Cadre Restructuring of Group 'C' employees in Department of Posts
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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