Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Membership Registration of All India Association of Postmaster Cadre
Dear Friend,
You
are aware of the fact that the process of declaring the Postmaster Cadre as
“Distinct Category” within the meaning of CCS (RSA) Rules, 1993 and thereby
recognition of All India Association of Postmaster Cadre is under active
process with the Postal Directorate. Ultimately we, the Postmaster Cadre
officials are going to get our own platform to take up our problems/ demands
etc with the appropriate authorities at the Divisional / Regional / Circle and
the Directorate level.
For this reason membership
registration is going on all over the country for which two copies of Members
Declaration Forms and two copies of Letter of Authorization Forms are to be
filled up and submitted to:
Mr M Venkateswara Rao
Postmaster
Postmaster
Mummidivaram PO
East Godavari
East Godavari
PIN 533216
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Mob: 9666648713 & 9440892824
All the Postmasters in PM Cadre
in Andhra Pradesh Circle are cordially requested to unite for our common service
interest.
Those who have already submitted
the forms, they are requested to motivate other PMs to submit the forms at the
earliest preferably within 10/01/2015 so as to prepare the members’ database
for early submission and get the approval for formation of All India
Association of Postmaster Cadre (AIAPC).
Get together, be unite, be unite
and we will achieve the goal.
All India Association of Postmaster
Cadre
Andhra Pradesh Circle
Monday, December 8, 2014
Please go through the note regarding confusion between AIAPS GL and AIAPC
Following
was a question raised by one wise Postmaster from Andhra Pradesh Circle soon
after 2nd AIC of All India Association of Postmaster Cadre held at
Jaipur on 17/08/2014
I think
Postal Directorate is creating confusion among us to protract our issues.
One time they advised us either to continue in the existing union or join
in Supervisors association. This time they are advising to submit another
proposal. I can not understand why Directorate started dialogue with us
when we all are decided to shift to Postal Supervisors association in the
Jaipur Meeting!!!
In
this regard reply given by AIAPC, WB Circle was as under:
Initially,
the Directorate has certainly confused us for not to form another association.
They are already facing lots of problems owing to existing Federations and
Unions. At Jaipur, some circles were
in favour of AIAPC and some were in favour of Supervisors Association (GL).
Therefore, our decision was not at all anonymous. Moreover, it was not
the decision of real All India too and the decision was taken under following
line. “Postmasters will take a readymade platform to take up the local
issues and form bodies of All India Association of Supervisors” which
itself clarifies that the decision was not of permanent nature. However,
more discussion would be required for taking the decision but we did not have
that opportunity owing to lack of time. Hon’ble Manoj Bhardwaj was our guest on
that day. The discussion should be of our own (AIAPC) not in presence of our
hon’ble guest who was from AIAPS(GL). Therefore, the discussion was not held
keeping our mind open which was practically held in presence of our hon’ble
guest. The Supervisors Association (GL) is now surviving on the stay order
given by the Hon’ble Delhi High Court. If we all (all Postmaster Cadre
officials) together with huge number of LSG, HSG-II & HSG-I officials join
Supervisors Association (GL) then only the association will survive, otherwise
it will perish away in course of membership verification process ( April-2015) even they win the case. Then
where will we go?
It is agreed
that there is ample scope of winning the case [W.P.(C) 1827/1997 against the
ambiguous orders of the DOP relating to “Distinct Category” ] by AIAPS(GL)
in view of legal point under Sub-rule ( c ) and (d) (ii) of Rule 5 of Central
Civil Services (Recognition of Service Association) Rules, 1993. On the other
hand there is also huge chance of losing the case in view of clarification of
“Distinct Category” vide the DoPT O.M. No 3/12/94-JCA, dated 10-3-1995 which is
reproduced below:
“This is in continuation of
this Department’s O. M. No 2/10/80-JCA, dated 31-1-1994 and O. M. No
2/2/94-JCA, dated 22-4-1994
2.
Definition of distinct category
2.1 In terms of Rule 5(c ), membership of a
service association has been restricted to a ‘Distinct Category’ of Government
servant having common interest. It has been clarified in the aforesaid OM that
responsibility of defining ‘Distinct Category’ whose members have commonality
of interest is left to the concerned Ministries/ Departments. In this
connection, it is clarified that while defining ‘Category’, there is no
objection to the existing association retaining their entity or a ‘class’ or
‘group’ being treated as a ‘Category’ , provided there is no administrative
problem or there is no clash of interest among constituent of the association.
It may, however, be ensured that employees not covered by the provision of
CCS(RSA) Rules, 1993, are not included in any category whatsoever”
This
can be construed as the creation of Kashmir Problem from the womb of
independent India.
But whatever may be the result of the
case, the extinction of AIAPS(GL) may happen because most of the supervisors
are either active members or leaders of existing P3 unions. They will remain as
unofficial members / dormant members / unofficial leaders of existing P3 unions
in case they lose the case but will surely not join to AIAPS(GL) as they are
doing now. Obviously we salute the members of AIAPS(GL) for carrying out
the legal battle in the Hon’ble Delhi High Court since 17 years. Perhaps their
legal battle will render us much advantage while making the Postmaster Cadre as
“Distinct Category” keeping no ambiguity like IP Cadre. Please think why shall
we ride on a “sinking boat” which is visible through a naked eye?
In this
regard a simple calculation is given hereunder which may remove the confusion:
Name of cadre
|
No of Posts
|
Name of cadre
|
No of Posts
|
|||
LSG (2011)
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6929
|
PM, Gr-I
|
2097
|
|||
HSG-II(2013)
|
1711
|
PM, Gr-II
|
511
|
|||
HSG-I (2014)
|
1741
|
PM, Gr-III
|
495
|
|||
Individual total
|
10381
|
3103
|
||||
3103
|
||||||
Total Supervisory Posts
|
13484
|
Based on real data
|
||||
35% of Supervisory Posts
|
4719 i.e.
the magic number is sufficiently higher than that of total posts in PM Cadre.
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|||||
N.B.: These 35% members
are required based on filled up posts for surviving a union/association under
Sub-rule (d) (i) of Rule 5 of Central Civil Services (Recognition of Service
Association) Rules, 1993 read with Rule 8 of same rule.
|
||||||
Approximate Filled up
posts
|
8000
|
2000(almost real data)
|
||||
Total filled up
supervisory posts (8000 + 2000)
|
10000
|
|||||
35% of filled up
Supervisory Posts
|
3500. In this case also
the magic number is sufficiently higher than that of total filled up posts in
PM Cadre.
|
|||||
Presently the AIAPS(GL) don’t
have more than 20 members all over India. They are not able to manage the
support of peoples of their cadre owing to the statement made in earlier para
(underlined). They have to manage the support of 3500 members hypothetically in
course of verification process (April, 2015). Thus from the statement made in
earlier para (underlined) and above mentioned calculation anyone may realize
that entire community of P M Cadre officials is not able to nourish the
AIAPS(GL) anyway. Moreover, our General Secretary in his 2nd
proposal dtd 26/08/2014 addressed to the Directorate clearly mentioned the
following para:
It
is also mentioned against Clarification 2 of the Directorate’s letter F. No 4-17/2008-SPB-II dated 10th
February, 2011, “In case it is decided to discharge the probationer from
Postmaster Grade-I and Grade-II, the official will be reverted to General
Line”. This itself inter-alia clarifies that the Postmaster Cadre
doesn’t belong to General Line in the Postal Wing of the DOP.
Therefore,
joining AIAPS(GL) presently does not have any legal validity since as per
forgoing para the Postmaster Cadre doesn’t belong to General Line in the Postal
Wing of the DOP even though the AIAPS(GL) has already made necessary amendment
in their constitution for entry of P M Cadre officials which has not yet
approved by the Directorate.
Thus owing to our hurried decision taken in the
2nd AIC (Jaipur), we have already lost the real spirit of the PM Cadre movement
to some extent and if it continues, it will ultimately die like our first war
of independence in the year 1857. Friends, please realize what happened to
Mother Gandhari by giving premature birth of her 100 babies? Thus maturity of a
movement will take time. “It’s a process, It’s a process and It’s a process: Change takes time”.
But don’t deviate, stick on, remain united and
determined as “determination leads to success”. So Friends, think
twice, thrice even more for our hurried decision.
Now it is established beyond
doubt the Stand regarding AIAPC, jointly taken by Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh
& W B Circle was in the right track as elicited from the Postal Directorate
letter No 13/2/2014-SR dated 11th November, 2014. ( to see Click Here).
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Congratulation AIAPC Tamilnadu Circle !
Heartiest congratulation to all the Postmasters ofTamilnadu Circle for making
the official meeting ofPostmaster Cadre successful which held on
23/11/2014 at Trichy.
= All India Association of Postmaster Cadre (AIAPC)
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Action Plan Supplementary 2.
Dear Postmasters,
We
are really delighted for your profound response from all over the country- from
Kashmir in the north to Kanyakumari in the South and from Gujarat in the west
to Nagaland in the far East.
Now
we feel that all of our friends in Postmaster Cadre are highly charged to get
our desired goal i.e. firstly the recognition of our dream All India
Association of Postmaster Cadre and
secondly to represent our matters before the 7th Central Pay Commission.
It
is noticed that some of our dear friends are sending Membership Declaration
Forms and Letter of Authorization forms directly
to Sri Ganesh Sable, Postmaster,
Grade-I, General Secretary (Ad-hoc Committee), All India Association of
Postmaster Cadre, Dharavi PO, Mumbai-400017
which doesn’t match with our Action Plan sent vise Mail dtd 10/09/2014.
A revised summary
regarding submission and the disposal of Membership Declaration Forms and Letter
of Authorization forms is appended below for your guidance:
I. Every Postmaster will please download the said forms
from our website (http://aiapcchq.blogspot.in/)
and submit in duplicate to the respective Circle Committee already in existence
/ to be formed. (To download the forms click here for PDF/JPEG)
II. The Circle Committee will allot Membership Number
to every member in the following uniform format:
AIAPC—(name
of circle in abbreviation as chosen by circles)-- (Sl. No),
i.e. AIAPC-WB-01
(For membership no 01 of W. B.
Circle
III. Each Circle Committee will please send
one copy of Membership Declaration Form and one copy of Letter of Authorization
Form in a consolidated manner by Speed Post in the following format for
national consolidation as well as processing for onward transmission to the
Directorate.
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Name
of the Member
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Designation
|
Official
Address
|
Membership
Number
|
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To
Shri Himangshu Kr Modak,
Postmaster, Grade-II,
Narkeldanga PO ,
Kolkata 700011.
Mob: 098745-44912
(Circle Secretary, AIAPC, WB)
IV. The other copy of Membership
Declaration Form is to be retained with the Circle Committee as backup records
and another copy of Letter of Authorization also to be retained with Circle
Committee for submission to the respective DDOs/Divl Head at the time of
verification in the year 2015.
V. Target date of sending the processed
forms by Circle Committee has been fixed as 20/12/2014 and submission to the Directorate as 05/01/2015.
Truly Yours
=All India Association of Postmaster
Cadre
Action Plan Supplementary 1.
Dear Postmasters,
The Postal
Directorate letter No 13/2/2014-SR dated 11th November, 2014 duly
published in our Blog on 17/11/2014 http://aiapcchq.blogspot.in/ is a giant
leap forward towards our goal of being recognised as a new service association
(All India
Association of Postmaster Cadre).
The letter from
Directorate removes all kinds of prejudices and doubts towards the formation of
our association but strengthen the prospects of formation of the same. That our
line of action is being already on the right track we need to fulfil the
omissions as suggested by the Directorate to enable them to consider our
proposal.
It’s an appeal to
all concerned to take part in the process of obtaining recognition of Service
Association as per the following suggested course of action and strictly
adhering to the dates considering the reason to represent our matters before
the 7th Central Pay Commission for which early recognition of All India Association of
Postmaster Cadre is extremely essential.
1.
Target date has been fixed as 15/12/2014 for collection of
Consent Forms and Authorisation Forms in duplicate from the members in
Postmaster, Gr-I, II & III available in the this website (Post of 7
Nov-2014).
2.
In the circles where ad-hoc body is yet to form like J&K,
HP, Uttarakhand, Hariyana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Gujarat, Kerala, North East, Assam, Bihar etc., they are requested to form
their ad-hoc body of All India Association of Postmaster Cadre by way of
calling a general body meeting immediately as per their convenience. Our
constitutional provision for circle branch is appended below for convenience in
forming the body.
3.
Each circle will report to the CHQ by email on every Saturday
regarding the progress of Action Plan published on 10-9-2014 through eMail .
With
regards,
Truly
yours,
All India Association of Postmaster Cadre
Relevant Part of our constitutional provisions:
PART-
III (CIRCLE ASSOCIATION)
43) NAME: The organization at
Circle level shall be called the All India Association of Postmaster Cadre,
Official Circle Branch.
44) HEAD QUARTERS:
The Head Quarters of the Association shall be situated at the Head Quarters of
the Circle or any place as may be chosen by the Circle Secretary.
45) STRUCTURE: The
Association shall form a constitutional Branch of the Centre and shall be
composed of the Divisional Branches duly recognized even members of the
Divisional Branch shall be member of the Circle Association.
46) RECOGNITION: The
Divisional Branches shall be recognized by the Circle Branch or expression
agreement in writing to abide by the rules and regulations of the Association
as embodied in the Constitution. Likewise Circle Branches shall be recognized
by the C. H. Q.
47) MANAGEMENT: The
management of the Circle Association shall vest in the following bodies.
a) The Circle Conference which
shall meet once in two years.
b) The CWC which shall meet once
in six months subject to availability of funds.
48) POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE
CIRCLE CONFERENCE: The Circle Conference shall be the supreme deliberative
and legislative body of the Circle Association. It shall have the following
specific powers.
a) To elect i) a President ii)
Three Vice Presidents, iii) Circle Secretary, iv) Four Asst. Circle
Secretaries, v) Four organizing Secretaries, vi) a Treasurer , vii) an Asst.
Treasurer ( Total strength 15(Fifteen only). The office bearers elected from
the Regions will function as Regional Secretary of the respective Region.
b) To nominate an Auditor.
c) The decision of the Circle
Conference can be revised, modified or rescinded by the succeeding circle
conference.
NOTICE: The total strength
of the office for the management of the Circle office bearers including Central
Working Committee members shall not exceed the members fixed by the
Department Of Posts from time to time.
49) DUTIES OF THE OFFICE
BEARERS: The duties of the Office Bearers of the Central Association as
specified in article (34) shall apply mutatis mutandis in the case of Office
Bearers of the Circle Association.
50) POWERS OF THE CIRCLE
WORKING COMMITTEE: The CWC will consist of Office Bearers, working
committee members and Branch Secretaries. The CWC will control the
affairs of the Circle Association in between the Circle Conferences. The CWC
shall exercise all the powers of the circle conference except election of
Office Bearer and adoption of Annual Report and Accounts provided that the
Circle Association shall take no action contrary to or in consistent with the
directive of the conference.
51) Deleted
52) VACANCIES IN ELECTED
OFFICES: Same as article 37**.
53) Notice of meeting as
specified in Para 38 with few corrections (1) 21 days for Circle Conference and
14 days for convening CWC and for emergent intimation, it may be 7 days.
54) NOTICE OF MEETING: The
notice of the Divisional Conference shall be issued at least 10 days before the
date of the conference and that of 7 days in the case of working Committee
Meeting. For conducting Divisional Conference the Divisional Secretary shall
given prior intimation to the Circle Secretary at least 15 days in advance.
Recognition shall be given only in cases by the Circle Body. An emergent
meeting shall be convened with 3 days general advance notice.
**
37) VACANCIES IN ELECTED
OFFICES: If any of the elected office of the Central Head Quarters falls
vacant due to death, non acceptance, resignation, retirement, expulsion or
continued absence from the office without proper authority for a period of
exceeding three months, the General Secretary will fill up the vacancies in
consultation with the President and get it ratified in the next C.W.C.
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