Dear friends,
It is decided to conduct a circle level workshop of all SA 's irrespective of union affiliations under the aegis of NFPE, Palakkad on 08/02/2009.
VENUE : KG BOSE BHAVAN, Near HPO Palakkad 678001
Date & time : 08/02/2009 at 10am
We will discuss all our problems threadbare to draft a proposal to be pushed through our trade unions for effective implementation of system division at operative wing. Our discussion should invariably include the following points:
1. Cadre restructuring in systems division
2. Selection Procedure
3 Job profile and justification of one post
4. Outsourcing of SA work
5. Uniformity of dealing SA matters in the circle
So all are requested to prepare their view points and arrive at a consensus at divisional level to present the view at the meeting.
We should all make this opportunity to benefit us maximum. A total participation of all SA s are expected as we would like to prepare a profile card of each and every SA working in our circle in order to ensure not to be excluded at the time of creation of SA cadres.
with warm wishes
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
GUNDUR CONFERENCE A GRAND SUCCESS
Dear friends,
Sorry for the delayed reply after the Guntur conference. As the conference concluded only on 2.12.2008 and I returned home on 3.12.2008 and immediatly was entangled as usual in our work pressure. Once again kindly excuse me for the delay in mailing to all you people.
Now coming back to business. The special meeting for SAs / SMs was held in the conference venue itself and was conducted by our beloved All India General Secretary of NFPE-P3 (AIPEU Group - C) Mr.K.V.Sridharan. Around 80 System Administrators through out the country participated in the meeting. We had representatives from almost all the States except Orissa, J & K, Rajasthan, Bihar and Delhi. I presided over the meeting as per the unanimous request of the participants. The 80 System Administrators who attended the meeting are the key persons who are organising the System Administrators in their respective Circles and I should personally thank them for making themselves to this meeting inspite of many official chanllenges.
Initially in my speech I covered almost all the problem faced by us in common and expressed our concern WHEN WILL THE DEMAND OF SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR WILL BE SETTLED ? Then opportunity was given to one or two System Administrators from each Circle to present their views and also the problems faced by them locally. The highlights of the issues discussed by each Circle is given below:
Andhra : Some of the System Administrators were chargesheeted for not completing the eMO installation in time. The CHQ assured that it will be settled immediatly.
Kerala : The TA bill problem prevailing in their Circle was highlighted.
Karnataka : The Multi-level management exercised on System Administrators by PMG, DPS, SSPO etc. Each officer giving directions to our SAs and they are confused whose orders to obey.
Maharashtra : Recently orders by CPMG fixing 6 years tenure for working as System Administrators. The CHQ assured that it will be reverted at the earliest. Another issue that a UPS was stolen and our SA was chargesheeted and the cost of the UPS is been recovered from our SA. The Genereal Secretary assured that will also be taken and solved at the appropriate levels.
Punjab: Our SAs are performing the duty in addition to looking after MPCM counters and other branches. This problem will also be taken up by the CHQ.
West Bengal : They expressed their concern about the pattern and conduction of TRADE TEST for the absorption of the existing SAs into the new establishment. They were convinced by the CHQ about the importance of TRADE TEST.
The meeting was very professional and the issued focussed by all the System Administrators was assured to be sorted out at the earliest. The commitment shown by the General Secretary Mr.K.V.Sridharan was very remarkable that he remained with us till the conclusion of the meeting which was started at 10pm and ended at 12.30 am (nearly midnight) and after that only he went to have his dinner that too along with a System Administrator of Kerala Mr.Jayakumar who also did not have dinner.
Before the end of the meeting I gave my conclusion speech where I expressed my concern that all the SAs in the country are so frustrated and reacting very emotionally due the additional work being thrusted upon them day by day. I also suggested that we would organise amoung ourselves in front of Dak Bhavan, Delhi for a two days HUNGER FAST STRUGGLE initially and if still our issue was not settled we will organise to go on a INDEFINITE HUNGER FAST STRUGGLE. I requested the General Secretary to fix up a date for both these struggles and obtain formal permission from the Directorate to conduct this struggle in front of Dak Bhavan.
Our General Secretary replied that for both these struggles of the System Administrators an OFFICIAL CALL will be given from the NFPE-P3 union CHQ if the demand is not settled in the forthcoming indefinite strike to be held from 6th January 2009 . The issue of System Administrators will have a very predominant place in demands of the Postal Employees in the forthcoming strike. There is a wide scope that our demand for Separate establishment and Higher Pay scale will be settled by January 2009.
Hence my dear friends our stringent efforts for the past couple years is about to yield results. I know there are still many silent spectators among our friends who just are watching what is happening. For all of them it is my sincere request that join the struggle along the with the mainstream and don't remain separate. By this time you should understand that only collective efforts would yield results. We are not a movie hero who goes alone and fights single handedly with 100 villans and saves the heroine. Please understand the practical reality and have trust on the organisation. ALWAYS ORGANISATION IS SUPREME AND INDIVIDUAL JUST COMES AND GOES INTO THE ORGANISATION. A mighty organisation like NFPE which has 50 odd years of experience is not trusted for solving an issue means then on whom will you trust solve the issue. I accept there are shortcomings in the organisation but it has to be sorted out within the organisation and not taking individual decisions. Shortcomings are bound to occur in any organisation depending on the size of the organisation. Just for the sake of shortcomings don't keep yourself separated from the organisation. Hence my sincere request to all the System Administrators of the country is that please maintain a good and friendly relationship with your local union leaders like your Divisional and Circle Secretaries. It puts me in an very embarassing situation that I receive complaints from the General Secretary that many System Administrators don't have due respect for the local union leaders which ends up in a controversy. I know that some of the local union leaders have their own difficulty in learning to work in computers and that the root cause for that conflict. But anyway please bear with that. Nowadays my System Administrators are becoming very professional and very matured in their approach hence they should be develop this habit of getting adapted to the local situation and try to respect the local union leaders. Please Please Please have good relationship with the local union leaders.
Now our struggle of System Administrators will be held in three phases as follows:
1. INDEFINITE STRIKE - From 6th January 2009
2. 2 days hunger fast in front of DAK BHAVAN, DELHI by all the System Administrators of the country if the issue is not settled settled in the indefinite Strike. The date will be communicated to all by the NFPE-P3 CHQ
3. INDEFINITE HUNGER FAST in front of DAK BHAVAN , DELHI by all the System Administrators of the country if the issue is still not settled. The date for this struggle will also to comminicated to all by the NFPE-P3 CHQ.
Now the time has come to show our action and this is the phase of our ULTIMATE BATTLE. BE PREPARED. JAI HIND.
With due regards
Senthil Kumar
Mobile 9884373390
Sorry for the delayed reply after the Guntur conference. As the conference concluded only on 2.12.2008 and I returned home on 3.12.2008 and immediatly was entangled as usual in our work pressure. Once again kindly excuse me for the delay in mailing to all you people.
Now coming back to business. The special meeting for SAs / SMs was held in the conference venue itself and was conducted by our beloved All India General Secretary of NFPE-P3 (AIPEU Group - C) Mr.K.V.Sridharan. Around 80 System Administrators through out the country participated in the meeting. We had representatives from almost all the States except Orissa, J & K, Rajasthan, Bihar and Delhi. I presided over the meeting as per the unanimous request of the participants. The 80 System Administrators who attended the meeting are the key persons who are organising the System Administrators in their respective Circles and I should personally thank them for making themselves to this meeting inspite of many official chanllenges.
Initially in my speech I covered almost all the problem faced by us in common and expressed our concern WHEN WILL THE DEMAND OF SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR WILL BE SETTLED ? Then opportunity was given to one or two System Administrators from each Circle to present their views and also the problems faced by them locally. The highlights of the issues discussed by each Circle is given below:
Andhra : Some of the System Administrators were chargesheeted for not completing the eMO installation in time. The CHQ assured that it will be settled immediatly.
Kerala : The TA bill problem prevailing in their Circle was highlighted.
Karnataka : The Multi-level management exercised on System Administrators by PMG, DPS, SSPO etc. Each officer giving directions to our SAs and they are confused whose orders to obey.
Maharashtra : Recently orders by CPMG fixing 6 years tenure for working as System Administrators. The CHQ assured that it will be reverted at the earliest. Another issue that a UPS was stolen and our SA was chargesheeted and the cost of the UPS is been recovered from our SA. The Genereal Secretary assured that will also be taken and solved at the appropriate levels.
Punjab: Our SAs are performing the duty in addition to looking after MPCM counters and other branches. This problem will also be taken up by the CHQ.
West Bengal : They expressed their concern about the pattern and conduction of TRADE TEST for the absorption of the existing SAs into the new establishment. They were convinced by the CHQ about the importance of TRADE TEST.
The meeting was very professional and the issued focussed by all the System Administrators was assured to be sorted out at the earliest. The commitment shown by the General Secretary Mr.K.V.Sridharan was very remarkable that he remained with us till the conclusion of the meeting which was started at 10pm and ended at 12.30 am (nearly midnight) and after that only he went to have his dinner that too along with a System Administrator of Kerala Mr.Jayakumar who also did not have dinner.
Before the end of the meeting I gave my conclusion speech where I expressed my concern that all the SAs in the country are so frustrated and reacting very emotionally due the additional work being thrusted upon them day by day. I also suggested that we would organise amoung ourselves in front of Dak Bhavan, Delhi for a two days HUNGER FAST STRUGGLE initially and if still our issue was not settled we will organise to go on a INDEFINITE HUNGER FAST STRUGGLE. I requested the General Secretary to fix up a date for both these struggles and obtain formal permission from the Directorate to conduct this struggle in front of Dak Bhavan.
Our General Secretary replied that for both these struggles of the System Administrators an OFFICIAL CALL will be given from the NFPE-P3 union CHQ if the demand is not settled in the forthcoming indefinite strike to be held from 6th January 2009 . The issue of System Administrators will have a very predominant place in demands of the Postal Employees in the forthcoming strike. There is a wide scope that our demand for Separate establishment and Higher Pay scale will be settled by January 2009.
Hence my dear friends our stringent efforts for the past couple years is about to yield results. I know there are still many silent spectators among our friends who just are watching what is happening. For all of them it is my sincere request that join the struggle along the with the mainstream and don't remain separate. By this time you should understand that only collective efforts would yield results. We are not a movie hero who goes alone and fights single handedly with 100 villans and saves the heroine. Please understand the practical reality and have trust on the organisation. ALWAYS ORGANISATION IS SUPREME AND INDIVIDUAL JUST COMES AND GOES INTO THE ORGANISATION. A mighty organisation like NFPE which has 50 odd years of experience is not trusted for solving an issue means then on whom will you trust solve the issue. I accept there are shortcomings in the organisation but it has to be sorted out within the organisation and not taking individual decisions. Shortcomings are bound to occur in any organisation depending on the size of the organisation. Just for the sake of shortcomings don't keep yourself separated from the organisation. Hence my sincere request to all the System Administrators of the country is that please maintain a good and friendly relationship with your local union leaders like your Divisional and Circle Secretaries. It puts me in an very embarassing situation that I receive complaints from the General Secretary that many System Administrators don't have due respect for the local union leaders which ends up in a controversy. I know that some of the local union leaders have their own difficulty in learning to work in computers and that the root cause for that conflict. But anyway please bear with that. Nowadays my System Administrators are becoming very professional and very matured in their approach hence they should be develop this habit of getting adapted to the local situation and try to respect the local union leaders. Please Please Please have good relationship with the local union leaders.
Now our struggle of System Administrators will be held in three phases as follows:
1. INDEFINITE STRIKE - From 6th January 2009
2. 2 days hunger fast in front of DAK BHAVAN, DELHI by all the System Administrators of the country if the issue is not settled settled in the indefinite Strike. The date will be communicated to all by the NFPE-P3 CHQ
3. INDEFINITE HUNGER FAST in front of DAK BHAVAN , DELHI by all the System Administrators of the country if the issue is still not settled. The date for this struggle will also to comminicated to all by the NFPE-P3 CHQ.
Now the time has come to show our action and this is the phase of our ULTIMATE BATTLE. BE PREPARED. JAI HIND.
With due regards
Senthil Kumar
Mobile 9884373390
Monday, December 8, 2008
Guntur conference
Dear friends,
Just a few days (one week) to go for our Guntur conference. We are about to finalise certain crucial decisions at the Guntur meeting. Hence I request that please attend to the maximum extent possible. I expect a signaficant number of System Managers / System Administrators to attend this meeting. More and more new projects (eMO, Worldnet Express, WAN etc) are being burdened on our heads and we are having a very difficult time with our Superior Officers. There is no use just murmuring among yourself and just passing on your emotions with your colleagues. It is high time that we channelize our emotions on the right track.
Only a collective thinking can pave this right track. Hence the decision to be taken at Guntur should be a collective one. That is the reason why I urge all of you to come. Of course there will be challenges like getting sanction for your LEAVE to come Guntur. For those who are finding it very very difficult to make themselves available for all the Three days of the conference I request those persons to at least be present on 30th November Night session which is exclusively conducted for System Managers. After this meeting you can go on 1st December morning. I give this option only to those who finding it very difficult to come availing leave at a stretch for a long spell. Being a person among you I can very well understand the practical difficulty you should be experiencing at local levels. Even in my divison only two of us have been granted leave, that too after a prolonged discussion in convincing our divisional head.
Those who are coming to Guntur please contact me or my friends who will be available in the mobile numbers given below. Please have preliminary discussion among small groups and prepare your view points accordingly and please present it in a professional manner. Though we have entire night time for discussion of issue due to time constraints the possibility of allowing everyone to speak will be remote. Hence please choose one, two or three persons among each Circle who can speak well and present the view points of the System Managers of the respective Circles. Those key persons who are preparing to present their views please have a preliminary discussion and consolidate the views of everyone and present it accordingly in a professional manner so that we do not miss anyones opinion. Because everyone's views are important for arriving at a collective decision. I hope my humble suggestion will be accepted by everyone.
Thank You.
With regards
Senthil Kumar
Mobile 9884373390
Just a few days (one week) to go for our Guntur conference. We are about to finalise certain crucial decisions at the Guntur meeting. Hence I request that please attend to the maximum extent possible. I expect a signaficant number of System Managers / System Administrators to attend this meeting. More and more new projects (eMO, Worldnet Express, WAN etc) are being burdened on our heads and we are having a very difficult time with our Superior Officers. There is no use just murmuring among yourself and just passing on your emotions with your colleagues. It is high time that we channelize our emotions on the right track.
Only a collective thinking can pave this right track. Hence the decision to be taken at Guntur should be a collective one. That is the reason why I urge all of you to come. Of course there will be challenges like getting sanction for your LEAVE to come Guntur. For those who are finding it very very difficult to make themselves available for all the Three days of the conference I request those persons to at least be present on 30th November Night session which is exclusively conducted for System Managers. After this meeting you can go on 1st December morning. I give this option only to those who finding it very difficult to come availing leave at a stretch for a long spell. Being a person among you I can very well understand the practical difficulty you should be experiencing at local levels. Even in my divison only two of us have been granted leave, that too after a prolonged discussion in convincing our divisional head.
Those who are coming to Guntur please contact me or my friends who will be available in the mobile numbers given below. Please have preliminary discussion among small groups and prepare your view points accordingly and please present it in a professional manner. Though we have entire night time for discussion of issue due to time constraints the possibility of allowing everyone to speak will be remote. Hence please choose one, two or three persons among each Circle who can speak well and present the view points of the System Managers of the respective Circles. Those key persons who are preparing to present their views please have a preliminary discussion and consolidate the views of everyone and present it accordingly in a professional manner so that we do not miss anyones opinion. Because everyone's views are important for arriving at a collective decision. I hope my humble suggestion will be accepted by everyone.
Thank You.
With regards
Senthil Kumar
Mobile 9884373390
Friday, October 10, 2008
All India Conference to be held at Guntur is been Postponed
Dear friends, The NFPE-P3 All India Conference to be held at Guntur is been Postponed due to some unforseen circumstances. Very Sorry for the inconveniences cause. For details kindly see the website http://aipeup3chq.blogspot.com. Kindly communicate this to other whom your people would have forwarded my previous emails. With regards SenthilMobile 9884373390
MAIL FROM SENTHIL
Dear friends, This is my humble appeal. Kindly attend the NFPE-P3 All India Conference to be the held at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh from 19.10.2008 to 21.10.2008. This is an opportunity that we can meet together. Further on 19.10.2008 kindly come in a uniform White T-Shirt so that we would be able to identify ourselves. The General Secretary of NFPE-P3 has organised a meeting with the System Managers on 19.10.2008 during the night time after the conference session concludes on the first day. Hence I request all the System Managers through out the nation should attend. Just take this event as a get-together for the toiling System Managers. I am pasting the message from Mr.K.V.Sridharan, General Secretary, NFPE-P3 below. With regards SenthilMobile-9884373
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
I.P.S.A.A.
(Indian Postal System Administrators Association
Sir,
Placed Below is Our Representation Please.
Department of Posts, is one among the many Departments under Govt. of India having prolix operations. Almost all the areas of work are computerized that include works at different levels of hierarchy. It is delectable that our Department has kept pace with the changing world, by instituting technological advances as well as the promptitude and probity towards customer satisfaction.
Department of Posts caters the need for people of all walks of life. It deals with the Financial sector that comprises of the Savings Bank, Savings Certificates, PPF, Senior Citizen schemes etc with an intangible network span beyond any challenge that either Public Sector or Private Sector could come anywhere near. It also caters to the Insurance Sector with a century old history, which no other insurance players can match. It also caters to the Logistics and newly emerged e-Commerce area. This Department also have a privilege that other Departments could not boast off, that is the self reliance and self support of its technology and software developments including implementation, customization, standardization and support. This Department is a technologically driven and professionally managed one.
The Department of Posts has been constantly developing various softwares some regionally developed and some through different software outlets. These softwares are then implemented on all over the country in various levels of hierarchy. All these implementations including development and support are done through a few number of people, who are designated and given the nomenclature as “System Administrators” by the Department. These conglomerate group of techies have strived tirelessly and relentlessly to bring good returns and success story for the Department. The Department in return has shown some felicity in acknowledging the hardships each one takes but the decision of the 6th Pay Commission in embarking the requirement or granting any privileges to these few people is very painful and estranged. The Pay Commission had taken a precarious opinion in considering the plight of System Administrators, or creating a new cadre. These egregious and erudite lot of techies have given everything in life even sacrificing there private life and happiness for the cause of bringing success to the Department in software implementations. Hence it is imperative therefore to articulate the works associated with these few number of people and to prove why it cannot merely be considered a midge request nor it can be sorted out as any work transcending from a particular cadre.
The System Administrators though are selected from the cadre of Postal Assistants/ Sorting Assistants in the Pay Scale of 4000-100-6000, which demands a minimum qualification of PDC (10+2), in reality the System Administrators are selected on the basis of their extra technological degrees and proven quality of excelling in computer field. All the System Administrators are technology savvy people, who are having aptitude in computer field, by getting rigorous training from training centers such as PTC Mysore and also through the selected few private centers.. They have infact taken pain in studying the softwares and many other programming languages, Database and security operations, which is essential for any software implementations. Only transformation of services ie., the official taken in the cadre of Postal Assistant to work as System Adminstrator is not at all reflect the true judicature, as it is wrong evaluation of the type of work. The work of System Administrator requires talent as well as intelligence much more than a clerical job. Just as a Signal Man in the Railways Department cannot be utilized to work as an Engine Driver or an Airhostess cannot fly an aeroplance, it is not possible for a clerical staff to work as a software professional until and unless that person have some extra talent, and intelligence along with professional qualification. It is in this point that we would like to put forward the necessity of such a cadres and also recognize the hardships and efforts of the few number of System Administrators in implementing the technical and technological excellence in the Department.
The System Administrators are the people who gets the software developed for vivid use of Postal Sectors. There are development centers that includes the PTC Mysore and many others at different Postal Circles. These developed softwares are to be customized according to office requirements, implement and install them, give trainings on its operation on site thereby to move from office to office doing the same. There are other e-Commerce related websites which are also to be updated in day to day basis and to be able to keep it running without fail.
The System Administrators are also required to prepare sites (Like Head Office/ Sub Office / Branch Office ) as to how the implementations are to be carried out in respect of networking, Domain Server and security. They are responsible for the safe functioning of all offices in respect of Server, nodes, Printers, e-Commerce, UPS, Generators, Internet facilities, FTP, Log Files, Virus updations, Service Pack of software, Service Pack of Operating Systems, elucidating very few things that System Administrators do from time to time.
The System Administrators also work as Programmers developing softwares regionally as it becomes necessary at times to have regional softwares. These System Administrators also be considered at par as Programmers as many are working like this in Trichy, Chennai, Mysore, Vizag,Kochi to name a few Regions. These softwares if developed outside the Department will incur Crores of Rupees for development. These System Administrators are saving enormous revenue for the Department in the cause of development, installation, testing, maintenance and support of softwares
The System Administrators are those filtered and selected from the group of higher and technically qualified people from the selected group of Postal Assistants. Though these people have voluntarily agreed to the same for the cause of the betterment of service, the returns and remuneration that they get is very poultry. It is reminded that the 6th Pay Commission had a promise that the loosing of Human Resource in the Central Government will be brought to the barest minimum. The non recognition of this particular cadre and also not rewarding these few people with anything other than what a usual employee would get in the same cadre of selection (Postal Assistant) will lead to jettison the Department with most of these talented pool of employees, who were eagerly waiting just for the release of the 6th Pay Commission to know what exactly would be materializing. The Salary and Perks paid to similar technologically talented people in Private sectors is unimaginably huge, and in several multiples as they are getting right now, also the demand is also more. Hence the right recognition and rewards to these people is absolutely imparitive and it will act as a measure of correct and punctilious judicature.
Thus the System Administrators plea for a new cadre at par with that of Software Programer/ System Analyst or at least with a Data Processing Assistant is an absolute necessity. It should also be like all the System Administrators who have tirelessly worked during the implementation stages should automatically be absorbed in the new cadre along with the creation of separate selection formula.
(Indian Postal System Administrators Association
Sir,
Placed Below is Our Representation Please.
Department of Posts, is one among the many Departments under Govt. of India having prolix operations. Almost all the areas of work are computerized that include works at different levels of hierarchy. It is delectable that our Department has kept pace with the changing world, by instituting technological advances as well as the promptitude and probity towards customer satisfaction.
Department of Posts caters the need for people of all walks of life. It deals with the Financial sector that comprises of the Savings Bank, Savings Certificates, PPF, Senior Citizen schemes etc with an intangible network span beyond any challenge that either Public Sector or Private Sector could come anywhere near. It also caters to the Insurance Sector with a century old history, which no other insurance players can match. It also caters to the Logistics and newly emerged e-Commerce area. This Department also have a privilege that other Departments could not boast off, that is the self reliance and self support of its technology and software developments including implementation, customization, standardization and support. This Department is a technologically driven and professionally managed one.
The Department of Posts has been constantly developing various softwares some regionally developed and some through different software outlets. These softwares are then implemented on all over the country in various levels of hierarchy. All these implementations including development and support are done through a few number of people, who are designated and given the nomenclature as “System Administrators” by the Department. These conglomerate group of techies have strived tirelessly and relentlessly to bring good returns and success story for the Department. The Department in return has shown some felicity in acknowledging the hardships each one takes but the decision of the 6th Pay Commission in embarking the requirement or granting any privileges to these few people is very painful and estranged. The Pay Commission had taken a precarious opinion in considering the plight of System Administrators, or creating a new cadre. These egregious and erudite lot of techies have given everything in life even sacrificing there private life and happiness for the cause of bringing success to the Department in software implementations. Hence it is imperative therefore to articulate the works associated with these few number of people and to prove why it cannot merely be considered a midge request nor it can be sorted out as any work transcending from a particular cadre.
The System Administrators though are selected from the cadre of Postal Assistants/ Sorting Assistants in the Pay Scale of 4000-100-6000, which demands a minimum qualification of PDC (10+2), in reality the System Administrators are selected on the basis of their extra technological degrees and proven quality of excelling in computer field. All the System Administrators are technology savvy people, who are having aptitude in computer field, by getting rigorous training from training centers such as PTC Mysore and also through the selected few private centers.. They have infact taken pain in studying the softwares and many other programming languages, Database and security operations, which is essential for any software implementations. Only transformation of services ie., the official taken in the cadre of Postal Assistant to work as System Adminstrator is not at all reflect the true judicature, as it is wrong evaluation of the type of work. The work of System Administrator requires talent as well as intelligence much more than a clerical job. Just as a Signal Man in the Railways Department cannot be utilized to work as an Engine Driver or an Airhostess cannot fly an aeroplance, it is not possible for a clerical staff to work as a software professional until and unless that person have some extra talent, and intelligence along with professional qualification. It is in this point that we would like to put forward the necessity of such a cadres and also recognize the hardships and efforts of the few number of System Administrators in implementing the technical and technological excellence in the Department.
The System Administrators are the people who gets the software developed for vivid use of Postal Sectors. There are development centers that includes the PTC Mysore and many others at different Postal Circles. These developed softwares are to be customized according to office requirements, implement and install them, give trainings on its operation on site thereby to move from office to office doing the same. There are other e-Commerce related websites which are also to be updated in day to day basis and to be able to keep it running without fail.
The System Administrators are also required to prepare sites (Like Head Office/ Sub Office / Branch Office ) as to how the implementations are to be carried out in respect of networking, Domain Server and security. They are responsible for the safe functioning of all offices in respect of Server, nodes, Printers, e-Commerce, UPS, Generators, Internet facilities, FTP, Log Files, Virus updations, Service Pack of software, Service Pack of Operating Systems, elucidating very few things that System Administrators do from time to time.
The System Administrators also work as Programmers developing softwares regionally as it becomes necessary at times to have regional softwares. These System Administrators also be considered at par as Programmers as many are working like this in Trichy, Chennai, Mysore, Vizag,Kochi to name a few Regions. These softwares if developed outside the Department will incur Crores of Rupees for development. These System Administrators are saving enormous revenue for the Department in the cause of development, installation, testing, maintenance and support of softwares
The System Administrators are those filtered and selected from the group of higher and technically qualified people from the selected group of Postal Assistants. Though these people have voluntarily agreed to the same for the cause of the betterment of service, the returns and remuneration that they get is very poultry. It is reminded that the 6th Pay Commission had a promise that the loosing of Human Resource in the Central Government will be brought to the barest minimum. The non recognition of this particular cadre and also not rewarding these few people with anything other than what a usual employee would get in the same cadre of selection (Postal Assistant) will lead to jettison the Department with most of these talented pool of employees, who were eagerly waiting just for the release of the 6th Pay Commission to know what exactly would be materializing. The Salary and Perks paid to similar technologically talented people in Private sectors is unimaginably huge, and in several multiples as they are getting right now, also the demand is also more. Hence the right recognition and rewards to these people is absolutely imparitive and it will act as a measure of correct and punctilious judicature.
Thus the System Administrators plea for a new cadre at par with that of Software Programer/ System Analyst or at least with a Data Processing Assistant is an absolute necessity. It should also be like all the System Administrators who have tirelessly worked during the implementation stages should automatically be absorbed in the new cadre along with the creation of separate selection formula.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Constitution of Technology Planning and Technology Operations divisions:
The Department of Posts has set up two more divisions in the Postal Directorate. One is Technology Planning Division and the other is Technology Operations Division. The Order of the Department says that in the background of a major technology initiative planned in the XI Five Year Plan, there is a need for formulation of technology vision and developing a strategy to keep abreast with the developments in technology and use the innovations for giving customers better services. The plan is to computerize all departmental post offices and half of the EDBOs in rural and it is also assessed that this will require business process reengineering, administrative and operational restructuring to provide enabling requirement for technology induction. There is mention that the Human Resource issues also need to be dealt with. In addition it is envisaged to create a Data Bank on the profile and availability of System Administrators at all levels so as to ensure their upgradation of skills as a part of ongoing training programme. However the NFPE would be shortly writing to Postal Directorate for involving the Staff Side in the matter by providing complete information in this matter and to incorporate staff side viewpoints in the decision-making.
-- K.RagavendranSecretary General NFPE
-- K.RagavendranSecretary General NFPE
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