No.7/SB/70/2017 Date: 17/10/2017
To,
Shri A. N. Nanda,
Chairman, Postal Services Board,
Dak Bhawan, New Delhi 110 001.
Sir,
Sub: Protest demonstrations in front of all
Divisional offices.
Ministry of finance issued notification on
10/10/2017 vide F. NO 7/10/10/2014- Ns permitting all Nationalized Banks and
three Private Banks viz ICICI Bank, AXIS Bank and HDFC Bank to accept deposits
for all Small Savings Schemes. This will badly affect our revenue as well as
workload in all the post offices.
Further, our
Department replied to my federation on 1st August vide letter No.08/12/2017-SR
that the recommendations of the Kamlesh Chandra committee have been considered
by the Department of Posts and mandatory approval is being obtained in this
regard now nearly 75 days have lapsed, there is no improvement on this
important issue. We are getting the same reply from the concerned officers. My
Federation is unable to reply to our GDS cadres.
One side
Government is taking steps; one by one to reduce the importance of the Post
offices, on the other side Department is not showing any interest to get
mandatory approval from the Government with regard to GDS wage revision.
My
federation doesn’t want to be a silent spectator on the above issues, therefore
we have decided to organize lunch hour demonstration on 24/10/2017 in front of
all Divisional office across the country to record our protest. Further course
of action of my federation will be intimated after convening of our federal
secretariat.
Yours sincerely
(D. Theagarajan)
Secretary General