NFPE PROTEST ABOLITION OF SORTING POSTMAN CADRE


No. PF-45/2011 Dated : 13th May , 2011

To

The Secretary,
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan
New Delhi-110116

Sub: Abolition of separate cadre of Sorting Postman.

Ref: Directorate Memo No. 25-20/2008-PE-I dated 4.5.2011.

Madam,

Please refer to memo no. referred above. The Sorting Postman Cadre in the Department of Posts is in existence for the last more than one hundred years. The Directorate while changing the designation of Sorting Postmen has altogether abolished the cadre .The reasons stated is not at all convincing. It is fact that no separate pay band and grade pay is recommended by pay commission for the Sorting Postman. That does not mean that the designation of all the cadres which are in the same grade pay should be one and the same. In that case the name of Head Postman, Cash Overseer , Mail Overseer, Departmental Stamp Vendor are also to be changed as no separate grade pay is recommended for them also by the Pay Commission.

From the above it can be seen that, it is not the grade pay that decides the designation but the nature of duty .We can not simply go on changing the designation of Sorting Postmen, Cash Overseer, Mail Overseer, Departmental Stamp Vendor etc. only because the Pay Commission has not recommended separate grade pay for each such cadres.

We strongly protest the decision of the Department to change the designation of Sorting Postman and demand reconsideration of the decision and to restore status quo- ante
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With regards