Dedicated to India Post
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)
|
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.
|
|||||
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)
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