Demonstrations in front of all Divisional offices.

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