Dear mebers,
General secretary and Organising Secretary Visited OFB on 09th and 10th july 2015. Honorable DGOF was kind enough to spare his time with Association Represntative for discussion of cadre and organisation related issues. He has directed DDG/NG&IR to discuss on cadre related issues. DGOF & Chairman explained about the future challenges of Ordnance Factory Organisation and he expressed that we have to more competative in the market to meet the customer need. In the present scenario of Commercial undertaking, OFB has to achieve 20K Cr by 2017-18 which is a challenging task. At present many Private and public sector are in the market for competition with OFB. He has indicated that many changes will be there in our organisation in near future to meet the challenges.
General secretary expressed his concern on important long pending cadre related issues like Cadre Review, SRO, Seniority of group B cadre which should be complete at the earliest before pay comission. DGOF replied thatat present Ministry has asked for RATIONALISATION of Cadre in OF ORGANISATION for which one Committee has been formed in which Sri Aditya Mishra is the chairman. The committee has to make report within short period. He expressed that DDG/NG is expediting all the pending cadre related issues at MoD level and he has directed to DDG/NG for short out the issues at the ealiest.
DDG/NG has given a meeting with Association in his Office for discussion and follow up action on Minutes of the meeting which was held with Member/Personnel on 1stApril 2015. Following points were discussed.
CADRE REVIEW - In this regard he has told that there will be a meeting at MoD for dicussion and decission on Cadre review. The querry asked by MoD also will be clarified. In the meeting Associiation also will participate.
SENIORITY LIST of JWMs- In this regard DDG/NG expressed that, Sri B.B Dash has got transfer from OFB to OFKAT who was the chairman in taskforce committee. Now Sri S.K.Singh Dir/IR, has been given the task for completion of Seniority list. He will call all the committee members very shortly to start the work.
SRO of JWMs- SRO of JWMs Technical is at DOP&T and Non Technical SRO is finalised at MoD which will be forwarded to DOP&T very shortly.
INCENTIVE SCHEME for Group B Gazetted Officer- In this regard he told that the committee report is yet to recieved at OFB after which decission will be taken in this regard.
Review on HARD STATION LIST- Till date review has not been taken but according to minutes of meeting the current position will be taken in this regard and position will be conveyed to Association accordingly.
DPC for Promotion from JWM to AWM- In this regard UPSC has asked clarification on SRO of IOFS Cadre whether to follow Combined seniority promotion or trade wise break up promotion. These should be clarified by OFB after which DPC will be accepted by UPSC for further action.
NATURE of DUTY of JWMs- In this regard General Secretary told to publish the nature of duty at the earliest. DDG/NG assured to take corrective action and will direct Dir/NG to publish the same at the earliest.
INCREMENTAL BENEFIT FOR CM and JWMs- In this regard General Secretary told that the case has already been cleared by DOP&T and at present it is in Defence Finance. Once it is ordered by MoD, kindly publish the order to all the factories for further action without any delay.DDG/NG assured to publish the order once it is recieved by OFB.
REPRESENTATION OF ASSOCIATION IN HIGH LEVEL COMMITTEE- In this regard DDG/NG replied that as per association demand, Representation from association has been considered for APEX COMMITTEE and LPC . General Secretary extended his sincere thanks to OFB for considering the association view in this regard. The APEX COMMITTEE meeting at OFB is scheduled on 21/07/15 ,in which Association has been invuted for attending the same.
All the other points in the meeting minutes were discussed and association requested DDG/NG for giving follow up action on all points may be communicated to association at the earliest.
Recent Inter Factory Transfer of 155 JWMs- General Secretary stongly condemned the the recent inter factory transfer order of 155 JWMs which is against the transfer policy. General Secretary replied to DDG/NG that as per transfer policy, Group B Officers should not be disturbed in the last five year of there service . Without discussion/suggestion of Association such a large number of transfer order without any policy is incorrect.Therefore all the transfer order should be cancel at the earliest. Any policy decission on group B transfer should be implimented after consultation with association. General Secretary has requested Member A&E for cancelling the order. DDG/NG repliedd that except 15 to 20 JWMs all are in the same station. If any JWMs have got any problem, let them represent . According to their representation OFB will take necessary decission.
Those have got problems for change of station,they can apply to OFB for consideration.
JAIGOPAL SINGH
GENERAL SECRETARY.
