The Chairman, GDS committee convened a
meeting by inviting Federations for discussing issues of GDS in the
wake of post approval of the recommendations of VII CPC. We submitted a
Memorandum to the GDS Committee demanding regularization of GDS as
departmental employees and we have given enough justification for
regularization. Notwithstanding our earlier Memorandum, we have
submitted our views on post approval of the recommendations of VII CPC.
We demanded multiplication factor of
3.25 for GDS while calculating new pay. The Chairman asked for
justification for 3.25 factor from the staff side. We replied the
following.
1. Central trade Union demands Rs.
18000/- as minimum pay for unskilled labour working in the country.
Therefore accepting Rs. 18000/- as minimum pay which was granted by VII
CPC is not acceptable.
2. National JCA comprising all
Central Govt. Employees Associations / Unions is not accepting minimum
pay of Rs. 18000/- fixed by VII CPC to the Central Govt. employees. NJCA
is opposing minimum pay of Rs. 18000/- and demanding Rs. 26000/- as
minimum pay with enough justification. Therefore our Federation does not
accept Rs. 18000/- as minimum pay and 2.57 factor recommended by VII
CPC to the GDS. The present day functioning of post office is totally
different when compared to earlier. Rural ICT is the slogan of the Govt.
now. But for the co-operation of the GDS, the rural ICT is impossible
in India Post. Therefore taking into consideration of the changing
scenario, such as e-commerce, e-governance, payment bank, the role of
GDS is very important. In the world CEO meeting, our Secretary, Dept. of
Posts said that future business is lying only with e-commerce. If the
Dept. wants success in the e-commerce as in the case of Royal mail, role
of GDS is indispensable.
3. The payment Bank will commerce
functioning from the year 2017. The role of GDS in this regard is
inevitable towards success of the payment Bank. Considering the above
facts, the GDS pay should be fixed based on the factor 3.25 instead of
2.57 as recommended by the VII CPC.
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