CIRCULAR NO. 10
No. NDGBGOA(CE)/10/2014 Date:
12/12/2014
To
The
CE Office bearers, CEC members,
The
Branch Office bearers and all the members.
SUB;
Brief discussions of the minutes of the meeting with Honorable Member (Per)
& OFB Officials and Office bearers
of NDGBGOA held on 12/12/2014 at 1500 hrs, venue: OFB Headquarters.
On 12/12/14 at 1500 Hrs, meeting was held at O.F.
BOARD with Honorable Member (Personnel) and senior Officials of OFB with Office
Bearers of NDGBGOA (CE) and discussed the important unresolved issues
pertaining to JWM cadre. The following official side of OFB and NDGBGOA/CE
office bearers was present in the meeting.
Official
Side Staff
side
1) Sri S. Yamdagni, Member(Per 1)Sri S.ChandrakanthRao, President
2) Sri S.K. Sinha
DDG/NG 2)Sri
Jaigopal Singh,General Secretary
3) Sri Sailendra
Nath, DDG/G 3) Sri B.M.Barik, Organising Secretaryy.
4) Sri A.K. Nayak,
DDG/Admin 4) Sri P.D.KenjaleJt.Secretaryy.
5) Sri A.S.
Bhatnagar, DIR/NG
6) Sri S.K.
Singh, DIR/IR
Addressing to the house Sri
S.K. Singh, Dir/IR welcomed all the Senior Officials of O.F. Board and NDGBGOA
representatives.
General Secretary, Sri Jaigopal Singh addressed the
house and extended his thanks to Member (Personnel) and all the Officials of O.F.
Board for granting the meeting within short period of time to listen and to
resolve the cadre grievances.
Following important unresolved points pertaining to
JWM cadre were discussed and reached to a conclusion during the meeting.
The point wise discussions are as follows.
1) SENIORITY
OF JWM’s–
There was a thread bare
discussions on the discrepancy of seniority list (published on 18.11.14).
Association demanded to adopt DOP&T instructions (No.20011/1/2012-Estt.(D) dated 04.03.2014) in proper way to
determine the seniority list of JWMs. In the discussions NDGBGOA clearly
explained the contents of the DOP&T order that “in the order it is clearly
mentioned that not to reopen the seniority cases prior to 27/11/2012 (Supreme
Court Judgment)”. In this regard association represented the following.
a) The
JWM (DR) those have granted seniority 3 to 4 years prior to their joining in
the Organization is not justifiable and the incumbents may not be completed the
basic recruitment essential educational qualifications as per the SRO.
b) Promotion
of JWM to AWM which was given for the last two years was as per the earlier
published seniority list of 2012. Once the promotions were given as per that
seniority list how the same can be modified at this stage?
Finally, after elaborate
discussions DDG/NG assured that the published seniority list will be reviewed
based on the individual representations and in line with the Association
submissions and necessary amendment/ corrections may be carried out at an early
date.
2)
RESTORATION OF PROMOTIONAL INCREMENT BENEFIT TO CM-I AND
JWM’s PROMOTED BETWEEN (01.01.2006 TO 29.08.2008 I.E. PRIOR TO DECLARATION OF 6TH CPC)
-
In this regard, Association represented that, NDGBOA
had already clarified this matter to OFB on various levels and finally approached
to Honorable CAT Mumbai. The matter was also taken up with Min. of Finance under
Right to Information Act. The matter was gone up to CIC, New Delhi. After the
instructions from the CIC, New Delhi and based on the application of Sri
S.Prabhakaran (South Zone Secretary), Min. of Finance given the clarification
that “the applicant is eligible for the incremental benefit based on the higher
responsibilities performed by him”.
NDGBGOA
stated that based on the earlier orders and Ministry of Finance reply OFB would
have implemented the same without any further delay.
OFB side clarified that OFB has
approved the demand and forwarded the proposal to MOD giving the reference of
Ministry of Finance reply obtained by Sri S.Prabhakaran and awaiting for approval
from M of D. The copy of the proposal forwarded to M of D given to the association and assured
that the same will be implemented very soon.
3)
CADRE
REVIEW STATUS OF JWM’s-
In this regard, NDGBGOA office bearers are demanded
OFB to clearly explain factual position of the cadre review. In the warm
discussions NDGBGOA conveyed the strong message to OFB that the JWM’s are
stagnated for more than ten years in the same grade and they are not even seen
single ray of light on their next promotion. NDGBGOA is fighting in various courts
and it seems that after directives from court also the things are not moving
properly. General Secretary mentioned the letter of DOPT regarding reduction of
court cases to avoid litigations wherever the cases are logically correct and
possible to solve at lower levels to save the Government resources like
manpower and also to reduce the financial implications. Now our members are
very keen to know the actual status of cadre review. After straight and firm
demand by the association side, DDG/NG stated that many queries were asked by M
of D for which he was personally met
JS (MOD) on 11.12.14 and submitted
all the clarifications. After the clarifications,
the Cadre Review proposal was forwarded to Ministry of Finance on 11/12/2014.
In this regard Association emphasized on early
completion of Cadre Review proposal at the earliest.
4)
REINSTATE
OF CANCELLED TRANSFER ORDERS-
After prolonged discussions, Member (Per)
agreed to reinstate the cancelled transfer orders. Finally
Honorable Member (Personnel) approved the list and forwarded the applied cancelled
transfer cases to DGOF.
5)
GARDE
PAY RECOMMENDATION TO 7TH
CPC FOR JWM’s CADRE–
In this regard OFB Official clarified that, Grade
pay of 4800 for JWM cadre was proposed to 7th CPC and it was sent as
an addendum to 7th CPC which will be published very soon in the comnet. NDGBGOA had explained that the GP is supposed to be RS
5400 for JWM’s as per the proposals submitted by the Association. After
elaborate discussions, OFB assured that in the coming days the 7th CPC
will visit to OFB Organization and that time the Assn also given a chance to
explain their grievances directly to the pay commission.
6)
REVISION
OF HARD STATION IN TRANSFER POLICY OF OFB-
OFB agreed to revise the
criteria for deciding the hard stations in line with CGDA list of hard stations. It was assured by OFB Officials that the list of hard stations
will be revised.
7)
SRO
OF JWM’s-
Association
requested Honorable Member (Per) to take necessary action to complete the
revised SRO at the earliest before 7th pay commission visit to OFB.
8)
INCENTIVE
SCHEME TO GAZETTED OFFICERS-
In this regard Association
strongly demanded that the incentive to be given to Gazetted Officers those
were not granted OTA and Piece work profit. DDG/Admin replied that committee has formed for studying the proposal
and expected to receive the final proposal from the committee. After receiving
the same, it will be forwarded to MOD for further action.
9)
PROMOTION
FROM JWM TO AWM-
DPC for 75
no’s of JWM has been considered for
promotion to AWM very shortly.
Association shown deep concern
over the current affairs of OFB that ‘OFB is not involved the Association in
the important meeting which was held with all major federations about the organization
matter in the first week of December”. It is explained to OFB that Group B cadre
is the back bone of the organization and without their contribution the Production
targets could not be achieved in the factories. Hence it is most important that
any policy matters, the Association must be called in the important discussions
regarding the Organization.
On this issue Member
personnel assured that Association demand is logically and legally correct and
in future the same will be taken care. Member/per explained that, till date no such decision had been taken which will impact on the existence of the organization (privatization
or corporation). But some reforms may be taken in future to enhance the production
targets twice to existing production of OFB within three years and this may be achieved by outsourcing of the
noncore products and concentrating to produce the core items in Ordnance
Factories. If required some of the Ordnance Factories should produce new items
like Parachutes and bullet proof jackets etc. as per the requirements of the
customers in future.
The meeting was ended with
vote of thanks to the chair.
( JAIGOPAL SINGH)
GENERAL SECRETARY
( JAIGOPAL SINGH)
GENERAL SECRETARY
