System Engineer and Marketing Executives.
In quarters post offices they are guarding the
properties of post offices as Night Watchman
too since they are bound to sleep in the office
as per the rules on the subject. All these extra
works are being shouldered by the existing
staff even after a drastic staff cut exercised
in the post office for more than 17% while
comparing the figures from 2000-01 to 2004-
05.
3:6 The first and foremost principle which should
be ensured is that the Central Government
should be the model employer of the country
and the employees should have a pride and
proud of their job. It is very much essential that
the Postal Assistant should receive salary
much higher than the counterparts of the other
Public Sector Undertaking considering the
multifarious activities of profound by the Postal
Assistant.
3:6:1 Though five pay commissions have submitted
their reports, this vital aspect has not been duly
considered. The condition of living of the Postal
Assistant has been deteriorating due to
inflationary spiral soaring up everyday. The
Government all along comes up with the plea
that the state of finance does not admit to
increase the wage expenses to the Government
employees. Resultantly several fringe benefits
recommended by the earlier pay commissions
have not been implemented.
3:6:2 The Fourth Central Pay Commission in its report
observed in chapter 10 para 10.56 that the
postal services and personnel management
may be reviewed by a committee to be specially
set up for the purpose so that it may be possible
to achieve postal excellence and give
satisfaction to those employed in the vast
infrastructure of the department.
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3:7 In pursuant to the recommendation stated in
para supra, the Government has set up an
'Expert Committee on Excellence in Postal
Services in 1987. The committee in its interim
report (December 1988)" Quest for Postal
Excellence", observed that almost 86% of the
population is quite satisfied regarding timely
opening of post offices. (5-1 Appendix IV).
3:7:1 It further observed that "this seems to be a
strong point for postal employees with about 3:7:2 The following tabulation observed in the said
92% of the sample population being quite
positively oriented as far as honesty of postal
employees is concerned. Educational
Personal Traits of Postal Employees % shows level of population satisfied.
Trait Satisfied
(In % age)
Honesty 73
Courtesy 57
Helpfulness 56
Patience 52
Efficiency 53
Knowledge-ability 52
Skill at Handling Complaints 52
Sincerity 59
Hardworking 64
3:7:3 Such being the performance of the postal
employees , they are still denied and
deprived of their due pay and perks. The
said committee in its 'quest for Postal
Excellence observed that' the postal service
suffers from:-
(a) Failure to attune itself to the changing needs of
the various segments of postal users;
(b) Failure to increase the productivity of postal
employees in the context of increasing manpower
costs and availability of new technology;
(c) Insensitivity to the low morale of the postal
employees who do routine manual jobs which
offer no chance for upgradation of their skill and
self development. (Chapter VI para 6.2)
3:7:4 Based on the recommendations of the
committee, there was vast changes in the
operation as detailed in various paras. The
department had launched an extensive
modernisation covering all facets of its activities
like counter, mail, SAT MOs, MIS SB, PLI and
for various business activities including money
transfer service. Similarly there was a drastic
staff cut exercised unscientifically; whereas the
dire need of extending more promotional
avenues had been totally ignored and denied.
3:8 Considering all these aspects, the
Department of Posts also in its
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institutions and banks are more satisfied with
honesty of employees than other Government
institutions. (Appendix IV . 6 (a)
While elaborating the sincerity of the Postal
employees, it observed that "Postal employees
are seen to be quite sincere in their work by the
general public. Only 12% of the sample
population has any serious doubts about sincerity
of postal employees. (Appendix IV. 6 (b))
Excellence Committee will exhibit the personal
traits of the postal employees working in the
Department of Posts.
Partially Satisfied Dissatisfied
(In % age) (In % age)
25 2
38 5
38 6
41 7
42 5
43 5
40 8
36 5
31 5
(Consumer Survey - Appendix IV Para 6)
memorandum to 5th Pay Commission has
requested to consider higher pay to Postal
Assistant at par with Bank and Insurance
Organisations. It also recommend to grant
pay scale atleast at par with the employees
of Postal Accounts Organisation. The
excerpts of the observation is furnished
hereunder for the kind consideration.
3:8:1 "Both in terms of number of the personnel
employed and cost, in reference to total
establishment of the Central Government, the
department has exercised strict economy in use
of the manpower by optimising human resources.
During this period the staff has offered higher
productivity, but for which it would not have been
possible to handle higher work load with
decreasing manpower base. At the same time,
during this period there has been ban on sanction
of additional posts, justified or in the basis of
approved norms. Introduction of technology for
modernisation of postal services has been taken
place without offering any economic package
to its employees, as has been done in the case
of banking and insurance industries.
3:8:2 For computerisation of banks, the employees
were offered pension, wage rise and cash
incentives. The staff side while accepting the
need for modernisation of the services to
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 maintain its edge in the communication market
have been demanding share of the fruits of
technology induction for upgrading services.
There is a force in the demand made by the
staff side and the department submits to the
commission for favour of sympathetic
consideration of this demand."
3:8:3 "That apart, introduction of modern technologies
and consequent all round upgradation of skills
of the postal employees calls for re-
categorisation of the postal operative and
supervisory cadres which were hitherto being
treated as clerical cadres. Having regard to the
nature of their functions, the postal employees
in the front offices should be equated with EDP
personnel in the Central Government and the
back room operators with the employees of the
banks / insurance companies or the employees
of Postal Accounts Organisation."
(Para 3.6 of the report)
3:8:4 Even though, the 5th Pay Commission had
considered the plight of the Postal Assistants
at par with UDC, the justified upgradaton
of pay scales considering the multifarious
functions have not been recommended.
3:9 It is most apt to see the nature of job performed
by the Postal Assistants drafted to the divisional
offices. The Postal Assistants from the post
offices are being drafted to man the different
branches of the Postal Superintendent's office
for a tenure period of 4 years. The administrative
work in the office of the Superintendent of Post
Offices is of a very high order.
3:9:1 The correspondence work of high calibre has
necessarily to be performed by the divisional
office assistants. They have to be thorough with
the rules of the P&T Department and the various
orders issued from time to time. The nature of
work in the divisional office is such as to demand
a high intellectual standard; patience,
willingness to overwork and the capacity to face
arduous work are the other qualities expected
of a clerk in the divisional office.
3:9:2 The Postal Assistants attached to the divisional
offices perform the following administrative
duties.
Maintenance of the personal files of entire staff,
grant of leave, issue of leave orders,
arrangements of substitutes, maintenance of
gradation lists in each categories, appointment
and confirmation of staff, arrangement for holding
departmental examination, recruitment, matter
relating to GDS, collection of pension papers,
rotational transfer, leave roasters, reservation
roaster, grant of advance of pay, GPF, advances
like cycle, scooter, festival etc. Adequate
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proposals for opening and grading of offices,
redeployment / relocation of post offices
augmentation of staff on the basis of statistical
data compiled, review of establishment, revision
and fixation of stationary charges, grant of cycle
allowance etc.
3:10 Apart from this, these Postal Assistants have
to attend complaints, mail arrangements, follow
up action on inspection reports, issue of
sanctions relating to SB / SC claims, all matters
relating to surcharge / supply of articles of stock
/ forms, sanction of all bills etc. planning,
preparation of budget estimates etc. The duties
performed in this divisional office is more skilled
and highly responsible while comparing the work
in the other administrative offices.
3:10:1 The complaint section in the divisional office
has to maintain a very great vigilance and
extreme efficiency. A perusal of the list of duties
performed by the Postal Assistants in the
divisional office will speak for itself. Now on
introduction of Right to Information Act, the
complaints clerk work is not only confined to
the postal services to the customer but also
involves a wider ramifications of work and
knowledge consuming a lot of time to trace,
consolidate and present the information required
by any members of public, not necessarily the
consumer. Sometimes, the information required
under RTI act relates many decades back and
the work cannot be completed within the
assigned date as enshrined in the act. Officials
try to avoid a transfer to the divisional office all
along because they are denied compensation
for shouldering such a heavy responsibility and
further they have to move to a station where the
cost of living is high since the divisional offices
are located only in big towns.
3:10:2 It is pertinent to mention that many items were
not covered under the norms and no incentive
or extra duty allowance has been paid to them
since they are not being granted Overtime
Allowance. The following items are the
examples about non-fixation of norms.
3:11 Recently, the PLI/ RPLI work has again been
decentralised, involving more and more workforce
at divisional level. Even in the existing
circumstances, the RPLI work and other newly
introduced financial services are handled by the
officials drafted from operative work force without
provision of any special establishment and
budgetary allotment etc.
3:11:1The present formula for clerical strength of
Divisional office is evolved on the basis of SIU
standard of 1986. While computing the workload
of complaints only Cpt. 21 and search bills
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 relating to Registration, Parcels and Money
Orders are taken into account. The following
items are omitted for inclusion.
(a) Inward references relating to Money Orders,
Registration, Parcels.
(b) Audit objections.
(c) Allotment of Post Boxes and renewal.
(d) Recall of articles.
(e) Mail arrangements and schedules.
(f) Buildings and wirings.
(g) Work relating to service union matters.
(h) Dealing of public complaints.
3:12 In respect of recruitment at divisional level, since
its introduction so many recruitments have been
taken place without provision of any additional
manpower. Apart from this, the bulk of SBCO
staff and its administration have been transferred
to divisional office and the staff clerks being very
much overloaded are unable to release even
normal leave orders, resulting delay in
settlement of personal claims like pension etc.
3:13 The following items of work are not covered under
SIU Formula consequent on decentralisation of
works to divisional level.
1. Recruitment of Postal Assistants since 1979;
2. Dealings relating to SDPAs / RTPs
3. Triennail revision of allowance to GDS;
4. Sanction of PCO allowance to BPMs;
5. Review of workload of EDBOs ;
6. Split Duty allowances;
7. Authorisation of Payment of DCRG and
Commutation of Pension;
8. Process of IR;
9. Investigation of loss or fraud consequent to
enhancement of limit;
10. Work relating to SB claims consequent to raising
of limit;
11. Sanction of honorarium to IVP discharge & MIS
work;
12. Claims relating to NS / MIS work;
13. Franking Machine work;
14. Registration of newspapers;
15. Sanction of GPF to all officials;
16. Sanction of all kinds of advances;
17. Sample mails, survey;
18. Reimbursement of Tuition fees;
19. TBOP scheme work relating thereto convening of
DPC etc.
20. Best Postman award, Meghdoot award work;
21. Encashment of Leave Salary;
22. Absorption of ED outsiders and Casual Labour
Problems;
23. SBCO staff matters;
24. Speed Post dealings like BNPL, Franking Machine
& Calculation of Rebates etc.
25. FRAC conduction for enhancement;
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26. Group Insurance Scheme including EDAs;
27. Cash Allowance for SPMs;
28. Statements for all financial activities like Western
Union Money Transfer, E-trading, Mutual Funds,
Unit Trust, Micro Credit loans etc.
29. Retail services work;
3:14 Apart from above, various new services were
launched and resultantly the Dealing Assistant
has to collect daily statistics on each and every
item and submit a bundle number of returns /
statements every day, weekly, fortnightly and
monthly. The work is very cumbersome and
with all difficulties, they are attending such
returns.
3:14:1 This is most pertinent to mention that the
department in its submission to 5th Pay
Commission observed interalia:-
"The minimum educational qualification for the
post of Postal Assistant is Higher Secondary
(10+2). In practice, it is found that suitable
number of direct recruits have higher
qualifications, many of them being graduates
or above." (Para No. 5.3)
3:14:2 We are also of the firm opinion that the
minimum educational qualification for the
Postal Assistant may be enhanced as
graduation with computer knowledge and
the Postal Assistants may be granted in the
existing pay scale of Rs. 5000-8000 since
the post requires more knowledge, skill &
talent to tackle the situations after the face
lift the Department of Posts was changed
from the traditional service.
3:15 After the computerisation of the post offices,
the nature of job of the Postal Assistant has
been changed thoroughly and his work is more
or less equal to EDP personnels. The
Department of Posts in its report to 5th Pay
Commission while recommending higher pay
to Postal Assistants at par with Bank / LIC
organisations and also postal accounts staff,
requested the Pay Commission to consider for
the payment of 'qualification pay' for handling
computers at an attractive rates. The following
is the extracts from the report of the postal
department on the issue.
3:15:1 "The operation in post offices, RMS offices,
Stores Department and Administrative offices
is undergoing a qualitative change and Postal
and Sorting Assistants handling computerised
operations are performing higher skilled job
rather than conventional clerical work."
3:15:2 "To encourage the employees to acquire
appropriate technical skill either through
departmental training or from outside by
personal efforts and to motivate them for
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 computerised operation, appropriate incentive
may be provided. It is suggested that for
acquiring necessary qualification to handle
computerised operation, an employee should
be paid qualification pay as it is admissible to
some categories of staff.
3:15:3 "For example, an employee, after qualifying in
the Junior Accounts officer examination in
Accounts organisation like CGA, CGDA etc. is
entitled to get a special pay of Rs. 40/- p.m. in
the first year and Rs. 70/- p.m. from the second
year onwards till he gets his promotion as Junior
Accounts Officer. The provision of such an
incentive will motivate employees to acquire
technical qualification and upgrade their skill.
Once these employees are posted in the
positions to handle computerised operation they
should be paid a special pay. At present, a
Postal Assistant working in computerised
counters is being paid a special pay of Rs. 100/
- p.m. This may be appropriately enhanced to
make it attractive to the operative staff. In
addition, the special pay should be made
applicable to all the staff handling computerised
operation in post office. The employees
acquiring EDP qualification should be paid
qualification pay. In addition, trade allowance
should be paid to personnel who actually handle
computerised operations."
3:15:4 However, the 5th Pay Commission did not
consider about the grant of qualification pay.
However the computerisation has taken place
vastly in the Department of Posts and all Head
Post Offices were already computerised. Some
of the sub offices are also now computerised.
In the long run every SO is being computerised.
The officials deployed at the computers are not
being compensated.
3:16 It is therefore requested to consider the following
based on the facts and figures furnished above.
1. The Postal Assistants may be granted with
higher pay and perk. Considering their
multifarious duties with higher skills and
responsibilities, the Postal Assistants may be
granted higher pay scale in the existing pay
scale of Rs. 5000-150-8000 duly enhancing the
minimum educational qualification as
graduation. According to the pay scale
demanded by the staff side JCM, the pay scale
of the Postal Assistant may be considered in
the scale of pay starting with minimum of Rs.
23000 with annual increment of Rs. 1150 p.m.
2. The Postal Assistants may be granted with
'qualification pay' as recommended earlier by
the department to 5th Pay Commission for skill,
talents being spent on computer operations. The
'qualification pay' may at least be equal to one
advance annual increment atleast.
3. Similar qualification may also be extended to
AMFI qualified officials.
N.B. : The copy of Memorandum can be obtained
from CHQ by remitting Rs. 30/-
(Justification of Higher Pay to TBOP/BCR - Next Issue)
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NEW PENSION SCHEME LIKELY TO COVER PRE-2004 STAFF

Pension of Central Government employees who joined service before the New Pension Scheme (NPS)
came into effect on January 1, 2004 may also be linked to the market. The Government hoes the switch-over
will be more palatable to its employees if it comes with an all-round hike in their pay.
The Sixth Pay Commission has, therefore, decided to study "various suitable self-sustaining models to
finance the pensions of Central Government Employees". It has asked Bangalore-based Institute for Social
and Economic Change to suggest options by September. The commission is expected to give its
recommendations in early 2008.
The initiative reflects the Government's commitment to reforming the pension structure of its employees.
The interim pension fund regulator is already in the process of appointing a central record-keeping agency to
track the pension records of those who will be part of the NPS.
The employees who joined service before January 1, 2004 get a guaranteed pension of 50 per cent of their
last basic pay. This is fully funded by the Government. Those who joined service thereafter will have their
pension corpus invested in various long-term schemes by pension fund managers, to be appointed soon.
[ THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, Dated. 4-4-2007. ]

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 RECOGNITION OF NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
AND FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATION
DG(Posts) No. 602/2002-SR(Vol-II) Dated: 24-04-2007
I am directed to refer to your letter No. PF-124/
2006 dated 26th June, 2006 on the above mentioned
subject.
2. The matter was examined in consultation with the
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension,
DOPT, and their observations in this regard are as follows:
i. The Associations/Federations of the Central
Government employees are not recognized under
Indian Trade Union Act. Therefore, para 2 and also
rest of the draft Constitution may be suitably amended
so as to make no reference to the Indian Trade Union
Act. Also the word "Union" may be replaced by the
word "Association" at all places.
ii. The object of the Federation is to safe guard and
promote the interest of the employees. The aim of the
Federation cannot be publishing any journals. For this
they can take approval of the Government separately.
Accordingly, para 4 (g) may be amended/deleted.
iii. The EDAs (now designated as GDSs) are not eligible
for inclusion in the Federation. Therefore, EDAs may
be excluded in para 5 (i) & (ii) of the draft constitution.
iv. In part (a) of the bottom note of para 5 it has been
mentioned that the federating Unions shall not have
the right to secede from the Federation. This does not
seem to be appropriate. The Unions should have the
right to associate with the Federation of their choice.
Accordingly, part (a) may be amended.
v. Retired/ex-employees can neither be member nor
office bearers of an Association / Federation.
Therefore, para 6(ii) and/or any other para having such
reference may be deleted/amended suitably.
vi. In para 12 (d) (iii), it may be added in the last line
"and the Laws, Rules and regulations and guidelines
in force, as notified by the Government".
vii. Since EDAs are not eligible for inclusion in the
Federation they cannot subscribe to the Federation.
Para 15(a) may be suitably amended.
viii. In note (1) of para 15 (a) it has been mentioned
that:
"accounts of the NFPE will be kept open upon
31st January of the following year to enable it to adjust
quota remitted by branches on or before 31st
December (not in cash) but received thereafter"
It seems from the above para the Federation has
decided to count the financial year form January to
December. The Deptt of Post is requested to advise the
Federation to have accounting year from 1st April to 31st
March and amend the draft Constitution suitably.
BHARTIYA POST
ix. Constitution of a Federation must lay down
procedure for conduct of elections to elect office bearers/
members of Executive Committee. Such election should
be conducted by Association themselves.
x. Para 20 of the draft Constitution may be replaced
with :-
"The Constitution shall be constructed with reference
to the provisions of the Central Civil Services (Recognition
of Services Association) Rules, 1993 and the Rules/
Guidelines related to recognition of Federations. If any
question arises as to the interpretation of the above Rules/
Guidelines, the governments decision shall be final."
Subject to the above, DOP&T have conveyed their "No
Objection" to the proposal.
3. Attention of Secretary General, NFPE is also
drawn to the Department's letters of even number dated
the 6th July, 2006 and 13th July, 2006 with the request
to keep contents of these letters in view while
amending constitution.
4. It is requested to amend/include the above
provisions in the constitution of the federation and
submit an updated copy to the undersigned so that
approval of the competent authority for recognition of
the federation could be obtained.
TWO OF EVERY 3 CHILDREN
PHYSICALLY ABUSED: STUDY
With two of every three children facing some form
of physical abuse, an official study, "Child Abuse:
India 2007", has suggested that the issue be placed
on the national agenda. Fifty per cent of the abusers
are people known to the child or in a position of trust
and responsibility. The study released by Minister
for Women and Child Development (Independent
charge) Renuka Chowdhury, says children in the age
group of 5 to 12 faced higher level of abuse. Over 70
per cent of the abused children did not report the
matter to anyone.
Andhra Pradesh has the highest percentage of
almost all forms of abuse, followed by Assam, Bihar
and Delhi. In the national capital, 87 per cent of
young women reportedly faced one or more forms
of emotional abuse during childhood.
The study, conducted jointly by the UNICEF,
Save the Children and Prayas, covered over 13
States and 12,000 children.
[The Hindu/ 10-4-2005]
20 JUNE, 2007
 RECOGNITION OF FEDERATION OF SERVICE ASSOCIATION/UNIONS
FORMED BY EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF POSTS
DOP&T No. 2/5/2006-JCA Dated: 19th April 2007
OFFICE MEMOIRANDUM
Department of Posts may please refer to their Office
Memorandum No. 6-2/2002-SR (Vol.II) dated 18th July,
2006 forwarding therewith a draft constitution of
National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE) for
vetting by Department of Personnel & Training as a
sample case.
2. In respect of the draft constitution the Department
of Posts had mentioned following points:-
iv. NFPE has included All India Postal Extra
Departmental Employees Union as one of the affiliated
Unions to the Federation. The Department of Posts
has informed that the above Union is not eligible for
affiliation, the same will not be treated as federated
with the NFPE.
v. In para 5 of the draft constitution, details of
structure of the Federation has been given. The Extra
Departmental Association (EDAs) have been
integrated as part of All India Postal Employees Union
Class.III and All India Postal Employees Union
Postmen/Class.IV. Since the EDAs are now having
separate Unions the Department of Posts has advised
the Federation to make suitable amendments. The
proposal of the Federation to federate All India Postal
Accounts Employees Association has been approved.
The Federation will provide for it in the constitution.
vi. The draft constitution provides election of non-
employees/retired/ex-employees to be elected to any
office of the Federation, which is not in consonance
with the provisions contained in CCS (RSA) Rules,
1993. The Federation has agreed to make necessary
amendments in the constitution in their next federal
council meeting by the end of 2007.
5. The Deptt. of posts is required to incorporate above
points in the draft constitution approved by DoPT. The
draft constitution of the Federation has been perused
and following observations are made :-
xi. The Association/Federations of the Central
Government employees are not recognized under
Indian Trade Union Act. Therefore, para 2 and also in
rest of the draft Constitution may be suitably amended
so as to make no reference to the Indian Trade Union
Act. Also the word Union may be replaced by the word
"Association" at all places.
xii. The object of the Federation is to safe guard and
promote the interest of the employees. The aim of the
Federation cannot be publishing any journals. For this
they can take approval of the Government separately.
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Accordingly, the para 4(g) may be amended/deleted.
xiii. The EDDAs are not eligible for inclusion in the
Federation. Therefore, EDAs may be excluded in para
5 (i) & (ii) of the draft constitution.
xiv. In part (a) of the bottom note of para 5 it has been
mentioned that the federating Unions shall not have
the right to secede from the Federation. This does not
seem to be appropriate. The Unions should have the
right to associate with the Federation of their choice.
Accordingly, the part (a) may be amended.
xv. Retired/ex-employees can neither be member nor
office bearers of an Association/Federation. Therefore,
para 6 (ii) and/or any other para having such reference
may be deleted/amended suitably.
xvi. In para 12(d) (iii), it may be added in the last of
line "and the Laws, Rules and regulations and
guidelines in force, as notified by the Government'.
xvii.Since EDAs are not eligible for inclusion in the
Federation they cannot subscribe to the Federation.
The para 15(a) may be suitably amended.
xviii. In Note (1) of para 15(a) it has been mentioned
that :-
"accounts of the NFPE will be kept open upto 31st
January of the following year to enable it to adjust quota
remitted by branches on or before 31st December (not
in cash) but received thereafter"
In seems from the above para that the Federation
has decided to count the financial year from January
to December. The Deptt of Posts is requested to
advise the Federation to have accounting year from
1st April to 31st March and amend the draft Constitution
suitably.
xix. Constitution of a Federation must lay down
procedure for conduct of elections to elect office-bearers/
members of Executive Committee. Such election should
be conducted by Association themselves.
xx. Para 20 of the draft Constitution may be replaced
with :-
"The Consitution shall be construed with reference
to the provisions of the Central Civil Services
(Recognition of Services Association) Rules, 1993 and
the Rules/Guidelines related to recognition of
Federation. If any question arises as to the
interpretation of the above Rules/Guidelines, the
governments decision shall be final."
7. The Deptt. of Posts is required to amend/include
the above provisions in the draft consitution of the
Federation. The draft constitution is approved with
above modification (modified draft enclosed).
JUNE, 2007
 CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
Manishinath Bhawan, A/2/95 Rajouri Garden, New Delhi-110 027
Conf. Cir.5/2007 Dated: 20-04-2007
To,
All Office Bearers, National Executive Members,
Affiliates and CoC.
Oral Evidence before the 6th CPC Standing
Committee Staff Side JCM
Dear Comrades,
On 16th, 17th and 18th April, 2007, the standing
Committee of the Staff Side JCM, National Council,
tendered evidence before the 6th CPC on the three
memorandum they had submitted to the Commission
viz.
i. On interim Relief.
ii. On minimum wage, pay scales, Pay & Allowances
iii. On pension.
Interim Relief :
On 16th, the staff side presented before the
Commission, the necessity for the grant of the Interim
Relief we had demanded, i.e. 15% of Pay + DP, subject
to a minimum of Rs. 1000/- as Interim Relief. The
Commission is of the view that
(i) Since the Central Govt. employees are not in
distress, they are not entitled for any relief.
(ii) Since the Commission had not yet come to any
conclusion of the probable final wage structure, it may
not be possible to determine the Interim relief,
(iii) Any amount of Interim Relief if granted immediately
would only to add to the woes of inflation.
The Staff Side pointed out that the interim relief
demanded by them was not in the nature of a relief as
is understood by the Commission. What they have
demanded, they explained was only an advance
payment to be adjusted against the final settlement
or to be subsumed in the arrears of salary as the date
of effect of the Commission's recommendation has to
be 1-1-2006. They also added that they are entitled to
the Interim relief because of the delay in setting up
the commission itself. If the I.R. is not granted to the
employees they will have to wait for 24 month even if
the Commission adheres to the 18 months time
schedule specified under the terms of reference. They
also brought to the notice of the commission that if
the arrears are to be drawn in one go, a large part of it
has to be remitted back to the Govt. as tax and the
employees will not be able to invest the same in any
tax saving devices retrospectively. It is however, evident
that the Commission has almost made up its mind on
this issue i.e. not to grant Interim Relief.
Minimum wage
The main memorandum was taken up for
discussion on 17th. It is noted that :
BHARTIYA POST
1. The Commission will consider the minimum wage
as per 15 ILC norms subject to verification of prices
and the relevance and requirements of the addition
made thereon by the staff side.
2. The desirability of having parity with the wages
obtaining in PSUs will be borne in mind while
computing the minimum wage.
3. They disfavored the rate of Increase of NNP or
GDP as a base for computation of minimum wage.
4. The reductions of the No. of employees between
1995 to 2006 as also the reduction of wage and
allowances as a percentage to Revenue expenditure
have been noted.
5. The submission of the staff side of the capacity of
the Govt. to meet the additional expenditure due to
revision will also be considered.
The staff side brought to the notice of the
commission that the fixation of minimum wage by
successive commissions had the following impact:
2nd CPC 2.5 times
3rd CPC 2.6 times
4th CPC 3.2 times
5th CPC 3.4 times
6th CPC 3.9 times if the demand of the staff
side is accepted.
Proposed Pay Structure :
The staff side explained the rationale adopted by
them in the construction of Pay Scales without any
maximum and added that the conversion factor would
ensure the existing relativities. The change in the
conversion factor for Pay scales upto S-5 and S-7 was
also explained. The Commission enquired in detail
about the advantage of an open ended pay scale vis-
a-vis a master scale of pay.
Date of effect :
The Commission may concede the demand for
giving effect to their recommendation from 1-1-2006.
Allowances :
D.A. The Commission may propose that the present
scheme for calculation of DA on the basis of all India
annual average CPI index (IW) might be continued.
HRA : The staff side demand for reducing the
classification of towns and cities into three instead of
six will be considered.
CCA : The demand to replace the present slab system
by percentage linked to basic pay would be looked into.
The Staff side has also stated that all allowances may
be expressed in terms of percentage of Basic Pay.
Transport Allowance : The Board of Arbitration award
to link the allowance to Basic Pay in place of the scale
of pay has been specifically presented before the
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Commission.
SDA : NE Region: The Commission may recommend
removing the present discrimination.
Fixation on Promotion: The minimum benefit may
be suitably revised.
Fixation in the revised scale : The staff side
demanded for point to point fixation that might be
considered by the Commission.
Classification of Posts : The present classification
may Continue, without the nomenclature of Gazetted
or Non-gazetted.
Pension: (Existing) Commission was of the opinion
that to facilitate easy exit the present pension i.e. 50%
of salary might be made available to whoever wants to
seek Voluntary Retirement after completion of 15/20
JOBLESS YOUTH, A THREAT TO STABILITY
A recent study by the International Labour
Organization (ILO) brings out certain startling facts:
Of the 1.1 billion young people aged 15-24 worldwide,
one out of three is either seeking but unable to find
work, has given up the job search entirely or is working
but living on subsistence wages. While the youth
population grew by 13.2 percent between 1995 and
2005, employment among young people grew by only
3.8 percent. Unemployed youth make up 44 percent
of the world's total unemployed despite the fact that
their share of the total working age population aged
15 and over is only 25 per cent. The youth
unemployment rate was far higher than the adult
unemployment rate of 4.6 per cent in 2005, rising
from 12.3 per cent in 1995 to 13.5 per cent last year.
As regards India, it is hard to come by precise
estimates of youth population or employment Piecing
together information available in the Census Report,
National Sample Surveys and the UN Statistical
compilations, India's youth can be said to constitute
20 percent of the total population. An interesting
finding of the UN-based research is that the average
annual increase in the number of youth in India was
3.06 million during 1985-90, and 2.1 million during
1990-95. It is expected to rise to 3.4 million during
1995-2000 and further to a peak of 3.72 million during
2000-2005.
Threat to social stability.
As is only to be expected, the employment level
has been unable to match the increase in the numbers
of persons falling within the definition of youth (age
group of 15-24). Here again, other than this broad
statement, it is difficult to lay hands on precise or
upto-to-date figures, but indications are that the share
of youth in total unemployment can be anywhere
between 50 and 70 percent. The implications for
social stability are clear. Unless maximum efforts
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years of service.
Pension for those who superannuate might be at
a higher percentage, as demanded by the staff side.
Increasing the rate of pension for those who live
beyond the age of 70 will be considered.
Average emoluments may not undergo any
change. The anomalous situation that might arise in
the transitory stage of wage revision might be taken
care of. The pensioners might be covered under a group
insurance scheme for medicare.
The Commission may not look into the pension
schemes for those who are recruited after 1-1-2004.
The Commission had been positive in its response
to many of the staff side demands presented before them,
except of course in the matter of grant of Interim Relief.
are put in by the Central and State Governments,
the corporate sector and the civil society to engage
the youth in constructive occupations or avocations.
India will head for an era of recurring social upheavals
aggravated by militant movements even in those parts
of the country which are relatively free at present.
Of course, from the First Plan downwards,
various policy documents of the Government have
paid the customary tribute to youth as "the most
vital section of the community", its "most important
component", and "the most idealistic inspired and
energetic section of our society", while rich in
rhetoric, the results on the ground have been related
poor by the Government's own monitoring and
evaluating agencies.
This was how the world outlook was summed up
by the Director-General of the ILO some time ago:
"Despite increased economic growth, the inability of
economics to create enough decent and productive
jobs is hitting the world's young especially hard. Not
only are we seeing a growing deficit of decent work
opportunities and high levels of economic uncertainly,
but this worrying trend threatens to damage the future
economic prospects of one of our world's greatest
assets - our young men and women... Today, we are
squandering the economic potential of an enormous
percentage of our population, especially in developing
countries which can least afford it. Focusing on youth,
therefore, is must for any country. "This applies to
India many times over.
It is imperative, therefore, for the Department of
youth Affairs to focus the Cabinet's and nation's
attention on this looming threat to stability by bringing
out a White Paper embodying purposeful initiatives
for directing the energies and idealism of youth along
creative and productive channels.
[The Hindu Business Line, Feb-12, 2007]
JUNE, 2007
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BHARTIYA POST
u First of all thank you for visiting Kolkata GPO. I
should introduce myself a little. I was the person who
asked you about the demands of System Executives,
about the deteriorating condition of computers at
Kolkata GPO and about our promotional aspects. Now
I want to send you some more important suggestions
and hope you would take initiative to implement them.
1. Large offices like Kolkata GPO and other HPOs,
where the number of employees is large and also since
the government have increased the retirement age to
60 years, it is likely that very often our employees fall
ill or suffer from heart ailments especially on the
summer days. Owing to this a first aid room with a
bed, a oxygen cylinder (changed after expiry as the
fire extinguishers) and some important live saving
allopathic medicine may be kept in the room under
the custodian of the office head and also contact with
some ambulance services (taxi may not be readily
available or supportive to carry patient), so that the
employees does not have to lay on the office tables
until the PRI arrives to take them to the nearby hospital
within which there may be a possibility that he may
die on transfer to hospital.
2. Try to provide a senior citizen counter at all offices
where savings bank work is done and provide
multipurpose small savings services from that counter.
3. To provide a considerable amount of cash kept in
deposit to the small sub-offices, so that they may not
have to wait for fresh cash deposit to make payment
for savings withdrawals.
4. It has to be intimated that Sanchay post ver 5.0
has been out for installation, but the Chennai
Software Development Centre recommended
hardware configuration have not yet been supplied
to many post offices like Kol GPO, where SB
computerization has begun in 1999. Neither the
Local Admin nor the C.O. is responding to our plea.
In this context, it should be advisable to the
department to force upon implementation of Sanchay
Post 5.0 and upgrades to run upon older systems
and not go into procurement of new upgraded hard
wares (incurring huge cost) each and every time new
versions comes out.
5. Proper fire fighting measures to be adapted in the
server rooms, proper training to fight fire and fire alarms
in the server rooms to cope up with emergencies.
6. Procurement of latest antivirus software matching
with the OS and also licensed version of OC and Client
softwares. To be mentioned that almost 60% of the
24 JUNE, 2007
softwares running at Kolkata GPO are either un-
licensed (single user license and used at multiple site)
or out-of-date.
7. Being sorry for making such a remark but
necessary that a criteria should be implemented so
that the Union executives go for a minimum computer
literacy at their own cost, so not to depend upon any
particular person for technical queries.
8. Again being sorry for remark but thinking it is
necessary, that a performance assessment of union
executives may be done by the union headquarters in
co-operation with the branch secretaries once a year
to mark out adverse members.
I pledge that this suggestion are absolutely mine
and hope that you will be kind enough to keep it to
yourself and take necessary, action on whichever points
you think feasible.
Com. Nilanjan Mukherjee
(P.A. Computer Cell, Kolkata GPO )
u Indian Postal Department Reforms Required
Our Strength
# A strong distribution network with good outreach.
# 1,55,000 post offices of which 1.37,000 were in
rural areas.
# No Indian lived more than several kilometers from
a post office.
# The Indian Post Office, through its own million
employees, knew every Indian in India.
# Through the post office savings bank account,
Indian Post had a customer base of 110 million
savers, with deposits in excess of 4 lak cores.
# The Indian post office was a trusted institution.
# The basic services are not just delivery of letters
and postcards, but the "Money Order" as well, for
which most poor and illiterate people rely on the
post office, in preference to banks, because of its
simplicity and easy access.
# Human resources
# Good public image
Our weakness
# Compared to the US postal services that deliver
550 million items of mail every day, Indian Post
handled only 43 million items daily.
# It had low service quality, low customer awareness,
and a weak business skill.
# It was a monopoly with weak incentives to perform.
# Its mounting financial deficit limited its own scope
for investments.
# It had a bureaucratic mindset.
# Management was constantly changing and
operating on seniority.
# No business culture.
BHARTIYA POST 25
Our Position
# Indian Post is a "commercial" department of the
government of India, which has no financial
autonomy.
# Classified as commercial-pension liabilities of
employees are also added to cost.
# Universal Service Obligation and Commercial
Obligations are not separated.
# Subsidy for USO is not separately given with the
result that the whole deficit is seen in one.
# Greater deficit, the lower managerial discretions
the department of posts enjoys.
# There may be services, which qualify for USO but
need not subsided. (MOs).
# Cities have grown 2.5 times in the last 20 years
but the same workforce has been reassigned to
handle the task.
# Indian Post office had been earliest adapter of
technology and change in infrastructures during
British rule.
# It used train extensively when it was introduced,
when the airplane was introduced, again it was
the first user.
# But when computers and information technology,
were introduced, it was relatively late adapter.
# Retooling the same old workforce for hi-tech
applications.
# Competitors, in the mean time, have moved ahead;
they offer better service with limited infrastructure and
are poaching the creamy segments of the market.
# Indian Post faces in the move towards
commercialization is their weak cost accounting
system.
# Violations of postal monopoly figures low in the
priority of the police, who have greater crimes to
contend with.
# In other countries, the license fee charged on the
operator is a means of funding for the government
to finance Universal Service Obligation.
# Indian Post treated all segments as a common
generic category.
# The private couriers came to the doorstep of the
client and took the material, both for individual
consumer and corporate.
# Indian Post was a behemoth where pricing
decisions could only be made in Delhi, and some
of the decisions required legislative approval.
# The Postal services net work were to a certain
extent mandatory in the early years of the 20th
century but as time passes and rural sector gets
linked up to electronic means of communication
Postal is obsolete.
JUNE, 2007
# As savoor committee and Talwar Committee
reports would reveal, a large number of post offices
have been opened particularly in the rural sector
without justification.
# The criteria namely distance and population are
of hypothetical interest only because if the relevant
rural area generate any traffic what so ever than
the distance and population are not material.
# In the era of computer the pace of change is so
rapid that knowledge acquired earlier can be a
liability if new systems have to put in place.
# Postal systems are satisfied with deputing persons
for the training courses but actual utilization of
knowledge is very limited.
The department of posts is a large and an
amorphous organization where decision making
is time consuming.
# Once file goes into orbit, there is no certainty about
when the decision will be taken.
# Private sector organizations have 3 or 4 levels and
every body is accountable and the pay, allowances
and incentives are directly linked to their
performance.
# In basic levels employees has neither proper
material nor he understands the logic and the
purpose of the scheme.
# Employees are crushed by the weight of hierarchies
and the organization seems to be caught between
a rule bound culture where Volume-VI of postal
manual and postal Financial Hand Book acquire
dominance over business decisions.
# If the postal department was only 20 years old
then it would have enormous amount of flexibility,
and that will be reflected in quick decision-making
and the required decentralization.
# In an organization with 150 years history, the
transition is more difficult.
# Losing of opportunities.
# No new services so that post offices are more
useful to society.
Yes, certainly Reforms required.
C N Hegde
Divisional Secretary, AIPEU Gr. C
Sirsi Division Sirsi-581401

THE TASKS ON THE EDUCATION FRONT

The reality is disquieting. Only about 7 per cent of the youth in the 17-23 age group get an
opportunity for higher education. Enrolment in science is less than 20 per cent, in engineering
and technology 6.6 per cent, and in medicine 3.3 per cent. Enrolment in basic sciences is on the
wane. The standard of research in universities is on the decline. Our universities have to be the
hub of quality education and research, and centres of academic excellence.
India's economy is strong and resilient today. Since Independence, our achievements in
agriculture, industry, defence, space, and atomic energy have been spectacular. We are a global
player in IT; our service sector is expanding; foreign trade and investments are up to growth rate
of over 8 per cent has put the country on a high-growth trajectory. Our parliamentary folity with
an independent judiciary and a free press has deepened the roots of our democracy.
But we are still grappling with poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, and disease, with a sub-optimal
Human Development Index ranking of 126. Over three crore people are unemployed. Malaria,
tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS have emerged as serious public health problems. About 26 crore
Indians live below the poverty line. Rural incomes have dwindled; farm households have become
more prone to stress and insecurity. Farmers' suicides call for rejuvenating agriculture, revamping
cooperative institutions, and taking up programmes for integrated rural development.
We need development that promotes growth not just in terms of percentage increase in GDP
but brings about inclusive development, growth that uplifts the poor and deprived and that which
alleviates poverty and bridges the gap between rich and poor. We need development that
eradicates illiteracy and provides the common man with access to basic education, healthcare,
and shelter."
(Excerpts from the convocation address delivered by Vice-President Bhairon Singh
Shekahawat at Banaras Hindu University on April 9).
[The Hindu / 12-4-2007]

BHARTIYA POST 26 JUNE, 2007

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 ATTACK ON POSAL SAVINGS BANK
FINANCE MINISTER CHIDAMBARAN ADMITS
'Small Investor To be Provided Wider Range of Instruments'
FINANCE Minister P. Chidambaram on
Monday retaliated against the Left's attempts
to pin the blame for successive-electoral
setbacks on the economic policies and bluntly
told the Left that his Ministry was not dimwitted
to go against the interests of the common man.
While replying to a calling attention motion on
small savings, the minister strongly refuted the
Left's charge that he was deliberately keeping
the rates of interest on small savings in post
offices low in order to encourage the outflow of
these funds to the stock market.
The finance minister asserted that the
government was not only determined to ensure
the best possible returns for the small investor
but wanted to provide him with a wider range of
investment instruments. Mr. Chidambaram said
the government might allow the Indian
Infrastructure Finance Company Limited to
access National Small Savings fund and quoted
figures to reject the Left charges of 'alarming
outflow' from the small savings accounts. "Indian
Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL) may be
allowed to access National Small Savings
funds," the finance minister told the Lok Sabha
while replying to a brief discussion on the need
to increase interest rates on small savings in
post offices and bringing it on par with banks.
The minister, who gave vent to his irritation
over the tendency in the Left to portray the
finance ministry as the villain, took pot-shots at
the comrades by reminding them that the centre
was maintaining the present 9.5% rate of
interest for post offices savings despite all the
state Governments (including the Left ruled
West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura) seeking
slashing of the rate to 7.5%. "If the government
is at all discouraging small savings, how come
the savings rate has increased by 4%, "he
asked, "Interest rates on small saving schemes
were revised in March 2003 based on the
recommendation of the Y V Reddy committee.
In 2004, the advisory committee under the
chairmanship of RBI deputy governor Rakesh
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Mohan recommended continuation of average
G-sec yields as the suitable benchmark, "he
told the House.
Stating that small savings would not be
allowed to outlive their existence, he pointed
out there could possibly be transfer of money
from these schemes to the banks which was
not unhealthy.
The mover of the calling attention motion,
CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta, went to the extent of
suggesting that the finance ministry was not
sensitive to the interests of the ruling alliance.
"If the results of Punjab and Uttaranchal polls
have not sensitised the government, perhaps
the UP outcome will, "Mr. Dasgupta said.
Refusing to be "provoked" by Mr. Dasgupta,
Mr. Chidambaram dismissed as "alarmist" the
claims of the CPI member and others that the
centre was forcing the small investor to enter
the speculative market and mutual funds. Mr.
Chidambaram lobbed the ball back at the Left
saying that he was aware of how a political party
(read of CPM) had invested in UTI mutual funds.
Countering the charge of Mr. Dasgupta that
due to low interest rate, lower and middle class
investors were being forced to move their
deposit to banks, the finance minister said it
should be seen in the context of banks,
especially the PSU banks, expanding their
network by opening new branches all over the
country. "How can I ask the investor not to invest
in banks or mutual funds if they want to do so,"
He asked while maintaining that the
Government was determined to protect the
interest of the post-office accounts.
To a pointed question by Mr. Gurudas
Dasgupta about the banks offering 13% to 14%
rate of interest for bulk investments by
corporate, Mr. Chidambaram said he was very
well aware of this "problem of legacy" and
reminded the CPI leader that how his ministry
had issued a statement warning the banks
against such a practice.
[Economic Times Dt. 8-5-07]
28 JUNE, 2007
 THE POST SCRIPT
Recently, John Samuel, the general manager
of India Post's business development and
marketing cell, wrote to a senior official at the
Universal Postal Union (UPU) in Berne,
Switzerland. (The UPU is an international
organisation that coordinates postal policies
between nations). The document expressed
India Post's plans of entering the logistics
services segment, a step he described as 'an
inflection point' in the history of the department.
In his 13 years of service with this monolithic
organisation, Samuel could not have been more
right or perhaps, more excited. It was fortuitous
that the note was sent by e-mail, instead of a
handwritten note or a postcard that would have
been the GM of India Post's expected mode of
communication.
And it symbolised the shift in the
communications industry that had hit India Post
hard, and forced a change of its strategy.
Regular mail, the bread and butter of the postal
department, was a dying business and it was
clear that the department needed a lifeline.
"Work on this shift started even without our
realising it," says Samuel. Five years of
intensive research went into exploring the
viability of a logistics operation in India: after
all, the market opportunity was humungous at
nearly Rs. 85,000 crore. Starting from a World
Bank study in 2002, followed by another study
by AF Ferguson & Co in 2003, and finally a
McKinsey study in 2005, all reports highlighted
the need for India Post to diversity into logistics
solutions for its customers.
It has taken half a decade to put those plans
to practice, but the wheels of change have
started to roll, albeit slowly. In 2004, the
Department of Posts (DoP) soft launched
Logistics Post, its logistics offering in the
southern states. The DoP had finally put
together a plan that it believed would lift it out
of the financial doldrums and significantly cut
losses. These include setting up with
warehouses in different locations all lover India,
extensive investment in technology, and building
BHARTIYA POST 29
up a team of marketing professionals to pitch for
service contracts - in short, a complete rehaul.
"This is an area that India Post had been
neglecting over the years. However, we have not
realised that's where the volumes lie, and so we
are looking at building up that business," says
Samuel, who hopes that the parcels and logistics
business will bring in revenues to the tune of Rs.
1,000 coree over the next 2-3 years, and help
wipe off the Rs. 1,000 crore-plus loss that it incurs
annually.
However, logistics is only one of the many
areas that India Post has experimented with. Other
ideas- from retailing of herbal medicines to
verification of passports -have also been put to
test but the returns have been too insignificant.
Now, India Post finally seems to have found its
calling in logistics.
What that means, is best explained in the
words of IMG Khan, secretary to the
Government of India, Department of Posts
(DoP): "It means we will carry everything." And
the includes everything - from computer
hardware to automobile parts, credit cards and
even FMCGs.
India Post is now aggressively seeking
business, and results are showing : it's pitching
itself against global logistics players and winning
contracts. In the recent past, the DoP has
provided logistics solutions for TVS Logistics and
HCL computers in Pondicharry. Logistics Post
services have been introduced in almost nine
states, and India Post's total carrying capacity is
averaging 42,000 tonne per annum. "Although
we have made a small beginning and are
targeting only short routes, we have the
capabilities of booking large orders and handling
bigger parcles too. Our infrastructure is
unbeatable," says Khan. In the initial stages,
India Post is targeting 5% of the Rs. 1,500 crore
short-to-medium-distance market.
To support such aggressive plans, it's
imperative to create additional capacity, and India
Post is in talks with Indian Airlines to lease a
freighter for its logistics and parcels division, a
JUNE, 2007
step that will allow it to build an aviation network
that's critical for time-sensitive delivery of goods.
It has also inked agreements with Indian Railways
for transporting goods using the superfast
'Shatabdi' and 'Rajdhani' express trains. The
40 Rajdhani Express and 28 Shatabdi Express
trains on various routes across India could give
India Post an unparalleled competitive
advantage in terms of speed and reach. On the
surface transport segment, the DoP intends to
build a fleet of almost 1,000 vehicles through
both ownership and lease models. "We will be
creating our presence in all segments, which
include surface, rail and aviation to give our
customers a wide array of services to choose
from "says Samuel.
And that's not all. The DoP is also investing
Rs. 1,400 crore in newer technologies such as
RFID web-based customer response systems,
and even mobile phones for its postmen. "World
over, leading post offices such as United States
Postal Service (USPS), Royal Mail and
Deutsche Post have reformed themselves by
investing hugely in cutting-edge technology.
And we are doing the same," says Samuel. The
RFID system will be first put to use for the
parcels and logistics division, following which it
will be extended to letters.
Competition is, however, tough and won't cede
ground easily. In the domestic logistics and
express industry today, there are only two private
operators - Blue Dart and First Flight - which are
operating freighters. Blue Dart Express has a fleet
of five Boeing 737 and two Boeing 757 aircrafts,
which make the DoP's plans look minuscule in
comparison. "It is good if the DoP is thinking of
expanding its business in this direction, but there's
a long way to go," says Vineet Agarwal, executive
director, TCI.
The big challenge now for India Post will be to
make the elephant dance. It's a mammoth and
highly bureaucratic organisation with 1,56,000
branches spread all over India, and employing
5,50,000 persons, and like any other Government
of India organisation, productivity is low. Each of
the US Postal Services's 700,000 employees
handles more than 15 times as many pieces of
mail a year on average, as India Post workers do.
Laying off people is a strict no no. Moreover, the
average age of the employees is above 35. But
officials say that will change. "There is some
resistance but slowly the efficiencies will set in,"
says Samuel.
(Economic Times, Dt. 9-3-07)

NC-JCM TENDERS ORAL EVIDENCE BEFORE CPC

Commission Reluctant to Grant Interim Relief
The National Council (Staff Side) of Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) for Central Government
Employees appeared before the VIth Central Pay Commission in New Delhi on 16th, 17th and 18th
April, 2007, to tender oral evidence.
Shri M. Raghavaiah, leader of the Staff Side, JCM thanked the Pay Commission for providing
an opportunity to the apex body of Central Government employees to explain in person their demands
on various issues. Shri Umraomal Purohit, Secretary, Staff Side invited the attention of the Commission
to the Memorandum on the issue of Interim Relief. Reply to Commission's Questionnaire, General
Memorandum covering all relevant aspects and supplementary Memorandum about Pensioners.
The Staff Side urged the Pay Commission to sympathetically consider the grant of Interim
Relief to the employees and pensioners. The members of the Staff Side informed the Pay Commission
that the employees and pensioners were eagerly awaiting this grant.
The Central Pay Commission listened patiently the views expressed by the Staff Side. They
stated that they were looking into various options before them.
The Pay Commission informed that the report would be handed over to the Government of
India by December, 2007. They, however, express their reluctance to grant Interim Relief.
[JCM Bulletin]

BHARTIYA POST 30 JUNE, 2007

 GOVERNMENT ORDERS
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
n Inspector of Posts Examination-allotment of
surplus qualified candidates.
This is regarding promotion to the cadre of
Inspector of Posts through a Limited Departmental
Competitive Examination. The recruitment rules
prescribe that 33.34% of the posts be filled by direct
recruitment through the Staff Selection Commission
and 66.66% through the Limited Departmental
Competitive Examination.
2. As per the past experience, and based on the
available data of the Inspector of Posts Departmental
Examinations conducted during the years 2004 and
2005, it is seen that only 65% and 61% respectively
of the notified vacancies could be filled up.
Consequently, in a few Circles, the vacancies were
left unfilled due to lack of qualified candidates.
3. The matter has been examined at the Directorate
and it was felt that there is a need to evolve a system,
so that the surplus qualified candidates who are
available over and above the selected candidates in a
Circle, can be allotted to the deficient Circles. It has
now been decided that in the Limited Departmental
Competitive Examination of Inspector of Posts, after
completion of the first stage of drawing up the Circle-
wise list of successful candidates (which is followed
hitherto), an All India merit list, in descending order,
strictly based on the marks secured by the surplus
qualified candidates from all the Circles for each
category will be drawn up. The number of candidates
in this list shall be equal to the combined unfilled
vacancies of all the Circles.
4. The surplus qualified candidates in the All India
merit list will thereafter be allotted to Circles in
accordance with the candidate's All India merit and
choice of Circle indicated, subject to availability of
vacancies. On their allotment to a Circle other than
their Home Circle, they shall rank junior to the last
selected merit candidate of the Home Circle
irrespective of the marks obtained by them. However,
their All India seniority will be determined by their All
India merit position.
5. In order to exercise the option of allotment to a
Circle as a surplus qualified candidate, the candidate
will be required to give a choice in the descending
order of preference, covering all the 22 Circles at the
stage of application itself. In case the candidate does
not indicate his preference, he will not be considered
for the allotment, even if he is a surplus qualified
candidate. The candidate shall also be required to give
an unconditional undertaking that he shall accept
BHARTIYA POST 31
allotment to one of the Circles thus indicated by him.
However, before the said allotment, the surplus qualified
candidates shall be given a final opportunity to revise
their preference of Circles given earlier, after declaration
of results when the unfilled vacancies pertaining to
that examination are known. Re-allotment requests
to the Home Circle/other Circles will be considered
only in accordance with Rule 38 of Volume-IV.
6. In so far as filling up of the unfilled SC/ST
vacancies of IP Departmental Examination is
concerned, such unfilled vacancies of the respective
Circles would continue to be filled up as per the extant
rules on the subject, whereby the Circle High Power
Committee examines the issue of awarding grace
marks to the failed SC/ST candidates under relaxation
of standards. The review by the Circles shall be carried
out within three months of the announcement of the
results. After the review is completed, if sufficient
number of SC/ST candidates are still not available in
the Home Circle, the Circle shall notify such unfilled
SC/ST vacancies to the Directorate for filling up these
vacancies through the surplus qualified SC/ST
candidates of the All India Merit list. As for 'OC' surplus
qualified candidates, the SC/ST surplus qualified
candidates will also be given an opportunity to change
their preference at this stage. In the Circle Seniority
List, in respect of SC/ST candidates, the surplus
qualified SC/ST candidates allotted to the Circle based
on All India merit list will rank senior to the SC/ST
candidates of the Home Circle who have been awarded
grace marks under relaxation of standards.
7. In case a candidate declines promotion, which
should be intimated to the competent authority within
a month of the receipt of the offer letter, such vacancies
will also become available for being filled up by the
candidates of the same examination as per the extent
rules applicable to various categories.
8. The surplus qualified candidates, who are allotted
to other Circles, will be required to pass a language
proficiency test in the language of the State concerned,
within the period of probation of two years. This test
shall be conducted by the Circle itself. Candidates
who fail to pass the language proficiency test shall be
reverted to their substantive cadre and would be free
to undertake the next IP examination subject to the
prescribed eligibility norms.
9. This shall come into force with effect from the
Inspector of Posts Examination of 2008.
10. Issued with the approval of DG (Posts).
[Ministry of Communication & IT Letter No. A-
34020/01/2007-DE, Dated: 13-04-2007]
JUNE, 2007
n Quality of mail delivery. the work load in delivery post offices should be reduced.
It has been brought to the notice of Secretary Spare postmen may be utilized for second delivery of
(Posts) that delivery of Speed Post and other classes mail in all major towns and cities. In addition, Circles
of mail has been curtailed in many places in the garb may also consider delivery of speed post mail on
of rationalization of delivery network. It is reiterated Sundays/closed holidays/evenings in important
that while rationalization of offices is necessary with a commercial areas direct from MBCs.
view to consolidate the postal/mail network, such an Outcome of review of concrete steps taken in the
exercise should in no way compromise on the quality direction referred to above should be intimated for
of service. Circles have curtailed delivery frequency information of Secretary (Posts) through e-mail (email
on the pretext of non-availability of sufficient quantum id : adgmo.dop@gmail.com) by 20.04-07.
of mail, even though there remains a large quantity of [Ministry of Communication & IT Letter No. 38-1/
mail in the pipeline. 2000-D (Vol.II), Dated: 16-04-2007]
At a time when our competitors are offering n Amendment of CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965
delivery of mail in the late evening or even till late (Department of Posts).
night, there is an urgent need to review the entire In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule
delivery mechanism. In major towns and cities, (2) of Rule 9, Clause (b) of sub-rule (2) of Rule 12 and
customers in central business districts may be offered sub-rule (1) of Rule 24 of Central Civil Services
the service of mail delivery till late evening. Circles (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, the
should review delivery arrangements in all such cites President hereby makes the following amendments
and towns, and provide for second delivery wherever in order of Government of India in the Ministry of
there is sufficient quantum of mail which is (or can Communications (Department of Posts) number S.O.
be) received beyond the prescribed cut-off time for 2454, dated the 27th August, 1990, namely :-
first delivery. In the Schedule to the said order, for Part-I, the
With the establishment of Mail Business Centres, following shall be substituted namely :-
"PART-I - GENERAL CENTRAL SERVICES GROUP 'B'
Authority competent to impose
Description of Appointing
penalties and penalities which it may
Posts Authority Appellate
impose (with reference ot item
Authority
numbers in Rule 11)
Authority Panalities
1 2 3 4 5
(1) All Posts Director Director-General (Posts) All President
Group 'B' General
(Posts)
(Except the posts Member, Postal Services Board or (i) to (iv) Director-
mentioend at S.No. Head of Circle General
(2) to (9) (Posts)

(2) Assistant Head of Circle Head of Circle All Member,

Superintendent Postal
of Posts Services Board

(Previously known as Director Postal Director, Postal Services (i) to (iv) Head of Circle/
Assicatnt Services (concerned) Regional
Superintendent of Postmaster-
Posts Offices/ General
Assistant
Superintendent of
Railway Mail
Services)
(3) "Inspector of Director Postal Director, Postal Services All Head of Circle/
Posts Services (concerned) Regional
BHARTIYA POST 32 JUNE, 2007
 Postmaster-
General

(Previously known as Head of Division / Superintendent, (i) to (iv) Director,

Inspector of Post Postal Stores Depot / Circle Stamp Postal
Office/Inspector of Depot / Senior Postmaster / Chief Services
Railway Mail Postmaster / Assistant Director (concerned)
Services) (Staff)/ Superintendent, Sorting

(4) Higher Selection, Director Postal Director, Postal Services All Head of Circle/
Grade-I Services (concerned) Regional
Postmaster-
General
Head of Division / Superintendent, (i) to iv) Director-Postal
Postal Stores Depot / Circlds Services
Stamp Depot/Senior Postmaster (concerned)
/ Chief Postmaster / Assistant
Director (Staff)/ Superintendent,
Sorting
(5) Office Director Postal Director, Postal Services All Head of Circle,
Superintendent Services Director,
Higher Selection Assistant Postmaster General (i) to (iv) Postal Services
Grade-I (Circle (Staff)/Assistant Director (Staff) (concerned)
Office)

(6) Liberarian Director, Postal Director, Postal Staff College, All Member, Postal
Staff College of India Services Board.
India
Joint Director, Postal Staff College, (i) to (iv) Director, Postal
India Staff College, India

(7) Assistant Director Postal Director, Postal Services All Head of Circle/
Manager, Mail Motor Services (concerned) Regional
Services (Posts of Postmaster-
Insepector Mail General
Motor Services has Senior Manager/Manager, Mail (i) to (iv) Director, Postal
been merged with Motor Services Services
Assistnat Manager, (concerned)
Mail Motor Services)
Member, Postal
(8) Junior Accounts Head of Circle Head of Circle All Services Board
Officer
Director, Postal Services/ Director (i) to (iv) Head of Circle
of Account (Postal)/Deputy
Director of Accounts (Postal)/Joint
Director Postal Staff College India/
Director, Postal Training Centre
(9) Statistical Secretary, Secretry, Postal Services Board All Member, Postal
Assistant Postal Services Services Board
Board Director (Administration) (in (i) to (iv) S e c r e ta r y, P o s ta l
respect of non-secretariate posts) Servcies Board"
[G.I. Dept. of Posts, Order No. C-32016/10/2006-VP, dated 12-12-2006]
BHARTIYA POST 33 JUNE, 2007
n Delegation of powers to Heads of Departments
in various Ministries/Departments for settling
permission cases and post facto approval
relating to referral system in CGHS.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this
Ministry's Office Memoranda of even number, dated
the 7th April, 1999 and 7th March, 2000 (Sl. Nos 112
and 120 of Swamy's Annual, 1999 and 2000
respectively) on the above subject vide which powers
were delegated by the CGHS. Delegation No. 12 of
O.M. of 7th April, 1999, under post facto approval in
respect of CGHS for settlement of individual medical
reimbursement claims/to accord permission/grant of
medical advance reads as follows :-
Subject to the approval of Head of the CGHS
organization of the concerned CGHS covered City/
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, where
prescribed in the preceding paras, the monetary limit
for issuing sanction were raised as under :-
A Rs. 2 lakhs (in case of By the HoD
serving employee
beneficiaries)
B Rs. 2 lakhs (in case of By the Head of the
pensioner CGHS concerned CGHS
beneficiaries) covered city
C Rs. 2 to 5 lakhs Director, CGHS
D Above Rs. 5 lakhs Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
2. Power were further delegated vide Office
Memorandum No. S-12020/4/97-CGHS (P), dated the
7th March, 2000, as follows :-
(i) A serving Central Government servant covered
under CGHS who is taking treatment in some CGHS
Dispensary/Government hospital and desires to obtain
treatment in a private hospital recognized under CGHS,
the Heads of Departments may grant him permission
for indoor treatment on the basis of medical prescription
issued to the CGHS beneficiary.
(ii) The Heads of Departments (HoDs) may decide
the cases of reimbursement of medical claims in
respect of treatment obtained in emergency at private
hospital/private nursing home/private clinic, subject to
item-wise ceiling as per rates prescribed for CGHS
beneficiaries without financial limit on the total amount
to be reimbursed.
3. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has
been receiving files from different Ministries/Department
in respect of medical claims/request for advance when
the admissible amounts exceeded Rs. 2.00 lakhs even
though in most of the cases the admissible amount
calculated were as per the approved rate list. This has
created avoidable work in the Ministry without any
scope for value addition in the process of examination.
4. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has
been examining the question of further delegation of
powers to the Heads of Departments/Ministries in the
matter and it has been decided with the approval of the
BHARTIYA POST
Competent Authority to delegate bearers to
Departments/Ministries to settle all cases where there
is no relaxation of rules and the entitlement was worked
out with reference to the rate list prescribed without any
monetary ceiling. The delegation would, however, be
subject to the condition that the Heads of the
Departments/Ministries may settle cases up to the limit
of Rs. 2,00,000 (Rupees Two lakhs only) (worked out
with reference to the prescribed rate list). In respect of
cases involving payment exceeding Rs. 2,00,000 (Rupees
two lakhs only) but as per the prescribed rate list, the
concerned Departments/Ministries may settle such
cases in consultation with their respective Internal
Finance Division. Only in those cases where the settled
scheme/rules are required to be relaxed, should the case
be referred to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
5. This issues with concurrence of Internal Finance
Division, vide CD No. C-2572-IFD/2006, dated the 27th
November, 2006.
[G.I., M.H. & F.W., O.M. No. S. 12020/4/97-
CGHS(P), dated (27-12-2006)
n LTC (All India in block of 4 years) in
combination with transfer/tour TA-Mode of
Regularization.
I am directed to forward herewith a copy OM No.
31011/3/2006-Estt. (A) dated 7th February, 2007
received from Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance
& Pension, Department of Personnel & Training, on
the subject mentioned above, for your information/
guidance and necessary action.
[DG (Posts) No. 20-1/2007-PAP,
Dated: 19-03-2007]
n LTC (All India in block of 4 years) in
combination with transfer/tour TA-Mode of
Regularization.
The undersigned is directed to say that as per
instructions contained in Ministry of Home Affairs O.M.
No. 43/15/59-Estt. (A), dated 19-7-1960, LTC (Home
Town) may be availed in combination with transfer/
tour. The question of extending this facility to All India
LTC (anywhere in the country in a block of 4 years)
has been considered and it has been decided that the
provisions of the aforesaid OM, dated 19-7-1960 will
also be applicable for All India LTC availed in
combination with transfer/tour.
2. Tour T.A. and transfer T.A. shall be regulated in
terms of relevant instructions of Ministry of Finance.
3. These orders will take effect from the date of issue
but claims which were pending on the date of issue
may be regulated under these order. Past cases in which
decisions have already been taken will not be re-opened.
4. In so far as the personnel serving in the Indian
Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, these
orders have been issued after consultation with the
Comptroller and Auditor-General.
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NEWS OF THE MONTH
l Seminar on 24th May 2007: In order to share
with the federations / service Associations various
developments which have taken place in department
in the recent past as also Action Plans for the 11th
Five years plan, Department of Posts has decided
to hold one day seminar on 24th May 2007 at Dak
Bhawan. All General Secretaries of NFPE Union
and Secretary General of NFPE will participate in
the seminar.
l Group B Exam: We were informed that our
request to consider TBOP / BCR officials to appear
Group B exam instead of LSG will be considered by
amending some prescribed years of PA service instead
of TBOP / LSG etc. This will take a minimum of more
than six months since amendment to Recruitment
Rules will be approved by all nodal ministries like Law,
DoP&T and even Union Service Commission.
l Syllabus for Group B Exam: This is under
consideration. Revised syllabus will be finalised soon.
The proposed Exam, as learnt will be postponed and
not held in September as notified.
l Engagement of SDPA: This is being pursued at
the Directorate considering various judicial
pronouncements and we were informed that orders for
engaging retired pensioners will be issued shortly.
l Bench Mark : Confidential instructions to all the
circle heads have been issued by the Directorate on
this subject.
l LSG / HSG.II/ HSG.I : All APMG / AD Staff were
called on 04-05-2004 to Directorate and instructed to
complete the LSG process at first and then HSG.II &
HSG.I. They were instructed to complete the entire
process of filling all the vacant posts within a month.
l LGO Exam Syllabus : The department has now
proposed to modify the syllabus as follows:-
Aptitude Test can include questions of issues of
topical relevance, logic, simple arithmetic and English
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Grammar to test their working knowledge. Postal
Services will include questions of basic postal issues
relating to customer service and operations. This will
be without the aid of books. The language component
will include simple letter writing or drafting in local
language / English. Computer proficiency test will be
on the same pattern as for direct recruitment. All the
questions in aptitude test and postal services will be
objective type or multiple choice.
Accordingly there will be no mathematics but only
Arithmetic that too in simple questions will be without
aid of books. It is informed that Model Question Paper
is under preparation and will be circulated before May
2007. Certainly it will be a great achievement in
negotiation.
l During the personal visit of General Secretary
in Uttarakhand Circle, May Day meeting was
organised by the Branch Secretary, Haridwar on 01-
05-2007. Com. Rajesh Kapil, Asstt. Circle Secretary
presided the meeting. Com. Rajeev Singh, Asstt.
Divisional Secretary, Com. A.K. Sharma, Branch
Secretary, Com. Kanwarpal Singh, Branch Secretary,
P-IV, Com. Suresh Chand Tiwari, Treasurer, GDS also
spoke on the occasion.
l A well organised meeting was organised by
the Circle Secretary, Com. K.S. Panwar at Gopeshwar
HPO on 04-05-2007. General Secretary, Com. K.V.
Sridharan in his speech explained the settlement on
strike demands and pay commission. The interaction
session was really purposeful. Com. B.L. Tanta
presided the meeting. Com. R.C. Dimri, Divisional
Secretary, Com. A.P. Dhyani, Asstt. Circle Secretary,
Com. N.S. Ahatri, Divisional Secretary, P-IV, Com.
K.K. Rana, Ex. President, P-III also spoke on the
occasion. Thanks to Uttarkhand Comrades for
affectionate reception during my visit and particular to
our Circle Secretary Com. K.S. Panwar.