Dear Comrades
The following are the resolutions adopted by the 24th all India Conference Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers held at Kolkatta.
- Against the anomalies in MACP/ACP
- To upgrade the Pay Scale of LDC & UDC with Grade Pay of Rs2400 and 2800 respectively
- To enhance the Rate of Overtime Allowance
- To enhance the Rate of Night Duty Allowance and to remove the ceiling
- Against the closure of the Government Offices
- To Rationalise all Minerals of the Country
- To declare 1st May – MAY DAY – as National Holiday
- Demanding stringent action against Scam and corruption
- To Scrap the New Pension Scheme
- To ensure Five promotion in the Service Carrier
- For permanent negotiating machinery with All India Federations/Associations recognized under CCS (RSA) Rules 1993 apart from JCM Forum
- To rectify the deficiencies in the existing DA pattern
- For parity in the pay of Secretariat Staff and filed office staff – ministerial and auxiliary staff
- To rectify the discrepancies in the Transport Allowance – IT Exemption, TA for field staff who are away from office on tour, etc
- To improve the CGHS Facilities – entitlement of wards in Hospital under CGHS based on Pay in PB + GP, Revision of packages, Empanelment of more Hospital in CGHS, etc
- To remove the restriction in compassionate Ground Appointment
- To Amend the Bonus Act on various clauses – Ensure 8.33% of the Gross salary as Bonus, Removal of ceiling on Bonus, etc
- To ratify the ILO conventions No 87,98, 151 & 154 to grant of all civilian and trade union rights including the right to strike for Government Employees
- Against downsizing, out sourcing and contracturisation
- To fill up all vacancies in all Central Government Establishments and remove ban on recruitment
- To implement the arbitration awards
- For improvement in the House Building Advances – To reduce the rate of interest, One more chance to avail HBA who already taken earlier to improve the existing accommodation, allowing to avail HBA for extension, renovation of exiting own accommodations, HBA for purchasing resale flats/houses
- To exempt Children education Allowance from Income Tax
- To restore the Rate of Interest on GPF to 12%
- To revise various Allowances such as Winter Allowances, Hill Compensatory Allowances, Tribal Allowances, etc. and to ensure the rate on par with the concerned state Governments.
- To revise the Gratuity equal to last drawn one month salary and to extend the gratuity to the employees joined after 01.1.2004
- Restore two increments or more on acquiring additional qualifications
- To enhance – double the CEGIS coverage limit
- To remove the anomalies in the pay of Direct Recruitees and the promotees in the all cadre
- To allow Air fare to the employees of North Eastern Region for the purpose of LTC, TA, Travel on medical ground on referral
- To enhance all Allowances such as DA, HRA, Special Allowances by 25% from the date of attaining DA 50%
- To extend CCL to the single parent – i.e. in case of the mother expired
- To sanction special leave for cancer patent for treatment
- To extend medical re imbursement for fertility treatment at least for first sitting
- To treat Kalpakkam as a satellite town of Chennai and Tarapur as a satellite town of Mumbai for the purpose of HRA
- To give one more option to switch over from CPF to GPF
- To remove the ceiling of Patient Care Allowances
- To place the Temporary Status employees joined before 2004 and regularized later into Statutory pension Scheme
- To modify the OM issued by Dept of Expenditure to fix the Pay on promotion to a post carrying higher duties and responsibilities carrying the same grade pay by deleting the reference previous OM by the Department issued in the year 2000, i.e. prior to the implementation of 6th CPC
- For extending Pension to the employees of Brahmaputra Board, Assam
- To extend one increment to those employees retiring in between January and June
- To notify the Recruitment Rule/Promotion Norms for Canteen employees
- To Extend the payment of arrears to all employees working in audit and accounting organizations from 01.01.1196 to 18.02.2003 as per the Supreme Court verdict pronounced in the case of Sebastian & Others Vs. Govt. of India
- To Extend the benefit given to Venkat Raman while implementing ACP by the Railway Board as per the Supreme Court to all other similar placed employees
- To stepping up the Pay Scale of Seniors on par with the juniors who are elevated on account of ACPs
- To abolish the license fee for the Departmental Quarters allotted to the employees since the HRA is recovering fully.
- To allow PF withdrawal for second or third time for similar purposes such as purchase of house Plot, Flat, construction of House, etc
- To vacate All Trade Union Victimisation
Fraternally Yours
GS