Friday, June 29, 2012

  1. AIPEU-GDS(NFPE), Odisha Circle Branch conducted the day long dharana programme successfully in front of Circle Office


The AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) in its Central Working Committee Meeting held on 23.05.2012 at Hyderabad decided to hold a day long Dharana programme on 28.06.2012  in front of  all Circle / Divisional Office with the coordination of all NFPE affiliated unions on 32 point Charter of Demands (reproduced below  in Odia).
 Accordingly, Odisha Circle branch of AIPEU-GDS(NFPE)  conducted the Dharana programme today successfully under the leadership of Com. Nirmal Singh, Circle Secretary, AIPEU-GDS(NFPE), Odisha Circle. From NFPE side, the meeting was addressed by Com. R C Mishra, Vice-President, AIPEU, Group-C, CHQ and Circle Secretary, Odisha and Com. B. Samal, Divisional Secretary, AIPEU, Gr.-C, Bhubaneswar. Com. Purna Ch. Moharana, Divisional Secretary, AIPEU, Gr.- C, Koraput Division  also attended the programme. 
  Posted by: AIPEU GDS (NFPE) Odisha Circle.

Friday, June 22, 2012

  1. A DAY LONG DHARNA ON 28-06-2012

A DHARNA CALL GIVEN BY AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) CHQ

THE AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) CHQ IN ITS 
CENTRAL WORKING COMMITTEE MEETING 
HELD ON 23-05-2012 AT HYDERABAD 
DECIDED TO HOLD 
A DAY LONG DHARNA 
ON 28-06-2012
IN FRONT OF 
ALL O/o CHIEF POSTMASTERS GENERAL, 
DIVISIONAL OFFICES 
IN ALL CIRCLES 
WITH THE COORDINATION OF 
ALL NFPE AFFILIATED UNIONS IN THE CIRCLE.

AFTER CONCLUSION OF DHARNA PROGRAM 
THE DIVISIONAL & BRANCH SECRETARIES OF 
AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) 
HAS TO SUBMIT 
A COPY OF CHARTER OF DEMANDS 
WITH A COVERING LETTER OF 
THE DIVISION/BRANCH CONCERNED TO 
THE SSPOs/SPOs 
AND REQUEST TO 
FORWARD THE SAME TO 
THE SECRETARY, 
DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, 
NEW DELHI - 110 001

THE CIRCLE SECRETARIES OF AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) 
HAS TO SUBMIT 
A COPY OF CHARTER OF DEMANDS 
WITH A COVERING LETTER TO 
THE CHIEF POSTMASTER GENERAL 
AND REQUEST TO FORWARD THE SAME TO 
THE SECRETARY, 
DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, 
NEW DELHI - 110 001

A COPY OF CHARTER OF DEMANDS IS HERE WITH ENCLOSED :

AS THIS IS THE FIRST PROGRAM OF ACTION TAKEN UP BY AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) CHQ ON GDS DEMANDS, ALL THE CIRCLE SECRETARIES, DIVISIONAL SECRETARIES, BRANCH SECRETARIES, CONVENERS OF AIPEU-GDS(NFPE) IN THE CIRCLE AND ALL THE LEADERSHIP OF NFPE AFFILIATED UNIONS ARE REQUESTED TO MAKE THE PROGRAM A GRAND SUCCESS.

FURTHER, IT IS REQUESTED TO 
MOBILIZE THE GDS MEMBERSHIP TO PARTICIPATE IN
"MARCH TO PARLIAMENT" ON 26-07-2012
"NFPE CONVENTION" ON 26-07-2012 (at 3.30pm)
"PARLIAMENT DHARNA" ON 27-07-2012 
EXCLUSIVELY ON GDS DEMANDS
& SUBMISSION OF MEMORANDUM TO THE GOVT.

ALL THE ESTEEMED LEADERSHIP OF GDS UNION AND NFPE AFFILIATED UNIONS OF ALL CIRCLES ARE REQUESTED TO MAKE ALL THE PROGRAMS A GRAND SUCCESS.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

  1. Expected DA from July-2012


Expected DA from July 2012

       AICPIN  for the month of May-2012 and June-2012 are yet to be released. Still,it is expected that  the rate of increase in DA from July-2012 will be minimum 7%. The existing Dearness allowance is 65% and  it will become as 65% + 7% = 72%.w.e.f July-2012.
Posted by: AIPEU GDS (NFPE) Odisha Circle.

  1. GDS ARE NOT SLAVES OF TRADE UNION ZAMINDARS


ORGANISE! WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOOSE, BUT CHAINS!!
There is limit for everything. Ever since the GDS union was formed in 1999 the Chief Executive of the Union, started abusing NFPE and its leadership. He joined hands with those petty- minded “anti-NFPE” lobby and betrayed the cause of GDS. He betrayed Corn. Adinarayan, the Legendary Leader of the Postal Trade Union movement who sacrificed his whole life for GDS. He objected even shouting the slogan “NFPE Zindabad’.
This “anti-NFPE” lobby started looting the GDS money. They never published the accounts in the journal. They purchased flats and buildings in their own name using GDS money. They became Trade Union Zarnindars’! They never cared for the GDS. They surrendered before the Postal Board fearing vigilance enquiries against their amassing of disproportionate wealth.!
Utilizing this opportunity, the Govt. snatched away alt the benefits of the GDS, one by one. Bonus ceiling reduced; cash handling amount raised; stamps sale amount raised; 25% outside quota for Postmen recruitment notified; compassionate appointment curtailed; thousands of GDSMC, GDSSV, GDSMM posts abolished; TRCA reduced.; no full protection for existing TRCA and finally the GDS Employment rules are changed as “Engagement rules”
All those benefits fought and got by the NFPE, was snatched away, but the Trade Union Zamindars are least worried. . They want money  only. They want donation from .GDS arrears. They want donation for building fund. They collected the money and finally swallowed it all. Crores and crores of rupees had seem to be looted. Poor GDS suffered a lot. Finally they bursted out at Amravati. The “anti-N FPE” lobby was exposed like anything. Those comrades who loved NFPE, who opposed corruption, who lost everything, openly told the Trade Union Zamindar that “You, KING IS NAKED”. Everything including the crores worth “Ambani Bhavan” was exposed.
Majority of the delegates decided to form a new union for the GDS. A Union which will stand by the ideal of great leaders like Tarapada, Dada Ghosh, KG Bose, N J lyer and Adinarayana. A union which is corruption-free. A union which is dedicated to the cause of GDS. A union which will not surrender before the administration. A union which will join hands with NFPE. A union which will continue its uncompromising fight against all injustices meted out by the Govt. against the GDS. A union which shall regain the honour, dignity and glory of the GDS. The name of the union is “All India Postal Employees union GDS (NFPE). Let every GDS join this union and let us start a new era.
Let us once again prove that “we have immense potentiality and capable of moving heaven and earth”. Let us organize ourselves. Let us organize with determination. We are sure that success will knock at our doors.
Courtesy : GDS Crusader, Vol.1, No.1
Posted by:AIPEU GDS (NFPE) Odisha Circle.                                                                                     

Monday, June 18, 2012

  1. 17th Century Postal System Carved in Stone


 Australian researchers have discovered a 17th-century postal system made of dozens of stone inscriptions on the island of Madagascar.
Carved between 1601 and 1657 by sailors aboard Dutch East India Company ships on their way to the East Indies, the stones often featured letters placed at their base. The missives, carefully wrapped in layers of canvas, tar and lead envelopes, were left for other ships to pick up.
"The idea was that the crew of the next Dutch ship to anchor in that same place would pen down the message on the rock and collect the letters," Wendy van Duivenvoorde, a lecturer in maritime archaeology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, told Discovery News.
"Basically it was like an early postal system," she said.
In the 1500s, the Portuguese were the only Europeans who knew the route to South East Asia so they supplied all the spices and exotic goods to the Netherlands.
As the Dutch made their way to Batavia (modern day Jakarta) for the first time in 1595, they realized they didn't have any systems in place to communicate via other Dutch ships to send messages back home and relay their last port of call.
From the first voyage on, they went to a small beach in the Antongil Bay on the northeast corner of Madagascar.
 "They knew from the Portuguese that they could get fresh water there and that it was the only place in the bay where they could anchor safely to ride out a storm or repair a ship," said van Duivenvoorde.
"They started using the beach as a communications area by inscribing messages on the rock faces and frequently leaving letters for other ships to pick up," she added.
About a dozen of these inscriptions were discovered in the early 1920s, but the recent expedition, led by van Duivenvoorde under the auspices of the Australian Research Council, was the first to conduct a detailed archaeological assessment of the rock carvings within their environment.
The team, which included Mark Polzer, a research associate in archaeology at Flinders University, and Jane Fyfe, a Ph.D. candidate and rock art specialist from the University of Western Australia, discovered more than 40 inscriptions left by at least 13 different ships.
The carved messages revealed official communications that recorded the names of ships, the times and dates of their arrivals and other such details.
They also showed unofficial messages left by higher-ranking seamen, who carved their names into the stone.
"That was much as someone today might write, 'Hendrick was here'," van Duivenvoorde said.
According to the researcher, the earliest inscriptions dated to 1601 and were carved by the crew of the fifth Dutch expedition to the Indies—one year before the official founding of the Dutch East India Company in 1602.
 "They are indeed visual reminders of the earliest Dutch voyages into the Indian Ocean," she said.
One carving reveals that the ship Middelburg reached the bay after a cyclone in 1625 without masts, and was anchored there for seven months while it was being repaired.
"It’s quite amazing to think that they managed to sail into the bay after suffering such damage," van Duivenvoorde said.
A few inscriptions reveal that letters were left beneath them.
"These stones are really part of an early Dutch postal system and they show how European ships relayed information about their whereabouts when far away from home," van Duivenvoorde said.
"Unfortunately, should the next ship to arrive belong to their British or Portuguese rivals, the messages and letters would be absconded for their intelligence and to confound the Dutch," she said.
Van Duivenvoorde and her team hope to return to Madagascar in 2013 to create a 3D rendering and to petition relevant authorities for cultural heritage protection.
"The stones are under threat from sea erosion, cyclones and rain, as well as from jungle vegetation and moss growing," she said.
"Some inscriptions are still legible and relatively well preserved, but most have faded over time and several have been reduced to only a few letters remaining," van Duivenvoorde said.
Photos: 1626 inscription left by crew of Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam, carved over an earlier inscription left by VOC ship Middelburg in 1620 (top left of photo).Credit: Mark E. Polzer;
Recording rock inscriptions using LED lights.Credit: Mark E. Polzer; The beach where the inscriptions have been found. Credit: Mark E. Polzer.
Courtesy : Discovery News, June 15, 2012

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

  1. Recruitment of outstanding sportsmen in sports quota vacancies in the cadre of Postman / Mailguard & MTS(Gr. C).


Department of Posts, India
Office of the Chief Postmaster General, Odisha Circle
Bhubaneswar-751 001
No. S.Cell / RE / Postman/2012                                                                     dated at Bhubaneswar the 01.06.2012

To
The PMG, Berhampur / Sambalpur
.All SSPOs / SPOs / SSRM / SRM in Orissa Circle  
The Manager, Postal Printing Press, Bhubaneswar
The Superintendant, PSD, Bhubaneswar/ Sambalpur
The Superintendant, CSD, Bhubaneswar
Office Superintendant, CO, Bhubaneswar
Sub :-     Recruitment of outstanding sportsmen in sports quota vacancies in the cadre of Postman / Mailguard & MTS(Gr. C).

                 I am directed to intimate that applications in the enclosed proforma along with Xerox copies of all sports certificates may be called for from the officials who are otherwise eligible for the said post latest by 03.07.2012 by the Divisions and last date for receipt of applications at CO is 18.07.2012.

                Eligibility list of candidates in respect of sports quota will be drawn at Circle Level. Hence all Heads of the units are requested to circulate this letter among the officials irrespective of the number of posts available or not in their unit.

                 All the applications may be forwarded to the Assistant 1Director(OL/Sports), 0/0 the Chief P M G Circle Office Bhubaneswar so as to reach 1y 18 07 2012 positively

               Copy of circular issued by your office for inviting applications may be sent to this office for record.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter

(Md Asif Zake)
O/o the Chief PMG, Odisha Circle
Bhuabaneswar-751 001
PROFORMA FOR APPLICATION

BIO DATA OF APPLICANT UNDER SPORTS QUOTA FOR THE POST OF  POSTMAN! MAILGUARD & MTS(Gr. C)
Paste a recent Passport
Size Photograph
Duly attested
1.             Name of the official in block  capitals
                (with designation and office to which attached)  
2 .            Date of birth  
3.             Name of the community to  which belongs
4.             Educational Qualification
5.             Date of joining in  Department/Post
6.             Name of the Sports Discipline  in which the official has
               achieved excellence
7.             Details of achievement in the  field of sports
              ( Xerox copies of certificates should be attached)

Year                                                  Level of Competition                                             Position


Place:
Date:                                                                                                                                    Signature of the Applicant
Recommendation or otherwise comments of the Divisional Superintendant -cum-Chairman, Divisional Sports Board.
Place:                                                                                                                                                            Signature of the Divisional
                                                                                                                                                                                           Superinten
Posted by: AIPEU GDS (NFPE) Orissa Circle.