Bhubaneswar
20.05.2008
Dear Friends,
After a reasonably longer gap of time I am writing to you individually. I have been in the role of Circle Secretary of the Association for 6-7 months. Several events have taken place in the meantime. The changes in different spheres and occasions take place so fast and so frequently that if it is difficult to communicate everything through letter / bulletin on every such occasion. The Circle Secretary has no secretarial assistance to issue communications by post as frequently as the situation demands. On the other hand, the need for making every member of our Association informed of the developments in various fields is also felt unavoidable. In such a situation, information through electronic means is considered the most convenient way. I had requested in the past to communicate e-mail Id of every member to me so that I could pass on the news/information very easily and quickly. But only a very few members have communicated their e-mail Ids. I used to send messages to all such e-mail Ids. I am still waiting for the e-mail Ids of the rest of the members which may be communicated (to the e-mail Id of the Association i.e. aiaipasp.ors@gmail.com) by all concerned as early as possible.
Now, at every Sub-Divisional and Divisional Headquarters there is at least one computerized post office having internet facility. It is expected that the members of our cadre will acquire knowledge about working on computer and internet through their own effort and own interest as early possible. The sooner all members of our Association know working on computer, the better for themselves and for the Department.
To have an easy flow of information as and when any noteworthy event / news take place, I have created a blog (akin to a website but it is absolutely free of any charge) of the Circle Branch of our Association. The address of the blog is as follows:
aiaiasporissa.blogspot.com
Connecting to internet the blogspot can be visited /browsed as frequently as desired. You can verify from the blog that I am regularly posting important news about our Association and the Circle. If you have not visited the blog already, I would request you to take a tour to the blog right now. You can post your comments against every piece of news posted on the blog.
As already mentioned, there are a number of events/ news that have taken place since the last bulletin was issued to you. The notables among them are as follows:
All India Conference of the Association was held in Kolkata on 23-25 January 2008. Sri S B Mahapatra who is the pride of this Circle has been re-elected as the CHQ President.
The Sixth Pay Commission has submitted its report on 24.03.2008. The report is being reviewed by a Group of Secretaries to Govt of India, headed by the Cabinet Secretary. Our General Secretary has already submitted representation meant for Anomaly Committee justifying a demand of pre-revised scale of Rs.6500-10500 for IPs and Rs.7500-12000 for ASPs.
Transfers and postings in IP and ASP Cadres in all the Regions of the Circle have been made. Promotion and postings of PS Gr.B & Gr.A (JTS) have also made.
Orissa Circle has become headless without a regular CPMG w.e.f 04.08.2007. The CPMG West Bengal Circle is holding additional charge of Orissa, The Chief PMG Haryana Circle was shown posted to Orissa but he managed to get his posting in Punjab canceling his posting orders to Orissa. Now Sri A K Dash, PMG Sambalpur is holding current charge of CPMG as Sri S Sarkar CPMG WB Circle (who was holding additional charge of Orissa) has proceeded on leave for one month w.e.19.05.2008.
In the meantime, the next issue of Postal Inspector from CHQ is expected to be received soon. Softcopy of the PI has been received and circulated through e-mail to those who had communicated their e-mail address. As the PI contains news on important issues in detail, I am not going to repeat the same here again.
I have been observing for quite long time now that the administration is very insensitive to the problems of the IP & ASP Cadre. When it comes to extracting work from the cadre, the administration leaves no stone unturned but when genuine problems of the cadre are brought to notice for solution, the administration turns a blind eye. Personally I feel frustrated and agitated by the attitude of the administration towards our cadre. I have written a letter to Sri S Sarkar, CPMG with copy to Regional PMsG on 12.05.2008 bringing to their notice the grievances of our cadre for redressal. Judging by the attitude of the administration I am quite skeptical about getting the solution to the problem. I am of the view that time has come to reconsider our commitment to the various nature of duties entrusted to us and to prepare ourselves to rise against the indifferent attitude of the administration through suitable agitational measures to register our protest through peaceful means and Gandhian methods. This is necessary as we have enough of prayers and petitions in the past without any worthwhile result. We have to shed our practice of acting as deaf and dumb and to get ourselves prepared to unitedly face any eventuality that may happen as a consequence. This is because; the promotion to the cadre of PS Gr.B is no more as attractive as it was used to be in the past. The proverbial Damocles’ sword always hangs over the head of present day Superintendent who now finds his job increasingly difficult with recurring shortage of manpower. For having a discussion on all the issues that affect our cadre by neglect of the administration, I am going to convene a CWC meeting shortly. It is time we stood united and faced the situation as it comes with courage and determination otherwise our cadre will suffer like anything.
Dear Friends,
After a reasonably longer gap of time I am writing to you individually. I have been in the role of Circle Secretary of the Association for 6-7 months. Several events have taken place in the meantime. The changes in different spheres and occasions take place so fast and so frequently that if it is difficult to communicate everything through letter / bulletin on every such occasion. The Circle Secretary has no secretarial assistance to issue communications by post as frequently as the situation demands. On the other hand, the need for making every member of our Association informed of the developments in various fields is also felt unavoidable. In such a situation, information through electronic means is considered the most convenient way. I had requested in the past to communicate e-mail Id of every member to me so that I could pass on the news/information very easily and quickly. But only a very few members have communicated their e-mail Ids. I used to send messages to all such e-mail Ids. I am still waiting for the e-mail Ids of the rest of the members which may be communicated (to the e-mail Id of the Association i.e. aiaipasp.ors@gmail.com) by all concerned as early as possible.
Now, at every Sub-Divisional and Divisional Headquarters there is at least one computerized post office having internet facility. It is expected that the members of our cadre will acquire knowledge about working on computer and internet through their own effort and own interest as early possible. The sooner all members of our Association know working on computer, the better for themselves and for the Department.
To have an easy flow of information as and when any noteworthy event / news take place, I have created a blog (akin to a website but it is absolutely free of any charge) of the Circle Branch of our Association. The address of the blog is as follows:
aiaiasporissa.blogspot.com
Connecting to internet the blogspot can be visited /browsed as frequently as desired. You can verify from the blog that I am regularly posting important news about our Association and the Circle. If you have not visited the blog already, I would request you to take a tour to the blog right now. You can post your comments against every piece of news posted on the blog.
As already mentioned, there are a number of events/ news that have taken place since the last bulletin was issued to you. The notables among them are as follows:
All India Conference of the Association was held in Kolkata on 23-25 January 2008. Sri S B Mahapatra who is the pride of this Circle has been re-elected as the CHQ President.
The Sixth Pay Commission has submitted its report on 24.03.2008. The report is being reviewed by a Group of Secretaries to Govt of India, headed by the Cabinet Secretary. Our General Secretary has already submitted representation meant for Anomaly Committee justifying a demand of pre-revised scale of Rs.6500-10500 for IPs and Rs.7500-12000 for ASPs.
Transfers and postings in IP and ASP Cadres in all the Regions of the Circle have been made. Promotion and postings of PS Gr.B & Gr.A (JTS) have also made.
Orissa Circle has become headless without a regular CPMG w.e.f 04.08.2007. The CPMG West Bengal Circle is holding additional charge of Orissa, The Chief PMG Haryana Circle was shown posted to Orissa but he managed to get his posting in Punjab canceling his posting orders to Orissa. Now Sri A K Dash, PMG Sambalpur is holding current charge of CPMG as Sri S Sarkar CPMG WB Circle (who was holding additional charge of Orissa) has proceeded on leave for one month w.e.19.05.2008.
In the meantime, the next issue of Postal Inspector from CHQ is expected to be received soon. Softcopy of the PI has been received and circulated through e-mail to those who had communicated their e-mail address. As the PI contains news on important issues in detail, I am not going to repeat the same here again.
I have been observing for quite long time now that the administration is very insensitive to the problems of the IP & ASP Cadre. When it comes to extracting work from the cadre, the administration leaves no stone unturned but when genuine problems of the cadre are brought to notice for solution, the administration turns a blind eye. Personally I feel frustrated and agitated by the attitude of the administration towards our cadre. I have written a letter to Sri S Sarkar, CPMG with copy to Regional PMsG on 12.05.2008 bringing to their notice the grievances of our cadre for redressal. Judging by the attitude of the administration I am quite skeptical about getting the solution to the problem. I am of the view that time has come to reconsider our commitment to the various nature of duties entrusted to us and to prepare ourselves to rise against the indifferent attitude of the administration through suitable agitational measures to register our protest through peaceful means and Gandhian methods. This is necessary as we have enough of prayers and petitions in the past without any worthwhile result. We have to shed our practice of acting as deaf and dumb and to get ourselves prepared to unitedly face any eventuality that may happen as a consequence. This is because; the promotion to the cadre of PS Gr.B is no more as attractive as it was used to be in the past. The proverbial Damocles’ sword always hangs over the head of present day Superintendent who now finds his job increasingly difficult with recurring shortage of manpower. For having a discussion on all the issues that affect our cadre by neglect of the administration, I am going to convene a CWC meeting shortly. It is time we stood united and faced the situation as it comes with courage and determination otherwise our cadre will suffer like anything.
Friends, as per the directions issued by the Directorate, a membership verification drive is undertaken to be completed positively before 10.06.2008 by production of authorisation letter to DDOs in the prescribed pro-forma(specimen attached). We have to complete the drive any how by the given time frame or else the credentials of our Association will be at stake which is not at all desirable. There might be some personal reasons for some members of our Association for feeling aggrieved but distancing oneself from the activities of the Association will not help. The Association provides a platform for every member of the IP/ASP Cadre to ventilate the grievances of the cadre as a whole. To ensure this, there is need for every member of the cadre to participate actively in the activities of the Association and stand solidly behind the Circle leadership to follow and implement the decision taken collectively. I will always need your active co-operation and participation in the affairs of the Association to make the Association stronger and stronger.
Two copies of the authorization letter are attached. You are requested to return the same duly filled in and signed as early as possible to enable me to send the same to your DDO by the deadline fixed by the Department.
Previously, I had appealed to send donations of Rs100/- each for the All India conference of our Association against the coupons sent to you. The amount is yet to be received from a number of our members. To recoup the amount already paid to the host Circle, there is need to get the collection from the members who have not sent the amount so far. I would appeal to them to send the amount as early as possible. The names of the members who have paid the amount will be displayed in the blog shortly. You can check up your name there if you have paid it.
Seeking your active co-operation and support always,
Sincerely yours,
B B Mohanty
Circle Secretary
Two copies of the authorization letter are attached. You are requested to return the same duly filled in and signed as early as possible to enable me to send the same to your DDO by the deadline fixed by the Department.
Previously, I had appealed to send donations of Rs100/- each for the All India conference of our Association against the coupons sent to you. The amount is yet to be received from a number of our members. To recoup the amount already paid to the host Circle, there is need to get the collection from the members who have not sent the amount so far. I would appeal to them to send the amount as early as possible. The names of the members who have paid the amount will be displayed in the blog shortly. You can check up your name there if you have paid it.
Seeking your active co-operation and support always,
Sincerely yours,
B B Mohanty
Circle Secretary
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