I.T.E.F,
KARNATAKA & GOA CIRCLE & ITGOA,
KARNATAKA & GOA UNIT
No.4/JCA/2012-13 24th August 2012
Continued Ban on
Out-sourced persons & Why agitation was
suspended ?
Dear comrades,
Your whole hearted participation in all phases of
agitation has created tremendous pressure on the Board. We express sincere gratitude to all comrades for making the agitation
100% success. The Board has now set up an interim committee to
examine & suggest the course of action on our demands and for establishing a
Permanent Grievance Redressal Machinery within a fortnight. It was for this
reason and to create conducive atmosphere for discussion, our central leadership has decided to suspend the
agitation from 17th August. The
local JCA in its meeting on 23rd August shared the displeasure amongst
members about abrupt suspension of agitation and decided to communicate the
following to the central leadership:
- Abrupt
suspension of agitation may demoralize members.
- Before deciding to suspend the agitation, the
local JCA units should have been consulted.
- To create conducive atmosphere for negotiations, instead
of total suspension, certain terms of agitation could have been relaxed.
The above
apart, the national leadership had a meeting the interim
committee and DGIT(HRD)
on 22nd and issued
detailed circular on 23rd. For your easy understanding we bring out below
the gist of the said circular.
Our
demand
|
Outcome of the meeting with
DIT/DGIT(HRD)
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Implement
Cadre Composition proposal submitted by ITEF
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Directorate has assured that the
proposal for merger of cadres with same GP
and merger of SCD into
mainstream will be expedited and put up to Board for approval
|
Issue clarification fixing scale of Rs.7450/- (pre-revised) to
Inspectors, AOs and PSs
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Directorate will pursue the matter which is pending the
Dept of Expenditure
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Grant advance increment STA/ Stenographers Gr-2 on passing
Deptal Exam.
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Directorate will pursue the matter which is pending the
Dept of Expenditure
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Grant financial benefit to Office Superintendents &
Stenographers Gr-1 on promotion
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The Govt has agreed in the anomaly committee to
grant incremental benefit
|
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Outcome of the meeting with interim committee
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Cadre Restructuring
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The matter is pending with
committee of Secretaries and impasse continues despite sufficient inputs and
justifications given by CBDT. It is decided to send joint team of association
representatives and officials handling the matter to meet FM, after arriving
at consensus on contentious issues
|
Implement agreement with JCA on CPC functioning & Stop Out sourcing of regular nature
of work & hiring of DEOs in Steno.
|
Decided to meet again in presence
of DGIT(Sys). Status quo will be maintained till finality is reached.
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Regularize
Casual employees against MTS vacancies
|
Decided that ITEF will give details of situation in other Depts
and how Railways regularized them
|
Mobile handsets to all
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Decided to direct CIT( C&S) to
put up file for approval as the matter was already decided in Quarterly
review meeting
|
ITO to AC promotions
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Proposals for back log vacancy of
2011-12 and regular panel for 2012-13 will be sent to UPSC before 28-08-2012
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Regularization of Ad-hoc JCs and filling up consequential
vacancies
|
Letter already sent to UPSC to
regularize 295 JCITs promoted on 30-03-2011.
This will be followed up. Once that is through, the cases of
subsequent ad-hoc JCs will also be sent to UPSC. Consequential vacancies in AC cadre will be
filled up in time bound manner.
|
AC to DC promotion
|
Letter sent to DOPT for one time
relaxation to give promotion from 1-1-2011 for 2006 batch. That will be
followed up. The 2007 batch will be promoted before 15th September
2012(relaxation to give promotion from 1-1-2012 will be sought). Work of
Promotion of 2008 batch will start immediately to grant promotion from
1-1-2013.
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All India Seniority list of ITOs
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Authenticated data will be called
from CCAs by 7-9-2012 and list will be compiled thereafter
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S.K. Shukla case implementation
|
Decided to defer the issue as court
cases are involved
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Transfer grievances
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AC/DC transfer matters will be put
up to Chairperson on 23rd. Those request unable to be met now will
be considered when AC promotions take place or in AGT 2013
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1%
Incremental Incentive:
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CIT(Coordination ) is asked to
follow up with concerned authorities and report back before next meeting of
the committee.
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Objection to concept of year of Induction
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Committee will find out from
DGIT(HRD) about status of the file and assurance given by Chairman on 30th
May for calling the file back.
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Implement
Order for CAT-Mumbai granting notional effect w.e.f. 1.1.1996
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Law ministry advised against filing
appeal but Dept of Exp. advised to
file appeal. ITGOA will submit
detailed note for accepting the CAT order. Matter will again be taken up with
Dept of Expenditure.
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Grant Deputation Allowance to officials of MSTU @ 30% in line
with DTRTI.
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Urgent need to apply uniform allowance
felt by committee. JCA will submit detailed note on this and the same will be
followed up with HRD and CBDT.
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Setting up of Permanent Grievance Redressal Machinery
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JCA will submit written suggestion
and the same will be finalized in the next meeting of the committee.
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Comrades, it is true that all our demands are not likely
to be settled forthwith. But the agitation has certainly forced the Board to
wake up from slumber and act upon our demands.
The JCIT promotion order of 2003 batch and shortly expected DC promotion
order of 2007 batch were due to the pressure generated by the agitation.
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For many years we are demanding setting up of a
permanent grievance redressal machinery, so that we need not run from pillar to
post every time. Agitation has laid
foundation for realization of this demand. The above shows that we have not
drawn a blank in this agitation, which is only suspended for the time being and
not withdrawn totally. We need to keep in mind the commitment of the Central
leaders to revive agitation if no sincere efforts are made by authorities. While
judging the result of any agitation, we need to remember that little can be
achieved by creating a stalemate.
Ban on Out-sourced persons
Dear comrades, as we are
aware, the work in the department has increased in geometric proportion in last
10-15 years without corresponding increase in man power. The 2001 cadre
restructuring has compounded the problem
by creating more commanders than soldiers. Though we fought and got additional
7051 posts, it was insufficient to meet the mountain of work. While the tax
payers demanded time bound refunds the officers had no staff, no proper
connectivity, computers were out dated, worst infrastructure etc. The bosses thought
that their duty ends with fixing targets and deadlines and turned blind eye to
the practical difficulties at the grass root level. It was under these compelling circumstances that some of our comrades took the help of
outsourced persons provided by the department for data entry and ensured tax
payer services and met targets fixed. Please look at the plight of such
officers once refund irregularities were
noticed. The bosses have washed off their hands. Bosses of bosses have
told that “your
codes are involved and you have to take responsibility”. Police
complaints have been lodged where names of comrades are also mentioned. One
case has been referred over to CBI. The officers who went out of the way to complete
the huge work load are now left in lurch and spending sleepless nights.
Comrades, we cannot ignore another angle to the issue.
Excessive reliance on outsourced persons has eroded our capabilities, dried up
our urge to learn and made us totally
dependent on them though they have no accountability whatsoever to the
Department. The unenviable condition of officers/officials was misused by some
criminally minded outsourced persons. Had we developed skills of our own
TA/STA/MTS/Inspectors we would not have landed up in such a precarious
condition. Further, not reporting of pendency has denied many posts to our
charge in earlier cadre reviews, no doubt it will adversely
impact on us in ensuing one also. Aren’t these episodes not enough to learn safety
lessons? Should we continue playing
with fire and get burnt? It was in this backdrop the Local JCA met on
14th June 2012 and decided as under:
1. In wake of the recent complaints about
fraudulent refunds, it is unanimously decided to not to allow outsourcing
persons for processing of returns and
all other functions like data entry, processing, secretarial works and clerical
works etc. -
2. To
provide some time for members for assuming additional responsibilities, it is
decided to make the above decision effective from 1.8.2012.
3. No
paper returns will be sent to CPC. Our own comrades will only do those
functions as per the roles allotted to them. They will not share their user id
and passwords to anyone under any circumstances.
4.
The new system may result in slack in
processing work initially. The members should report actual numbers to bosses.
In case of any pressure, they should explain politely and confidently that “Whatever best could
be done with available manpower has been done”
5. The
members should report the actual pendency.
This will force the administration to fill up all sanctioned posts.
6. In
the cases already reported, none of our members be victimized since the
situation is the creation of the systems failure arising out of enormous work
pressure and inadequate manpower.
Even before the above decisions were
communicated to members, the central JCA agitation started banning outsourced
persons from our offices w.e.f. 1.8.2012.
Though the Central JCA agitation is now suspended, the decisions of the
local JCA are in force. The local JCA
reviewed the condition in its latest meeting on 23.8.2012 and arrived at the following
unanimous decisions:
1. In
the wake of peculiar circumstances prevailing in Karnataka & Goa , after a
review and extensive deliberations, it is decided to reiterate its earlier decision
not to allow outsourcing persons to work in our offices.
2. In
the last 15 days, when the outsourced persons were not allowed, our comrades
have put in efforts to learn the tasks and functions. This positive attitude of members is not only
to be encouraged but also other comrades be urged to follow the same.
3. Allowing
outsourced persons at this juncture will jeopardize our cases before police
& CBI.
4. Not
allowing outsourcing persons will result in more pendency. This help us in
seeking more manpower in our own cadres and generate pressure to fill up all
sanctioned posts. It will also prompt
the administration to ensure equitable distribution of work and provide sufficient
manpower.
5. The
administration will be requested to provide training to all officials and
officers in all cadres, on the computer skills and other applications needed
for AST and ITD.
6. “Outsourcing persons”
is further qualified to exclude only the house-keeping, security, contingents
and drivers. All others are covered in
the definition of outsourcing persons.
All comrades are informed that the above
decisions were taken for the present and future welfare of members. Hence all
members are called upon to implement them in letter and spirit. Let us not
succumb to any sort of pressures and invite more problems. Let us pull up the socks and rise to the
occasion. Any difficulties in the matter
may please brought to our notice immediately.
Help us to you serve better.
Fraternally yours
Sd/- Sd/-
( VINOD ) ( K.R.NARAYANA )
General Secretary, ITEF
General Secretary, ITGOA
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8762300942/ 080-23452455
Message for ITEF comrades:
The RCM is fixed for 24th September. All
Vice-presidents, Regional Presidents and Regional Secretaries are requested to
send new points by 5th September without fail.
Sd/-
( VINOD )
General Secretary, ITEF
