CHQ HAS TAKEN UP THE CASE RELATED TO CBS ISSUES WITH THE SECRETARY POSTS, NEW DELHI

அன்புத் தோழர் களுக்கு வணக்கம். 

         நம்முடைய தமிழ் மாநில அஞ்சல் மூன்று சங்கம் CBS /CIS பிரச்சினைகள் தொடர்பாக தொடர்ந்து அளித்த கடிதங்களின் விளைவாக தற்போது நம்முடைய பொதுச் செயலர் நம்முடைய இலாக்கா முதல்வரிடம் இந்த பிரச்சினையை எடுத்துச் சென்றுள்ளார். அந்தக் கடிதத்தின் நகலை கீழே பார்க்கவும். தற்போது நம்முடைய மாநிலச் சங்கத்தின் முயற்சியால் அனைத்து மாநிலங்களுக்கும் தீர்வை நோக்கி இந்தக் கடிதம் அளிக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது.

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION GROUP ‘C’

CHQ: Dada Ghosh Bhawan, 2151/1, New Patel Road, New Delhi - 110008

Ref: P/4-4/CBS-CIS                                                                                                Dated – 20.10.2015

To,

Ms. Kavery Banerjee

Secretary,

Department of Posts,

Dak Bhawan, New Delhi 110 001.

Madam,

Sub: - Untold sufferings faced by the workings staff in CBS rolled out offices throughout the Country – Immediate and personal intervention is requested– Reg.

A kind attention is invited to our earlier references on the subject, wherein the problems mentioned therein are almost unaddressed till date. It is a known fact that CBS migration is undergoing in large no. of offices in many Circles. Till time more than 5000 offices are rolled out to CBS, because of the pressure applied by the  Department in  haste.  Because of such a fast approach, the end users   at the Counter area are affected badly, and the public also suffering a lot.

Whereas in Banking Sector, when such migration is undertaken, it has been carried out in a phased manner for eg. in SBI, the leader in Banking sector, migration was made only in 100 branches at the  first year.

You may aware that the staff are struggling with outdated computers and peripherals, which were purchased during  the  year 2000 to 2005 and no funding is  made so far to replace them  till date and as a whole the  Department  is  surviving with very old hardwares. Even proper up gradation of CPU is not made in many areas and the Software loaded is upto Windows XP, almost in most of the offices. Finacle can be  loaded only with Windows 7 and  hence  the  officers at ground level are  pressurized to use pirated version of Windows 7, which is  totally illegal and  leads to  legal litigation from  Microsoft. The staff are compelled to work in the outdated mode with pirated software, resulting in non operation.

The MOU made with M/s Sify, for net work integration is limiting to low bandwidth such as 128 Kbps to 256 Kbps in single and double handed offices, and 256 kbps to 512 kbps in ‘A’ class to LSG offices resulting in sluggish connectivity and takes hours together to transform the data. This results in hang over and the transactions could not be able to be made at the instant, as the Department expects. It requires at least 1 to 4 Mbps and M/s Sify refused to increase the bandwidth now.

                                                                                         

End of day process cannot be made after validation/supervisor verification and the staff has to wait for the nod from the Infosys, even after midnights on several days and at times it can be made on the next day morning.  Even the women employees are compelled to   complete the EOD process in midnights and their husbands or wards waiting till midnights to carry home. They could not attend even their family, personal and social obligations, resulting in loss of mental balance, family problems, stress and social problems. There is no safety and security for the women employees leaving the office by late nights, especially in rural areas, where there is no transportation available. It is our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of the women employees and no untoward incident should be allowed to happen as in case of Jyoti Singh Pandey of New Delhi.

Even the Help desk provided is not answering and the end users are taken to task  and  receiving brick bats from the irate public.  This results in  closing of  accounts in large numbers  that too,  can be made  not on the  date of presentation but  after few days  and  our  Department  looses  large  chunk of customers, because of the miscalculations, wrong estimations  and over ambitious stand of the  bureaucrats.

Consequent to the increase in large number of Post Offices on CBS, it was observed for the past two months that the Data Centre Closure process is executed during day time that too during peak Counter hours. This results in slow accessibility of Finacle throughout the country. Irrespective of bandwidth, the  Finacle slowness has been experienced in all Post Offices in the recent past. This affects the public services very badly during the peak hour viz.from 11.00 am  to  03.00 pm on daily basis.

Furher, due to Finacle slowness, the most affected operation is the Cheque Clearing operations.  The Clearance House sends the images of the cheques to the Head Offices at around 08.00 am in the morning. The onus of furnishing the information pertaining to Bounced Cheques, that too before 11 am to the clearing house, lies on the respective Head Offices.  If the information pertaining to Bounced Cheques is not received before 11.00 am from the concerned HOs, the entire amount of Inward Clearance cheques are deemed to be CLEARED by  the clearance house.  This leads to encashment of bounced cheques, the  responsibility of which lies  on the shoulder of the  poor officials and they have to face contributory negligence  recoveries.

Since from the day of the first migration, the staff unions are complaining about the deficiency in services provided my M/S Infosys Ltd, especially facing enormous problems in the Finacle Software, besides bandwidth, net work, transmission and Server problems. On each and every occasion or from the day we are complaining at all levels, there is one word reply that, everything will be set right and put into rails one by one as this is only a transition period and everybody should bear with, in the interest of the Department. This is the saying mooted out and spread everywhere, from top to bottom.  Now the 2 years Contract period for total the implementation is nearing completion and there is no sign of improvement and the problems persist and aggravate everywhere. It is most unfortunate to mention that we are all bearing with all these hardships and sufferings, in the interest of M/S Infosys.

Because of all these deficiencies the Department not only losing  the  customers, besides there is  huge loss of man days and  due to non operation  there is huge loss of  money. This should be compensated with. There is a penalty clause in the Contract for deficiency in service. Instead of pulling the poor ground level officials, the application of penalty clause may perhaps be considered and applied on the service providers viz. Ms. Infosys and M/s Sify. It is reported that India Post has undertaken the project for switching over to  Core Banking Solution  platform with a total project outlay of Rs. 800 crores.  Hence, in the interest of the Department, we request the Secretary Posts to pursue with, on the direction, in order to pull the vendor and to save the customer services, the image of the Department and the public money.

Based on the above, our  Union  requests  the  Secretary Posts

i) to stop  such unmindful migrations into  CBS/CIS  immediately till settlement of the problems reported ;

ii) to provide adequate  infrastructure to the  ground level offices,  such as replacement of systems, computer peripherals , UPS, battery, printers  etc.  immediately;

iii) to improve the bandwidth  of sify network   atleast to the  level of  512 kbps in single handed offices and to the level of  4Mbps in Head Post offices ;

iv) to centralize the EOD process at CPC  level  in all circles and to relieve the official at ground level

after  completion of validation process , without  late night detention ;

v) to centralize the cheque clearance work  at  CPC  level, since  it is  now under  CBS ;

vi)  to ensure  the operation of  CBS  without  interruption/slowness during  peak hours  to cater  the  need of the  common public .

Soliciting immediate response and reply.

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

(R. N. Parashar)

General Secretary

Source : http://aipeup3tn.blogspot.in/

வருந்துகிறோம். அஞ்சலி செலுத்துகிறோம்

வருந்துகிறோம். அஞ்சலி செலுத்துகிறோம் 

            திண்டுக்கல் தலைமை அஞ்சலகத்தில் குருப் -D  ஆக பணிபுரிந்துவந்த தோழர் திரு . போஜன் சேகர் அவர்கள் இன்று 27.10.2015 மரணமடைந்தார் என்பதனை வருத்தத்தோடு தெரிவித்து கொள்கிறோம். 

திண்டுக்கல் NFPE கோட்ட சங்கங்கள் தங்களது ஆழ்ந்த இரங்கலை தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கின்றன.

நிலக்கோட்டை தலைமை அஞ்சலக திரு. M.பாலசுப்ரமணியன் (APM SB) அவர்கள் இல்ல திருமண விழா.

நிலக்கோட்டை தலைமை அஞ்சலக திரு. M.பாலசுப்ரமணியன் (APM SB) அவர்கள் இல்ல திருமண விழா.

     23.10.2015 அன்று மணவிழா கண்ட M.பாலசுப்ரமணியன் (APM SB) அவர்களது புதல்வன். B.ரஞ்சித்குமார் மற்றும் G. பிரியா தம்பதிகள் அனைத்து நலன்களையும், வளங்களையும் பெற்று நீடூழி வாழ்க வாழ்க என வாழ்த்துகிறோம்.

 

NFPE, திண்டுக்கல் கோட்டம்

அரசு ஊழியர்களுக்காக போனஸ் உச்ச வரம்பை உயர்த்துவதற்கான புதிய சட்டதிருத்த மசோதாவுக்கு ஒப்புதல்

புதுடெல்லி, அக். 21- : தற்போதுள்ள போனஸ் சட்டம் 1965-ம் ஆண்டு கொண்டு வரப்பட்டது. இடையில் இந்த சட்டத்தில் திருத்தங்கள் செய்யப்பட்டு போனஸ் பெறுவதற்கான சம்பள உச்ச வரம்பு மாற்றப்பட்டன. கடைசியாக 1993-ம் ஆண்டு உச்சவரம்பு உயர்த்தி மாற்றியமைக்கப்பட்டது. அதன்படி தற்போது, அதிகபட்சமாக 3,500 ரூபாய் போனஸ் தொகையாக வழங்கப்பட்டு வருகிறது. போனஸ் பெறுவதற்கான சம்பள உச்சவரம்பும் 10 ஆயிரம் ரூபாயாகவே உள்ளது.

அதற்கு பிறகு கடந்த 12 ஆண்டுகளாக இந்த சம்பள உச்சவரம்பு உயர்த்தப்படவில்லை. இதனால் கோடிக்கணக்கான தொழிலாளர்கள் போனஸ் பெற முடியாத நிலைமை உள்ளது. இதனையடுத்து போனஸ் தொகையை 10 ஆயிரம் ரூபாயாக உயர்த்த வேண்டும் என்றும், உச்சவரம்புத் தொகையை உயர்த்த வேண்டுமென்றும் தொழிற்சங்கங்கள் வலியுறுத்தி வந்தன.


இந்த கோரிக்கையை வலியுறுத்தி தொழிற்சங்கங்கள் சார்பில் கடந்த செப்டம்பர் மாதம் 2-ம் தேதி நாடுதழுவிய வேலைநிறுத்த போராட்டம் நடைபெற்றது. இதனையடுத்து, மோடி தலைமையிலான தற்போதையை அரசு போனஸ் தொகை உயர்த்த சட்டத்திருத்தம் கொண்டுவரப்படும் என்று தெரிவித்தது.

இந்நிலையில் முன்னர் இருந்த அதிகபட்ச போனஸ் தொகையை 3,500 ரூபாயில் இருந்து 7,500 ரூபாயாக உயர்த்தும் சட்டத்திருத்த மசோதாவிற்கு மத்திய அரசு இன்று ஒப்புதல் அளித்துள்ளது. மேலும், போனஸ் பெறுவதற்கான உச்சவரம்பு சம்பளத்தை 10 ஆயிரம் ரூபாயில் இருந்து 21 ஆயிரம் ரூபாயாக மாற்றுவதற்கான சட்டதிருத்தத்திற்கும் ஒப்புதல் அளித்தது. இதன்மூலம் 21 ஆயிரம் ரூபாய் வரை சம்பளம் வாங்கும் தொழிலாளர்கள் அனைவருமே போனஸ் பெற முடியும் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.


இந்த சட்டத்திருத்த மசோதா வருகிற பாராளுமன்ற அனுமதிக்காக அனுப்பப்பட்டுள்ளது. பாராளுமன்ற குளிர்கால கூட்டத்தொடர் வருகிற நவம்பர் மாதம் இறுதியில் நடைபெறவுள்ள நிலையில், அப்போது நிறைவேற்றப்படும் என்று எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது.

Source : www.tnguru.in

வருந்துகிறோம். அஞ்சலி செலுத்துகிறோம்

அஞ்சாநெஞ்சன்  அண்ணன் பாலு  (முன்னாள் மாநில செயலர்) 

   இறைவனடி சேர்ந்தார்கள் 

    அஞ்சல் மூன்று தமிழ் மாநில சங்கத்தின் முன்னாள் மாநில செயலர் தோழர் N பாலசுப்ரமணியன் @ பாலு அவர்கள் இன்று 20.10.2015 காலை திருவனந்தபுரத்தில் மரணமடைந்தார் என்பதனை வருத்ததோடு தெரிவித்து கொள்கிறோம். அண்ணனின் இறுதிசடங்கு 21.10.2015 அன்று நாகர்கோயில் அவர் இல்லத்தில்  வைத்து நடைபெறும் .

RATES REVISED FOR COMBINED DUTY AND HOLIDAY DUTY

REVISED RATE FOR SUNDAY/HOLIDAY DUTY AND

COMBINED DUTY

தபால் காரர்களுக்கான கூடுதல் பணிக்கான (COMBINED DUTY)  பணப்பயன் D .G  ஆணை எண்  10-7/2001-PE -II DT 14.08.2015ன்  படி கீழ்கண்டவாறு திருத்தியமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது .

                                                                                                               தற்போதைய         திருத்தியமைக்கப்பட்ட           

                                                                                                               பணப்பயன்                            பணப்பயன்

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ஒரு தபால் காரர் பணியை  முழுமையாக

 ஒரு தபால் காரர் சேர்த்து பார்க்கும்பொழுது  ரூ 50/- (நாள் ஒன்றிற்கு )       ரூ 94/-(நாள் ஒன்றிற்கு )

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ஒரு தபால் காரர் பணியை இரண்டு தபால்

காரர்கள் சேர்ந்து பார்க்கும்பொழுது                 ரூ 24/-(நாள் ஒன்றிற்கு )             ரூ 47/-(நாள் ஒன்றிற்கு )

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ஞாயிறு மற்றும் அரசு விடுமுறை நாட்களில் பணியாற்றும் ஊழியர்களுக்கான நிர்ணயிக்கப்பட்ட பணப்பயன்  கீழ்க்கண்டவாறு திருத்தியமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது .

                                              தற்போதைய பணப்பயன்                  திருத்தியமைக்கப்பட்ட  பணப்பயன்

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தபால்காரர்                                                ரூ 85/-                 ரூ 282/- (ஒரு முழு நாள் பணிக்கு )

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பல்திறன் பணியாளர்                           ரூ 60/-              ரூ 29/- (ஒரு மணிக்கு ; அதிக பட்சமாக  

                                                                                                                        3 மணி நேரம்) 

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அஞ்சலக எழுத்தர்                                 ரூ 85/-               ரூ 41/-(ஒரு மணிக்கு ; அதிக பட்சமாக

                                                             3 மணி நேரம்) 

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மேற்பார்வையாளர்                               ரூ 85/-              ரூ 47/-(ஒரு மணிக்கு ; அதிக பட்சமாக

                                                                                                                         3 மணி நேரம்) 

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Courtesy: NFPE TIRUPUR

Bonus Orders 2015 : Adhoc Bonus Orders for Central Government employees

As pe the information available in the official blog of Karnataka COC, bonus order for this year likely to be issued after 12.10.2015 only. The message is reproduced and given below for your information…

Brief Note on JCM National Council Standing Committee Meeting held on 9th October 2015 at New Delhi.

Brief Note on JCM National Council Standing Committee Meeting held on 9th October 2015 at New Delhi.

Dear Comrades,

The Standing Committee of the JCM National Council met on 9th October, 2015. As you are aware, earlier, the National JCA had decided to defer the strike action and organize a massive Dharna programme at Jantar Mantar on 19th November, 2015 to register its strongest protest over the Government’s engineered delay in the submission of the 7th CPC Report. Later, the Finance Ministry has issued a statement asking the 7th CPC to factor into its report the fiscal concern of the Government, which was an unwarranted interference in the independent functioning of the Commission and to pressurise the Commission not to recommend wage rise on the basis of a sound and scientific formulation.

The Staff side on receipt of the invitation to have the meeting on 9th October, decided to respond and convey to the Government their strong resentment over the virtual dilution of the negotiating forum as also the above concerns. In the meeting the Staff side was informed that the Secretary Personnel would be meeting the Standing Committee soon and the meeting on 9thwas in fact only a prelude to understand each other’s points of views. It was in the background the meeting was held on 9th October, 2015.

The leader and Secretary, Staff Side conveyed the unanimous decision of the National JCA as under to the Government.

(a) The Standing Committee, as per procedure evolved, must be chaired by the Secretary Personnel.

(b) The JCM Machinery’s functioning should not be diluted.

(c) The promised meeting of the National Council has not taken place so far.

(d) The minutes of the last two meetings of the National Anomaly Committee have not been formally issued.

(e) ‘The Official side Secretary must convene a meeting of the Staff Side to iron out any difference in the draft minutes.’

(f) Normally meetings are held after circulation of the ATS. This has not been done.

(g) The Official Side must convey the anguish of the employees over the delay in the submission of the report by the 7th CPC which they justifyly feel has been engineered by the Government. They also pointed out that they are constrained to believe that the Govt. was unnecessarily interfering in the functioning of the Pay Commission.

We give hereunder a brief resume of the discussions held on the agenda items.

After the initial remarks made by the Staff Side all issues in the charter of demands were discussed. There had been however, no final settlement on any issue as the meeting itself was not convened for that purpose. The Staff Side stated that even the promises held out in the last meeting that the Departmental Council meeting would be held soon was not honoured.

On the question of Pay revision related issues, viz. Interim relief, DA merger, inclusion of GDS etc . elaborate discussions were held. It has come out clearly that on all these issues, the Finance Ministry has taken an nugatory Stand, even though the arguments put forth were extremely untenable. It was pointed out by the Staff Side that the Interim relief and DA merger was denied on the specious plea of submission of the report in the stipulated time. Having extended the time, the Govt. ought to have considered the grant of these two demands. There had been a very elaborate discussion on the question of inclusion of the GDS within the purview of the 7th CPC. The Postal Department’s representatives narrated the efforts made by them to the Government for conceding this demands. The Finance Ministry has stood firm and objected to the demand being agreed to. The Staff Side has, in the given situation of the 7th CPC having finalised its report, requested the Government to refer the matter to a Judicial Committee headed by the present Chairman, 7th CPC as he has now been fully apprised of the functioning of various ministries and Departments of the Government through the interaction with the Staff and official sides. No commitment was however made by the Government to the above suggestion.

On the question of induction of FDI in Railways, Corporatisation of Postal Department and Defence organisations, the representative of the Railway Ministry stated that they are constantly discussing the issues with the Railway Federations and was exploring the possibility of reaching an agreement. In the case of corporatisation of the Postal Department, it was stated that the recommendations made by the Committee was discussed with the Federations and it has been agreed that except induction of certain professionals at the managerial level to fine tune the functioning of the Department in the changed scenario, the Federations have been assured that no structural changes would be made without consulting them. However, in the case of Defence, no discussions with the Federations have been held so far.

PFRDA. The Staff Side pointed out the present scenario in the Government offices, where the number of employees and officers who are outside the ambit of the statutory pension scheme has grown and have reached in certain organisations to the extent of 25 to 30%. These employees are extremely concerned of the new scheme and their anguish have been expressed in many forms. The Unions would be compelled to take drastic action if the Government refuses to heed to their plea to effect a relook or revisit on the matter. The representatives of the Railways pointed out that the Honourable Minister for Railways was convinced of the situation and that was the reason why he had written to the Finance Ministry that in the given situation of the Railway functioning, the new scheme would not only jeopardise the interest of the Railwaymen but also of the Railway Industry itself.

On the specific question raised by the Staff side in the last meeting in respect of resolving the issues of Medical Store Deport and the Printing and Stationery department, the Staff Side stated that only the meeting of the Medical Store Depot was held and the issues have been resolved to some extent. The Printing and Stationery Department has now sent a communication to the Staff Side fixing the meeting on 15th October ‘15. The general issues emanating from the policy of outsourcing and contractorisation was also discussed at length.

JCM functioning had been the central point of discussions. The Staff Side has pointed out that unless the Government makes up its mind that the machinery should be put on operation, no industrial peace would come in the functioning of the various departments of the Govt. of India. The Staff side asked the Department of personnel to collect the information of the number of cases litigated in the courts by the Government employees in 1991 and 2015 and make a comparison to know the seriousness of the problem.

On compassionate ground appointments question, it was stated by the Staff Side that despite advancing no cogent argument by the official side for retaining the 5% ceiling, the Department of personnel does not want to make a relook into the matter. The Staff Side pointed out that large number of applications were pending in various Departments, and the concerned department would not be able to clear them even after 20 years for want of the requisite vacancies. They also pointed out that the decision of the Government to impose the 5% ceiling was amounting to a cruelty imposed on the family members of the Government servants who dies in harness.

The Labour Ministry representative was present at the meeting. The meeting did not discuss the merits and demerits of the labour reforms as the Trade Unions in the country has justifyly concluded that it has been conceived to favour the corporate houses and to take away the existing privileges of the workers. The point at issue, however, at the meeting was as to why the Labour Ministry did not cause a consultation with the Industrial Federations in the Government of India, for whom the Industrial Disputes Act is applicable. The Labour Ministry has assured to convene a meeting of the representatives of such organisations soon.

The Labour Ministry representative also stated that the government has agreed to raise the bonus ceiling but it would not be appropriate for him to make a mention of the quantum as the Cabinet is yet to give its clearance. The Government would be able to take a decision in the matter only after the Bihar elections are over.

The Staff Side explained the background of the demand for five promotions. The reaction of the official side was that the matter must be appropriately discussed only after the 7th CPC report is made available.

Source: Confederation News

Swachh Bharat Mission - Programme at Dindigul HPO on 11.10.2015

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