Monday 4 November 2013
NATIONAL
FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
1st Floor, North Avenue Post office Building, New Delhi -
110001
Ref: PF/GENL/2014
Dated - 25.10.2013
To
Ms. P. Gopinath
Secretary
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan, New Delhi – 1101001
Madam,
Sub: - Super Cyclone Orissa –
Sever damage to houses and properties of Postal staff.
The Super
Cyclone has played havoc in the Districts of Odisha State like Ganjam, Puri,
Khurda, Nayagarh, Phulbani, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Balasore, Bhadrak,
Kendrapara, Jajpur, Mayurbhanj, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Balangir, Koraput,
Rayagada, Sundargarh and destroyed houses and properties of common people
immensely. The postal/RMS staffs of the above districts are also severely
affected with loss of houses and properties. The super cyclone accompanied by
severe flood affected seriously to the rest of Districts causing damage to the
houses & properties of general public including Postal/RMS/GDS staffs. The
Flood & Cyclone severely affected Postal & RMS/GDS staff in entire
State. During this critical juncture it is our humble request to Postal
administration to stand behind the affected Employees including GDS, who lost
their houses, crops, house hold properties due to devastating effect of Cyclone
& Flood. We suggest the following action to be taken urgently.
1. Grant of Financial Assistances as admissible to the affected staff. Special allotment may be made.
2. Grant of
Flood/ Natural Calamity advances to the affected staff.
3.
Repairing of all damages caused to PO/RMS buildings/Qrs. on war foot basis.
4. Repairing of all Generators, Computers,
Nodes & Servers damaged due to Cyclone/Flood on top priority basis.
5. Provision of Bank Loans through the
Department to the affected staff for reconstruction of houses etc.
6. Postponing of PLI/RPLI Mela, scheduled to be
held in entire Circle in the first week of November-2013.
Awaiting favourable response
With regards,
Yours faithfully
(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
COMING, PRIVATISATION OF RAILWAY PASSENGER SEGMENT
Dated 30 th October 2013
The Railways on Tuesday set the ball rolling for privatising
its passenger segment on its existing infrastructure with the launch of
theHigh Speed Rail Corporation (HSRC).
Railway
Minister Mallikarjun Kharge launched the HSRC as a
fully-owned subsidiary of Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, which his
predecessor Nitish Kumar had set up with the objective of raising extra
budgetary resources — from the market and private investors.Mr. Kharge,
however, issued a word of caution against adopting new technology.
NO TECHNOLOGY FOR GRATIS
“You
should not buy horses merely because horse shoes are freely available,”
was Mr. Kharge’s caution. He stressed how technology could be made
available for even free. “At times they tell us how cheap it is. The
question is whether it suits us or not, not whether it is cheap or
free.” He launched the corporation at an “International Conference on
HighSpeed Rail Travel — Low Cost Solutions.”
Mr.
Kharge, however, underlined the need for high speed rail while focusing
on providing a mass mode of safe, reliable and affordable transport.
Railway Board Chairman Arunendra Kumar said the Corporation, as the
implementing agency, would contribute in the joint venture to be formed
under the Public Private Partnership mode. The other stakeholders could
be the State governments and private investors, explained corporation
chairman Satish Agnihotri.
SEVEN ROUTES
The
Railways have identified seven routes — all commercially viable —
on which the mini high speed trains with a speed of 160 km per hour to
200km per hour would be operated under the PPP mode. Officials
maintained a stoic silence when asked if the railways were giving away
the most viable routes to the private sector.Some of the routes
identified are Ahmedabad-Mumbai, Amritsar-Ludhiana-Chandigarh-Delhi,
Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna, Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram and
Bangalore-Chennai. The first project to be implemented under the scheme
will be the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route.
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