Minutes of the 26th meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) held on 03rd February, 2015 under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble MOS (PP). (Click the link below for details)

http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D3/D03ppw/SCOVA_26-FEB-2015.pdf

EDITORIAL POSTAL CRUSADER MARCH 2015

MAKE THE 28^th APRIL -2015 PARLIAMENT MARCH

ON THE CALL OF NATIONAL COUNCIL JCM

A HISTORIC SUCCESS.

The Central Government is reluctant to settle the justified and genuine demands of Central Government employees i.e. 100% D.A. merger, 25% Interim Relief, Inclusion of GDS in 7^th CPC , Date of Effect 1.1.2014 , Scrapping of New Pension Scheme , filing up of vacant  posts, in all Department’s , withdrawal of contractrization  and out sourcing  policy, removal of 5% ceiling on compassionate  appointments, Removal of MACP related  anomalies , Revision of OTA Rates  including some other demands.

Joint Consultative Machinery which was formed for the redressal of grievances of Central Government Employees by negotiations has been made defunct and no meeting has been held after 2010. After constitution of 7^th CPC the views of Staff Side N.C. JCM has not been taken into account. The Terms of Reference of 7^th CPC were declared unilaterally and agreed draft of Terms of Reference submitted by Staff Side was not given cognizance. The Minister in P.M.O. Shri Jitendra Singh replied in response to the question raised by some MPs that Government is not going to grant 100% or 50%  D.A. Merger , 25%  Interim Relief and inclusion of GDS in 7^th CPC.

In the back ground of all these developments a National Convention of all constituents of National Council JCM was convened in New Delhi on 11^th December-2014. All the participants’ organizations vehemently opposed the policies of Central Government.

After detailed deliberations it was decided that a massive Parliament March will be organized in New Delhi on 28^th April-2015 in which the date of Indefinite Strike will be declared. Intensive preparation campaign is going on. NJCA was formed at National level in which the top leaders of AIRF, NFIR, AIDEF, NDWF, Confederation, NFPE and FNPO are included. State JCAs have been formed in most of the circles and State conventions have also been held and wherever it has not been formed the state leadership has been asked to complete this work very soon.

It has been decided to mobilize five lakh Central Government Employees to participate in Parliament March. Accordingly quota has been fixed for Railways,   Defence, Confederation and NFPE. Accordingly NFPE has also allotted quota to each affiliated union. Comrades, as we know that whatever we have achieved that is because of struggles only. The present government is functioning to give maximum benefit to the corporates and capitalists. It is not at all concerned about the working class. It started disinvestment in PSUs, Declared 100% FDI in Railway and 49 % FDI in Defence. The recommendations of Task Force Committee headed by TSR Subramaniam .are big danger for Deptt of Post which has paved the way of privatization through Corporatization.  

Confederation of C.G.E&W and NFPE have given separate programmes of agitation which should be observed with great enthusiasm.

NFPE calls upon the entire Postal, RMS  and GDS employees to make all the programmes a grand success and mobilize the maximum number employees, more than the quota allotted to each affiliated union to take part in  the Parliament March  on 28^th April-2015 on call of National Council JCM to make it a historic success.

APPEAL TO ALL AIPRPA MEMBERS AP STATE

YOU ARE REQUESTED TO ORGANISE LARGE NUMBER OF PENSIONERS TO THE PARLIAMENT MARCH

Meeting with Chairman 7th Pay Commission & Discussion with Govt. on NJCA Strike Charter of Demands - 25.02.2015 - Com. K. K. N. Kutty (President), Com. M. S. Raja (Working President) & Com. M. Krishnan (Secretary General) attended both the meetings on behalf of Confederation.

Meeting with Chairman 7th Pay Commission & Discussion with Govt. on NJCA Strike Charter of Demands - 25.02.2015 - Com. K. K. N. Kutty (President), Com. M. S. Raja (Working President) & Com. M. Krishnan (Secretary General) attended both the meetings on behalf of Confederation.

CLICK HERE FOR NJCA CIRCULAR

Minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee held on 7th May, 2014. (Click the link below for details)

http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/JCM-07052014.pdf

JUSTICE TO PRE-2006 PENSIONERS GETTING DELAYED

JUSTICE TO PRE-2006 PENSIONERS GETTING DELAYED

COURT HEARING ON PRE-2006 PENSIONERS ADJOURNED

 
TO 17th MARCH, 2015

The Pre-2006 Pensioners are yet to see the light of the day. Despite the court judgments  including the Apex Court justice was rendered by the Government correcting its wrong step only for the S-29 Scale retirees and not for all Pre-2006 Pensioners. The irony is that for all Pensioners of Pre-2006, the corrected orders of the Government is made effective from 1.9.2013. For S-29 scale retirees the same is given effect from 1.1.2006. This is exactly the point that was remarked by the Supreme Court in the historic verdict of Nakara that the Government cannot create division among the same category of pensioners. All can see that the Government is creating division among the same category of pensioners viz., Pre-2006 Pensioners!

Presently the Court Case that may ultimately put the issue sorted out, is adjourned to for next hearing on 17th March, 2015. 

All the Pre-2006 Pensioners are awaiting for justice!!

EXEMPTION FROM PHYSICAL APPEARANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF LIFE CERTIFICATE (CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR DETAILS)

http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D3/D03ppw/CPAO_LifeCertificate_30012015.pdf

REVISION OF PENSION OF PRE-2006 PENSIONERS- INCLUSION OF NON-PRACTICING ALLOWANCE (NPA) IN REVISION OF PENSION OF RETIRED MEDICAL OFFICERS. (CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR DETAILS)http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D3/D03ppw/PPWA_18022015.pdf

REVISION OF CGHS RATES CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

7^th  PAY COMMISSION HAS INVITED NATIONAL COUNCIL JCM/STAFF SIDE FOR A MEETING ON 25.02.2015 CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

NATIONAL JCA STRUGGLE PROGRAMME – 30 LAKHS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ARE GOING AHEAD WITH THE INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN AND PREPERATIONS FOR AN INDEFINITE STRIKE

As already decided by the 11^th December 2014 Delhi National Convention of the JCM National Council staff side organisations, intensive campaign and preperations are going on in full swing all over India to make the proposed Parliament March of April 28^th and the indefinite strike a historic success. The meeting of the National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) held at New Delhi on 16.02.2015 reviewed the preperations and took the following decisions.

(a)   State level joint conventions, wherever it is not yet held, should be completed without any further delay.

(b)   On 2^nd March 2015 dharnas and demonstrations should be held in front of all District Collector offices and hand over memorandum to the collector. (Draft Memorandum will be exhibited in website.

District level Action Committees may also be formed to spearhead the agitational programmes.

3. In the Parliament March on 28^th April 2015, each organisation should ensure maximum participation of their membership.

4. Press Conferences may be held at all levels and Posters, leaflets printed and circulated widely.

CONFEDERATION NATIONAL SECRETARIAT DECISIONS

The extended National Secretariat of the Confederation was held at New Delhi on 17.02.2015 and took the following decisions.

1.      In the Parliament March, minimum 30000 employees should participate representing the Confederation. They should participate with banners, flags and play cards of each affiliated orgnanisation of Confederation.

THE FOLLOWING QUOTA IS FIXED FOR MAJOR ORGANISATIONS AND STATE LEVEL COCS.

1.      National Federation of Postal Employees                        -           10000

2.      Income Tax Employees Federation                                     -             3000

3.      Audit & Accounts Employees Association             -             2000

4.      Civil Accounts Employees Association                              -               700

5.      National Federation of Atomic Energy Employees      -               500

6.      Ground Water Board Employees Association                -               500

7.      Central Government Pensioners (NCCP and BCPC)     -             3000

8.      All other affiliated organisations should ensure their maximum participation (in the COC Quota) as follows:

      1.      COC West Bengal                                                       -           1000

      2.      COC Kerala                                                                  -              500

      3.      COC Karnataka                                                          -              200

      4.      COC Tamilnadu                                                         -              500

      5.      COC Andhra/Telangana                                        -              500

      6.      COC Gujarat                                                                -              100

      7.      COC Mumbai/Maharashtra                                  -             500

      8.      COC Madhya Pradesh                                              -             200

      9.      COC Chattisgarh                                                        -             100

    10.  COC Rajasthan                                                            -             300

    11.  COC Punjab/Haryana                                               -           1000

    12.  COC Himachal Pradesh                                            -             300

    13.  COC Uttar Pradesh                                                    -           1000

    14.  COC Odisha                                                                   -             200

    15.  COC Jharkhand                                                           -             100

    16.  COC Uttarakhand                                                       -             100

    17.  COC Assam/North East                                           -             200

    18.  COC Delhi                                                                     -           5000

    19.  COC Bihar                                                                     -             300

    20.  COC J & K                                                            -             100

TOTAL                                                                 -         31900

All affiliated organisations and COCs should start preperations immediately for ensuring participation of maximum number employees as per quota fixed above, in the Parliament March. COCs and major organisations should fix quota to all the affiliated organistations state-wise.TICKETS SHOULD BE BOOKED WITHOUT ANY DELAY. From Delhi and all surrounding states special vehicles should be booked well in advance. Each organisation/COC should make advance payment if accommodation to delegates (participants) are required. For arrangements at Delhi, please contact.

1.      Com. Vrigu Bhattacharjee, Secretary, COC Delhi & Financial Secretary (CHQ) - 09868520926

2.      Com. Giriraj Singh, President, COC Delhi, Vice President (CHQ)             -           09811213808

Please bring banners, flags, play cards etc. in large numbers.

2. The National Secretariat decided to conduct two days Women’s Workshop at Hyderabad in the month of September 2015. The COC Andhra/Telangana state has agreed to host the two-days camp. Delegate fee will be decided later. Maximum 150 lady delegates from all states will participate in the workshop. Number of lady delegates of Andhra/Telangana can be decided by the COC separately. Affiliated organsiations, COCs and Women’s committee members of confederation should start the preliminary work to ensure maximum participation of lady comrades in the two days workshop. Quota for each organizations/COC, delegate fee, dates and venue of the workshop etc will be intimated separately.

3. National Secretariat decided to call upon all affiliated organisations and COCs to observe 2015 March 8^th as “INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY” in a most befitting manner either separately under the banner of Confederation or jointly with other women organizations. The theme of this year International Women’s Day is – “MAKE IT HAPPEN”.

Comradely yours,

(M. Krishnan)

Secretary General

Mob: - 09447068125

E-mail:  mkrishnan6854@gmail.com

                                                                                                                                                                                             BCPC                                                 NCCPA                                                  

ALL INDIA POSTAL & RMS PENSIONERS ASSOCIATION

A.P. CIRCLE

  Off. 11-274, AMBATI NAGAR,                                                       EMAIL: yn.krishna@yahoo.in

 MANGALAGIRI HO 522 503                                                     website: aiprpa-ap.blogspot.in ============================================================== ===== ===========

                                                           Circular

                               New district branches formed in this month

1.     GUNTAKAL-  ANANTAPUR DISTRICT BRANCH FORMED

2.      

MEETING OF PENSIONERS WAS HELD ON  31-1-2015 at guntakal ho under the president ship of com. Syed sharfuddin. Nearly 75 members attended the meeting. Com. Y. nagabhushanam, state convener attended and inaugurated the meeting.

The branch was formed with the following members :-

PRESIDENT                               Sri. C. BASHEER AHMED

WORKING PRESIDENT S  : 1.: SRI. N. NABI RASOOL

                                              2.  SRI.V. PADMAKAR

SECRETARY                          :  SRI. K. SUNKANNA

JT. SECRETARY                    :  SRI. K. RAMASANKAR

TRESURER                            : SRI. S. MAHABOOB

ASST. TRESURER                 : SRI. OBAIAH

                                                                  AND OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

3.    KAKINADA EAST GODAVARI DISTRICT FORMED

MEETING OF POSTAL PENSIONERS WAS ORGANISED ON 7-2-2015 IN THE PREMISES OF KAKINADA HO. SRI. RAHMATULLAH, SPO’s KAKANADA DIVISION ATTENDED AS CHIEF GUEST. COM. Y. NAGABHUSHANAM, STATE CONVENER ATTENDED THE MEETING.

THE FOLLOWING WERE ELECTED AS OFFICE BEARERS :

HON’ PRESIDENT           :   SRI. V. V. KRISHNAMACHARI

PRESIDENT                      : SRI. D. CHANDAR RAO

SECRETARY                      : SRI. T. SURYA RAO

TRESURER                        : SRI. CH. RAMA RAO

COMMITTEE MEMBERS : S/SRI.

1.     CH. MUNESWARA RAO

2.     CH. SATYANARAYANA

3.     J. APPALA SWAMY

4.     V.V. RAGHAVA CHARYULU

5.     V. SURYA NARAYANA

6.     G.V. LAXMINARAYANA

AIPRPA AP STATE COMMITTEE CONVEY ITS GREETINGS TO THE NEWLY FORMED COMMITTEES.

NOTICE TO 1st state conference

NOTICE TO FIRST STATE CONFERENCE / AGM

Dear Comrades / Colleagues,

The FIRST A.P.STATE Conference / 1st AGM Conference of All India Postal & RMS Pensioners Association will be held as scheduled at COM. S. K. VYAS NAGAR [ARYA VYSYA KALYANA MANDAPAM]MANGALAGIRI. Formal Notice issued is placed here under for information of all Districts / Divisional Associations:

AIPRPA/1                                                           Dated 2^ndFebruary 2015

NOTICE

Notice for 1^st AP STATE General Body Meeting &

1^st Foundation STATEConference

It is hereby notified that the 1^st Annual General Body Meeting as well as the foundation state  Conference of All India Postal & RMS Pensioners Association (AIPRPA) will be held at Arya vysya kalyana mandapam, MANGALAGIRI. The AGM will start at 10.00 Hrs on 11-03-2015.

The AGM will transact the following agenda:

1.             Adoption of Report of activities conducted by the state Steering Committee.

2.             Adoption of Audited Accounts for the period from the formation of state Steering Committee.

3.             Discussion on Common Memorandum on Pensioners issues and Postal Sectional Memorandum to 7^thCPC.

4.      Organizational review

a.             Functioning of District / Divisional Associations.

b.                  Relation with other Central Government Pensioners Organisations and State Government & Public Sector Pensioners Organisations for building a common platform at state level

5..         Problems of Pensioners:

a.                   Problems of pre-2006; pre-1996; and pre-1986 pensioners.

b.                  CGHS functioning and improvements thereon - Inadequate FMA and related issues -    Medicare related issues.

c.                   Charter of Demands of NCCPA on Pensioners issues.

d.                  Other problems of pensioners.

      6.           Financial Review.

             7..      Election of Office Bearers and Management Committee Members to state body for     2015-2018.

  8..       Resolutions.

  9..   Venue of 2^nd state conference

                                                                                                          Y. NAGABHUSHANAM

                                                                                                             STATE CONVENER

A MAN WHO SPENT 60 YEARS OF LIFE IN PUBLIC SERVICE IS NOT AMONG US TO GUIDE US IN FUTURE

A MAN WHO SPENT 60 YEARS OF LIFE IN PUBLIC SERVICE IS NOT AMONG US TO GUIDE US IN FUTURE

Comrade S.K.Vyas – An unparalleled leader of five Decades!

It was in the year 1971 that I first met Comrade S.K.Vyas after one year of my recruitment in the Department of Posts. I was an office bearer in P4 NFPE Madras City North Division and wanted to organise a meeting when I came to know the visit of Comrade Vyasji in Madras. I was not even a Divisional Secretary but when I approached him for attending a meeting in Vepery Post Office, he readily agreed and attended. The simplicity and approachability of such a big leader inspired me in those days of my youth.

27 years later, I joined Comrade Vyas to work under one roof in D-7, Samru Place, Mandir Marg, New Delhi, where the NFPE headquarters was situated and Confederation Hqrs also was in the same premises. I joined there as Secretary of the Postal Federation. It was a nature given golden opportunity to live with such a towering leader under one roof. For a period of more than six years (intermittently of course) I had literally lived in the same premises and closely observed the qualities of this great leader. If I don’t admit that I have learnt many things from this leader then I am sure I am lying. At a particular point of time in the year 2004, when I was seriously ill, it was Comrade Vyasji who helped my admission in Sir Gangaram Hospital, which saved my life.

More than 40 years later, when I entered a Pensioners Organisation, it was again Comrade Vyas who is our leader. I have joined BCPC and NCCPA under his leadership when I became the General Convenor and later the General Secretary of AIPRPA. Thus from a small time office bearer of a branch union in 1971 to till date as an activist of a Pensioners Organisation, along with others I was always guided by this towering leader, whatever be the front we worked.

Therefore it is not possible to express in appropriate words about the demise of this legend yesterday in Jaipur.

Vyasji was admitted to hospital at Jaipur about 11 am on 1^st February, one day before his 86^th birthday after a massive heart attack. He underwent angio plasty immediately and all of us hoped that he is out of danger. But after a couple of days, he had another attack. His BP became unstable and thereafter intestine also got affected. On 13^th February he suffered another heart attack – causing death.

Vyasji was the secretary general of all India audit & accounts association from 1969 to 1981 and thereafter it’s all India President up to 39^th conference at Chennai in September 1989. Vyasji became the Secretary General of confederation when Comrade O.P.Gupta resigned after 1968 Strike. He continued as Secretary General of Confederation up to September 2006, after which he became President. He stepped down from all elected posts of Confederation in the Kolkata conference in 2013 but continued as Chief Advisor of the Confederation of CG Employees. He continue to take a leading role in the Pensioners movement in his capacity as the Secretary General of both BCPC and NCCPA.

Thus it can be seen that as a leader who entered the Government Service in the 1^stCPC pay scales, played his due role in shaping the destiny of pay scales of all CG Employees from 2^nd CPC to 7^th CPC, has no parallel at all. His style of working even at the advanced age was amazing and inimitable. At a time when the entirety of CG Employees and Pensioners are looking forward to this leader for tasks connected with the 7th CPC, he is snatched away by the nature. This loss is irreparable, we feel orphaned. 

Mortal remains of Vyasji has been taken to his ancestral house jodhpur. Cremation would be at Jodhpur today. He is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters and grandchildren and great grandchildren.

RedSalute to comrade S.K.Vyas!                                                                 

We dip our flag and banner in his honour!!

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary AIPRPA

                                                                                    ........ y. nagabhushanam

                                                                                                    state convener,

                                                                                                          AP STATE