CADRE RESTRUCTURING & POSTMASTER CADRE
Several doubts have been raised by Postmaster
Comrades on the status of Postmaster cadre after cadre review of the existing
Post Offices..
The aim of Cadre Review of Post offices
1. To ensure higher responsibilities for
higher pay .
2. To ensure faster promotion avenues than
waiting for MACPs
3. To ensure sufficient Assistants are
identified and Posted in POs
4. To ensure that right person to be engaged
in right post and time.
5. To avoid Deputations to Post carrying less
responsibilities but paid more.
Postmaster Cadre
1. Cadre is newly created in 2011
2. Need to complete 5 years for cadre review .
3. Cadre review will be different from the
Group C cadre review.
4. Cadre is not for the Post , it is
identified for management of selected offices like LSG and Above which require
special management skills
Whether Cadre review can be done for the
present Grade I , II and III post offices..
1. NO . Cadre review is not applicable for
Present Grade I , II and III post offices..
2. When Post offices less that the Grade I ,
II and III are being upgraded to next level, the same is to be followed to
grade I , II and III .
3. This will apply automatically after cadre
review of the other POs..
Then why Cadre review required for POSTMASTER
CADRE
1. Every cadre needs to be reviewed every 5
years for additions , upgradation and other development in the cadre.
2. Since 5 years have been completed in Grade
I , II,III , proposal for cadre review has been placed to DOPT. along with the
implementation of Group C cadre review..
Whether there would be a necessity for grade I
officials to take up posts like single, double and triple handed Post offices
and leaving the present Grade I Post for Upgradation to Grade II level..
1. May be..............There are wider chances
that if the Present Post of Grade I in the Present carved out LSG offices are
placed in 4200/- at par with HSG II ( 4200/-) , then if the proposal for
placing the Grade I officials at 4200/- is being rejected..
2. May not be....... There is wider chances
that if the present Post of Grade I in the Present carved out LSG offices are
placed in 4200/- at par with HSG II (4200/-), then if the Proposal for placing
the offices at 4200/- is being accepted in line with the cadre review of Group
C.
What if Postmaster cadre officials take up
lesser offices than the present identified offices with the same grade pay
structure...
1. The Department wanted to carve out suitable
and efficient officials from the department for special training and placement
in Identified Post to manage the Post Offices in a better way..
2. The Department succeeding in the first
level in creating and polishing the cadre..
3. It was unfortunate that the Head of
Department retired from service within short period without providing the
future path way for the Post.
4. Officers joined latter have to drag the
same until now without any enrichment ideas.
5. Now the Department is being considering for
immediate cadre review of the Postmaster Cadre so that it can be placed in line
with the other existing cadres in the department.
6. If the Department fails to review the
Postmaster cadre , then the existing officials have to take up the newly
identified posts after cadre review of the Group C post and offices,
7. At present the Officials are provided with
lesser grade pay but are being forced to work in offices with very high and
heavy responsibilities..
8. It would be quiet natural that the present
official would expect higher pay for higher responsibilities..
9. when the officials are reallocated to
different offices where there is lesser work and responsibilities and brought
to the existing same offices with high pay , the recession would be solved .
10. But the Department would plan to bring the
present Grade I offices and Posts to 4200/- a step higher than the present LSG
Grade Pay
BECAUSE..
" IF POSTMASTER GRADE I IS NOT PLACED AT 4200/- THEN THERE WILL BE NO PARTICIPANTS FOR THE FORTHCOMING POSTMASTER GRADE I EXAMINATION "
" WHY SHOULD WE TRY TO GET 2800/- WHEN IT AUTOMATICALLY COMES AT 8 TO 10 YEARS OF SERVICE AFTER CADRE REVIEW
"WHEN THE IP POSTS ARE PLACED AT 4600/- IT WILL BE QUIET STUPID TO WRITE POSTMASTER GRADE I EXAM FOR PLACEMENT IN 2800/- AND EVEN CANNOT TAKE UP IP EXAM AFTER ENTERING INTO THE POSTMASTER CADRE "
Hence it is quiet natural that the existing
officials would be sitting with much higher expectations . NFPE and other
associations have taken up different issues in this regard . But we shall wait
for the Department for implementation of Cadre review for Group C and see what
happens to the Grade I , II and III offices already identified..
Finally , the Department is also planning to
identify Postmaster Cadre for POST OFFICE PAYMENT BANK.. sources say that the
present officers of grade I , II, III will need to lead the POPB at urban /
rural levels co-ordinating the other branches.
They may also be placed at Branch Managers for
POPB with additional pay benefits , since the present Grade I , II , III
offices does not come under Cadre review ..
Lets expect the best out........
Courtesy: NFPE Coimbatore.