By Express News Service - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
14th March 2013
The 29th all-India conference of the National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE) affiliated to the All-India Postal Employees Union Group C on Tuesday adopted a resolution chalking out agitational programmes to secure long-pending pending demands.
According to the resolution, though the govt had declared the draft National Postal Policy 2012, it was nothing but a roadmap to privatisation of postal services by amending the Indian Postal Act and granting licences to multinational courier services. The govt was planning to close down post offices in the name of running at a loss. Posts are being abolished without any justification in post offices while the workload has increased for employees with no new posts being created.
Cadre restructuring and other sectional issues are yet to be settled. The NFPE had earlier taken the initiative in organising agitational programmes including launching indefinite strikes and as a result the Postal Dept was compelled to stop the move to close 9,797 post offices. The govt is reluctant to settle the issues related to Gramin Dak Sevaks and causal labourers. “Only through a struggle of entire postal employees, can the anti-labour policies of the govt be resisted and the pending issues of postal employees be resolved,” the resolution said.