Ref No. NDGBGOA(CE)/General/50/2014 -07 Date:-17-07-2014
To
The
Hon’ble State Minister for Defence ,
Ministry of Defence,
Govt. of
India,
South Block,
New Delhi.110011.
Respected Sir,
Sub:
Earnest pleas for reprisal of Grievances of Group B Gazetted Officers of Ordnance Factories – Reg
On behalf of the
members of the National Defence Group’B’ Gazetted Officers Association of
Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Defence, I extend my heartiest congratulations
on your assumption of charge as Honorable Minister of State for Defence of our
great nation. We sincerely hope that Ordnance Factories will be back on track under
your expertise and esteemed leadership.
The Ordnance
factories has played a creditable role in the supply of Arms, Ammunitions,
Combat Vehicles and Clothing to the Indian Armed forces ,Navy, Air force and
Para Military Forces, after Independence. Of late due to certain developments
taken place, the Organisation has received setbacks and lost the luster. This
has naturally lowered the morale of one and all connected with the
Organisation. Now it is time to take strong measures to put the Organisation
back on the track and put an end to the squabbles and make it a capable of
providing latest requirements of the Armed Forces. It should be capable of
reducing our dependency on imports and should be the first choice of the
customers. This can be taken care by forming a committee of honest retired
senior officers to study the existing conditions and suggest the remedial
actions within a framed time.
Sir, this association has formed
recently and could recognize by Govt. of India on 5th July 2013.
NDGBGO association represent the Group B Gazetted Officers (middle management
level) of Ordnance Factories those have got highest experience in all the level
(Production, Planning, Procurement, Administration, etc). This Association is
not only limited for the cadre interest but also striving to bring back the
Golden History of Ordnance Factories. The middle management cadres who are well
known about reality of Ordnance Factories are always neglected by the top bosses
and their voice was never been considered in any level (Factories, BOARD or
Ministry level). The highest experienced cadre was always being used by top
Officers to implement the orders without any discussions.
It is deeply regretted that 5th
and 6th CPC has demoralized the middle management cadre due to
merging the cadres without any financial benefit. CPC has considered the industrial sectors at par with Office work of
Central government Department. It is brought to
your kind notice that, Government Industrial Organisations are degraded day by
day for which more private and public sectors industrial setup is establishing
in the country. This can be overcome by JOB EVALUATION SYSTEM in Govt.
industrial organization. In the
industrial set up in govt. organization, the highest experts of group B
officers used to kept aside for decision making process and they were neglected
for their deserved pay packages. But it is deeply regretted that the middle
management cadre in Govt. Industrial Organisations were never compared with
middle management cadre of private and public Industrial sectors which results the
demoralization of the whole cadre. If the Back Bone (Middle management cadre)
of any organization is not strong then definitely the organization cannot stand
as its own.
Moreover this cadre does not have any
forum to address the Grievance of the cadres like Joint Consultative
Machinery. This scheme was introduced in
1966 with the object of promoting harmonious relationship and of securing the
greatest measure of co- operation between the Government, in its capacity as
employer, and its employees in matters of common concern, and with the object,
and further of increasing the efficiency of public service. However,
such Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) scheme has been denied to Group’B’
Gazetted Officers at all the levels. In JCM forum, Group ‘A’ Officers are
representing from Officials side and Group C employees are from staff side but
there is no representation from Group B Gazetted Officers which results in the
deprived position of the cadre. No opportunity has been assigned to Group B
Gazetted Officers to express and short out their grievances. Therefore, this Association is constrained
to pray for the intervention of the Honorable Defence Minister in the following
matter to undo the injustice that has persisted for decades.
1-Cadre Review of Group’B’ Gazetted Officers (JWM T/NT) – It is brought to your kind notice that even after
completion of two decades, the cadre review of Junior works Manager has not
been carried out by OF Board. As mentioned above, 5th and 6th
CPC has merged the middle management cadre in Ordnance Factories resulted not
only lack of promotional hierarchy but also created much more confusion in
functioning of Ordnance Factories. The
promotional channel for 7694 JWMs (Group B Gazetted) has been compressed to 188
AWM (Group A) with ratio of 41:1 which is negligible. Our Association has
taken up the matter with OF Board as well as MoD many times after which a
proposal from OF Board was forwarded to MoD and at present pending at Min. of
Finance for approval. This association has suggested some modification in the
OF Board Proposal keeping views on Functional requirement without any financial
implication which was not been included by OF Board. Your kind intervention is
requested in this regard at the earliest please.
2- Granting of MACP in Promotional Hierarchy ( Pending with Min. of
Fin.)- After implementation of Modified Assured
Carrier Progression Scheme many Govt. employees has approached to Honorable
CAT. In this regard Honorable CAT Chandigarh, as well as Principal Bench, New
Delhi, has passed order more than three judgments for granting MACP in Promotional Hierarchy for which
Min. of Finance has not yet
issued clear guidelines as a result uniform policy has not been followed in all
the Govt. Department.
In this regard OF Board has submitted
representation for clarification on granting MACP in promotional hierarchy but
it is pending at Min. of Finance. Your kind intervention is requested in this
regard at the earliest please.
3-Grievance
redressal mechanism’ for Group B – Gazetted officers – Middle management cadre always considered to be
the Back bone of Organisation. Group B – Gazetted officers cadre does not have any forum to address the
Grievance of the cadres like Joint
Consultative Machinery.
Group ‘A’ Officers are representing from Officials side and Group C employees
are from staff side but there is no representation from Group B Gazetted
Officers which results in the deprived position of the cadre. No opportunity
has been assigned to Group B Gazetted Officers to express and short out their
grievances. Therefore, this
Association is constrained to pray for the intervention of the Honorable
Defence Minister to include our cadre for redress of our Grievance.
4-Incentive scheme for Group B
– Gazetted Officers in Ordnance Factories- It is brought to your
kind notice that the pay package of a Group B Gazetted Officers is very low as
compared to Group B Non Gazetted and Group C employees in Ordnance Factories
resulting demoralization of the cadre. After becoming Group B Gazetted cadre
all the allowances like Over Time Allowance, PLB, etc were curtailed as a
result the monthly salary become less as compared to Non Gazetted Status.
Therefore your kind consideration for extending incentive for Gazetted cadre is
requested.
5-Reinitiation of
Cancelled Transfer Order of JWMs:- Sir, OF Board ,Kolkata has published Transfer Order (vide order no. JTR-60/A/GB/2012 dtd
29-02-2012) of nearly 180 JWMs. But it is a matter of concerned that except
transfer of 40 JWMs all other JWMs transfer was materialized. It is deeply
regretted that OF Board has cancelled the transfer of 40 JWMS( vide letter no
JTR-60/A/GB/2012 dtd 07-12-2012 ) after
completion of 10 month by which the Concerned JWMs and their family are facing
much more difficulties as all of them has got the transfer in Compassionate
ground. NGDGBGOA has discussed this
point in various forums at OFB as well as MOD but it was assured all the time
but no action has been taken so far. Hence, your kind intervention in
this matter is requested to grant the JWMs and their Family a real Justice at
the earliest.
6-LDCE
for AWM (Group-A) from JWM (Group B)
– Sir, in all the department there is a provision of Limited departmental
Candidates Examination from Group B to Group A Cadre which is not prevail in
our department as a result many Group B Gazetted Officers are Leaving to other
Department from our Organisation. Therefore Provision of LDCE from JWM to AWM
may be initiated with proper revision in SRO of Group `A’ cadre for better
utilization of talent in Group B cadre
7-Approval
of proposed amendments in SRO/RR of JWM
T&NT- Sir,O.F.Board has
submitted Proposed amendments in SRO of Chargeman and JWMs
which is pending in MOD for approval. Needful action may please be taken
for early approval and amendment of SRO and Recruitment Rules.
NDGBGOA requests Hon’ble State Minister for Defence
for his kind intervention on the above long pending legitimate grievances of Jr. Works Manager (Group’B’ Gazetted) of
Ordnance Factories for enhance their morals.
With deep regards,
Yours truly.
-sd-
(
JAIGOPAL SINGH )
GENERAL SECRETARY
COPY TO:-
- Hon’bleDefenceSecretary,New Delhi
- Hon’bleSecretary,Min. of Finance,New Delhi
- Secretary, DefenceProduction,MoD,New Delhi
- Jt.Secretary(P&C),
DefenceProduction,New Delhi
