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ADR VACANCIES OF 2006, 2007, AND 2008 DO NOT CONTAIN EVEN A SINGLE VACANCY OF GROUP D [MULTI SKILLED EMPLOYEE] – NFPE HAS GIVEN LETTERS TO CONTINUE RECRUITMENT OF 'MSE' [Multi Skilled Employee] FROM GDS AND TEMPORARY STATUS CASUAL LABOURERS
ORDER
No. 37-15/2008-SPB.I
Government of India
Ministry of Communications & IT
(Department of Posts)
Dak Bhawan, New Delhi – 110001
Dated the 14th July, 2009
ORDER
Consequent upon the decision of the Committee of Secretaries headed by Secretary (P), DOP&T held on 16th February, 2009 the competent authority in the Government of India has approved the revival of the following vacancies being 1/3rd of direct recruitment posts in the Department of Posts, lying vacant for more than one year to be filled up under the Annual Direct Recruitment Plan in accordance with the instructions contained in Department of Personnel &Training OM No. 2/8/2001-PIC dated 16.05.2001:
| Sl. No. | Name of the Post | Year of the Vacancies | |
| 2006 | 2007 | ||
| 1. | I.JTS Group A II. Manager, MMS, Group 'A' | 17 01 | 17 03 |
| 2. | Inspector of Post Offices, Gr. 'B' | 94 | 91 |
| 3. | Postal Assistant, Postal/CO/PLI, Gr. 'C' | 1416 | 1459 |
| 4. | Sorting Assistants, RMS, Gr. 'C' | 186 | 149 |
| 5. | Postman, Gr. 'C' | 894 | 712 |
| 6. | Jr. Accountant, Gr. 'C' | 95 | 37 |
| 7. | Jr. Engineer (Civil) Gr. 'C' | 09 | 09 |
| 8. | Jr. Engineer (Elect) Gr. 'C' | 00 | 01 |
|
| Total | 2712 | 2478 |
PF-17/2009 Dated 22nd July 2009
To
The Secretary
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan
New Delhi – 110001
Sub: Recruitment in the cadre of erstwhile Group D upgraded as Multi Skilled Employee in the Department of Posts – reg.
Madam,
This Federation is constrained to bring to your kind notice the following facts to facilitate consideration and causing orders to continue the recruitment of erstwhile Group D upgraded and renamed as Multi Skilled Employees:
- The Postal Department being one of the biggest operative departments with multifarious functions with greater responsibilities and therefore the duties and responsibilities discharged by the erstwhile Group D employees shall continue to be discharged by the Multi Skilled Employees. The Directorate orders also reflects this aspect by the categorical mention in its orders No.1-20/2008-PCC dated 27.03.2009. Therefore the discontinuation of recruitment if any as against the erstwhile Group D posts in future would cause operational problems in discharging those duties and responsibilities smoothly.
- The posts of Group D are used to be filled up from amongst the GDS and Temporary Status Casual Labourers with a 75%:25% ratio. DPC used to meet and approve the eligible Candidates on seniority – cum – fitness to the posts of Group D. Now consequent on upgradation of Group D into Group C under the recommendation of the 6th CPC, the recruitment against these vacancies appear to have been halted.
- The upgradation of posts of Group D into Group C shall not in any way to stop the process of recruitment from amongst the GDS and Temporary Status Casual Labourers. As otherwise the Temporary Status Casual Labourers Scheme implemented by the Government will lose its purpose and meaning and hundreds of TS Casual Labourers placed in the pay scale with 1800/- Grade Pay will have to retire without absorption and without any retirement benefits. Similarly there are more than 3 lakhs GDS whose absorption chances will be drastically reduced if recruitment do not continue to the upgraded posts of Group D from amongst them.
- The continued recruitment to the post of upgraded Group D is fully justified because of the fact that already the posts of Postmen which are Group C and bearing a higher scale of pay than the upgraded Group D are being filled up from amongst the eligible GDS through seniority – cum – fitness and through competitive examination on 50:50 basis. Therefore when already Group C posts are being filled up from amongst the GDS in the Department of Posts for so many years, the recently upgraded posts of Group D into Multi-Skilled Employees shall also continue to be filled up. If necessary the same training offered to non-matriculate Group D before upgradation can be imparted to the GDS also who are non-matriculates before absorption.
This Federation therefore urges upon you to kindly give enough consideration to all these points and cause orders for the continued recruitment against the vacancies of Multi Skilled Employees from amongst the GDS and Temporary Status Casual Labourers as before.
A line in reply into the nature of action taken would receive our high appreciation.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
[K.Ragavendran]
Secretary GeneralPF-17/2009 Dated 22nd July 2009
To
The Secretary
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan
New Delhi – 110001
Sub: Non-sanction of Multi Skilled Employee posts in the ADR Vacancies of 2006, 2007 and 2008 for absorption – reg.
Ref: Our letter No.PF-45/08 Dated 17.03.2008 on Change in the procedure of abolition of 2/3rd of entire vacancies of Group D in Department of Posts.
This Federation is shocked to find that not even a single vacancy of erstwhile Group D now renamed as the Multi Skilled Employee is sanctioned for filling up amongst the ADR vacancies released for the financial years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08. We place the following view points in favour of filling up the vacant posts of Multi Skilled Employees:
- The Honourable High Court of Kerala had dismissed the petition of the Department of Posts and had upheld the views of Ernakulum CAT that no clearance is required from the Screening Committee for filling up the vacant posts of Group D and that even if there is a ban, it was limited to direct recruitment vacancies only.
- Since the posts of Group D are being filled up from amongst the GDS and TS Casual Labourers through the DPC, the subjection of all the Group D vacancies for abolition under the Screening Committee was also a wrong procedure followed.
- In spite of the above all posts of Group D have been subjected to Screening Committee but what is more the entire vacancies of erstwhile Group D and the renamed Multi Skilled Employees are totally neglected while considering the sanction of different posts for filling up under the ADR for 2006, 2007 and 2008.
- Some Circles like Andhra, Karnataka etc were following the understanding that Group D vacancies are not to be taken under direct recruitment quota and continue fill up the vacancies. Even the Directorate has committed in writing to this Federation in its Action Taken Report supplied to us on 13.01.2009 during the course of the meeting taken by the Secretary [P] that the Group D vacancies are not falling under the Screening Committee. In spite of this position many circles did not fill up Group D vacancies at all.
- For operational reasons also the posts of Multi Skilled Employee require filling up and the quantum of abolition that had taken place with regard to Group D employees is causing great hardship on the existing employees. The cadre of erstwhile group D and the present Multi Skilled Employees in Department of Posts should be viewed differently from other Ministries / Departments where the Group D are generally working in administrative offices only.
- The vast section of GDS and the Casual Labourers with Temporary Status are stagnating without any avenue for absorption because of maximum abolition of Group D posts than any other posts in the Department of Posts.
This Federation therefore urges upon you to kindly consider all the above points and cause to issue instructions for filling up Multi Skilled Employee Posts also as in the past.
We would appreciate a line in reply.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
[K.Ragavendran]
Secretary General
PF-45/2009 Dated 22nd July 2009
To
The Secretary
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan
New Delhi – 110001
Sub: Approach Paper on Merger of SROs with Post Offices – reg.
Ref: DO Letter of PMG Kurnool to Secretary [P] Dated 14.05.2009
Madam,
This Federation is shocked to learn that a Committee of sorts under the head of PMG Kurnool was constituted to examine merger of SROs with Post Offices but no effort was made to have any consultation with the Staff Side over such an important issue having serious and adverse implications on the interests of staff and service. The DO letter of our PMG Kurnool is categorical that the merger can be done quickly! In fact such hasty moves would be totally detrimental to the interests of service and staff.
The Staff Side had been subjected to enormous pressure by the Official Side by taking various unilateral decisions in the past too. The employees in particular have been at the receiving end for all the lopsided decisions taken by the Official Side in the past. Moreover the sudden love for merging SROs with Post Offices is against the spirit and letter of the agreement reached by the Department with the Staff Side that assures us that no RMS Office would be merged with Post Office.
The merger contemplated by the Committee headed by the PMG Kurnool is nothing but a frontal attack on the existence of the RMS wing itself. The theory put forward by the Approach Paper that tries to compare the work of both SROs and Post Offices and that about the feasibility of merging the software modules of the work etc cannot be the ground for such merger since it is a fact that basic work of SRO and Post Office are constructed for different specialised purposes.
This Federation strongly objects any such unilateral move contemplated on the part of the Department of Posts to merge SROs with Post Offices and requests to maintain the agreement already reached between us against merger of any RMS office with Post Office.
A line in reply assuring us of no unilateral action on such things would receive our high appreciation.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
[K.Ragavendran]
Secretary General
