DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR (1956-2016)
25th National Conference of the Confederation of
Central Government Employees & Workers
2016 August 16th, 17th & 18th - Chennai
Dharma Prakash Kalyana Mandapam
Circular No.1/2016-19 Dated: 19-08-2016
Report
The Diamond Jubilee Year (1956-2016) 25th National Conference of the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers was successfully held at Chennai, Dharmaprakash Kalyana Mandapam, from 16th to 18th August, 2016. The auditorium was named as “Com.S.K.Vyasji Auditorium” in memory of the great legendary leader of Central Govt. employees and Ex-Secretary General & President, Confederation Late Com.S.K.Vyas. The Reception Committee under the able and dynamic leadership of Com. T.K.Rangarajan, MP (Chairman) and Com.Durai Pandian (General Secretary) made excellent arrangement for the successful conduct of the historic conference.
Inaugural Session (Open Session):
The National Conference commenced on 16th August, 2016 morning with flag hoisting ceremony. Com.T.K.Rangarajan,MP and Chairman, Receiption Committee hoisted the National Flag and Com.K.K.N.Kutty, National President, Confederation hoisted the Confederation flag. Tribute to the maliyrs was paid by offering flowers at the Martyrs column by all Guests, Leaders, delegates and observers.
The inaugural session started at 11.15 AM. Com.K.K.N.Kutty presided, Com.T.K.Rangarajan, MP delivered welcome address. Com.A.K. Padmanabhan, National President, CITU, inaugurated the 25th National Conference. In his inaugural address Com.A.K.P. has elaborately spoken on the following important issues and points - the role of the Indian Working Class in the freedom struggle of our country, historic struggle and strikes conducted by Central Govt. employees viz. 1960 five days strike, 1968 September 19th strike, 1974 Bonus strike lead by Railway Federations etc., the need of unity of working class and Central Govt. employees, 2016 September 2nd General Strike call of Central Trade Unions and independent Federations , role of BMS and effort being made to bring BMS also to the united movement, FDI in Railways, defence and strategic sale of Public Sector undertakings, Govt’s refusal to hold serious negotiations with the Central Trade Unions, the reluctance of the Cabinet Sub Committee constituted by Prime Minister under the Chairmanship of Finance Minister to hold meaningful negotiations, Govt. understands the language of struggle and strikes, need of intensive campaign to take the message of Sept. 2nd strike and charter of demands to every nook and corner of the country, social oppression in the name of caste and religion taking place in various parts of the country which has become a great challenge to the unity of the working class, need and importance of united struggle to defeat the neo-liberal policies and also communalism. Finally he called upon the leaders, delegates and observers attending the Conference to make the 2nd September 2016 strike a historic success, especially in the Central Govt. employees sector.
Sri.R.S.Bharati, MP, DMK addressed the National Conference and conveyed best wishes.
Com.T.M.Murthy, National Secretary, AITUC, in his address to the Conference narrated in detail the importance of September 2nd strike and the issues raised in the charter of demands. He criticised the totally negative attitude of the NDA Government towards working class and the common people of the country. He conveyed the warm greetings of AITUC to the conference.
Com.Shiv Gopal Misra, General Secretary, AIRF, Convenor, NJCA and Secretary, JCM National Council staff side, Dr.M.Reghavaiah, General Secretary, NFIR, Chairman NJCA and Leader, JCM (NC) staff side, Com.C.Srikumar, Secretary General, AIDEF and Member NJCA also addressed the open session. All the three leaders explained in detail, the developments which resulted in the deferment of the 11th July indefinite strike call of NJCA. They pointed out that it is only because of the total unity and preparedness of the entire Central Govt. Employees including Railways, Defence, Postal and Confederation, the Govt. finally came down and the Prime Minister intervened and directed the Senior Cabinet Minister’s Committee to negotiate with the NJCA. Govt. initially was under the impression that once the pay commission recommended pay scales and benefits are announced by the Cabinet, the NJCA’s strike threat will automatically fizzle out. But Govt’s calculations went wrong and NJCA took a firm stand. On 30th June Group of Ministers assured increase in the minimum pay and fitment factor and appointment of a High Level Committee to make recommendations for fulfilling their assurance. The leaders made clear that in case the Government go back from its assurance, the deferred indefinite strike will be revived by the NJCA. They assured that the NJCA and JCM staff side will make maximum efforts to get positive results from the five committees proposed by the Govt. viz. 1) Allowance Committee headed by Finance and Expenditure Secretary, 2) Anomaly Committee, 3) Committee to take decision on the feasibility of option-I of Pension Fixation recommendation of 7th CPC, 4) Committee for streamlining the implementation of the New Pension System (NPS), 5) High Level Committee as per the assurance of Group of Ministers. They stressed the need to further strengthening of unity and NJCA.
Com.A. Sreekumar, General Secretary, All India State Govt. Employees Federation (AISGEF), Com.Chellappa, Asst. General Secretary, BSNL Employees Union, Com.K.Raghavendran, Deputy Secretary General, NCCPA, Com.S.Mohan, Secretary General, Gazetted Officers Confederation (CCGGOO),Com.Elangovan, DREU, Com.A.G.Pasupathy, Ex-President, Confederation, Tamil Nadu, Com.K.V.Sridharan, Ex-GS, AIPEU Group-C also addressed the Conference. Com.A.V.Venkatraman, Veteran leader of Central Govt. Employees, formerly Secretary General of Audit & Accounts Employees Assn. and Postal Accounts Employees Assn. (former President of Confederation, Tamil Nadu) was honoured in the Conference. Com.AVV also addressed the conference.
Com.Durai Pandian, General Secretary, COC Tamilnadu State and Reception Committee offered vote of thanks.
Special Address of Justice K. Chandru:
In the afternoon session Justice K.Chandru (Retired Justice of Madras High Court) delivered a special address on the subject - “Neo-liberal economic Policies and Labour Law reforms”. The speech was more informative and educative (full text of the speech will be published in the Confederation website later).
Delegate Session:
Delegate session commenced at 5 PM on 16-08-2016. Com.KKN Kutty, presided. Com.M.Krishnan, Secretary General, welcomed the delegates and visitors. Resolution on homage to matyrs was presented by Com. K.P.Rajagopal (Secretary), Resolution on Com.S.K.Vyasji was presented by Com.R.N.Parashar (Joint Secretary), condolence resolution was moved by Com.Pijush Roy (Joint Secretary). House observed two minutes silence.
Thereafter President read over the notice for the 25th National Conference and agenda items. House approved the agenda without any amendments. The following committees were constituted for the smooth conducting of the Conference.
1. Presidium: Com.KKN Kutty (President), Com.M.S.Raja (Working President), Com.T.Narasimhan, Com.Ashok B.Salunkhe, Com.M.Durai Pandian, Com.N.Somaiah, Com.Giriraj Singh (all Vice Presidents).
2. Minutes Committee: Com.R.N.Parashar (Convenor), Com.Nilesh D.Nazare, Com.Arup Chatterjee, Com.Venkatasubramanian, Com.R.P.Singh (members).
3. Credential Committee: Com.Vrigu Bhattacharjee (Convenor), Com.Ashok Kanojia, Com.P.Suresh, Com.R.Seethalakshmi, Com.Iswar Singh Dabas (Members).
4. Resolution Committee: Com.K.P.Rajagopal (Convenor), Com.Pijush Roy, Com.K.V.Jayaraj, Com.Nageswara Rao, Com.Satyanarayana, Com.Mani Achari (members).
Agenda No.1: Confirmationof the minutes of the 24th National Conference held at Kolkata from 4th to 6th May, 2013.
Secretary General presented the minutes of the last conference and the house unanimously approved it.
Agenda No.2,3, & 4:
No.2. Presentation, discussion and adoption of
(a) Report for the year 2013-2016.
(b) Audited Accounts for the year 2013-2016.
No.3. 7th CPC related issues and common demands of Central govt. employees - Review of deferred NJCA strike from 11th July 2016.
No.4. Implementation of the 2016 September 2nd General Strike decision of Indian Working Class. It was decided to take up all the above three items together along with organisational review.
Com.M.Krishnan, Secretary General, presented the Triennial report for the period from 2013-2016. Com.Vrigu Bhattacharjee, Finance Secretary, presented the audited accounts for the period 2013-2016. House adjourned at 7 PM.
On the second day the delegate session reassembled at 4 PM. (Forenoon there was Women’s National Convention of Confederation - see separate report). Discussion on agenda item 2,3,4 and on organisational review took place. Discussion continued upto 1.30 PM on18-08-2016. 36 delegates representing various affiliates of Confederation participated in the discussion. Thereafter Secretary General replied to the points raised in the discussion. Finance Secretary replied to certain queries raised about the audited accounts. The house approved and passed the Report and audited Accounts for the period 2013-2016 unanimously.
Agenda No.6 - Presentation, discussion and adoption of Resolution on Policy and Programme:
Policy and programme resolution was presented by Secretary General. The following paragraphs is proposed to be added as the last para (para 8) of the Policy and programme already pointed and circulated among the delegates.
Para 8: This 25th National Conference ratify the decision taken by the National Secretariat of the Confederation held at New Delhi on 24th July 2016, regarding organising independent agitational programmes for realisation of the common demands of the Central Govt. employees. The Conference at the same time resolved to maintain the unity under the banner of NJCA in tact and also resolved that Confederation while conducting its own independent agitational programmes, shall fully implement all the programmes of NJCA also at all levels. Accordingly the following programme of action is adopted unanimously by the Conference.
1. Demonstrations of all Centres/at all office gates and forwarding of resolutions adopted on charter of demands to Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Head of the Departments.
2. Mass dharna at all state capitals.
3. Massive Parliament March in the month of November/December, 2016.
Dates of the programmes and charter of demands will be finalised by the newly elected National Secretariat of the Confederation.
House unanimously adopted the policy and programme resolution with the above programme of action.
Agenda No.7 - Consideration and adoption of resolutions on demands:
Resolutions, other than those already printed and circulated, was presented by Com.K.P.Rajagopal, Convenor of the resolution committee. All the resolutions were passed unanimously (for resolutions see list attached).
Credential Committee Report:
Com.Vrigu Bhattacharjee, Convenor, Credential Committee presented the following credential report.
1. Number of affiliated organisations attended
the Conference 34
2. Number of State level/Coordinating Committee (COCs)
attended 11
3. Number of delegates attended 180
4. Number of observers (Visitors) attended 76
5. Total number of delegates and visitors 256
6. No. of male delegates 188
7. No. of women delegates 68
8. Age profile of delegates/visitors
(a) Below 40 years 37
(b) From 40 years to 60 years 212
(c) Above 60 years 7
9. Number of delegates who faced victimisation 37
10. Arrested/Jailed 6
Agenda No.5 - Amendment to Constitution.
The following amendment was moved on behalf of the National Secretariate and unanimously approved.
Article 13 - Election
Article 13 (b) The National Secretariat (Office Bearers)
Existing clause:
The following office bearers (Members of National Secretariat) shall be elected from among the delegates attending the National Conference, in a democratic manner.
1. One President 2. One Working President
3. Five Vice Presidents 4. One Secretary General
5. One Secretary 6. One Finance Secretary
7. Five Asst. Secretaries 8. Twelve Organising Secretaries.
Amendment proposed:
National Secretariat (Office bearers):
The following office bearers (members of National Secretariat) shall be elected from among the delegates attending the National Conference, in a democratic manner.
1. One President 2. One Working President
3. Five Vice President 4. One Secretary General
5. One Secretary 6. One Finance Secretary
7. Five Asst. Secretaries 8. Eighteen Organising Secretaries.
In addition the office bearers of the Women’s Sub Committee of the Confederation will be special invitees to the National Secretariat meeting.
Agenda No.8 - Election of office bearers ie. National Secretariat Members
The 25th National Conference unanimously elected the following as the office bearers (National Secretariat members) of the Confederationof Central Govt. Employees ,and Workers for the period 2016-2013.
1. President : Com.KKN Kutty (ITEF)
2. Working President : Com.M.S.Raja (Audit & Accounts Association)
3. Vice Presidents : 1. Com.T.Narasimhan (NFPE)
2. Com.Ashok Kanojia (ITEF)
3. Com.Nageswar Rao (Audit & Accounts Assn.)
4. Com.Giriraj Singh (NFPE-R3)
5. Com.R.Seethalakshmi (Women’s Committee Convenor, P4, NFPE)
4. Secretary General : Com.M.Krishnan (NFPE)
5. Secretary : Com.Rupak Sarkar (ITEF)
6. Asst. Secretaries : 1. Com.R.N.Parashar (NFPE P3)
2. Com.Pijush Roy (COC West Bengal)
3. Com.K.V.Jayaraj (NFAEE, Atomic Energy)
4. Com.Ravi B.Nair (ITEF)
5. Com.Subhash Chandra Pandey (Audit & Accts. Assn.).
7. Finance Secretary : Com.Vrigu Bhattachargee (Civil Accts.)
8. Organising Secretary : 1. Com.Anup Chatterjee (BSIEA)
2. Com.Nilesh D. Nazare (IBMEA)
3. Com.Bibhash Dey (GSIEA)
4. Com.Balasundaram (GWBEA)
5. Com.Shanthanu Bhattacharjee (Civil Accts.)
6. Com.Mani Achari (NFAEE)
7. Com.S.Santhosh Kumar (NFPE Postal Accts)
8. Com.Tapas Bose (Audit & Accts Assn.)
9. Com.P.Suresh (NFPE R4)
10. Com.TKR Pillai (NSSO)
11. Com.Gurprit Singh (DMI Employees Assn.)
12. Com.P.Panduranga Rao (NFPE-GDS)
13. Com.Gopalakrishnan Nair (Civil Accts)
14. Com.Virender Tiwari (NFPE-SBCO)
15. Com.J.P.Singh (ITEF)
16. Com.R.B.Suresh (COC Tamilnadu)
17. (COC Karnataka)
18. (COC Assam/North East)
Special Invitees (Women Sub Committee Office Bearers):
1. Com.Usha Boneppalli (Chairperson)
2. Com.Manisha Majumder (Vice Chairperson)
3. Com.K.N.Jayasree Raj (Vice Chairperson)
4. Com.Gita Bhattacharjee (Jt. Convenor)
5. Com.Sarita Divakaran (Jt. Convenor)
Auditor : Com.R.P.Singh (Agmark) COC Mumbai.
The house authorised the newly elected National Secretariat to full up the two vacant posts by co-option from COC Karnataka and COC Assam/North East.
Agend No. 9- Appointment of Auditor:
The Conference nominated Com. R.P.Singh, (Agmark) of COC, Maharashtra, Mumbai as the Auditor of the Confederation for the period 2016-2019.
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