The much awaited two-day historic national
work-shop on 7th CPC
memorandum on P-III specific issues was
started at 11 AM on 26.05.2014 in Saha Auditorium, 2, Raj Niwas Marg,
New Delhi-54.
The workshop was inaugurated by Com. K
K N Kutty, President, Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers and addressed by
Com. S K Vyas, Ex-Secretary General, Confederation and Com. Bhrigu
Bhattacharya, Secretary General, Civil Accounts Federation.
In his introductory speech, Com. M
Krishnan, General Secretary, AIPEU, Group-C, CHQ briefed the history of setting
up of 7th CPC and the role of Confederation and contribution of NFPE
in this regard. In his inaugural speech, Com. Kutty narrated the plans and policies
of the Confederation for demanding the minimum need based salary and the steps
taken by it for arriving at a unanimity of opinion by the affiliates. For the
purpose, confederation is working hard day and night and collecting information
from different cities for calculating the minimum need based salary as per the
formula designed by 15th ILC. Rough calculation at this stage shows
a hike of more than 3.4 times. However, final calculation will be done with
unanimous opinion of all affiliates before discussing the same in JCM National
Council. Confederation is also planning for demanding 5 % annual increment and 2 such increments on
promotion.
Addressing the Workshop Com. Vyas told
that the minimum need based wage will
not be the minimum wage but more that that since after acceptance of the recommendations of the 6th
CPC, there is no Group-D employees and the Group-C employees is either skilled
or semi-skilled and not unskilled. While submitting the common memorandum, the
Confederation should demand for parity in pension. A pensioner should be able
to maintain the same standard of living as he used to maintain before
retirement. While countries like Sri
Lanka offers 75%, Bangla Desh 80%, 50% of the last pay drawn to the CG
employees in India is illogical. It should be at least 67% of the last pay
drawn according to Com. Vyas who also criticized the New Pension Scheme. The
whole NPS is a voluntary one which needs to be scrapped out. The Central Govt.
employees should continue under the statutory pension scheme since the NPS is
discriminating the employees before and after 01.01.2004. A pension which is
adequate, and revised every 5 year with
parity is needed – Com. Vyas told. Wage has two concepts – one is visible ,
i.e. Salary and the other is invisible , i. e. Pension. So the CPC while
considering wage revision should take care of both the aspects.
Thanking such a nice effort in
conducting a workshop on 7th CPC by AIPEU, Group-C, CHQ with
involvement of grass root level leaders preferably the Divisional Secretaries,
Com. Bhattacharya told that the common memorandum to be prepared and presented
by the Confederation should also highlight the problems faced by the Central
Govt. establishments due to downsizing, contractorization, outsourcing etc. He
suggested that other organizations, unions and associations should follow such
noble paths and prepare their respective memorandum accordingly.
The Seminar
A seminar was organized at 3 PM which was addressed by Shri Alok
Saxena, DDG and Secretary, Postal Board. In his deliberation he guided the
unions/associations regarding preparation of a genuine and logical memorandum. The memorandum prepared by the Unions /
associations and by the Department for a specific cadre should go in one
direction and should not confuse the Commission in any manner. The memorandum
should be designed in the way the CPC examines it. Factors like minimum
educational qualification , nature of duties and job profile assigned to a
particular cadre, parity with other cadre and historical relativities should be
given priority while preparing a memorandum. He suggested many valuable points
and give nice tips for preparing a suitable memorandum exclusively for postal
Assistant cadre which is unique and can not be compared with similar assistants
in any other Central Govt. establishments.
Afternoon Session
Com. M Krishnan read out the draft
memorandum prepared by the CHQ chapter wise. Only two chapters could be
finished on 26.05.2914. delegates were allowed to suggest
additions/modifications on each and every point. Many suggestions were given by
the delegates which were noted by the CHQ for modification of the draft
memorandum. Discussion on rest chapters will continue on 27.05.2014.
While the workshop was presided by
Com. R Shivnarayan, our CHQ president, it was also attended by Com. K V Sridharan, ex-General Secretary, CHQ, Com.
B G Thambankar, ex-President, CHQ, Com. Giriraj Singh, General Secretary R –
III, Com. P Suresh, General Secretary, R – IV, Com. Seethalaxmi, General
Secretary, P – IV.
Com. B samal, Divisional Secretary,
AIPEU, Group-C, Bhubaneswar Division , Com.
R C Mishra, CS, P-III, Odisha Circle, Com. Purna Chandra Moharana, D/S, Koraput
Division, Com. Upendra Sahoo, D/S, Dhenkanal Division, Com. Bishnu Das, D/s,
Cuttack City Division and Divisional Secretaries of Balasore and Keonjhar had attended from Odisha Circle.Due to some unavoidable problem the Divisional Secy Puri missed the golden opportunity to attend the workshop.
