A gathering of the working Committee in the chairmanship of our All India President for ARPEU,in the Leadership of Com .Debasis Dey ,at Ashok Nagar Bhubaneswar for an analytical review of the GDS pay Committee and to make stand Union for GDS in Odisha frightening away SS Mahadevaiah 's leadership from Odisha ,due to his carelessness for the common GDS members and to pet only the undisciplined leaders in the Union at large.It is the anniversary of our decision to avoid Mahadevaiah for his non attendance the meeting at Puri avoiding about 500 members gathered at Bagla Dharmasala carelessly .  

FAQs/possible answers, on the issue of GDS Pay Committee Report (submitted in near past) ---

Q. Why did the Agreement with Union and Department of Post to appoint a Judiciary Committee was not honored by the Department of Post vehemently rather appointed the Department to the same Officer who had signed on the agreement?

Ans. The Department could assess the strength of GDS’s week Leadership (Mahadevaiah) and to impose the traditional method of special category of exploiting GDS engagement Rule 2011 to continue to pay the GDs time related and extract their effort target related, nourishing the ‘Inspector raaj’ on the GDSs 

Q. Why did not the GDS Leader (Mahadevaiah) pay heed (not filed a petition in Hon’ble CAT) of dishonor of the Agreement/promise of the Department to give GDS a Judiciary Committee when the Officer’s Committee came into force by the Dept.?

Ans. To keep on his cheap mentality to continue for further 10 years as GDS top Leader simply and to avoid the expense for judicial process.

Q. In spite of the expiry of session of 5yr. term for Member Verification in check off system for GDs from 14^th April 2016,how Mahadevaiah is given importance by the Department to just represent as one and only innocent GDs Leader to give signature for all his resolutions unanimously ?

Ans. Very pet Leader for the Department and agreed to all the decisions, may be against the interest of GDSs.

Q. Why The One and Only recognized Leader of GDS Com. S.S. Mahadevaiah threats the Department of Going for only Strikes, Dharnas, Gheraos, for the publication of Report soon ,but fears for Judicial shelter like Tribunal petition or a file in High Court complaining the unfavorable recommendation of the Department at times ?

Ans. On Dharnas,Ghraos ,Strikes the participation of the Common GDs Members may lead to “no work no pay”, and on those cases huge collection of Union subscription is collected, losing no payment of the Great Leader ,who avails foreign service drawing all the strike days wage from the Union Fund only .

Q. We mark, the threat to Department to go for struggle programs on every required issues/situations are served by the Federation Leaders and Com. S.S.Mahadevaiah  both simultaneously , and claims Mahadevaiah alone that due to his struggle or proclamation of struggle the Department/Govt. gives success, actually who deserves the credit for the same ?

Ans. It seems if the GDS Union (our own) dose the same pattern of work repeating as the Federal unions do, then why should the common GDS spend extra time and money with energy superfluously to pet the artificial vanity  of the Leader as if our own .So the crocodile tear of the Leader Com. Mahadevaiah is  crystal clear and to be properly examined by the common GDS to discard his leadership in forth coming Membership verification .

To cont.................

= Categories of GDS:

Present Nomenclature	Category
BRANCH POST MASTER	All Branch Post Masters
ASSISTANT BRANCH POST MASTER	GDS  MD, GDS MC
DAK SEVAK	GDSSV,GDS PKR , GDSMM

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= Viability of GDS Post Offices:

New norms for calculation of GDS Pos are recommended.

Further Categorization of GDS POs based on proportion of Revenue / Expenditure

Category of GDS PO	Revenue Norm
Urban & Rural (Normal)	100% of its expenditure
Rural (special)	50% of its expenditure

..

Category	Colour	Proportion of Revenue to expenditure
A	Green	100% or more of prescribed form
B	Orange	75% to 99% of prescribed form
C	Pink	50% to 74.99% of prescribed form
D	Red	Less than 50% of prescribed form

=Workload assessment:

In place of point system, the Committee recommends the new wage payment system. The new system linked to revenue generation and not to work load.

= Rural Business Development and Marketing:

The Committee Recommended many items for successful realization of rural business potentials.

= Committee recommends to improve the accessibility, visibility and infrastructure of GDS POs.

PO are with 10’ X 10’ dimensions in ground floor.

Building owned by Gram Panchayat

Building owned by Central Govt or State Govt. ie.,schools or offices BPM’s own house

Proper rented accommodation in a busy place of the village

Building owned by NGOs.

With all furniture and power supply.

= Legal status of GDS:

The Committee observed that the matter is sub judice.

The Department should take suitable steps to increase security of job, prevent exploitation and increase income of GDSs so that they feel secure and live happily with in the GDS system and with the existing legal status.

= Terms and conditions of engagement.

The Committee recommends changes in Rule-3A.

Introduce voluntary discharge scheme on willing to leave the post before 65 years

Discharge from the service on the last day of the month.

Relaxation on limited transfer facility.

= Recommendations on wage structure and fixation of wages.

Committee recommends raising of minimum duty from 3 hours to 4 hours of all GDSs

Comparison : BPM = Postman

                        Asst. BPM & Dak Sevak = MTS

Minimum wage fixed at :

Rs.10,000- for 4 hours & Rs.12,000- for five hours. (Level-I)

Rs.12,000- for 4 hours & Rs.14,500- for five hours (Level-2)

Annual increase @ 3% on 1^st January or 1^st July

Wage matrix & Wage Level Table & Arrears calculation Table are given in detail.

= Allowances:

Dearness Allowance – no change

% of DA with regular employees – no change

Increased rate of DA – no change

Recommended allowances :

Composite Allowance

Cash Conveyance Allowance

Combined Duty Allowance

Children Education Allowance

Revenue linked Allowance for eligible BPMs

Risk & hardship allowance

Allowances to be withdrawn:

Office Maintenance Allowance

Fixed Stationery Allowance

Boat Allowance

Cycle Maintenance Allowance

Uttarakhand Allowance

Split Duty Allowance.

Composite Allowance Includes:

Rent for housing GDS PO, Rent for Accommodation, washing-repairs-maintenance of premises, furniture, stationery charges, electricity usage charges for office, Mobile / Telephone usage charges, Boat Allowance/ CMA/ TA, Hospitality charges for drinking water, other incidental charges.

=Performance Related Incentive

Revenue linked allowance along with the present system of incentives with automatic payment at the end of each month.

= Ex-gratia Bonus:

Dept should re-examine the formula for payment of bonus and ex gratia bonus with reference to the share of revenue generated by the departmental as well as GDS POs.

= Methods of engagement

Method of selection : on line method engagement should be introduced.

Recruiting Authority : appended to the GDS (Conduct & Engagement) Rules, 2011

Qualification :SSC/SSLC from State Board/CBSE/ICSE with certificate course or diploma course in IT

Knowledge of local language.

Maintenance of Reservation roster at divisional level.

Stop the security in the form of FG bonds, introduce 5 year TD or NSC as security.

= Career Progression

There is need to increase the Direct Recuitment quota of GDS in Postman & Mail Guard because of large working strength of GDS and to provide them with better opportunities for getting into departmental posts.

 Introduce a guaranteed special increase in wages after 12, 24 & 36 years of service with two annual increases.

Designation of GDSs should be changed after each financial upgradation.

=Leave & substitute arrangement:

Paid leave should be renamed as ordinary leave and enhanced from 20 to 30 days in a year.

Introduce Encashment of Ordinary leave.

Introduce ‘emergency leave’ for 5 days in a calendar year, but no carry forward.

No full time substitute will be engaged.

Women GDS – 26 weeks of maternity leave and paid from salary head.

Paternity leave for 7 days.

= Disciplinary Rules:

Department  should add a new punishment of ‘compulsory discharge from the service’ in the list  “major penalties’ and the content of Rule-9 of GDS (Conduct & Engagement)Rules 2011.

= Social Security Schemes:

Severance Amount : @ Rs.4,000 from 01-01-2016 for every completed year of service subject to maximum of Rs.1,50,000-.

Service Discharge Benefit Scheme (SDBS):

GDS contribution should be revised as minimum of 3% and maximum of 10%  of the basic wage per month.

Department contribution should be fixed as 3% of the basic wage.

Bring the GDS under the purview of Gratuity Act with an upper limit of Rs.5,00,000-

Group Insurance Scheme : enhance the rate of monthly subscription by Rs.500 per month with insurance coverage of Rs.5,00,000-.

 =Welfare Schemes:

GDS CWF subscription should be enhanced from Rs.20- to Rs.100- pm.

Department grant should be enhanced from Rs.100- to Rs.300- PA.

Point system should not be applied to the compassionate appointment of dependents of GDS.

Photo identity cards to all GDS with free of cost.

     My dear Comrades,                                          19 - 01 -2017

                It is pertinent to react in this vast Democratic Country on the issue of Hon'ble Kamalesh Chandra's Report submitted for the future livelihood career( Service) of 2 lakh 65000 poor GDS.

On going through the Report, it brings desperation and a perception of ill fate of this GDS mass and huge no. of pillars for the infrastructure for the Rural ICT program . If the English words used in this Report would be understood by my GDS fraternity,immediately some of us would come out for legal shelter .It is because the Department of Post did not honor the agreement made with our Union for Judiciary Committee, we were on doubt of facing this bad day as it is today.Comrades ,it is not to blame each other among the Leaderships more fairly to analyse the dark side as recommendation even worse than the Hon'ble Nataraj murty Committe and let us unitedly rise our voice against the same  .It is our bad luck this day that we are striving for our social security and proper service Rule to be released from the bad clutch of harassment by them .

               On going through the Report it did not felt an impartial  outcome.Which was actually awaited by any officer' Committee.Because an officer can not adjudge a fact on the parameter of jurisprudence .Rather always try to impose the Delegated legislature to heavily clutch even forgetting the common human sympathy .Which absurd we proposed to allow our out going GDS (appointed long before 2004) with a statutory pension for which a Tribunal order is there  , would lead unsecured retired life ?   

        Without paying rent for BPOs suggests Govt.panchayat accommodation but do not recommend any house rent for the same .

             The committee's Report seems as if a departmental resolution taken in a departmental attitude towards GDS mass in a Circle Bi-Monthly Union Meeting ,not more than that.Proposes to combine the duty of a BPM with even Under matriculate non BPM and vice versa is the mentality of ill treat to the GDS mass as a whole .Withdrawal of substitute keeping provision of time related duty according to the Report is to utilize the man force is a cruel mentality to exploit GDS ,because the GDS are not emancipated from the time related clutch of duty and imposing target related work load is a matter of ambiguity .and many more .......which to be raised before the Government to give us justice .So be united and raise voice against the illness of the Officer's Committee Report ,which is going to exploit by the as usual tricks of the Department for long course of your career .

If the major no.of work force in an organization of the Country feel suffocation and insecurity ,should not the great PM reconsider our case and let it rechecked by a judiciary Authority ?

Yours fraternally,

Debasis Dey.

           
GDS COMMITTEE REPORT PUBLISHED TODAY BY THE DIRECTORATE TAKING PERMISSION FROM ELECTION COMMISSION
Detail Copy will be published in this blog shortly.
GDS Pay Commission Report. Pay fixation details. Report contains 434 pages.      
                  
For 3 Hrs GDS work entry level pay was fixed as Rs.10000.

Ordinary Leave : 15 days in every Jan and Jul and accumulated upto 180 days.

Emergency Leave : 5 days in a year cannot carry over.

ML : 26 weeks

Paternity Leave : 7 days

https://youtu.be/oszwJZ5zsCc?t=9

          

GDS Commission latest developments 

                  On 11/01/2017 Minster's office raised the objection to publish the report citing Election commission code of conduct.
                  Our Department officers propose to meet Election commissioner on 16/01/2017 to get the clearance.We may get a reply on the same day or next day.
           Have patience and consider the situation ,just avoiding the publicity of false strike notice and all.

13-01-2017

Comrades,

         The Department of Post has been classified GDS employees as less impotent then 'common Mazdoor' of the Country,without giving proper attention and care as the GDs deserve .Or else why in every case, the proper deserving legitimate right of the GDS had been ignored carelessly,though my GDS fraternity has been offering their candidature to this Department securing high percentage of mark and higher qualification on selection, similar to the other Departmental Posts .The work load and other responsibilities are imposed on the GDS more hardly than the Dept.workers claiming target related work load though paid time related .

As to our claim Gramin Dak Sevaks (Conduct and Engagement) Rules 2011 being unconstitutional, arbitrary, unbridled and uncanalized to the extent of these rules illegal denying our legitimate expectation as Regular Postal Civil Servant and illegally prohibit the payment of pension and gratuity which the applicants are entitled under the special enactment and the aforesaid Rules pertain to denial of pensions and payment of ex-gratia gratuity, deserves to be quashed. 

But who listens our cry ?

            The Union Leader knows only to impose agitation in every small issues,like---1. why the Dept. makes late to publish the report,2 .why the enhanced bonus amount is not paid early,3 .why the Dept is avoiding to honor the only recognized Union to convey the massage of action taken by the Dept.on small issues etc.and making fool to us, he thinks,but "yeh public hey ,sab janti hey,ye public hey "

            Why dose not the leader takes initiative to develop the GDS status ,illegal victimization to the GDS officials by the fabricated charges starting from SPM to  PMG ?Even a small clerical mistake of a GDS is treated so seriously that it takes the shape of job less award .Why ????

             The tradition of "chela"(Dependence)of the departmental Union Leader is still in practice with our only Central Leader and his followers .The Leader is nothing but the student of that old school up to 2008,in practice to show as if the Union is on action with some smaller issues and lethargic to the reforming issues .It is because ,the Union subscription is the main point of such type of Leaders,which has been at least fulfilled .

           So drive them out at this juncture of Membership verification and set up a unity pivot of strong spirit ,in which at all the Divisional level our Union workers may get the threshold of strong Union activity ,with proper Union education and discipline further. 

             As the Report for GDS is to be published after due permission from the Election Commissioner ,it is delayed,no problem wait for then and be ready to squash the artificial actor Leaders to say Good bye,in near future 1st .Then to fight for the negative recommendation for us by the Departmental Committee.

               With a positive hope for future ,all the best my comrades.

Yours fraternally,

Debasis Dey.      

BE UNITED MY GDS FRATERNITY AT THIS JUNCTURE OF OUR SERVICE CARRIER ,FOR FURTHER COURSE OF ACTION JUST SET UP A STRONG PIVOT OF LEADERSHIP TO PUT FORTH OUR OWN GRIEVANCES BEFORE THE GOVT./DEPT.,SETTING ASIDE THE LETHARGIC LONG LASTED HOPE LESS LEADERSHIP OF UNITY AS BEFORE.   

GDS pay committee report going to publish tomorrow

Written By Admin, on Jan 10, 2017 | 8:27 PM
GDS pay committee report file cleared by the Minister today and going to publish tomorrow..I.E.11-01-2017.

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