Mass Demonstration by Govt. employees before parliament

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NATIONAL CONFEDERATION

 (A CONFEDERATION OF DEFENCE, RAILWAYS, POSTAL, AUTONOMOUS BODY, CENTRAL & STATE GOVT EMPLOYEES' FEDERATIONS) 

(A UNIT OF BHARATIYA MAZDOOR SANGH) 

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New Delhi, 18th December 2013 

Mass Demonstration of Government Employees before Parliament 

Thousands of Government employees from all over the country belonging to Defence, Railways, Postals, Central Secretariat, Account and Audit, all State Governments, all Government Autonomous Bodies and Local Self Governments have staged a mass demonstration on 18th December 2013 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi under the banner of Government Employees National Confederation (GENC) an affiliate of Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) demanding immediate merger of 50% DA with the basic Pay, withdrawal of New Pension Scheme, ban on out sourcing, privatization and contracterization in Government Establishment etc. A charter of demands along with amemorandum was submitted to the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India by a delegation led by Shri K. N. Sharma,President of the confederation and representatives from constituent Federations: BPMS, BPEF, BRMS, KKS, RRKS and BSSKS. 

  

Shri Nagendra Singh, General Secretary, Delhi Pradesh BMS welcomed the Government Employees. Inauguratingthe mass demonstration Shri Baij Nath Rai, National General Secretary BMS appealed to the Government employees to unite against the anti-employees polices of the Government. He praised the leading and important role of GENC in the implementation of the recommendations of 4th, 5th, and 6th CPC, introduction of ACP & merger of 50% DA with Basic Pay by previous Governments. 

Addressing the rally, Vice President BMS & I/c GENC, Dr. B.K. RAI equated the Privatization and outsourcing of work in Government Establishments with the outsourcing the Governance of the country in the hands of MNCs. 

Shri Narendra Tiwari, President, BPMS mention that the privatization has aggravated the menace of corruption in the Governance and criticized that the Government has compromised its role as model Employer by handing over its responsibility of ensuring social security through New Pension Scheme (NPS). He demanded for immediate withdrawal of Government Employees from the purview of NPS. 

Shri Shivakant Mishra stated that all employees should be paid Gratuity at the rate of 30 days per month instead of 15 days and remove the ceiling of 33 yrs and demanded to increase the rate of interest on GPF @ 10% so that GPF account holders may get their rightful justice. Shri Ramanand Tripathi stated that FDI should not be allowed in Government Department including Defence & Railways, service conditions like retirement age, pay & allowance of State Government, Autonomous Bodies employees should be at par with Central Government employees. 

Shri Sadhu Singh, Secretary General of GENC stated in his speech that the Government has given no consideration to contain the rising inflation and the salary classes are facing the brunt of the Price rise. Due to the price rise DA has increase and crossed 50% within 5 years of the revision of Pay packet of Government employees but DA has not been merged with Basic Pay w.e.f. 01/01/2011. Now Government has announced to constitute 7th CPC but notification has not been issued till date, so he demanded Rs. 7000/- Per Month should be paid as interim relief. Moreover, the anomalies arisen out of the implementation of 6th CPC recommendations are yet to be resolved. The committees constituted for the purpose have given no consideration to the genuine demands and the so called JCM leaders have least interest in resolving the disputes. 

Addressing the rally Shri Prakash Javadekar, M.P. expressed the solidarity with the agitating employees and assured that the genuine demands will be raised in the Parliament and unsettled issues will be settled if BJP comes to the power. Shri Rakesh Singh, M.P. has stated that he is well versed to the grievances of Government employees particular in Defence as at least 7 Defence Establishments are in his Parliamentary constituency. He also reflected his concerns over the limitation of 5% compassionate appointments, granting of Government Employees status to extra departmental workers of Postal Departmental. 

Shri Mukesh Singh, Secretary/BPMS stated that the ceiling of 5% of direct recruitment as per order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India for compassionate appointment is not acceptable as the Parliament has overruled the judgements of SCI from time to time like Banks Nationalization case, Privy Purse case & Shahbano case etc. and not convening the meeting of National Council (JCM) question marks on the competency of the highest Govt Official, i.e., Cabinet Secretary of India 

The rally was also addressed by Shri Mahendra Jain, Vice President-State Employees, Shri Manmohan Sharma, Postal, Shri Chandra Mohan, Central Employees, Shri Mangesh Desh Pandey, Railways, Shri Tankar Kaushal, Autonomous Body and Shri Yogendra Kumar Rai. 

SADHU SINGH 

Secretary General