Duties and additional duties of Postman----for information of all supervisory cadre

ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL SUPERVISORS(GL)

(Recognised by Govt of India P&T Board New Delhi Order No 13/28/68 SR dt 21-04-70)

Ref : AIAPS/AP/Gen/2014-15                                                                    Dated : 02-12-2015

To

The Hon’ble Director General

Department of Posts

Dak Bhavan, Sansadmarg

New Delhi – 110 001

(THROUGH PROPER CHANNEL)

Sub : Memorandum for Postmaster/Supervisor pay upgradation in 7 CPC

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            With reference to 7 CPC report, this is to bring to your kind notice that 7 CPC has ignored completely the newly created Postmaster Cadre and supervisory structure in operative side.  It is to intimate that IPO and LSG cadre official were in the same pay structure during the 4^th CPC.  Though the recruitment procedure changed to one cadre the duties and responsibilities of Postmaster/Supervisor have enormously increased with introduction of computerisation in the post offices.  It is felt by the cadre that neither department nor CPC has taken any consideration for the changes being made in the department.

            Though the department has agreed for cadre restructuring after the 6^th CPC, the recommendations agreed and approved by unions/associations have remained in liquid state till date and no action has been initiated in this direction before 7 CPC,  neither the department nor 7 CPC has recommended any revision of pay structure for Postmaster Cadre/Supervisors.

            The 7 CPC has recommended 5400 grade pay to Group B cadre and forgot to note that the Sr Postmaster also belongs to Group B and his/her grade pay must be fixed at 5400 instead of 4800. 

            In a broad sense, the officials wait for the CPCs to project their issues to Government through departments to improve their pay structures/promotions with respect to the change of work brought in the departments during the previous CPC to present CPC.  Though the department of posts has increased and introduced many products and changed the savings bank structure for last 20 years, no improvement has

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been brought in the promotion and pay structure in the operative side.  The operative staff have felt that some changes would definitely come in the post offices with the introduction of Postmaster Cadre in their promotions and pay structure.  The Postmaster Cadre has definitely improved and uplifted the post offices when compared before the introduction of the cadre and failed to gain anything to project their achievements due to lack of interest in the cadre in the existing unions. 

            This association feels that this is the only department where there is no differentiation has been made between the previous cadre to promotion cadre in the pay structure but increases the responsibilities enormously for the officials and, hence, lot of promotions have been denied by the officials and remained vacant for years and officials are not willing to take up the promotion position due to lack of charm in occupying the promoted post. 

This association salutes to the person who has thought of introducing the postmaster cadre to fill up atleast 1/3^rd of postmaster posts through direct examination to improve the post offices and promotion avenues to Postal Assistants.  It is requested to continue the same spirit and grow up the brain child, postmaster cadre of department and request the following grade pay structure to postmasters/supervisors to uplift the morality in the officials:

Cadre	Grade Pay	Remarks
Sr Postmaster	5400	Recommended by 7 CPC for Group B
Postmaster Gr III/HSG I	4800
Postmaster Gr II/HSG II	4600
Postmaster Gr I/LSG	4200

With profound regards,

Yours sincerely,

(DSK Prasad)

Postmaster (Gr-I)

Circle Secretary

AIAPS(GL)                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                           VN Colony PO

                                                                                                                      Hyderabad - 5000057

Copy to : 

Sri Manoj Bharadwad,  General Secretary, AIAPS, APM, Noida HO- 201301