Postal Pensioners Programme of Action on Common and Sectional Demands of Pensioners!
AIPRPA CWC RESOLVES TO HOLD ITS NATIONWIDE PROGRAMME OF ACTION ON THE CHARTER OF DEMANDS OF PENSIONERS
Both Common & Postal Sectional!
The
CWC of AIPRPA held at Chennai has resolved to organise a nationwide
Programme of Action by the Postal & RMS Pensioners to highlight the
important issues of Pensioners as well as peculiar major issues of
Postal Pensioners before the Central Government. The Charter of Demands
and the Programme of Action finalized by the Central Working Committee
is as follows:
Postal Pensioners Sectional Charter
AIPRPA
shall undertake an All India Programme of Action to highlight the basic
common issues of Pensioners and important sectional issues of Postal
Pensioners viz.,
(a) Grant of Universal pension of minimum 3000/- to
all Senior Citizens of India irrespective of the fact that they had
worked in private sector or unorganized sectors as being demanded by the
Central TUs.
(b) Scrap NPS to all CG Employees recruited from 1.1.2004 and bring them all under Defined Pension Scheme.
(c)
Grant of Full Parity in Pension between the past, present and future
pensioners akin to OROP granted to Pensioners of Armed Forces.
(d)
Accept the recommendation of Option Number 1 given by the 7th CPC for
pension Refixation by notionally adding the number of increments earned
by the pensioner in the pre-revised scale of pay from which he/she had
retired as the same is feasible by records either directly or by
reconstruction.
(e) Correct the recommendation by changing the
“nearest level” to “next level” in fixing the stages after each annual
increment in the Pay Matrix for the employees (like 6th CPC formula) and
Link the pension re-fixation under Option Number 2 with the Matrix to
the next level on par with the employees.
(f) Grant of Refixation
of Pension on the basis of the scale of pay of the cadre / post from
which the Pre-2016 Pensioners had retired instead of only on the basis
of the replacement scales to end the injustice being done to the
retirees belonging to the cadres of Postman, IPOs, ASPOs etc in the
Department of Posts.
(g) Ending the injustice perpetrated to HSG-1
Pre-2006 Pensioners by granting the benefit of 4600 GP as granted to
serving employees from 1.1.2006 by accepting that the scale is only a
replacement scale in the backdrop of feeder cadre is allotted the 4200
GP scale by 6th CPC.
(h) Issue of orders as agreed by the
Department and also as ordered by the Supreme Court for the grant of
pension re-fixation for all Post-1.1.1996 Pensioners of Postman cadre
with two advance increments.
(i) Grant of minimum pension by
delinking the condition of 33 years of qualifying service to
compulsorily retired employees also w.e.f 1.1.2006 as envisaged by the
original orders of the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare.
(j) Enhance the Fixed Medical Allowance to 2000/- per month.
(k)
Accept and implement the positive recommendations of 7th CPC without
delay on extension of medical benefits to all Pensioners including the
Postal Pensioners by (1) removing the unjust condition of Health
Ministry to allow all Postal Pensioners into the CGHS without any
discrimination; (2) granting reimbursement facilities of in-patient
treatment to all Pensioners in non-CGHS areas on par with the serving
employees of that area; (3) Merger of existing P&T dispensaries with
CGHS without conditions; (4) Finalization of Medical-insurance schemes
covering all non-CGHS pensioners to get cashless and hassle free medical
treatment; and (5) Merger of different systems like CGHS, Railway and
Defence Hospitals to create a centralized health system for better
Medicare to all employees and pensioners.
(l) Revise the Pension by applying the orders for treating the training period as eligible service to get TBOP/BCR upgradations.
(m)
Allot rent-free BSNL / MTNL land-line phone to all erstwhile P&T
Pensioners without any condition on length of service as ordered by
courts.
(n) Allot vacant Postal Staff Quarters not preferred by
serving employees to willing Postal Pensioners on seniority basis
instead of keeping the quarters vacant for long time.
Nationwide Programme of Action
(i)
AIPRPA CHQ will write to the Chairman of the High Level Committee;
Health Minister; and Finance Minister focusing the Charter of Demands
immediately.
(ii) Demonstrations shall be held at all places by
the AIPRPA on 19th September, 2016 and Memorandum will be forwarded to
Health and Finance Ministers. (Draft Memorandum will be circulated to
all through CHQ website)
(iii) Mass Dharna by Postal & RMS Pensioners on 21st October, 2016 to demand implementation of the Charter of Demands.
(iv)
‘Chalo Delhi’ by Postal & RMS Pensioners to conduct a ‘Mass
Demonstration’ in front of Parliament on 21st February (Date will be
subject to finalisation in consultation with NCCPA to synchronize with
the National Convention against NPS proposed by NCCPA) and to submit the
Memorandum to the Prime Minster of India.
We call upon our rank
& file Districts and Divisions to take the call seriously and start
hectic preparations for all the Programmes including “Chalo Delhi”
Parliament Dharna! Without our active protest like the Pensioners of
Armed Forces who got their OROP through struggles, no advancement can be
expected from the Government.
Source :
http://postalpensioners.blogspot.in/
