New Central Government under the leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister
Shri. Narendra Modi has taken charge with a clear majority in the Lok
Sabha election. People of the country and the Central Government
employees who suffered a lot under the UPA Government, have voted for a
change. Now it is the turn of NDA Government. Coming days will prove
whether the selection made by the voters is correct or not.
Central Government employees
have to take a cautious approach towards the new Government. As the new
Government has just taken over charge and expectations are very high,
jumping into any sudden conclusion may not be correct on our part. We
have to give reasonable time to the new government to make its stand
clear on the issues agitating the minds of the Central Government
employees. Let us hope that our past experience in the 2000 December 14
days Postal strike when the NDA Government was in power, the support
extended by the party leading NDA to the UPA Government for introducing
and passing the PFRDA Bill in Parliament, the infamous downsizing order
of 2001 issued by the NDA Government which paved way for abolition of
thousands of vacant posts in Central Government Departments and refusal
to concede any of the main demands of Gramin Dak Sevaks will not be
repeated by the new Government.
The maiden budget of the new
Government to be presented in Parliament in July 2014 may give us an
idea on the thinking of the Government and also the attitude of the
Government towards the problems faced by the common people and the
Central Government employees. Confederation of Central Government
Employees and Workers has placed our demands before the new Government.
JCM National Council staff side has also written to the Finance
Minister and Cabinet Secretary. Our demands are not new. Demands
raised before the UPA Government are again placed before the NDA
Government.
While constituting 7th Central
Pay Commission the UPA Government has refused to include the main
demands of the Central Government employees in the terms of reference
viz: (1) Grant of merger of DA (2) Grant of interim relief and (3)
inclusion of Gramin Dak Sevaks under the purview of 7th CPC.
Confederation has conducted 48 hours strike in February 2014, just
before the General Election is declared, demanding settlement of the 15
points charter of demands which includes the above three main demands
also. As General Election was declared we could not move further.
Central Government employees expect that the new Government will
consider positively, the demands raised in the 48 hours strike.
If the new Government also
take the same stand as that of previous UPA Government and refuse to
concede our genuine demands, the Central Government employees will be
forced to tread the path of struggle again. Before embarking upon such a
struggle, our prime duty is to build up largest unity among all
sections of the Central Government employees. Confederation is making
all out effort in this direction especially to build up total unity
among JCM staff side organisations. We are even ready to make certain
compromises for the sake of unity.
We have to give enough time to
the new Government and we are ready to wait. But we cannot wait
indefinitely. 7th CPC has already commenced its work and has fixed
target dates for submission of memorandums by Federations and
Unions/Associations. Chairman, 7th CPC, has also made it clear that
unless the Government refer the issues of DA merger, Interim relief and
GDS issues to the Commission, it will not consider these issues. Hence
the ball is now in the Government’s court. Let us see how the things
move. Let us also be ready to face any situation.
M. Krishnan
Secretary General
Source http://confederationhq.blogspot.in/
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