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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