Circular dated 20/06/2011

Bhopal, dated 20/06/2011

Dear members,

You might have gone through the circular dated 3/3/2011 placed in the Association web site wherein I have tried to explain the latest position of working of the Association. You are aware that FOD had asked me to not write letters in the capacity as General Secretary since I hold a post with Rs. 4200/ grade pay. But several of the units of the Association have asked me to continue as General Secretary of the Association till next General Body Meeting accordingly we have requested the FOD/Department to allow me to continue till next General Body Meeting which was turned down.

It was brought to you that the Ministries/Departments except Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation have not implemented the DoPT order denying membership of Associations under JCM scheme to the cadres with grade pay 4200 onwards. The matter was put up in the Confederation CEC Meeting at Mumbai in the month of December 2010 and a resolution for giving member ship to all cadres which were under JCM scheme prior to 6th CPC was passed and sent to the DoPT. DoPT has referred the matter to Ministry of law for legal opinion. Looking to the possible delay in the Ministry of law, Confederation has asked the DoPT to issue a clarificatory instruction for statusquo of the existing Associations till a final order is issued by them, which is under consideration of the DoPT. Besides, Confederation has sent two letters to the Secretary, MoS & PI in this connection(copy enclosed in Annexure I & II)

On 22/03/2011 FOD wrote again to the Department for not allowing me to continue as General Secretary while forwarding the reply of the Association Joint Secretary (in which the FOD was requested to continue me as General Secretary till next General Body Meeting-Copy enclosed in Annexure III) to the Department. But a final decision is yet to come up from the Ministry. Meanwhile several of the issues which are to be taken up on priority basis are pending or the issues already put up to the FOD/Department are still pending there. In order to discuss these issues and taking suitable decisions, we have to convene the General Body Meeting of the Association. The normal period of the biennial General Body Meeting elapses on 14/7/2011. However, as per constitution we can extent the meeting by 3 months. Thus the meeting can be convened in the month of August or September 2011. Our Mumbai Unit was requested to organize the meeting at Mumbai. All Units are requested to send their opinion, if any, to the Association.

Attack on the Ministerial Staff by some members of Field ssociation:

Meanwhile it was reported that some members of the Association of Field Staff in the FOD are complaining against the Ministerial staff posted in some Regions. It had happened in Chennai, in Jabalpur and may be in many other regions. In Bhopal also in order to defame me one ex-member of the Association with the support of one or two persons of other Associations is continuously spreading lies against me. Most of them are aggrieved of the reason that the undersigned, while functioning as Assistant, try to follow the rules/procedures. I try to do work in the office in the same spirit that I do as General Secretary of the Association. If somebody desires that I should not do work as per rules and procedures, I can’t fulfill that desire. Likewise, in many Regions some staff appeared to be not happy with the Ministerial Staff due to the reason that they stick on the rules and procedures while putting up the papers. Since Ministerial Staff do the work on behalf of the Administration or on the instruction of the officers concerned, administration has to take care of the matter. But it is seen that in the case of Chennai, Ministerial staff was found punished by way of transferring Shri Kalai Selvan, which can be seen from the reply filed by them on 19/4/2011. We strongly feel that the FOD has transferred Shri Selven without considering the reply filed by the Ministerial Staff in its required importance.

Restructuring of the Ministerial Staff:

The restructuring proposals in respect of Ministerial staff have been sent to the Ministry by the FOD, Copy of the same is put in the Association e-mail aiams06@yahoo.com.

You are aware that the Department had asked the FOD to submit a proposal for restructuring of the Ministerial Staff in the month of July 2010(copy enclosed in Annexure IV). Even though the DPD & SDRD had sent proposal timely to the Ministry but FOD had not submitted the same until we make an appeal to the Director General on the matter (Copy enclosed in annexure V). Now the matter is under consideration of the Department/DoPT. For a meaningful and early restructuring sincere and continuous persuasion is required.

FOD’s call to appoint daily wages staff against the vacant posts of LDC, UDC & Assistant.

FOD through circular dated 3/6/2011 has asked the Regions to appoint skilled workers against the vacant posts of Assistant, UDC & LDC. This forced me to break my silence over the FOD instruction to not write letters as General Secretary of the Association. And I in the capacity as General Secretary have written a letter to the ADG in protest against the aforesaid circular (copy enclosed in annexure VI).

Merger of the posts of LDC & UDC & Upgradation of grade pay:

You were informed that the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers has put up an item in the National JCM for the merger of the posts of LDC & UDC & upgradation of the grade pay. But the meeting of the National JCM has not been conducted since the inclusion of this item in the agenda. In this respect, I as a citizen have sought information from DoPT under RTI Act (copy enclosed in annexure VII). Earlier Shri Pinaki Acharya, JCM Member of the Association was sought some information on the matter from the DoPT for which DoPT has not given any clear reply.

Hon’ble Minister’s visit at DPD Hqrs:

The Hon’ble Minister, MoS & PI has visited DPD Hqrs on 13/6/11. On this occasion our Association units, working at Kolkata handed over a memorandum containing the demands of the Ministerial Staff, which include the early implementation of the restructuring of the Ministerial Staff, to him. According to our DPD unit’s report the Minister assured them of doing all efforts for early implementation of the restructuring.

With warm greetings,
Yours Sincerely


(TKR Pillai)
General Secretary