CBS FINACLE, CIS DEMANDS DAY – 10.06.2016

There is no need to elaborate the miseries and sufferings we are facing at base level after the implementation of Finacle, (CBS & CIS) and the mental torture.

            The NFPE and P-III CHQ is aware of the issues and properly placed before the Department vide its letter dated 22.01.2016, 11.02.2016 & 25.04.2016.Further it was brought to the personal notice of the Hon’ble Minister of communication. However, the progress in resolving the Finacle issues is in slow nail causing resentment and unrest amidst officials.

            The assurance of the Department on 28.03.2016 in providing two more server by Infosys to solve the Finacle problem has not been carried out yet. The increase in the bandwidth as per the requirement of the office has not been carried out in any circle.

 

            Adding fuel to fire, the department’s recent decision in implementing the Business hours of Post office to the extent of 5 hours for monetary transactions has not been exercised. Some circles like Tamilnadu, Haryana etc. have sought clarifications to prevent the implementation of the decision without minding the existing sufferings of officials due to faulty functioning of Finacle & others and the officials are forced to remain in office in late hours. There is every risk for the women employees to leave office late every day.

            For the last ten days, there is poor access and even no access in Finacle continuously throughout the nation affecting the public and staff very badly. This is nothing but due to the incapacity of the servers provided by Infosys. The department is not in a position either to correct things or apply the penal provisions against the vender. The existing position in Finacle is nothing but the last straw on camel’s back.

            The recent conversations unofficially held between the Infosys and some staff exhibited in the website will reveal the fact. We must know who is committing mistake after mistake. Whether the officers dealing the Finacle are aware of all the software and hardware oriented issues. Are they simply hearing and acting as per the dictums of the vendors? Howe many times we are going to alter our rulings to suit the requirement of vendors? Will there be any time to the officials to go through the routine daily circulars on CBS functioning in the pressure of work?

            We lost our patience. Even though, we suffer voluntarily a lot as we feel it is the transition period, in the implementation of Finacle, it is felt now that without settlement of the Problems, the Department is inclined to proclaim that it has implemented the Finacle more in numbers than the leading banks and also without any Quality and good service to the customer.

            Under these circumstances, the NFPE and P-III CHQ has elaborately written a letter to the Department on 26.05.2016, detailing all the problems being existed in Finacle and McCamish and sought remedies within a fort night. In the event of non-settlement, the CHQ has decided to launch the following programme of action culminating to strike action.

10^th June        -           Demands Day - Demonstration at divisional/branch levels

17^th June        -           Dharna in front of Circle office

30^th June       -      Demonstration in front of Dak Bhawan & issue of strike notice.  (The date will be decided with consultation of NFPE & JCA constituents)

            The major demands put forth in the programme of action.

1.    Provide additional servers and solve the Finacle problem

2.    Increase the bandwidth as per the requirement.

3.    Implement the decision of Directorate on Business hours.

4.    Drop all Memos & Charge sheets issued due to Finacle minor mistake.

5. Implementation of action on all the points put forth in the CHQ letter dated 26.05.2016.

            This programme is nothing but to save the Postal Service from the existing chaos and confusions. Even though we desire peace, we have been pushed in to the wall. We could not tolerate furthermore.

            All Divisional/Branch and Circle Secretaries are requested to organize the programme very effectively and intimate compliance. The NFPE and P-III CHQ will leave no stone unturned in the event of no settlement is seen in this serious issue.

7th Pay Commission Report to be put up before Cabinet in June

7th Pay Commission report to be put up before Cabinet in June – 7th CPC implementation Notification to come at the earliest Central government employees can expect to get some good news trickling in from government sources towards the end of June.

As per reports, the Finance Ministry is likely to table the 7th Pay Commission report to the Cabinet for approval in the last week of June.

The 7th pay panel headed by AK Mathur had recommended the minimum salary for central government employees at Rs 18,000 and maximum salary at Rs 2,50,000. As employees protested against the wage hikecalling it the “lowest ever” raise, the government set up the Empowered Committee of Secretaries group to review the AK Mathur-panel’s recommendations.

The Empowered Committee of Secretaries on the Seventh Central Pay Commission is expected to soon wrap up its report on the remuneration of government employees.

Sources added that even the Prime Minister’s Office is keen on a favourable pay hike for the central government employees, so the panel is likely to recommend a minimum salary at Rs 24,000 and the highest salary at Rs 2,70,000.

Sources added that the government is exploring options for meeting the additional payout over and above what was recommended by the 7th pay panel. The payout could be substantial with salary hike and arrears adding up to a Rs 1.02 lakh crore burden on government finances.

Report add that once the report moves from the table of the empowered group of committee to the cabinet, there is no reason why the cabinet would inordinately delay it.

The Finance Ministry is keen that higher salaries reach government employees just before the festive season starting mid-August, as spurt in consumption during the festive period will have a domino effect on the economy.

Souce: Zee News

Latest Development on 7th CPC recommendations

POSTAL DEPARTMENT TO CONSIDER ISSUING SPECIAL RTI STAMPS FOR PAYMENT OF FEES

The move would help phase out postal orders, which cost more to the exchequer than their Rs 10 issue price.

Indian postage stamps. Credit: StampexIndia

It defies logic as to why the Department of Posts should incur an expenditure of Rs. 37.45 on every Rs. 10 postal order that is submitted along with an application filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. But this is precisely what has been happening since the RTI Act came into force in 2005. In the absence of any enabling provision, such as a special stamp for payment of the fees, RTI applicants have been forced to pay through postal orders.

While the issue has been discussed at length, the introduction of new stamps for the payment of RTI fee costs has been restricted by the provisions of the Indian Postal Act, 1898, which prescribes that postage stamps be used for only postal articles.

However, following a Central Information Commission (CIC) order on March 30, 2016, the postal department has decided to constitute a new committee to consider issuing RTI stamps, similar to the radio and TV licence fees stamps, said RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal, on whose petition the decision had come.

Agarwal said an earlier committee had rejected the CIC recommendations on the flimsy grounds of letting things continue as they are.

He claimed that documents received under an RTI response revealed that officers at the security printing presses cited red-tapism and the unavailability of paper as the cause for their inability to print RTI stamps despite printing postage stamps of a prominent living cricketer against postal norms within a few days of the decision on the RTI stamps.

Incidentally, in 2015, a committee comprising four senior officials of the Department of Personnel and Training, CIC and the Department of Posts had discussed the matter of issuing special RTI stamps. It also received suggestions from several citizens. It was told that the postal department had also constituted an expert committee to examine the possibility of introducing exclusive RTI stamps.

The expert committee had said introducing exclusive RTI stamps was not a feasible option and had instead suggested a definitive series of postage stamps.

Thereafter the four-member committee deliberated only on the issue of ordinary postage stamps as a mode of payment for RTI fees. But when it sought the opinion of S.K. Tripathi, director of the postal department, it was told that the Indian Postal Act did not allow the use of postage stamps for purposes other than sending postal articles.

Another glitch that came in the way was section 25(3)(e) of the RTI Act, according to which each ministry or department is required to provide information related to the charges collected by them under the RTI Act. It was thus contended that while monitoring payments to each ministry or department through postal orders was possible due to their particular serial number, the same would not be feasible with ordinary postage stamps.

It was also pointed out that the central government had already launched RTI Online to enable the filing of RTI applications online, including the payment of RTI costs, and the service had been utilised for filing over 190,000 applications since its launch in August 2013.

Besides, the Centre had also launched the facility of electronic Indian postal order, or elPO, to purchase IPOs electronically by online payment. The use of postage stamps for payment of RTI costs, the committee had observed, would thus be a regressive step in the efforts towards electronic delivery of services.

Holding this view, the committee had observed that use of postage stamps as mode of payment for RTI costs would not be feasible legally or from an accounting point of view. Also, it said, it would not be in line with the Centre’s move towards Digital India.

Agarwal insists a lot of time has been wasted on discussing the issue of using postage stamps for the payment of RTI fees. He said RTI stamps are the way ahead and their sale in a particular year can be taken as collected RTI fees and copying charges for that year. “Attractive RTI stamps should be issued only in three denominations of rupees two, 10 and 50, which will also serve as tool of popularising the transparency Act,” he suggested, adding that the beginning could be the release of exclusive RTI stamps in the inaugural session of the annual CIC convention to be held in October.

Indian post will soon deliver Gangajal at your door steps

India TV News Desk [Updated: 30 May 2016, 15:05:38]

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government will soon launch a new initiative under which Indian post will deliver Gangajal at your door steps.

Addressing a press conference in the capital today, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that he has instructed postal department to chalk out a plan to deliver gangajal at people's door stepsby using e-commerce platform.

He said the concerened department has assured him of proactive steps to address the cultural unperniing of people of India about Gangajal.

The Ganga water from Haridwar and Rishhikesh will be made available to the buyers.

The move is also seen as an effort to revive the ailing Indian postal service which has been on downward spiral in last few years.

Source : http://www.indiatvnews.com

Cadre Restructuring of Group 'C' employees in Department of Posts

Sub : Cadre Restructuring of Group ’C’ employees in Department of Posts.

D.G. Post letter No. 25-04/2012-PE-I dated 27th May, 2016.

            The Cadre Restructuring of Group-C  employees of Department of Posts has been undertaken in consultation with Department of Expenditure , Ministry of Finance in pursuance of the approval concurrence of the Department  of Expenditure  vide ID No. 2(45)E.III Desk/2015 dated 12th May,2016 , a list at distribution of the posts containing the existing and revised posts  of Postal Assistants, Lower Selection  Grade, Higher Selection  Grade II & I and also a few HSG-I (Non-Functional Grade) is enclosed for implementation with the  following  instructions:

a)         The post of SPMs in Single  Handed  and Double Handed Post Offices  to the cadre of LSG posts (GP Rs.2800) shown in the  annexure now allotted to the Circle , will be placed in the Grade  Pay of Rs.2800/- in the Pay Band-I..

b)         The post of SPMs in Triple Handed Post Offices, in the extent of HSG-II  posts (GP4200) shown the annexure  now allotted  to the Circle and all other existing norms based LSG Posts in Post offices  will be placed in the Grade Pay of Rs.4200- in the Pay  Band-II. In no case, the total number of HSG-II posts shall exceed the number of posts allotted to the Circle.

C)        Existing  posts in HSG-II to the extent  of posts  now allotted  and shown in the annexure , will  be placed in the  Grade Pay of Rs.4600/- in the Pay  Band-II along with the existing  HSG-I Posts . Remaining HSG-II posts if any shall remain in the GP of Rs.4200 only. In no case, the total number of HSG-I posts shall exceed the number of posts allotted in the Circle.

d)         The Cadre Restructuring of these posts  are only in respect of the  posts from Postal Side  other  than the posts of RMS ., Circle and Regional Offices and SBCO Wings.

e)         If the revised number of posts is in excess of the existing strength of a particular grade the difference will be deemed as  newly sanctioned posts in that grade . Similarly, if the revised number of posts is in  a grade is less than the existing strength the number of posts equal to the difference  will be treated as having been  abolished in that grade.

 f)         The vacancies arising out of the restructuring will be filled up only from the amongst the official who fulfill the eligibility criteria  laid down in the recruitment rules  for the post.

g)         The new HSG-I (Non Functional  Grade)  with the grade  pay of Rs.4800/- is only  for those  who  are  senior  most  and completed  not less than a minimum service of 2 years  in HSG-I  subject to the  number of posts specified  for the Circle  in HSG-I (Non Functional  Grade) (for example  the number of NFG officials in AP Circle should never  exceed (17) after following usual procedure of non functional upgradation(s).

2.         These instructions will be effective from the date of issue of the orders. The actual benefit would however be admissible to the eligible officials from the date of actual promotion.

3.         Receipt of the order may be acknowledged. Immediate action initiated and compliance report sent at the earliest.

                                                                                   Sd/-

                                                                                                (Tarun Mittal)

                                                            Assistant Director General (PE-II)

AIPEU CHQ WROTE DETAILED LETTER TO DIRECTORATE ON CBS, FINACLE, CIS PROBLEMS

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION GROUP 'C'

CHQ: 2151/1, Dada Ghosh Bhawan, New Patel Road, New Delhi - 110008

Ref:P/4-4/CBS                                                              Dated – 26.05.2016

To

The Secretary

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, New Delhi – 110001

Sir,

Sub: - Miseries and untold sufferings being faced due to hasty migrations of CBS & CIS through the nation – Immediate action is required.

Ref: -    (i) This union letter of even no. dated 20.01.2016, 11.02.2016 & 25.04.2016

Apropos reference, it is dismayed to note that there is no tangible action taken so far in set righting the serious problems arisen due to hasty and hurry introduction of CBS and CIS without minding the situations at ground levels. The officials are forced to suffer every day till late night with more tension and mental torture.

There is poor access and even no access in Finacle continuously for the past 8 days throughout the Country affecting the public services very badly. This because of exceeding the capacity of the servers provided by Infosys.  Many Circle Unions have conducted series of programme of trade union action including strike to restore the normal services in Finacle, this matter was not looked into seriously by the Department. Even though, it was assured to our Secretary General during the close of March 2016 that two addl. Servers will be provided to Data Centre in order to maintain the services by first week of April 2016, this was not done till date.

The following are the serious issues confronting the staff which should be resolved forthwith. In the event of no progress or settlement, the All India Union will issue strike notice soon in order to register our serious protest.

McCamish Issues:-

1.   Many policies appear in system admin queue even after disbursement is paid as there is no power to system admin then why there is system admin queue and for each such case CPC have to raise the ticket.

2.   There is no provision to view the reports of BO’s of HO’s in Mccamish due to which HO’s are unable to tally the BO summary with Mccamish.

3.   No deployment of posts have been done from the administrative offices to CPC’s whereas all the work relating to Insurance have been delegated to operative office. all CPC’s are working without establishment from the strength of HO’s and adequate staff is also not deployed at CPC’s.

4.   Issues for which tickets are raised are not resolved at earliest, sometimes issues are resolved after 20 days.

5.   There are good number of APS policies which are not migrated to mcCamish software.

6.   Out of 30 days of month reports are not accessible in almost 10- 15 days at evening when the offices have tally their accounts. Sometimes offices have to kept the money out of account and tally the accounts on next day.

Networking Issues

1. The contract have been assigned to sify technologies for providing NSP-1 and NSP-2. The service provider for primary link i.e. NSP-1 is BSNL and Whenever NSP-1 get down in 80% offices network does not get on to NSP-2 automatically. The finacle is not accessible in NSP-2 and as far as the quality of NSP-2 is concerned, it overall results comes to be unfruitful. The expenditure which the department of posts is spending on NSP-2(dongle based) is all in vein. No outcome for good network is shown even after upgradation of bandwidth in class D and E Post Office. Whenever the ticket for non working of NSP-1 is raised the only reply from Sify side is that the problem is at the end of BSNL and no settlement is made till the BSNL restores its network. Offices are having their work held up for more than 10 days and in some instances for more than a fortnight. The higher offices forces the operative staff to clear their pending work in nearby feasible location which is not a proper way at all.

2. There is only one Circle Coordinator of Sify followed by one service engineer for 2 postal division. It is not practically possible for this crew to rectify the major fault when fault persists in more than one location simultaneously. On the other side officials from Sify/Infosys/TCS used to direct the System Administrators to resolve the networking issue/other issues in Post Offices. And Our department denies to give a special grade to System Administrators.

Finacle

The main base for the non-accessibility of the Finacle server, is either with the Main server capacity or the programming done by the Infosys. Bandwidth alone is not the reason for the slowness in Finacle. So,server as in Railways has to be installed. If necessary post offices across the country may be divided into four zones and one server for each zone with inter accessibility may be installed. The bandwith for single handed and other S.Os should be increased. To overcome the existing problem additional servers shall be provided to bear the load.

1.   From the date of migration, the Finacle server is not running promptly and takes very much time in processing even a single transaction.

2.   Agent portal is not working from last 10 days and not services of this portal is not resumed till date.

3.   Variety of services in Finacle Server found to be inaccessible on routine basis. Whenever one error rectified, another appears in a consecutive manner.

4.   Finacle works on the principle of maker and checker, but in single hand offices where only one official works, this concept of maker and checker not seems to be logical. Either the concept of maker and checker should be scrapped or the concept of single hand offices should be abolished. All single hand SO’s should be upgraded to Double Hand SO’s.

5.   Whenever the deposits for SSA, SB and PPF is made, the transid directly enters into posted stage and no modification/deletion is possible in this stage. In the later stage supervisor finds any mistake during verification, the only way to get rid is the verification of that particular transid. For this the only solution is that the deposit made by counter clerk firstly have to enter in the entered stage which allows the rectification of any kind of mistake.

6.   DMCC is pressurising to execute EOD on 2000 hours daily. And after this they are not providing any support to the staff who is working late hours in the night. Workload of transactions is that much that it is not possible to finish the work well before 2000 hours.

The following additional issues have also to be sorted out.

Sl. No.	Description	Remarks
01	Ensuring increase in capacity of Server / Core	Increase the capacity of Server and processor.  Upgradation may find a solution for slow access at user end level.
02.	Sify connectivity issues	Directorate has informed a year ago to upgrade bandwidth from 128 kbps to 256, 256 kbps to 512, 512 to 1 mbps, 1 to 2 mbps.  But no action has been taken in this aspect except at HOs.
03.	DC Closure	DC closure is not done on daily basis which results officials to wait beyond office hours and delay in executing HISCOD.
04.	MIS reporting Server	MIS report Server is not at all accessible for most of the days.  Capacity of reporting server should be upgraded for easy access.
05.	Ensuring proper working of NSP-II	In almost all the offices, except HOs, NSP-II is not at all working resulting non accessibility of Finacle/Mccamish during the down time of NSP-I. Most of the rural BSNL exchanges are not electronic exchanges where the broad band is frequently disconnected due to power failures as they have not been properly provided with UPS/Generator facilities.  In these places, ensuring proper working of NSP-II is needed.
06.	SOL change menu option is to be given to Divisional System Administrator	Deputation or transfer orders are placed at DO level.  During deputation of a PA to other place,  the SOL of a PA may be changed at DO level easily. At present, it is being done at CPC and it gets delayed or changed after completion of deputation.
07.	CSAC	Now, Supervisor can release the CPA under their SOL only except at HOs.  All Supervisors under one HO may be permitted to release other Supervisors/CPAs under the same HO.
08.	Prior intimation in case of particular menu is disabled during slowness time	Some menu options are being disabled for testing slowness of Finacle but the same is not properly communicated to gross root level.  Hence the CPAs keep on trying the menu without knowing the fact and in some times the same transaction is being done for more than one number of times. Without proper intimation, disabling of menus should not be done by infosys.
09.	Maintenance/ migration time	It is not clear that the slowness is because of migration/ DC closure.  Some times, restarting the server is needed at Data centre. These types of works may be fixed by the end of the week and the server may be exclusively used for these purposes at that time.  In these situations, we may be intimated the fact and be asked not to do transactions at these time. For instance, we may be asked to complete the works on before 1300 hrs on Saturdays.  After that, they may proceed with either maintenance work of Server or Migration activities without interruption.

   (i)         In SSA, total deposit in a Financial year should not exceed Rs.1,50,000/- but there is no provision to stop any excess deposit in any single account. The official as well as the public suffers due to excess deposit in SSA account. Mechanism to disallow any excess deposit above the limit should be provided.

 (ii)         For Cash Certificates, either the present system of Certificates with specified denomination has to be dispensed with as in banks for Fixed Deposit or Higher denomination up to Rs.100000/- to be introduced for all Post Offices as printing of cash certificates consumes much time.

(iii)         he supervisors should be given option to reconcile the errors committed by the clerks at counter while making deposit entry with reverse option as in PPF deposits.

(iv)         In RD accounts Pre Mature closure is not allowed if any advance deposits is made, till the lapse of the period up to which advance deposits has been made by the depositor. It denies the right of the depositor to close the account prematurely. Provision may be made to close the accounts with advance deposits with provision to recover the rebate given for the advance deposits.

 (v)         There is no difference between PLI AND RPLI policy  numbers as far as new accepted policies concerned, so as to get the print outs in the relevant PD DOCUMENT.

(vi)         Similar in case of AEA, GY, CHILDREN POLICIES; WLA; CWLA etc.. where in NIC it can be differentiated.

(vii)         While indexing  new RPLI proposals at  Counters, collection head is defaultedly set as PLI , and it is very difficult to refund the same if it is wrongly generated as PLI since for the said type of work, as usual, (i) FOLDER IS TO BE CREATED(ii) ECMS work is to be completed (iii) DATA ENTRY WORK IS TO BE DONE by giving irrelevant information   -    then only the same can be rejected at QUALITY CHECKER STAGE and it takes minimum 10 days to refund the amount.

(viii)         In most of the days, though entry has been made in DATA ENTRY and submitted properly, the status of the said policy/proposal will show as “ DATAENTRY RESERVED” ONLY.

(ix)         If the address of the insurant is to be changed, letter only is generated but the same could not be viewed in policy document which is very essential.

 (x)         Instructions have been issued to scan old PLI /RPLI documents for digitization with time frame.  High speed scanners are not available and it is not possible to scan with the existing scanner.

Other Issues: -

1. Shortage of Staff: - There is no recruitment from last three years and the situation is that all triple hand SO’s are functioning with two official and like-wise double hand SO’s are working with only one official. In case of LSG promotions when PA refused to accept the said promotion the post becomes vacant but the work is maintained by some other PA, resulting into more burden on PA. Therefore, it is suggested that the vacant posts of LSG may be included in the recruitment of PA’s. Same situation is noticed in case of LR Posts; all are lying vacant.

2. Introduction of new branches: -    More number of branches have been introduced in the recent year. For example CPC(PLI/RPLI) have been created at HO level, CPC(CBS) have been created at Circle Level. But there is no provision in the establishment for the said branches. The staff for the functioning of these CPC’s have been brought from other operative offices which suffers smooth working of those offices.

3. Infrastructure Problem: -   On the one side department is transforming into a new CBS environment, and on other side infrastructure situation is very bad for example UPS and Genset of most of the offices are lying out of order and furniture is not in adequate position. Our department is spending crores of rupees on these private companies and harassing own staff up to a great extent.

Apart from the above, the following major issues keep reappearing again and again:

1. Slowness in application, even collection could not be done properly.

2. Request not moving forward from one stage to another and it take too much time to load

3. New Business Indexing could not be done.

4. CSV update are in pending status from last four days.

5. ECMS correction stage error.

6. Letter generation issue is there from 09/03/2016

7. Policy bond is not generated for the proposal request approved from 09/03/2016.

8. Premium collected from 10/03/2016 is not posted to the consent policies.

9. Many policies status is not changed

10.Multiple receipt has been generated for the same period for the same policies.

The above are only the important items which shall be attended as if fire on the top roof. We are expecting immediate and swift action from the circle administration to bring the Po work into normal by making all efforts. In the event of no improvement, the Circle Union will implement the decision of the CWC by conducting various programmes culminating to one day token strike in the third week of April 2016.

May I request your response, Sir,

A line in reply about the action taken is highly solicited

Yours faithfully,

(R. N. Parashar)

General Secretary

Source : http://www.aipeup3chq.com/

ORAL EVIDENCE TO GDS COMMITTEE

A delegation of NFPE & AIPEU-GDS consisting of Com. R.N.Parashar, SecretaryyGeneral, Com.P. Pandurangarao, General Secretary, AIPEU-GDS, Com.M.Krishnan, Secretary General, Confederation  Com.K.V.Sridharan, former General Secretary, AIPEU Gr.C., Com. Giriraj singh President, NFPE and Com. Balwinder Sing, Financial Secretary, Gr.C (CHQ) tendered oral evidence before the Chairman, GDS Committee, headed by Shri Kamalesh  Chandra in  New Delhi on 26-05-2016.

 

The following are the gist of discussions and the demands placed by  delegation.

BRIEF NOTE FOR DISCUSSION IN THE GDS COMMITTEE

SCHEDULED TO BE HELD ON 26.05.2016

1.      MAIN DEMANDS

The GDS are ‘holders of civil post’ as per the Supreme Court judgement and they can not be kept apart as a separate class with in the class. They should be covered under Article 309 & 311 of the Constitution of India. They should be treated as ‘civil servants’ apart from regular service but within the ambit of ‘Civil service’ with pro rata benefits as applicable to the regular employees according to the working hours and also the workload.

Notwithstanding our claim for departmentalization of GDS and Grant of Civil status, under Article 309 & 311 of union constitution the following issues are requiring consideration.

(i)     The Nomenclature of GDS shall be declared as ‘Rural Postal Employees’ or Gramin Dak Karmachari”.

(ii)        Make GDS full time job by extending various innovative schemes.

(iii)       Prorata wages at par with regular civil servants.

2.      NORMS

        Norms may be introduced for calculation of wages instead of honorarium & incentives.

(i)       Work related to RPLI like procurement of proposal & issuing receipts

(ii)      Work related to verification of Electoral & Election work

(iii)     Work related to collecting statistics for Census etc.

(iv)     Work related to M.G. National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

(v)     Verification of Mobile Phone Bill Connections of various companies & BSNL

(vi)     Collection of Telephone Bills at BOs

(vii)    Acceptance of Electricity Bills at BOs

(viii)  Acceptance of Water Bills at BOs

(ix)    Carrying out business activities through BOs like delivering of E-post etc.

(x)  Various social security schemes & Direct Benefit Transfer schemes introduced in various States through BOs.

(xi)     Cash remittance from BOs to Accounts office.

(xii)    Opening of new accounts

(xiii)   Marketing activities.

(xiv)   Old age Pension & Disability Pension

3.      WAGE STRUCTURE

(i)        No GDS should be employed less than 5 hours work, per day.

(ii)       Maximum of 8 hours with ½ hour lunch break.

(iii)     Pay equations:

 

GDS BPM   :           Postal Assistant

 

GDS MD/SV:          Postmen

 

                 GDS Packer 

GDS MC                 MTS

GDS MM

(iv)     Increment shall be at par with regular employees.

(v)      The Nomenclature of TRCA shall be replaced with pay.

(vi)    Weightage:The length of service shall be taken and Point to Point fixation for GDS.

(vii)    Date of effect shall be 1.1.2016

(viii)  Wages should not be reduced under any circumstances.

4.      ALLOWANCES

(i)        HRA must be granted to GDS at Par with regular employees.

(ii)       Transport Allowance proportionate to regular employees.

(iii)      For attending holiday & Sunday duties, double the allowance shall be paid

(iv)      TA/DA shall be granted to seasonal Post offices.

(v)       Split Duty Allowance for GDS Packrs in Sub Offices

(vi)      Children Educational Allowance has to be introduced.

(vii)     Boat allowance shall be Rs.350/- PM.

(viii)   Special Duty Allowance to GDS (NE) – Proportionate to regular employees.

(ix)     Revival of Uttarakhand Allowance @ Rs.1000/- PM.

(x)      Grant of Remote Area/Naxalite Threat Area/Hill Area Allowance to GDS.

(xi)   Miscellaneous Allowances viz., bad climate Allowance, Project allowance may be extended.

           

5.      WELFARE

(i)    Medical Attendance facilities – Reimbursement of Medical Claims for in Patient & out Patient treatments.

(ii)    Funeral Allowance of Rs.10,000/- to the family of deceased GDS.

(iii)   Circle Welfare Fund Scheme – Subscription shall be Rs.50/- per month.

6.      LEAVE :All kinds of leave to be granted at par with regular employees-

(i)            Encashment of leave salary to be extended to GDS.

(ii)            Provision of Commuted leave facilities.

(iii)          Retrograde Provisions of 180 days shall be dispensed with.

(iv)     Maternity leave – 180 days from Government exchequer and not from the Circle Welfare Fund. Circle Welfare fund shall meant for grant for illness, education etc.

(v)            Child care leave, Child Adoption leave to GDS.

(vi)        Special disability leave to GDS – can also be extended from Dog, Snake bite etc. as in the case of Postmen.

7.      SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEME

(i)   Proportionate Minimum pension/Family Pension at par with regular employees.

(ii)   GDS shall be brought under the Gratuity Act.

(iii)  SDBS Pension Scheme shall be replaced with regular scheme. At least 10% of Pay shall be recovered from GDS & 20% shall be credited by Government as a Welfare Scheme. The present sanction of Rs.1500/- per year for Severance Amount to Pre 2011 GDS shall be enhanced.

(iv)   Commutation Pension shall be introduced.

(v)  Group Insurance Scheme – Monthly subscription Rs.100/- for the insurance coverage of Rs.2,00,000, 50% of Subscription shall be borne by the Department. Savings Fund shall be reviewed and enhanced.

  

8.      APPOINTMENT & PROMOTIONS

(i)       The word ‘engagement’ shall be replaced with appointment.

(ii)      100% Posts in MTS & Postmen cadres shall be reserved for GDS.

(iii)   GDS shall be permitted to write LGO Exam alongwith Postmen/MTS for recorded vacancies.

(iv)     Three Financial upgradations after completing 10, 20 & 30 years of service.

(v)      No Minimum service for appearing Postmen examination.

9.      CONDUCT & DISCIPLINARY RULES

(i)       The existing GDS Engagement & Conduct Rules, 2011 shall be replaced with CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965 & Conduct Rules 1964.

(ii)     The GDS Rules must be declared as statutory Rules as per proviso of Article 309.

10.  MISCELLANEOUS

(i)       Present income & cost of BOs calculation should be reviewed along with all the new items of work

(ii)      Foot beat & cycle beat may be revived.

(iii)     Idle wait of GDS MCS shall be include in the work norms.

(iv)     Uniforms to outdoor staff.

(v)    Rationalisation of GDS into three categories of GDS one Postmaster, the second Postmen and third auxiliary MTS staff. They may be fixed with only two scales of running pay (Minimum 5 hours & for upto 8 hours with uniform annual increase of 3% per annum.

(vi)      BO shall open for minimum 5 hours and maximum of 8 hours.

(vii)     GDS in Metropolitan cities shall be upgraded to MTS Posts.

(viii)   All GDS MM Posts in larger Platforms shall be upgraded to Mailmen MTS posts.

(ix)      FSC at par with Departmental Post offices to BOs.

(x)        LTC facilities may be extended to GDS

(xi)       Lunch break/Tea break shall be provided

(xii)    Total length of the GDS Service shall be taken as Qualifying service for all purposes.

(xiii) Rescind the restrictions and restore status Quo ante in case of compassionate appointments in GDS cadre.

(xiv) Advances like Festival, HBA, Motor Car, Computer Advance shall be introduced to GDS. Flood Advance shall be revised to Rs.10000/-.

(xv)  Rent for BOs shall be fixed as per the market rates and paid by the Department.

(xvi)    Office Maintenance Allowance shall be modified as ‘office rent’.

(xvii)   Electricity charges for BO shall be borne by the Department.

(xviii) Combination of duty which is having adverse effect shall be dispensed with.

(xix)   Alternate source of Income shall not be insisted for GDS appointments.

(xx)    Incentive for promoting small family norms shall be introduced to GDS also.

(xxi)    Incentive to GDS Sports Person has to be introduced.

(xxii)  Grant of TA/DA for conveyance of cash – At least Rs.100/- per occasion shall be granted.

(xxiii)  Any GDS summoned for witness in Inquiry shall be paid TA/DA

(xxiv) All terminal benefits shall be paid to GDS on the date of retirement at par with regular employees.

(xxv)   The date of retirement of shall be the last date of the month.

(xxvi)  If any additional work is entrusted, the establishment review must be under taken to enhance the pay.

(xxvii)  Security Bond system to be dropped, as per Vth CPC report.

(xxviii) Co-operative dues can be recovered from GDS.

(xxix)   BO Rule book with updated correction shall be supplied once in two years.

(xxx)    The exam fee shall be waived.

(xxxi) Identify card to the GDS shall be supplied by the Department at departmental cost.

(xxxii)There should be no loss of annual increase/increment on availing the transfer facilities to GDS.

(xxxiii)Revenue generated from all items of  work has  to be added for apportioned income of BOs.

(xxxiv)BPM should be treated as a skilled worker as it requires a technical certificate for the recruitment.

(xxxv)Training & retraining must be given frequently in the guise of Rural ICT and introduction of various new schemes.

11.  TRADE UNION

(i)   All Trade Union facilities like meetings, special casual leave etc. as if available to regular staff at all levels.

(ii)  The Facility of Foreign Service and JCM Provision shall be extended the GDS. Allocation of seats in the JCM (DC) for GDS shall be considered.

 

DATED : 26-05-2016

NEW DELHI

(P.PANDURANGARAO)

GENERAL SECRETARY
AIPEU-GDS

The Chairman, GDS Committee gave a patience hearing on the above all items and assured consideration.