NCCPA CIRCULAR ON WEBINAR WITH CONFEDERATION ON TWO-DAYS STRIKE OF
MARCH 28-29!
NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS..
(Registered undder the T.U. Act.No. RTU01/2021.Dated.7.01.2021
PAN NO AAEAN8586F
Website: nccpahq.blogspot.in.E mail:
nccpahq@gmail.com.
13.c Feroze Shah Road, New Delhi. 110 001
PRESIDENT: COM.SHIV GOPAL MISHRA.(97176 47594)
SECRETARY
GENERAL: COM.K.K.N.KUTTY.
(98110 48303)
Dated:22ND February, 2022.
Dear Comrades,
In order to strengthen the
campaign programme for the preparation of the ensuing general strike slated for
28th and 29th March, 2022, the Confederation of Central
Government employees and workers met in their National Sectt. meeting on 20th
inst. The meeting inter alia decided to
mount campaign both physically and on virtual platform and associate with the
affiliates and units of NCCPA. Comrades, you will recall that in our last National
Sectt meeting one of the decisions we had taken was to organise a National
Webinar on the strike issues. The Confederation has similar decision and they
will fix the date convenient to all of us.
The webinar will present three issues before the participants:
1.
General demands and issues of the workers; and
the reason as to why the strike had to be deferred to 28th and 29th
March, 2022.
2.
The Central Government Employees Demands;
3.
The New Pension scheme and the issues and
demands of the Pensioners as formulated by the NCCPA
On hearing from the Confederation
about the arrangements made to broadcast the webinar, we shall get in touch
with experts as to how to simultaneously reach out to our members. It is decided, that while participation of
minimum 5000 employees and 1000 pensioners must be ensured by the respective
organisations, they must embark upon a
venture to exceed the minimum. In the
annexure to this letter we have made an allocation state-wise. The affiliates will get in touch with their
state units and request that the members are linked in to the webinar. The COCs and CGPAs will also take care to
ensure that as many number of pensioners participate in this webinar. 28th
and 29th are Monday and Tuesday.
As per our earlier decision, we must organise a dharma programme prior
to the strike. Since the preceding two
days are holidays, the proposed dharna must be organised on 25th
March, 2022. (Friday). In between the National webinar, the affiliates and
State Units might organise webinars especially using the vernacular medium to
convey the strike message to as many number of members as possible. The Pensioners organisations representing the
Bank retirees will organise the dharna in front of any bank as they
decide. They might also get in touch
with the Bank employees Associations and extend solidarity and support to the
strike action. Similarly, the pensioners
of the autonomous bodies may either choose to be with the CG pensioners or
organise dharna in front of any of the autonomous organisation of the Govt. of
India. So may be the case with the members of AIBDPA
We are hopeful that our members
will remember the endeavour chalked out by the TUI (P &R) of the WFTU of
the need to align our activities with the working class. In India, as you are aware, the joint
platform of Central Trade Unions barring the BJP led BMS is spearheading the
struggle against the neo- liberal policies, the intensification of which peaked
during the present regime. Not only the
standard of living of the working class has fallen considerably, the entirety
of the common people suffers from its pernicious impact. The Oxfam report (India supplement), which
was released recently tells the sordid story of the Indian people that has come
about in the last 6-7 years. The number
of people who were driven to below the poverty line, (despite the engineering
done by the Government in computing the poverty) had been huge. The Corporates had been the biggest
beneficiaries of the dispensation of this Government. Not only they received tax concessions, they
could also enjoy the largest chunk of bail out packages doled out by the
Government to combat the covid related recession. Nothing was done to increase the purchasing
power of the common people, which was the most important intervention expected
of from a government, who is concerned of the misery of the people in pandemic
period. The denial of dearness relief to
the Pensioners for 18 months is a fitting example as to how the policy
perceptions of the Government works even on retired personnel. The pensioners and retirees suffered most
during the covid period due to their propensity to be affected by the virus
infection; but nothing was done to help them out. But for the intervention of the people and
courts in the country, the vaccination would have also been a marketing
commodity available only for those who can afford. In a democracy public opinion matters and
galvanising that in the right direction is the responsibility of the middle
class who are benefited by the education they have received. Apart from this, our country is fast emerging
as one of the most intolerant society in the world The way in which the
government abets, engineers and helps those who indulge in disruption of the
social fabric is unprecedented. Since
such actions in the past have given them rich electoral dividends, they
continue with it merrily at the cost of the working people. In the situation in which we are placed, the
need for an intensive and effective campaign need not be emphasised. I, therefore, appeal to all of you to do
everything possible to campaign amongst the people, make the workers and
retirees realise the need for struggle and make the general strike action
slated for 28th and 29th March a grand success.
In a few days time, we will
prepare a pamphlet explaining the demands, we have agreed upon in our last
meeting.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
KKN Kutty
Secretary General
Annexure : Allocation
amongst state for participation in the National webinar.
Kerala. 100 MP 40
Tamilnadu 100 Jharkhand 10
Karnataka 50 Chattisgarh 10
AP
&Telengana . 50 Vidharba 20
Maharashtra. 50 Pune 10
Gujarat ... 25
Punjab. . 25
Haryana. . 20
Rajasthan 60
Delhi. 60
UP 50
Uttarakand.&HP 35
Bihar 50
W Bengal 150
Odissa 40
Assam 60
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