Postal employees of Bhubaneswar Division will stage a dharna in front of the office of the Senior Superintendent of Post Offices, Bhubaneswar Division on Friday to press for a 40-point charter of longstanding demands.
Notably, postal and RMS employees, including Gramin Dak Sewaks across the country will go for the day-long dharna in front of all 442 Divisional heads as per the call by the Central Joint Council of Action comprising National Federation of Postal Employees, Federation of National Postal Organizations, All India Postal Employees Union, Gramin Dak Sewak and National Union of Gramin Dak Sewak.
Divisional Secretary of the AIPEU, Group-C Bruhaspati Samal informed that the entire postal employees would launch indefinite strike from May 6 if the Government will not take initiative for settlement of all the 40 issues. The demands include inclusion of GDS under the purview of the 7th CPC and grant of Civil Servant status, merger of 100 per cent DA with pay with effective from January 1, 2014, scrapping up of the New Pension Scheme, removal of five per cent cap on compassionate appointment, etc.