No:IRTSA/Memo/ RB / 16-2011
Date: 31.05.2011
Member Staff,
Railway Board,
Rail Bhawan, New Delhi
Respected Sir,
Sub: Counting of training period of Junior Engineers (JEs), Senior Section Engineers (SSEs) and other Technical non-gazetted staff for financial upgradation under ACPS/MACPS
Ref:
1. O.M No. 35034/3/2008-Estt. (D) Dated 19th May, 2009 of DOP&T
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2. Railway Board’s O.M. RBE No. 101 dated 10.6.2009.
3. Railway Board’s letter No.E(NG)I/90/IC1/1, Dated 04.02.1991.
1. We would like to bring to your kind notice the following genuine demand of Technical Supervisors / Rail Engineers for counting of Training period for financial upgradation under MACPS, denial of which puts them in a disadvantageous position vis-a-vis the non-technical employees without training in the same Scale of Pay / Pay Band.
2. Persons selected for regular appointment in Technical departments for the posts like Junior Engineers (JEs), Senior Section Engineers (SSEs), CMA , CMS and other Technical posts are required to undergo training for periods varying from one year to two years.
3. Training imparted to those recruited through the Railway Recruitment Boards and later absorbed as Junior Engineers (JEs), Senior Section Engineers (SSEs) on Railways is not pre-appointment training in nature (as that of the Apprentices recruited under the Apprentices Act). The Stipend paid during the training period to them is from the Revenue account and the Department of Personnel & Training (DOPT) had already decided earlier that the training period shall be counted for pensionary benefits, for issue of passes and drawal of increments, etc.
4. Non-technical employees who are not required to undergo any training even though recruited on the same date along with the Technical employees in the same Scale of Pay / Grade Pay earn their Financial upgradation through ACPS/MACPS well before the Technical Staff. This puts the technical employees in a disadvantageous position vis-a-vis the non-technical employees, since the period spent in the training by the technical employees, is not counted for the purpose of financial upgradation, under MACPS.
5. Railway Board’s letter No.E(NG)I/90/IC1/1, Dated 04.02.1991 on the subject of Counting of training period for the purpose of drawing increments, states that, in case where a Government servant has been selected for regular appointment and before formally taking charge of the post for which selected, the Government servant is required to undergo training, the training period undergone by such Government servant whether on remuneration of stipend or otherwise may be treated as duty for the purpose of drawing increments.
6. This had been implemented for the purpose of drawing increments as otherwise the concerned employee, particularly the non-gazetted in technical departments, where the training period is a long one is put to perpetual disadvantage vis-a-vis the staff in non-technical jobs who are recruited along with technical staff in the same scale of pay.
7. Non-counting of training period for MACPS, results in discrimination with the Technical employees vis-a-vis non-technical employees - recruited in the same Scale of Pay/Grade Pay in the same period, thus defeating the basic spirit of Railway Board’s letter No.E(NG)I/90/IC1/1, Dated 04.02.1991 in removing the disadvantageous position of Technical employees in getting their annual increment, pensionary benefits, pass eligibility etc.
8. As stated in Para 3 above, the Stipend paid during the training period to them is from the Revenue account and the Department of Personnel & Training (DOPT) had already decided earlier that the training period shall be counted for pensionary benefits and drawal of increments, etc.
9. It is, therefore requested, that the training period of Junior Engineers (JEs), Senior Section Engineers (SSEs), CMA, CMS on Railways be counted as regular service for the purpose of ACPS / MACPS.
Yours’ faithfully,
sd/-
Harchandan Singh,
General Secretary, IRTSA
Source;
IRTSA
