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STRIKE CAMPAIGN - Tour Programme of Confederation Leaders

2014 FEBRUARY 12th & 13th ALL INDIA STRIKE

CAMPAIGN PROGRAMME OF CONFEDERATION NATIONAL SECRETARIAT MEMBERS

S. No.	Names of the Comrades		Area/States to be covered
1	S. K. Vyas	09868244035	Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand & Bihar
	R. N. Parashar	09868819295
2	K. K. N. Kutty	09811048303	Maharashtra (Except Nagpur region) Gujarat & Rajasthan
	R. P. Singh	09969080996
	K. V. Jayaraj	09869501189
3	T. Narasimhan	09440056969	Nagpur (Maharashtra), Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgarh
	Yeshwant Purohit	09406717191
	T. Satyanarayana	09912348500
	Nilesh D. Nasree	09850354898
4	Giriraj Singh	09811213808	Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh & Jammu & Kashmir
	A. K. Kanojia	09810206426
	I. S. Dabas	09968099272
5	K. P. Rajagopal	09868277455	Kerala, Tamilnadu & Karnataka
	C. P. Sobhana	09446721330
	M. Duraipandian	09789833552
	R. Seethalakshmi	09448819821
	P. Suresh	09885077451
	Venkatasubramanian	09443735356
6	Vrigu Bhattacharya	09868520926	Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam & North Eastern Region Andhra Pradesh & Orissa
	Pijush Roy	09433575577
	Arup Chatterjee	09874408310
7	N. Somaiah
	V. Nageswara Rao	09912348233
	B. Krishna Gaud	09866618391
	G. Mani Achari	09442155128
8	S. K. Vyas	09868244035	New Delhi & National Capital Region
	K. K. N. Kutty	09811048303
	R. N. Parashar	09868819295
	Giriraj Singh	09811213808
	A. K. Kanojia	09810206426
	Vrigu Bhattacharya	09868520926

v Com. M. Krishnan will attend the campaign programme of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamilnadu at some centres and other places of requirement. 

   Com. M. S. Raja relieved for campaign in IA & AD.

v  All the Teams are to complete the campaign programme by the end of January 2014.

v  State COC Secretaries shall co-ordinate the campaign programme in their respective states in consultation with the leaders of the respective team (see Mobile numbers above).

v  From 1^st February 2014 onwards the State COC leaders will carry out State level campaign programme in their respective states.

ALL AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS - YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION PLEASE.

1.      Each affiliated organisation should issue separate circular along with the copy of the 15 point charter of demands to the State/District committees WITHOUT FAIL to make the two days strike a grand success ensuring 100% participation of their members.

2.      Each affiliated organisation should conduct their own Department wise campaign programme and issue circulars, notices, posters etc. to popularize the charter of demands so that each and every employee is contacted before 31.01.2014.

3.      Each organistaion should serve Strike notice to their respective Departmental Heads on 21.01.2014 and a copy of the strike notice should be sent to the Confederation Head Quarters in the following address.

M. Krishnan

Secretary General

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS

1st Floor, North Avenue PO Building, New Delhi – 110001

E-mail ID: mkrishnan6854@gmail.com

Mobile No. 09447068125

4.      In the past, C-O-Cs have complained that the Head Quarters of some affiliated organizations are not issuing any circular to their branches or serving strike notices to their Departments. This time no such lapses should take place. Every organistaion should ensure that separate circular issued by their Head Quarters and separate strike notice is served by them to their Departmental Head.

5.      Model Copy of the strike notice will be exhibited in the confederation website within two days. Please download it and submit after necessary modification with mass demonstration in front of the respective offices. If any organisation cannot serve strike notice on 21.01.2014 due to late receipt of communication, it should be served on any date before 27.01.2014.

6.      Please ensure maximum participation of your members in all campaign programme.

7.      Please see the Confederation Website every day. It will not be possible to inform each developments through circular or over phone. All office bearers of affiliated organisations should see the Confederation Website every day.

WEBSITE: - www.confederationhq.blogspot.in

Let us make the strike a cent percent success

Comradely yours,

 (M. Krishnan)

Secretary General

CBS- PROBLEM

Delay at upgraded Chennai post offices irks customers consequent of CBS problems

Customers of T. Nagar head post office have had a tough time over the past few days, spending long hours on transactions that otherwise take a few minutes.

The department of posts had recently launched core banking facility in select post offices across the State, including at Tambaram head post office, old college buildings post office, Nungambakkam and Greams Road.

Several customers said they had to wait for hours after obtaining tokens to carry out simple transactions. The delay was due to the new software adopted as part of core banking facility.

Many residents who had travelled from areas such as Perambur had to wait till late afternoon for their turn.

Sixty-three-old R.S. Sundaram, a resident of Porur, said: “I came around 10 a.m. but had to wait my turn till 3 p.m. Though there were 10 counters, there were not enough staff members to handle the customers. Also, the bank had no drinking water facility.”

Many customers said the department must make an announcement about the time taken to complete transactions and adjust to the new system to avoid such hassles.

Officials of the postal department said more staff members would be posted in such post offices to handle the customers. “We are trying to solve the initial hiccups in the new system. Customers need not spend too much time at the counters once the automated teller machine is ready by month-end,” said an official.

Source : http://www.thehindu.com

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Merger of 50 percent DA may soon be considered by Central Government- Sources

Sources close to the Central Government Employees Federations told that Merger of 50% DA will soon be considered by Central Government before the budget session of Parliament in February 2014. According to the sources, the central government is likely to consider the central government employees  demand for merging of 50 % DA, for the reason that the DA will be crossing 100% level after January 2014.

The rate of dearness allowance to be paid to govt servants has been increasing consistently due to the rise in the prices of essential commodities for the past two years. In 2011 the rate of DA was at 50 % level. Since then all the Federation demanded the central government to merge the 50 Percent DA with basic Pay. But the government did not accept this demand to merge the DA with basis pay, as it was not recommended by sixth CPC.

The demand would be considered in view of parliament elections

But federations kept on demanding the government that raising dearness allowance alone will not help to compensate the alarming rate of price rice. So they urged the government to consider their demand favorably. It is believed that after the defeat in the election of four state legislative councils, the UPA government has decided to reconsider about its decision on the issues which directly affects the common public. The high command of the ruling party thought that the reason for their defeat in the state election is mainly because of their government failed to contain the price rise. The gap between common public and UPA government has been considerably increased. To correct these failures the UPA government decides to do something to attract the voters.

After announcing the government’s proposal to constitute the 7th pay commission, the community of central government employees has been convinced to have soft view on this government. Further the 50 lakh central government employees would be made happy if the 50% DA is merged with Basic Pay. It is told that , as the central government staff association and federations demanding it very seriously, in case the government decides go with this demand, there will be around one crore voters will be in favour of UPA government. So the government may consider the demand of merging of 50% DA with basic Pay in view of forthcoming Parliament elections.

Allowances will have no impact on merging DA with basic Pay

The sources, associated with National Council JCM, said that the government initially was not willing to consider this demand as some allowance and advances have been raised by 25% whenever the DA crosses 50% level as per the sixth CPC recommendation. But federations insisted that the allowances, which are raised to 25 % level when DA crosses 50%, will have no impact on merging DA with basic pay. The only allowance will have an increase when Basic Pay increases are HRA. No other allowances will be increased and other entitlement of the respective Grade Pay will not be revised as the 50% DA to be merged will be kept under separate component like it was treated in 5CPC as Dearness Pay. “There is no need to worry about financial implications, as the 50% DA will be paid by just changing its nomenclature as Dearness Pay”, said sources.

50% DA merger to be decalered before DA crosses 100%

Further, it has been informed that it is good enough for the government to announce its decision before declaring the next additional installment of DA. Because the AICPIN for Industrial workers for the Month of December 2013 is awaited to determine the rate of dearness allowance to be paid from January 2014.The result of last 11 months AICPIN shows that DA will definitely be raised by 10 % from existing 90% level. So the rate of DA will be 100% with effect from 1st January 2014. After the DA increased to 100%, the demand for 50% DA merger will have to change its avatar. Probably the demand would be for 100% DA merger. So the federations expect the government may consider 50% DA merger soon.

However, decision if any in this regard should be taken before the announcement of election for parliament. It is expected that election announcement for parliament will be made by the end of February 2014. Before that,  the announcement of 50% DA merger is expected from central government.

source : gservants.com