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CPMG உடன் நடக்கவிருக்கும் RJCM meeting-ற்கு நமது FNPO சங்கத்தின் சார்பாக RJCM Member தோழர் R.சரவணன் திருவண்ணாமலை அவர்கள் கலந்துகொண்டு கீழ்க்கண்ட Subjects சம்பந்தமாக விவாதிக்கிறார்...
SUBJECT 1 :
On introduction of CBS in various offices, the staffs are
put into intolerable hardship on day to day basis with no respite in sight in
the near future.
Request for compensating the extra work hours put in
official of CBS implemented offices.
The officials of
these offices are forced to stay in office after office working hours in order
to complete the CBS verification. Request for finding way and means to end the
endless travails meted to officials in CBS offices.
The plight of the
women employees is ineffable and RISK fraught especially when they are to
return to home in the late hours. Apart from, becoming totally indifferent to
their domestic chores including child
care, their vulnerability
to the undesirable incidents either while working alone in the office in
isolation or on the way back to home in odd hours are to be borne in
consideration and remedy found on a war - foot basis.
·
The
connectivity pace of the web based is the prime
reason for all these hardship faced by our staff. The other compatibility like
RAM speed etc., are to be taken care by the technical sides once the problem is
seized of its due attention. The problem relating to the central server imbibing
capacity is beyond our domain.
·
But oblivious to what is in store for
us by the action in higher echelons, it is requested to do some plausible
measure in our domain to bring down the peril facing us The over flooding of
data reach out to server in the evening hours pertaining to BO transaction
results in clogging and glitches, very typical of peak hour spurt in the
traffic. The work in closing hours of the sub offices is to be reduced if at
all any prima facie remedy is to be realized.
The following
measures are suggested with one and only solace these can be done in our level
as per the rules.
(i) The conversion of all BO in the CBS offices as one day transit
offices with instruction to treat the bag received for the day as bags received
after closing of the account bag to HO, except taking the cash as advance
remittance. The contents of the bag except RL/mails are to kept overnight and
to be incorporated in the next day account. The work of the BOS is therefore
can be started right from the morning with the vouchers of previous day and can
be put through in phased manner during office hours. The spread out entry of
BOs transactions concurrently and leisurely with the sub offices work will
avoid the accumulation in the evening and the crowding of data to server can be
therefore be effectively eschewed.
(ii) Even if there is any likelihood of delay due to unanticipated
glitches, the work of the day can be planned and alternate measures of shifting
the CBS related work to nearby offices where the verification can be done well
within reasonable time.
(iii) Constituting of special salvaging cell comprising of qualified
staff with staggered attendance at focal points in order to complete the work
of the Sub offices that cannot be accomplished for the aforesaid reason. As
such it is a common sight that some of the sub office staffs are trying the validation
in the HO in late evening hours as and when the total connectivity is lost in
their office
iv) Grant
of OTA in consummation of with the periodicity of retention in the office over
and above the normal working hours with no restriction on the duration of hours
s and number of days.
SUBJECT 2 :
Non Payment of DCRG in one lump sum to the eligible cases:
The practice of
withholding the part of eligible DCRG to the retired officials or the nominee
of the of the deceased employee still continue in all cases.
As per the DOPT
orders in 20/16/1998-P&PW (F) dated 19th February, 2013, withholding
of 10 % of DCGR is required to be done only in respect of official in whose
cases the clearance are to be given clearance from Directorate of Estates. It
is further reiterated that except for adjusting the outstanding dues towards
Govt. accommodation, DCRG cannot be withheld for whatsoever other reason be.
Nevertheless, the
head of the divisions are paying the DCRG in two instatements withholding the
10% and releasing the same after an inordinate delay.
Request to instruct
competent authority to following the rules and request for payment of penal
interest of withheld cases in violation of the rules.
SUBJECT 3 :
Denial of admission to trainees deputed from divisions for
undergoing Mid Career Training at PTC for no plausible reasons :
Officials in
various level of MACP are deputed to PTC Madurai to undergo Mid Career Training,
as per the seat allocation through RO. The officials are ordered by the division
at the last hours without putting them on adequate notice. Resultantly the
staff, especially women employees, are put in to enormous predicament on
domestic grounds and left with no time for making alternate arrangement for the
child care etc.,. The officials thus deputed to PTC are virtually sent back in
many cases for reasons never heard of them and of no fault of them.
The officials eligibility
fixed by the PTC Madurai and communicated to Divisional office, if deviated
slightly by the divisional heads are rendering the innocuous official who makes
the way to PTC, Madurai, to come back abruptly on the same day of reporting the
PTC.
MACP II officials(who
have completed just 30 years but not in
receipt of MACP III orders) to the Training
meant for MACP II officials are denied admission on the stand that they have completed
30 years of service. Even officials who are completing of service of 30 years
during the course of 15 days training are denied admissions.
The irony remains in
the fact that the rules governing the eligibility of trainees are not known to
the officials in advance nor no such instruction circulated among the union to
keep watch on the eligibility or otherwise of officials thus deputed.
It is further
learnt that no such instruction of carving out the eligibility criterion with
such surgical precision has been issued by the Directorate so far. It is
therefore, the tenability of the such of the rules that are seemingly devised
by the head of the PTC is resulting in unutterable hardship to the officials
and unnecessary dislocation of work and expenses thereof.
As per the RTI Manual
2 of India post the powers of the PTC Director
is constrained up to the intra mural activities as to the schedule of training,
design of training etc.. and cannot be extended beyond to the extent of
ordering a training.
Request for devising
the eligibility criterions by the competent authority, duly circulating the
same amongst the officials and enable to confirm their eligibility before
proceeding to PTC and contest in the event of deviation.
Request for allocation
of seats and deputing the officials well in advance to make them prepared for
the training on prior hand.
SUBJECT4 :
Non grant of financial upgradation to MACP III for declining
to join the postmaster Grade I on getting qualified :
The officials who
are given MACP III upgradation are denied pensioner benefit citing the reason
the officials have declined the promotion of Postmaster Grade I after declaration
of result and before joining the post.
Shri.DhanapaL, an
MACP II official, on becoming successful in the exam for Postmaster Grade I
exam and declined the promotion on when he is about to get his MACP III
upgradation. The official had declined the Postmaster Grade I post for his
personal reason as per the stipulation contained in DG Posts letter no.93-06/2012-SPB
II dated 11.3.2013. Meanwhile, he become due for MACP III and was granted MACP
by screening committee w.e.f. 16.6.12. Further, prior to superannuation on 31.12.2014, his pension paper on the basis of last pay
drawn in grade pay of Rs.4,600/- was objected to by the audit on the plea that
official could not be granted MACP III because he declined the promotion
invoking para 25 of MACP orders.
Request for
treating the cases identical to the above not under the ambit of para 25 of
MACP orders for the following reasons.
1.
The upgradation could not be deferred
till such time he agrees to be considered for promotion against which is
possible otherwise in the normal line of regular promotion.
2.
As per the DG letter dated 11.3.2015,
those who decline Postmaster Grade I promotion on coming out successful in the
exam, cannot become eligible in normal course except by appearing in the exam once
again and getting qualified. Hence declining promotion is of the effect of precarious
nature if the examination is by choice is scrapped subsequently. The officials
behold of such imbroglio are therefore doomed and denied the natural justice
enjoined in case of similarly placed officials who decline promotion of regular
nature, say LSG/HSGII /HSG III etc., which are definitely to recur.
The para 25 is therefore cannot be invoked since the
chance getting considered for promotion again is not per-se of unavoidable
routine but by chance of ones fickle and precarious chance of getting through
the examination (if at all conducted subsequently).
Such cases which
are not fitting the provisions of para 25 and remaining elusive for the
connotation of ‘having denied an opportunity of regular promotion’ is requested
be adjudged by this August forum and justice done.
SUBJECT5 :
ROHSC :
Request for relaxing the power of granting advance of medical expenses
upto the permissible limit without imposing ceiling of up to Rs.10,000 /- at
divisional level :
As per the direction contained in
C.O. letter no. APB/42-Medical advance/14-15 dated 25.08.2014, the head of divisions are
restricted to grant advance only to Rs.10,000/- in all cases involving grant of
medical advance.
All medical bills fulfilling the
eligibility criterion as per the CSMA rules and CGHS rules as the case may be
are passed by the head of the division hitherto. Likewise, advance of medical
expenses for the applicable cases in which the head of the division are
eligible to pass the final bill also have been passed by the head of the
division up to permissible limit (i.e. 80% of estimate in the authorities rate)
without any restriction. Only the cases which comes under the ambit of appendix
VIII of CSMA rules are being referred to R.O. for final passing and no advance
are granted to in such cases.
In majority of the cases
involving procedure and hospitalization, 80% of the expenses are sanctioned
hitherto as per the Medical Attendance Rules.
While being so the latest
imposition of limit for sanctioning the advance to eligible cases to RO/CO will
delay the process of sanction and will not serve the purpose to treatment cost
involving procedure in short notice.
Request the forum to allow the
head of the division to exercise the power of grant of advance in the usual
manner for which they empowered to sanction the bill as per the rules on the
subject.
SUBJECT6 :
TREATING OF DCRG NOMINATION MADE IN FAVOUR OF FAMILY MEMBERS INVALID
AND NOT SUBSIST BY THE AUTHORITIES IN CONTRAVENTION TO RULES ON THE SUBJECT :
There is a case in the recent
past, that DPA, Chennai treated the nomination made for DCRG purposes by an
deceased official as invalid since he had not included all the member of family
as nominee.
One, Late S.Maria Jospeh Gregory,
PA of Tiruvannamalai division (DOD – 09.04.2014) had made nomination in favour
of his wife and also his first son as the second nomination to receive the DCRG
when the contingency arises in equal shares. Accordingly, the Divisional Head
has sanctioned the DCRG in equal parts while sanctioning the 90% of DCRG and
the amount was paid to them accordingly. But the Audit, on receipt of these
orders along with pension papers have objected to the payment to the nominees
for the reason that the second son who was born later had not been incorporated
in the nominee list as per the Rule 53 of CCS(Pension Rules, 1972) and inferred
that the nomination made earlier does not subsist. Further, directed to pay the
DCRG on the basis of legal heir-ship certificate, recovering the amount paid
towards 90% of the DCRG.
The DCRG which ought to have been
settled in accordance with laws have been circumvented and have put on the
family of deceased official, the burden of getting legal heir-ship certificate
and repaying the amount already received. In as much as the harmony amounts the
family members in this case, no untoward litigation or protest did arise except
the time consumption and getting legal certificate. But the tenacity of the authorities
in not considering the rule on the subject will deprive the officials of their
due rights conferred by law.
The case above is absolute
violation of the rights borne by an official to make his choice from amount the
permissible segment of dependents. The nomination made in favor any members outside
to the family either at the time of making initial nomination (vide53(1)) or
any alternate nominee other than the family member alone only will become
invalid once the government servant acquires family and additional member in
the family, as the case may be.
But the authorities have taken
that the nomination made earlier even among the permissible members of the
family will become invalid every time the family acquires new members. In other
words the Govt. servant is expected to include all the members of the family
failing which the nomination made earlier does not substitute.
The action of the authorities is
therefore in violation of rules on misinterpretation. Request this august forum
to do justice and uphold the rule in spirit and letter.
SUBJECT 7 :
Request for taking perennial rate/quantum of attribute for the purpose
of computing Related Merit Points under Compassionate Appointment Scheme.
Of
the various attributes meant for computing RMP except the attributes Viz., Family
Pension (A) and Left over services (H) are subject to fluctuations. The
fluctuations of these factors are of unpredictable nature but however the case
of Family Pension, the Family Pension drawn at the enhanced rate, 50 % of the
Last Pay of the deceased official is taken into account. This rate is of only
temporary nature and only 30% ie., normal family pension is only a permanent
one. Taking the interim and adhoc pension at enhanced rate is therefore
tat-amounts to denying justice. Many such cases if normal rate of pension is
taken into account, 2 and more points will be earned by the deserving ones.
Request the forum to consider the above aspect and instruct the CRC to rely
upon the attributes of permanent and perennial value.
SUBJECT 8 :
Request for scheming the modalities of shifting PO buildings within the
time frame.
In the present
trend of ever-rising real estate values, the task of acquiring a building
for Post Office remains a formidable challenge
to the Divisional Heads/authorities.
As
usual, the staffs working in buildings in bad condition are at the receiving
ends and bound to suffer the short comings. Many of the buildings which are
over-due for shifting on the basis of genuine reasons are delayed for want of
expediency in finalization of the building offer.
Even,
if the alternate building is secured after a protracted effort, the other
aspects like assessment of rent, constitution/visit/minutes/approval of FRAC
etc., are time consuming and long drawn processes which prolong the shifting.
In many of the cases, in one’s experience, the landlords, on becoming weary of
delay and incurring loss with non-receipt of rent, have in fact, withdrew the
offer.
On
top of all of the aforesaid hurdles, the latest one now being faced in shifting
of building is getting the approval of Directorate in connection with shifting
of SIFY Router. Getting this approval of the Directorate is necessitated only
after completion of all the process and even after fixing of the date of shifting.
But the inordinate delay on account of this, even after the mutually consented
date of shifting, is not endured by the landlords.
Request
the august forum to formulate and device a time bound schedule for shifting the
PO buildings and also prescribe an alternate substitute of access in the place
of SIFY Router Viz., Data Card etc., pending receipt of approval for shifting
the SIFY Router.
SUBJECT 9 :
Request for grant of honorarium for
the fixation of pay in
respect of those whose increment falls due from 2.1.2006 to
30.6.2006
respect of those whose increment falls due from 2.1.2006 to
30.6.2006
v
The work related to fixation of as per the
Revised Pay rules 2006 and drawl of arrears ,on pro-rata basis was granted vide
the authority contained in DG(P) letter no 42-1/2008 PAP dated 21.12.2009.
v
The fixation done to those officials for whose
increment fell in the first half of the year 2006 were ordered to be re-fixed
by granting one increment as on 31.12.2005 in the pre-revised pay and arrear be
drawn accordingly vide MOF OM No. 10/02/2011-E III-A dated 19.3.2012.More than
half of the officials pay coming under purview of this stipulation was done and
arrear was drawn from 1.1.2006 to 2012.
v
The head of the divisions are not granting the
honorarium without discerning the actual content and scheme of the work involved
in the subject matter by simply misconceiving the matter as sheer grant of one
time increment.
v
The way in which the fixation was re- fixed as per the MOF OM dated 19.3.2012 and the
subsequent instruction contained in the OM dated 22.5.2013 & 3.1.2013 on
the procedure to adapted sequel to re fixation all stand to
testify the wok done now are replica of the work that was initially done as per
the RP rule 2006.
Hence this request
to compensate the officials working in accounts branch who are overworked due
to shortage of staff.
SUBJECT 10 :
Request for not abolishing the GDSV/SV post despite there has been
decline in sale of stamps on the basis of the latest statistics.
v The
statistics of latest nature can not reflect the actual quantum and potential of
office in so far as the sales are concerned. There had been a dearth of stamps
for a few months and stocks are replenished only recently.
v The
work rendered surplus because of the abolition of the stamp vendor have to
borne by the counter PAs. The counters are adequately manned due to shortage of
staff and further the augmentations of clerical staff are overdue in many of
the offices where the abolition of SV are intended.
v The
work of the staff at counters, if interspersed with sale of stamps, the pace
and flow of the other main transactions as per the MDW will be terribly upset
which will attract the wrath of the customer who have to wait .With addition of
more and more new items of work like IMT, Mobile money transfer etc, the
counter PAs are really overburdened as each and every transaction of kind
requires briefing with customers considerably. It is needless to say what sort
of additional work is in store for them once the hand –on – device are
introduced and at the stage the output of this performance by field officials
are to accommodate in the office transaction .
v Already the sale of stamps are being done at
counter in the form of PSR collection which is not assigned with time factor
for commutation of the work load .The present work load for booking of
accountable articles are one and the same
for both type, either stamps
affixed or cash collected. If the stamp
are to vended by the PAS , inevitably it will tell upon the efficiency of the
other work resulting in public to prefer the alternate services.
Hence it is
requested to allow the Stamp vending staff of bigger office where the work load
of the counter PA are far in excess of available staff hours and augmentation
of the staff are justified.{In most of the offices the working strength of
clerical strength is less than the sanctioned strength.}
SUBJECT 11 :
Request for sanctioning the 1/4th of full daily
allowance, as special allowance, to those who are compulsorily to take up the boarding and lodging at the
training institutes
v
As per the GOI (3) 2 below SR 164, the officials
staying in the residential training programs by paying the fixed rates are to
be given special allowance.
v
The plea of passing authorities that the new DA
rule w.e.f 1.9.2008 cannot be applied is not tenable. As per new rule from
1.9.2008, except new rates (comprising of three components viz. food bill,
accommodation and local travel expenditure} none of the other conditions that
were in prevalence as on 1.9.2008 were amended. In fact options to claim on
either old rate or new rates have also been accorded. While the stipulations
are so firm and amenable, the contention that the rules prior to 1.9.2008 are
extinct is not correct.
v
For an example , an official in GP 2400/- has to
pay Rs.230 per day for compulsory stay in campus at PTC ,Madurai whereas the
same official is entitled to a maximum of Rs.675/-(450+150+75) if they are at
liberty to stay outside.
v
The difference between the expenditure under
compelled state of affair and the official own choice of stay is only sought to
be cushioned in the form special
allowance to be cushioned in the form of
special allowance to equivalent to 1/4th of the DA.
This underlying principal and spirit of rule for special kind of DA and
officials are to suffer the loss nevertheless legitimate bindings, leave alone,
natural justice behold of officials welfare.
v
Of late, clarifications are being issued by
Divisional levels that the special allowances equal to 1/4th DA
cannot be granted since there is no DA available in the new TA Rules [VI CPC].
It is only the DA that was sanctioned in monetary terms based upon the duration
of stay prior to VI CPC, have become DA that was reimbursed based upon the
actual incurring of expenses in the latest orders.
v
Hence, the amount that was reimbursed as per the
expenditure incurred is the DA debitable under TE funds. The question of non
existence of DA, therefore, does not arise. 1/4th of this DA is
required to be paid as per FR 164 as Special Allowance debitable in Salary
Heads.
Request the august forum to consider the grant of 1/4th
DA as per the rule and cause instruction to dispel all the confusion prevailing
over the issue.
SUBJECT 12 :
SURRENDER OF
POSTS IN PA CADRE MORE THAN THE TARGET IN ADR PLAN DURING 2013 WHICH ARE NOW
STAYED BY THE HON’BLE COURT OF LAW :
As per the directions of Directorate, every
Division was instructed to identify the Posts of PAs/Postman/Group-D for
surrendering under ADR Plan during 2013. Accordingly, Posts were identified for
surrendering on abolition.
However, those Posts which are not
abolished upto 28.05.3013 are under the orders of Stay. So the fate of the
Posts identified for abolition are subject to outcome of the Court.
Even though, the Posts of PA cadre
has nothing to do with the Stay orders and the objectivity of the case filed,
the stay is operable to PA cadre also for it being with the Postman and Group-D
in the initial order instructing the surrender of Posts under ADR Plan.
In PA cadre, apart from abolishing
the allotted number of Post in the target as per the ADR Plan, the Posts of LR
are also abolished proportionate to the total number of regular Posts
abolished.
For example, in Tiruvannamalai
Division, the total 21 post of PAs earmarked for surrendering is for amongst
the post lying unfilled for more than one year under the share of direct
recruitment inn our department.
In our department, the cadre of
postal assistant, the LRPA Posts are created on the basis of the total number
of PA posts as per the work load and are in the total sanctioned strength. Thus,
LRPAs are norm based i.e.. 10% of the strength in the PA cadre.
Accordingly, the vacancy in the
LRPA post do become the part and parcel of the vacancy assessed for the operative
post. Hence, the vacancy in LRPA Posts also come under share of other direct
recruitment.
Hence, it is inevitable to
identify the LRPA Posts lying vacant for more than one year along with the total
number of the operative post identified for surrendering in the ADR PLAN to
fulfill the target.
Surrendering the Posts of regular
PAs to meet the target in full and reducing there after the LR strength
proportionately is far fetching and is liable to be an anomaly of its unique
kind. Because, surrendering of the Posts equivalent to the target figure and extending
the abolition of further as cumulative and sequel effect does not exist anywhere
in the other department.
The ADR plan just stipulated the
surrendering of the post in one straight stroke to achieve the target and does
not envisage any double tire abolition of consequential effect to inflate the
target /prescribed figure. Hence the post surrendered from PA post should
comprise the regular post and LR
post.
The resultant saving of the
government due to non filling up of the LR post is same as that of the regular post. Thus in the division
cited, the total PA post is required to be identified as 19
plus 2 LRPA and not 21 PA and 2 LRPA. The ADR plan target of 21 can be met
legitimately without resorting to the double tier reduction of 23 posts which
is lacking legitimacy against the back drop of ADR stipulation as well as the
spirit of the policy governing the optimization of vacancies.
Request the august forum to rectify the moralities
and the quantum of PA Posts identified for abolition and kept ready for
surrendering owing to Stay orders.
Request for following uniform
procedures in calculating the interest of HBA by excluding the high rate of
interest.
As per the rule on the subject, the sanctions of HBA should invariably
stipulate a higher rate of interest at 2.5% above prescribed rates with the
relaxation that if conditions attached to the sanction are fulfilled, rebate of
interest to the extent of 2.5% will be allowed.
In some
Regions, the 2.5% of rebate is allowed if the conditions attached to the
sanctions are fulfilled upto the point of repaying the Principle amount itself.
Thus, the Interest rate is calculated in the normal rate and
installments/recovery of Interest ordered accordingly.
On other
hand, in some Regions, the higher rate of Interest is levied upto the last
installment of Interest recovery and rebate is allowed only after ensuring the
conditions attached to the sanction are fulfilled untill this point of time.
Request the
august forum for uniform procedures to the favour of officials
Request for bailing out
officials who have been slapped with recovery to the tune of several lakhs for
non-adherence of rules relating to granting of Postage concession to the
Registered News papers.
As per the report of the Audit in various places during the past two
years, the pilferage of Department Revenue due to sanction of Postage
concession to the Registered News Papers not registered with the Registrar of
News Papers is engaging serious attention and recovery of the loss to the
officials at fault ranging from Dealing Assistants to the Head of the
Divisions, are ordered.
The mandatory condition of getting registered the News Papers with the
Registrar came into force from 2008, as per the DG orders. But the recoveries
are ordered in respect of the Registered News Papers that were in existence
prior to 2008 and whose currency of license were intact without break is
required to be reviewed. The question of issuing fresh license does not arise
in these cases whose currency of previous registration is well in force and
renewed in time. Therefore, imposing the stipulations of 2008 cannot be
insisted.
Request the chair to seek exemptions to the audit objections where the
imposition of 2008 orders were not required.
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