Minutes of the Meeting held on 30.07.2021 discuss the left-out items of the Meeting of the National Council of the JCM
No.3/4/2021-JCA
Government of India Department of Personnel & Training
Establishment (JCA) Section
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North Block, New Delhi- 110001.
Dated: 18 August, 2021
To
Shiva Gopal Mishra,
Secretary, Staff Side
13-C, National Council (JCM)
New Delhi.
Subject: Minutes of the Meeting held under the Chairmanship of Secretary (P) on 30.07.2021 discuss the left-out items of the Meeting of the National Council (NC) of the Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM), held on 26.06.2021
Iam directed to enclose herewith a copy of the Minutes of the Meeting, held under the Chairmanship of Secretary (P), on 30.07.2021, to discuss the left-out items of the Meeting of the National Council (NC) of the Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM), held on 26.06.2021
Encl. as above
Yours faithfully,
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(S.P. Pant)
Deputy Secretary (JCA)
1. All the Members of the National Council (JCM)
MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF SECRETRY (P) ON 30.7.2021 TO DISCUSS THE LEFT-OUT ITEMS FROM THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL (NC) OF THE JOINT CONSULTATIVE MACHINERY (JCM), HELD ON 26.06.2021.
The 48th Meeting of the NC, JCM, was held on 26th June, 2021, under the Chairmanship of Shri Rajiv Gauba, Cabinet. Secretary, and out of 29 Agenda Items kept for discussion, only 21 items could be discussed in the meeting. It was therefore, agreed, with the permission of the Chair, that the remaining 08 agenda items, pertaining to DoPT, would be discussed in a separate meeting to be held by the Secretary (P) with the Staff Side. Accordingly, a meeting was held with the Staff Side on 30.07.2021, under the Chairmanship of the Secretary {P), in which the 08 agenda items of DoPT, along with two agenda items of DoE (included with the permission of Chair), were discussed. The list of participants is annexed.
2. Smt. Sujata Chaturvedi, Addl. Secretary (Estt.), welcomed the chairman and the participants to the meeting.
3. Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra, Secretary, Staff Side, while thanking the Chair for convening the meeting in the month of July itself, raised the following issues:
(i) The facility of one-time relaxation given to those Government employees who availed the LTC by Air to J&K and the North-Eastern Region during the period of January, 2010 to June, 2014, and had booked the tickets through travel agents, other than the authorized agents, due to lack of awareness about rules, may be extended to the employees, who had travelled by air to Andaman & Nicobar Island during the period w.e.f. 26 / 09 / 2014 to 19/ 02/ 2020, since LTC-80 facility to A&N was given only from 26 / 09 / 2014.
(ii) Departmental Council meetings under the JCM scheme are not being held regularly, despite instructions from DoPT.
(iii) Policy of appointment on Compassionate Grounds for dependents of those employees, who have expired due to COVID 19, may be made expeditiously.
(iii) Master Craftsmen in the M/ o Defence may be given MACP in the Grade Pay of Rs. 4600 / –
(iv) Legal strikes in Industrial Establishment may be regularized on the basis of no work no pay’ and may not be treated as dies-non.
Shri Mishra also requested that a meeting of the Standing Committee may be convened soon to discuss pending Agenda items.
3. 1 While thanking the Government for releasing the withheld D.A., Shri Sri Kumar, Member, Staff Side raised the issue of 3% increase in HRA, consequent upon hike in DA beyond 25% and also referred the demand of the Staff Side for DA arrears from 01/01/ 2020 to 30/06/ 2021.
4. Thereafter, the agenda items were takes up one by one. The discussion and decision taken on each point is given in the following paragraphs.
4. 1 Item No. NC-47/4/19 – JCM Coverage.
4.2 Item No. NC-47/31/19 – Litigation cases on service matters
i) Night Duty Allowance (NDA) in revised Pay Scales
ii) MACP in promotional hierarchy and not in the next Grade Pay
iii) Placement from Higher Selection Grade to HS Grade -1 be ignored for granting MACP
4.3 Item No. NC-48 /13/21 –Eradication of injustice to Casual, Contract and Outsourced Workers: providing them the right to form a union in terms of Article 19 1(c) of the Constitution of India
4.4 No. NC-48/15/21- Fill up all vacant posts in all grades
4.5 Item No. NC-48 /16/21 – Grant of 5 {five) effective upgradations to all Group B & C employees in entire service life
4.6 Item No. NC-48 /17/21 – Undertake cadre review of all Groups – B&C Cadres in every five years before the cadre review of Group A Cadres
4.7 Item No. NC-48/ 18/ 21- Grant of Risk Allowance to the Employees involved in permanent and perennial recognized Risk Operations (DoPT, DoE and M/o Railways).
4.8. Item No. NC-48/ 19/ 21- Grant of NDA in 7th CPC Pay Scale without any Basic Pay ceiling limit
5. ITEMS PERTAINING TO DoE:
The following items pertaining to DoE were also discussed with the permission of the Chair:
5.1 Item No. NC-48/7 /21: Central Government Employees may be granted one more option to switch over to 7th CPC, from a date subsequent to 25th July 2016
5.2 Item No. NC -48/ 8/21: Settle all 7th CPC Anomalies represented by the Staff.
(a) Removal of Condition of 3% stipulated to grant Bunching benefits
(b) Fixation of Pay on Promotion
(c) Removal of anomaly in the Pay Matrix
(d) Lesser Pay in Higher Level of Pay Matrix
(e) Bunching of steps in the revised pay structure
(f) Parity in pay scales between Assistants / Stenographers in field/ Subordinate Offices and Assistant Section Officers and Stenographers in CSS.
(g) Grant of Grade Pay of 5400 to Senior Section Officers of Railways and AAOs of IA & AD and Organised Accounts (Civil Accounts, Postal Accounts and Defence Account) Services
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
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