Engagement of Daily wages employees against Regular posts of UDC/Assistant.

ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF MINISTERIAL STAFF (GROUP C)
MINISTRY OF STATISTICS & PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
GOVERNMENT ON INDIA

Hall No. 201 & 205, Vijay Stumbh,
Zone I, Maharana Pratap Nagar,
Bhopal, dated 10/06/2011
To

The Additional Director General,
NSSO (FOD),
New Delhi

Sub: Engagement of daily wages employees on collector rate against the vacancies of UDC & Assistant-Regarding.

Sir,
At the outset I would like to invite your kind attention to the letter dated 14/2/2011 of Shri Nirmalendu Basu, Joint Secretary of the Association, addressed to the Director (Admn), NSSO (FOD) New Delhi. The said letter was written in reply to the FOD letter addressed to him, wherein it was intended to take over the Association by a Group C person in place Shri TKR Pillai the incumbent General Secretary. Shri Basu in his letter has categorically stated that Shri TKR Pillai is the General Secretary of the Association at present and he may be allowed to continue on the post till the next General Body Meeting of the Association. The decision on the letter, taken by the FOD/Ministry has not communicated to this Association and as such we were not in a position to present the grievances of the Ministerial Staff of the NSSO Offices to you, so far.

But the office memorandum circulated by the FOD vide letter No. A-12026/1(A)/09-E.II/ (Part-D) dated 3/6/2011 wherein FOD Regions were asked to engage persons on collector rate against the vacancies of Regular UDCs and Assistants, forced me to bring the anxiety of several of the units of our Association who asked me over phone to communicate the protest of the Association on the matter, to the FOD/Ministry.

In this respect it is bring to you that this Association had requested FOD to fill up the vacancies of Assistants by UDCs who have completed 18 years combined service on the post of LDC & UDC (copy enclosed). But no action has seemingly been taken so far and as a result several posts of Assistant are lying vacant and the same is being filled up through daily wage workers. On the other hand, the posts of UDCs are to be filled up through promotion of eligible LDCs on state level seniority cum fitness basis. When qualified LDCs are available, these posts can be filled up through promotion.

It is further submitted that, unlike in other Government of India Offices where Administrative Section is headed by Administrative Officer/Section Officer with not less than 4800 grade pay, office superintendents with gazetted status were posted in FOD Regions to supervise the administrative work there. Now these Office Superintendents have been downgraded to the posts of Assistants and as such Assistants with 4200 grade pay has to discharge the duties of an Administrative Officer in FOD Offices. But as per FOD office memorandum under reference now daily wage workers on collector rate will be appointed against the vacancies of the Assistants in FOD Offices, which not in the interest of the Ministerial Staff of FOD.

It is therefore requested that the vacancies of the Assistants may be filled up through promotion of eligible UDCs who have completed 18 years combined service on the post of LDC & UDC put together and daily wage skilled workers may be engaged to fill the vacancies of LDCs till the post are filled up by recruitment through SSC.

Yours faithfully
Encl: One

(TKR Pillai)
General Secretary

Copy to:

The Joint Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Sardar Patel Bhawan, New Delhi for favourable action.