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.- -