Today Allowance committee meeting at Directorate - VOICE OF AIAPS WILL REFLECT IN EVERY CORNER OF DAK BHAWAN !!!

Dear LSG/PM cadre Postmasters and Postal assistants,

        The following memorandum shall be put forth and discussed by AIAPS in today's directorate meeting with Secretary Posts on 19.10.2016. 

       AIAPS will fight for getting the allowances back and wont let the legitimates rights down even to Postal Assistants...

      The memorandum is produced below for the Postmasters kind information. 

To,

        The Honorable Secretary Posts,

        Department of Posts,

        Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

        New Delhi – 110001

        Sub : Request to retain the following very essential allowances at postal wing to the smooth functioning of our department – reg

          Ref : Directorate letter number 7-3/2016-PCC dated at Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg the 17^th October 2016

Respected sir,

          A kind reference is invited to the above reference letter and this association brings the following few facts and justified demands for the better functioning of our department without any resistance.

Preamble :

        After the long struggle of staff side and department recommendations, only after due justification and distinguished work nature, the allowances are paid to the officials of our department. In addition to the other allowances below four allowances are very essential and the negative impacts if those allowances are not paid are put forth for your kind information and necessary early action to restore those allowances please.

1.   Care taker allowance :

        Vide finance ministry order number F.No 7(21)/2008-E.III(A) dated at New Delhi the 22.09.2008 (Copy of the letter is attached) 10% in basic pay + DA should be paid as care taking allowance to the care takers.

        Care taker posts are replaced and atpresent those care taking work is entrusted to concerned Postmasters of that office in the awake of Swach Bharath Mission.

        But even after finance ministry is sanctioned the care taking allowance till now no such allowance is paid to the Postmasters and without the care taking allowance, Swach Bharath mission cannot be successfully implemented and no person held responsible without allowance since they are already having the work load of more than 8 hours in 24% of shortage in group c cadre of department of posts as per 7^th CPC report.

          So all the Postmaster Grade I/II/III/Sr.Postmasters and LSG/HSG-II/HSG-I postmasters should be given with care taking allowance in the mode of Extra work Allowance.

2.   Over time allowance

a.   7^th CPC report is itself clearly intimated that Department of Posts is running with 24% vacancy in group c cadre(huge no of 59817 posts are vacant) as a result work is mounting to the sky high to the available staffs.

b.   Till the shortage is eradicated it is needless to say that without Over Time allowance department cannot be survived.

c.    So this association request the honorable Secretary (Posts) to do the needful to enhance the previous rate of OTA (Rs.15 per hour which was fixed before a decade) Rs.100 Per hour with DA indexed.

3.   Saturday duty allowance :

a.   As not like in other central government departments, Postal department operative staffs are only working on every Saturdays (52 days in a year) without a single penny or compensation offs. Nothing was given to them for the additional work burden which is clearly exploiting their 52 days of family life.

b.   For other departments for working on Saturdays, special allowance or extra EL was sanctioned.

c.    Previous sanctioning of 12 days CL was also cut down by saying Saturday week off in other departments which directly affected the operative side of postal department very badly.

d.   So for the operative staffs of postal department week off duty allowance may kindly be paid as the rate of Rs.1000 per Saturday or else 52 days Extra EL may kindly be credited every year as like in other departments.

4.   No quarters allowance :

a.   Though Most of the officials are not willing to occupy the quarters offices because many of those are not in accommodating condition with family, that was forced to be occupied by the department by mentioning distinguished and enhanced work of postmasters. In other side, though justification is there to force the officials to occupy the quarters office, for no quarters office now NQA was abolished which will show double stand by the department.

b.   To avoid the double stand NQA allowance should be retained and enhanced by multiplying the fitment formula as Rs.235*2.57=Rs.600 (rounded off to nearest 10) with DA indexed.

Conclusion :

        All the allowances like cash handling allowance, Savings bank allowance, cycle allowance are paid only after due justification and after their distinguished work from other staffs. Hence nothing was outdated and if those hard earned allowances are not paid then it will resist the smooth functioning of this department very badly.

Prayer :

          So this association requests the honorable Secretary (Posts) to do the needful to restore all the hard earned allowances with enhanced rate by multiplying with fitment factor with DA indexed. (Restricting to the minimum of Rs.100 if lower than Rs.100) in addition to the above mentioned four very essential allowances.

       

Thanking you.

19.10.2016

Noida                                                                        Yours faithfully

    (Manoj Bhardwaj)