Granting parity between the Assistants of CSS & Field Offices

To

Dr. T.C.A. Anant,
Secretary,
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation,
New Delhi.

Sub: Granting Parity between analogous posts of Ministerial Staff in the CSS & Field Offices as per the recommendation of 6th Central Pay Commission.

Sir,
It is bring to your kind notice that 6th Central Pay Commission had recommended for granting parity between analogous posts of Ministerial Staff employed in field offices and in the Secretariat till the grade of Assistant. In this respect the Commission observed that: “Higher pay scales in the Secretariat offices may have been justified in the past when formulation of proper policies was not paramount importance. The present position is different. Today, the weakest link in respect of any Government policy is at the delivery stage. This phenomenon is not endemic to India. Internationally also, there is an increasing emphasis on strengthening the delivery lines and decentralization with greater role being assigned at delivery points which actually determines the benefit that the common citizen is going to derive out of any policy initiative of the Government. The field offices are at the cutting edge of administration and may, in most cases, determine whether a particular policy turns out to be a success or a failure in terms of actual benefit to the consumer. Accordingly, the time has come to grant parity between similarly placed personnel employed in field offices and in the Secretariat. This parity will need to be absolute till the grade of Assistant.” And the Government had accepted the recommendation of the Commission in toto.

It is to be mentioned here that the Staff Associations of the Field Organizations under Government of India have been demanding parity between the Assistants in CSS & Field Offices for several years. The Staff Side of the National JCM in its memorandum to the Pay Commission had also demanded parity to the post in Government of India offices as a whole.

But Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure) O.M. F. No.1/1/2008-IC dated 13.11.2009 has upgraded the grade pay of the Assistant in CSS to Rs. 4600/ and the same has not been granted to the Assistants posted in field offices. Moreover 1467 posts of UDCs have been upgraded to Assistant grade of CSS by the Government vide DoP&T O.M; No. 19/1/2008-CSI(P) dated 20/7/10 and proposed a further cadre re-structuring of the CSS Ministerial cadres after 3 years of the implementation of the present cadre re-structuring. Whereas parity between the Assistants of CSS & Field Offices and also the cadre re-structuring of the Ministerial Staff of the NSSO Offices of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation have not been considered so far. Thus the long pending dream of parity between the Ministerial Cadres of CSS & Field Offices has been denied to the Ministerial Staff of the Field Offices even after the 6th Pay Commission has given ample justification for the same.

It is therefore requested that considering the facts and figures put forth by the Pay Commission for recommending parity between the Assistants of CSS & Field offices, the grade pay of the Assistants in the Field Offices may be upgraded to Rs. 4600 w.e.f. 1.1.2006 and also the upgradation of the UDC of the Field Offices may be made to Assistant on the line of DOPT OM No. 19/1/2008-CSI (P) dated 20/7/10.

A favorable action on the matter is requested please.

Yours faithfully

(TKR Pillai)
General Secretary

Copy to:
1. The Additional Director General, NSSO (FOD), New Delhi.
2. The Additional Director General, NSSO (DPD), Kolkata.
3. The Additional Director General, NSSO (SDRD), Kolkata.

Grant of Rs. 1800 grade pay to Non-Matriculate Group D employees, retired between January 06 & August 2008.

F. No. 7/19/2010-E.III(A)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
New Delhi, the 2nd August 2010.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub: Clarifications regarding pay fixation of existing Group D Employees in the revised pay structure.

Reference is invited to this Department’s Office Memorandum No. 1/1/2008-IC dated 24th December, 2008 wherein clarifications were provided regarding various aspects of placement of the existing Group D employees in the revised pay structure.

2. As per the clarification at Sl. No. 1, those Group D employees who did not possess the minimum qualification and who have retired/died in harness between 1.1.2006 and date of notification of Revised Pay Rules will be granted pay band -1S and the grade pay corresponding to their pre-revised pay s ale as notified in CCS (RP) Rules, 2008.

3. The aforesaid issue was raised in the 46th Ordinary Meeting of the National Council (JCM) held on 15th May, 2010 and the Staff Side had requested that the cases relating to the non-matriculate class IV employees who retired or died between January 2006 and August 2008 without any re-training be re-considered and such employees should be granted the benefit by re-fixing their pension/family pension at par with those employees who were retrained and whose pay was fixed in PB-1 with a grade pay of Rs. 1800/.

4. The request of Staff Side on the subject has been considered and it has been decided that the Group D non-matriculate employees who died in harness or have retired between 1.1.2006 and the date of notification of CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 from those Ministries/Departments which have since re-trained all the eligible serving non-matriculate Group D employees and have placed them in PB-1 with grade pay of Rs. 1800, would be placed in PB-1 with grade pay of Rs. 1800 with effect from the same date that the retrained eligible employees were placed in this pay band and grade pay.

Sd/
(Renu Jain)
Deputy Secretary to Government of India

To

All Ministries/Department of Government of India

10% DA from 01.07.2010

All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) on base 2001=100 value has been released by Labour Bureau. The value of the index stands at 174 level. As such, the Dearness Allowance for Central Government Employees will be raised 10% and total of 45% (35% + 10%). All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) on base 2001=100 for the month of June, 2010 has been increased by 2 points and stood at 174 (one hundred and seventy four).

Upgradation of the post of OS to AO/SO and grant of Rs. 4800 grade pay

Given hereunder is the copy of the letter, sent to the NSSO Divisions by the Ministry

No. B-12011/1/2010-Ad.III
Government of India
Ministry of Statistics & P.I.
Sardar Patel Bhavan, Sandad Marg,
New Delhi-110001 dt 8.07.2010.

To

1.The Director(Admn.), Data Processing Division/ S.DR.D, NSSO,
Mahalanobis Bhavan, 164, G. LT. Road, Kolkata-700108.
2. Director (Admn.), Field Operations Division, East Block No. 6, level
6&7,R.K.Puram, New Delhi.

Sub:-Renaming of the Office Superintendent as Administrative Officer/Section Officer
in NSSO Offices and granting of Rs. 4800/- grade pay accordingly.

Sir,

I am directed to forward a copy of letter No. 2/Assn/GS/2010 dated 14.6.2010
Received from the General Secretary of the All India Association of Ministerial Staff
(Group C) on the above cited subject for your comment in the matter at an early date.

Yours faithfully
sd/
(Yashodhara Vijayan)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Circular

Bhopal, dated 2/07/10

Dear friends,

I am sure that you might be visiting the Association web site www.aiamshq.blogspot.com regularly. Our web site can be opened through Google search also. Association is posting letters and other documents regularly in the web site since its launching in the month of April 2010.

Letter to the Hon’ble Prime Minister
We had sent a letter to the Hon’ble Prime Minister to consider the merger of the post of LD& UDC and granting of 2800/ grade to the merged post, copy of the same is posted in the web site. In reply we have received a letter from the Prime Minister Office according to which our representation has been forwarded to the DoPT for appropriate action (copy enclosed).

Upgradation of OS posts to 4800/ grade pay
You are aware that Association had written a letter to the Secretary in his name, demanding the upgradation of the post of Office Superintendent to the pre-revised scale of Rs. 7500-12000 i.e. Rs. 4800 grade pay, in the year 2009 and accordingly Ministry had circulated a proposal inviting cadre re-structuring of the Ministerial Staff wherein it was clearly stated that the post of Office Superintendent in the NSSO office will be renamed as SO with Rs. 4800 grade pay. But the re-structuring of the Ministerial posts has not taken place as yet. Meanwhile, it has come to our notice that now the Ministry is considering 4600/ grade pay to the re-named post of OS. General Secretary immediately visited the Department and discussed the matter with the then Director Shri Sudhir Shrivastav, who had called the then Under Secretary in his chamber and advised her to keep Rs. 4800 grade pay for the re-named post of Office Superintendent as the post of Office Superintendent in NSSO Offices especially the Regional/DPC Offices of the NSSO, carries greater responsibility having complete charge of administrative and accounts sections and as such this post deserves Rs. 4800/ grade pay, he said.

Meanwhile, DPD has put up a proposal for upgradation of the post of Office Superintendent with 4800/ grade pay. But a final picture regarding granting of grade pay to the upgraded posts has not yet emerged. On this subject we had written another letter to the Secretary in his name recently (a copy of the same is placed in the web site-enclosed). As per 6th Pay Commission recommendation, an official who is placed in a post in the Pay Band with Grade of Pay Rs.4800/- will automatically get Grade Pay of Rs.5400 after completion of 3 year service. This will benefit the juniors.

Seniority of LDC &Considering combined UDC for the promotion of Assistant
Association has written a letter to the FOD & DPD to consider the combined seniority of UDC & LDC for promotion to the post of Assistant, a copy of the same is posted in the web site.

Filling up of the post of Assistant & LDC in FOD offices
Letter for filling up of all vacant post of Assistant and LDC has been sent to the FOD. More than 20 posts of Assistant are lying vacant in various FOD Offices and the Association demanded to fill up these posts by relaxing the recruitment of rule of the Assistant as a one time measure. Similarly around 70 vacancies of LDCs are there, copy of the letter sent is posted in the web site. Similar letter is being written to the DPD Hqrs for filling up of the vacant posts of Assistant etc by relaxation of recruitment rules.

Filling up of Vacancy of Ministerial posts in DPD/SDRD.
This Association has been receiving letters from the offices of the DPD for getting the vacant post of Ministerial staff in DPD Offices filled up. Letter in this connection is being written to the ADG DPD for immediate filling up of the vacancies of Ministerial posts in DPD & SDRD.

Demand for change of the name of the Association to accommodate the post with 4200 G.P.
The Assistant with 4200 grade pay in NSSO Offices has been declared group B and accordingly the MoS&PI had asked us to amend the constitution for fresh recognition. Since the Assistant is an integral part of the Ministerial Staff and in order to keep the Assistants in the Association fold, we had changed the Association’s name as All India Association of Ministerial Staff (Non Gazetted) and a proposal sent to the Ministry for recognition. But the Ministry has not accepted the new Constitution. Now we had written a letter to the Director (JCA), DoPT vide letter dated 10/6/10(Copy is posted in the web site-enclosed). All the Ministries of the Government of India have been allowed to keep the 4200, 4600 grade pay categories in the Association fold and as such we are sure that the DoPT will allow us to keep the Ministerial posts with 4200 in the Association fold.

Deduction of annual subscription from the pay roll.
The annual individual subscription of the members of the Association is to be deducted from the salary for the month of July 2010. All Unit Secretaries are requested to ensure the deduction of the subscription in the month of July itself. As has already been informed, the Ministerial Posts/Hindi translators who are in 4200 grade pay are still the members of the Association. Unit Secretaries have to ensure the deduction of subscription of the Assistant/Junior Translators as well.
A letter in connection with the deduction of yearly subscription addressed to the Head of the Office/DDO is enclosed, which may please be handed over to the HO/DDO in your office.

Yours sincerely

(TKR Pillai)
General Secretary

Filling up of the vacant post of LDC in FOD

No. 2/Assn/GS/2010 Bhopal, dated 02.07.10

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

Sub: Filling up of vacant posts of LDC in FOD Offices.

Sir,
It was informed to this Association that 36 posts of LDCs were lying vacant in various offices of the FOD as on 10.5.10. In addition, around 40 posts of LDC will become vacant due to the promotion of LDCs against the vacancies of UDC who has been promoted to the post of Assistant recently. This will increase the burden of the administrative staff in FOD Offices especially in the Regions of FOD. It is worth mentioning here that all the vacancies of the field staff have been filled up by appointing Investigator on contract basis. Moreover, Contract Investigators have been appointed to do the work of SE, UFS and NREGA in excess of the original sanctioned strength of the Field Staff whereas no Ministerial posts have been increased in lieu of the same.

Meanwhile, FOD vide letter dated. 17/5/10 has informed the undersigned under RTI that any order, issued by the DOPT/MoS&PI which relates the banning or suspending the direct recruitment of LDC is not available with the FOD. But it is seen that the Regional Heads at the State capitals, who are empowered to recruit LDC as per recruitment rules, are not exercising their powers on the matter without prior permission from FOD Headquarters. It is evident, unless a written or oral directive from the FOD Hqrs is given, no Regional Heads at the State Capitals would write to FOD Hqrs for permission to recruit the LDC.

It is therefore requested to please take early action to fill up all the posts of LDCs on regular basis and the ongoing process for the engagement of typist etc through outsourcing may be stopped. The quality and accuracy of the work in the Administrative & Accounts Sections need to be maintained and the typists engaged on outsourcing basis cannot do the same.



Yours faithfully


(TKR Pillai)
General Secretary

Promotion UDC to Assistant on the combined Seniority of LDC & UDC

No. 2/Assn/GS/2010 Bhopal, dated 16.07.10

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

Sub: Promotion of UDCs who have not completed 10 years on the post by relaxing the DoPT Promotion rules-Regarding.

Sir,

It is submitted that more than 20 posts of Assistant are lying vacant in various FOD Offices as on date, which puts hurdles in the smooth functioning of the offices especially the Regional Offices. But FOD has not considered the UDCs who have not completed 10 years service on the post for promotion to the post of Assistant and as such their names were not reflected in the All India Seniority list of UDC. In this respect our submission is that 12-16 years are required to take place promotion of LDC to UDC in FOD Offices whereas DoPT provides only 8 years of qualifying service for promotion to the post of UDC. Thus, unless relaxation is given in the qualifying period for promotion to the post of UDC to Assistant, most of the UDCs in the FOD Offices will retire on the post itself.

It is therefore requested that the promotion to the post of Assistant may be made on the combined services of the LDC & UDC and amendments in the recruitment rule of the Assistant may be made accordingly. Since the process for the amendment of the recruitment rules may take more time, all the vacancies of the Assistant at present may be filled by the UDCs by giving relaxation in the rules as a one time measure.

Yours faithfully


(T.K.R. Pillai)
General Secretary