The 9th Biennial Divisional Conference of the Brahmapur Divisional Branch of the National Association of the Postal Employees (Group-C) was held here from June 26 to 28. Former association circle secretary Damodar Mishra inaugurated the open session and urged the postal employees to remain united so as to get their outstanding demands fulfilled.
The members took stock of ten burning problems of the postal employees since the last divisional conference held here on May 13. The demands related to rotational transfer and posting and victimisation of Members of NAPE Brahmapur division, non-fixation of pay of all reemployed ex-servicemen in the department, non-supply of forms by the SB Department of Stores Depot, Bhubaneswar, shifting of lanjipalli and Sankarpur SOs under Berhampur HO to a safer place, repair and renovation of Postal Staff Colony, Chhatrapur which was damaged during Phailin, supply of fake note detection machine (FNDM) and cash-counting machine to all offices of the division, expediting the posting of DPS at the region, installation of CCTVs in HOs and release of all pending allowances and incentives for the employees.
Association secretary Goutam Das in his report regretted that though most of these demands have been fulfilled, the pay fixation of ex-servicemen is yet to be done.Trade union and political leaders who spoke included Brahmapur Division secretary Arun Kumar Behera, circle secretaries Manoranjan Sadangi and Bhabagrahi Behera, PCC secretaryBikram Panda, SMIT President Bhagaban Gantayat, former Union Minister Chandrasekhar Sahu and BMC Mayor K Madhavi.