NATIONAL FEDERATION OF RRB OFFICERS (0fficers wing of AIRRBEA) Flat-302, Vishwajyothi Apartments, Turners street, Secunderabad – 500003 nfrrbo@yahoo , Phone / Fax- 040-2354 6594, M - 094404 83274 (President: Sagun Sukla, Ph – 9415126342, Gen. Sec.: S. Venkateswar Reddy) (Central Office: Golders Green, 1, Nazrul Islam Avenue, VIP Road, Kaikhali, Kolkata -700052) Cir no. 9 / nfrrbo Date:5.11.2014 To - The CC members / Affiliate units of nfrrbo. Dear Comrades, PENSION CASE IN SUPREME COURT On 28th October 2014, our case has reached for hearing before the bench of Justice JS Kehar and Justice Arun Mishra as item number 8 in court hall 6 in the post lunch period. The counsel appearing for GOI has again sought adjournment as her senior is in other court. Our advocates spontaneously stood in the hall and objected to adjournment. Honble Justice considering our requests directed the matter to be posted on the next day itself. On 29th, our item has been posted as number 2 in court hall 5. Again, the junior advocate sought adjournment for want of senior. Hon’ble justice declined her request and directed the counsel for the respondents to place their arguments. The senior counsel for GOI appeared in the after noon and objected to hearing with out the presence of petitioner. But judge ignored her. The hearings continued for whole day from 10.45 am to 1 pm and again from 2pm to 4 pm. Sofar, only two advocates could place their arguments. Since the court came to end at 4 pm, the case has been part heard and adjourned to 13 th November 2014 for continuation of submissions by other advocates and also the counsel for GOI. We shall utilize the time to review whole developments by our legal committee on 11th, followed by discussions with our advocates as preparation to present our arguments in effective way on 13th. Now, as per the Supreme Court advance cause list, our matter is listed as no.3 on 13th. We are coming nearer to Dada’s dream of parity of pension and we shall march ahead in realizing it soon in the Hon’ble Court. Let us look forwards with all confidence … 12 NOVEMBER 2014 -STRIKE IN BANKING INDUSTRY AT THE CALL OF UFBU As you are aware, IBA is very much adamant and there is no progress in the 10th bipartite negotiations. IBA is offering a paltry 11% raise against our claim of up to 25%. All the efforts of UFBU, including meeting the Hon’ble Finance Minister yielded no result. Hence UFBU decided to go on series of agitational programmes including a day of nationwide strike on 12th November 2014 and five zonal wise strikes from 2nd to 5th December demanding early and reasonable wage settlement. AIRRBEA has decided to be part of the united movement against the anti bank employee policies of GOI and decided to participate in the nationwide strike on 12th November 2014 in support of the UFBU demands. AIRRBEA has served the notice of strike on GOI, Nabard, Sponsor Banks and all 56 RRB Chairmen on behalf of NFRRBO and NFRRBE. It is learnt that IBA did not come with any improvement in the offer in the conciliation held today by CLC( central) and called for further talks on 10th. Hence the Strike stands. But we don’t have any false expectations on 10th also and let us carry forward with our preparations. GOI is mounting pressure on Public sector bankers by imposing more and more duties like to conduct house hold surveys and to work from 8 am to 8pm on every Saturday to implement Jan Dhan scheme etc, but throwing deaf ear to the genuine demand of fair wage settlement and other issues. And GOI / RBI have no guts to control the private / foreign banks to do social banking. We appeal to all our units to ensure total success of the strike in RRBs and to join with other bankers in the collective programmes. APPEAL TO DONATE TO J&K FLOOD REHABILITAION WORKS Unprecedented floods have rocked the entire Kashmir valley and caused a severe damage to the life and property of the people in the state, biggest in the last fifty years. AIRRBEA has decided to give a call to all our members to donate liberally to PM relief fund. It is the time, we have to raise to the occasion to extend our helping hand to the needy. We appeal to all our units to write to the respective Managements to arrange for encashing one day PL of all our members and arrange to donate to PM relief fund as above, as our humanitarian gesture. JOINT CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING - 24th SEPTEMBER 2014 At last after over three years of gap, the fourth JCC was held at NABARD, Mumbai on 24th September 2014. The Chairman, Nabard took initiative to resume the JCC and also ensured the presence of Joint Secretary and Deputy Secretary of DFS, Ministry of Finance as observers in the meeting. The official minuts of JCC are circulated for your information and we don’t agree with the same on many issues. We are taking up again all the issues either classified as closed or under consideration. AMALGAMATION OF RRBs IN A DIFFERENT METHOD – BY AMENDMENTS TO THE ORIGINAL NOTIFICATIONS OF RRBs GOI has issued two notifications on 21.10.2014 as amendments to the original notifications (dated 31.3.2006 and 24.3.2006) which lead to formation of APGVB and DGB respectively. In one amendment notification, the name of Deccan Grameena Bank has been changed to Telangana Grameena Bank and the area of operation of such Grameena Bank has been made to include all the districts in Telangana state. And in the second amendment notification, five districts located in the Telangana state have been omitted from area of operation of APGVB. Unlike in the With these changes number of RRBs remains same at 56. But, results in formation of one more state level RRB in the country, for the newly formed state of Telangana, on the lines of Chattisgad, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. These notifications by themselves do not transfer the branches, head office and other controlling offices located in the five omitted districts of APGVB to TGB. There are about 2000 staff, over Rs. 11000 crores of business, 474 branches, 7 Regional Offices and other departments etc in these five districts. Hence, GOI must issue another notification or administrative order to effect transferring these assets and liabilities with their due valuations. GOI has to notify the location of new Head Office of residual APGVB. Till such time status quo will continue. Meanwhile, our units in APGVB and DGB are agitated over bringing new RRB under the sponsorship of SBH instead of SBI, against the precedence in amalgamations to retain the sponsor bank of larger RRB. There are various differences in benefits, perks and administrative functioning between two RRBs. OTHER INFORMATION 1. Sri.Hansmukh Adhiya from Gujarat Cadre is posted as Secretary, DFS, Ministry of Finance, GOI in the place of Dr. Gururdayal Singh Sandhu. Consequent upon this change the scheduled National review of RRBs on 14th November has been postponed. Also the Scheduled meeting of CMDs of Public Sector banks on 5th has been postponed. 2. RRBs are under the direct jurisdiction of Smt. Snehalatha Shrivastava, IAS, Additional Secretary, DFS. 3. RRBs continue to be number one in opening over 75 lac accounts, highest number of basic saving accounts under Jan Dhan scheme among all the banks in the country. Total accounts opened sofar is about 6.5 crore accounts and the performance of all private & foreign banks is dismal. 4. Sri. Anjaneya Prasad, ED Syndicate Bank had visited Kadapa on 10.10.2014 and addressed all the Branch Managers. Our leaders have met him and submitted a memorandum for early resolution of the pending issues. 5. We have attended the Joint General Body meeting of our Pragathi Krishna Grameena bank Officers and Employees units at Bellary on 14th September 2014. The meeting was attended by about 800 members in a disciplined manner and proceedings were concluded with the unanimous election of office bearers of both the units. 6. We have visited the Yanam branch of Pudvai Bharateeyar Grameena Bank on 27th September. This RRB is the last one to be established in the country in the year 2008 and it has 29 branches, of which Yanam is located 700 kms away from Head quarter adjoining AP state and one more branch – Mahi is located 500 Kms away adjacent to Calicat in Kerala state. Yanam branch is having only 4 staff members and they are planning to open one more branch in the area. 7. We have attended the Regional meeting of our units at Chaithanya Godavari Gr Bank held at Rajamuncry on 28th September 2014. Though entire staff is totally busy in preparing and uploading the farmers data to the Govt of AP for the Agricultural Debt Relief Scheme announced in the election manifesto of the Government, large number of our staff particularly the young members have attended the meeting and heard the history / latest developments of the RRBs. 8. Central MP Gr Bank Officers Association was held at Chindawada on 5th October 2014 and was attended by Com. Sagun Shukla, undersigned and the state leaders of MP. New office bearers have been elected unanimously. 9. A day of Dharna was staged on 17.10.2014 at Indira Park, Hyderabad at the call of BEFI on the demands of opposing privatization of Banks, particularly the pending privatization bills of RRBs, Nabard and Cooperatives. The other demands were for early fair wage settlement, regularization of temporary employees, for formation of NRBI etc. Members from RRBs, RBI, commercial banks and Nabard participated in the dharna. 10. Com. H. Nagabhushan Rao and the undersigned have attended the Joint General Body meeting of our units at Pallavan Grama Bank on12th October at Selam, Tamilnadu. New office bearers for the both units have been elected unanimously. 11. We have met the General Manager, Canara Bank at Benguluru on 13th October along with Com. Ganapathi Hegde, Com. H.N. Rao and other leaders, on various pending issues of Canara Bank sponsored RRBs. We have also attended the Central Labour Tribunal Court in the case of regularization of coolies of Pragathi Krishna Grameena Bank on the same day. 12. All the temporary employees in the APGVB have formed a Union and registered the same to pursue the welfare and absorption of these employees in to regular employment. They have organized a General Body with over 350 members on 19th October at Suryapet. We have attended the meeting along with all leaders of the units at APGVB and assured all support. With warm greetings. Yours Fraternally, (S. Venkateswar Reddy) General Secretary
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