National Federation of Postal Employees
1st
Floor North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001
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No.
PF-66 /2016 Dated
: 12th November,2016
To
Shri
B.V. Sudhakar,
Secretary, Department
of Posts,
Dak
Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001
Sub: Demonetization Scheme
of Government of India. Problems being faced by
the Staff in POs-Reg.
Sir,
Under demonetization scheme, Post Offices have also been
entrusted work of deposit and exchange of withdrawn old series currency notes
of Denomination of Rs. 500/- and 1000/- on par with Banks. There is vast
difference in the infrastructure and facilities between Banks and Post
Officers.
2 The problems being faced by the staff
are mentioned below:
(i) There
is no note counting machines in most of the Sub Post Offices. As the cash is
coming for deposit in huge quantity so the counting machines are required in
each Sub Post Office. This process will continue upto 30th December, 2016 and
there is possibility that the Government may extend the date, so the counting
machines should be supplied as early as possible.
(ii) Fake
currency detecting machines are
also required to detect the fake
currency notes because due to heavy rush it will be very difficult for
staff working on counters to identify
the notes so the poor postal employees may be safe guarded to become victim of loss.
(iii) The working hours of Post Offices have been fixed from 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m. This is totally impractical and harassment of staff particularly for
those who are working in SOs .As in SOs there is no cash remitting facilities. Cash
to SOs is supplied from HOs. No where cash reaches at 8 A.M. For remittance of
cash to and from SOs, no proper arrangement has been made by the local
authorities. Remittance of cash by the staff working in SOs to HO in late hours
is very risky as there are no safety arrangements. Necessary instructions in
this regard may be issued to all concerned.
(iv) All
single handed sub post offices should be provided one additional hand till the
finalization of this demonetization scheme so that other works of Pos may also
run smoothly.
(v) Orders
should be issued to accept WOS notes for other Government deposits like
PLI/RPLI and other SB Schemes etc because when one person in single handed SO is giving WOS notes to deposit or exchange
in one side and if it is refused to deposit in PLI/RPLI and other SB Schemes ,
it is accepted this becomes cause of
quarrel. So necessary orders may be issued in this regard.
(vi) Proper
security arrangements should be made in all Pos and particularly, for lady
employees working in SOs at far off places should be provided conveyance
facility with security in late hours.
(vii) For extra working hours and for holidays and Sundays
remuneration at par with Banks should be paid to the all postal employees
deployed in this work. It has come to our notice that Banks are paying award @
Rs.3000/- per day to officers and @ Rs.2000/- per day to subordinate staff and lunch
& dinner allowance @ Rs.500/- per day.
Same may be paid to Postal Employees.
(viii) The huge amount of WOS notes is being accumulated in the
Treasuries of HPOs with whom remitting is made and the SBI is refusing to
accept the same Therefore, it is requested that the higher authorities of RBI
and SBI should be contacted to cause the orders for their branches to accept the WOS Cash from HOs so that
surplus cash may be cleared from the treasuries of HPOs.
It is therefore, requested to kindly
cause suitable action on all above mentioned problems so that the aggrieved
Postal Staff may get some relief.
With regards,
Yours
Sincerely,
(R.N. Parashar)
Secretary
General
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