7th Central Pay
Commission has quoted in para - 1.29 of " Foreword " , the following
observations of the Supreme Court in the case of Bhupendranath Hazarika and
another Vs State of Assam and others (reported in 2013 (2) Sec 516).
"It should always be borne
in mind that legitimate aspirations of the employees are not guillotined and a
situation is not created where hopes end in despair.......... A sense of calm
sensibility and concerned sincerity should be reflected in every step. An
atmosphere of trust has to prevail and when the employees are absolutely sure
that their trust shall not be betrayed and they shall be treated with dignified
fairness ; then only the concept of good governance can be concretized. We say
no more."
Unfortunately, the NDA Government
and the Group of Ministers consisting of Sri Rajnath Singh, Hon'ble Home
Minister, Sri Arun Jaitley, Hon'ble Finance Minister, Sri Suresh Prabhu,
Hon'ble Railway Minister who gave assurance on 30th June 2016 that Minimum wage
and Fitment formula will be increased and a High Level Committee will be
Constituted with a time - frame of four months , have given least concern for
the above observations of the Apex Court. Now seven months are almost over.
Further there is no guarantee that Allowance Committee will increase the
percentage of HRA recommended by 7th CPC. Instead there is every chance, to
deny retrospective effect from 01.01.2016 to the revised allowances and it may
be implemented prospectively from 01.01.2017 or 01.04.2017, thus denying the
eligible arrears for one year or more. It has become certain that the Option -
1 for pensioners recommended by 7th CPC, which is the one and only favourable
recommendation, stands rejected. Orders on abolition of Advances including Festival
advance and imposing "very good " condition for MACP are issued
unilaterally .
Request of the JCM National
Council Staff side Secretary to give one more opportunity to present it's case
before the Allowance Committee is not conceded by the Finance Secretary, who is
the Chairman of the Committee. The request of the JCM Staff side to modify the
Terms of Reference of Anomaly Committee is also not yet considered by the
Department of Personnel and Training. The Committee constituted for New Pension
Scheme is only for streamlining the NPS by making some cosmetic changes as
recommended by 7th CPC and not for considering the demand of the JCM Staff
side to scrap NPS. Not even a single demand of the staff side submitted to
Cabinet Secretary on 10th December 2016, requesting modifications in the
recommendations of 7th CPC is settled by the Government.
The All India Conference of the
Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers held in August 2016
at Chennai had taken a decision to request all constituents of NJCA to revive
the indefinite strike , if Government is not ready to honour it's commitment
before 30th October 2016. The AIC had further decided that, in case NJCA
is not ready to revive the deferred indefinite strike, then Confederation
should organise independent trade union action including strike. Confederation
strongly feels that there in no meaning in waiting indefinittely for
Government's decision. We cannot cheat the employees like NDA Government. As no
consensus decision could be taken in NJCA, Confederation had decided to
go for one day strike and organised country wide demonstrations, mass dharnas
and massive Parliament March. Strike notice for one day strike on 15th
February 2017 was served on 28th December 2016. Due to announcement of
assembly elections in five states by Election Commission of India and 15th
February being a polling day, the strike was postponed to 16th March
2017.
Intensive campaign and
mobilisation is going on in full swing all over the country. About 13 to 15
lakhs Central Government employees will participate in the strike, with the
full support and solidarity of about 34 lakhs pensioners, Central Trade Unions,
independent Federations of State Government employees, Bank and Insurance
employees and other public sector employees.
After reviewing the participation
of employees in the one day strike, Confederation shall explore the possibility
of declaring higher form of trade union action including indefinite strike .
M. KRISHNAN
Secretary General
Confederation
Mob & WhatsApp : 09447068125
Email : mkrishnan6854@gmail.com
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