Tuesday 28 June 2016

Annual report presented by the secretory during the AGM

Annual Report
ANNUAL REPORT PRESENTED AT THE 1st ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON THE 25TH JUNE 2016
Distinguished Members,
             I deem it a privilege to extend a very hearty welcome to all of you to this 1st  Annual General Body Meeting of our Association and  to present my Annual Report covering the activities of our Association during the period since starting of the Association dated 30/01/2015.The year  that as gone by has been a period of great expectations for all of us since the Seventh Central Pay commission has submitted the report & the implementation of this report from 01/01/2016  is awaited  from the Government
2. The 7th pay commission which was set up in Feb. 2014 was to submit its report in August, 2016. However, at the intervention of the Government, the report was further delayed and it ultimately reached the Government only in November, 2015.Their recommendations were to be effective from 01.01.2016. Except setting up an empowered Committee of 13 Secretaries to make comparisons between the recommendations of the Pay Commission & the comments from various stakeholders on the 7th Pay Commission, the Government did not do anything so far on the report. It is now more than seven months the report is with the Government. The panel  Secretaries have submitted  its report. Presumably the Empowered Committees Report will just be carrying the views expressed by all Stakeholders. They, in fact,  may be expected to recommend the Govt. to increase the Pay and Allowances. So, there will not  be any modification in recommendations of 7th pay commission in the Empowered Committees Report .
3. As you are aware that as per para 10.1.67 The Commission recommended the following pension formulation for civil employees including CAPF personnel, who have retired before 01.01.2016:
(i)  All the civilian personnel including CAPF who retired prior to 01.01.2016 (expected date of implementation of the Seventh CPC recommendations) shall  first be fixed in the Pay Matrix being recommended by this Commission, on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade Pay at which they retired, at the minimum  of the corresponding level in the matrix. This amount shall be raised, to arrive  at the notional pay of the retiree, by adding the number of increments he/she had earned in that level while in service, at the rate of three percent. Fifty percent of the total amount so arrived at shall be the revised pension.
(ii) The second calculation to be carried out is as follows. The pension, as had been       fixed at the time of implementation of the VI CPC recommendations, shall be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an alternate value for the revised pension.
(iii) Pensioners may be given the option of choosing whichever formulation is beneficial to them. 
 4.There was perhaps only one and only one positive recommendation made by the 7th pay commission. That was to give some relief in the pension entitlement of the past pensioners. The Government has now proposed to reject that recommendation on the specious plea that the relevant records required for the verification of the claim of the individual pensioners especially those retired long time back may not be available with the Government.
5. National Joint Council of Action has taken a decision to go on “Indefinite Strike” from 06:00 a.m. on 11th July. 2016.In the charter of demands part B  Sl 13 it has been demanded as under:-
13.Revise the pension and other retirement benefits as under:-
(a) Parity between the past and present pensioners to be brought about on the basis of the 7th CPC Recommendations  with the modification  that basis of computation  to be the pay level of the post/grade/scale of pay from which one retired ; whichever is beneficial.
(b) Pension to be 60% of the last pay drawn in the case of all eligible persons who have completed the requisite number of years of service.
(c) The family pension  to be 50% of the last pay drawn.
(d) Enhance the pension and family pension by 5 % after every 5 years and 10% on attaining the age of 85 and 20% on attaining the age of 90.
(e) Commuted value of pension to be restored after 10 years or attaining the age of 70, whichever is earlier. Gratuity calculation to be on the basis of 25 days in the month as against 30 days as per the Gratuity Act.
(f) Fixed medical allowance for those pensioners not covered by CGHS and REHS to be increased to by ` 2000/-p.m.
(g) Provide one increment on the last day in service if the concerned employee has completed  six months or more from the date of grant of last increment.
6. I shall now proceed to narrate briefly what we were able to do during the period
  Covered by the report.
(i)Meetings :-
The Association successfully completed the initial formalities in three sittings in the Conference Hall , Dadar IQ on the followings dates:
30/01/2015    2. 04/03/2015       3. 18/04/2015
The issues discussed & the decisions taken in these meetings have been circulated in News Letter 01, dated June 2015  sent through email to all members.
The fourth meeting was held on 10/10/2015  at 03.0 p.m. in the Conference Hall  Dadar IQ.
 The issues discussed & the decisions taken in this meetings have been circulated in the minutes of the meeting sent through email to all members as well in News Letter  02 released on 06/04/2016.
Fifth meeting was held on 19/12/2015 at 11.30  a.m. in the Conference Hall,  Dadar IQ followed by lunch.
During this meeting Col. K. C.Mishra V. S.M. gave  a presentation on “Holistic  Health care and wellness “which was appreciated by all the members. This has been emailed to all the members. This now can be viewed in the blog
Shri V.K.Khanna gave a talk on “Opportunities to Retired Officers  for their gainful  engagement”.
The Secretary spoke on Seventh CPC recommendations
The minutes of the meeting sent through email to all members as well in News Letter  02 released on 06/04/2016. This now can be viewed in the blog
The Sixth meeting was held on Wednesday the 06-04-2016 at Bungalow No.07/01, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Western Express Highway, Borivali East, Mumbai- 400066.
News Letter 02 dated 06/04/2016 was released by Shri R. Ganesan ex-Secretary to Govt. of India and Hon’ble President of the Association.
Shri R Ganesan president of the Association, in his key-note address, spoke on the topic of “Who am I? “, the knowledge of which will bring lasting happiness in life, free of guilt and hurt, as these two generally keep coming back again and again in one’s life as age advances. A background paper on the subject has been separately e mailed to those members who wanted to go into this topic in greater detail.  This now can be viewed in the blog
In between the talk, a visit was arranged in the Tiger Safari Park for all members in a bus at 12.0 p.m. Lunch was organized on the venue (Bungalow No.07/01, Sanjay Gandhi National Park) at 13.30 p.m.
All members visited Kanheri Caves in a separate transport organized by the Secretary IPROA at 02.45 p.m. from the venue and returned back to the venue for hi-tea at 4.15 p.m. The cost of this meeting was shared  equally by the attending members by contributing `600/-individually.
The minutes of the meeting sent through email to all members. This now can be viewed in the blog.

(ii) News Letters
The First News Letter was published in June 2015 covering the issues discussed & the decisions taken in the first three meetings. This was circulated by email to all the members. This is also now put in the News Letter 02 dated 06/04/2016 which was released by Shri R. Ganesan ex-Secretary to Govt. of India and Hon’ble President of the Association. To have more publicity of the Association  100 copies of News Letter 02 were  printed at the cost of           ` 12,600/-.
In this News letter in addition to the minutes of the meetings the list of empanelled CGHS Hospitals has been printed. 20 copies were distributed among the members attended the  meeting held at Sanjay Gandhi National Park Borivali  on 06/04/2016 .40 copies were mailed @ ` 5/- to Sr. Officers of  Directorate, Circle Office, Regional Office Mumbai, Divisional Heads of Mumbai Region & Postmasters of all Head Post Offices of Mumbai Region  & Circle Secretaries of Recognized Unions all by name with a personal letter to  all signed by me. In the letters addressed to the SSPOs it was requested to instruct Postmasters of HO s in their Division, to furnish the particulars of Gazetted Officers who had retired/retiring & their mobile Telephone Numbers along with their office of payment of Pension to the undersigned. The Postmasters of HOs were also addressed to furnish the particulars of Gazetted Officers who had retired/retiring & their mobile Telephone Numbers along with their office of payment of Pension to the undersigned. It is disheartening  to inform  that except Shri S.B.Vyhare  APMG (Staff ) who had directed  PMG (Mumbai Region ) & SSPOs  Thane Central  Dn directing the Subordinate Office no response has been received so far from any Head Office. 
The remaining 40 copies are available which are being distributed to the members who did not attend the meeting at SGNP Borivali & attending the meeting today. This now can be viewed in the blog.
iii) Financial Position:--
       All efforts are made to ensure that we are able to curtail the expenditure within the subscription  received from the members. I am glad to inform that this is achieved as could be seen  from the statement of accounts  which are being presented by the Hon’ble treasurer of the Association. However it is appealed to the members to pay their subscription in advance for the year 2016-17 to enable us to plan further activities during this year.
(iv) Branch Activities:-
       As  per the decision  taken in the third  meeting held on 18/04/2015 it was decided  that Col. K.C.Mishra V.S.M. will be  the Vice President and he will be incharge of Pune Chapter of the Association. In Pune they have started  an independent “Association of Retired Gazetted Officers of Department of Posts Western Maharashtra “ They had organized  the outdoor picnics with the contribution of attending  members as under:-
       Lonavala  on                 28/ 10/2015
       Mahabaleshwar on      21/01/2016
       Bhimashankar on         17/04/2016
       Some of our members had also attended these outdoor get togethers. The photos  can be viewed in the blog. Our maiden trial with the outdoor meeting at Sanjay Gandhi National Park Borivali with the individual contribution of ` 500/-was attended by only 20 members though arrangement was made for confirmed 25 members putting the attending members to bear extra `100/-individually, but was enjoyed by all, if I am not mistaken since no adverse report has been received by me from any attended Officer.
(v) Meeting with Chief Postmaster General Maharashtra Circle
                The Executive Members of the Association consisting of Shri R.Ganesan President, Ms Humera Ahmed, Vice President Shri U.P.C. Tauro Secretary & Shri W.S.Janbandhu, Organising Secretary met Shri A.K.Dash Chief Postmaster General Maharashtra Circle Mumbai in his chamber on Thursday the 4th February 2016 at 11a.m.  Shri P.N.Ranjit Kumar, Postmaster General Mumbai Region & Shri Sayeed Rashid, Director of Postal Services (HQ) were also present.
        Chief Postmaster General Maharashtra Circle Mumbai was informed that the retired Officers of India Posts have recently formed an Association in Maharashtra Circle Good wishes and support of CPMG, Maharashtra & Goa was sought to serve the community of retired officers Posts in our circle. He was also apprised of our need to approach the Head Offices of Mumbai Region to seek particulars of Officers who had retired/retiring
         Chief Postmaster General Maharashtra Circle Mumbai was kind enough to receive us cordially. He assured us of all help and support to the Association. He has also permitted the Association to use the Auditorium at Mumbai GPO Annex Building as well as Dadar IQ for the meetings of the Association
        Shri P.N.Ranjit Kumar, Postmaster General Mumbai Region has also assured to help the Association to get the particulars of Officers who had retired/retiring from the Head Offices of Mumbai Region. The details are given in News Letter 2 & This now can be viewed in the blog.
(vi). What’s  App Group
       As decided in the meeting regarding code for postings on IPROA what’s app Group  a separate group with the caption “ MH Circle  Postal Veterans “ has been opened for posting messages. It is a pleasure to inform all that as on date there are 66 Officers of Maharashtra Circle who are participating including 42 members of IPROA .Daily more than 100 messages are being posted by the active Members.
vii)  Blog
      As decided in the last meeting  we have been successful in designing our Blog with   the help of Shri Kiran Reddy Inspector of Post Offices as the charges for the Website were very high by payment of requisite fee for blog though it was decided to create free  in the last meeting since payment was to be made for the purchase of the domain. The Blog will be launched shortly.
7 I will now proceed to present some of the important issues before us.
(i) Registration
     As the membership is increasing we may perhaps go for Registration of the Association at the Registrar of Societies Maharashtra.
(ii) Expansion
      As almost all the Retired Gazetted Officers staying in Mumbai have been contacted, we may perhaps enroll  the willing Retired Gazetted Officers  of Maharashtra Circle as members of the Association.
Conclusion
Before concluding I want to record my gratitude to all the executive members & all the members of the Association who have greatly supported & helped me in the task of running the Association and I am confident that with the support of you all, the Association will scale greater heights.
                            Thanking You,
                                                                                                                                Yours Sincerely
                                                                                                                                 Tauro U.P.C
                                                                                                                                  Secretary.


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