MANIFEST SOLIDARITY WITH MOVEMENT AGAINST CORRUPTION

See Confederation web site http://confederationhq.blogspot.com/2011/08/manifest-solidarity-with-movement.html

Transfer Cases

To

All General Secretaries

AICGWBEA

Comrade,

                 A number of transfer cases are being recommended by the BEC for the cancellation. The CEC is receiving a  request letter which  is only a formal letter and it doesn’t contain facts and figures why this transfer order should be cancelled.

          In view of this In this connection it is brought to your notice that while recommending the cancellation of the transfer orders The following guidelines are to be followed so that CEC  can take  the genuine cases. The persons visiting the CHQ for cancellation of transfer orders should be discouraged.  These information should also be useful to us while talking to the authorities. Hence,  while forwarding the application following points should be highlighted.

1)   In the body of the original representation  in variably should be endorsed  to the      Secretary General through  General Secretary of the BEC

2)  The justification should be given why this transfer order should be canceled, what       is the impact on the official work, no of posts sanctioned, no of post filled,    vacancy position in that cadre.

3)  Field stay of the individual in no of years he/she has worked outside the home                  State and no of  transfers. 

4)    How  this transfer is violating the transfer norms

5)    Any other useful justification

6)  Whether any request is pending.

All General Secretaries are requested to ensure the above guidelines are adhered to.so that CEC can take up cases.

Comradely yours

(P.S.Prasad)

          

Org. Secretary

PFRDA Signature Campaign

DRAFT PETITION FOR MASS SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN.


Collect signatures from all ( Friends, Relatives, Govt servants, Employees  etc) each employee should collect a minimum of 10 signatures and submit it to Local COC or CEC  before 1st September 2011, take print out and circulate it.  

To

The Prime Minister of India,

New Delhi

Sub: Request for Scrapping of PFRDA Bill

Sir,

We submit this petition to bring to your kind notice certain aspects of the re-introduced PFRDA Bill which will have an extremely adverse impact on the pension and retirement benefits of the Government employees. We may also state in this connection that the contributory pension scheme will be a drain on the exchequer.

The guiding principle adopted in determining the pay package of civil servants is to spread out the wage compensation over a long period of time because of which the wages during the work tenure is low to enable pension payment on retirement. This makes the pension a ”deferred wage”, which the Supreme Court has upheld as such in their landmark judgment in the case of D.S. Nakara Vs. Union of India. As the bill does not provide implicit or explicit assurance of a minimum pension except marked based guarantee, the civil servant even after contributing huge sums to pension fund may end up with no annuity if the invested company become bankrupt or the equity market crashes. Moreover the annuity which would be the pension under the new scheme being not cost indexed will make it difficult for the pensions to make the both ends meet.

The Committee set up by the 6^th CPC has concluded that the new contributory pension scheme will increase the outflow from the exchequer from Rs. 14,284 Crores to Rs. 57088 Crores by 2038. The Committee has also observed that the pension liability of the Government which was 0.5% of the GDP in 2004-05 under the defined benefit scheme is likely to decline if the same is not replaced by the contributory pension scheme as envisaged in the PFRDA bill. The Committee has ultimately recommended that the existing “Pay as you go” pension which is presently in vogue will be ideal and may be continued.

Since the new scheme is neither in the interest of the country as it increases the outflow on account of pension liability nor to the Civil Servants for it does not guarantee a minimum pension, we appeal to you kindly cause withdrawal of the PFRDA Bill from the Parliament immediately.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

CGHS hospitals additions

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ASSISTANT ORGANIZING SECRETARY- Jurisdiction

CEC/ORG/2011-13-2                                                                 Dated: 4/8/2011

To

   Com VISHAL MUDGAL, Com MONOJ KUMAR,

   Com GAUTAM PARMAR, Com R.K.PANDEY

   THE ASSISTANT ORGANIZING SECRETARY

   AICGWBEA  ,

Comrade,

                  I congratulate you for being elected/nominated  as   the Assistant Organizing Secretary.  I request for your coordination  with me for better functioning of the AICGWBEA. It is requested to have update information regarding   functioning of the BEC with in the jurisdiction mentioned below so that the Secretary  General could be appraised of the ongoing of the BECs. I therefore request you to periodically contact the respective General Secretaries only   regarding the periodical developments in the BECs.

                 The Regional Council meeting’s  are  most important on the same lines as of the functioning of the  Office Council and Departmental Council. In charter of demands placed by different BECs during the Ambala conference it was observed that many of the issues figured therein could be settled in the Regional Council meetings itself.  Hence, utmost importance is  required to be given to holding Regional Council meetings and it is requested that the respective Asst. Organizing Secretaries would pursue the General Secretaries for timely meeting of the Regional Councils.

                        As the employees’ movement has come to a sharp bend now days the liaison with the Confederation of CG Employees and Workers(CCGEW) are to be closely maintained. In this connection it is desired that you should  take special care so that the programmes of the AICCGWBEA are successfully carried out by the AICGWBEA at BEC Levels.

 The Branches of jurisdiction to follow up action.

         

Slno	Name of ASST.ORG.SECRETARY	Branches Allocated
1	Com VISHAL MUDGAL	CHQ Faribadad, Jamnagar House New Delhi,  NR Lucknow, Division XVI Bareilly, Division III Varanasi.
2	Com MONOJ KUMAR	Division II Ambala, NWR Chandigarh, Division VIII Jammu, NWHR Jammu Division XVII Dharamshala
3	Com GAUTAM PARMAR	Division I Ahmedabad, WCR Ahmedabad,  Division VI Nagpur, CR Nagpur, Division XI Jodhpur, WR Jaipur, Division XII Bhopal , NCR Bhopal
4	Com R.K.PANDEY	Division V Ranchi MER Patna, Division VII Guwahati, NER Guwahati, Division X Bhubeshwar, SER Bhubeshwar, Division XV Kolkatta, ER Kolkatta, Division XIII Raipur, NCCR Raipur,

    Rest of the branches will be looked after by the Organizing Secretary, All the General Secretaries are requested to extend the co-operation with the Assistant Organizing Secretaries and  Organizing Secretary. in the better interest of the association as a whole. 

                                                       

                                                                                   Comradely yours

                                                                                      (P.S.PRASAD)

                                                                           ORGANIZING SECRETARY

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Hike rate of return on GPF, panel advises govt

PARLIAMENTARY PANEL RECOMMENDS HIKE IN THE RATE OF GPF

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Hike rate of return on GPF, panel advises govt

Press Trust of India / New Delhi August 02, 2011, 19:32 IST

Dear Comrades! you are aware that the Confederation has been demanding for the enhancement of the interest rate on the GPF of Central Government Employees and this had been one of the demands of the CG Employees Charter. Now according to the PTI, a Parliamentary Panel headed by the former Finance Minister Sri. Yashwant Sinha has recommened hike to the GPF interest rates. We are reproducing the news item [courtsy: Central Government Employees News]: A Parliamentary panel today asked the Central government to increase the rate of return on provident fund for its employees in the light of rising bank rates and EPFO's decision to hike its rate to 9.5% for 2010-11. "The rate of interest on General Provident Fund (GPF) which is pegged at 8% may be reviewed so that government employees are not put to any disadvantage more so now when the interest rates for bank deposits has also been raised," the Standing Committee on Finance suggested in its report. If the suggests of the panel finds favour from the government, over 50 lakh Centre's employees will stand to benifit. The panel headed by former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, pointed out that retirement fund body Employees Provident Fund Organiation has also increased rate of interest on PF deposits to 9.5% for 2010-11 from 8%. The EPFO had been paying 8.5% interest on PF deposits since 2005-06. In September last year, it had recommended an increase in interest rate to 9.5% for 2010-11 after discovering Rs 1,731 crore surplus in their books of accounts. In the present scenario, the bank rates are also increasing. Reserve Bank of India has increased its short term lending and borrowing rates by half a percentage point to 8 and 7%, respectively in its recent quarterly review unveiled on July 26. Following the central bank's rate hike, some private and public sector have also hiked their rates.

Photos of Ambala Conference

Confederation Meeting at Chennai

Dear Comrades,

National Secretariat  meeting and its decisions.

            The meeting of the National Secretariat of Confederation was held at Chennai on 30^th July, 2011. Comrade S.K.Vyas President was in Chair. The following decisions were taken.

1.     The campaign for popularising the charter of demands adopted at the National Council meeting held at Mumbai on 1^st December, 2010 could not be undertaken in an effective manner as the major affiliate NFPE had to be busy with the preparation of the indefinite strike action.

2.     The meeting decided that prior to any action programme; an intensive campaign is a pre requisite.  Accordingly the following programmes were chalked out.

(a)  Every affiliate will circulate the charter of demands along with the explanatory note amongst the employees. Meetings will be organised in front of all offices to explain the demands to the members.  Report of such meetings will be sent to the Confederation CHQ directly. These meetings are to be organised between 5^th and 10^th September, 2011.

(b) Between 10^th and 20^th September, 2011 the State Committees of the Confederation will ensure that district level conventions are held and one of the State Committee member deployed to attend such convention in each district. The Sate Committees will send the report of these conventions to the CHQ.

(c)  On 28^th September, 2011 a massive Dharna programme will be organised in all State Capitals, district and divisional offices.  At the State Capitals, a minimum number of 100 comrades will sit in Dharna.  Lunch recess demonstrations will also be organised on the same date at the Dharna venue. One of the National Secretariat Members will attend the Dharna programme in each State Capital.

(d) All affiliates will organise a department level convention eliciting participation of the State level Executive on a date convenient to them but before 10^th October, 2011.  One of the National Secretariat members will make it convenient to attend such conventions.

(e)  Rally and demonstration will be held in front of the office of the Chairman, Welfare Co-ordination Committee or any other central located place jointly by all the CGEs in all state capitals on 20^th October, 2011.

(f)   Immediate steps will be taken by all affiliate to circulate the petition to the Prime Minister on PFRDA bill.  Copy of the petition will be handed over to each member to obtain his signature as also his family members and friends. The State Committee will hold a review meeting on 10^th October, 2011 to monitor the progress and take necessary steps to expedite the campaign.

(g)  The National Secretariat will meet at Bangalore on 22^nd October, 2011 to review the implementation of the programme of action including the signature campaign and take necessary action to remove deficiencies if any noticed.

(h) The Confederation will mobilise 10000 employees to participate in the ensuing march to Parliament (date will be finalised by the Steering Committee by end of August, 2011).

(i)    To organise a day's strike jointly by all the organisations which participated in the 22^nd July convention.  The date for the strike will be finalised by the steering committee.

The declaration adopted at the convention, the draft letter to the Prime Minister demanding withdrawal of the PFRDA Bill, campaign leaflet on PFRDA Bill are sent herewith. (Copies of the same are also placed on our website). 

Points taken up in Confederation meeting at Chennai by Com P.S.Prasad.

1)     Providing Transport Allowance for field staff.

2)      CGHS Ward entitlement as per grade pay instead of basic pay, minimum of semi private ward for all employees.

3)     CGHS hospital rates to be increased

4)     Pension cases, Allotment of GPF Numbers to earlier Group ‘D’ , verification of Service books pending in PAO offices due to shortage of staff, more staff to be posted at PAO offices.

5)      Rectification of parity with CSS cadre in pay scales of Stenographer, UDC, Assistant & Drivers etc.

6)       CPWD quarters allotment as per old basic pay.

National Women Committee of Confederation met at Chennai.

            The Women committee constituted by the National Women Convention held at Kolkata met at Chennai on 30^th July, 2011.  The Committee took the following decision. The meeting was presided over by the Chairperson, Com. Geeta Ghoshal and the proceedings were initiated for discussion by Com. C.P. Shobhana, Convenor.

1.     To organise the International women's day on 8^th March, 2012 at all State Capitals by organising a seminar on the subject "impact of the neo-liberal economic policies on women and women workers in particular"

2.     To organise a State level Convention of women employees of the Central Government during September/October, 2011.  The State Committees of the Confederation will take necessary steps to hold the convention.

3.     To hold a demonstration in a prominent Central Government office by women workers in all State Capitals against the unabated price rise of essential commodities.  The date will be finalised and intimated later. Steps will be taken to have massive participation of all women employees of Central Government in this programme by the State Committees.