National Joint Council Of Action
4, State Entry Road, New Delhi- 110055
No.NJC/2019/7th CPC
February 9, 2019
To
All Constituents of NJCA
Dear Comrades,
A delegation of the National JCA consisting of Com. M. Raghaviah, Com.
Shiva Gopal Mishra, Com. Guman Singh, Com. K.K.N. Kutty, Com. Ashok
Singh, Com. L.N. Pathak, and Com. R.N. Parasar met the honourable Home
Minister on 8th February, 2019 at 9.30 Am. The delegation conveyed to
the honourable Home Minister, the discontent and anger of the central
Government employees over the dishonouring the assurance held out by the
group of minister headed by him on 30 th June, 2016 in the matter of
the upward revision of the minimum wage and fitment formula.
They pointed out the honourable home minister that on all previous
occasions, the Government had revised the minimum wage recommended by
the respective pay Commission after negotiation with the Staff Side JCM.
The growing concern of the Central and state Government employees
manifested in large scale mobilisation of the newly recruited employees
over the new contributory Pension scheme was also brought to his notice.
The employees and officers who are recruited in Central Government
service after 01.01.2004 are extremely agitated over the meagre amount
of annuity they are entitled to receive even after paying huge amount of
subscription to the scheme devoid of cost indexation. Family pension
protection ect. The delegation also brought to the notice of the
honourable Minister that the number of employees and officers who are
presently covered by the new scheme has crossed over 50% of the total
strength and the demand for bringing back the old Pension scheme has
gained momentum. It unfortunate that the Government did not heed even to
the modest suggestion made by the Staff Side before the pension
committee to the effect to guarantee a minimum amount of annuity to
those who are covered under the new scheme. The delegation also stated
that they are constrained to belive of a concerted effort on the part of
the Government to kill the negotiating forum JCM as repeated pleading
made to revive the joint consultative Machinery has not been responded.
They pointed out that the National Council of the JCM met about 9 years
back and the meetings of the Standing committee and national Anomaly
Committee has been few and far between . Since no meetings are convened
at the apex level, the departmental Councils had also become defunct,
they added. In other words, they said that there has been virtually no
interaction worth the name between the Government and the employees
organisation , which has proliferated the litigation and in most of the
cases, the Government has lost out in the Courts. They also pointed out
that the official side had been taking extremely nugatory attitude and
had not been acting upon even on the verdicts of the Supreme Court.
The Honourable Home Minister gave a patient hearing and recalled the
interaction he had with the Staff side earlier, when an assurance to
revisit the quantum of minimum wage and fitment formula had been held
out . He assured the delegation that he would cause a discussion of the
matter with the Honourable Prime Minister.
The National JCA met later at the Staff side office when Com. M.S. Raja
and Com. Giriraj Singh joined the meeting. The issues were discussed at
length, especially taking into account the ensuing general Election in
the country. The meeting finally decided to organise the following
programme of actions.
13th March 2019
A massive demonstration cum dharna will be organised under the auspices
of the National JCA to highlight and focus the demand for the withdrawal
of the new Pension scheme and restoration of the old Pension scheme for
Central Government employees. The National JCA will simultaneously
write to all Political parties to make their stand clear on the issue of
the New Pension scheme in their respective manifesto. The National JCA
will spcarhead a campaign amount the employees for the acceptances of
the demand by the political parties. The dharna will be at jantar Mantar
and the same will be participated by the employees working in and
around Delhi besides the NJCA leaders. On the same day, similar dharna
and demonstrations will be held in front of all Central Government
offices throughout the country. The employees will also be requested to
wear black badges projecting the demand for the withdrawal of the NPS.
28th MARCH 2019
A protest day long dharna will be organised at jantar Mantar on
28.03.2019, in which all the National council members will take part. A
huge demonstration will also be organised on the same day in front of
the dharna venue in which the employees working in and around Delhi will
take part. The dharna will highlight the need to revive the JCM forum
and thus constant and continuous inter action between the Government and
the employees. It will also focus the intolerable attitude of the
official side even in issuing orders, where the supreme Court has given
the verdict in favour of the employees. The Cabinet Secretary will be
informed of this decision well in advance.
Copy of the letter addressed to the Cabinet Secretary is enclosed. All
participating organisations are requested to make the programme a grand
success. The NJCA will meet again on 28.03.2019 to discuss of the future
course of action to be mounted in the days to come.
With greetings,
Yours faithfully,
sd/-
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
Convener
