Letter to GS

AIAIPASP/Kar/1-3 /2010 Dated 15.07.2010
To
Sri Roopochand
General Secretary
All India Association of Inspector Posts
and Assistant Superintendent Posts
New Delhi

Dear Comrade,
The Circle Working Committee of Karnataka circle was held on 10-07-2010. During the meeting our members have shown their anguish regarding clearing the proposal of merger of IP ASP cadre as approved by the last All India conference. The AIAIASP has already mentioned during the discussion on the issue on 05.04.2010 with the authorities in the Directorate that merger of IP & ASP cadres is acceptable in order to get GP of Rs.4600/- for the merged cadre. AIAIASP Karnataka Circle was hoping that the General Secretary would be doing something soon to get the aspirations of the IPs and ASPs fulfilled. But time passed by and hopes continued to remain unfulfilled. Impatience and lack of confidence in the Association must led to filing of a CAT in Kerala State Ernakulam Bench. Now as per information available on CHQ blog, action of the Department is stalled reportedly on the ground that the matter is sub judice. The plea is simply misleading as there is no order from any quarter restraining the Govt to upgrade the GP of IPs. This was the view expressed by the Director when the All India President Sri Dinesh Khare along with the GS met the Officers in the Directorate on 24-06-2010. This matter was confirmed by the President during our CWC meeting. I hope the Department is testing our patience and observing our suffering silently but is doing nothing worthwhile to address the issue with required amount of sincerity and promptitude.

The IPs and ASPs are helplessly waiting for the outcome of the CAT case in Ernakulam Bench which is filed by individual endeavour. The Department is repeating its old practice of showing no concern for IPs and ASPs. The cadre could do nothing when it was placed in equal status in Pay with TBOP officials in IV CPC. The cadre review was shelved even after getting Presidential sanction in 1989 for creation of 248 Gr. B posts. No cadre review has been done for IP cadre since 1981. There is no upgradation of GP of IPs so far on par with the analogous posts in other Departments and Ministries of the Department. Now with implementation of MACPS, the IPs have been virtually reduced to the status of Overseers of Mails in terms of GP. Instances of neglecting this cadre are many. On the other hand the responsibility and workload of IPs and ASPs are increasing day by day. Target of PLI/ RPLI and other business schemes for them have played havoc. Also in rise are the warnings, punishments and issue of notices for recovery of huge amount on account of contributory negligence for the cadre members.

The Department knows very well that there is no problem in getting various work extracted from this cadre even without conceding anything to them. So the Department treats this cadre accordingly. Take the case of other cadres, particularly, the Class-III, by contrast. The Govt. is very much obliged to negotiate with them even when it feels that it cannot simply meet many of their demands. The courtesy and the respect with which the Department treats Class-III Union functionaries is nowhere to be seen for the IP /ASP Association.

Going by its past behaviour the IP cadre will continue to suffer. Mr Samuel our erstwhile GS has worked a lot for getting something to this cadre but ultimately the grade pay issue was not resolved. After the All India Conference we thought that you, being stationed in Delhi and being a local officer will do something to this cadre. But during the CWC meeting our members expressed their displeasure that the GS is not at all pursuing the matter at the Directorate and get the things done. It is very much clear that the, matter may not be sub judice until the administration restrained from court to take the matters further. However the Hon CAT asked the Dept to respond in the case. Will you please find out what the reply given by the Dept to the Hon CAT.

Meanwhile, the DG during the address in the last conference asking us to put some political pressure on the Finance Ministry for the upgradation issue. We hope that you have got your own coterie and bring about required political pressure. We at our level would like to meet the Mr Veerappa Moily , the Hon Minister for Law during his next visit.

With this we sum up that our members have still faith in you but we want something positive should happen at the earliest so that we can at least be happy that we the supervisors are kept above the supervised in the Dept and feel that the administration is listening our plea and the cry of the grass root managers is finally heard by the administration.
Thanking you
Yours sincerely

(Naveen Chandar)
Copy to:
All the Circle Secretaries for information
All India Association of Inspector Posts and Assistant Superintendent Posts,
Karnataka Circle
AIAIPASP/Kar/1-2 /2010
Dated 12.07.2010