AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) has given notice for nationwide indefinite strike from 22nd May 2018 demanding immediate implementation of all positive recommendations of Kamalesh Chandra Committee Report on Gramin Dak Sevaks.

All NFPE affiliated unions have also given call extending full support and solidarity to make the strike a grand success.

Nationwide protest demonstrations will be held on 10th May 2018 in front of all offices of Department of Posts.

Confederation of Central Govt Employees & Workers, National Secretariat calls upon all its affiliates and State / District C-o-Cs to extend full support and solidarity to the indefinite strike from 22-05-2018 and also to join the protest demonstration on 10th May 2018.

We extend full support and Solidary on the fully justified strike of the GDS and Postal employees!

One more May Day has arrived. Warm Greetings to all on this International Day of working class!

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

FIGHT FOR THE CAUSE OF THE DOWNTRODDEN AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED!

UNITY AND STRUGGLE FOR THE CAUSE OF THE WORKING CLASS!

With deep sorrow it is intimated that Com.Sisir Bhattacharjee, veteran and senior most leader of the P and T movement passed away today evening at 18.25 hours at a Kolkota Hospital. He was 98.

Com. Sisirda, as he was respectfully called has started his job in the P & T Work Shop ( later termed as Telecom Factory) and was the unquestioned leader of the Industrial and non Industrial workers for decades. He was the leader along with Com.K.G.Bose, who through great struggle achieved Festival Advance for the CG employees. Com. Sisirda was was the first Patron of BSNL Employees Union elected in its foundation Conference at Visakhapatnam in March 2001. The TF workers consider him as their saviour.

Sisirda was admitted to the hospital a few days back and his condition was critical. All our comrades of Kolkata, W.Bengal and Telecom Factory were by his side all these and informed us his condition.

Com.Sisirda is no more. The cremation will take place tomorrow. His wife, who was also a P and T employee and union leader passed away last year.

My heart felt condolences to the bereaved family, friends and comrades.

I used to meet him every time I went to Kolkata and he will not be there next time to meet and get guidance.

Red Salute to Com. Sisirda!

It is reported that MOU has been signed by Central Government and Dalmia Limited for handing over the heritage Red Fort to the latter for 5 years for RS. 25 crores or so.

It means that not only the valuable PUSs, but even priceless Heritage Buildings like Red Fort is being sold.

It is to be noted that, it is on the ramparts of the Red Fort that Prime Minister hoist the National Flag on Independence Day. Now will the PM hoist the flag on Dalmia’s Fort?

Can’t the people of the country protest and stop this loot and destroyal?

COMMON MISTAKES BY PAOS IN PROCESSING OF REVISION OF PENSION UNDER 7TH CPC

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE
CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE
TRIKOOT-II,BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE,
NEW DELHl-110066
PHONES:26174596,26174450,26174438
CPAO/1T&Tech/Revision(7th CPC)/19.Vol-III (D)/2017-18/12
19.04.2018
Office Memorandum

Subject: Common mistakes by PAOs in processing of Revision of Pension under
7th CPC .

7th CPC Pension Revision cases are to be settled in a time bound manner. This office is receiving more than 3000 pension revision cases on daily basis. However, it has been observed that about 5 to 10 percent cases are returned by this office to PAOS due to Various discrepancies. The reasons to return are indicated by this office in each case. To facilitate the PAOs, a list of common mistakes made by PAOs has been prepared and enclosed herewith at Annexure-A.

In view of above all the PAOs are requested to ensure that 7th CPC revision cases are sent correctly to CPAO to speed up the processing of the same in a time bound manner.
Encl: As above
(Md.Shahid Kamal Ansari)
Asstt. Controller of Accounts)
Ph No 011‐26103074

ANNEXURE-A
1. DATE OF DEATH OF PENSIONER NOT MENTIONED IN COLUMN 3(b. (FAMILY PENSION CASE)
2. APPLICABILITY OF COMMUTED PENSION MAY BE CHECKED WHETHER ITIS APPLICABLE OR NOT.
3. CLASS/CATEGORY OF PENSI0N UNDER COLUMN 1(g) MAY BE CHECKED.
4. NOTIONAL PAY SHOWN UNDER COLUMN 3(e) MAY BE CHECKED.
5. PAY/NOTIONAL PAY SHOWN IN COLUMN 3(e) ,DOES NOT MATCH WITH PAY FIXED UNDER 7th CPC AS SHOWN IN COLUMN 4(a).
6. LEVEL AND INDEX UNDER COLUMN 4(a)MAY BE CHECKED.
7. BASIC PENSI0N IS NOT MATCHING WITH THE LAST PAY DRAWN AS PER 7TH CPC.
8. PAY MATRIX FOR LEVEL-13 MAY BE CHECKED WITH REFERENCE TO REVISED PAY MATRIX IN TERMS OF MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPTT OF EXPENDITURE) RESOLUTION DATED‐ 16.05.2017
9. PAY MATRIX FOR LEVEL‐ 14 MAY BE CHECKED WITH REFERENCE T0 REVISED PAY MATRIX IN TERMS OF DEPTT.OF PENSION & PENSIONERS WELFARE OM DATED- 13.09.2017

My Hearty Congratulations to both Com. Neelotpal Basu and Com. Tapan Sen for their election to the Polit Bureau of the CPI(M), in the Party Congress held at Hyderabad from 18th to 22nd April 2018. Both are closely connected with the P and T TU movement and have given great contribution to its growth and strength.

Com. Neelotpal Basu is the son-in-law of Com. Moni Bose, the veteran leader and first Patron of BSNL Employees Union. Com. Basu has been in the movement from his student days and was the General Secretary of the SFI. As a two term  member of the Rajya Sabha from W.Bengal,  his performance in the Parliament was well appreciated and praised. Many issues of the P and T and Central Government employees were raised in the Parliament by him. He stays at V.P.House Delhi for the last many years since his election to the Rajya Sabha and then to the Central Committee of CPI(M). An excellent writer and speaker, he has written many articles and books. He is an avid reader also.

During the period 1991 -1994, when Com. Moni Bose was the General Secretary and myself the President of E.III (Union), almost every day we used to go to ‘Neelu’s quarters in V.P.House and sit there for some time, have cup of coffee / tiffin. Now also I usually go to his flat and meet the family. Last month also, When I visited Delhi I went there and met them.

Com. Tapan Sen as Secretary and then as General Secretary of CITU has always been in close contact with BSNL Employees Union and Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers. He has attended umpteen meetings of the unions. Since BSNLEU became a part of the Central Public Sector Trade Unions (CPSTU), he was in constant touch with the union. While as M.P., he has raised many issues of the workers in the Parliament. BSNLCCWF is in much debt to him for guiding and assisting the union to move in the correct direction.

My Hearty Congratulations to  both leaders in their new assignment! I am sure that as in the past, they will contribute much to strengthen the party and guide the workers.

Hyderabad , April 22 : The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday re-elected Sitaram Yechury as its General Secretary for another three years.
His re-election took place on the last day of the party’s 22nd Congress here, CPI-M leader and former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced.
Sarkar said Yechury was elected by a 95-member new Central Committee. The party also elected a 17-member new Politburo.
Yechury was first elected as the CPI-M General Secretary in 2015.
CPIM New Central Committee

Hyderabad, April 22 : CPIM New Central Committee

& Central Control Commission

Elected at the 22nd Congress

Newly Elected Central Committee

1. Sitaram Yechury

2. Prakash Karat

3. S Ramachandran Pillai

4. Biman Basu

5. Manik Sarkar

6. Brinda Karat

7. Pinarayi Vijayan

8. Hannan Mollah

9. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan

10. M. A. Baby

11. Surjya Kanta Mishra

12. Mohd. Salim

13. Subhashini Ali

14. B. V. Raghavulu

15. G. Ramakrishnan

16. Tapan Sen

17. Nilotpal Basu

18. A. K. Padmanabhan

19. Penumalli Madhu

20. V. Srinivasa Rao

21. M. A. Gafoor

22. Deben Bhattacharyya

23. Awadesh Kumar

24. Arun Mehta

25. Surender Mallik

26. Onkar Shad

27. Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami

28. Gopi Kant Baksi

29. G. V. Sreerama Reddy

30. P. Karunakaran

31. P.K. Sreemathi

32. M.C. Josephine

33. Jayarajan E. P.

34. Vaikom Viswan

35. T. M. Thomas Isaac

36. A Vijayaraghavan

37. K. K. Shailaja

38. A K. Balan

39. Elamaram Kareem

40. Adam Narsayya Narayan

41. Mahendra Singh

42. Ali Kishore Patnaik

43. Basu Deo

44. Amra Ram

45. T.K. Rangarajan

46. U. Vasuki

47. A Soundara Rajan

48. K. Balakrishnan

49. P. Sampath

50. Thammineni Veerabhadram

51. S. Veeraiah

52. Ch. Seetha Ramulu

53. Aghore Deb Barma

54. Bijan Dhar

55. Badal Choudhury

56. Rama Das

57. Gautam Das

58. Hiralal Yadav

59. Shyamal Chakraborty

60. Mridul De

61. Rekha Goswami

62. Nripen Chowdhury

63. Srideep Bhattacharya

64. Ramachandra Dome

65. Minoti Ghosh

66. Anju Kar

67. Hari Singh Kang

68. Jogendra Sharma

69. J. S. Majumdar

70. K. Hemalata

71. Sudha Sundararaman

72. Rajendra Sharma

73. Swadesh Dev Roye

74. Ashok Dhawale

75. S Punyavati

New Members

76. Suprakash Talukdar

77. Arun Kumar Mishra

78. K M Tiwari

79. K Radhakrishnan

80. M V Govindan Master

81. Jaswinder Singh

82. J P Gavit

83. G. Nagaiah

84. Tapan Chakravarty

85. Jiten Choudhury

86. Muralidharan

87. Arun Kumar

88. Vijoo Krishnan

89. Mariam Dhawale

90. Rabin Deb

91. Abhas Roy Choudhury

92. Sujan Chakraborty

93. Amiyo Patra

94. Sukhwinder Singh Shekon

95. Vacant (Woman)

Permanent Invitees

1. Rajinder Negi (Secretary, Uttarakhand state committee)

2. Sanjay Parate (Secretary, Chattisgarh state committee)

Special Invitees

1. V. S. Achuthanandan

2. Mallu Swarajyam

3. Madan Ghosh

4. Paloli Mohd. Kutty

5. P. Ramaiah

6. K. Varadharajan

Central Control Commission

1. Basudev Acharia

2. P. Rajendran

3. S. Sridhar

4. G Ramulu

5. Bonani Biswas

The first meeting of the newly elected Central Committee elected a 17

member Polit Bureau consisting of:

1. Sitaram Yechury

2. Prakash Karat

3. S Ramachandran Pillai

4. Biman Basu

5. Manik Sarkar

6. Brinda Karat

7. Pinarayi Vijayan

8. Hannan Mollah

9. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan

10. M. A. Baby

11. Surjya Kanta Mishra

12. Mohd. Salim

13. Subhashini Ali

14. B. V. Raghavulu

15. G. Ramakrishnan

16. Tapan Sen

17. Nilotpal Basu

The Central Committee also elected Sitaram Yechury as the General Secretary.

Congratulations!

DPE gives clearance to DoT, for taking up the wage revision of BSNL employees with the Cabinet.
It may be recollected that in the meeting held between the Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications and the AUAB, held on 24-02-2018, the Hon’ble Minister said that the wage revision issue of the BSNL employees would be taken for the approval of the Cabinet. The Hon’ble Minister also stated that, the approval of the DPE would also be taken on the matter. Accordingly, the issue was referred to the DPE, by the DoT. The DPE has now written to the DoT, stating that the wage revision matter could be taken for the approval of the Cabinet. Thus, the first step, in getting approval for the wage revision of BSNL employees has been completed. The AUAB will continue to monitor the developments and will take the needful steps, for the final settlement of the issue. (Courtesy: BSNLEU Website)

Members of various groups join together in protesting against India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discrimination against religious minorities, in central London on April 18, 2017, on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM). (Courtesy:Ganashakti)