NCCPA CIRCULAR - NJCA CIRCULAR - NJCA PRESS STATEMENT - CHARTER OF DEMANDS OF NJCA
NCCPA
NATIONAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE OF PENSIONERS
ASSOCIATION
13-C, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi -110001
Ph:- 9868244035
13-C, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi -110001
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Dated:
5th June, 2016.
Dear Comrades,
Ever since the 7th CPC was set up, the JCM Staff Side had
been striving to make a united common approach on all issues/demands of the
Central Government employees before the Commission. Having failed to elicit a favourable response from the then Government
on the question of grant of IR and DA merger, the National JCA came into being
to spearhead the agitational programmes.
The Staff Side JCM could unite almost all organisations, especially
those who were participating in the JCM.
They could make a memorandum, after detailed deliberations with all
stake holders, which was accepted and endorsed by large number of Federations barring
a few. It is a fact, evidenced from the
report itself, that the Staff Side memorandum could become the central document
of consideration and discussion by the 7th CPC.
In the matter of retirement benefits, the Staff Side authorised Late
Com. S.K. Vyas to cause inter action with all Pensioners’ Associations and
formulate a common view. Late Com. Vyas accomplished the task admirably well
and the document he presented was deliberated upon by the Staff Side thoroughly
and with certain minor modification was incorporated in the main memorandum
itself. Elaborate discussions with the
Commission as a follow-up measure on issues both pertaining to the working
employees and retired personnel were held
by the Staff Side JCM.
The final recommendations of the 7th CPC was far below
the expectation and the Staff Side rightly came to the conclusion that the last
minute intervention of the newly elected Central Government had a big role in
effecting reversal of the pronounced stand of the 7th CPC on various
issues. The Commission’s report is beset with very many dissenting note, which is indicative of the state of affairs in the
Commission’s functioning. It became
clear that unless sanctions are generated, no satisfactory settlement on even
core issues could be brought about. The National JCA acted swiftly and apart
from organising various programmes of actions,
It submitted a charter of demands consisting 26 issues for effecting
improvement in the recommendations of the Commission by the Government. The
charter was the product of the wide
ranging discussions the staff side held
with various organisations of the working employees and the retired personnel. The
said charter was then subjected to
discussion with the empowered committee set up by the Government under the
chairmanship of the Cabinet Secretary on 1.3.2016.
There had been no response from the Government after the said
meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for nearly two months. On 24th the Convenor sought and
obtained a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary in which the undersigned also
took part. The Cabinet Secretary was
candid enough to inform the delegation that except a slight increase in the
minimum wage, no other issues are likely to be modified. He also informed the delegation that the
Option No. 1 provided for as an alternative in the pension fitment formula,
which many pensioners felt was a very positive recommendation, might not be
accepted by the Government on the plea of the non availability of the relevant
records and the consequent infeasibility and impracticability of implementation
of the recommendation. On his advice,
the Staff Side met the Secretary Pension on 3rd May, 2016. The meeting was attended by the
representatives of various Ministries.
Almost every one of them expressed the probable difficulties that would
be encountered in the implementation of Option No. 1. due to the possible non-availability
of the relevant records. They also
pleaded that quite a number of anomalies might arise if the recommendations
were to be acted upon. The official side
also stated that some of the Pensioners organisations had written to them
expressing the fear and anxiety over the anomalies that might arise on
implementation of the recommendation of the Commission. The following were those organisations who
had made representation of the Pension department.
A.
The Railway Senior Citizen
Association, Chandigarh.
B.
The Karnataka Post and
Telecommunication Pensioners Association, Bangalore.
C.
Bharath Pensioners Samaj. New
Delhi.
D.
Atomic Energy Retirees Welfare
Association, Mumbai.
E.
One Shri S.N. Gupta.
The thrust of the argument of the official side was that the implementation
of the decision requires the records for verification and under the extant
instruction on the retention of records, such verification might not be
possible.
On behalf of
the Staff Side, the following submissions were made.
(i)
It would be unfortunate and
unethical if the Government rejects a recommendation on the ground of lack of
records for verification.
(ii)
In every pay fixation formula
evolved by the successive Pay Commissions, certain anomalies had arisen and the matter had been subsequently
discussed at length and attempts made to resolve those anomalies. For fear of anomaly, never in the past a decision has been taken to
reject the recommendation of the Pay commission.
(iii)
Even in the matter of pay
fixation of the working employees,
anomalies might arise but that cannot give rise to the decision not to have any
fitment formula at all.
(iv)
The Staff Side is prepared to
consider any well thought out alternative without compromising the benefit the
pensioners might get on implementation of the 7th CPC
recommendation, if it is advanced by the official side. However, virtual negation of the
recommendation is not acceptable to them.
(v)
‘The Staff side may be provided
with the copies of the representations received by the Pension departments from
various pensioners’ organisations to enable it to study and suggest the ways
and means to address the issue.
(vi)
The staff side added that
Option No.1 is an alternative and the Commission has suggested that the
revision initially must be on the basis of the second formulation i.e.
application of the multiplication factor.
It is only in the case of those pensioners, who might be benefited by
resorting to Option No.1. representation will be received and they will naturally submit the documents required for the purpose of
verification. The leftover would be
small in number and can be addressed as to what course to be adopted later
after discussions.
(vii)
The official side stated that
in none of the representation received by them any alternative has been put
forth.
You will recall that the Option No.1.
suggested by the 7th CPC is the only positive recommendation and all
other demands raised by the Pensioners Organisations jointly and the Staff Side
JCM have been rejected by the Commission.
The Commission has not even suggested for a small rise in the FMA. The insurance coverage suggested by them is
vague and no suggestion to address the specific problems faced by the
Government during their attempt to implement the earlier recommendation of the
6th CPC was made. If the Government decides to reject the one
and only positive recommendation of the 7th CPC, the pensioners
especially those retired prior to 2006 will stand bereft of any benefit. This must also be looked into in the background
of the Government accepting the demand of armed forces personnel for one rank
one pension scheme.
It is in this background that the NJCA met on
3rd June, 2016 evening. We
enclose herewith the copy of the communication issued by the convenor, Com. Shiv
Gopal Mishra conveying the decisions
taken at the meeting. You will see
therefrom that the working employees would be serving the strike notice on 9th
June, 2016 by holding massive demonstration in front of all offices. We appeal to our constituents to advise their
units and branches and members to ensure that the Pensioners join in that
demonstration at the respective work places.
The National JCA has also decided to organise a massive march to
Parliament on 24th June, 2016 at Delhi. The Constituents must advise the pensioner
comrades who are staying at Delhi and nearby places to join that rally on 24th
. The NCCPA National Sectt. is
scheduled to meet on 27th June, 2016 at Delhi (AIRF librbary). The SCOVA meeting is also scheduled to take
place on that very date. Therefore, the
meeting will be scheduled for 3.30 PM on 27th June, 2016 so that
some of the comrades who are required to attend the SCOVA meeting will also be
able to make their presence in the NCCPA meeting. Further Course of action will be decided in
the National Sectt. meeting.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. Kutty,
Secretary General.
Copy of NJCA Circular letter dated 4th June, 2016.
NJCA
Dear Comrades,
We hope you
must have gone through our communication dated 26.5.2016 detailing the brief
discussions, we had with the Cabinet Secretary.
We had, as you are aware, done everything possible at our end to bring
about a negotiated settlement on the charter of demands, we submitted to the
Government immediately after the submission of the report by the 7th
Central Pay Commission. i.e. on 19th November, 2015. On 19th May, 2016, we have crossed
the six months period since the Commission submitted the report to the
Government. You are aware that the
Commission had concluded their deliberations and prepared their report in Feb.
2015 itself but was delayed by the unwarranted intervention of the present
Government. Even on the first occasion
when we met the authorities after the submission of the report by the 7th
CPC we had conveyed the anguish and anxiety of the employees over the delay
especially in the background of the denial of the interim relief and merger of
DA. We had pointed out that unlike in
the past the employees had not been granted any financial help in the form of interim relief or DA merger even in
the face of the unprecedented erosion of the real value of wage due to the high
level of inflation in the economy. We
had then requested the Government the need to
take an expeditious decision over the recommendations of the 7th
CPC, at-least on the core issues pertaining to wage revision.
In the absence
of any formal meetings or fruitful negotiations which had been the practice at
all earlier occasions, the rumour
mongers who represent none, had a field day.
The NJCA had been in constant touch with the authorities. You will recall that at the request of the
Cabinet Secretary, when we met him on Ist March, 2016, we deferred our decision
to go on strike in April, 2016. The
empowered Committee set up by the government could have met the JCA leaders
during the months of April and May and could have discussed the various pros
and cons so that by the end of May, certain views could have emerged on all
matters.
It was in this
background that the National JCA met on 3rd at the Staff Side
office. The meeting considered the
piquant situation that has emerged due to the wanton inaction on the part of
the Government, despite the NJCA
agreeing to defer the strike action.
The meeting, therefore, came to the inescapable and inevitable
conclusion unanimously that in the face of the nugatory attitude of the
Government, we must adhere to our earlier decision to tread the path of struggle
and serve the strike notice on 9th June, 2016 to commence the
indefinite strike action on 11th July, 2016. The meeting also decided to exhort the
constituent organizations to mobilize their members without losing any time as
the time available for preparation being very short i.e. hardly a month. I am also to convey to all of you the
following decision taken at the meeting and appeal to you to create a vibrant
situation throughout the country to convey the impression to all concerned that
we stand united with determination.
1.
Every
Association/Federation/Union and all its units will serve the strike
notice on 9.6.2016 by holding massive
demonstration at all work places. The
strike notice shall have the 11 point charter of demands (copy enclosed) and
the respective organizations can include their department-specific demands as
Part B of the charter of demands.
2.
The Constituents will plan and
execute a massive mobilization campaign to cover each and every employee/worker
in which all the National and State leaders must take part.
3.
The
Unions/Federation/Associations will suspend immediately all ongoing
negotiations with their departmental heads/authorities and concentrate on the
mobilization campaign.
4.
On 24th June, 2016,
a massive united demonstration under the auspices of the NJCA will be held
before the Parliament. The constituent
organizations will decide upon the quota for each State Unit and communicate
the same so that the state units can take necessary steps to ensure that their
members reach Delhi on 24th.
5.
The NJCA (CHQ) will write to
the leaders of all the Political parties as also the Central Trade Unions seeks
their support and solidarity as also explaining as to why the NJCA had to take
the extreme step of organizing the strike action.
6.
All the Constituent
organizations and the State Units shall write such letters to the members of
Parliament of their respective States and shall make efforts to meet them in
person to seek their support.
7.
All the State Units of the
Constituent organizations either jointly or independently organize Press
Conferences to cover the Print and Electronic media.
8.
The NJCA(CHQ) will hold such a
Press Conference at Delhi on 23rd June, 2016 i.e. just one day prior
to the mammoth demonstration planned before the Parliament.
9.
The Constituent organizations
will get in touch with the Associations/Federations of the retired personnel
both at the All India and State levels to seek out their support for the strike
action and enlist their participation in all demonstrative programmes organized
by the working employees in support of the strike. The Pensioners organizations may be informed
of the Government decision to reject the recommendation of the 7th
CPC to provide Option No. 1 to the Pensioners as an alternative pension fitment
formula.
10.
The constituents will also seek
the participation of those organizations in their respective Departments who are not associated with the NJCA being not
participants in the JCM Scheme.
We appeal to all constituents and through
them each and every member of the Central Government employees’ community to
take all out efforts to make this historic decision an all time memorable
event, which must go into the history as the largest participated strike action
of the Central Government employees and workers. We must consider this as a
really historic moment provided to us by the harsh turn of events and as an
opportunity to reassert our strength, unity and determination not only to win
laurels today but to function as an effective bargaining entity for years to
come.
We are fully aware of the enormous task
ahead and equally aware of the possible response, a brutal Government might
take in the circumstances. Without
minimizing the impact of such a retaliatory action on the part of the Government
(from our experience in the past) we
know that no power on earth will be able to subdue our unity and determination and we shall
march forward well realizing that the ultimate victory in all struggles belong
to the working class.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
Shiv Gopal Mishra.
Convener
PRESS STATEMENT.
4.06.2016
The National Joint Council of Action of Central Government Employees
organizations participating in the Joint Consultative Machinery i.e. the
workers and employees of the Railways, Defence, Postal and all other Central
Government departments, has decided to serve the strike notice for an
indefinite strike action commencing from 11th July, 2016 on 9th
June, 2016. The strike notices will be
served by all the Constituents separately on their respective heads of the
Departments on the stipulated date of 9th June, 2016. The strike has become inevitable due to the
nugatory attitude of the Government over the charter of demands submitted more
than six months back and despite deferring the strike action earlied decided to
be organized in the month of April, 2016 at the instance of the
Government.
The 7th CPC submitted its report to the Government on 19th
November, 2015 even though the Commission had concluded their deliberations as
early as in Feb. 2015. The delay in the
submission of the report itself was caused by the unwarranted intervention of
the Government. It is now more than six
months that the report is with the Government and the empowered committee set
up by the government had neither come to any conclusion thereon nor has it
caused any meaningful negotiation with the leaders of the Central Government
organizations so far Exasperated over
this highly nugatory attitude of the Government and the delay, the NJCA which met
yesterday had to take this decision to go on indefinite strike from 11th
July, 2016 onwards. The list of demands
on which the strike action is organized is enclosed. We also enclose a copy of our communication,
we have sent to our constituents, which explains the circumstances and issues.
We shall be grateful if the Press Statement is covered by your
esteemed daily.
Shiv Gopal Mishra,
Convener.
Charter of
Demands
1.
Settle the issues
raised by the NJCA on the recommendations of the 7 CPC sent to Cabinet
Secretary vide letter dated 10th December 2015.
2.
Remove the
injustice done in the assignment of pay scales to technical/safety categories
etc. in Railways& Defence, different categories in other Central Govt
establishments by the 7 CPC.
3.
Scrap the PFRDA
Act and NPS and grant Pension/family Pension to all CG employees under CCS
(Pension) Rules, 1972 & Railways Pension Rules, 1993.
4.
i) No
privatization/outsourcing/contractorisation of governmental functions.
ii) Treat GDS as Civil Servants and extend
proportional benefit on pension and allowances to the GDS.
5.
No FDI in
Railways & Defence; No corporatization of Defence Production Units and
Postal Department.
6.
Fill up all
vacant posts in the government departments, lift the ban on creation of posts; regularize
the casual/contract workers.
7.
Remove ceiling on
compassionate ground appointments.
8.
Extend the
benefit of Bonus Act,1965 amendment on enhancement of payment ceiling to the
adhoc Bonus/PLB of Central Government employees with effect from the Financial
year 2014-15.
9.
Ensure Five
promotions in the service career of an employee.
10. Do not amend Labour Laws in the name of Labour Reforms
which will take away the existing benefits to the workers.
11. Revive JCM functioning at all levels.
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