Five lakh employees of the postal services would launch a nationwide agitation if the Government presses for privatisation of the postal services including the railway mail service (RMS) and MMS, announced president of National Confederation of Postal Employees Giriraj Singh during its two-day open national convention which concluded here on Monday.
He demanded that the Government roll back the postal policy 2012 at the earliest. The convention in its charter of demands included scrapping of the new labour Act and new pension policy, appointment of a commission for seventh pay commission, revision of pay after each five years, appointment of staff in all the vacant posts, parity in pension, regularisation of services of temporary employees and inclusion of 50 per cent of the DA in the basic pay and stoppage of engagement of contract labourers.
Others who addressed the convention included Director of Posts PK Bisoi, CITU State secretary Bishnu Mohanty, SK Bardhan, DK Rahate, Y Nagbhusan and Nirmal Kumar Singh while employees’ leader Bansidhar Mohanty presided over it.