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CIRCULAR  DATED 2-11-2016

To

1)All National Secretariat Members (CHQ Office Bearers)

2)Chief Executives of all Affiliated organisations.

3)General Secretaries of all C-O-Cs.

15th DECEMBER 2016
PARLIAMENT MARCH

*  AGAINST THE BREACH OF ASSURANCE BY THE GROUP OF MINISTERS.

*      DEMANDING SETTLEMENT THE 20 POINT CHARTER OF DEMANDS.

CAMPAIGN
AND MOBILISATION PROGRAMME

“We cannot be a party to any proposal, which may be considered as a surrender of the principled stand by the common workers”.

           -   Com.K.G.Bose, the Legendary Leader of the Central Government Employees, who carried on the battle for a militant line against the reformist and class collaborationist influence dominating the Central Government employees movement.

Dear Comrades,

        The National Secretariat of the Confederation has decided to organise intensive campaign and mobilisation to make the 15th December 2016 Parliament March a resounding success.  With the active support and involvement of all affiliates and C-O-Cs only, we will be able to ensure participation of not less than 20000 Central Govt. Employees in the Parliament March.  The message of the march and rally should reach each and every Central Government employee.  All affiliated organisations and C-O-Cs are requested to organise largely attended campaign meetings at all centres mentioned in the enclosed campaign programme.  The place and dates of the programme and the names of the leaders attending the campaign meetings at each place is furnished.  Change of date can be made by mutual consultation between the National Secretariat members and the leaders of C-O-Cs/Affiliated organisations of each state/District.  Campaign Programme should be completed before 12th December, 2016.

MAKE THE 7TH NOVEMBER 2016 MASS DHARNA A GRAND SUCCESS AT ALL CENTRES:

        The Second phase of the agitational programmes announced by Confederation is mass dharna at all centres.  All affiliates and C-O-Cs are requested to make the programme a grand success.  Please ensure maximum participation of employees in the programme.

                                                                    Fraternally Yours,

                                                                        M. Krishnan,

                                                                    Secretary General,

                                                                   Mob: 09447068125

                                                      Email: mkrishnan6854@gmail.com.

NB:  The Mobile Numbers of all leaders participating in the campaign programme will be published in the website shortly.  Affiliates and C-O-Cs are requested to contact leaders and fix the programme taking into consideration their convenience. 

Campaign Programme

Sl	State	Place	Date	Leaders attending
1.	Maharashtra	Nagpur	30-11-2016	M.S. Raja,  R.N Parashar  Ravi Nair Nillesh D. Nazare R. P. Sigh K.V. Jayaraj
		Mumbai	29-11-2016	,,
		Pune	01-12-2016	‘’
2	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	22-11-2016	Giriraj Singh Yashwanth Purohit T.K. R. Pillai Gurprit Singh
		Gwalior	23-11-2016	,,
		Indore	24-11-2016	,,
		Ratlam	25-11-2016	,,
3	Rajasthan	Alwar	1-12-2016to  10-12-2016	Vrigu Bhattacharjee R. Seethalakshmi
		Jaipur	‘’	‘’
		Ajmer	‘’	‘’
		Udaipur	‘’	‘’
		Kota	‘’	‘’
		Jodhpur	‘’	‘’
4	Haryana	Panipat	1-12-2016 to 10-12-2016	Giriraj Sigh  Vrigu Bhattacharjee Rupak sarkar K.P. Sigh
		Ambala	‘’	‘’
		Kurukshetra	‘’	‘’
		Faridabad	‘’	,,
		Rohtak	,,	,,
		Gurgaon	‘’	‘’
5	Punjab	Chandigarh	1-12-2016to 10-12-2016	R.N. Parashar, Rupak Sarkar
		Jallundhar	‘’	‘’
		Ludhiana	‘’	‘’
		Patiala	‘’	‘’
		Amristar	‘’	‘’
6	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	21-11-2016	M.S. Raja
		Solan	22-11-2016	‘’
7	Uttar Pradesh	Mathura	1-12-2016 to  10-12-2016	M. Krishnan, S.B. Yadav Subash Chandra Pandey Vikram Shah JP Sigh Subhash Misra
		Agra	,,	,,
		Ghaziabad	,,	,,
		Meerut	,,	,,
		Aligarh	,,	,,
		Kanpur	,,	,,
		Luknow	,,	,,
		Allahabad	,,	,,
		Varanasi	,,	,,
		Gorakhpur	,,	,,
		Bareilly	,,	,,
		Jhansi	,,	,,
8	Chattisgarh	Raipur	24-11-2016	P. Sumesh Viranda Tiwari
9	Bihar	Patna	22-11-2016	Pijush Roy Shanthanu Bhattachajee Janardhan Majumdar
		Muzaffarpur	23-11-2016	,,
10	Jharkhand	Ranchi	24-11-2016	Pijush Roy  Shanthanu Bhatacharjee Janardhan Majumndar
		Dhanbad	25-11-2016
11	Delhi	Civil lines (Old Sectt)	1-10-2016 to 12-10-2016	President, Secretary General And all other National Secretariat Members available at CHQ
		R.K. Puram	,,	,,
		ITO Complex	,,	,,
		AGCR Bluding	,,	,,
		CGO Complex	,,	,,
		Delhi GPO	,,	,,
		ND GPO	,,	,,
		Printing and Stationary (Mint) Road)	,,	,,
12	Gujarath	Vadodara	22-11-2016	Ashok Kumar Kanojia Vinendra Tiwari P. Suresh
		Surat	23-11-2016	,,
		Ahmedabad	24-11-2016	,,
		Rajkot	25-11-2016	,,
13	Uttarakhand	Dehardun	23-11-2016	M.S. Raja Arup Chatterjee
14	Karnataka	Bangalore	28-11-2016	M.S. Raja R. Seethalekshmi R.B. Suresh P.S. Prasad
15.	Tamilnadu	Chennai	25-11-206	K.K. N. Kutty T. Narasimhan Nageswara Rao Mani Achari
16	West Bengal	Kolkata	21-11-2016	K.K.N. Kutty Bibhash Dey Pijush Roy Tapas Bose
17	Andhra/Telangana	Hydrabad	18-11-2016	KV. Jayaraj T. Narasimhan A.Balasundram S. Santhosh kumar P. Panduranga Rao
18.	Kerala	Ernakulam (Kochi)		M. Krishnan  Gopalakrishnan Nair
19	Assam/ North East	Guwahati	22-11-2016	K.K.N. Kutty Tapas Bose Subir  Kr.  Majumdar
20.	Odisha	Bhubaneshwar		M. Krishnan R. N. Parashar

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LESSONS OF THE GDS BONUS STRUGGLE

M. Krishnan

Secretary General, Confederation & Ex.SG, NFPE.

                      The Govt. of India had issued the orders for payment of enhanced bonus to all Central Govt. Employees on 29-10-2016.  The bonus calculation ceiling is raised from Rs.3,500/- to Rs.7,000/- from 01-04-2014.  Accordingly the bonus payment to all regular employees for the financial year 2014-15 and 2015-16 was paid with arrears at the enhanced rate of Rs.7,000/- in August 2016.  Unfortunately the Postal Board refused to issue enhanced bonus ceiling in respect of about three lakh Gramin Dak Sevaks working in the Department of Posts.  It referred the case to Gramin Dak Sevaks Committee for recommendations. 

                   The previous GDS Committee headed by Shri Nataraja Murthy had made a retrograde recommendation in its report.  As per that recommendation the productivity of GDS is only 50% of the regular employees and hence it recommended only 50% bonus paid to regular employees to GDS.  At that time the bonus calculation ceiling was Rs.3,500/-.  As per Nataraja Murthy Committee, the GDS are eligible for Rs.1,750/- calculation ceiling only.  Hence the Postal Board refused to extend the enhanced bonus ceiling of Rs.3,500/- for GDS.  Against this stand NFPE and AIPEU-GDS along with Postal Joint Council of Action including FNPO and NUGDS conducted series of agitational programmes including strike.  Postal JCA discussed the case with the then Minister of Communications also.  Finance Ministry rejected the case for enhancement of bonus to 3,500/- three times inspite of favourable recommendations from Minister, Communications. Finally, after prolonged struggle the Finance Ministry  approved the enhancement and orders for grant of bonus at the rate of Rs.3,500/- was issued for Gramin Dak Sevaks also. 

                   This time, the Chairman of the GDS Committee, Shri Kamalesh Chandra, took a different stand.  The Committee recommended the enhanced bonus of Rs.7,000/- to GDS also.  It stated that the overall revenue generated by GDS Post offices and the overall expenditure for running the GDS Post offices is almost equal.  The actual deficit on account of GDS is only 200 crores, whereas the total deficit of Postal department is more than 6000 crors.  That means the loss on account of GDS is very meagre when compared to the loss incurred for running the departmental post offices, RMS and Administrative Offices.  Hence, Shri Kamalesh Chandra Committee made a favourable recommendation to Postal Board to grant enhanced bonus to GDS at the rate of Rs.7,000/-.  Postal Board sent the file to Finance Ministry for approval.  The Finance Ministry after detailed study, gave approval and Department of Posts issued orders on 27-10-2016.

Role played by NFPE & AIPEU - GDS:

                   NFPE and AIPEU-GDS under the leadership of Com.R.N.Parashar, Secretary General, NFPE and Com. P.Panduranga Rao, General Secretary, AIPEU-GDS, gave call for agitational programmes along with FNPO & NUGDS, protesting against the discrimination shown towards GDS and demanding enhanced bonus calculation ceiling of Rs.7,000/- to GDS also for the financial year 2014-15 and 2015-16 also demanding payment of revised wages to all casual, part-time, contingent employees from 01-01-2006.  It conducted nationwide protest demonstrations and mass dharna in front of all Circle/Regional and Divisional Offices.  It declared indefinite hunger fast in front of Postal Directorate (Dak Bhavan, New Delhi) from 3rd November 2016 and two days strike on 9th &10th November, 2016.  Notice for the two days strike was served to the Secretary, Department of Posts on 20-10-2016.  Intensive campaign was undertaken throughout the country and the response from employees was overwhelming.

Departmental Employees and GDS unity is exhibited:

                   In 1984, first time in the history of Postal Trade Union movement the Postmen,Group D & EDAs Union (NFPE) under the leadership of late Com. Adinarayana, the legendary leader, gave a call for nation-wide one day strike on 19th September 1984 exclusively for one demand ie; the demand of the Extra Departmental employees.  Again after 32 years NFPE & AIPEU-GDS along with FNPO & NUGDS took a historic decision to go for two days nation- wide strike on 2016 November 9th & 10th, both by departmental employees and Gramin Dak Sevaks, exclusively for the demands of most down-trodden section of GDS and Casual Labourers.  No other demand of departmental employees was added to the charter of demands.  We proved that NFPE, AIPEU-GDS and Postal JCA always stood with the GDS and Casual Labourers and the departmental employees declared that GDS and Casual Labourers are our own family members and we will not tolerate any discrimination and shall go for  two days strike for GDS and Casual Labourers.  This is really an inspiring experience. 

Role of recognised GDS Union:

                   The recognised GDS Union of Shri S.S.Mahadevaiah, earlier used to declare that I will go for indefinite strike only as no purpose will be served by one day or two days strike.  He has written many write-ups and circulars earlier criticising NFPE & AIPEU-GDS for one day or two day’s strike.  The same leader, who earlier said that I don’t believe in one day or two days strike, this time was afraid of the NDA Government and decided to go for two days strike on 25th & 26th October 2016.  He has not made any campaign other than giving strike notice.  His list of new office bearers elected in the belated last  All India Conference was pending before the Directorate for approval. He was afraid of loosing recognition, if he goes on strike.  The Department of Posts has clearly informed him about the consequences of the strike.  After discussion with Department he surrendered and agreed to withdraw the strike and his strike call was withdrawn on 24-10-2016 itself, even before the approval of the Finance Ministry.  The leader who used to criticise others for deferring the strike earlier, has ran away from the battle field half way, fearing withdrawal of recognition.  Thus the real face of the recognised union leader was exposed before the entire postal employees.  NFPE has already reminded him earlier itself that- '' you can make fools some GDS for sometimes but cannot make fool all GDS for all time”.  Sri Mahadevaiah is afraid of facing membership verification also and is requesting  the department every time for extension.

NFPE, AIPEU-GDS and PJCA stand-

        Departmental held discussion with NFPE, AIPEU-GDS, FNPO& NUGDS.  They have also cautioned the leaders on the consequences of the strike.  But, unlike Shri Mahadevaiah who ran away from battle field fearing de-recognition NFPE, AIPEU-GDS and PJCA took a  bold stand and declared that we will not  withdraw the strike unless and until orders for payment of enhanced bonus is issued by Department and we are ready to face any victimisation.  It also demanded issuing of instructions regarding casual labourer wages.  Finally department issued GDS bonus orders on 27-10-2016.  It has already issued orders for payment of Casual Labour wages from 01-01-2006 and agreed to issue strict instructions to all Chief PMGs for implementation.

GDS Committee and role of NFPE & AIPEU-GDS

        Government has appointed a separate GDS committee under the Chairmanship  of Retired Postal Board Member Shri Kamlesh Chandra.  Our demand for inclusion of GDS also under the purview of 7th CPC was not accepted by the NDA Government  NFPE and AIPEU-GDS has submitted a detailed memorandum to GDS Committee.  A delegation of NFPE and AIPEU-GDS has met the Chairman, GDS Committee three times and tendered oral evidence.  Our main demand is grant of Civil Servant Status and grant of all benefits of departmental employees to GDS.  The GDS Committee has  informed that it will submit it’s  recommendations to Government in November 2016 .  If the recommendations are against the interest of the GDS, NFPE & AIPEU-GDS will definitely go for struggle including strike along with postal JCA. 

        The recognised GDS Union of Shri Mahadevaiah could  not settle any of the demands  of GDS during the last more than 15 years.  He don’t believe in the unity of GDS and departmental employees.  He is treating the departmental employees and their recognised federations ( NFPE & FNPO) as the enemy of GDS.  He is also against the united movement of Central Government Employees and Confederation of Central Government Employees and workers.

                   In the above circumstances it is the duty of every GDS employee to strengthen NFPE and APIEU-GDS.  It is proved that only a United Struggle of departmental employees and GDS can settle the genuine demands of GDS employees.  Realising this fact, all the GDS are requested to vote for AIPEU-GDS, by submitting the authorisation letters (declaration forms) in favour of AIPEU-GDS, which is an Associate Member of NFPE, in the coming membership verification. 

Role of Confederation and JCM (National Council) Staff Side:

                   The Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers extended full support and solidarity to the strike call of NFPE, AIPEU-GDS and Postal JCA for enhancement of bonus ceiling to 7000 and called upon all other Central Govt. employees  (other than Postal employees) to conduct solidarity demonstrations on the days of the two day strike on 9th &10th November 2016.  The Confederation took initiative to raise the issue in the JCM (NC) Standing Committee meeting held on 25-10-2016 along with the JCM staff side.  The GDS Bonus issue was discussed in the JCM with Govt. and demanded immediate settlement. 

Congratulations and Salute to All:

                   No doubt, the GDS bonus ceiling enhancement is as great victory for NFPE, AIPEU-GDS and Postal JCA including FNPO and NUGDS.  The departmental employees and GDS who unitedly conducted the struggle till victory, deserves congratulations.  The unity of departmental employees and Gramin Dak Sevaks should be further strengthened and those who are trying to break the unity should be isolated.  Coming days are very crucial and may demands more united and militant struggles.  Let us once again declare that “Unity is for struggle and struggle for Unity”.

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