Postal staff to hold federal executive meeting in City

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 16. The National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE) will hold its Federal Executive session here on September 18 and 19 to take stock of the Geeta Krishnan Committee report recommending downsizing of the Postal Department and privatisation of its services.

The Federal Executive, which comprises representatives of all postal employees, will formulate an alternate policy and deliberate upon the failure of the Government to settle the agreed demands. The two-day meet is a prelude to the Federal Council session of NFPE at Kolkata scheduled to be held in October.

Mr. Prabhakar Nair, secretary general, Confederation of CGES and Workers, told presspersons on Sunday that the Geeta Krishnan Committee recommendations, if implemented, would destroy the well established public communication system besides rendering hundreds of workers jobless. The federal executive would take an appropriate decision to save the Department and the employees in the public interest.

Among other things, the Committee recommended closure of single handed and double handed Post Offices, stopping filling of vacant posts and banning recruitment, abolishing of Mail Motor Service, privatisation of mail clearance from letter boxes, privatisation of delivery of ordinary mail, corporatisation of speed post, e- mail and satellite posts, handing over of sale of stamps and stationary to PCOs on profits sharing basis.

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