Non-grant of the benefit of financial upgradation under MACP Scheme to the officials of HP Circle due to below-benchmark grading.

No:         HP/P-III/RJCM                                                                   dated at Una        29.08.2013

 

Shri M Krishanan

General Secretary,

AIPEU Group “C” CHQ

New Delhi-08

 

Sub:        Non-grant of the benefit of financial upgradation under MACP Scheme  to the officials of HP        Circle due to below-benchmark grading.

 

Respected Sir,

 

In Himachal Pradesh Circle, about 90 officials have been denied the benefit of MACP 2^nd and MACP 3^rd due to below-benchmark grade. The Circle union has persistently been pursuing this issue on the basis of various clarifications issued by the directorate.

 

Following, denial of MACP 2^nd and 3^rd by the screening committee, the HP Circle constituted the scrutiny committee for the purpose of scrutiny of CR/APARs and for upgrading the grading awarded by the reporting officers.

 

Even, the scrutiny committee did not upgrade the grading to good of 70 officials in the HP Circle. As such, these officials are denied the benefit of MACP 2^nd and MACP 3^rd. The aggrieved officials made the representations to the CPMG HP Circle for upgrading the below-benchmark grading.

 

Though, the CPMG have to decide such representations on the basis of instructions issued by the Directorate/DoPT, yet the CPMG HP have requested the Directorate vide letter No STA/39-2/2012 dated 09.07.2013 for allowing constitution of scrutiny committee to decide all such cases.

 

The Postal officials in the operative offices are supposed to share multifarious responsibilities while working in the office, rather there is no limit of his responsibilities and the reporting officers ignoring the criteria of overall assessment is recording the assessment merely on one of the petty issue and the circle union is of the firm opinion in the present scenario, where the postal officials are entrusted the duties having multifarious responsibilities and high expectations cannot manage a good benchmark, merely by working in the office.

 

Therefore, you are requested to take up the case with the directorate for allowing constitution of scrutiny committee for deciding the pending cases of MACP in HP Circle and also to take up with the appropriate authority for allowing the MACP 2^nd and 3^rd ignoring the good benchmark grading on the analogy of other departments i.e Railway etc.

 

The Copy of CPMG HP letter No STA/35-16/2012 dated 20.08.2013 and dated 09.07.2013 is enclosed as Annexure A and Annexure B.

 

With regards.

 

 

Yours brotherly,

 

[H S Guleria]

Circle Secretary