AIPRPA CHQ CIRCULAR NUMBER FIVE
Dear Comrades / Colleagues,
The latest Circular of the CHQ has already been despatched to all CHQ Office Bearers and State General Secretaries. However, for the information of all members the same is reproduced hereunder:
Circular No:
5/2015 Dated
01.08.2015
To
The CHQ
Office Bearers / State General Secretaries
Dear Comrades / Colleagues,
NCCPA NATIONAL CONVENTION HELD SUCCESSFULLY
As notified the
national convention of CG Pensioners
under the platform of NCCPA was held successfully in Sundarayya Vignana
Kendra, Hyderabad with more than 300 Delegates from various states representing
all affiliates of NCCPA. Exactly 100 Delegates representing AIPRPA took part in
the convention. This growing strength of Postal & RMS Pensioners in the united
activity of CG Pensioners is a positive development and the CHQ appreciates the
initiative taken by our State Organisation leadership for enthusiastically
organising for this convention. AIPRPA delegates from eight States viz.,
Tamilnadu (29); Andhra (20); Kerala (18); Maharashtra (15); Karnataka (6);
Telengana (4); Odisha (4) and Delhi (3) attended including two women delegates
from Kerala. In addition to the General Secretary four delegates from AIPRPA
viz., the CHQ President Com.D.K.Rahate; State GS of Kerala Com.V.A.Mohanan; CHQ
Organising Secretary from Delhi Com.Rajinder Prasad Verma; and Kasargode
District Secretary of AIPRPA Com C.H..Shobana (Woman Delegate) deliberated on
the Draft Declaration of the Convention. Some more Postal Pensioners addressed
on behalf of the State Committees of CGPA organisations like West Bengal,
Assam, Odisha and Amravati (Maharashtra).
Highlights of the Convention:
Inauguration: Comrade A.K.Padmanabhan CITU All India
President inaugurated with his remarkable speech contained all the attacks of
neo-liberalisation in the world and in India; the issues of Pay Commission for
employees and pensioners vis-à-vis the policies of the Central Government in
attacking the economic interests of working people; the motive behind amending
the labour laws to attack the collective bargaining and association rights of
working class; importance of 2nd September all India Strike etc.
Special Addressess: Comrade Shiv Gopal Misra (GS AIRF); Pathak
(President AIDEF); KKN.Kutty (President Confederation) elaborately covered the
issues before the Pay Commission especially for Pensioners and the need to
organise effective struggles in future to defend the interests of pensioners.
Subjects Committee: The Draft Declaration as submitted with his speech
on important points of the Declaration by the officiating Secretary General
Com.Pavitra Ranjan Chakraborty was discussed in the hose. Comrades
K.G.Jayarajan (GS AIBDPA); K.Ragavendran (GS AIPRPA); P.C.Nair (GS Para
Military Pensioners Association) supported the Declaration and suggested
improvements and modifications wherever necessary. Several State COC of CGPA
organisations and Delegates representing affiliated organisations like AIBDPA,
AIPRPA etc took part in the debate on Declaration.
Important Decisions: The Convention has unanimously decided to
extend total solidarity to the 2nd September Strike and to organise
solidarity action like dharna or demonstration etc according to local
conditions. It was also decided to support the strike of CG Employees from 23rd
November by our solidarity action. A campaign programme to highlight the
important issues as finalized by the Charter of Demands in the national
convention has been planned. It was
emphasized by delegates including the GS AIPRPA for working towards a
united platform of all Pensioners organisations to face the situation that will
arise in the aftermath of submission of its report by the 7th CPC.
Reception Committee: The host organisation viz., the Telengana State
All Pensioners & Retired Persons Association headed by Comrades PRabakharan
Nair and M.N.Reddy had organised the convention in a nice manner despite the
availability of short time to it.
Victory of Pre-2006 Pensioners after a long battle
The issue of orders
by the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare on 30th July
for granting fixation of pension in accordance with the original OM dated
1.9.2008 read with the fitment table annexed to the orders from 1.1.2006
instead of 24-09-2012 for all Pensioners in addition to S-29 Scale Pensioners
is a big victory to the Pensioners. Now those category of Pensioners whose
pension was fixed only based on minimum of pay band instead of the pay in the pay band with appropriate grade pay
will get their pension revised from 1.1.2006 and if there is any increase due
it will be granted. The Government instead of hearing the viewpoints of
Pensioners’ Organisations and dragging the settlement only after a long long
legal battle is deplorable. Now the problem is almost settled as far as the
fixation of pre-2006 pensioners except for those whose service had fallen short
of 33 years. The Government while conceding defeat in one aspect is still
refusing to incorporate the judgment on another aspect viz., grant of full
pension for those pre-2006 pensioners whose total qualifying service was
between 20 years and less than 33 years. The battle however for this aspect
shall have to continue by all Pensioners Organisations.
Solidarity to 2nd September 2015 Strike
In Tamilnadu State,
the COC of 17 Pensioners Organisations including our AIPRPA has decided to sit
in half a day dharna in Chennai Metro as well as in all District headquarters
from 10.00 A.M to 1.00 P.M. to show solidarity to the strike. The NCCPA
National Convention noted that in states due to lack of transporation on the
day of strike it may not be possible to organise long dharnas and therefore it
was decided to organise dharnas or demonstrations etc as per local conditions.
The CHQ therefore calls upon our AIPRPA State and District Association
leadership to consult other Pensioners Organisations as well as the
Confederation of CG Employees and Postal Federations to decide the type of
solidarity action best suited to all. The important point is that the
Pensioners cannot remain idle as the fight on 2nd September is not
only for workers but also to protect the interests of pensioners and senior
citizens under attack by neo-liberal policies. All are therefore requested to
plan and intimate by email or SMS to CHQ the nature of programmes conducted on
2nd September with photos to facilitate the CHQ to exhibit them in
our website.
Expedite formation of AIPRPA
It is again urged
that those States where the Steering Committees of AIPRPA is not yet formed to
take initiative to organise the Association should not waste more time in this
task. It is more than one year since our 1st and foundation AIC at
Vellore. The inability to organise even a State Convention of Postal Pensioners
to form a Steering Committee of State AIPRPA is unfortunate. The CHQ Office
Bearers are expected to perform this task with their experience and
understanding. The CHQ urges for immediate action in States like Punjab, Bihar,
Karnataka, J&K, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, North Eastern States
excluding Tripura etc. The CHQ also urges the existing Steering Committees in
States like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttarpradesh and Tripura to take
serious efforts to complete the formation of District / Divisional formations
at the earliest and organise a State Conference within the next two or three
months (before November at any cost). Please keep in mind that we have to act
as per the joint appeal of AIPRPA and NFPE / NFPE Affiliated Unions issued in
the month of April 2015 in building the organisation. All the existing State and
District formations are requested to remit the quota to CHQ as per the bylaw
viz., 50/- per member per year to ensure a strong finance in CHQ.
Issue of pamphlets in local languages
All our States and
CHQ Office Bearers are requested to issue a pamphlet in their respective
regional languages by translating the contents of this circular, so that all
can understand the issues better. Issue of a circular by the State Association,
and by the CHQ Office Bearer where no such State Formation has come into existence
will be much useful for organising our lower formations. Moreover the need to
organise solidarity action to 2nd September strike etc are very
important to be understood by our
membership and postal pensioners.
Monthly journal of CHQ
The CHQ has already
applied online for title verification with the RNI and also completed the
initial formalities with the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in this regards. We
have applied for one the three titles viz., Pensioners Post; Postal Pensioners
or Pensioners Unity. The CHQ will have to wait for another one month for
approval by the RNI for the title and thereafter action will be continue with
the Magistrate Court for further permission to issue the journal in the
approved name. We are confident that all formalities will be completed and the
first issue of our monthly journal will be in your hands within three months.
Oncoming important events
1.NCCPA AIC: The NCCPA All India Conference is scheduled from 6th to 7th of
November, 2015 in the city of Kolkata. West Bengal being one of the strong
centers of pensioners movement, the AIC of the most militant joint forum of
pensioners viz., the NCCPA will be an important milestone. Number of Delegates
allotted to each State will be intimated shortly. But however the CHQ Office
Bearers, State General Secretaries and State Steering Committee Secretaries can
go ahead and book their reservation as trains are getting full already due to
Diwali on 10th November, 2015.
2. AIPRPA AGM: Immediately in the aftermath of submission of
its report to Government by the 7th CPC, the Annual General Body of
AIPRPA CHQ will have to meet. The CHQ Office Bearers, the State General
Secretaries, the State General Conveners of the Steering Committees, and the District / Divisional Secretaries
are the eligible delegates to participate. The venue of this AGM will be New Delhi and the Delhi AIPRPA has
taken the responsibility to organise this AGM in their city. Date will be
announced shortly. Due to necessity comrades are requested not to mind the travel
two times for Delhi and Kolkata in close interval.
Comradely yours,
Sd/-
(K.Ragavendran)
General Secretary
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