Hon’ble Minister
for Finance
Ministry of
Finance, (Government of India),
New Delhi
Respected Sir,
We solicit your kind reference to the discussions; the
representatives of the Staff Side JCM had with you on 30th June 2016 in the
wake of impending strike action that was to commence from 11th July 2016.
Hon’ble Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, your goodself, Hon’ble Minister for
Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu and Hon’ble MoSR, Shri Manoj Sinha, on
having detailed deliberations with the Staff Side, had appreciated that, the
Central Government employees were not generally happy with the decision taken
by the Union Cabinet on 29th June 2016, while accepting the recommendations of
the 7th CPC, particularly in the matter of Minimum Wage and Fitment Formula.
After detailed discussions it was agreed by your goodself and other Hon’ble
Ministers present in the meeting that, the government would address the
grievances of the employees, whereupon the NJCA had decided to defer the
“Indefinite Strike”. Accordingly, a committee was set-up to consider the demand
of Revision of Minimum Wage and Fitment Formula with a mandate to finalize its
report within four months.
We (Staff Side) interacted with the said committee, headed by
Shri P.K. Das, Addl. Secretary (Expenditure), on 24.10.2016. It would be quite
appropriate to bring to your kind notice that, we have felt, during the course
of meeting, that, the proceedings of the committee are extremely disappointing
and are left with the impression that, the committee is dilly-dallying the
issue.
We are, therefore, left with no option, but to address this
communication with the fervent hope that, your goodself will direct the said
committee to interact with the Staff Side in a fruitful manner and arrive at a
mutually agreeable proposal on the issues of Minimum Wage and Fitment Formula.
We have full trust and believe that, the government would honour
the decision taken in the meeting held on 30.06.2016 in your benign presence,
and suitable direction will be given to the committee to complete the assigned
task within the stipulated timeframe in a satisfactory manner.
It would be the most unfortunate development, we regret to
state, if we are constrained to tread the path of struggle once again in the
event of the committee not coming up with a satisfactory settlement.
With Kind Regards!
Yours Faithfully
Shiva Gopal Mishra
Secretary
