No. MH/RIII-RIV/COVID-19/Lockdown/Restore Roaster/10/2020-21 Dated: 28/06/2020
To
Shri. H.C.Agrawal, (IPoS)
Chief Postmaster General,
Maharashtra Circle,
Mumbai 400001
Subject: Regarding
restoration of Roaster duty attendance during the serious outbreak of COVID-19
in the interest of precious life of Postal & RMS/MMS employees in
Maharashtra Circle- Request for personal intervention & positive action.
Respected
Sir,
First of all, we are hereby submitting sincere
gratitude to your honour for taking a lot of pain to resolve many issues by
taking decisions in special RCM meeting. Your authoritative attention is
invited to the Para no.11 of your communication dtd.19/05/2020 in which there
were clear instructions to conduct meeting at Regional/divisional level to
resolve the problems at their respective level. Also, we have recollected the
decision taken that review RCM meeting may be extended within one month after a
said RCM. But it is very unfortunate to state that there were no meeting at
Regional level as well as a special RCM review meeting.
It
is very shocking for us that most of the regional administration has abolished
the Roaster duty attendance and ordered staff for 100% attendance when there is
a serious outbreak of COVID-19 in Maharashtra especially Mumbai, Pune,
Aurangabad, Malegaon, Nagpur and Nashik. Your kind attention is invited to the
DO.letter of Hon’ble Secretary Post No.Z-92011/25/2020-Coord/O&M
dtd.18/06/2020 in which it is clearly mentioned that the safety, security of
our employees during due discharge of duties as well as beyond duty hours along
with the family should be given due priority which is self-speaking and
self-explanatory. So it is pertinent to mention that Roaster duty is a purely
preventive measure for Postal employees to save them from COVID-19 infection
and the Roaster attendance is being introduced by Directorate as well as DOPT
only vide OM dtd.18/05/2020. There is no relevance of pendency or accumulation
with Roaster duties as preventive measures and there are no any orders from
Directorate as well as DOPT to abolish Roaster Duties during the serious
outbreak of COVID-19 till this date. Our union wishes to put forth the major
difficulties to Your Honour for sympathetic consideration as follows:
1] The situation is worsening day by day due to the
serious outbreak of COVID-19 and Maharashtra state Government have ordered only
25% attendance in this crises. No one will keep social distancing during or
beyond duty hours if Roaster duties would have been discontinued. According to
Directorate order as well as MHA orders, the local authority should take the
decision according to the situation of serious outbreak COVID-19 by adhering
the decisions of the State Government.
2] There are very serious outbreak in Mumbai, Pune,
Aurangabad, Malegaon, Nagpur and Nashik as well as Delhi as there are several
communications from Directorate for these two states in our country. Delhi
Circle is adhering the Roaster duty attendance then this union sincerely feels
that there should not be two different criteria for the same prevailing
situations in both the Circles.
3] Maharashtra state Government have ordered
complete lockdown in most of the areas of Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan, Dombivali,
Navi Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad & Nagpur etc. as on date which speaks lots
about the tragic situation of Maharashtra Circle. So abolition of Roaster
duties in such crises is nothing but to throw our Postal/RMS/MMS employees into
the dangerous life threat.
4] Some of the authorities are unnecessarily
insisting for 100% attendance which is creating huge resentment among the all
Postal/RMS/MMS employees which will lead to any spontaneous reaction from the
staff members at any time for which that concerned authorities will be held
responsible for any ex-parte implementation.
Your
Honour is therefore requested to kindly access the current tragic position
sympathetically and extend one review meeting for threadbare discussion on this
vital issue as well as measures to cope up the pendency and accumulations
within two days before implementation of the drastic decision of
discontinuation of Roaster duties which is against the interest of precious
lives of our Postal/RMS/MMS employees. It is further requested to kindly issue
necessary strict instructions to all concerned authorities of Maharashtra
Circle to keep held in abeyance the order of discontinuation of Roaster till
the outcome of an awaited meeting for which our union will be grateful to your
kind honour.
A
line of reply and positive action taken in this regards is highly appreciated.
With
warm regards,
Yours sincerely
Sd/- Sd/-
(S N Jadhav) (A
B Shivtare)
Circle
Secretary Circle
Secretary
AIRMS&
MMS Emp EU MG MTS Gr C AIRMS&
MMS Emp EU Gr C
Maharashtra and Goa
Circle Maharashtra
and Goa Circle