National Federation of Postal Employees
1st Floor
North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001
Phone:
011.23092771
e-mail: nfpehq@gmail.com
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NO.PF-NF/2017 Dated 24-oct-2017
To
Sri. Manoj Sinha
Hon’ble Minister for Communications & IT
Govt of India, Sanchar Bhavan,
New Delhi-110 001.
Respected
Sir,
National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE) and all its affiliated
Unions/Associations representing about 70% of the Postal Employees request your
immediate intervention to save the Department of Posts and five and a half
lakhs employees working in the department including about three lakhs Gramin
Dak Sevaks.
As you are aware, the finance Ministry has already issued notification
permitting all Nationalised Banks and three private Banks (ICICI Bank, Axis
Bank and HDFC Bank) to accept deposits for all Small Savings Schemes, viz;
Recurring Deposit (RD), Time Deposits (TD), Monthly Income Scheme (MIS), Senior
Citizens Savings Scheme (SCSS), Sukanya Samridhi Account (SSA), Kisan Vikas
Patra (KVP) and National Savings Certificate (NSC VIII issue) with effect from
10th October, 2017.
Small Savings Schemes are the monopoly of Postal Department and hence they are
known as “Post Office Small Savings Shemes”. The compensation paid by
Finance Ministry to Postal Department for running the Savings Bank business on
agency basis is a major source of revenue for the department. About 45%
of the revenue of Department of Posts accounts for compensation received for
Small Savings business. Permitting Banks also to operate Small savings
will adversely affect the business of Post offices and revenue will fall
steadily, thereby increasing the total deficit of the Department of Posts.
Further, about 50% of the work load of Post offices comes from the Samll
Savings related work. Outsourcing this work to Banks including private
Banks will result in fall of overall workload of the Post Offices and staff
becoming surplus. Thus, in the long run the very existence of Post
Offices and Postal employees will be at stake.
Secondly, we want to bring to your kind notice, the plight of about three lakhs
Gramin Dak Sevaks working mostly in the Branch Post Offices in rural villages
of our country. Their wage revision has not yet taken place eventhough
the wage revision of their counterpart (departmental employees) had taken place
and orders issued on 25-7-2016 itself. The one man committee headed by
Sri. Kamalesh Chandra, Retired Postal Board Member had submitted its report to
the Government on 24-11-2016. Almost one year is over and the file is
still pending with Finance Ministry. Justice to this poor, downtrodden
section of employees is long overdue.
Similarly, the Re-verification Membership of Gramin Dak Sevaks under Check-off
system under the provisions of GDS (RSA) Rules for grant of recognition was
ordered by the Department and the verification process reached in the final
stage. Recovery of subscription from pay of the officials in respect of
all the Applicant Unions/Associations was made in the month of September
2017. But suddenly Department issued an order stopping the membership
verification process until further orders. The Reverififation of
Membership of GDS was due in the year 2015 itself as the recognition granted to
one of the GDS Union had expired in 2015 after five years period fixe by the
Government.
In view of the above, we most humbly request the Hon’ble Minister is personal
intervention so that favourable orders will be issued in the following issues:
(1) Stop
the implementation of the Finance Ministry’s notifiation permitting Banks to do
Small Savings business.
(2)
Immediate Implementation of favourable recommendations of Kamalesh Chandra
Committee on Gramin Dak Sevaks.
(3)
Completing the Re-verification process of Membership under check-off system and
granting recognition to eligible applicant Unions/Associations of GDS.
With profound regards,
Yours
faithfully,
(R.N. Parashar)
Secretary General,
NFPE
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