India Posts Retired
Officers Association, Mumbai.
News Letter – 1
June, 2015
The Association is happy to issue this first News Letter
after having successfully completed the initial formalities in three sittings at
the lounge at Dadar IQ on the followings dates:
1. 30/01/2015 2. 04/03/2015 3. 18/04/2015
On the first meeting held on
30/01/2015, the following Members were present:
1) Shri R.Ganesan-9930135637
2) Ms. Humera Ahmed -9869725612
3) Shri A.P Srivastava-9869342175
4) Shri W.S Janabandu-9869465197
5) Shri Ramesh Kadam-9768680844
6) Shri G.T Raut-8652521816
7) Shri S.V Narayankar -9869380230
8) Shri R.K Joshi-9869651189
9) Shri P.R Meshram-9892786265
10) Shri I.R Oza-9892198760
11) Shri U.P.C Tauro-9821371944
12) Shri V.U.More-9867100725
13) Mrs.Baby Rajagopalan-9819014941
14) Mrs. Saraswathi-9769400532
15) Mrs Nilu Ahuja-9833440370
In the 2nd meeting held on 04/03/2015
following new members attended the meeting.
1) Shri V.K.Khanna-9833427274
2) Shri J.S.Patil-9969738385
3) Shri B.O.Jagtap-9702055042
4)Shri.Bachchan Prasad-9833425301
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In the 3rd meeting held on 18/04/2015,
four more new members who attended the meeting
1) Col.K.C.Mishra VSM-9404999400
2) Shri Subhash P Sardal-9867954880
3) Shri V.L Raichur-9619753668
4) Shri G.R.Nagrale-9930904245
First meeting:
There was lot of enthusiasm among those who gathered. Many
may be meeting their erstwhile colleagues for the first time or after a long
gap. After the exchange pleasantries, the meeting started with a welcome by Sri
R.Ganesan. He expressed his happiness on the interest taken by all those to be
present to the formation of the Association a success. The move is intended to
bring together under one umbrella all those officers who retired from the
Dept., of Posts. This gives us a sense of identity after the retirement that we
are all bound by our long common link when we were in service. Such a long
oneness we had in past shall continue post retirement too through this
Association. Our gathering at regular intervals helps to keep the social bond
built over decades of togetherness.
This was followed by Ms.Humera Ahmed who reiterated need for
such a common forum for us. Such associations function successfully in other
parts of the country and it is time we too in Mumbai start one for the retired
officers of the Dept. of Posts. There is also enthusiasm in Pune for such a
forum and Col. Mishra VSM is keen to join hands with us from Pune.
Shri A.P. Srivastava expressed his happiness that we have
able to get together with a common purpose. He was happy that Shri Janbandhu
and many others have taken a lot initiative to bring in many members. He hoped
that we will be successful make the Association strong with more and more
joining with time.
There after Shri Janbandhu detailed the efforts taken by him
and his colleagues to have the initiation of this today a success. Many have
shown interest and they will be joining too. He appealed to all members to talk
to their friends to add to our strength.
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This was followed by having the following as Office Bearers
of the Association:
S/Sri/Ms.
R.Ganesan
President.
Humera Ahmed
Vice-President
A.P. Srivastava
Vice-President
Kadam Secretary
Janbandhu
Organising Secretary
Tauro Joint Secretary
Ahuja Treasurer
More Office bearers will be added as when we have additional
needs when more members join.
Following are the
important decisions taken at this first meeting:
1.
Prepare
the Bye-laws for the Association
2.
Work
towards adding more membership
3.
The
subscription shall be Rs.1000/= for Founder members and Rs.400/= for all other
members.
4.
The
joining fee will be Rs.200/= as a onetime payment.
5.
Life
membership will be for ten times the prevailing annual subscription.
The meeting ended after fixing the
date for the next meeting with vote of thanks by Shri Janbandhu.
Important decisions at
the second meeting are:
1.
1
.The draft Bye-laws was discussed by the members present clause by clause and
finalised the Bye-laws based all the changes suggested by the members.
2.
It
was also decided that the Bye-laws finalised at this meeting will the guiding
principle and the same will be followed in the first year without
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registration. After successfully
adopting the Bye-laws it will be taken up for formal registration under the
relevant Act.
3.
Shri.V.K.
Khanna will be Vice-President.
4.
In
keeping with the personal request of Ms.Ahuja, Shri R.K.Joshi was requested to
be the Treasurer and he accepted the same.
The third meeting
decided the following:
1. Col. K.C. Mishra VSM will be the
Vice-president and he will be in charge of the Pune Chapter of the Association.
He was requested to carry out a campaign to bring in as many members as
possible.
2. For membership drive, it was
decided to form What’s App group and Google/face book group .One officer will
handle at least 5 officials having their mail-id, mobile no. and address etc.
for persuading them to attend meeting and other allied works. Keeping in view 3
Nodal points in Mumbai i.e Kalyan, Dombivali, New-Mumbai and Mumbai
Suburban(Western and Central), the following officers have been identified for
such group.
a) Shri
Nagrale-----------
Kalyan area
b) Shri
Sardal------------
Dombivali and Thane
c) Shri
Tauro-------------
Western Suburban
d) Shri R B Kadam
and Shri Janbandhu Coordinating Mumbai and Navi –Mumbai
3) The periodicity
of the meeting of the Association will be ONCE in 3 months.
4) A Letter-head
of the Association should be got printed after approval of the President of
Association. It was also decided to send letter to CPMG Mumbai in c/w formation
of the Association and seek his permission to display on notice boards in all
HOs, DOs, ROs and COs etc.
5) A similar letter
will be also sent to Secretary, Posts, for the information of Directorate. It
was decided to explore the possibilities of Associations’ Website for speedy
information of Rules/Regulations and other activities.
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6) Col.K.C. Mishra
VSM who is a Vice-President of the Association will be looking after Pune and
South Maharashtra. He had suggested holding next meeting in Pune.
7) Agenda for the
next meeting will be as under along with our regular issues.
a. Shri Vijay Khanna will speak 20
minutes on the subject “Opportunities to Retired Officers for their gainful
engagement”
b. Col K.C. Mishra VSM and Rtd CPMG will
deliver lecture on “Health and Well-being.”
The meeting was concluded with vote
of thanks by Shri R Ganesan.
The purpose of the newsletter is to
apprise the members of the progress made so far in the formation of the
Association. Once we have crossed the initial stage of carving out the basic
modalities of managing our Association, we have to focus our attention on
making it strong, vibrant and growing. We should make the newsletter
informative and useful to the members. Keeping these in view we appeal to all
the members share your thoughts with us and also bring in more and more
members.
7th Central Pay Commission
You all are aware that the 7th
Central Pay Commission is more or less reaching their final stage of
consultations with all the stake holders.
It is widely believed that the report
of the 7th CPC is expected before the end of this year and their
recommendations will become effective from 1st, January 2016. While we may have
some surprises in these dates, it can be reasonably expected that report will
be given effect to for the pensioners also in2016. That is the time our
Association becomes a critical means of resolving the issues which do crop up
after every CPC. Our ability to resolve all issues with Authorities lies in
having our presence made known not only to the all pensioners in Maharashtra
Circle so that we have bigger strength but also widely publicise in our Circle
with the Administration too. We need a minimum of 100 members
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to make a sensible start towards
this. Join hands with us and bring in more and more before our next meeting to
be held in a few months from now.
We also appeal to our members to
share their experience, knowledge and expectations of life at this stage, for
publishing in the newsletter as these may benefit every one of us. Health tips,
Spiritual thoughts, Geriatrics related subjects such as keeping away memory
loss, exercises for mental health etc. Those who can contribute articles of
interest to pensions, senior citizens can send them to us for inclusion.
We may go for hard copies if there is
sufficient content and members for circulation. Inclusion of any material will
be finalised by our team in this regard to ensure these are relevant to the
members in general, can manage with in the space available etc.
Some of the websites where pensioners
can get useful information for their benefit are:
Pensioners’ Portal- Govt. of
India—pensionerspotal.gov.in
www.nic.in
india.gov.in
Ministry of Personnel, Pension,
Public Grievances--- persmin.gov.in
Digital Life Certificate
There is provision for Digital Life
Certificate for pensioners available in the website of Pension Dept., of GOI.
About this we can clarify personally to the members in our next meeting. This
will avoid going through the formalities of giving life certificate which
warrant either personal appearance or getting the form filled up and run to
gazetted officer for authentication.
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Food for Thought.
We seek suggestions from our members
for
1.Motto of our Association.
(Example: Bharat Postal Pensioners’
Welfare Association, Tamil Nadu has for their Motto---- Service towards
Welfare)
2.
LOGO
for our use befitting our motto.
A Call to Members:
Help us to Help you, bring
in more members and above all attend the meetings to enable us to know your
needs better.
Sd.
Sd.
R.B.Kadam Janbandhu
Secretary
Organising Secretary
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