Wednesday, April 30, 2014
CADRE RESTRUCTURING AGREEMENT SIGNED
NFPE- FNPO
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
FEDERATION OF NATIONAL POSTAL ORGANISATION
CENTRAL
HEAD QUARTERS, NEWDELHI
28/04/2014
* CADRE RESTRUCTURING AGREEMENT SIGNED *
At last after several round of protracted
negotiations with the administration, JCM Staff side, Departmental council (
NFPE & FNPO) has signed the cadre restructuring proposal. The staff side
has tried to the best of its ability to make maximum improvement in the
proposal. In spite of our hard bargaining we could not achieve 100 percent
success. Our demand for separate higher pay scale for PO& RMS Accountants,
Creation of separate cadre for System Administrators or grant of special pay/allowance,
bringing MTS also under cadre restructuring etc is not accepted by the
administration. Regarding Postmaster Cadre after much bargaining, it is agreed
to examine our claim for higher pay scale after the present proposal is
approved by the government.
As Govt has already appointed 7th CPC and the Pay Commission
has already published the questionnaire, any further delay in completing the
cadre restructuring will adversely affect the interest of Postal employees. We
will take up the remaining issues, which are not agreed by the administration
in the cadre restructuring committee with the 7th CPC in our
memorandum and make one more effort to get a favourable recommendation.
Taking into consideration all the above aspects and also keeping in mind
the larger interest of the employees, we have decided to sign the agreement
Copy of the agreement is published below.
The
Salient features of the agreement are as follows :
1. Number
of LSG posts will increase from 8 % to 22 %
2.
Number of HSG II posts will increase from 2 % to 12 %
3. Number
of HSG I posts will increase from 1.5 % to 4 %
4.
After completion of 2 years in HSG I the official will be promoted to 4800 GP (Non-functional
Basis)
5. The
above proposal will be applicable to RMS, Circle Office and SBCO in the same
ratio
6.
Postman/Mail guard will get the same ratio of promotion.
The present proposal is to be approved by Postal Board, DoPT & Finance
Ministry. We will make all out effort to get the proposal implemented at an
early date.
Yours
sincerely
D.Theagarajan
M.Krishnan
Secretary
General
Secretary
General
FNPO
NFPE
Abolish the New Pension Scheme from Indian Railway: Railway Minister's DO letter to Finance Minister
MALLIKARJUN
KHARGE
MINISTER FOR RAILWAYS
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
NEW DELHI
No.
2012/F(E)III/1/4-Part
29 March, 2014.
Dear
Shri P. Chidambaram ji,
Through
this letter, I wish to draw your attention to a long standing demand raised by
both Staff Federations of Railways on National Pension
Scheme (NPS) for employees of Indian Railways. The Federations have been
expressing resentment over operation in the Railways of the National Pension
Scheme, which is perceived as a lower social security cover for Railway
employees. Their contention is that there are enough grounds for Railway
employees to be treated differently from other civil employees of the Government,
and that Indian Railways should operate the traditional defined .benefit
pension scheme available to pre-01-01-2004 appointee's.
You
will recall that a few organizations/categories of Government employees were
specifically exempted from the purview of NPS on consideration of special,
riskier and more onerous nature of duties. The Federations have been drawing
parallel with of nature of duties performed by most categories of Railway
employees with those in the Armed Forces. They contend that during British
period, Railways was conceived and operated as an auxiliary wing of the Army.
It was also realized that by virtue of its complex nature, Railways required a
high level of discipline and efficiency to be able to perform its role as the
prime transport mode. Railways is an operational organization required to be
run round the clock through the year. Railway employees have to work in
inhospitable conditions, braving extreme weather, unfriendly law and order
scenario, and inherent risks associated with the Railway operations itself. As
in the Armed Forces, many have to stay away from their families
for long periods while performing duties in areas where adequate facilities are
lacking.
I
feel that there is considerable merit in
the contention of the Staff Federations. Besides the critical and complex
nature of duties of Railway employees, the hazards involved are also high.
Despite best efforts for enhanced safety measures, a large number of Railway
employees lose their lives or meet with serious injuries in the course of
performance of their duties each year.
During
the period 2007-08 to October 2011, the number of Railway employees killed
during the course of their duty has been more than number of passengers/other
members of public killed in Rail related accidents including accidents at
unmanned level crossings. While the nature of duties of Railway employees is
inherently high risk during peace time, they also perform functions of critical
importance during war time and times of natural calamities, in moving men and
materials across the country to maintain supply of essential commodities and
safeguard integrity of the nation.
In
my view, there are adequate grounds for the Government to consider exemption
for Railway employees from the purview of NPS. The implications of this would
be that Government expenditure would reduce over the next few years through
discontinuance of Government Contribution under the NPS, but the long term
liabilities would increase, as financial commitments in the defined
benefit pension scheme would be higher. Since Railways are required to
meet the pensionary outgo from their internal resources, switch
over to defined benefit pension scheme
would call for a more systematic provisioning under the Pension
Fund through appropriate revenue generating measures. With
Rail Tariff Authority on the horizon, I believe that this would be possible.
In
the light of the above, I suggest that our request for exemption from operation of the NPS be considered sympathetically and necessary
approvals communicated.
A
copy of each demands raised by the two Federations is enclosed.
With
regards,
Yours sincerely,
/sd/
(Mallikarjun Khagre)
Shri
P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister,
Government
of India, North Block,
New Delhi-110001.
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