Indian Railways: Meeting regarding Cadre Restructuring of Group ‘C’ categories on Indian Railways.

Indian Railways: Meeting regarding Cadre Restructuring of Group ‘C’ categories on Indian Railways.

Official Side	Staff Side
	AIRF	NFIR
Addl. Member(Staff)… …Chairman	Sh.Umraomal Purohit	Sh.Guman Singh
Adv.(Fin.)	Sh.S.G.Mishra	Sh.M. Raghavaiah
ED(IR)	Sh.Rakhal Das Gupta	Sh.R.P.Bhatnagar
EDPC-II	Sh.N.Kanniah	Sh.P.S.Suriyaparkasam
EDPC-I	Sh.Ch.Sankara Rao	Sh.B C Sharma
EDE(N)	Sh.J.R. Bhosale	Sh. J.G.Mahurkar
		Sh. Taposh Mukherjee

1. AM(Staff), as Chairman of the Cadre Restructuring Committee, extended a hearty welcome to all members of the Cadre Restructuring Committee and introduced two new official side member joined as ED(IR) in place of Adv.(IR) and EDE(N). He advised that guidelines issued by DOP&T.MOF for in-house cadre restructuring of Group ‘C’ categories should be followed. He further stated that there are 2.41 lakh vacancies in Indian Railway out of which 1.30 lakh are being filled up. Railways can identify redundant categories and vacant posts in these non-safety categories can be considered for surrender against matching savings in the current cadre restructuring exercise.2. The Staff Side also welcomed new members of Official Side. They pointed out that there has already been delay in issue of cadre restructuring orders. They stated that orders for cadre restructuring should be issued early and these orders may also be effective from the date of effect of orders of cadre restructuring of ALPs i.e. 01-05-2010. However, Official Side stated that implementation of cadre restructuring with retrospectively effect is not feasible due to surrender of posts against matching savings. 2.1 The Staff side reiterated that restructuring for Safety categories should be exempted from matching surrender in totality. However, they were apprised by Official Side about Board’s decision regarding cap of 10% as per which increase in percentages through cadre restructuring upto 10% in the apex scale of the safety category will be met through revenue (financial implications as per present DA rates @ 72% would be Rs. 121.10 Cr.) and increase beyond 10% would be offset by matching surrender of posts as in the case of non-safety categories as per standard norms of cadre restructuring.

Category	Pay Structure as		Existing	Percentage	Addl. financial
	per 6th CPC		Percentage	recommended by	Implication per annum
				CRC	(in crores of Rs.)
	PB	GP (Rs.)
	PB-1	2400	27	40	1.71
Cooks (Traffic/ Mechanical Running Rooms)
	PB-1	1900	46	40
	PB-1	1800	27	20
	PB-2	4200	27	50	27.50
Goods Guards (Safety)
	PB-1	2800	73	50
Assistant Guards /Brakesmen	PB-1	2400	27	50	-0.09
(Safety)	PB-1	1900	73 ,	50
Loco Pilot (Shunting)	PB-2	4200	30	50	14.49
(Safety)	PB-1	2400	70	50
	PB-2	4600	35	60	0.92
Stock Verifiers
	PB-2	4200	65	40
	PB-2	4600	25	50	0.07
Finger Print Examiners
	PB-2	4200	75	50
	PB-2	4200	85	90
Cashiers (Non-Supervisory)					0.57
	PB-1	2400	15	10
	PB-2	4600		55
Cashiers (Supervisory)					0.57
	PB-2	4200		45
	PB-2	4200	39	50	0.25
Shroffs	PB-1	2400	38	35
	PB-1	1900	23	15
	PB-1	2800	15	35	1.74
Dressers/OTA	PB-1	2400	60	45
	PB-1	1900	25	20
					4.36
	PB-2	4600	47	65
Health & Malaria Inspectors
	PB-2	4200	53	35
	PB-1	2800	75	80	0.27
Lab Assistants/Lab Technician/ Asstt. Chemist	PB-1	2400	15	10
	PB-1	2000	10	10
					0.46
‘	PB-2	4200	52	70
X-Ray Staff
	PB-1	2800	48	30

 

	PB-2	4200	9	20	0.76
	PB-1	2400	31	30
Cooks (Medical)
	PB-1	1900	30	30
	PB-1	1800	30	20
	P B-2	4200	20	30	0.06
Health Visitor(Multipurpose)	PB-1	2800	40	40
	PB-1	2400	40	30
	PB-1	2400	75	85	0.11
Field Workers
	PB-1	1900	25	15
	PB-2	4600	60	75
Physiotherapists					0.17
	PB-2	4200	40	25
Extension Educator/District	PB-2	4600	(36)*	55
Extension Educator
	PB-2	4200	(64)*	45	0.08
	PB-2	4600	12	20	0.92
				65
	PB-2	4200	45
Typists
	PB-1	2400	23	15
	PB-1	1900	20
	PB-2	4600	3 posts	65	0.13
Shipping Inspector
	PB-2	4200	100	35
	PB-2	4600	50	65
Staff & Welfare Inspectors					4.02
	PB-2	4200	50	35
	PB-2	4600	50	65	0.12
Statistical Inspectors
	P6-2	4200	50	35
	PB-2	4600	50	60	0.80
Publicity Inspectors	P6-2	4200	30	25
	PB-1	2800	20	15
	PB-2	4600	25	40	3.29
Hindi Staff	P6-2	4200	30
				60
	PB-1	2800	45
	PB-2	4200	20	35
Hostel Management Staff of Oak Grove School, Jharipani.	PB-1	2800	40	40	0.01
	PB-1	2400	40	25
	PB-2	4200	5	12	6.84
	PB-1	2400	30	40
Canteen Staff (Group-II)
	PB-1	2000	35	25
	PB-1	1900	7	8
	PB-1	1800	23	15

					0.28
	PB-2	4200	15	25
Canteen Staff (Group-III)	PB-1	2400	25	25
	PB-1	2000	20	25
	PB-1	1900	40	25
					0.02
Scientific Asstt./ Supervisors	PB-2	4600	70	80
(Psycho Tech.Cell)/RDSO
	PB-2	4200	30	20
	PB-2	4600	50	65
Scientific Staff					0.15
(Research)/RDSO
	PB-2	4200	50	35
					0.62
Scientific Staff	PB-2	4600	50	65
(Design)/RDSO
	PB-2	4200	50	35
	PB-2	4600	70	80
Technical Staff (Mech.etc.)/					0.04
RDSO	PB-2	4200	30	20
				100
Total					71.22

3.1 During the discussion, Staff Side of the Cadre Restructuring Committee also raised the issue of revision of percentage distribution of posts for the category of Track Maintainers. They stated that recommendations of Joint Committee set up for progression of Trackmen were not fully implemented and this should be implemented. Accordingly, this issue was also discussed in the meeting in detail. Keeping in view previous and present cadre structure of Track Maintainers, recommendations made by the Joint Committee and further progression of this critical safety category, following revised percentage for distributions of posts was recommended by CRC:-

Category	Pay structure (PB-1)	Existing %age (approved by Board/MR)	%age now recommended by CRC	Addl. financial Implication per annum (in crores of Rs.)
Track Maintainer-I	GP Rs. 2800	3	6	195.21
Track Maintainer-II	GP Rs. 2400	6	12
Track Maintainer-III	GP Rs. 1900	20	22
Track Maintainer-IV	GP Rs. 1800	71	60

Total projected additional financial implications for the above mentioned 32 categories would be Rs. 266.43 crores per annum excluding allowances except DA.

 

5. The Staff Side pointed out that cadre restructuring of Catering Staff and Traffic Assistants/Metro Railway, Kolkata may also be undertaken. It was advised by Official Side that after collecting data from Railways, these categories will be examined separately in consultation with Staff Side and Nodal Directorates. As regard, extension of benefit of cadre restructuring to the Canteen Staff of Parliament Canteen of Northern Railway, it was agreed that clubbing of this category with Canteen Staff on Railways will be examined separately.

6. The above recommendations would form part of the final report to be submitted by the Cadre Restructuring Committee in respect of all the Group C categories which have been considered by the Committee.

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