Grievances and Demands of all Postmasters Submitted for Discussion & moving resolution at IInd
AIAPC Meeting at Jaipur.
- The
Postmaster Cadre had been initially carved and created from General Line
Posts by the, then DG(Posts) in good faith in Feb 2010 with strength of establishment: PM GradeI-2097, PM GradeII-511, PM GradeIII-495,Senior
PM-116 with total no of Posts-3219.
- The General Line
officials with lots of hope had opted to Postmaster Cadre either through
initial constitution or through LDCE. They are shouldering heavy work load attached with innumerous types of duties and enormous
sense of Responsibilities (Direct and Indirect).
- Now, the
real spirit and motto for which this cadre was created has vanished and
all Postmasters are
deprived of all future scope in various aspects.
4. Almost all of the Officers belonging to this PM Cadre are feeling frustrated, dejected and
deceived due to stagnation and very remote chance of
getting promotion in each and every stage of this Cadre from the beginning.
5. In the Promotion lists released during June 2014
in TN Circle, for HSG-I Promotions, more than 13 Officials far juniors to me in
original FTP seniority list have been promoted to HSGI.
6. The same
is the case when such promotion orders were issued for General Line officials
from HSG-II to HSG-I during June 2013.
Twelve (12) junior officials in the erstwhile HSG-II combined GL, got promoted to HSG-I during Jun 2013, and from this list, five of the HSG-I officials so promoted who had not opted
to PM cadre initially during 2011, had opted to Postmaster Grade-III under
initial constitution clause during June
2013, became rank senior in Postmaster Grade-III, than the promotees from PM Grade-II to PM Grade-III. This has
been confirmed by issuing draft Gradation
list in Tamilnadu Circle during
Aug-2014.
7. It is peculiar and pathetic to note that only because of giving option to PostMaster
Cadre , my most juniors are getting higher Pay (Grade Pay of Rs.4600/) when
compared to me ( GP Rs.4200/).Even though we say that these are different
cadres, it is surely against natural justice.
8. In the recent Gazette notification for HSGI
Revised Recruitment Rules,2014 also, the total no of HSGI Posts are identified
as 2154, which is substantial in number and Officials with 3 years of regular
service in HSGII as on date will be easily promoted to HSGI but it is not so in
the case of PM Cadre.
9. Also, PM Cadre officials are subjected to
transfers to far distance locations on promotion as number of post are minimum
than the General line officials. By the recent Gazette notification for HSGI
Revised Recruitment Rules,2014, the Postmaster post hitherto occupied by IP Cadre
Offcials, are now thrown open to General Line officials, thereby the general
line officials are better placed than Postmaster Cadre Officials.
10. The total
residency period required to reach PM Grade-III from PM-Grade-I is
11years.However to get HSG-I promotion from LSG the total residency period
required is 6 years only. This is
very pathetic. While Calling for options from PM cadre, the department has
stated that for promotion to HSG-II and HSG-I, the residency period would be made
on par with that of PM cadre. However
while notifying the Recruitment Rules for HSG-II and HSG-I, the residency
period is kept as such as in old Recruitment Rules. This activity of Department
is like adding fuel to fire.
