No.
25-04 / 2ot2-PE-l (vol.ll)
Government
of India
Ministry
of Communications
Department
of Posts IPE-l Section)
Dak
Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi - 110001
Dated:
1Oth November, 2017 ,
The Cadre Restructuring Order of Group 'C'
employees was issued vide this office letter of even number dated 27 .05.2076.
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 LSC posts other
than C and B class POs, identification of HSC-l (NFG) posts, divisionalisation
of LSG Cadre, relaxation of minimum qualifying service for promotion to HSG-ll
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&llD), 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. 'l'he recommendations of the
Committee, as accepted by the Competent Authority, are as under:- 4.7 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. ai-e 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. [{ence extending the benefit of cadre restructuring to officials of
foreign Post in LSG and above cadres is in Page 1of 4 To, All Heads of Circles,
Subject: Cadre Restructuring of Group 'C' employees in Department of Posts 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 B 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 of work by competent authority.
(vi) 'the SPMs posts of C and Il 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 P0 & RMS Accountants examination. They
are eligible for promotion as per Recruitment Rules. Norm based LSG accountants
posts can be upgraded to HSG ll 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-lll/HSG I pre
restructured HPOs may be given preference for creation of posts. PM Grade lll
HSG II HPOs, PM Grade IIIl HSG I MDG, PM Grade lll HSG Il S0/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) ln 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
LSC 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 LSC 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 l: 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 LSG I officials who are completing 2 years of
service in HSG I. Although there is need to identify, these posts for promotion
from HSG I, in order to avoid inconvenience to staff in the initial stage and
purely as a temporary measure, the officials can be given NF'G on the basis of
seniority wherever they are posted in HSG I by upgrading the LSG I post to NFG
and simultaneously downgrading the NFG 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. 1'he
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-1.
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 31.1,2.2017 and the whole exercise, including transfer/posting
Orders, must be completed by 31.01.2 018.
Yours
faithfully.
[Tarun
Mittal]
Asst.
Director General (PE-I)
