INTERACTION WITH 7th CENTRAL PAY COMMISSION - AIPAEA GENERAL SECRETARY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF SECRETARY GENERAL, NFPE PARTICIPATED

NFPE LEADERS MET CHAIRMAN 7th  CPC

A delegation of NFPE headed by Secretary General Com.Krishnan along with the General Secretaries of all wings appeared in the Office of the Pay Commission at the call of the Chairman, in Janpath Hotel, New Delhi at 10.30am on 29-05-2014 and met the 7th CPC Chairman, Honourable Justice Mr.A.K.Mathur and his Members in full quorum. The interactive session / meeting lasted for one and half hours. 

Various points regarding the revision of wages and service conditions of Postal employees and functioning of the Department of Posts were explained by the Secretary General, NFPE and the issues discussed are summarized as follows :

1)     Role and Functioning of the Department of Posts towards the people of India.

2)    Various staffing pattern of our Department and huge reduction of Staff strength due to unjustified abolition of posts.

3)    GDS who run 1,29,000 Post Offices – a factual account and their sufferings. NFPE urges for bringning the GDS within the ambit of 7th CPC.

4)   Duties and responsibilities of various cadres of staff of the Department of Posts including Postal Assisatants, Sorting Assistants, PA(CO), PA(SBCO), Postal Accounts Staff, Postmen, Mail Guard, MTS and Civilwing Staff.

5)   Justification for upgradation of their pay scales.

6)   Improvement in the promotional avenues of postal staff of different categories with a special emphasis on the Grade Pay for MTS, Gr.C employees (Rs.1800/- to 1900/- & Rs.1900/- to 2,000/- i.e., only a paltry amount of Rs.100/- in every 10 years)

7)    Postman duty and their poor promotional avenues.

8)  Specialities of the Assistants and Supervisors and their poor promotional avenues and many other issues.

9) General Secretary, All India Postal Accounts Employees Association informed the Commission about the nature of functions of the Postal Accounts and the purpose of Departmentalization of Accounts. Explained the proposal of Cadre restructuring for Sorter, LDC and DEO cadres and need for improvement of Core Accounting Cadres of JA and SA. Chairman suggested to submit a separate memorandum on all those issues.

The concept of Pay Band and Grade Pay, whether beneficial and the principle of determination of minimum pay was also discussed.

Regarding merger of DA and Interim Relief , the Chairman made it clear that unless the Govt. asks the Pay Commission specifically, to submit interim report, Pay Commission will not submit any recommendations on DA merger & IR.

GENERAL SECRETARY