7th CPC – First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee to Settle the anomalies arising
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
No.PC-VII/2016/DAC/1MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
New Delhi, dated:25.08.2017
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,
New Delhi – 110055.
Room No.256-E,Rail Bhawan
Dear Sirs,National Federation of
Indian Railwaymen,
3-Chemsford Road,
New Delhi – 110055.
Room No.256-E,Rail Bhawan
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
consultation with the Fedaration are enclosed.
Yours Sincerely,
For Secretary Railway Board
For Secretary Railway Board
Minutes of the First Meeting of Departmental Anomaly Committee held on 20.06.2017.
The first meeting of Departmental
Anomaly Committee (DAC) was held on 20.06.2017 at 11 A.M. in Room
No.402. The following attended the meeting.
Official Side
i) Shri manoj 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
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 Federation:
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 stated
that the meeting is to address the anomalies arising out of the
implementation of 7th CPC as defined in DoP&T’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
25.05.2017, 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 employee 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 are of the opinion that the vertical
and horizontal relativity 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 observed as anomalies within the provision 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. Raghavaiah, General Secretary ,
NFIR Stated in his introduction speech that the definition of anomaly
should be interpreted liberally.The official side and the staff
definition of ‘anomaly’ to ensure that Railway employees are given
justice. He said thta careful examination and ground realities would
reveal that anomalies arised in Railways specific categories are needed
to be 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 relativity 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 Personal
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, through there was demand from the Federation to
raise the entry qualification in respect of Assistant Loco Pilot to
Diploma as recommended by Dr. Anil Kadokar, Chairman, HLSRC, whereas,
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 Official Side clarification that all the factual
position and historical background were brought before 7th CPC w.r.t the
anomailes existing inrespct of the pay strucutr of Technical
supervisors.
6. Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra, General
Secretary/AIRF took up the issue regarding up gradation 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 issue regarding 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 upgraded 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 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 Ruke (TBR) the up
gradation of pay structure is an refer the issue 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 relativity 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 issues 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 stated by
the Official Side that various anomalous issues and damands 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 scale have already been taken up with Ministry of
Finance for redressal.
The metting ended with a note of thanks to the Chair.
(Jaya Kumar G)
Deputy Director, Pay Commission-VII
Railway Board
Signed copyDeputy Director, Pay Commission-VII
Railway Board