A delegate of the Association consisting, Shri AI Khan, Shri TKR Pillai, Shri Hansraj Jat and Shri Rajesh Kumar met the Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation at New Delhi on 14th March and submitted the following memorandum. The delegates requested him to constitute a monitoring committee to ensure timely implementation of Cadre restructuring that he kindly agreed. Thus we hope the cadre restructuring of Administrative staff will be done without prolonged delay.
GRIEVANCES OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
TO BE CONSIDERED IMMEDIATELY
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF (GROUP C)
MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
NSSO(FOD), Hall No. 201 & 205,
Vijay Stumbh, Zone, I, M P Nagar,
Bhopal, dated:
15/03/2019
To
Shri Pravin Shrivasthava,
Secretary,
Ministry of Statistics & Programme
Implementation,
Sardar Patel Bhawan, Parliament Street,
New Delhi
Sub: Grievances
of Administrative Staff to be considered immediately.
Respected Sir,
It is to submit that Administrative Staff of
FOD, NSSO have been facing some problem of basic nature since very long viz.
(2) Non restructure of administrative cadres since the inception of FOD. (2) Down-gradation of the post of Office
Superintendent. (3) Problem faced by the MTS after 6th Pay
Commission etc. Despite of or best efforts for the last 10 years, no result is
come out on these important issues.
In
this respect, I genuinely feel that with your personal intervention, all these
issues can be solved in a time bond manner. Thus it is my fervent appeal
to please intervene in this matter for
its early finalization so that the sufferings of the Administrative staff of
NSSO (FOD) on the matter may come to an end.
A detailed note on this subject is
enclosed herewith.
With regards,
Yours faithfully,
Sd/
(AI Khan)
General Secretary
1. 1. Cadre
restructuring of Administrative Staff & Stenographers
Cadre restructuring of Administrative Staff
and Stenographers of NSSO (FOD) Offices has not been done since its
inception. But cadre restructuring
of Field Officers/cadres are being done periodically. Even though the Ministry
of Statistics had initiated action to
restructure the cadre of Administrative Staff of FOD in the year 2009 it
is s still pending.
The
proposal submitted earlier were revised and resubmitted on several occasions as
per the comments of the MoSPI and Department of Expenditure with no fruitful
result. However, it has come to know that subsequently a revised Cadre
restructuring proposal was submitted in May 2017 after consultation with the
then Under Secretary and the Deputy
Secretary who dealt the subject in the MoSPI and also after a power point
presentation before the Joint Secretary in-charge of Administration in MoSPI,
who was also reported to have endorsed the entire proposal. And yet, the proposal is shuttling
between FOD, MoSPI and Department of Expenditure. It has come to know that at present FOD
has resubmitted the proposal after complying with the instructions of MoSPI and
Department of Expenditure.
It
is to be noted that the clerical staff
and stenographers, working in NSSO Offices are appointed through the
competitive examination conducted by the Staff Selection Commission. While the
candidates sponsored by the SSC for appointment to these categories of staff in
other Ministries they have been getting
promotion up to the level 8-9 of 7th Pay Commission scales after
rendering 30 years of service, the candidates appointed from the same batch in
NSSO (FOD) hardly reach the pay level of 4-6. This is due to lack of periodical
cadre restructuring of Administrative staff.
2. 2. Down-gradation of the post of Office Superintendent:
Till 6th Pay
Commission, Office Superintendents of FOD were functioned as Section Officer
and DDO. But consequent on the merger of the pay
scales of Rs. 5000-8000 & 5500-9000, the post Office Superintendent has
been downgraded to the Non Gazetted Assistant with Grade Pay of Rs. 4200. To
combat this situation, FOD, NSSO had proposed creation of posts of Administrative
Officers with Grade Pay of Rs. 4600 in all Regions in the cadre restructuring
proposal without any additional financial burdens. But due to the inordinate
delay in the cadre restructuring, Non Gazetted Assistant are forced to do the
duties entrusted to the post of Administrative Officer without any additional
remunerations.
In
the absence of a Gazetted officer in the Administrative section, majority of
the Regional offices deputed one Senior Statistical Officer to supervise the
work in administrative section and functioning as DDO and sometimes declared as
HO too. Since many of these SSO are not conversant with the rules/regulations
related to Administration/accounts matters, their presence in the
administrative section often has become burdensome. If Administrative Officers are posted in the
Regional Offices, they may act as HO and DDO also for the smooth functioning of
office thereby relieving the SSO entirely for field work.
Moreover,
down-gradation of the post of Office Superintendent to Assistant caused to
increase the number post of Assistants.
But sufficient qualified UDC was not available to fill up all the posts
of Assistants. Now, it has come to know that Department of Expenditure is
demanding to abolish all posts of Assistants kept vacant more than 5 years. But
it is not justifiable. Thus it is requested to please promote all UDCs against
the vacancy of Assistant by relaxing recruitment rules as a onetime measure and
the consequent vacancies of UDC may be filled by relaxing the recruitment rules
of LDC. And immediate action may please be taken to get upgraded the posts of
Assistant equivalent to the existing office Superintendent
3. 3. Problem
faced by the MTS after 6th Pay Commission.
According to sixth Pay Commission the existing
5 pay scales of Group D staff had been merged to a single pay band and granted
Rs. 1800 Grade Pay and named the post as Multi Tasking Staff (MTS) i.e. amalgamating the posts with unskilled, semi-skilled
and skilled functions without any scientific basis or logic. Consequently,
the educational qualification for direct recruitment for the post has been
raised to Matriculation and the status of the post has been raised from group D
to Group C. But a person who passed matriculation might have also been passed
12th standard. And most of the persons who passed 12th
standard may be a graduate and applies for the post of MTS and other
competitive examinations simultaneously. The person selected for the post of
MTS is forced to join the post due their domestic burden etc. But they are not
satisfied because a single promotional post for the post for the post of MTS is
available at present, whereas there were 4 promotional
channels for the existing Group D Staff.
Out of the cadre structure existed before 6th
Pay Commission, majority posts were unskilled viz. Mali, Cobbler, sweeper etc they did not want even 8th
standard pass for getting selection to the post. Thus matriculate peon,
consisted less percentage of the total strength, only considered appointing to
the post of LDC, under 15 percent quota. Thus at that time 15 percent quota was
looking to be sufficient to meet the requirement. I know several persons
initially appointed as peon have been retired on Gazetted posts. But the scenario
has changed now, all the posts of MTS including the existing post of Cobbler,
Mali, Sweeper all are appointing through competitive examination and the number
of educationally qualified MTS increased many fold. Thus the percentage of promotional quota for
MTS to the post of LDC needs to be increased. It can only be
possible at least 40 percent of the posts of LDC be reserved for the sake of
promotion to MTS only.
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