Rajya Sabha member and Chief Editor of The Pioneer Chandan Mitra on Friday observed that the assets of the Department of Posts are vast national resources which should be used to maximise the benefit to the nation and bolster the financial performances of the department.
He was inaugurating the Seventh Biennial Conference of the Bhubaneswar Divisional Branch of the All-India Postal Employees’ Union (AIPEU), Group-C here.
His observation came in the backdrop of the situation where the postal authorities have nine plots of land in Bhubaneswar but a lot of their official activities are operating from rented premises with dilapidated buildings and poor infrastructure.
Mitra pointed out that historically the postal department and the Indian Railway have functioned as pillars of national unity and integration, but in the present rapidly changing scenario the postal activities must be transformed to keep in step with the changes in the modern world and face the competition without diluting the their character.
He said that the move of the Government to give the post offices the role of a bank and route the MGNREGA remittances through them is an indicator of the important role that the 1,55,000-outlet- strong postal service can play in providing service to more than six lakh villages in the country.
Mitra assured the AIPEU members that he along with some Odisha MPs would meet the departmental Union Minister Sachin Pilot and draw his attention to their grievances.
Lok Sabha member from Odisha Mohan Jena, who also spoke on the occasion, promised the union members that he would continue to fight for their cause in New Delhi.
MLA of Bhubaneswar (Central) Bijay Kumar Mohanty observed that in spite of the Odisha having two GPOs while many other States have only one, the postal department has continued to ignore the State in providing infrastructure and amenities for customer service.
Chairman of Reception Committee for the conference and MLA Jeetu Patnaik urged the MPs to take up the grievances of the employees with the authorities in Delhi.
The session saw felicitation of retired departmental employees, including Pranab Kumar Das who lost a limb in the parcel bomb incident a few years ago. The employees demanded provision of detectors of such bombs in post offices among other issues.
The conference was presided over by president of AIPEU Bhubaneswar Divisional Branch Purna Chandra Das.
Courtesy : The Pioneer, April 7, 2012
AIPEUP3bbsr DIVNL BRANCH IS FORTUNATE TO HAVE A NATIONAL LEADER CUM JOURNALIST AS WELL AS A WRITER LIKE DR. CHANDAN MITRA IN 7TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE .HE IS A MAN OF COMMITMENT. HIS EFFORT AT DELHI LEVEL WILL DEFINITELY HELP THE UNION TO ACHIEVE SOME DEMANDS. CONFERENCE OF BBSR DIVISION SEEMS TO BE A NATIONAL LEVEL CONFERENCE.
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