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They are also posted in positions such as branch post masters in rural post offices.The seventh pay commission was implemented for postal department’s employees from 2016. “About 200 gramin dak sevaks form Coimbatore participated in the strike,” he said. Known as gramin dak sevaks (GDS), there are about 300 such employees in Coimbatore and 400 in Pollachi divisions.Gramin dak sevaks or delivery agents are not direct employees of the department. Coimbatore: About 1 ,000 employees of the postal department in the district boycotted work on Tuesday in protest against the Centre for not implementing the seventh pay commission for extra departmental employees, who work in rural areas. However, it was not implemented for gramin dak sevaks.Kamalesh Chandra committee, which was constituted to look into the wages for gramin dak sevaks, had submitted its report to the Centre in 2017..