ALL INDIA NAVAL TECHNICAL SUPERVISORY STAFF ASSOCIATION: Memorandum to 7th CPC
ALL
INDIA NAVAL TECHNICAL
SUPERVISORY STAFF
ASSOCIATION
(Govt. Recognized)
MEMORANDUM TO SEVENTH CENTRAL PAY COMMISSION GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
B.B. MohantyMember, Naval Heaquarters JCM Council
Confederation of Defence Recognized Association
President
All India Naval Technical Supervisory Staff Association
Address: F-10/105, Kings Ville, Green City,
Ambarnath (East), Thane-421501.
Email-mohanty555[at]yahoo.co.in
Mob. No. 08655481087
AINTSSA/ BBM-DO/31 /VII CPC
30 Jul 2014
The Member Secretary,
7th Central Pay Commission,
Post Box No. 4599,
Hauz Khas Post Office,
New Delhi-110016.
Respected Madam,
PREFACE
On behalf of All India Naval Technical Supervisory Staff Association, I welcome and wish all the success to the 7th Pay Commission in their mission of evolving pay structures and other related matters, which is expected to be fair enough for the government employees to lead a dignified life and perform their duties effectively and efficiently.
AINTSSA represents about 4000 Technical Supervisors working in Indian Navy in various Naval establishments of the Nation. They are basically from all the branches of engineering – including Civil , Mechanical , production, Electrical , Computer, Electronics & Telecom Engineering etc. They supervise and guide around 26000 workforce of Navy.
We present this memorandum to 7th CPC representing the following categories in the Indian Navy:
Around 2400 Chargeman
Around 1600 Foreman
Degree of skills, strain of work and requirement of knowledge, experience & expertise, continued & updated technical knowledge with effective training, mounting responsibility and accountability, multifaceted work contents, working condition with hazards and fatigue, mental & physical strain pertaining to these categories have been elaborately explained in the subsequent explanations.
The key to efficiency and competitive spirit in work lies not only in getting appropriate salary for the job but also with dignity & status. We welcome the provisions provided in the terms of reference. Those strategies are to be evolved in order to attract talents and retain them in service which is considered to be the need of the day in the globalised era.
Important role of these middle level managers was recognized by 3rd & 4th CPC which exclusively granted appropriate pay scales to technical supervisors based on their job contents and other factors. But it was shattered by the V & VI CPC which completely ignored their duties and responsibilities and diluted their status by seriously disturbing their relativity.
Further the fact that Naval Dockyards, NSRYs, Training centers and Ship building establishments of Indian Navy are basically technical organizations and the safe successful and efficient performance of the organizations lies primarily in the hands of their technical work forces who are supervised, trained and overseen by these technical supervisors.
7th CPC is requested to look into the serious anomalies caused especially by the Sixth CPC which have demoralized the category due to non-redressal of these anomalies – as brought out in this Memorandum. We request the Pay Commission to kindly evolve a replacement scale to the categories and ensure natural justice and dignity.
Technical Supervisors shoulder the direct responsibilities of safe, efficient & ‘Failure proof’ production, repair, maintenance and operation of almost all the systems of Naval warships of Indian Navy. Reduction of manpower in artisan staff, introduction of new ships, addition of new assets and introduction of new & modern technologies etc, have substantially added to their duties and responsibilities over the years. Other departments provide only necessary support to them in order to enable them to discharge their functions.
It is unfortunate that both 5th and 6th Pay Commissions had underestimated the significance and sensitiveness of the work-content of the technical supervisors, their responsibility and accountability. Many vital factors like their ‘Professional qualifications’ & ‘greater responsibilities’ as well as the accountability towards public safety and efficiency of the Nation went out of sight of both these Pay Commissions.
But, supporting categories like Accounts, Teachers and Nurses who were all along in the lower pay scales than the Technical Supervisors, were given up-gradation and were placed even two grades higher than Technical Supervisors. Worse and even more humiliating is the fact that the pay of categories like MCM, which work under the Technical Supervisors, were also equated with them – undermining the Supreme Court judgment of “the supervisor’s pay cannot be equal to the person being supervised”.
It is our earnest request that 7th CPC may consider the facts brought out in our memorandum. Commission is requested to remove various obstacles that come in the way of attracting talents to the technical supervisory cadre of Indian navy and in improving the efficiency of working system for which the Commission may kindly provide appropriate replacement scales for Chargemen and Foremen, which may justify the relativity of the emoluments in accordance with the job contents, working conditions, accountability & responsibilities, multi-faceted skills & critical management capacity.
I, also earnestly believe that we may be summoned for tendering oral evidence before 7th CPC in line with the earlier CPCs.
Thanking you,
yours faithfully,
(BB Mohanty)
President
Avinash Laxman Mhatre,
General Secretary
All India Naval Technical Supervisory Staff Association
Email- generalsecretary[at]aintssa.com
Address: AINTSSA office, Ground Floor,
Supervisor’s Canteen, Zonal Canteen,
Gun Gate, Naval Dockyard, Mumbai- 400023
Tel No. 022 22751289
Mob. No. 09773103753
AINTSSA/ HO-ALM/7CPC Memo
30 Jul 2014
The Chairman,
Seventh Central Pay Commission,
Post Box No. 4599, Hauz Khas P.O,
New Delhi 110 016.
Seventh Central Pay Commission,
Post Box No. 4599, Hauz Khas P.O,
New Delhi 110 016.
Respected Sir,
(Through: Secretary, Seventh CPC by Email to [email protected])
(Through: Secretary, Seventh CPC by Email to [email protected])
Memorandum to Seventh Central Pay Commission on behalf of AINTSSA
Reference:- Terms of Reference of Seventh Pay Commission – Gazette Notification of Government of India No.1/1/2013-E.III(A) Dated 28.2.2014 & Public Notification of 7th CPC – inviting Memorandums from Associations and others.
In response to the Public Notification of the 7th Pay Commission Dated 5th May, 2014, inviting Memorandums, we, hereby submit our Memorandum for the kind consideration of the 7th Central Pay Commission, Regarding: Principles of Pay Determination, Proposed Pay scales of Central Govt. employees and in particular of Technical Supervisors of the Indian Navy (Naval Dockyards / NSRYs /NADs/ NSDs/ WOTs/ Training establishments etc.), Working Conditions, Allowances, Classification of Post, Pension Benefits, Interim Relief and other related matter on behalf of All India Naval Technical Supervisory Staff
Association (AINTSSA).
Association (AINTSSA).
ABOUT AINTSSA
AINTSSA (All India Naval Technical Supervisory Staff Association) represents about 4000 Technical Supervisors (Foreman & Chargeman) working in various departments / Units on the Indian Navy. AINTSSA was established over 65 years back (in 1949) and is one of the oldest and most widely represented Associations of middle management cadre of Technical Supervisors in Indian Navy.
AINTSSA has represented and appeared before 3rd, 4th & 5th Pay Commissions and Committee appointed by 6th Pay Commission not only regarding the issues relating to the Technical Supervisors on the Naval Dockyards / NSRYs / NADs / NSDs/ WOTs/ SOTs/ IUs, Training establishments etc. but also other vital issues of common interests concerning the defense civilians and Central Government employees, at large and provided important inputs on major related issues.
Technical Supervisors are working in Naval Dockyards / NSRYs / NADs/ NSDs/ WOTs/SOTs/ IUs and Training establishments of Indian Navy. They play vital & pivotal role in the safe and efficient repair and maintenance of all equipments, systems and machineries of Naval Ships & Submarines including indigenous and innovative works in Naval Dockyards and NSRYs, undertake overseeing, inspections and quality checks of various stage jobs of warship and submarine building in WOTs and SOTs, carry out instructional duties in order totrain Naval Officers and sailors of Indian Navy and other foreign Navys in training establishments. NADs are responsible for maintenance, repair and issue of sophisticated variety of Naval Armaments / Weapons such as missiles, torpedoes, mines, guns and rocket launchers and small arms
It is unfortunate that huge injustice was done to the technical supervisors, especially by the last two Pay Commissions and the Government by not redressing their genuine grievances and by not removing the serious anomalies caused especially after the Sixth Pay Commission, which seriously disturbed their relativity in comparison to the non-technical and supporting categories.
In this Memorandum, we have placed our views on the Terms of Reference of the Seventh Pay Commission, including the Principles which should govern the Structure of Pay and Allowances and the conditions of service of Central Government Employees including the overall pay structure of Employees and their Post Retirement Benefits, besides dealing in detail with the Duties, Responsibilities and Proposed Pay Structure of the Technical Supervisors in Indian Navy.
It is therefore, earnestly requested and prayed that the submissions made in this Memorandum may kindly be given favorable consideration by the Seventh Pay Commission and AINTSSA may kindly be granted an opportunity to be heard before the Pay Commission.
Thanking you,
Yours Faithfully,
sd/-
Shri AL Mhatre
(General Secretary)
INDEX
| SRL. | CHAPTER NO | SUBJECT | PAGE NO |
| INTRODUCTION : ABOUT OURSELVES | 2 – 6 | ||
| HISTORY | |||
| 1 | CHAPTER-1 | PRINCIPLES OF DETERMINATION OF PAY | 7 -19 |
| 2 | CHAPTER-2 | DETERMINATION OF MINIMUM & MAXIMUM WAGES, OVERALL WAGE STRUCTURE AND OTHER SERVICE CONDITIONS |
20-33 |
| 3 | CHAPTER-3 | DETERMINATION OF PAY SCALES OF TECHNICAL SUPERVISORS ON THE INDIAN NAVY (FOREMAN & CHARGEMAN) AND THEIR DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES. |
34-59 |
| 4 | CHAPTER-4 | AVENUE OF PROMOTION, CLASSIFICATION OF POSTS & ANOMALIES IN MODIFIED ASSURED CAREER PROGRESSION SCHEME (MACPS) |
60-69 |
| 5 | CHAPTER-5 | CONDITIONS OF SERVICE (INCLUDING HOURS OF WORK, LEAVE, HOLIDAYS AND HEALTH CARE ETC,) |
70-76 |
| 6 | CHAPTER-6 | ALLOWANCES & OTHER FACILITIES | 77-90 |
| 7 | CHAPTER-7 | BONUS AND INCENTIVE SCHEME | 91-92 |
| 8 | CHAPTER-8 | REDRESSAL OF THE ANOMALIES OF 6TH CPC PENDING UN-RESOLVED | 93-95 |
| 9 | CHAPTER-9 | PENSIONERY BENEFITS | 96-111 |
| 10 | IMAGE SOURCES LINKS | 112 | |
| 11 | REPLY TO 7TH CPC QUESTIONNAIRE | 113-128 |
[received through E-mail from Avinash Mhatre]
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