Secretary, Department of Posts, Mrs. Manjula Prashar held
discussions with the leaders of NFPE and FNPO on 21.05.2012. Ms. Yasodhara
Menon, Member (Personnel), Sri. Salim Haque, DDG (P), Sri. V. P. Singh, DDG
(Estt) and Sri. Subhash Chander, Director (SR) were also present. The staff
side was represented by Com. M. Krishnan, Secretary General NFPE, Sri. T. N.
Rahate, President, FNPO, Com. K. V. Sridharan, General Secretary, P3 &
Leader, Staff Side Departmental Council JCM, Com. Giriraj Singh, General
Secretary, R3 & Secretary, Staff Side, Com. Iswar Singh Dabas, General
Secretary, P4, Com. Pranab Bhattacharjee, General Secretary, Admin. Union, Com.
T. Satyanarayana, General Secretary, AIPAEA, Sri. H. N. Siddiqui, General
Secretary, R4 (FNPO). Item wise discussion was held and following decisions
arrived at.
1. Separate orders communicating the decision
that no mail office will be closed for next three years and no dislocations of
staff to places outside headquarters.
Instructions
issued vide letter no. 28-8/2011-D dated 14.05.2012 (copy already given). Staff side pointed out
that the meeting with Member (Operations) to discuss the issues arising out of
implementation of L1, L2 has not been taken place, inspite of the clear orders
given by Secretary, Posts. It is assured that the meeting with Member (O) will
be arranged on 29.05.2012 after noon.
2. Orders communicating the decision about no
closure/merger of post offices if no simultaneous relocation is possible.
Instructions
issued vide letter No. 40-6/2011-Plg (Pt)f dated 21.02.2012. Copy of the orders
will be supplied to the staff side.
3. Revision of wages to Casual labourers and
absorption
At present,
the draft memo placed to the Postal service Board is at the approval stage. It
may require two more weeks after outcome of the decision of the Postal Services
Board on the issues of revision of wages and absorption.
4. Revised recruitment Rules for Group D and
Postmen as agreed upon and syllabus for Group D examination.
Clearance from
DOP&T has already been received. Files bearing NOs 37 - 33 / 2009 - SPB - I concerned
with the subject matter is already under submission to Ministry of Law for
vetting the draft for amendment in Recruitment Rules of Postmen/MTS. On Receipt
of the same from M.O Law, the RRs will be sent to Government press for
necessary Gazette notification. Action for filling up the vacancies of Postmen
and MTS for the year 2011 and 2012 will be taken after that.
5. Revision of cash handling norms to GDS
and ensuring no reduction of TRCA under any circumstances and enhancing the
Bonus ceiling to 3500/- and revise the cash allowance to BPM-at the rate of Rs.
50/- per trip instead of a month.
Protection of
allowance (TRCA) and cash handling - order will be issued shortly as assured by
the Minister of States, Communications. Regarding the enhancing of Bonus
ceiling to Rs. 3500/- a proposal has been submitted to Ministry of Finance,
Department of Expenditure for approval on 22.03.2011.
Regarding the
issue of cash allowance to GDS for remittance of cash, the case is under
process.
6. Orders revising the instructions
liberalizing the powers to the Divisional heads instead of Circle heads in case
of tenure posting to C and B class offices.
Orders under
issue.
7. Reiteration of the earlier
instructions on the grant of special pay to unqualified Accountants &
counting of Special allowance for pay fixation without filing SLP against
Bangalore High Court Judgement.
Regarding
unqualified Accountants special allowance orders are under issue. Regarding
counting of special allowance for pay fixation CPMG Karnataka Circle has been
asked to file SLP, in the Apex Court on the advise of the Ministry of Finance,
Department of Expenditure.
8. Circulation of clarification given to
Punjab Circle to the remaining circles also in respect of protection of pay of
defunct PO & RMS Accountants.
Integrated
Finance wing has sought some further inputs on the issue and action is being
taken thereon.
9. Orders on forcible allotment of staff
quarters to the town SOs Sub Postmasters as post attached quarters.
Instructions
issued vide memo no. 18-9/2010-Bldg dtd. 10.05.2012.
10. Non supply of balance statement of NPS to
the officials as on 31.03.2011
The statement
of transactions (SOTs) of the subscribers of Central Govt. for the period
1.4.10 to 30.06.2011 have already been dispatched to the subscribers in the
format approved by PFRDA by NSDL Mumbai vide letter dated 19.9.11. All the
Directors of Accounts (Postal) have been informed about the dispatch of SOT
vide letter No. 6-5/PA Book-I/NPS Procedure/2011-12/1960-89 dated 018.11.11.
The staff side
reported that the required balance statement is still not circulated to the
concerned. It is assured that this aspect will be examined and further action
will be taken.
11. Enhancement of Financial powers of LSG, HSG
II and HSG-I
This is under
examination.
12. Enhancing the honorarium for invigilators
engaged in departmental examinations.
Orders issued
vide No. A.34020/17/2008-De dated 26.04.2012.
13. Allowing physically handicapped officials
for appearing IPO Examinations.
Under active
consideration in consultation with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
14. Orders on drawal of cash handling allowance
to Treasurers, Accountants irrespective of their position in the MACP.
A reference
has been made to the DOPT in this regard. The argument of the staff side that
it should be decided in the department itself will be considered and decided
shortly.
15. Finalisation of the cadre Review proposals:
It is assured
that the proposals of the committee will be finalised before 30.06.2012. The
next sitting of the committee will be held on 29.05.2012 forenoon.
16. Payment of incentive instead of honorarium
for attending the PLI/RPLI work at Divisional offices after decentralization.
Case has
already been processed and is in pipeline.
17. Orders for repatriation of officials deputed
for PLI/RPLI work to CO/RO to their home divisions
All officials
deputed for PLI/RPLI work to RO/CO from Divisional have been asked to be
repatriated vide letter No. 30-1/2010/LI dated 27.01.2012.
18. Allowing Postmaster cadre officials to
appear for IPO/PSS Group B examination.
The proposal
has been examined and as observed, it does not fall in line with the existing
instructions as these are two different streams and the postmaster cadre
Recruitment Rules clearly says that these officials will not have any claim in
the promotional channel of General line
officials. The staff side insisted that postmaster cadre officials should not
be deprived of the promotional chances of their counterpart in the general line
against IPO/PSS Group B posts. Further they demanded that 100% of Senior
Postmasters Posts should be reserved for the Postmasters cadre alone. It was
agreed to have a relook into the entire issue.
19. Orders permitting postmaster cadre officials
to officiate in HSG-I vacancies.
The matter has
been examined. Not found feasible as per Recruitment Rules. On insistence of
the staff side it is agreed to have a relook in to the matter.
20. DO letter from Member (P) to all Circles
heads to fill up all posts of Sorting Postmen, Mail overseers, cash overseer
and Head Postmen
Orders issued
vide No. 37-4/2012-SPB-I dated 19.04.2012
21. Allowing MTS to decline promotion to postmen
cadre under seniority quota without loosing MACP promotion.
Orders will be
issued shortly.
22. Reiteration of the instructions for
rotational transfer for SBCO staff by notifying clusture of divisions.
Orders issued
vide No. 141-91/2012-SPB-II dated 02.04.2012
23. Issue instructions to all for ensuring
filling up of all sanctioned LR Posts.
Orders will be
issued shortly.
24. Prompt grant of child care leave – Issue
instructions
Instructions
reiterated vide letter No. 51-3/2011-SPB-II dated 10.05.2012.
25. Clarifications to be issued on MACP as
agreed upon on the following.
(i) MACP will
not be deferred on the ground of contemplated disciplinary/Vigilence proceedings.
Orders under
issue.
(ii)
Instructions on review of ACRs/APArs by Scrutiny committee.
Orders issued
to complete the process before 30.06.2012, if not already done vide memo No.
4-7/(MACP)/2009-PCC (Part) Dt. 15.05.2012.
(iii) Recovery orders by DA(P) in the matter
of pay fixation of MACP in case of MTS.
This
will be sorted out early.
(iv) Cases
relating to declining promotion prior to the issue of MACP orders (Prior to
2009)
Orders under issue.
26. Issuing clear instructions to all Chief PMGs
that in the city areas where RO/Cos are situated decentralization of RPLI/PLI
should not be done to city postal divisions, instead the work will be done by
RO/CO staff as done before.
Agreed to
issue detailed instructions to all Chief PMGs/PMGs in additional to the
instructions already issued on 27.01.2012.
27. Issue orders on the terms finalized by the
Postmen Committee and also follow up action on the certain items to be referred
to work study unit.
The
recommendations of the committee are under process. Orders will be issued on
all the agreed items.
28. Cadre restructuring and settlement of Group
– D and sorter issue relating to Postal Accounts.
Cadre restructuring
proposal sent to Integrated Finance wing for their concurrence is at present
with Postal Estt Branch. It is assured to expedite case.
Group D &
Sorter anomaly: The information has been called for from all circle postal
accounts offices. On receipt of the same the case will be examined further.
29. Follow up action on Civil Wing issues.
The R/Rules
are presently pending with M/o Law & Justice. Will be notified immediately after it is
cleared and further action will be taken.
30. Examination of CRC & EPF norms
Logistics
Posts: Committee formed to work out the handling norms of Logistics Post has
submitted its report. In view of observation of IFA(BD), DDG(Estt) has been
addressed to provide extant provision for formulation of handling norms for
new/existing service so that recommendations of committee can be further
examined. Reply is awaited from
DDG(Estt).
EPP: a
Committee has been formed to work out the handling norms for EPP. The Committee has carried out preliminary
exercise in its first meeting.
Recommendations of the meeting are awaited.
The staff side raised the following issues also and position
is explained as under:
(i) PA/SA
Recruitment for 2011 and 2012- Orders issued. Time line will be fixed for
calling for applications, examination etc.
(ii) Postmen, MTS
posts filling – orders will be issued alter notifying the revised recruitment
rules removing 25% outside recruitment in Postmen cadre and related changes in
MTS RRS.
(iii) System
administrators TA case – will be reexamined, Staff side may submit a detailed
note.
(iv) HSG-I
Recruitment Rules – Pursuing vigorously with DOPT, UPSC etc. It is in the final
stage.
(v) Station
tenure orders of Group – C employees – Clarificatory orders are under issue.
(vi) Revision of
OTA rates – case already taken up with Finance Ministry Staff Side is requested
to submit fresh proposals.
(vii) JCM standing
committee minutes – Copy of Action Taken report supplied to staff side.
Subjects will be called for the next periodical meeting.
.JPG)
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