Comrade Sankar Kaduskar No More!

Comrade Kaduskarji Lal Salaam! 

It is shocking to come to know that our senior leader / former P3 CHQ Vice President / President of Amravati Pensioners Organization has breathed his last yesterday the 15th February. A genial comrade, a comrade of working class vision, a leader always stood for ideals is no more. He used to attend all important conferences be it NFPE or P3 or NCCPA at Hyderabad or Kolkata despite his advanced age!  He even attended our AIPRPA foundation AIC at Vellore! He used to give great advices for unity of all organizations of pensioners! The Postal movement and also the movement of pensioners have suffered irreparably in his demise! Aiprpa Chq dips its banner in honour and fond memories of comrade Kaduskarji! - KR GS AIPRPA

Legendary Leader of CG Employees & Pensioners Comrade S.K.Vyas Remembered!

Comrade S.K.Vyas Memorial Day Meetings 

At the call of the Confederation - NCCPA - AIPRPA today Memorial Meetings were held in several parts of the country to remember the legendary leader Comrade S.K.Vyas. Either it was a meeting to pay high tributes to the greatest leader or a seminar on vital topics of interest to working class as was strived always by the towering leader Comrade Vyas throughout his life time. We are getting more and more information about the meetings held in different parts and we shall update this page with those details as and when we receive more photos and information:

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary AIPRPA

Angel Sathiyanathan Chair Person TN P3 Circle Mahila Committee

C.K.Narasimhan Circle Secretary AIBDPA TN

Govindarajan AGS AIBDPA & Circle Secretary BSNLEU Chennai

T.I.Sudhakaran GS CGPA Kerala in Thrissur 

V.Hari Secretary Confederation at Thrissur

K.Ragavendran General Secretary AIPRPA in Chennai 

P.Mohan Circle President P3 TN  presiding the Memorial Meeting at Chennai

A view of audience in the Memorial Meeting at Chennai

Memorial Meeting in P&T House in Trivandrum Kerala

A view of participants in Memorial Meeting at Trivandrum

Banner at Chennai

S.Ragupathy Assistant Secretary General NFPE at Chennai

K.Sankaran AGS R3 NFPE at Chennai Memorial Meeting

G.C.Narasimhulu State Working President AIPRPA TN at Chennai 

A view of participants in the Memorial Meeting at Thrissur

Memorial Meeting of S.K.Vyas & N.J.Iyer at Hubli RMS 

AIPRPA formation for Punjab State and Chandigarh District!

AIPRPA opens its Account in Punjab!

Punjab State AIPRPA formed today!

Postal Veterans in the meeting of formation of AIPRPA Punjab

Today morning in a meeting of Postal & RMS Pensioners in Chandigarh (Sector-16) at Gandhi Smarak Bhawan, AIPRPA Punjab State Steering Committee has been formed. Another Steering Committee for Chandigarh District also has been formed in the same meeting.

Comrades K.Ragavendran GS AIPRPA & Surinder Pal Deputy GS attended. The meeting was presided by com.Ranjit Singh (Ex-C/S Admn). Comrades Jagdish Thiman (C/S P3); Shinder Sethi (C/S Admn); Janak Raj Rana (C/S P4); Gurnam Singh (FNPO C/S R3); Satbir Singh (FNPO R4 C/S); Rashpal Singh (C/S R3); Madan Mohan Sharma (C/S R4); and Ashish Gupta (Circle President R3) addressed and extended full cooperation.

The 7th CPC recommendations and present situation also have been discussed in meeting.

The State Steering Committee with Comrades Ranjit Singh as President; K.L.Sachdeva as Wkg.President; and Surinder Pal as General Convenor was unanimously elected.

The District Steering Committee for Chandigarh headed by comrades Surjit Singh as President; Kamaljeet Singh as Wkg.President; and Hardyal Singh as District Convenor was also elected unanimously.

It was resolved that a vigorous campaign for enrollment of members in all districts will be undertaken by the responsible Members of State Steering Committee and District Conferences will be conducted within next three months and 1st State Conference will be held thereafter.

K.Ragavendran
General Secretary AIPRPA

Flash from Confederation of CG Employees & Workers!

NJCA of All CG Employees Resolve to launch an Indefinite Strike

Strike Notice will be served on 11.03.2016.

Indefinite Strike will commence w.e.f. 11.04.2016

Dear Comrades! The flash from the Secretary General Confederation of CG Employees & Workers Comrade M.Krishnan is reproduced below. The AIPRPA and all Pensioners are enthused by the historic decision of the entirety of JCM National Council Organisations under the banner of National Joint Council of Action.

K.Ragavendran
General Secretary AIPRPA

NJCA DECIDED INDEFINITE STRIKE FROM 

11th APRIL 2016

Meeting of the National Joint Council of Action (Railways, Defence, Postal, Confederation) held on 08th February 2016 unanimously decided to serve indefinite strike notice on 11th March 2016 and to commence indefinite strike from 11th April 2016.

Further details will follow.

M.Krishnan

Secretary General

Confederation of

Central Govt. Employees & Workers

NCCPA Secretariat Today

NCCPA National Secretariat Met Today in the Capital

The National Secretariat of NCCPA has met today at the AIRF Library Hall under the presidentship of its Chairman Comrade Shiv Goplal Mishra. Comrade KKN Kutty the Secretary General and other Office Bearers of NCCPA were present. Comrade Shiv Gopal Mishra thanked for electing him as the Chairman of NCCPA and assured that he will do his best in response to the confidence reposed in him by all. Comrade K.Ragavendran (GS AIPRPA & Deputy SG NCCPA); H.L.Sidhu (Treasurer NCCPA); I.S.Dabas (ASG NCCPA & Ex-GS P4 NFPE) participated on behalf of AIPRPA in this Secretariat meeting.

The discussions were around the issues  implementation of decisions of 3^rd AIC of NCCPA; strengthening and expanding the base of NCCPA; 7^th CPC recommendations and the issues on which the focus shall be placed before the Empowered Committee of Secretaries on Pensioners matters; Improving the financial position of NCCPA; and Improving the circulation of monthly journal “News Letter” etc. The following important decisions were taken:

1.       NCCPA will initiate to hold a National Convention against PFRDA and will consult all Pensioners Organisations to make them participants in the said convention. The expanding the base of NCCPA will be taken along with holding the National Convention and efforts also shall be taken to discuss with Railways, Defense and other Pensioners Organisations.

2.       As far as the positive 7^th CPC recommendations for Pensioners are concerned like improving the medical facilities including strengthening the CGHS as well as ending the discrimination towards Postal Pensioners concerned in the matter of CGHS treatment etc, the stand of the Government will be watched first before our formulating a position. As far as the modifications are concerned, the issues already placed before the Government through NJCA will be pursued; the issue of full Parity between the past and present pensioners by improving the recommendation of the pay commission by claiming the benefit of pay scale granted to the cadre or post also in case it is more beneficial than the pre-revised scale in which the pensioner had retired will be given more importance. The question of FMA 2000/- shall also be insisted among other issues.

3.       To improve the finances, it has been decided to insist remittance of quota to NCCPA by the Affiliates. The list of affiliates as well as those organizations who used to donate to NCCPA at the time of Comrade S.K.Vyas will be approached for strengthening the finances of NCCPA.

4.       The monthly journal “News Letter” will be obtained with the Postal Registration number quickly; the subscribers base has to be much improved; all affiliates will be requested to put in their efforts in this regard. The Secretary General will write to all affiliates in this matter.

This meeting is important in the background of the NJCA meeting on the very next day in New Delhi that should take into account the Programmes conducted throughout the country at its call and after reviewing all  developments likely to take suitable organizational measures to clinch the 26 important modifications placed before the Government.

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary AIPRPA

MEMORIAL DAY OF COMRADE VYAS

S.K.VYAS MEMORIAL DAY

13.02.2016

13^th February – Last year 13^th February only the nature had taken away our legendary leader Comrade Sri Krishna Vyas from us. A leader bestowed with the best knowledge and wisdom about the issues of Central Government Employees and Pensioners in particular and of the Working Class in general is not with us at this crucial hour. Having labored and associated with all the Central Pay Commissions including the 7^th CPC, we miss him dearly at this time of our dealing with the retrograde recommendations of the Pay Commission.

His insight into the organizational weaknesses of Pensioners movement was astounding. He diagnosed that the majority of Pensioners in India remain outside organizations and that the only path to organize them all is to found departmental wise Pensioners Organizations that should work united under the platform of the Apex organizations called the NCCPA. He distanced the doubts from the minds of many by clarifying that formation of departmental wise  pensioners organizations will not weaken the CGPA movement but will strengthen the NCCPA as like the Confederation of CG Employees is strengthened by departmental wised individual Federations and Unions! He categorically said that the inability to reach out the multitude of pensioners is possible only through formation of departmental wise pensioners’ forums formed and taken forward by erstwhile retired trade union office bearers as like the AIBDPA and AIPRPA.

He was always clear that only through united struggles, the employees and pensioners can anticipate something better at the hands of the unwilling Government. He was always a fighter for justice and the lone battle he fought against the Government against impounding of workers due in the past. Comrade S,K,Vyas was a Central Government employees leader; a leader of Pensioners movement; a Teacher of any subject to the masses; an ardent writer with knowledge in defense of workers at trouble; an orator who can reach out to the hearts of audience as well as appeal to the intellect of the masses; a man of compassion towards other human beings under suffering; a fearless leader to lead the mass of employees in struggles; a scholar in several languages and subjects and above all a man of very simple life and honesty in his whole life.

As per the decision of the NCCPA All India Conference let us observe “S.K.Vyas Memorial Day” every year on 13^th February in a befitting manner. Kindly hold meetings and programmes to observe the day and remember the towering legend.

K.Ragavendran

General Secretary AIPRPA

Mr.Rathin Roy! You have no moral right!

Here is a Pay Commission Member speaking against his own team led by Justice Mathur after submitting recommendations with more than 21 months research! He recommended for date of effect as a team from 1.1.2016; now he says not to implement this year but defer to 2017! He also suggests defer HRA and other Allowances! Mr.Rathin Roy has no moral or ethical right to speak against after submitting the Report on behalf of 7th CPC in which he too was a member!

This gentleman so eager and concerned about fiscal deficit has no comments about Government stealing more than one or two lakhs of crores by not allowing to fall petrol and petroleum products despite internation record fall of crude oil prices!

He should have watched the comments if his Chairman Justice A.K.Mathur who defended the Report against Five Chief Ministers who wanted such deferment. You don't want to follow Chairman Mathur then you should have walked out of Pay Commission earlier!

God save such individuals! -

KR GS AIPRPA