The JCM Staffside submitted more or less 100 items for discussion with the authorities of the Department of Posts. Besides about 70 pending items were also noticed to the Department.
Com.K.V.Sridharan, Leader, Staffside & Com.Girirajsingh, Secretary, Staffside along with other leaders of NFPE & FNPO take part in the discussion on all the items.
The following items related to GDS are being taken up in the ensuing meeting of JCM (DC) is extracted from the minutes and published here under for favour of information.
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17. Modification in the revised
Postmen/Mailguard recruitment rules :
As
per the previous recruitment rules, 50% of the Postmen/MG vacancies were
reserved as Group
D promotional quota ( 25% seniority and a 25% merit ) The unfilled Group D promotional
quota vacancies were offered to GDS under merit quota. But as per the revised recruitment
rules the 25% seniority quota of MTS is removed and the unfilled Group ‘D’
quota vacancies are offered to open market recruitment. This has adversely
affected the promotional chances of senior
Group D staff and also the GDS. This is in violation of the understanding
reached with the staff side. It was assured that there will not be any open market
recruitment of the post of Postmen/Mail guard cadre.
Further
in the previous recruitment rules, out of the 50% Postmen/MG Vacancies earmarked for
GDS, 25% were under seniority quota and 25% under merit quota. But in the
revised recruitment
rules entire 50% vacancies are earmarked for merit quota only, thus curtailing
the promotional chances of senior GDS.
It is
requested to review the Postmen/Mailguard recruitment rules to remove open
market recruitment and also to restore seniority quota
promotion.
22. Denial of relaxed standards to GDS in the appointment of
Postal Assistants in the revised recruitment rules - regarding.
In the Recruitment Rules for the Postal Assistants communicated
vide Directorate letter No.60-9/2009-SPB-1 dated 8/5/2012, the process of applications
for admission to write the examination for the unfilled vacancies of LGOs by the GDS to
PA/SA, the minimum mark in the Plus Two examination has been prescribed as 50% of all
communities including SC/ST whereas in the open competition for the direct
recruitment through examination it was fixed as 45% for SC/ST applicants. This
is an utter violation of the spirit of the constitution of India
It is therefore requested to kindly cause immediate action to
amend the recruitment rules accordingly at the earliest
31.
Creation of MTS Posts to the tune of vacant GDS MM and Temporary Status Casual Labourer
Posts in RMS :
Consequent
upon the issue of Directorate Orders for keeping the GDS MM and Temporary
Status Casual Labourer posts in RMS wing unfilled, the work load of the MTS
staff in particular has increased manifold. The Circle, Regional and Divisional
Administration have taken advantage of the said orders to keep the vacancies of
all such GDS MM and Temporary Status Casual Labourer unfilled. They have not
taken any effort to assess the actual work hours to be performed by those
vacant GDS posts to create necessary Multi Tasking Staff posts.
It is
requested to kindly issue suitable instructions to all concerned to immediately
assess the total hours of work pertaining to the vacant GDS MM and Temporary
Status Casual Labourer posts in RMS and take measures to create appropriate
posts of Multitasking Staff in order to mitigate the problems of staff and the
RMS services.
32.
Request for filling up of 25% vacancies of Mail Guard posts by promotion by
selection cum seniority of Multitasking staff :
The posts
of Mail Guard under 25% by promotion by selection cum seniority of Multitasking
staff, have not been filled up in RMS, in many Circles despite clear
instructions were issued by the Directorate. The eligible officials were denied
of their promotion in the vacant selections under the scheme of 25% by
promotion by selection cum seniority of Multi Tasking Staff. Unfortunately, the
new recruitment rules issued for filling up of 25% by promotion by selection
cum seniority of Multi Tasking Staff for the years 2009 2010.2011& 2012 was
not observed in many Circles through clear guidelines are issued.
It is
requested to cause suitable instructions in this regard and also to fill all
the MG Vacancies in accordance with the instructions contained in Directorate
memo No 44-2/2011-SPB-I dated 27.01.2011. and No. 45-2/2011-SPB-I dated
18.10.2012.
52.
Revision of Syllabus for Departmental Exams:
As the
only avenue open to the cadre of Postman / MTS for higher promotion is that
Postal Assistants through competitive examinations. The Department opted for
revision of syllabus and pattern of examinations and the Staff Side to agree to
it. It was told to us that the revision of syllabus and pattern of examinations
would go a long way to help more candidates get through the examination to avoid
many vacancies go unfilled after every examination. It took a long time for
finalizing the syllabus and new method of examination introduced for LGO exam.
However it is found that contrary to what was told by the Department the
examinations of LGOs as well as the examinations from GDS to Postman and MTS
have become so tough that it has become extremely difficult to answer many questions.
This has led to a situation wherein the candidates could not get through these examinations
and a large number of vacancies remain unfilled after the examinations.
90.
Arbitrary imposement of recovery from APM Accounts for excess drawal of Bonus
to GDS in AP Circle
The
Directorate caused orders to recover the excess Paid bonus to GDS from the APM Accounts/Postmasters
instead of recovering the amount from the concerned GDS or appealing against
the Court decisions for non recovery of the excess paid amount. The Court did
not specify that the amount should be recovered from any one. One Head
Postmaster has been proceeded Rule 14 on the date of his retirement and
converted as Rule 9 and did not get the retirement benefits for the reason of
excess drawal of Bonus to GDS. This is arbitrary, unjust and against to the
orders on the subject. Suitable orders may please be issued to withdraw the
earlier instructions to fix responsibility on APM/Postmasters and the amount
may be recovered from the officials to whom it is paid.
92. Conduct of Postmen exam – request
modification :
(i) Despite the introduction of objective
type, the questions are being set above the standard of state board syllabus in
matriculation.
(ii) As the exam is conducted on a regional
basis, the GDS is forced to spend huge amounts for journey, stayal etc. to
write the exam.
(iii) As the answers are asked to be written
in white papers instead of OMRs, there are several corruptions in the valuation
as well as in the exam centre. There is scope for quo replacing the answer
papers and it will lead to major corruption.
As such it is felt that earlier practice of
divisional wise exam is better and it should be conducted on OMR method and answer sheet should be in the
prescribed sheet supplied by the Department with some identification work and not white paper.
93. Impact of down gradation of ED SOs in to ED
BOs – request to provide manpower:
After
the down gradation of EDSOs and converted them as BOs, the following works were
added to the class II and class III offices.
(i) Issue and payment of money orders,
supervision of delivery works, closing and opening of a mail bag, account bag
and cash bag.
(ii) Work related to MPKBY agents attached to
EDSOs are translated to account office as MPKBY agents cannot be attached to
EDBOs.
(iii) Pass books of all new accounts opened
in EDBOs has to be issued by account office apart from the incorporation of
SB/RD/TD deposit and withdrawals in ED BOs.
All the works mentioned above are being managed
single/double handedly besides the work of their own.
It is therefore requested to provide adequate
manpower either redeployment or by means of compensation etc., to the single/double handed
offices.
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