Friday, May 11, 2012

LATEST NEWS


LATEST NEWS OF GDS DEMANDs

(i) Revising Bonus ceiling of Rs. 3500/- to GDS by citing the Cabinet Secretary’s assurance during the strike period and Minister’s assurance. The expected additional expenses have been workout to 52 crores.

(ii) The Committee constituted for consideration of GDS demands has recommended cash handling as Rs. 10000/- per point instead of Rs. 20000/-One of the Finance Ministry official was also the member and visited Assam to know the ground level realities. The file has been put up for approval.

(iii) The Committee has further recommended to include the cash remittance transactions for commutation of workload. The file has been put up to DG for approval.

(iv) Protection of TRCA – in case of reduction of workload, the BPM will be issued notice to improve the work within one year. In case if not improved, then only the reduction will be effected. Thus, protection of the same TRCA drawn earlier will be provided up to one year. The file has been put up to DG for approval.

(v) At the time of initial appointment the minimum of TRCA shall be fixed as per the workload existing in the BO and not the minimum slab of TRCA. This was agreed and the file is placed to DG for approval.

(vi) 25% outside recruitment in postman cadre has been dropped. The revised recruitment rules for Postman is under issue.


Casual Labourers

The file has been put up on Postal Board for decision and will be finalized shortly.

Cadre Restructuring

Unless the process of cadre restructuring is completed, the existing problems of PO & RMS Accountants, Systems Administrators, Creation of more posts to the Postmasters cadre to avoid transfers and declinations, providing more chances for LSG, HSG II & HSG I promotions etc. could not be resolved. We recorded our concern over the delay and proposed to hold token Fast on 21.05.2012 in front of Directorate & Circle offices.





Postal welfare Board Meeting

Postal welfare Board Meeting is scheduled to be held on 16.05.2012 at Dak Bhawan. Secretary Generals of NFPE & FNPO are attending the meeting. We are expecting several welfare decisions in the meeting which is chaired by the Hon’ble Minister of State for communication & I.T.

Law Ministry Cleared the Postman Recruitment Rules

Law Ministry Cleared the Postman Recruitment Rules. The revised recruitment rules for Postman under shortly Gazette Notification will be issued.