MEETING WITH POSTAL DEPARTMENT

MEETING WITH POSTAL DEPARTMENT

  

  Two hours meeting was held today to discuss and decide the charter of demands in D.G. office. The meeting was started at 3-30 PM and ended at 5-30PM. Discussions were held in congenial atmosphere.

 Sri Sekhar Kumar Sinha, member (HRD), Smt. Anju Nigam, Deputy Director General (SR and Legal) and Sri. Arun Malik, Director (SR & Legal) attended the meeting. Com. S.S.Mahadevaiah, General Secretary, Com. B.V.Rao Asst. General Secretary, Com. Lakhwinder Pal Singh, Treasurer, Com. Ram Singh, Circle President, M.P., attended from union side.

We discussed at length on charter of demands and conveyed our views to the department for the consideration.

1. Regularize GDS employees and grant all benefits at par with department employees.

As the Group ‘D’ cadre was abolished in the department of Posts, we suggested that GDS may be granted the separate cadre as group ‘D’

2. Appoint Judiciary committee to examine wage structure and service conditions of GDS.

We requested the department to remind and refer again positively the matter to the department of expenditure, Ministry of Finance to consider the GDS issue for inclusion in the terms of reference of the 7^th CPC.

In case the Department of expenditure does not include the GDS issue in the terms of reference of the 7^th CPC, this union submit the suggestions then only regarding the committee.

3. Stop corporatization of postal department based on the report of task force committee.

We opposed the proposal of corporatization of the Postal department.

 

 We discussed the most important and pressing problems of GDS such as grant of equal gratuity at par with department employees, compassionate appointments, combined duty allowances etc. The department responded positively.