Dear Comrades,
All the affiliated organizations
and C-o-Cs are requested to submit the following Memorandum to all concerned
during the month of August, 2018.
While taking the copy, in the
first para delete the designations shown in brackets which are not required.
M.Krishnan
Secretary General
Confederation
Mobile &
whatsapp:09447068125
mkrishnan6854@gmail.com
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MEMORANDUM
Memorandum submitted to
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(Governor, Chief Minister, MP, Leaders of Political Parties, Trade Unions and
eminent personalities etc.) on the grievances of Central Government employees
and Pensioners.
No................................. Date.............................
Respected Sir/Madam,
We,
on behalf of 32 lakhs Central Government employees and 33 lakhs Pensioners,
seek your benign intervention to settle the following genuine grievances pending
redressal for the last many years. We have brought these issues to
the notice of the Central Government several times and also discussed in the
negotiating forum which meets rarely. Inspite of our best efforts
the issues could not be settled due to the unhelpful attitude of the
Government. Having left with no other alternatives, we have been compelled
to declare one day nationwide strike of Central Government employees on 15th
November 2018. It is in this background, we are approaching your
goodself for your kind intervention, so that the matter will be
brought to the notice of the Hon’ble Prime Minister for early
settlement.
1. Scrap Contributory Pension
Scheme (Known as New Pension Scheme - NPS) and restore Defined Benefit Pension
Scheme under CCS (Pension) Rules 1972 to all Central Government Employees,
joined in service on or after 01-01-2004.
Contributory
Pension Scheme (called as New Pension Scheme - NPS) was introduced through an
executive order with effect from 01-01-2004 for all Central Government
employees who joined service on or after 01-01-2004. Subsequently
Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act (PFRDA) was enacted to
make it statutory. As per the NPS 10% Pay plus DA will be recovered
from the employee each month and an equal amount will be contributed by
Government. The amount goes to the Pension Fund and from there to
share market. As per the PFRDA Act - “There shall not be any
implicit or explicit assurance of benefit except market based guarantee
mechanism to be purchased by the subscribers”. Thus it can be seen
that the contribution in the Pension Fund is fully dependent on the vagaries of
share market. There is no guarantee whether pension will be received
at the age of 60 years and even if received what will be the amount of
pension. Now, many employees who entered service on or after 01-01-2004
has started retiring from service after completing 12 to 13 years
service. They receive a megre amount of 900 to 1700 as monthly
pension, whereas as per the old pension scheme an employee with minimum 10
years service is eligible for 50% of last pay drawn as monthly pension, subject
to a minimum of Rs.9,000/- per month, that too without giving any contribution
to the pension fund. With meager amount of Rs.900 to 1700 how a
pensioner and his family can survive?
It is
this bitter reality that compels the employees to demand scraping of NPS and
restoration of the old Pension Scheme for all those employees who entered
service on or after 01-01-2004.
2. Honour assurance given by
Group of Ministers to the Leaders of National Joint Council of Action (NJCA) of
Central Government employees regarding increase in Minimum Pay and Fitment
formula for Pay revision from 01-01-2016.
Most of
the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) are retrograde,
especially regarding Minimum Pay and Fitment formula. The NJCA
representing entire Central Govt. employees had given notice for indefinite
strike from 11th July 2016 demanding modifications in the recommendations of
7th CPC.... To avert the inevitable strike action, a Group of Ministers
consisting of Shri. Rajnath Singh, Home Minister, Shri. Arun Jaitley, Finance
Minister and Shri. Suresh Prabhu, then Railway Minister held discussion with
NJCA leaders on 30-06-2016 and assured that the main demand of increase in
Minimum Pay and Fitment formula will be considered favourably and for that
purpose a High Level Committee will be constituted by the Government which will
submit its report within four months time. This assurance was
confirmed through a press statement issued by Finance Ministry on 06-07-2016. Even
though two years are over since then, neither High Level Committee is
constituted by Government nor the assurance given by Group of Ministers
implemented. Entire employees and pensioners feel let down and
betrayed. Now Government has made it clear in the Parliament that at present,
no such proposal for increase in Minimum Pay and Fitment formula is under
consideration of the Government.
3. Regularisation and grant of
Civil Servant status to Gramin Dak Sevaks of the Postal
Department. Implement all positive recommendations of Kamalesh
Chandra Committee report without any modifications or dilution:
Consequent
upon the appointment of 7th Central Pay Commission, the Government set up a
separate committee on 19-11-2015 for revision of wages of three lakhs Gramin
Dak Sevaks (GDS) of Postal Department. Even though the Committee
submitted its report on 24-11-2016, the Government delayed its implementation
for 18 months. Aggrieved by this, entire GDS employees went on 16
days indefinite strike and finally Government approved the wage
revision. Even though the revised pay scales recommended by the
Committee is approved with effect from 01-07-2018, the formula for pay fixation
and calculation of arrears from 01-01-2016 to 30-06-2018, recommended by the
Committee is modified by the Government to the detriment of the employees
resulting in loss of huge amount of arrears to each Gramin Dak Sevak. Further
some other recommendations of the Committee like composite allowance, raising
the maximum limit of ex-gratia gratuity to 5 lakhs, three financial
upgradations, enhancement of paid leave from 20 to 30, Enhancement of monthly
subscription and insurance cover of EDGIS, Enhancement of working hours as per
workload upto 8 hours, combined duty allowance, retirement on last day of the
month on which GDS attains the retirement age etc. are either
modified/curtailed or rejected by the Government. Recommendations
like grant of Children Education Allowance, Emergency leave, Accumulation of
paid leave upto 180 days, Insurance Scheme, Limited transfer liability,
Voluntary Discharge Scheme, lesser qualifying service for Limited Departmental
Competitive Examinations (LDCE) etc. are yet to be approved by the
Government. Our demand for regularisation and grant of pension as
per CCS (Pension) Rules 1972, Introduction of Medical Insurance Scheme,
weightage increment for every 3 years service to seniors, etc. are not
considered favourably by the Government. In short, the attitude of
the Government towards the genuine demands of the GDS employees is not at all
positive and Govt. want to continue the inhuman exploitation of GDS.
(b) Regularisation of Casual, Part-time,
Contingent and Contract Workers who are engaged for years together to perform
the work which are permanent and perennial in nature.
Thousands
of Casual and Contract workers are engaged in various Central Government
departments against permanent Group-C vacant posts and also to perform other
work which is permanent/perennial in nature like sweeping
etc. Consequent on introduction of ban on recruitment by successive
governments in power, their number increased phenomenally. Government
is not ready to regularize them and is not even ready to grant equal wage for
equal work reiterated in the latest Supreme Court Judgment.
4. Pension Parity recommended
by 7th Central Pay Commision (Option-I):
7th
Central Pay Commission, headed by Justice (Rtd) Ashok Kumar Mathur and
consisting of experts from various fields, has recommended a new formula called
“Option-I” for fixation of pension of all pensioners retired prior to
01-01-2016 which ensure cent percent parity in pension between present and past pensioners. But, the Government has unilaterally rejected the recommendation on the specious plea that it is not feasible to implement. This has adversely affected the pensionary benefits of about 33 lakhs Central Govt. Civilian Pensioners.
01-01-2016 which ensure cent percent parity in pension between present and past pensioners. But, the Government has unilaterally rejected the recommendation on the specious plea that it is not feasible to implement. This has adversely affected the pensionary benefits of about 33 lakhs Central Govt. Civilian Pensioners.
In
addition to the above the following demands of the Central Govt.
employees are also long pending.
5. Filling up of all vacant
posts.
There are about six lakhs vacant posts remaining
unfilled in various Central Government departments.
6. Stop closure of Government
establishments -
Government
has issued orders for closure of 12 Govt. of India Printing Presses out of 17
Presses, inspite of the fact that the Parliamentary Standing Committee has
opposed the proposal and recommended twice for revival and modernisation of all
17 printing presses.
7. Implement 7th CPC wage
revision and pension revision of all Autonomous body employees and pensioners.
There are about 600 Autonomous bodies under the Central Government. 7th CPC wage revision and pension revision is not yet extended to 80% of the Autonomous body employees and pensioners.
There are about 600 Autonomous bodies under the Central Government. 7th CPC wage revision and pension revision is not yet extended to 80% of the Autonomous body employees and pensioners.
8. Remove 5% condition imposed
on compassionate appointments
Govt.
has restricted the compassionate appointments to 5% of the total Direct
recruitment quota vacancies earmarked for each year in each recruiting units of
various departments. This has resulted in rejection of even genuine
and deserving cases of compassionate appointments. The dependents of
thousands of employees who died while in service are put to untold sufferings
due to this inhuman decision of the Central Government
9. Stop attack on trade union
rights and ensure prompt functioning of various negotiating forums under the
Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) scheme at National and Departmental level -
Government
has issued instructions banning all peaceful agitational programmes like
dharnas, demonstrations etc. Various negotiating forums under the
JCM Scheme are not convened regularly and has become almost defunct or
ineffective.
10. Grant of five promotions during the
entire service career of each employee -
At
present almost all employees in the Group B and Group-C cadres retire from
service with maximum three promotions only. Our request to ensure
minimum five promotions in one’s career is not considered favourably by
Government.
The
above are some of the main issues agitating the minds of lakhs of central Govt.
Employees and pensioners for long. Once again request your kind
intervention.
With
profound regards,
Yours
faithfully,
Place: Name :
Date: Designation :
Union/Assn/Federation’s
Name :
or
name of C-O-C :
To
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