Minutes of the First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly
Committee to settle the anomalies arising out of the implementation of
7th CPC.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
NO. PC-VII/2016/DAC/1
New Delhi, dated : 25.8.2017
The General Secretary,
All India Railwaymen's Federation
4, State Entry Road
New Delhi- 110055. | The General Secretary,
National Federation of
Indian Railwaymen,
3-Chemsford Road,
News Delhi - 110055.
Room No.256-E, Rail Bhawan. |
Dear Sirs,
Sub:
First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee to settle the anomalies arising out of the implementation of 7th CPC.
Ref: Draft Minutes circulated vide letter dated 21.07.2017.
The
minutes of the first meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee held on
20.06.2017, finalised in consulation withe the Federations are enclosed.
Yours sincerely,
For Secretary Railway Board
Minutes of the First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee held on 20.06.2017
The
first meeting of Departmental Anomaly Commitee (DAC) was held on
20.06.2017 at 11 A.M.in Room No.402. The Following attended the
meeting.
Official Side
i) Shri Manoi Pande, AM (Staff)
ii) Shri Tanveer Ahmed, EDF (E)
iii) Shri Dhruv Singh, EDPC-I
iv) Shri Alok Kumar, ED E(IR)
v) Shri S. Balachandra iyer, EDPC-II
The Federations:
AIRF | NFIR |
1. Shri Rakhal Das Gupta, President | 1. Shri Guman Singh, President |
2. Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secretary | 2. Dr. M.Raghavaiah, General Secretary |
3. Shri J R Bhosle, Treasurer | 3. Dr. R.P. Bhatnagar, Working President |
2.
Shri Manoj Pande, AM (Staff), Chairman/DAC welcomed all the
representatives to the meeting and started that the purpose of the
meeting is to address the anomalies arising out of the implementation
of 7th CPC as defined in DoPT'S OM dated 16th August, 2016 and
circulated vide Ministry of Railways letter no.PC-VII/2016/DAC/1 dated
29-03.2017 and PC-VII/2016/DAC/1 dated 25.5.2017. As advised through
these letters, anomaly will include the following cases:
(a)
Where the official Side and Staff Side are of the opinion that any
recommendation is in contravention of the principle or the policy
enunciated by the Seventh Central Pay Commission itself without the
Commission assigning any reason;
(b) where the maximum of the
level in the Pay Matrix corresponding to the applicable Grade pay in the
Pay Band under pre-revised structure, as notified vide CCS(RP) Rules,
2016 is less than the amount an employees is entitled to be fixed at, as
per the formula for fixation of pay contained in the Said Rules;
(c)
Where the Official Side and the Staff Side of the opinion that the
vertical and horizontal relatives have been disturbed as a result of the
7th Central Pay Commission to give rise to anomalous situation.
3.
It was also stated by AM(Staff) that both the federations were
requested to submit the agenda items which have been abserved as
anomalies within the provisons of anomalies as defined in the aforesaid
letters. As agenda was given only by NFIR, on the NFIR agenda items
remarks were circulated to the participants of the meeting.
4. Dr.
M. Raghaviiah, General Secretary, NFIR staied in his introduction
speech that the definition of anomaly should be interpreted liberally.
The official side and the staff side should jointly workout a consensus
to identify the issues coming wiihin the definition of 'anomaly' to
ensure that Railway employees are given justice' He said that careful
examination and ground realities would reveal that anomalies arisen in
Railways specific categories are needed to he addressed judiciously. He
also brought out following issues/suggestions.
- During the
implementation of 6th CPC after due discussions Ministry of Railways
sent a detailed proposal in respect of various anomalies especially in
respect of pay structure of Technical Supervisors to Ministry of Finance
and DoP&T. However, Ministry of Railways failed to place these
proposals before 7th CPC.
- Till the implementation of 6th CPC
recommendations the pay structure of Technical Supervisors were placed
on a higher pedestal on comparison With pay structure of the
corresponding categories of Accounts Department. With the implementation
of 6th CPC pay structure the relatives in the case of the Technical
Supervisors category of Indian Railways got disturbed and 7th CPC also
did not address this core issue which is affecting thousands of
employees.
- Various proposals/references sent to the Ministry of
Finance and Department of Personnel and Training are not getting
addressed and thereby the issues remain unresolved. As such Ministry of
Railways may try find out an in house mechanism for addressing these
issues. In support of this, past precedent of 1997 was quoted.
- Certain
factual inaccuracies have crept into the 7th CPC Report which need to
be addressed. For example, though there was demand from the federations
to raise the entry qualification in respect of Assistant Loco to Diploma
as recommended by Dr.Anil Kakodar, Chairman, HLSRC, wheras, the 7th CPC
had wrongly quoted in its report that Federations have demanded Degree
qualification. He cited para 11.40.63 of the 7th CPC report and wanted
DAC to take note of this for appropriate action.
5.
W.r.t the points raised by Dr. Raghavaiah, the Offical Side clarified
that all the factual position and historical background were brought
before 7th CPC w.r.t the anomalies existing in respect of the pay
structure of Technical supervisors.
6. Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra,
General Secretary/AIRF took up the issue regarding upgradation of pay
structure in respect of Accounts, and CMA cadre as per the
recommendations of 7th Pay Commission and stated that there has been no
action on implementing these recommendations.
7. As regards,
AIRF's is Sue regarding upgradation of pay structure of various
categories of Indian Railways, it was stated by Official Side that while
approving the recommendations of 7th CPC, Ministry of Finance in its
resolution dated 25.07.2016 decided to refer the recommendations of 7th
CPC to upgrade the pay structure of thirteen categories in various
Ministries including Accounts and CMA cadres of Indian Railways to
DoP&T for taking a comprehensive view. In pursuance of the decision
of Ministry of Finance the issue was referred to DoP&T enclosing all
the communications made by Ministry of Railways with 7th CPC and
implementation Cell in this regard. DoP&T after due consideration,
in the first week of April 2017 returned these proposals stating that in
terms of Transaction of Business Rule (TBR) the upgradation of pay
structure is an issue coming under the domain of Department of
Expenditure and accordingly advised to refer the issue to Department of
Expenditure for taking a decision. The matter is under submission to
Board for sending to Department of Expenditure. While acknowledging the
7th CPC recommendation and the Federation's demand in this case, the
Official Side also pointed out that historical relatives across cadres
have to be kept in mind.
8. The 28 point agenda given by NFIR was
briefly taken up for discussion. The comments of the Nodal Directorate
on these issues were shared to all the delegates in the meeting. It is
observed that certain issue such as item no. 20 (Perfusionist in
Railways) item no. 18 (Dietician in Railways) already stand resolved.
However, point wise detailed discussion of the agenda was not taken up
for study to enable the Federation to respond to these comments.
9.
Before concluding, It was started by the Official Side that various
anomalous issues and demands such as non-replacement of -1S Scale,
ambiguity in 14.29% increase in pay fixation in the case of Running
Staff category, Upgradation of pay structure of Railway Dressers,
clarifications on FR (22) options and "bunching" increments, improvement
in Technical Supervisors' and Group 'B'officers pay'scales have already
been taken up with Ministry of Finance for redresial.
The meeting ended with a note of thanks to the Chair.
(Jaya Kumar G)
Deputy Director, pay Commission-VII
Railway Board
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