Memorandum submitted against the proposed revision of Recruitment Rules of IPoS Group-A
To
The Director General
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan
Sansad Marg
New Delhi 110 001
Madam,
Sub:- Draft
Revised Recruitment Rules for IPoS Group-A -
Submission of Memorandum regarding
Ref:- Directorate
letter No.4-10/2013-SPG dated 11-12-2014.
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As you may be
aware that Postal Officers Association, India is representing Postal Services
Group-B officers and Indian Postal
Service Group-A officers promoted from the PSS Group-B. Consequent to the promotion of the office bearers of the Association, we are in the process of reconstituting the
CHQ. As it would take some time, Postal Officers Association, Kerala Circle
has been authorized to submit this memorandum on the proposed revision to the
Recruitment Rules for IPoS Group-A.
Accordingly, the following views are presented to you for your benign
consideration and we request that the views expressed here may be considered
before proceeding with the final notification of the Revised Recruitment Rules.
2. One of the suggestions made in the
draft recruitment rules is to revise the ratio of recruitment to JTS
Group-A from the present 25:75 to 50:50.
As per the existing recruitment rules,
The vacancies in JTS Group-A are filled in the ratio of 25:75 and as per
this, officers in PSS Group-B are eligible to be considered against 75% quota
of the vacancies arising in a year while 25% will go to Direct Recruitment from
the Civil Service. The move to revise
this ratio will cause irreparable damage to the promotional prospects of PSS
Group-B officers who are already made to wait for more than 8 years to get
their promotion to JTS Group-A. There
are 67 JTS posts and 198 STS posts in the Department and as per the existing
orders, STS posts can be toggled with JTS if sufficient number of eligible
officers are not available for promotion to STS. As per the Civil list published, after
eliminating the names of retired and promoted officers, there are approximately
131 officers in JTS and 43 officers in STS making the overall strength as
174. Of the 131 JTS officers, 65
officers are Direct Recruits from the Civil Service and among the STS, 8 are
from the Civil Service. As per the
circulated seniority list of PS Group-B officers, there are more than 150
officers who have completed the minimum prescribed service of three years and
have become eligible for promotion to JTS.
If the ratio of 25:75 is revised as 50:50, the present delay of eight years to get JTS will further go up to
ten years. Officers who were promoted to
PS Group-B prior to 2008 are still waiting for their promotion. The PS Group B examination has also not been
conducted for the last several years.
Even if the available PS Group-B vacancies are reported by the Circles,
the allotment of PS Group-B officers to the Circle is just not adequate. Thus all the available channels for the IP
line officers to reach PS Group-B and thereafter to JTS Group-A are blocked in
one way or the other. In the draft
recruitment rules for IPoS JTS Group-A, another suggestion has been made to
reduce the minimum prescribed service for PS Group B Officers to become JTS
Group-A as two years. This suggestion
will not have any impact as PS Group B officers are already made to wait more than 8 years for getting their JTS promotion. Therefore, this Association strongly oppose
the move to revise the present quota of 75% of
JTS vacancies for PS Group-B as 50%.
Many Group-B officers in the last few years had to retire without
getting their regular JTS promotion
though the prescribed minimum service required is only three years. If the minimum service required is reduced
as two years, the present ratio of 75%
for PS Group B and 25% from Civil Service should continue so that maximum no.
of officers in PS Group B would become eligible. As mentioned above, out of 265 posts (JTS and
STS put together), about 191 posts are lying vacant. It is not because there is dearth of eligible
PS Group-B officers. Even if some STS
posts are earmarked for those officers who are officiating in JAG, it is possible to grant promotion to the
eligible PS Group B officers against the remaining vacancies. The Association, therefore, requests to
assess the vacancy position correctly and take quick action to fill up all the
JTS vacancies by convening DPC.
Directorate should also promptly publish the year-wise vacancy position
in JTS and STS every year and report the vacancies for filling up through DPC.
At present the Association and its members are kept in dark about the
probable date of DPC for JTS and STS promotion, about the extent of vacancies
proposed to be filled etc. The reality
in the field units is that large number of JTS and STS posts are lying vacant,
indefinitely for a long period and eligible PS Group-B officers are at the
mercy of the Circle administration for getting adhoc promotion to JTS at the fag end of their career as they
get a fixation benefit when promoted to the JTS scale.
2. In the draft proposal, no
consideration is seen given to officers
promoted from Postal
Service Group B to Indian Postal Service Group A.
This Association has already submitted a memorandum both to Directorate
and to the 7th CPC to consider granting direct promotion to PS
Grou-B officers to STS in the pay scale
of Rs.15600-39100 with GP Rs.6600/-.(Copy enclosed). PS Group-B officers on completion of 4 years
regular service are granted GP of Rs.5400/- and after 8 years, they get JTS
promotion to the same GP of Rs.5400/- but in the scale of Rs.15600/- to
Rs.39100/-. Except a fixation benefit,
there is no hike in the emoluments. In the
Department of Posts, there
is no functional difference
in respect of Superintendents
in PS
Group B and Group-A. Moreover, there are 198 STS posts against 67
JTS posts in the ratio of 3:1. There is
also a long pending demand for career restructure for PS Group-B. Though in page-13 of the draft revised
recruitment rules, the pay scale of PS Group-B is wrongly mentioned as
Rs.15600-39100 with GP Rs.4800/- instead of 9300-37400 with GP Rs.4800/-, it
would be appropriate if the
Officers borne in PS
group B are given the pay scale of Rs.15600-39100 with GP
Rs.5400/- and thereafter directly promoted to STS Grade.
3. The
Association requests to consider the above suggestions and call us for a discussion before taking a
decision on the proposed revision to the Recruitment Rules.
Yours faithfully,
(C.R. Ramakrishnan)
Secretary
Postal Officers Association,India
Kerala Circle.
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