NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
No.IV/NFIR/7th
CPC/2013/Pt.I
The Secretary (DoP&T),
Department of Personnel & Training,
North
Block,
New
Delhi
Dear Sir,
Sub: Terms of Reference of the 7th Central Pay Commission.
On perusal of the notification issued by the Government
of India through Gazette of India bearing No.1/1/2013-E III (A) dated
28/02/2014, we find that the Terms of Reference notified by the
Government is at variance in many respects to the Draft Terms of Reference the
Staff Side had submitted to the Government on 25.10.2013 as desired during
discussions in the meeting chaired by Secretary, DoP&T.
At the conclusion of the meeting held on 24.10.2013, it was
agreed that the Government would consider our suggestions in the matter and
will convene another meeting with the participation of the Secretary (Expenditure)
to iron out the differences, if any and explore the possibilities of an agreement
in the matter.
We
regret to inform you that no such meeting was convened and no attempt was made
by the Official Side to work for an agreed Terms of Reference. We find that the
Government has rejected our suggestions for either taking decision in the
matter of Interim Relief Merger of D.A., representation of labour
representative in the Commission itself, bringing in parity with the past and
present pensioners, covering the employees appointed on or after 01.01.2004 within
the ambit of the Defined Benefitted Pension Scheme, date of effect, settlement
of the pending items in the National Anomaly Committee etc., or
referring those issues to the Commission itself for an Interim Report.
In
the meeting held on 24th October, 2013 the Staff Side also pointed out that proposals of
various ministries seeking clearance of Finance Ministry for rectification of
6th CPC anomalies are still pending with Ministry of Finance and requested that
the said proposals may be cleared before constituting the 7th Central
Pay Commission. However, the proposals are yet to be cleared by the
Ministry of Finance.
Besides,
we are to state that the existing Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) Scheme being
a bilateral agreement, cannot be subjected to scrutiny and examination by the
7th CPC.
We,
therefore, request you to kindly convene a meeting of the Standing Committee of National Council
(JCM) to discuss the issue, so as to make amendments to the Terms of Reference.
Dated: 04/03/2014
Yours faithfully
sd/-
(M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary
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