No.25-04/2012-PE-I
(Vol.II)
Government of lndia
Ministry of
Communications
Department of Posts
(PE-I Section)
Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi – 110001
Dated: 10th November,
2017
To,
All Heads of Circles,
Subject:
Cadre Restructuring of Group ‘C’ employees in Department of Posts.
Sir/Madam,
The Cadre Restructuring
Order of Group ‘C’ employees was issued vide this office letter of even number
dated 27.05.2016. Later on, some Circles requested for further clarification,
which were issued vide this office letter of even number dated 11.11.2016.
However, Circles still faced with problems while implementing the orders.
2. Issues like norms for
allotment of number of LSG posts, instructions for identification of surplus
LSG posts other than C and B class POs, identification of HSG-I (NFG) posts,
divisionalisation of LSG Cadre, relaxation of minimum qualifying service for
promotion to HSG-II and HSG-I and date of effect of the orders etc. needed
further clarification.
3. Therefore, on
representation of various Staff Unions to the Secretary (Posts) regarding the
issues arising out of implementation of Cadre Restructuring, a Committee was
constituted vide Office Order of even number dated 09.06.2017, under the Chairmanship
of Sh. Charles Lobo, CPMG Karnataka Circle and DDG (Estt), PMG (M&BD),
Chennai and PMG, Pune Region as its members to examine all such issues. The
Committee after thorough consultation, including one with the staff
representatives, submitted its report on 22.09.2017.
4. The recommendations of
the Committee, as accepted by the Competent Authority, are as under:-
4.1 Uniform Guidelines
for identifying the surplus LSG posts other than Single Handed and Double
Handed (C and B Class) Post Offices:
(i) Treasurer posts
should not be identified for upgradation as Treasurer posts are PA posts with
special cash handling allowance.
(ii) The posts of System
Administrator, Marketing Executive, DO (PLI) etc. are not cadre specific posts.
Therefore, any suitable official can be deployed against these posts.
(iii) As per the
Recruitment Rules, the PAs of Foreign Posts are recruited separately and
trained for Foreign Post. But on promotion to LSG they are transferable to
other LSG posts on postal side and vice versa. Hence extending the benefit of
cadre restructuring to officials of Foreign Post in LSG and above cadres is in
order as far as foreign post is concerned. Only Mumbai Foreign Post is treated
as separate Foreign Post unit.
(iv) The present cadre
restructuring order is not applicable to RLO. Hence RLO staff should not be
included in cadre restructuring.
(v) After upgrading C and
8 class SPM posts to LSG remaining LSG posts allotted to the Circle can be
utilized as per functional requirement. The officials occupying these
restructured LSG posts will have either or both supervisory and operative
responsibilities as per allocation ofwork by competent authority.
(vi) The SPMs posts of C
and B class post offices are upgraded to LSG without following the LSG norm of
5:1. Therefore, it is not practicable to prescribe the norm for other
restructured LSG posts. Number of posts to be created in each office will be as
per functional requirement.
(vii) Accountants are
Postal Assistants only who have passed the PO & RMS Accountants
examination. They are eligible for promotion as per Recruitment Rules. Norm
based LSG accountants posts can be upgraded to HSG II within the number of
posts allotted to the circle.
(viii) The post of
Accountant in Divisional Office can be upgraded to LSG. If there is more than
one post of Accountant in HPOs, some may be upgraded to LSG while leaving some
others for time scale Accountants.
(ix) More Posts may be
identified in bigger offices like HPOs and MDGs. It is not possible to specify
the number of posts as the staff strength and functional requirements vary from
office to office. Thereafter PM Grade-III/HSG I pre restructured HPOs may be
given preference for creation of posts. PM Grade II/HSG II HPOs, PM Grade
III/HSG I MDG, PM Grade II/ HSG II SO/MDG, (all pre restructured) may be
preferred for creation of posts in that order based on functional requirement.
Circles should ensure that the posts are not disproportionately concentrated in
a few offices/cities.
(x) In charge CPC,
Foreign post (except Mumbai Foreign Post), PSD and CSD or other offices can be
considered for upgradation of posts to LSG.
(xi) If Circles are left
with surplus LSG posts, then limited number of posts in Divisional Office and
important delivery offices may be identified for upgradation.
(xii) All the posts of
SPMs in B and C class offices should be upgraded to LSG and all LSG norm based
and A class offices should be upgraded to HSG II as a result of the
implementation of the orders.
4.2 Identification of NFG
posts in HSG I: Only 10 percent of HSG I posts i.e. 235 posts have been
approved for NFG scale. Therefore it is not possible to promote all HSG I
officials who are completing 2 years of service in HSG I. Although there is
need to identify these posts for promotion from HSG l, in order to avoid
inconvenience to staff in the initial stage and purely as a temporary measure, the
officials can be given NFG on the basis of seniority wherever they are posted
in HSG l by upgrading the HSG I post to NFG and simultaneously downgrading the
NFC position to HSG-I elsewhere. In due course of time the posts need to be
identified.
4.3 LSG Cadre: The
Committee examined the issue of Divisionalization of LSG Cadre. The Committee
observed that there are some mofussil Divisions which have more B and C class
offices now upgraded to LSG but are having very less HSG II and HSG I offices.
On the other hand there will be city Divisions where the number of B and C
class post offices now upgraded to LSG are very less. Divisionalization will
provide less opportunity for staff of these divisions to get LSG promotion and
in turn affect their HSG promotions. The Divisionalization will create
promotional disparity between employees in different Divisions. Therefore, the
Committee’s recommendation not to Divisionalize LSG cadre has been accepted. It
will remain a circle cadre. However, for better management of transfer and
postings and to minimize inconvenience to the staff, Circle would allot
officials to Regions for further allotment to Divisions, which in turn shall
issue the posting orders in case. of the LSG officials and rotational transfer
orders thereafter till such time that they remain allotted to that Division by
the Region. At any time the Circle or Region may allot these LSG officials to
any other Region or Division respectively.
4.4 Revision of Leave
Reserve (LR) strength consequent upon upgradation to LSG. It has been observed
that consequent on cadre restructuring the LR strength would be considerably
reduced. The Committee observed that the postmaster in restructured LSG grade
working in B and C class offices have to do operative work. Similarly
restructured LSG PAs in other post offices have to do operative/supervisory
work. Therefore, the Committee’s recommendation that considering the PA
strength and the restructured LSG strength for calculation of LR strength will
be in order, has been accepted.
4.5 Date of Effect of the
Orders and completion of restructuring: For the sake of uniformity, the
promotion will be effective from the date of issue of the original order dated
27.05.2016 as per existing instructions on the subject. It will be applicable to
all eligible officials including those who were in service but now retired.
5. The rationalization of
posts, as recommended by the Committee and accepted by the Competent Authority,
is attached as Annexure-I.
6. In view of the above,
all the Circles are requested to take immediate necessary action to implement
the Cadre Restructuring of Group ‘C’ employees, keeping in view the above
instructions without any further delay. All attempts should be made to complete
the exercise of conducting DPCs by 31.12.2017 and the whole exercise, including
transfer/posting Orders, must be completed by 31.01.2018.
Yours faithfully
sd/-
(Tarun Mittal)
Asstt. Director General
(PE-I)
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