FLASH----HSG I RECRUITMENT RULES PUBLISHED

FLASH----HSG I RECRUITMENT RULES PUBLISHED

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POSTAL JCA DECLARES NATIONWIDE AGITATIONAL PROGRAMME PROTESTING AGAINST THE NEGATIVE ATTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENT AND POSTAL BOARD

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Ceiling Rates for reimbursement of the cost of Cardiac pacemaker, AICD, Combo-device, Rotablator and Aortic Stent Graft to beneficiaries of CGHS/CS(MA) Rules.

Ceiling Rates for reimbursement of the cost of Cardiac pacemaker, AICD, Combo-device, Rotablator and Aortic Stent Graft to beneficiaries of CGHS/CS(MA) Rules.

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NEW HSG-II & HSG-I RECRUITMENT RULES

NEW HSG-II & HSG-I RECRUITMENT RULES

After publication of HSG II New Recruitment Rules (few months back) and HSG-I New Recruitment Rules (two days back) many officials are under the impression that the length of qualifying service in LSG & HSG-II  for next promotion is changed for all officials as per the new Recruitment Rules.  It is not so.  In the HSG-II and HSG-I Recruitment Rules there is a clause which states that as far as the existing LSG & HSG II officials (as on date of publication of the new RRs) the length of service as per the old Recruitment Rules is enough  for promotion of HSG II and HSG-I.  The new length of service condition is applicable only to those officials who get promotion to LSG & HSG II after the notification of the new RRs.  All  Circle / Divisional Secretaries are requested to bring the above important clause to the notice of all concerned, so that eligible employees will not be denied  promotion.

2.       Earlier IP Line officials are posted against HSG-I Postmasters post on promotion as ASP. As per the new HSG-I Recruitment Rules all the HSG-I posts are earmarked for promotion to General line HSG-II officials and there is no IP line posts in the HSG-I now. Circle Secretaries are requested to take up the case with chief PMGs to fill up all HSG-I posts (including IP line posts) by granting promotion to General line HSG-II officials with three years HSG-II service

AIPEU GDS (NFPE) & NFPE SUBMITTED MEMORANDUM TO 7th CENTRAL PAY COMMISSION

AIPEU GDS (NFPE) & NFPE SUBMITTED MEMORANDUM TO 7th CENTRAL PAY COMMISSION

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COVERING LETTER 

MEMORANDUM COPY

Gist of the contents/items placed in Memorandum will be published soon.

Acknowledgements:

My sincere thanks to Com.K.V.Sridharan, Former General Secretary, AIPEU Gr.C., & Leader, JCM Staffside and Com.M.Krishnan, Secretary General, NFPE & General Secretary, AIPEU Gr.C., Com.R.Sivannarayana, President, AIPEU Gr.C., and all other well wishers for their valuable contribution, intensive efforts and remarkable suggestions during the preparation of this Memorandum.

Readers, please send your suggestions and remarks to the CHQ through e-mail.

= P.Pandurangarao

   General Secretary

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES

CHQ: 1^st Floor, North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110001

FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATIONS

CHQ: T- 24, Atul Grove Road, New Delhi - 110001

No.PF/GENL/2014                                                              Dated - 02-07-2014

To

Ms. Kaveri Banerjee,

Secretary,

Department of Posts,

Dak Bhavan, New Delhi - 110001

Madam,

Sub: -        Protest against arbitrary grant of Trade Union facilities to Bharathiya Postal Employees Federation (BPEF) and all its affiliated unions.

We are shocked to note that the Department has granted all Trade Union facilities to BPEF and all its affiliated unions vide your office order dated 24-06-2014.  We vehemently protest and condemn this illegal, arbitrary and discriminatory orders of the Department due to reasons stated below:

1.       In spite of the protest from recognised Postal Federations Department implemented CCS (RSA) Rules 1993 and as per the said Rules only the two Federations/Unions which secure 35% and 15% minimum membership alone will be granted recognition and trade union facilities.  Except one union, all other affiliates of BPEF secured only less than 5% membership in the last membership verification under Check-off system.  As such grant of Trade Union facilities to BPEF and all its affiliated Unions is contrary to the provisions of CCS (RSA) Rules 1993.

2.       All affiliated unions of NFPE/FNPO participated in the last membership verification held during the year 2010.  Some of the affiliates (including NUGDS of FNPO) of the above federations could not secure 15% minimum membership required for recognition.  Till this day, those unions are not granted trade union facilities.  Then how, all on a sudden, all the affiliates of BPEF with less than 5% membership is accorded trade union facilities?  This is nothing but naked discrimination.  Similarly the application for grant of Trade Union facilities to the newly formed GDS Union of NFPE is also long pending in the Directorate.

3.       During the last membership verification, BPEF has challenged the provisions of CCS (RSA) Rules 1993 and filed a case in the Chennai High Court praying for recognition to BPEF and all its affiliated unions.  Chennai High Court has rejected the arguments of BPEF and the case was dismissed.  Subsequently Department conducted membership verification and granted Recognition to NFPE and FNPO and also to its affiliated unions which secured minimum 35% / 15% membership.

This being the position, the present orders issued by the Department is against the spirit of all the existing rules on the subject and also highly discriminatory.  We request you to review the order forthwith and take action to withdraw the arbitrary orders and restore status-quo-ante.

Awaiting immediate action,

                                                         Yours faithfully,

                                                                        

D. THEAGARAJAN,                                                                              M. KRISHNAN

Secretary General, FNPO.                                                                  Secretary General, NFPE

Email: theagarajannachi@hotmail.com                                            Email: mkrishnan6854@gmail.com

Mob: 09444841440                                                                            Mob: 09447068125

FINACLE CBS push us in DEBACLE ; NFPE writes to DIRECTORATE for RESCUE

FINACLE CBS push us in DEBACLE ; NFPE writes to DIRECTORATE for RESCUE

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES

1^st Floor, North Avenue Post office Building, New Delhi - 110001

 

Ref: PF/NFPE/CBS                                                                                      Dated – 27.06.2014

To

Ms Kaveri Banerjee

Secretary

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, New Delhi – 110001

Madam,

Sub: -  Incalculable miseries and untold suffering to the operative staff in CBS rolled out offices – Immediate remedial and rescue operations sought for – reg.

At the outset, we appreciate the efforts leads to technological advancements and extend our fullest cooperation in the journey to reach the desired goals of implementing innovative customer centric services and operational efficiency enhancement by inducting state of art technology.

But to our dismay, the CBS migrated offices are now facing incalculable miseries and untold sufferings due to lack of adequate network capabilities and software support of the vendors. The following are the issues to be set right in war foot manner at the initial stage itself otherwise leads to garboil and distress among the stake holders especially among the working staff.

1)      Insufficient bandwidth Network:

            Providing of strong and stable network is base of successful implementation of India Post project.   Now almost all HOs have been given 2 MBPS bandwidth line, LSG SOs 512 KBPS line and B and C class offices have been given 256 KBPS line. If ‘India Post Project-2012’ is fully implemented, all the work of Post Offices will depend on these network. Present bandwidth speed is very less and due to low bandwidth, Finacle page is either not opening and  some time opening very slowly.   Due to this PO staff are forced to work up to night 10 pm many days. In many occasions in every CBS migrated office, the ‘Login’ is inconsistent and for each transaction “Login” is forced.

If CSI and PLI are migrated and placed on this network the situation may further worsen. Hence we request to provide at least 4 MB bandwidth line to HOs, 2 MB bandwidth line to LSG SOs and 1 MB bandwidth line to B and C class offices.

2) Failure of Sify:

            In India Post Project 2012, NI Vender is Sify. On observation of quality and quantity of service being provided by them it is very much proved that  M/S Sify is incapable to give service to this  big department.  They do not have sufficient skilled manpower and it seems that they are not intending to give good quality service also.   At initial stage itself they have not made proper survey of all offices.  Before installing and commissioning they were very keen on taking installation report from concerned Postmasters/Sub Postmasters. 

            It is told that, as per MOU, all offices should be provided with NSP-1 and NSP-2 lines.  In almost all offices, NSP-1 is BSNL line and NSP-2 is either Sify line or Airtel datacard.   It is observed that in many offices they have installed Airtel datacard ,where as  Airtel signal is  not available at that place.

            It is also observed that M/S Sify is not recharging Airtel datacard  installed.  Instead they are recharging on receipt of complaint from concerned offices.  By doing this they are deviating from MOU and leaving the staff in the field in distress.

3) Finacle Problem:

            If we come to Finacle part, it is another tragedy.   Initially it was boosted that Finacle is fully foolproof software and successfully implemented in many banks.  We could not understand why Infosys is not utilizing experience gained in banks and  implementing  here.  There are so many bugs in the software and  more surprisingly  even after lapse of 6 months of implementation, nothing is changed.   All the issues raised at the time of January-2014 is still not resolved.  Moreover Finacle server becomes inaccessible many time in peak business hours or responds very slow. It is a naked truth that we are losing clientle and distancing from the customers only due to faulty service of vendors.

4) Lack of Guidance:

            No separate rulings are received to suit Finacle Environment. No authorities are giving authoritative guidance on many issues. 

For example

§  Role of SOSB in HO after implementation of Finacle at SOs,

§  Role of SBCO at HO

§  Fate of manual records on transfer accounts from one Finacle office to other etc.

5) Supply of Printers and Computers:

            At initial stage  new Computers and printers are supplied to pilot offices.  Rest of the offices are having   more than 5 year old  Computers and Printers  which are not suitable to present scenario.  Administration is pressing  hard to migrate offices without supplying required hardware. The old computers and peripherals either to be revamped or replaced to make it compatiable to the present environment.

6) Problem of User credentials:

            One each User credential is given to  trained staff.  But it is not clearly told what action to be taken while SPM/PA goes on leave especially in B class offices.   As sharing of  user credential is very  risky and dangerous, alternative arrangement  should be made immediately.

7) Due to slow network and frequent failure of server customers of the department are frustrated and moving out the department and needed immediate attention.

8. You may aware that we are struggling with outdated Computers and peripherals, which were purchased during the year 2000 to 2005 and immediate supply of needy new hardware to ensure the technological transformation in and effective manner.

9. Even proper up gradation of CPU is not made in many areas and the Software loaded is upto Windows XP in most of the offices. Presently it is a fact that windows XP is not supported by the Microsoft with updates.

10. Finacle can be better loaded with Windows 7 and hence the officers at ground level are pressurized to use pirated version of Windows 7, which may lead to litigation with Microsoft apart from non supporting with updates.

11. The MOU made with M/s Sify, for net work integration is limiting to low bandwidth such as 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps in many areas, serving with 1 server and 4 to 5 nodes, resulting in sluggish connectivity and takes hours together to transform the data. This results in hang over and the transactions could not be able to be made at the instant, as the Department expects, It requires atleast 2 to 4 Mbps and M/s Sify refused to increase the bandwidth now.

12. Further in the Data Centre, it requires to the level of 400 Mbps on the Network to receive the Data transmitted at a time from all the 680 offices but Sify is learnt to be provided with a minimum of 200 Mbps capacity. This affects the receipt of data from the end users at a time and take hours to complete the process. Further expansion is required when there is further migration.

13. The area of occupation in the main server at Mumbai maintained by M/S Reliance Ltd. is also not sufficient, which results in sluggish transmission of data from the entire 680 offices at present, at a time and even the validation cannot be made before 8:00 PM or 10:00 PM on all the days.

14. End of day process cannot be made even on daily basis and the staff have to wait for the nod from the Infosys even after midnights on several days and at times it can be made on the next day morning. Even the women employees are compelled to complete the EOD process in midnights and their husbands or wards waiting till midnights to take them to home.

15. Even the Help desk provided is not answering and the end users are taken to task and receiving brick bats from the irate public.

16. This results in closing of accounts in large numbers that too, can be made not on the date of presentation but after few days and our Department looses large chunk of customers, because of the miscalculations, wrong estimations and over ambitious activities and inadequate technological support.

17. Even the first and prestigious ATM of our Department unveiled by the ex Finance Minister Sri. P. Chidambaram at T. Nagar HO is not functioning from the date of installation and only 10 ATM cards are supplied on the first instant, that too only to the staff and some friendly users of T. Nagar HPO. But the ATM is provided with 24x7 A/C and a paid Guard, making huge loss to the Department and receiving severe criticism from the Print media.

18. The women employees should be relieved from this area of operation, till the situation improves, in order to avoid late night stays at offices inviting gender problems and unsafe returns to their home at midnights.

19. Further, adequate hardware and infrastructure should be given immediately to the CBS migrated offices with sufficient man power and proper remuneration for the extended hours, the staffs re serving.

20. In spite of all above cited problems the Postal staff is being worked on finacle software as matter of challenge and trying to give best services to the customers. In spite of all efforts the customers are not satisfying/delighting which hampers the reputation of the department. No PO which is upgraded with finacle are being closed before 8 PM every day. We are ready to work hard provided, solution for above problems are to be solved.

It is requested to sort out all the issues arising out of the CBS Migration and all the vendors need to be instructed to provide all the technological support as required by the field staff. As this is the pilot and sorting stage, if we failed to pull up the vendors to the level of expectation and necessity, later full implementation, restoration may be difficult with this vendor support.

It is further requested to spare some time and provide opportunity to present and brief our case in person for the welfare of our department staff and the clientle. Your immediate intervention as if house on fire is requested.

A line in reply is highly appreciated.

With profound regards,

Yours faithfully,

(M. Krishnan)

Secretary General

AIPEU GDS (NFPE) ANNOUNCED STRUGGLE PROGRAMME ..

AIPEU GDS (NFPE) ANNOUNCED STRUGGLE PROGRAMME ..

GDS CIVIL SERVANT STATUS

DEPARTMENTALIZATION of BOs

INCLUSION OF GDS IN 7^th CENTRAL PAY COMMISSION

AIPEU GDS (NFPE) APPEALS TO THE NEW PRIME MINISTER & MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS & IT TO DO JUSTICE TO 2.76 LAKS GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS OF POSTAL DEPARTMENT

JULY 2014

SUBMISSION OF MASS MEMORANDUM BY MORE THAN TWO LAKH GDS 

TO HON’BLE PRIME MINISTER & MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS&IT 

16^th JULY 2014.

MASS DHARNA INFRONT OF ALL DIVISIONAL OFFICES 
  

  5^th AUGUST 2014.

MASS DHARNA INFRONT OF ALL CIRCLE / REGIONAL OFFICES  

FROM 15th TO 19^th SEPTEMBER 2014

5 DAYS RELAY HUNGER FAST IN FRONT OF ALL CIRCLE OFFICES 

FOLLOWED BY PARLIAMENT MARCH

(Dates will be declared after confirming the dates of Parliament session)

Dear Comrades,

General Elections are over and a new Government has come to power. The UPA Government which has not done justice to GDS employees and the common people of the country and faced a humiliating defeat. Now it is the turn of Shri Narendra Modi Government.  New Communications Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad has taken charge. People of the country has high expectations about the Govt. As the Govt. has only just taken charge, from our earlier experiences, coming to any sudden conclusion about the Govt., may not correct.

7^th Central Pay Commission & GDS

Even before the terms of reference of the 7^th CPC is declared by the Govt., the recognized GDS Union has signed an agreement with the Department accepting separate Committee. Naturally, the Govt., excluded GDS from the Terms of Reference of 7^th CPC. NFPE, AIPEU GDS (NFPE) & Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers conducted two days strike on Feb 12^th & 13^th 2014 demanding inclusion of GDS in 7^th CPC. The recognized Union cheated the GDS. As election was declared during April & May,  we could not conduct any further agitation during the said period. As per the call of NFPE & Confederation, we conducted intensive campaign against the anti-GDS stand of the UPA Govt., and also against the cheating of the recognized GDS Union.

SUPREME COURT TRANSFERRED THE CASE TO DELHI HIGH COURT AND FIRST HEARING TOOK PLACE ON 13-01-2014.

You are well aware that NFPE & AIPEU GDS (NFPE) filed a Writ Petition in the Supreme Court, requesting :

(1)   Implementation of the 1977 Supreme Court Judgment and grant of Civil Servant status and all  benefits of Departmental employees  to GDS.

(2)   Scraping of the GDS (Conduct&Engagment) Rules 2011

(3)   Inclusion of GDS under 7^th CPC.

The case is came up for hearing on 07-05-2014. Advocate for the Govt., of India, Department of Posts appeared in High Court and requested six weeks extension of time for filing their reply statement. The High Court granted six weeks time for Govt., and also time for filing additional reply statement, if any,  by our Advocate. Next hearing of the case is on 19^thSeptember, 2014, the anniversary day of 1968 Sept 19^th strike and 19^th September 1984 was the first one day  strike only for the cause of  GDS Employees.

BEFORE GOING FOR AN AGITATIONAL PROGRAMME ON GDS DEMANDS, SUBMISSION OF MASS MEMORANDUM TO PRIME MINISTER & COMMUNICATION MINISTER

As the new Govt. has just taken charge, it will not be appropriate on our part to go for an agitation immediately. Further such a sudden agitation may not get public support also. Hence the CHQ has decided to submit a mass memorandum signed by maximum number of GDS about two lakhs to the Prime Minister of India & Communications Minister in the month of July 2014. 

The copy will be supplied to all Branches & Divisions by the CHQ.

Proforma of the Memorandum will be published in the web sites also. Please obtain maximum signatures of GDS in the Memorandum and submit to CHQ before 15-07-2014 to the following address :

P.Pandurangarao

General Secretary

AIPEU GDS (NFPE)

Dada Ghosh Bhawan

2151/1, New Patel Road

New Delhi – 110 008

Agitation will start intensively in the month of August 2014 if the Govt., takes a negative stand or delaying tactics. As Seventh Central Pay Commission has already commenced its work, we can not wait indefinitely.

FIRST PHASE OF AGITATION

One day mass dharna infront of all Divisional Offices on 16th July 2014 

SECOND PHASE :

One day mass dharna in front of all Chief PMG &  Regional PMG Offices on 5th August 2014.

THIRD PHASE :

Relay hunger fast in front of all Chief Post Master General Offices for five (5) days from 15th to 19th September 2014.

FOURTH PHASE

Massive Parliament Dharna and March in October / November 2014

(Dates will be decided after the announcement of the dates of Parliament sessions)

FIFTH PHASE

If the Govt., still refuses to concede the demands of GDS, the CWC of AIPEU GDS (NFPE) shall meet and Trade Union action including indefinite strike will be decided. In the mean time the decision of the Delhi High Court may also come.

All Circle / Branch / Divisional Secretaries are requested to make the above programmes a grand success.

Yours fraternally

(P.Pandurangarao)

General Secretary