Regarding Stop the HO Sorting Pattern in Pune Region

No. NFPE/R-III/D.S./L1&L2 offices/36/2012-13 dtd at Pune 411001 the 18-JAN-2013

To,    

The Superintendent,

RMS ‘B’ Dn pune,

Pune - 411001.

Subject: Regarding Restoration of L1&L2 offices & Stoppage of HO Sorting Pattern in Pune Region.

Reference:

1.   RO Pune order No. PR/Mails/Handling of 1^st Class Mails/2012 dtd 31.12.2012.

2.   Agitation notice issued by JCA vide No. JCA/Reg-NFPE-FNPO/07/12-13 dtd 20.11.2012.

Respected Sir,

This has reference to our earlier JCA meeting dtd 22.11.2012 regarding totally stoppage of HO Sorting Pattern & your office earlier order No. PR/Mails/Handling of 1^st Class Mails/2012 dtd 31.12.2012.

In this respect, this union is hereby firstly highly protesting the steps taken by Administration for not following the Dte’s orders No. No.30-7/2012-D dated 01/02/2012 on L1 &L2 offices not following the assurances given by Administration during JCA meeting dtd 22.11.2012 about tottaly stoppage of HO Sorting Pattern in Pune Region. 

1. Regarding Restoration of L1& L2 office in Pune Region:

As per earlier order of RO Pune under reference, it seems that Administration is going to close the RMS Section, which has more than 150 years history & approval of Government of India. In this respect even though no any orders issued by the Directorate about merger of any office of RMS section in Postal Section, but as per your order it is clear that instead of Revision cases, statistics & creation of vacancy in RMS ‘B’ Division, Administration is going to make New malpractices such as closure of L1 & L2 offices of RMS ‘B’ Dn Pune by diverting all First class & Second class mail to concerned HO office.

As per orders under reference, sorting work of First class & Second Class mail is being done at Concerned HO, by arranging College Students and supervision by one Sorting Assistant, and payment of college students are being made through HRO Pune. In this respect, in Pune RMS, Solapur RMS, Ahmednagar RMS, Latur Stg, there is adequate accommodation for sorting of First class Mail & Second class mail which are established before more than 50 years & also at the premises of HO’s there is no adequate accommodation for Sorting of Bothe First class mail & Second class mail. For Example- In Pune HO, sorting work of work is being processed in front of  the ‘Recreation Club’ in ‘Mandav’ (Temporary Shed) covered by Cloth,  & In Shed in front of the Delivery Section, which is very badly affected on the health of the staff as in Pune temperature is down going up to 5 degree Celsius. The same fact is applicable for Pune District Sorting office which is shifted at Shivajinagar NDHO, in the premises of Pune RMS, Pune District Sorting office was at well in accommodation.

2. Stop Dumping of First class Mail & Second class mail of L1 & L2 office to another offices:

At present, as per orders by Administration all inward mail of Pune RMS is being dumped / diverted to another offices for sorting pattern. Also name of the such dumping offices have been keep by administration is “HO PATTERN SPECIAL SORTING UNIT-NAME OF HO”, such action taken by the administration is not as per the orders issued by Directorate, New Delhi. It seems that intention of the Administration is that to close immediately RMS ‘B’ Division & this issue highly protested by this Union.

3. Recruitment in RMS ‘B’ Division, Pune.

As per your office earlier reply & reply of SRM B Dn regarding vacancy in this Division, wherein administration has accepted that, at Present this Division having vacancy of 54 Group ‘C’ Cadre, but only 8 vacancies will be filled for 2011-2012 Recruitment , which is under process. As per reply of SRM ‘B’ DN Pune, at present 13+7 SAs & MTS on deputation at RO, BDG, MBC,APS, PLI & in this Division about 35 Postal Assistants are working on deputation, as this Division is facing for acute shortage of Manpower, even though also administration not seriously takes issue of finalization of statistics / revision cases, only assurances are being given by administration no any action is being taken.

Therefore your honour is requested to take this issue with higher authorities for Special Recruitment of RMS ‘B’ Division by revising vacancy position for Recruitment of 2011-12, which is under process.

4. Regarding pending issues of Agitation notice:

Assurances given by Hon’ble PMG Pune Region Pune, during meeting dtd 22.11.2012 are not implemented by your honour till date & by RO Pune. In this respect you are kindly requested to settle the issues as discussed in the said meeting.

You are therefore kindly requested to take necessary action as per rules and directions of Directorate and immediate stop HO Sorting pattern & restore L1 & L2 offices of RMS ‘B’ Dn Pune.

(S J MANE)

DIVISIONAL SECRETARY,

AIRMS & MMS Employees Union, GR. C,

RMS ‘B’ Dn, Pune

Copy to,

1.    Com. Shri. M. Krishnan, Secretary General, National Federation of Postal Employees, 1^st Floor, North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110001.

2.    Com. Shri. Giri Raj Singh, General Secretary, All India RMS & MMS Employees Union Group ’C’, - D-2, telegraph Place, Bangla Sahib Marg, New Delhi-110001.

3.    The C.P.M.G., Maharashtra Circle, Mumbai Circle, Mumbai - 400001 (Through C.S.)

4.    Com. Shri. H.M. Gedam, Circle Secretary. AIRMS & MMS E U.R-III, Mumbai

5.    The PMG, Pune Region, Pune- 411001. (Through ACS)

6.    Shri. A.B. Shivtare A.C.S. AIRMS & MMS E U.R-III, Pune Region, Pune.

7.    All Branch Secretaries.

8.    oc

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY

STRIKE ! STRIKE! STRIKE!

STRIKE NOTICE SERVED

 STRIKE NOTICE FOR 20th AND 21st FEBRUARY 2013 SERVED TO THE SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, NEW DELHI  TODAY BY JCA LEADERS.

SERVE STRIKE NOTICE TO ALL HEADS OF DEPARTMENT AND HEADS OF OFFICE TODAY - CONFEDERATION SERVES STRIKE NOTICE TODAY TO CABINET SECRETARY IN NEW DELHI

No. Conf. 22/2013                                                              Dated: 19th January, 2013.

To

The Cabinet Secretary,

Dear Sir,

             This is to give notice that the employees who are members of the affiliated organisations of the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers will go on two days strike on 20th and 21st February, 2013.  The Charter of demands in pursuance of which the employees will embark upon the one day strike action is enclosed.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

K.K.N.Kutty,

Secretary General,

Revised norms for the operational activities at speed post Sorting Hubs, Intra-Circle Hubs and Computerised Registration Centres (CRCs)

Copy of D.G. Posts letter No. 28-8/2011-D dated 17.01.2013 on the above subject matter is reproduced below.

Reference is invited to the Directorate Memo No. 30-64/2009-D dated 08.10.2009, vide which ad-hoc norms for processing of Speed articles at Speed Post Centres were circulated. Attention is also drawn to the Directorate Memo No. 28-5/2006-D dated 13.09.2006, vide which norms for processing of registered articles at Computerized Registration Centres (CRs) were circulated.

2.  The matter relating to revision of norms for various activities at Speed Post Sorting Hubs, Intra-Circle Hubs and CRCs was under examination at this Directorate . Based on the Wok Study undertaken by the Directorate with respect to Speed Post operations at Speed Post Centres (restructured as ‘Sorting Hubs’ as part of Mail Network Optimization Project) and extension of operational processes followed at  Speed Post Hubs and Intra-Circle Hubs to the CRCs, norms for various activities have been revised. The revised norms are given at the Annexure and would be applicable to Speed Post Sorting Hubs and Intra-Circle Hubs as well as CRCs.

3.   The revised norms for activities at Speed Post Sorting Hubs, Intra-Circle Hubs and CRCs would be applicable with immediate effect.

   This issues with the concurrences of Integrated Finance Wing and approval of Secretary (Posts)

Sd/-

(Rishikesh)

Director (Mail Management)

Annexure

REVISED NORMS FOR ACTIVITIES AT SPEED POST SORTING HUBS, INTRA-CIRCLE HUBS AND COMPUTERIZED REGISTRATION CENTRES (CRCS).

Item	Item of Work	Revised time factor(  in minutes)
01	Switching on and opening of computer by user	2.00
02	Receipt of bag	0.166 rounded to 0.17
03	Examination & opening of bags	0.5
04	Examination of articles received	0.11
05	Scanning of article in receipt	0.04 (25 articles per minute or 1500 per hour)
06	Sorting of articles	0.063 (950 articles per hour)
07	Scanning of article for dispatch	0.04 (25 articles per minute)
08	Generation of list	0.40
09	Closing of bags	1.00
10	Preparation ofmail  lists	0.20
11	Opening/examination/sorting and preparation of bundles	0.15
12	(i) Dispatch of Mail (ii)Receipt of bag from sorter (iii) Preparation of TBs (iv)Dispatch of mail	1 minute per bag
13	Misc. work/irregularities	10% of total work hours.
14	Clicking shift end and switching off computer by SA/RSA	1.33
15	Supervisor	1 on 6 SAs/RSAs. On less than 6 SAs/RSAs, coefficient of 1.20 hrs. is required to be given on each SA/RSA

Note: Articles for the purpose of CRC include ‘High Value Money Orders (HVMOs).

Quotes of Swami Vivekandanda

 
 
1. FORGIVE AND FORGET: THE ILLNESS

Know that talking ill of others in a private is a sin. You must wholly avoid it. Many things may occur to the mind, but it gradually makes a mountain of a molehill if you try to express them. Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

2. DIE LIKE HEROES

My boys, when death is inevitable, is it not better to die like heroes than as stocks and stones? And what is the use of living a day or two more in this transitory world? It is better to wear out than to rust out -- special for the sake of doing the least good to others.

3. BE SERVANT

Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

4. STICK TO TRUTH

Beware of everything that is untrue: stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.

5. DO GOOD: BE GOOD

The road to good is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

6. WHEN WILL INDIA AWAKE?

Then only will India awake, when hundreds of large hearted men and women, giving up all desires of enjoying the luxuries of life, will long and exert themselves to themselves to their utmost for the millions of their countrymen who are gradually sinking lower and lower in the vortex of destitution and ignorance.

7. YOU ARE THE MAKERS OF YOUR OWN FORTUNE

You are the makers of your own fortune. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

8. DEVELOP THE ATTITUDE OF NON-ATTACHMENT

It is a weakness to think someone is dependent on you, and that you can do good to him. This belief is the mother of all our attachment and through this attachment comes all our pain. Therefore developing the attitude of non-attachment is the great lesson to learn in life, and when we have learned it fully, we shall never be unhappy... By non-attachment you overcome and deny the power of anything to act upon you.

9. HELP, GIVE SERVICE

In the world take always the position of the giver; help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter.

10. HAVE AN IDEAL

If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. Therefore it is better to have an ideal.

11. BE UNATTACHED

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. This is freedom, to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

12. TRUTH PURITY UNSELFISHNESS

Truth, purity and unselfishness-whatever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

13. EDUCATION

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

14. POSITIVE THOUGHTS

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

15. BE OBEDIENT

Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country and you will move the world.

16. OPPOSITION

The more opposition there is the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition it will meet with at the outset. It is the opposition which foretells success.

17. HAVE NO FEAR

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

18. WHAT WE WANT

What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is a man-making religion that we want. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all around that we want.

19. AN ATHEIST

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

20. TEACH: STRENGTH

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over it, but thinking of strength. Teach men of the strength that is already within them.

21. LOVE UNSELFISHNESS

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying.

22. DO NOT INJURE

Help if you can; if you cannot, fold your hands and stand by things go on. Do not injure, if you cannot render help.

23. DIE ON THE FIELD OF DUTY

Work unto death -- I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes -- wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

24. BE UNITED IN THOUGHTS, WORDS, AND DEED

A handful of men can throw the world off its hinges, provided they are united in thought, word, and deed -- never forget this conviction.

25. ARISE AWAKE

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Expected DA from January 2013 is 8%

Dearness allowance to all Central Government employees and Pensioners from Jan 2013 will be expected to enhance by 8% and the total DA also will raise to 80% from Jan 2013.

Fixation of pay by taking special allowance to PO and RMS Accountants

Retirement Benefits under New Pension Scheme

Retirement Benefits under New Pension Scheme

It was informed by Minister of State (PERSONNEL,PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS) that Central Government employees covered under New Pension Scheme are entitled for DCRG Benefits viz., Death Cum Retirement Benefits, in cases where a Government employee covered by NPS is retired on invalidation/disability and in the case of death of a Government employee covered by NPS in service, on the same rates as are applicable under the old pension scheme, i.e. CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL,PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 1903

ANSWERED ON 05.12.2012

RETIREMENT BENEFITS

Query:

Will the Minister of PERSONNEL,PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS be pleased to state:-

(a) whether the Union Government employees recruited after January, 2004 are not eligible for retirement benefits such as pension, GPF and gratuity;

(b) if so, the reasons therefor;

(c) whether not providing gratuity, pension and GPF facility is a discrimination with employees recruited after January, 2004 as the same is being provided to the employees of private sector;

(d) if so, the details thereof;

(e) whether the Government proposes to provide all retirement benefits including gratuity to the Government servants recruited after January, 2004; and

(f) if so, the details thereof?

Answered by Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office. (SHRI V. NARAYANASAMY)

A new restructured defined contribution pension system for the new entrants to Central Government service, except to the Armed Forces, replacing the system of defined benefit pension including GPF, was notified on 22nd December, 2003. The Government employees appointed on or after 1.1.2004 and governed by the New Pension System can withdraw 60% of their Pension Fund as a lumpsum when they retire and the balance 40% of their wealth is used to purchase an annuity scheme from a life insurance company of their choice, which will pay him/her a monthly pension for the rest of his life. In casethe employees leave the New Pension Scheme prior to age 60, the mandatory anuitization would be 80% of the pension wealth.

The monthly annuity under the New Pension Scheme is only a replacement of pension on retirement and family pension on death after retirement. The benefits of Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity (DCRG) and pension/family pension have been provisionally allowed, vide Department of Pension & Pensioners` Welfare OM No. 38/41/06-P&PW(A) dated 5.5.2009, in respect of the Central Government servants covered by the New Pension Scheme in cases where a Government Servant is retired on invalidation/disability and in the case of death of a Government servant in service, on the same rates as are applicable under the old pension scheme, i.e. CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972.

The details of DCRG payable to employees of Central Government under NPS are as under:

(i) The retirement gratuity is payable to the retiring Government servant. A minimum of 5 years qualifying service and eligibility to receive service gratuity/ pension is essential to get this one time lump sum benefit. Retirement gratuity is calculated @ l/4th of a month`s Basic Pay plus Dearness Allowance drawn before retirement for each completed six monthly period of qualifying service. The maximum retirement gratuity payable is 16 XA times the Basic Pay, subject to a maximum of Rs. 10 lakhs.

(ii) If the Government Servant dies while in service, the death gratuity shall be paid to his family at the rates furnished in the table below: