Copy of
letter No. CHQ/IPASP/Agenda/2012 dated 10/4/2012 regarding
submission of agenda for holding of periodical meeting with Secretary (Posts)
is redproduced below for the information of members of this Association.
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Subject :- Agenda for holding of Periodical
meeting with Secretary( Posts).
Ref :-
Directorate letter No. 01/01/2011-SR dated 25th August ,2011.
Respected Madam,
It
is intimated that meeting was taken by the Secretary (Posts) with our
Association on 11.08.2011. Minutes of this meeting were issued by the
Department vide No. cited above. Issue of holding of periodical meeting with
Association at regular intervals was discussed and our demand was accepted.
Since then, no periodical meeting has been held with our Association so far.
Hence, agenda for next periodical meeting is being submitted herein under:
Item No.1:- Cadre restructuring /promotional aspects concerning Inspectors and Asstt Supdts .
A committee was constituted under the Chairpersonship of Member (P) vide directorate order No .1/1 /2011 SR dated 09.09.2011. Two meetings of the committee were held on 18.10.2011 and 03.11.2011 in the Dak Bhawan New Delhi. Minutes of these two meetings were issued by the Department vide No. 01/01/2011-SR dated 14.11.2011. The proposal of the Department for forgoing gazetted statues of ASPOs and up-gradation of IPOs was deliberated in depth in the 37th All India Biennial Conference of this Association was held at Banguluru on 28th and 29th January 2012 and the house passed a resolution unanimously which is reproduced below-
“This
Association is against the merger of Inspector Posts and
Assistant Superintendents Posts Cadre. Inspector Posts should be granted
Grade Pay of Rs. 4600/- with effect from 01/01/2006 at par with Inspectors of
CBDT/CBEC in tune with directions of the Hon’ble CAT, Ernakulam Bench”.
This was conveyed to the Chairperson i.e. Member (P) vide
this Association letter No.CHQ/IP/ASP/1/2012 dated 22.02.2012.
It is pointed out here that cadre restructuring proposal i/r/o Inspector of
CBDT/CBEC have been sent to the DOPT/MOF whereas our proposal is still pending
in the Department. Hence, it is urged that necessary
directions/instructions may be issued to the committee to finalise its proposal
and submit the same to the competent authority for further course of action.
Item No. 2 :- Quota of IP line in PS Group “B” Examination on introduction of Postmaster Cadre in Postal Wing.
Out
of 866 posts of PS Group “B”, 116 posts of Senior Postmaster have been
earmarked for Postmaster Cadre in the manner given below :
IP Line
|
75%
|
87 posts through LDCE
|
General Line
|
25%
|
29 post through DPC
|
Thus, 750 posts still remain in PS Group “B”. These posts may be divided among IP Line and General Line as suggested below by suitable amendment in Recruitment Rules of PS Group “B”.
No. of Group B posts available for General Line officials:
Number of Group B posts available for General Line
Officials prior to introduction of Postmaster Cadre (6% of 866)
|
52
|
No. of posts in PS Group “B” through Examination (3% of
750)
|
23
|
No. of posts in Sr. Postmaster Grade through DPC (25%
of 116)
|
29
|
Total posts available for General Line
|
52
|
Thus, General Line Officials are not loosing any Group “B”
posts due to introduction of Postmaster Cadre.
No. of Group “B” posts available for IP Line Officials:
No. of Group “B” posts available for IP Line Officials
prior to introduction of Postmaster Cadre (94% of 866)
|
814
|
No. of posts in PS Group “B” through examination (19 % of
866)
|
165
|
No. of posts in Sr. Postmaster Grade through
LDCE (75% of 116)
|
87
|
No. of posts in PS Group “B” through LDCE – proposed (10%
of 750)
|
75
|
Total posts available for IP Line through examination
|
162
|
No. of posts in PS Gr. B through DPC – proposed (87% of
750)
|
652
|
Total posts available for IP Line in PS Gr. B + Sr.
Postmaster
|
814
|
Thus, IP Line officials will loose only three posts in examination quota but will get these posts by promotion by DPC. Overall, there is no change in the quota of IP and General Line.
In
view of the above facts, it is requested to kindly reconsider and implement the
proposal by taking appropriate action to amend the PS Group “B” Recruitment
Rules.
Item No. 3 :- Issue of Combined Seniority List of
Inspectors, Posts from the
year 1999.
This
Association addressed the Department on the subject on 31/12/2010 followed by
reminder on 22/3/2012, but no action has been taken by the Department so far.
It is requested to kindly arrange for issue of Combined Seniority List of
Inspectors, Posts from the year 1999 onwards and make it available in the
website of the India Posts so that our members may aware of their seniority
position in the All India Seniority List and point irregularity if
any.
It
is requested to kindly grant periodical meeting and arrange for fixing date and
time for holding of the same.
Yours sincerely,
Sd/-
(Vilas Ingale)
General Secretary