Upgradation
of Grade Pay of LDC and UDC - General Secretary of All India
Association of Administrative Staff (Non Gazetted) writes to Prime
Minister regarding upgradation of Grade Pay to Clerical Staff, the
letter is reproduced and given below for your ready reference...
No. 3/GS/2013
To
The Hon’ble Prime Minister,
Government of India,
New Delhi
Sub:
Upgradation of grade pay of LDC & UDC in the Administrative branch of Government of India Offices.Respected Sir,
With
due respect it is to bring to your kind notice that the undersigned in
the capacity as General Secretary of All India Association of
Ministerial Staff (Group C) under the Ministry of Statistics &
Programme Implementation, had made an appeal to your good office vide
letter dated 16/04/2010(Enclosed in Annexure I) wherein it was described
how the 6th Pay Commission recommendations disappointed the lakhs of
LDC & UDC working in the Central Government Offices. Our contention
was that while the 6th Pay Commission has recommended the merger of the
various group D posts and upgraded the grade pay from 1400 to 1800, for
the LDCs, only a replacement grade pay of Rs. 1900 i.e. just Rs. 100
above the MTS has been granted, even after raising the academic and
technical qualification to get selected on the post. Moreover, all the
pre-revised pay scales above UDC -from Accountant to Assistant
Administrative Officer- have been merged and granted Rs. 4200 - 4600
grade pay. Thus the basic cadres who are responsible for the smooth
functioning of the Central Government offices, especially in the
subordinate offices, have ignored/neglected by the Pay Commission as
well as the Government.
Considering the gravity of the subject
contained in it the aforesaid appeal was forwarded to the Secretary,
Department of Personal & Training for action vide PMO ID No.
4/3/2010-PMP4/158890 dated 18/05/2010 (Copy enclosed in annexure II).
When any action on the matter has visibly been not taken by the DoPT
till 2012, and having aggrieved on the prolonged delay, follow up
correspondences have been made as follows
1. Shri A.H. Lokhande,
Jabalpur has sought the action taken report under RTI (copies enclosed
in Annexure III (A) & III(B). But both CPIO & appellate
authority vide letter No. 20/2/2012-Estt(Pay-1) dated 29Aug 2012 &
letter No 20/2/2012-Estt(Pay-1) dated 23rd Oct 2012 respectively have
confirmed that the said letter has not received at DoPT and as such no
action taken report can be given(copies enclosed in Annexure IV(A) &
IV (B).
2. Subsequently, the undersigned has obtained a copy
of the acknowledgement in confirmation of the receipt of my letter dated
16/04/2010 at DoPT from the PM’s Office. In the light of the said
acknowledgement, a letter seeking the copy of the action taken
report/Noting drafting under RTI was sent to the CPIO DoPT vide letter
dated 09/03/13 (Copy enclosed in Annexure V (A)-V(E).
3. On
25th April 2013 I have received a letter from CS Section of DoPT
(Annexure VI), which has not given the pointed reply I sought, and as
such the same was not convincing. And accordingly an appeal was sent to
the appellate authority under RTI act vide letter dated 29/04/2013 for
which I have received a letter vide letter No. 20/1/2013-CS-II (B) dated
21st May 2013.(enclosed in Annexure VII (A) & VII(B) wherein it
was informed that “CS-II Division deals only with the LDCs & UDCs of
the Central Secretariat Service and as such no records available CS-II
Division, there is no proposal to upgrade the grade pay of the LDC &
UDC of CSCS Cadre. The application of Shri A.H. Lokhande has not been
received in this Division”. Accordingly an order for the disposal of the
appeal has been passed.
From the above it is clear that the
letter received in the DoPT from the PM’s office has not taken in the
records of DoPT where it appears to have been misplaced which led CPIO
and appellate authorities to state that no such letter is received at
DoPT from the PM’s Office. In this respect, even after
submitting/providing the proof the acknowledgement of the said letter
(obtained from the PM’s Office), DoPT has not bothered to change their
version. Moreover, the copies of the applications submitted by Shri A.H.
Lokhande have been supplied and even after CS-II division has not
changed their version of not receiving any letter from Shri A.H.
Lokhande.
Above all, both Shri A.H. Lokhande and myself have
sought information regarding the action taken report/noting/drafting in
disposal of the letter forwarded to the Secretary,
DoPT by the PM’s
office vide letter No. 4/3/2010-PMP4/158890 dated 18/05/2010. In reply,
the CPIOs and Appellate authorities (pay Division & CS-II Division)
have been informing us that the said letter is not received in their
section and as such no action is taken.
Sir, the Confederation of
Central Government Employees & Workers, All India Railway men’s
Federation, National Federation of India Railway men, the Defense
Employees Federation and various other Central Government Employees’
Organizations have been writing to the Government to consider the
upgradation of the grade pay of the LDC & UDC. Besides, the issue
has been put up in the National JCM but the matter could not be
discussed as the meeting of the National JCM meeting has not been called
so far. Moreover, this item has been placed in the National Anomaly
Committee (NAC) but the same has not been taken up for discussion in the
NAC so far. It is also bring to your kind notice that all the websites
related to the Central Government Employees have actively been
discussing the issue as genuine.
Sir, the upgradation of the
grade pay of LDC & UDCs is a genuine issue. Cases of all cadres
baring the LDC & UDC were considered and favorable decision was
taken by the 6th CPC. Similarly, the LDC and the UDC are also deserving
higher grade pays than the present one, to commensurate with the
qualifications and assignments attached to these posts after the
implementation of the recommendations of the
6th Pay Commission.
In view of the above, we seek your kind intervention to get a favourable decision in this regard.
Encl: As above
