Re-verification of Membership - Responsibility of Divisions and Circles.

It is a great victory for us that the Madras High Court had disposed off the Writ filed by BPEU Cl.III Union seeking withdrawal of Trade Union facilities of Group C Unions affiliated to FNPO & NFPE. Now the stay granted gets vacated.

However, the present verification procedure followed by the Department is not a foolproof system. In the past verifications many DDOs furnished incorrect membership figure to the Circles and in some cases the Circles also furnished incorrect information to the D.G., Posts. In the year 2000 verification, the NUGDS was able to set right many mistakes after getting full information from branches/circles. Even then one or two Circles did not respond to the letters of the NUGDS CHQ.

I sought NUPE Gr.C membership thro' RTI Act for a particular Circle recently. The information furnished was not correct. Some Divisions had furnished AIPEU Gr.C membership to me. The Divisional Administrations does not know the difference between NUPE Gr.C and AIPEU Gr.C. This is the situation prevailing now.

Unless the Divisional Unions furnish the total number of membership applicatioins accepted by the Divisional Administrations to the Circle Union and CHQ, there is no possibility for cross checking the figures by the Circle Unions at the Circle Office and by the CHQ at the Directorate level.

Hence it is now the responsibility of the Circle Secretaries to get the figrues from the Divisions and verify the same with the Circle Office figures furnished to the Popstal Directorate. The Circle Secretaries should then forward the membership figures supplied by the Circles to the CHQ immediately to enable the CHQ to verify the same with the Directorate.- -

Prime Minister's Award for INDIA POST

We are very proud of winning the award for Excellence in Public Administration for Project Arrow programme for the year 2008 – 09. The Secretary, Dept. of Posts received the award on behalf of the department on 21.04.10 in a function held in New Delhi from the Prime Minister. The Department had given wide publicity in the Print Media today.

To my disappointment, there is no mention about the employees contribution for achieving the excellence performance in the advertisement given by the department. It is needless to mention again and again about the ordeals and hardships faced by the employees to achieve this excellence performance.

I hope atleast now, the department would realize that but for the employees total involvement and tireless contribution, this is not possible and consult the staff side to achieve more excellence performance in the days to come and solve the problems put forth hitherto immediately.

Membership Verification

I hope all of you would have been busy in procuring Membership application forms and I remind you that the same should be handed over to your Divisional Superintendents positively on 26/04/2010.

= P.S.BABU