No. GEF/ANI/2012/18
Date : 29.03.2012
To
The
Commissioner-Cum-Secretary (PWD),
A
& N Administration,
Secretariat,
Port Blair.
Subject :- Request for grant
of Grade Pay of ` 1900/- to Ferro Printer of
APWD by bringing at par with their counterpart working in
Electricity Department & Dr. B.R. Ambetkar Govt. Polytechnic
etc. of A&N Administration – reg.
Madam,
Its
our pleasure to submit a long pending demand of Ferro Printer, working under
APWD Establishment and who have been victimized / discriminated from their
legitimate claim of granting Grade Pay
of ` 1900/- by
bringing at par with their counterparts working
in Electricity Department & Dr. B.R. Ambetkar Govt. Polytechnic
etc. of A&N Administration.
In
this connection, we would like to bring the following facts and circumstances
to your kind notice for taking appropriate action.
1. That Madam,
the Ferro Printers working under APWD Establishment are suppose to be
granted Scale of pay and other service benefits at par with their counterparts
working in CPWD Establishment as that of other categories of staffs of APWD get
in routine nature. But, the Ferro
Printers have not been given any service benefits at par with their
counterparts of CPWD.
2.
That Madam, the
Ferro Printers of CPWD have been granted Scale of Pay of ` 5200 - 20200 and Grade Pay
of ` 2000/- in the 6th CPC. Whereas, the Ferro
Printers of APWD have been granted same
scale of pay due to merger but the Grade
Pay was granted only ` 1800/-, which is a minimum grade pay of a lowest government servant. Being victimized the Ferro Printers of APWD approached
Hon’ble CAT and Hon’ble High Court
seeking justice. But, even after
getting appropriate directions from Hon’ble
Courts, the Ferro Printers of APWD were not consider for granting Grade Pay
of ` 2000/-, rather their case was referred to Ministry by
A&N Administration. Which was latter on turn down by the Ministry without
going into the depth of the matter. As a result, the Ferro Printers of
APWD were not granted Grade Pay of ` 2000/- at
par with CPWD.
3.
That Madam, as per A&N Administration’s
Notification dated 7th November, 2002 all the Staff of APWD are
eligible to get the service benefits at
par with staff of CPWD because APWD is
following the CPWD Code and CPWD Manual
in all respect as per the above notification.
The other categories of staff of APWD are getting scale of pay and
service benefits etc. at par with CPWD
Staff. Copy of notification is enclosed herewith
for ready reference .
4.
That Madam, it would be appropriate to mention here
that, the Ferro Printers of other department of A & N Administration are
also drawing higher Grade Pay of ` 1900/- as compared
to Ferro Printers of APWD drawing ` 1800/-.
The Group “D” staff of APWD get promotion into the post of Ferro
Printer, which is a Group “C” post,
after completion of 10 years of regular service and passing the trade
test. Thus, being Group “C” technical
post, the Ferro Printer of APWD have been pulled down to lowest Group “D” post
during 6th CPC due to various administrative lacunas committed by
department and A&N Administration as
well.
5.
That Madam, the APWD establishment has also having
realized the problems being faced by Ferro Printers, recommended for grant of
Grade Pay of ` 1900/- to A & N
Administration for amendment of Recruitment Rule. But, the same was also not
considered.
Therefore, we request your goodself
to kindly do the needful for granting atleast ` 1900/- Grade Pay to Ferro Printers of APWD w.e.f.
01.01.2006 based on the facts and circumstances mentioned above by making
necessary amendment in the Recruitment Rule and accord proper justice to them.
Thanking You.
Yours faithfully,
Encl
:A/A.
( P.KANNAN )
PRESIDENT.
Copy
also forwarded to Chief Engineer, APWD, Nirman Bhavan, Port Blair for kind information and necessary action.
PRESIDENT.
