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Friday 29 December 2017

NFPE & AIPEU-GDS RELAY DHARNA - NEW DELHI

CIRCLE WISE AND DATE WISE PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME FOR 5 DAYS RELAY DHARNA AT NEW DELHI

FROM 12th TO 16th FEBRUARY-2018
DATE CIRCLES QUOTA FOR EACH CIRCLE REMARKS
12.02.18 Andhra Pradesh 100 (1) All NFPE Unions Circle Secretaries should convene meetings and allot quota to each union and book the tickets to and fro journey in advance to avoid inconvenience.
(ii) All General Secretaries /NFPE Office bearers and All India leaders of All NFPE unions will remain present all the days. Respective CHQ will make their arrangements for stay.
Telangana 75
J&K 15
Himachal Pradesh 30
Punjab 50
Delhi 100
13.02.18 Kerala 100
Karnataka 100
Haryana 50
Uttarakhand 30
Rajasthan 100
14.02.18 Tamilnadu 100
Maharashtra 100
Assam 30
North East 15
UP(Eastern) 75
15.02.18 West Bengal 100
Odisha 75
Bihar 75
Jharkhand 50
16.02.18 UP (West) 100
Madhya Pradesh 100
Chhattisgarh 50
Gujarat 100

GDS Committee Recommendations will be implemented soon – Minister replied in Parliament on 27.12.2017

GDS Committee Recommendations will be implemented soon – Minister replied in Parliament on 27th December, 2017

Minister of State (IC) for Communications & Railways, Shri Manoj Sinha, in a written reply to a question on GDS Kamlesh Chandra Committee Report, in Lok Sabha on 27.12.2017 informed that a One Man Committee has been constituted to look into the salary structure, other service matters and problems of Gramin Dak Sevaks under the Chairmanship of Shri Kamlesh Chandra.

The Committee has submitted its report to the Government. The salient features are given in the Annexure.
The recommendations of the Committee have been considered by the Department. After getting the necessary approvals from all concerned, the recommendation of the Committee will be implemented.

Annexure : Salient features of the One Man Committee Report headed by Shri Kamlesh Chandra

The old system of payment of Time Related Continuity Allowance (TRCA) is dispensed with and replaced with a new wage payment system. Under the new wage payment system, 11 TRCA slabs are subsumed into 3 Wage Scales with two Levels each for BPMs and for other than BPMs. One wage scale would be common for both the categories of GDSs.

The minimum working hours of GDS Post Offices and GDSs are increased to 4 hours from 3 hours.

The new working hours for GDS Post Offices will be 4 hours and 5 hours only.

The Level 1 GDS Post Offices / GDSs will have 4 hours as working hours and Level – 2 will have 5 hours as working hours.

The Point System for assessment of workload of BPMs has been abolished.

The new wage payment system is linked to revenue generation of GDS Post Offices. Under the new system, there will be no increase in wages of BPMs from Level -1 to Level -2 on the basis of workload but the same will be increased based on achievement of prescribed revenue norms which is fixed at 100% for normal areas and 50% for special areas.

The GDS Post Offices not achieving the prescribed revenue norm within the given working hours will have to open GDS Post Offices for minimum of additional 30 minutes beyond the prescribed working hours.

The GDS BPMs will be paid Revenue Linked Allowance @10% beyond level-2 wage scale if they will be successful in achieving revenue beyond prescribed norms

The GDS Post Offices has been categorized into A, B; C and D categories based on the revenue generation norms. The GDS Post Office in A category will achieve 100% revenue norm. The Committee has recommended a set of actions for each category of GDS Post Offices.

The six approved categories of GDSs are subsumed into two categories only. One category will be Branch Post Master and all other 5 categories of GDSs are subsumed into one Multi Tasking Category.

The GDSs working in the GDS Post Offices will be known as Assistant Branch Post Master (ABPMs) and those working in the Departmental Post Offices will be known as Dak Sevak (DS).
The minimum wage has been increased to Rs. 10000/- per month and maximum pay to Rs. 35480/- per month.

The rate of annual increase is recommended as 3%.

A Composite Allowance comprising of support for hiring accommodation for GDS Post Offices as well as mandatory residence, office maintenance, mobile and electricity usage charges etc. has been introduced for the first time.

Children Education Allowance @Rs. 6000/- per child per annum has been introduced for GDSs.
Risk & Hardship Allowance @Rs. 500/- per month for GDS working in the special areas has also been introduced.

A Financial up-gradation has been introduced at 12 years, 24 years and 36 years of services in form of two advance additional annual increases.

The Ceiling of ex-gratia gratuity has been increased from Rs. 60,000 to Rs. 5,00,000

The GDS Contribution for Service Discharge Benefit Scheme (SDBS) should be enhanced maximum up to 10% and minimum up to 3% of the basic wage per month, whereas the Department should contribute a fixed contribution of 3% of the basic wage of the GDSs.

The coverage of GDS Group Insurance Scheme has been enhanced from Rs. 50000/- to Rs. 5,00,000/

The contribution of Department in Circle Welfare Fund (CWF) has been increased from Rs. 100/ per annum to Rs. 300/ per annum.

The scope of CWF is extended to cover immediate family members such as spouse; daughters, sons and dependent daughters in law in the scheme.

The Committee also recommended 10% hike in the prescribed limits of financial grants and assistances in the Circle Welfare Funds.

The Committee has recommended addition of Rs. 10,000/ for purchase of Tablet / Mobile from the Circle Welfare in the head “Financial Assistance of Fund by way of loans with lower rate of interest (5%)”.

Provision of 26 weeks of Maternity Leave for women GDS has been recommended.

The wages for the entire period of Maternity Leave is recommended to be paid from salary head from where wages of GDSs are paid.

The Committee has also recommended one week of paternity leave.

Leave accumulation and encashment facility up to 180 days has been introduced.

Online system of engagement has been recommended.

Alternate livelihood condition for engagement of GDSs has been relaxed.

Voluntary Discharge scheme has been recommended.

The Discharge age has been retained at 65 years.

The Limited Transfer Facility has been relaxed from 1 time to 3 times for male GDSs. There will be no restriction on number of chances for transfer of women GDSs. The powers for transfer has been delegated to the concerned Divisional head.

The ex-gratia payment during put off period should be revised to 35% from 25% of the wage and DA drawn immediately before put off.

The Committee has recommended preferring transfer before put off duty.

Tuesday 26 December 2017

Comments and suggestions on Draft Notification of proposed recruitment Rules issued vide letter No. 37-33/2009-SPB-I dated 13-12-2017

Tele-Fax: 23697701
ALL INDIA GRAMIN DAK SEVAKS UNION (AIGDSU)
(Central Head Quarter)
First Floor, Post Office Building, Padamnagar, Delhi 110007
President: M. Rajangam
General Secretary: S.S. Mahadevaiah

Letter No. GDS/CHQ/78 /01/2017 Date: 22.12.2017

To
The Secretary,
Department of Posts,
Dak Bhavan,
New Delhi-110001

Subject:- Comments and suggestions on Draft Notification of proposed recruitment Rules issued vide letter No. 37-33/2009-SPB-I dated 13-12-2017.

Sir,
1. Column 6(ii) Regarding age limit

The age limit for appointment of Gramin Dak Sevaks should be enhanced from 45 years to 50 years (Relaxable for those belonging to scheduled caste or scheduled trabe up to five years and for those belonging to other backward classes up to three years.

2. Column 7(i) Regarding Educational qualifications.

Column 7(i) should be modified as shown below.
“10th standard pass from a recognized Board.”

3. Column 10 (iii) (a) should be amended as shown below.
25% by Direct recruitment on the basis of competitive examination limited to Gramin Dak Sevaks of the recruiting postal division, who have worked regularly for three years in that capacity as on the 1st day of January to which the vacanc(ies) blong to or as per the guidelines issued by Government of India from time to time.
25% by direct recruitment on the basis of seniority cum fitness from amongst Gramin Dak Sevaks of the recruiting division, who have worked regularly for five years in that capacity, as on the first day of January of the year to which the vacancy(ies) belong to or as per the guidelines issued by Government of India from time to time. The same modifications should be taken into consideration for Mail Guard posts.

Comments and suggestions on Draft Notification of proposed recruitment Rules issued vide letter No. 37-33/2009-SPB-I dated 13-12-2017 for the post of Postal Assistant in schedule.

I. Column 6(ii) regarding age limit column 6(ii) should be amended as given below.
The age limit for appointment of Gramin Dak Sevaks should be Fourty Years as on the 1st day of January of the year to which the vacancy(ies) belong to or as per guidelines issued by the Government of India as per gidelines issued by the Government of India from time to time (Relaxable for those belonging to schedule caste or schedule tribe upto five years and for those belonging to other Backward castes up to three years.)

2. Column 10(i) C should be amended as given below
By direct recruitment on the basis of competitive examination limited to Gramin Dak Sevaks of the recruiting division who have worked regularly for three years in that capacity as on 1stday of January of the year to which the vacancy(ies) belong to or as per guidelines issued by the Government of India from time to time.

3. Column 10(ii) should be amended as given below.
20% by direct recruitment on the basis of competitive examination liminted to Gramin Dak Sevaks of the recruitment division.

30% by direct recruitment from open market as per the scheme approved by the Department of posts from time to time.

With regards,

Yours faithfully,

(S.S. Mahadevaiah)
General Secretary

Copy to:- DDG (P), Department of Posts, Dak Bhavan, New Delhi-110001


(S.S. Mahadevaiah)
General Secretary

Tuesday 5 December 2017

GDS COMMITTEE STATUS REPORT

GDS Committee recommendation is now submitted to the Secretary expenditure. After his approval, file will be submitted to the Finance ministry