General Body Meeting of the Clerical Cadre Branch

The General Body Meeting of the Clerical Cadre Branch of the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association was held at Port Blair  today (30^th November, 2013).  Addressing the meeting as Chief Guest, Shri O.Yohannan, Retired Assistant Secretary and former leader of the Association   called upon the clerical cadre employees to rally behind the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association as it is the only organization which fought for various demands of the government employees.   Recalling his link with the Association right from 1965 when he entered government service at Port Blair and a number of movements conducted in the islands under the banner of the Association, Shri Yohannan said that whatever benefits the government employees in the islands are enjoying today are the fruits of such protracted struggles conducted by the Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association and trade unions.   Employees of his time including he had to suffer a lot during such struggles and recalled the situation when he was put in the Jail for 25 days for participating in the movement which was led by late PKS Prasad.  

          Addressing the meeting, Shri D. Ayyappan, General Secretary of the Association explained in detail the injustice meted out to the Lower Grade Clerks and Higher Grade Clerks by the central government as the demands of the employees organizations for upgraded scales of pay of these categories of employees were rejected by the Pay Commissions and successive central governments. He also explained in detail how the central government has rejected the demands of the employees’ organization to merge 50% DA with Pay, to revise the wages of central government employees after every five years, grant of interim relief, etc.  

          Shri TS Sreekumar, Asst. General Secretary, Shri S. Surender, and some other leaders also addressed the meeting.  Earlier, Shri PN Shibu Kumar, Secretary, Clerical Cadre Branch presented the Report on the functioning of the Branch.  A number of employees participated in the discussion.  Shri P. Sathyapal welcomed the gathering while Shri G. Sujathan, Vice President of the Association presided over the meeting.  A large number of clerical cadre employees, among them a good number of women employees, attended the meeting.