UNLOCK 3 ORDER AND GUIDELINES DATED 29.7.2020

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https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/Unlock3_29072020.pdf

VERY SAD NEWS

Com.R.ShivNarayana,Ex, President P3 CHQ Expired today on 26thJuly 2020 .He was suffering from abdominal Cancer.

Com.ShivNarayana was a very good Organizer and A very disciplined Comrade,

He was inducted in CHQ Team in 1997 AIC Vrindaban,Mathura along with com.parasar and Com.M.Krishnan, R.N.Chaudhary, B.G.Tamhankar as Vice President and continued till his retirement upto 2014 in various capacities as ASG,Dy.G/S and President. 

He has also officiated  as General Secretary  for some time.

He remained in piii CHQ on Foreign Service for long time With Com.KVS and Com.Krishnan.

He contributed a lot in running CHQ.

We on behalf of AIPRPA,AP STATE COMMITTEE& AIPCPCCWF,CHQ Convey our heartfelt condolences to bereaved family members and Comrades of Andhra PARTICULARLY Guntur.

We pray eternal peace for departed soul.

WE DIP OUR BANNER IN RESPECT OF HIM.

JOHAR COM.SHIVNARAYANA .

           M.KRISNAN           Y.NAGABHUSHANAM                         P.MOHAN                                PRESIDENT             WKG.PRESIDENT                         GENERAL SECRETARY

The United Draft placed before the Honourable President (Central Government) by the platform of United Working Class which is the only way out of the crisis of economy deepened further by the Pandemic! -

24th July, 2020

Shri Ram Nath Kovind
Hon’ble President of India,
Rashtrapati Bhawan,
President’s Estate ,New Delhi,
Delhi 110004

Respected Sir,

                          We hopefully place on record the following few facts which are agitating the toiling people of the country.

1. The sudden, unplanned national lockdown imposed by the Government of India and its administration, statedly on account of COVID – 19 pandemic, catastrophically affected the working people, the migrant workers amongst them being the worst hit. That they simply had no life support became clear as the days passed. Even the "advisories" issued belatedly by the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Home Affairs did not help, in fact they were withdrawn by the government without being implemented.

2. The health system was exposed to be woefully inadequate-the private hospitals either simply refused to cap the rates, as appealed by the government, for treatment of Covid patients, stating they were uneconomical or simply closed doors. The ventilators, PPEs, sanitizer required were in extreme short supply. Only the public health system-the public hospitals, their doctors, their staff, the health scheme workers(ASHA Workers), anganwadi workers, the municipal sanitation workers worked tirelessly, risking their own lives including being affected and even lost lives and won everyone's admiration and gratitude. It were the Ordnance Factory workers who swung into action to produce the much needed ventilators and PPEs. The much touted private enterprise failed completely.

 3. Then the attention turned towards putting the wheels of the economy back on rails. The steps taken in this regard by the government defy all logic and the past experience as well as the advice of renowned Indian economists. The economy was already in recession from prior to the onset of the pandemic and was due to majority of Indian people lacking even the minimum purchasing power. It was necessary to put money in their hands. The sudden lockdown compounded the problem.

                              Yet what is being done? The increase in DA of government employees and DR of pensioners is withheld, Labour laws, including many of Hon'ble Supreme Court’s judgments on Equal Pay for Equal Work, are flouted mostly, with inspection being curtailed in the name of “ease of doing business”. Now even the Labour Laws, in whatever form they exist, were sought to be suspended for 1000 or more days through executive orders/Ordinances in many states, (The ILO had to remind the government of its commitment to various ILO Conventions), a slew of public sector enterprises were opened for privatisation, 100% FDI, ranging from blue chip companies such as the BPCL, LIC, Coal India, Electricity Sector, Ordnance Factories, the Railways, train routes as well as their manufacturing/repair workshops, airports, all during the continuing lockdown. Migrant Workers were actually sought to be prevented from going back to their villages by vested interests in the private sector. Their helpless crowding of stations was treated as law and order issue! The Hon'ble Supreme Court had to intervene to direct the government to handle the issue humanely and with top priority. Agriculture is pushed to corporatization through Ordinances. The Rs.20 lac crore package announced is once again Supply-side move rather than the necessary Demand-side push. Repeated Demands by the entire trade union movement for direct income-support and adequate food-support to all poor and non-income-tax-paying households is being arrogantly ignored.

4. Now it is coming to light that the ASHA Workers, who did the crucial Corona surveys, have not been paid at all! State governments have not been paid their share of GST. The income tax paying social strata has not been roped in to share the burden, but the non-income tax paying people are further burdened with relentless price increase of petrol and diesel. While

 GDP figures are bandied about as a measure of “national progress”, the question of equitable distribution is plainly ignored.

5. The entire trade union movement of the country has time and again raised these issues with the concerned ministries, through representations, demonstrations and even sectoral strikes. But the government is totally unresponsive. It has not even convened the Indian Labour Conference, the top most tripartite body in the country, in spite of repeated requests, since 2015.

In view of above points and issues, we the undersigned, urge you, as the Constitutional Head of the Government of India for the following reliefs:-

To direct Central and State Governments:-

1. To adequately compensate the dependents of those migrant workers, who lost their lives due to sudden lockdown effected from 12 Midnight of 25th March, 2020;

2. To provide free ration to all non-income- tax-paying people for the next six months, irrespective of whether they hold any ration card;

3. To pay every non-income- tax-paying person Rs.7500/- pm for the next six months; and pension of Rs.3000/-pm linked to cost of living to all above 60 years of age;

4. To issue Smart Id Card to all the workers with their Aadhar card number valid throughout India which should be useful for social security benefits;

5. To provide a corpus of Rs.10000 crores – a revolving annual FUND for the purpose of implementing Social Security Schemes under the provisions of Un-organised Sector Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008;

6. To withdraw the proposed move of the Government to convert the 41 Ordnance Factories into a corporation and then to privatise the same and to convert the Army Base Workshops to GOCO Model by handing over these Workshops to Private Sector;

 7. To withdraw move for Corporatisation of Railway Production Units and handing over 109 Railway routes to private Sector and privatization of railway stations;

8. To cancel the Privatisation of Public Sector enterprises and Services including State Transport, LIC, Banks, Insurance, Coal, BPCL, Air India, Airports, Telecom, Ports & Dock and Municipal services etc.

9. To put on hold any labour law amendments through codification of all labour laws in to four codes and to convene Indian Labour Conference immediately; scrap all the Ordinances and executive orders altering and/or suspending operation of labour laws in many states.

10. To Invest in and expand health, education and agriculture; scrap all the three Ordinances on Agriculture including on amendment of Essential Commodities Act.

11. To increase budgetary allocation for effective implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, increasing the job allocation for 200 days per annum and extend the similar scheme for urban areas also to address the issue of unemployment on war footing. The daily wage should be enhanced from Rs. 202/- to Rs. 500/-.

12. To launch drive to recover loans from Willful Defaulters, by using criminal prosecution.

Yours sincerely,
​ ​​
​INTUC​ AITUC ​ HMS​ CITU​ AIUTUC
​​​
​TUCC​ SEWA​ AICCTU. ​LPF​ UTUC

NFPE                                                                                                 NFPE

ALL INDIA POSTAL CASUAL, PART TIME CONTINGENT AND CONTRACT WORKERS FEDERATION

  Central Head Quarters, NEW DELHI

ADVISOR:  COM. C.C. PILLAI                              PRESIDENT: COM. M. KRISNAN                      

WORKING PRESIDENT: Com. Y.NAGABHUSHANAM      Web site: aipcpccwf.blogspot.in                                                                                                                                                                                               

GENERAL SECRETARY: COM. P. MOHAN                       email: yn.krishna@yahoo.in

No. aipcpccwf/COVID CASE/WB/7-2                                                                                          DT.24-07-2020

TO

THE SECRETARY

DEPT.OF POST

NEW DELHI 110 001

                                          SUB- REQUEST FOR GRANT OF FNANCIAL                                                                    RELIEFTO DAILY RATED   MAZDOOR 

                                   WHO EXPIRED DUE TO CORONA WHILE IN SERVICE

RESPECTED SIR,

                                 WE ARE VERY SORRY TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THE PATHETIC SITUATION OF THE FAMILY OF DAILY RATED MAZDOOR WHO EXPIRED DUE TO CORONA EFFECT WHILE IN SERVICE. DUE TO HIS ATTENDING TO DUTIES ONLY HE WAS AFFECTED WITH CORONA.THE DETAILS ARE MENTIONED BELOW.

                            In Mail Business Centre of Howrah RMS (RMS WB Division) in Kolkata, a DRM (Daily rated Mazdoor) SRI. Prasenjit Mazumdar aged about 35 had died after unsuccessful treatment for covid-19. He was declared as dead in the Bandel City Hospital ON 20.07.2020. One more life of postal fraternity is lost! But this time it is a casual labourer! That adds to the pain!

                           At least the Department is committed to give 10 lakhs compensation and a job to a family member if the employee is regular! Good but what about the poor family of a casual labourer? The entire family is fully dependent on the earnings of the casual labourer. Now that the young casual

labourer is gone forever. It is the responsibility of Department to compensate & help his family by taking appropriate steps.

                           We hope that the Department should not stand on its so called principles that DRM casual labourers are not eligible to anything which is inhuman! DoP should consider on humanitarian grounds and come to compensate to at least to a lesser degree if not on equal footing to a regular staff, by giving the family some financial compensation and assure a job to that family! After all Sri.Mazumdar laid down his sweet life working for India Post!

All of us will salute the Postal Board for its humanitarian gesture if extended to his family.

                      We hope that the kind secretary will respond immediately and issue orders helping his family.

Immediate positive response and a line in reply will be solicited.

Thanking you, sir.

Yours faithfully,

[M. KRISNAN]                  [Y. NAGABHUSHANAM]                 [P. MOHAN]

PRESIDENT.               WKG.PRESIDENT             GENERAL SECRETARY

COPY TO : SECRETARY GENERAL,NFPE,FOR NECESSARY ACTION

A Casual Mazdoor is the victim of Corona now! What the Postal Department will do?

In Mail Business Centre of Howrah RMS (RMS WB Division) in Kolkata, a DRM (Daily rated Mazdoor) Comrade Prasenjit Mazumdar aged about 35 had died after unsuccessful treatment for covid-19. He was declared as dead in the Bandel City Hospital yesterday (20.07.2020). One more life of postal fraternity is lost! But this time it is a casual labourer! That adds to the pain!

At least the Department is committed to give 10 lakhs compensation and a job to a family member if the employee is regular! Good but what about the poor family of a casual labourer? The entire family is fully dependent on the earnings of the casual labourer. Now that the young casulal labourer is gone forever, is not the Department take some responsibility? I think the Postal Department should not stand on its so called principles that DRM casual labourers are not eligible to anything. It is inhuman! DoP should consider on humanitarian grounds and come to compensate to at least to a lesser degree if not on equal footing to a regular staff! Give the stranded family some financial compensation and assure a job to that family! After all comrade Mazumdar laid down his sweet life working for India Post! All of us will salute the Postal Board for its humanitarian gesture! The Postal Federations and Unions will definitely raise this issue with all urgency!

COM.KR,GS,AIPRPA CHQ RESPONDED IMMEDIATELY. AIPCPCCWF CONVEY ITS THANKS TO COM.KR

NFPE                                                                                                 NFPE

ALL INDIA POSTAL CASUAL, PART TIME CONTINGENT AND CONTRACT WORKERS FEDERATION

  Central Head Quarters, NEW DELHI

ADVISOR:  COM. C.C. PILLAI                              PRESIDENT: COM. M. KRISNAN                      

WORKING PRESIDENT: Com. Y.NAGABHUSHANAM      Web site: aipcpccwf.blogspot.in                                                                                                                                                                                               

GENERAL SECRETARY: COM. P. MOHAN                       email: yn.krishna@yahoo.in

No. aipcpccwf/wages-regularization/wb/7-1                                                                       DT.20-07-2020

                      

TO

THE CHIEF POST MASTER GENERAL

WEST BENGAL CIRCLE

KOLKATA

                                                     

                                                                SUB- Non drawl of wages to casual worker in

                                                          East Kolkata division-reg

                                                     REF: - Our earlier letter dated 28-6-2020

Respected sir,

                                       

                                          It was brought to our notice that wages were not paid to part time contingent/DRM workers in EAST KOLKATA DN. In this connection we have already submitted vide our letter cited u/r that already Ministry of finance, Dept.of expenditure issued clear instructions to all Departments not to stop payments to all casual labor. They are working sincerely with dedication to their duties in this dangerous situation keeping away their families and health as Postal Department declared as essential service.

                                          

                                             In this connection it is not out of place to mention that in other areas and state governments are paying extra rewards for their dedicated work. But unfortunately only in our Department in some Regions/Divisions this is happening, which is totally unethical and inhuman attitude.

                                      

                                      In addition we would like to bring to your kind notice that even though orders were issued by directorate to regularize casual labor who are working prior to 1-9-93 against 25% vacancies of MTS and modified MTS recruitment rules also to that effect long back, the same is not being Implemented particularly in EAST KOLKATA Division, eventhough number of casual labor are there in the division working prior to 1-9-93.

                                        

                                          As such we request you to issue clear instructions to pay the wages to casual workers & absorb eligible casual labor against MTS posts IN EAST KOLKATA DIVISION immediately and prove you are humanitarian in nature.

Expecting an immediate action and a line in reply.

Thanking you, sir.

Yours faithfully,

[P. MOHAN]

GENERAL SECRETARY

COPY TO: CIRCLE SECRETARY, AIPCPCCWF, WB CIRCLE& CS, PIII, WB CIRCLE FOR N/A

Audit ex-Secretary General M.S.Raja Amar Rahe!

Audit ex-Secretary General M.S.Raja Amar Rahe!

Comrade M.S.Raja Former Secretary General Audit Employees Association passed away!

 

It is unbelievable but yet it is a fact that our friend and former SG Audit Employees Association comrade M.S.Raja has breathed his last some hours ago around 7.30 P.M (14.07.2020 night). He was reportedly taken to Aswani Hospital Thrissur after a severe cardiac arrest and died immediately after reaching the hospital. 

He was retired recently and was a militant leader of the All India Audit Employees Association. He led many struggles and faced with bravery some tuff bureaucrats in Audit. He was also the Secretary of Confederation and functioned when i was the Working President and Comrade S.K.Vyas was the President and Comrade KKN.Kutty was the SG. In fact when comrade M.Krishnan became SG Confederation, he became Working President while i relinquished. He had toured extensively for Confederation also to organize CG Employees.

His help to our Postal Pensioners for getting sanction of huge sum from Health Ministry in Delhi was unforgettable. During my stay in Delhi, we had a very good relationship. He was having a smiling face but when issues hot up he actually turned very much involved in the issues with strong views. An outspoken leader! 

HE  ATTENDED AS GUEST OF OUR CASUAL LABOUR FEDERATION FORMATION MEETING HELD AT TIRUPATHI.

His passing away is saddening us all. It is an irreparable loss to the entire movement. We dip our banner and flag in respect of the departed leader comrade M.S.Raja!

60th Anniversary of the Glorious 5 Days Strike of CG Employees in 1960.

                           July 11th, 2020 is the 60th anniversary of the start of the Historic Five Days Strike of the Central Government employees in 1960.
The strike was for acceptance of Need Based Minimum Wage per the 15th Indian Labour Conference approved formula as also for grant of automatic DA whenever the cost of living index is increased, as demanded by the unions. It was also against the retrograde recommendations of the II Central Pay Commission which only denied the justified demands of the workers and the unsympathetic stance of the central government.
Under the Joint Council of Action of the Central Government Employees Federations (AIRF, AIDEF, Confederation and NFPTE), the biggest Indefinite Strike in independent India started on the night of 11/12th July 1960, the anniversary of the 1946 P and T Strike. The government refused to negotiate despite continued efforts of the JCA, as also many Members of Parliament including Shri Feroze Gandhi, M.P.( Husband of Smt.Indira Gandhi). The government was adamant. Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru called the strike as ‘Civil Rebellion’ and utilised the entire government machinery to crush it. Essential Service Maintenance Ordinance (ESMO) was promulgated and thousands of workers were arrested, convicted, dismissed, suspended, terminated and charge sheeted. All India leaders were arrested and put in Tihar Jail. NFPTE Secretary General Com. P.S.R.Anjaneyulu was paraded through the streets of Delhi while sending to Tihar Jail. Never before India has seen such brutal attack on any strike in the country, not even in 1946 Postal Strike, when the British were the rulers.
It is to the credit of the workers and their loyalty to their organisation that the strike continued for long five days, despite severe repression and manhunt. The entire Railways, Postal and Telecom services- all were all badly affected. Unable to continue against the brutal attack of the government and victimisation, the strike was called off on the fifth day.
5 Railways workers in Dohad were killed by police firing. They are Coms. Ranjit Singh, Sakharam, Sitaram, Kripa Shankar and another comrade whose name is not known. Two comrades in Kerala, Com.Ekambaram from Telephones Palakkad and another Comrade from Trichur Postal Division, whose name is not known, committed suicide unable to face the victimisation and termination from service. Many workers were punished with rigorous imprisonment. Public, trade union leaders and outsiders were arrested for supporting the strike. Recognition of the federations/unions were withdrawn.
The workers faced these attacks with full confidence in their organisation and leaders. They knew that there is no other way to defend their rights and achieve justified demands. They saw the most cruel face of the so called ‘Socialist Pattern Government’.
PTTI and many other foreign trade unions as also the trade unions in the country supported the strike and demanded the government to vacate victimisation. In the Parliament, Nehru government was put on the dock by eminent Members of Parliament like Comrades A.K.Gopalan, S.M.Banerjee, Nath Pai and many others, who demanded justice to the workers and vacation of all victimisation.
It took more than three years for the vacation of victimisation and re-recognition of the unions and federations. But the scars remained for a long time.
Though crushed, the 1960 strike was not in vain. For that matter, no struggle is in vain. The government was compelled to act against the price rise, appoint two Committees one after another to consider the demand of DA and has to start discussion with the unions on the constitution of negotiating machinery, the Joint Consultative Machinery(JCM).
As a participant of the historic strike, I have my own experiences, which I may narrate some time later.
The 1960 strike has many lessons for the working class. The determination, dedication and sacrifice of the leaders and workers who were part of the great struggle will ever be remembered.
The Central Govt. employees are once again on the struggle path. The working class are on struggle against the curtailment of trade union and labour rights, imposition of more working hours, privatisation of Public Sector Units etc. etc. Utilising the Covid situation, Mody Government wants to steam roller its anti – people policies.
On this 60th anniversary of the epic strike of 1960, Red Salute to all the participants of the strike and especially to those who sacrificed their lives in the struggle! 1960 Strike has given the message that the workers will never surrender to the anti-worker policy of the government.

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Discrimination in between operative and administrative staff of Department of Posts during COVID-19 pandemic

Let us remember Legendary leader D. Gnaniah

A tribute to late Nanogenarian Comrade D.Gnaniah, on his third death anniversary!

Comrade D.Gnaniah (1921-2017) was a towering leader of P&T and Central Government TU movement. He was Secretary General NFPTE for the periods from 1965 to 1970 and from 1976 to 1978. He led the historic 19th September 1968 one day token strike as Secretary General NFPTE and was arrested and jailed in Tihar Jail. He signed the historic bonus agreement on 14.3.1980 as Leader Staff Side, JCM on behalf of NFPTE. He was dismissed from service once, suspended twice and retired compulsorily once for trade union activities.

He was all along one of the unforgettable and inseparable top leaders of our movement. A great writer of many books; a forceful orator of three languages of Tamil. English and Hindi; a fine negotiator; a humane and versatile personality - and many more virtues were imbibed in comrade Gnaniah! A man of unshakable faith in socialism was always a distinguishing aspect of comrade D. Gnaniah that all of us the trade unionists must emulate!

On his third death anniversary on 8.7.2020 we pay rich tributes to him. Let us cherish his memory on the occasion of his third death anniversary.

Discrimination in between operative and administrative staff of Department of Posts during COVID-19 pandemic

Ref: PF/NFPE/Staff                                       Dated – 08.07.2020

To

The Secretary

Department of Posts

Dak Bhawan, New Delhi – 110001

Sub: - Discrimination in between operative and administrative staff of Department of Posts during COVID-19 pandemic - Regarding.

Ref: -   Directorate letter F. No. Z-92011/25/2020-Coord./O and M dated 06.07.2020

Sir,

To escape from the harmful effects of COVID-19 pandemic, the Department has decided to stop physical despatch of communications (Letters / Statements / Reports) from Directorate to Circles and vice versa and even within Directorate vide its letter under reference.

It is quite surprising that while taking such a decision, the Department forgot the condition of lakhs of its employees who are working in post offices and physically handling innumerable letters/parcels/packets moving though different modes of transmission under different temperature in different places where possibility of carrying novel corona virus is more. This order proves that the lives of the employees working in administrative offices are more precious than the lives of the operative employees in the eyes of the Directorate. Perhaps for this reason, operative employees are not even spared on weekend shutdown declared by several State Governments and full attendance is enforced in Post Offices in spite of clear guidelines to reduce the staff strength to 33% / 50% with staggering of work / business hours, screening and hygiene, frequent sanitization etc. by MHA. What to speak of 5 working days in a week for these employees? It is now a dream for the operative staff.

While the operative staff members in Post and RMS Offices are working day and night without PPE, proper and regular sanitization of workplaces due to non-supply of machine and disinfectants, zero thermal scanning of customers due to non-supply of thermal scanners by the administration, violation of social distancing due to cramped accommodation and want of proper sitting arrangement for the members of public, there is every apprehension that very soon the post offices will be converted into maternity home of COVID-19 if we take a look on the increasing trend of traced, positive and death cases throughout the nation.

At this critical juncture, while the Department is not at all serious towards the operative side where the staff members are more vulnerable to novel corona virus, the above order depicts a gross discrimination in between the administrative and operative staff members which is highly condemnable. The supply of preventive materials like hand wash, sanitizer, hand gloves, face masks etc. has remained in pen and paper. Even after 3 months of horrible condition of COVID-19 pandemic, neither the supply of such materials to post offices by the Divisional administration is regular nor the SPMs/Postmasters have been specifically ordered for the purpose to purchase and submit the bills for sanction so far. It is witnessed that the employees are purchasing such items out of their own pocket to save their lives.

As such, we would like request you once again to appraise the Directorate to look into the following aspects in an urgent manner without any plea or delay to contain spread of COVID-19 and to save the lives of the staff and their family members.

1.    To stop discrimination in between operative and administrative staff members.

2.    Temporary sitting arrangements for customers with provision of chairs, writing tables, fans and drinking water facility in the available space of the PO premises till restoration of normalcy.

3.    Supply of Thermal Scanners and Sanitization Machines to all POs with permission for purchase of required disinfectants and other preventive materials like hand wash, sanitizer, hand gloves, face masks etc as and when necessary.

4.    Issue of metal or plastic tokens bearing serial number and name of the Post Office for supplying to the customers to avoid unnecessary rush in the available counter / public space of the Post Office.

5.    Deployment of a person on daily wage basis at the main entrance of the POs, especially in bigger offices with unexpected rush of customers for thermal scanning, requesting / helping each customer to wash hands and to use sanitizer and for giving tokens to restrict entry of customers to the Counter Hall till restoration of normalcy since with the existing manpower, POs can’t do the same.

6.    To close down all post offices on each Saturday in the areas where weekend shutdown is declared by the State Govt.

7.    To run the Post and RMS Offices with 50% staff.

8.    To stop operation of PMA and functioning of P O Aadhaar Centres once again.

9.    To stop doorstep delivery of articles once again.

10. To reduce the business hours of post offices from 8 hours to 5 hours.

With regards,

Yours sincerely,

(R. N. Parashar)

Secretary General