GIST OF THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE MEETING HELD ON 13.2.21 AT BANGALORE:-
Comrades,
The Federal Executive Meeting was held at Hotel Samrat Residency in Bangalore on 13.2.2021. All Federal Executives, General Secretaries, NFPE Office Bearers participated in the Meeting under the President ship of Comrade P.V. Rajendran, Secretary General Comrade R. N. Parashar and Ex Secretary General Comrade C.C. Pillai.
All the Agendas proposed were discussed in the meeting including their own sectional issues by all the Office Bearers and General Secretaries . On behalf of the All India Postal SBCO Employees Association, the following points were discussed and placed at the apex body for necessary action:-
1. Any new proposals, schemes, SB Orders whenever introduced regarding any particular wing of the Department of Post , the concerned representatives of the Association to be called for discussion before implementation.
2. A drive for Recruitments to be conducted as an one time measure to fill up all the vacant posts in all cadres including SBCO up to the sanctioned strength which will be a solution for many of the staff side problems.
3. The “very Good” bench mark for MACPs to be relaxed as it is the usual financial up gradation for completing 10, 20 & 30 years of service. The denial of MACP when LSG promotions are declined is not correct , as LSG promotion is in no way connected with the regular financial up gradation under MACP for completing 10, 20 & 30 years of service . So, the financial up gradation under MACP should be allowed either the officials accept or decline their LSG promotion.
4. The leave during the lockdown period to be regularized for all the officials who were unable to attend the office due to genuine reasons (unavailability of transport, identified as covid positive either self or family members, residence at containment zone). Exemptions to be granted to all the pregnant women &, physically challenged as per the instructions of MHA for whom the same is not granted. Compensation of Rs. 10,00,000 to be granted to the family of officials who lost their lives due to Covid-19, with compassionate appointment to one of the family member.
5. Membership verification to be done by manual check off system as earlier and not through online system.
6. One time relaxation in RRs of HSG II & HSG I posts to fill up all the Supervisory posts in SBCO cadre.
7. Inter Circle transfer requests to be expedited in a systematic and quick manner to relieve the officials in time in all the Circles.
8. SBCO officials not to be brought under contributory negligence in fraud cases as they are in no way connected with the monetary transactions done at the counter. SBCO is purely doing the work of Audit only the next day (or) when they receive the returns after the transactions are completed at the counters . So, the money misappropriated to be recovered only from the primary offenders i.e. the maker-checker and not from the innocent officials in the name of subsidiary offenders. For any lapses in the work the CCS Conduct Rules may be applied for punishments. Hence SBCO officials should not be brought under contributory negligence.
9. SBCO officials to be permitted for writing the PRS Group B Exams.
10. Cadre Restructuring to be done immediately for SBCO as per the suggestions given by the AIPSBCOEA CHQ.
11. SBCO to be brought under the control of GM PA & F with nomenclature change.
12. Immunity from transfers to be granted to the Circle Office Bearers of AIPSBCOEA in Circles like UP, MP, Assam, Odisha, Telangana as per the Directorate’s letter Nos. 69-18/70-SPB-I Dt.23.03.1973 & 02.01.1974 and No. X-12/1/2019-SPB-II Dt. 03rd June 2020.
13. Child Care Leave to be granted to women employees for all genuine reasons without denial of the same.
With Regards,
-Sd-
SHP. JASMINE JALAL BEGAM
General Secretary
AIPSBCOEA.
SUBJECTS FOR PERIODICAL MEETING OF SERVICE ASSOCIATIONS AT DIRECTORATE:
Ref.No.: AIPSBCOEA/CHQ/Periodical Meeting of Service Associations/2021 Dt-02.02.2021.
To
The Secretary,
Department of Post,
DakBhawan, SansadMarg,
New Delhi – 110 001.
Subject :- Periodical Meeting of Service Associations in Department of Posts, New Delhi – reg.
Reference:-1.Directorate letter File No. 02-01/2021-SR dated 18th January, 2021.
Respected Sir,
On behalf of the All India Postal SBCO Employees Association, the following items are placed for discussion in the Periodical meeting to be held with the Service Associations for necessary action Please.
1. Cadre Restructuring of SBCO :-
The Cadre Restructuring of SBCO may be done which is very eagerly awaited by each and every SBCO official. As the Department knows that the promotional avenues of SBCO officials are very less, the young officials joining SBCO with a lot of dreams and hope usually are forced to decline the LSG promotions due to non- availability of LSG Posts in their working / residing Regions/Divisions. Also there are only very few LSG, HSG II and HSG I Posts in SBCO in all the Circles. As of now SBCO is doing 100% voucher checking of all SB categories including the work of Certificates. Hence Cadre Restructuring may be done by filling all the vacant posts of SBCO up to the Sanctioned strength and increasing the Sanctioned strength of the SBCO units simultaneously increasing the number of promotional posts according to the new ad hoc time factor as additional works have been entrusted to SBCO after CBS & GL integration. The AIPSBCOEA CHQ has already submitted letters to the Department regarding Cadre Restructuring of SBCO vide letters dated 28.8.2019, 18.5.2020, 9.7.2020,13.7.2020,30.9.2020 & 29.1.2021 for reference.The Cadre Restructuring may be done based on the number of accounts justification and Increase in the Sanctioned strength of PA Posts due to entrustment of excess work after CBS after GL integration as mentioned in all the CHQ letters mentioned above.
2. Change of Control of SBCO to GM PA & F:-
Our Association wishes to point out that the duplicate accounting done by SBCO wing has been abolished with induction of CBS &Finacle in POSB banking operations. As such the SBCO wing is now entrusted with sole work of auditing of day to day transactions of POSB and Certificates by the latest orders. This work is being done by the SBCO on behalf of Postal Accounts at all the Head Post Offices.SBCO should be differentiated from the General line PAs by Nomenclature Change as the work done by the General line PAs are verified (or) inspected and scrutinized by the SBCO officials. Now the Government/Department should take initiative to re-designate the SBCO wing as POSB Audit wing and rename its cadre as Auditors and make it as part of Postal Audit office. The nomenclature of the staff of present SBCO should be re-designated as “Auditors”, “Senior Auditors”, “ Chief Auditors” ,”Executive Auditors” and “Chief Executive Auditors” as per the cadre/pay levels. The term AUDIT defines “an official inspection of an organizations account by an independent body and it cannot be expected to detect every fraud”. Fortunately the work presently done by SBCO has still coincided with the definition of AUDIT. The SBCO cadre is treated as distinct category in the department so far. POSB is very large banking institution under the Department of Posts having crores of account holders and multi crore of rupees as investment by the people. Proper audit to POSB system is a must and inevitable.
As the SBCO is now under the control of the Divisional heads , the importance of audit and independent/fearless functioning of SBCO is becoming a big question mark . It is repeated again that SBCO is performing all the work on behalf of Postal Accounts having similar nature of work. Hence as both DAP and SBCO were formed from the same AG P & T Audit , SBCO may be brought under the control of GM PAF which is our very important demand.
Time and again, our Association is demanding that the SBCO wing should be brought under
thecontrol of Director of Accounts (Postal) for effective functioning as both the wings are
Performingthe same nature of work and bifurcated from the AG P&T only. Of late an order was
issuedassigning the work of NSCs & KVPs to SBCO which was previously done by DAP w.e.f
01.07.2016vide SB Order 06/2016 issued vide No.32-01/2016-SB Dt.21.01.2019. In our strong
opinion, anrobust internal audit should be mooted out for POSB like various audit organizations (ie) P
& Taudit General, Audit Civil Audit, Defence and Railway Audit, striving for the safety of public
money.
3. Non- grant of immunity from transfer to the Circle Office Bearers of the Association in many Circles ( Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Assam ) :-
On behalf of the All India Postal SBCO Employees Association , the issue regarding non grant of immunity from transfer to the Circle Office Bearers of the Association were even highlighted in the memorandum sent to Directorate dated 09.03.2020. The Directorate’s orders regarding grant of immunity to Circle Office Bearers of the Association is to be followed at all the Circles voluntarily by the Heads of the Circles, but inspite of claiming the same by the Circle Office Bearers and intervention of the All India CHQ many Circles are still not granting the immunity from transfer to Our Association’s Circle Office Bearers which is nothing but violation and disobedience of the Directorate’s orders dated 07.12.1970 , 23.03.1973 and 02.01.1974& 03.06.2020.
References:Directorate letter Nos.69-18/70-SPB-I Dt. 07.12.1970 and 69-52/72-SPB-I Dt.
23.03.1973 and 02.01.1974.&No. X-12/1/2019-SPB-II Dt. 03rd June 2020.
The activities and functioning of the Association is very much affected due to non- availability of the Circle Office Bearers at the Circle Headquarters in many Circles like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Assam ) Hence , the Honorable Secretary Post may kindly look into the matter immediately and issue favorable orders/instructions to the Circle Heads to transfer the Circle Office Bearers of AIPSBCOEA to the Circle Headquarters under immunity grounds which is the need of the hour for the smooth functioning of the Association.The letter from the AIPSBCOEA CHQ alreadysent on 27.8.2020, 27.1.2021 regarding this issue.
Once again it is requested for a kind intervention and issuance of necessary instructions to the Circle
Heads of ( Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha& Assam )by the Honorable
Secretary Post and grant immunity from transfer to the Circle Office Bearers of AIPSBCOEA.
The first two items are the needs of the hour for the SBCO wing which will createan independent cell to perform the work on the spot without any fear of reprisal for pointing out the genuine mistakes and detection of irregularities spontaneously. The third item is very important for the smooth functioning of the Association and its activities without any difficulties.
A line of reply is solicited Please.
With Regards,
-Sd-
(SHP. JASMINE JALAL BEGAM)
General Secretary.
Copy To:-
The Director SR & Legal,
Department of Post,
DakBhawan, SansadMarg, New Delhi – 110 001.
(SHP. JASMINE JALAL BEGAM)
General Secretary.
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