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Reference:
AIA/Circular-03/2019 Dated:
9th February 2019
To
Unit Secretaries,
Members & Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of Women’s Committee
Dear Comrades,
NJCA
CALLS FOR PROTEST ACTION DEMANDING
* WITHDRAWAL
OF NPS
** REVIVAL OF JCM
The NJCA delegation met Shri Rajnath
Sing, the Hon’ble Home Minister on 8th February 2019 as reminded him
that it was on his assurance that the indefinite strike from 11th July
2016 was deferred and that none of the assurances – such as upward revision of
minimum pay and fitment factor, other 7 CPC related grievances – have been
honoured. The Home Minister was also apprised of the large scale discontent amongst
the employees on account of the NPS. Home Minister assured the NJCA leadership to
apprise the Prime Minister of the disquiet amongst the central government
employees.
The NJCA met thereafter and reviewed
the situation. It noted that the National council, JCM has not been convened for
nearly 9 years and the meetings of the Standing Committee have also become quite
few. The JCM, grievance redressal machinery for the central government
employees, has been made totally nonfunctional since 2014. It was therefore
decided to organise a dharna at Jantar Mantar by the Staff Side Members in the National
Council, JCM on 28th March 2019.
Considering the negation of social
security to central government employees due to denial of assured pension since
the introduction of the NPS, it was decided to massive protest dharna on 13th
March 2019 at New Delhi as well as at all stations under the banner of NJCA
demanding withdrawal of NPS and restoration of Old Pension Scheme to all
government employees. It was also decided to write to all political parties to
commit restoration of old pension scheme by including it in their election
manifestos.
NJCA Circular and letter to Cabinet
Secretary are attached.
All our units should take lead in revitalizing
the NJCA at their stations and start campaigning amongst the membership on the
need to get the NPS scrapped by massive mobilisation and education of the
membership to exercise enough pressure on the political parties and candidates
to commit withdrawal of much hated NPS.
With
greetings,
Yours
fraternally
M. S. Raja
Secretary General
NJCA
National Joint Council of Action
4, State Entry Road, New Delhi –
110055
No.NJC/2019/7th
CPC February
9, 2019
To
All
Constituents of NJCA
Dear
Comrades,
A delegation
of the National JCA consisting of Com. M. Raghaviah, Com. Shiva Gopal Mishra,
Com. Guman Singh, Com. K.K.N. Kutty, Com. Ashok Singh, Com. L.N. Pathak, and
Com. R.N. Parasar met the honourable Home Minister on 8th December,
2019 at 9.30 AM . The delegation
conveyed to the honourable Minister, the discontent and anger of the Central
Government employees over the
dishonouring the assurance held
out by the Group of Minister headed by him on 30th June, 2016 in the
matter of the upward revision of the Minimum wage and fitment formula. They pointed out to the Honourable Home
Minister that on all previous occasions, the Government had revised the minimum
wage recommended by the respective Pay Commission after negotiation with the
Staff Side JCM.
The growing concern of the Central
and State Government employees manifested in large scale mobilisation of the
newly recruited employees over the New contributory Pension scheme was also
brought to his notice. The employees and
officers who are recruited in Central
Government service after 1.01.2004 are extremely agitated over the meagre
amount of annuity they are entitled to receive even after paying huge amount of
subscription to the scheme devoid of cost indexation, family pension protection
etc. The delegation also brought to the
notice of the Honourable Minister that the number of the employees and officers
who are presently covered by the new scheme has crossed over 50% of the total
strength and the demand for bringing back the Old Pension scheme has gained
momentum. It was unfortunate that the
Government did not heed even to the modest suggestion made by the Staff Side
before the Pension committee to the effect to guarantee a minimum amount of
annuity to those who are covered under the new scheme.
The delegation also stated that they
are constrained to believe of a concerted effort on the part of the Government
to kill the negotiating forum JCM as repeated pleadings made to revive the
Joint Consultative Machinery has not been responded. They pointed out that the National Council of
the JCM met about 9 years back and the meetings of the Standing committee and
National Anomaly Committee had been few and far between. Since no meetings are convened at the apex
level, the Departmental Councils had also become defunct, they added. In other words, they said that there has been
virtually no interaction worth the name between the Government and the
employees’ organisations, which has proliferated the litigation and in most of
the cases, the Government has lost out in the Courts. They also pointed out that the official side
had been taking extremely nugatory attitude and had not been acting upon even
on the verdicts of the Supreme Court .
The Honourable Home Minister gave a
patient hearing and recalled the interaction he had with the Staff Side
earlier, when an assurance to revisit the quantum of Minimum wage and fitment
formula had been held out. He assured
the delegation that he would cause a discussion of the matter with the
Honourable Prime Minister.
The National JCA met later at the
Staff Side office when Com. M.S. Raja and Com. Giriraj Singh joined the
meeting. The issues were discussed at
length, especially taking into account
the ensuing General Election in the country. The meeting finally decided to organise the
following programme of actions.
13th March 2019
A massive demonstration cum dharna
will be organised under the auspices of the National JCA to highlight and focus
the demand for the withdrawal of the New Pension scheme and restoration of the
old Pension scheme for Central Government employees. The National JCA will simultaneously write to
all Political parties to make their stand clear on the issue of the New Pension
scheme in their respective manifesto.
The National JCA will spearhead a campaign amongst the employees for the
acceptance of the demand by the political parties. The dharna will be at Jantar Mantar and the
same will be participated by the employees working in and around Delhi besides
the NJCA leaders. On the same day, similar
dharna and demonstrations will be held in front of all Central Government
offices throughout the country. The
employees will also be requested to wear black badges projecting the demand for
the withdrawal of the NPS.
28th March 2019
A protest day long dharna will be
organised at Jantar Mantar on 21.02.2019, in which all the National Council
members will take part. A huge
demonstration will also be organised on the same day in front of the Dharna
venue in which the employees working in and around Delhi will take part. The Dharna will highlight the need to revive
the JCM forum and thus constant and continuous inter action between the
Government and the employees. It will
also focus the intolerable attitude of the official side even in issuing
orders, where the Supreme Court has given the verdict in favour of the
employees. The Cabinet Secretary will be
informed of this decision well in advance.
Copy of the letter addressed to the
Cabinet Secretary is enclosed. All
participating organisations are requested to make the programme a grand
success. The NJCA will meet again on
28.03.2019 to discuss of the future course of action to be mounted in the days
to come
With greetings,
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
Convener
NJCA
National Joint Council of Action
4, State Entry Road, New Delhi –
110055
No.NJC/2019/7th
CPC February 9, 2019
To
The Cabinet
Secretary,
Government
of India &
Chairman,
National
Council/JCM
Rastrapati
Bhawan,
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
We invite
your kind reference to the representations made by the Staff Side both in
writing and orally during discussions bilaterally and otherwise on innumerable
occasions over the need to convene the
National Council meeting of the JCM,
which met last about 9 years back.
Since there had been no meeting of the National Council the directive
issued by the Department of Personnel to various Ministries of the Government
of India to convene the Departmental Council meetings had also not been
heeded. We regret to write that inspite
of our persistent persuasion you have unfortunately not found time for holding
the meeting. There had been no reason
whatsoever for such inordinate delay in convening the meeting. This apart, the
periodicity with which the National Standing committee used to meet has also
been dwindled. The National Anomaly
Committee set up in the wake of the 6th CPC is still to finalise its
business.
The Staff
Side, which met on 8th December, 2019 at New Delhi, has come to the
inescapable conclusion that it must tread the path of struggle to get the
negotiating forum revived. We are
therefore, constrained to take recourse to agitational pagrammes and have
decided that all the Staff Side members of the National Council will sit on
dharna on 28th March, 2019 at New Delhi.
We hope you
will take note of the growing discontent in the matter and take corrective
steps to revive the JCM and to convene the meetings immediately.
Thanking
you,
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
Convener
