OM No. 12/1/2011-IR&W/vol. IX /1722 dated 4/2/2021 on Third Cadre Review

 AU/16/DAE/21/18                         15/02/2021

To
The Secretary DAE &
The Chairman AEC

Sub:  OM No. 12/1/2011-IR&W/vol. IX /1722 dated 4/2/2021 on Third Cadre Review    
Respected Sir,

        With a heavy heart we would like to invite your kind attention to the above mentioned subject. The Third Cadre Review was constituted on 29/7/2011 by the secretary DAE to address the intricacies pertaining to non-scientific and non-technical staff. It is also expected find solutions on merger of pay scales after the implementation of 6th CPC.
        At the outset the Managing committee of Atomic Energy Workers & Staff Union expressed our anguish on the outcome of 3rd Cadre Review approved by the Ministry of Finance which conveyed through the above mentioned OM. We also concluded that the DAE administration has miserably failed to pursue the Ministry of Finance to justify our proposal and hence many important cadres such as Security and Drivers had badly affected. The Canteen cadre already has been kept out of this third cadre review and is being dealt separately. While issuing the above OM the DAE administration has not disclosed the actual difference in number of posts sanctioned/reduced unlike the other two previous Cadre Reviews. The staff side is not in a position to understand the changes undergone after implementation of said OM. However the following prima facia observations we made and bring to your kind notice.
1.    The proposed date of affect of the Cadre Review was 01/04/2015 & the approval conveyed by the Ministry of Finance is on 06/05/2020. Now the benefit (if any) is extended from 04/02/2021.
2.    The intention of Cadre Review has converted into the creation of Posts in highest level at the cost of abolishing of working hands in the lower level. In other words higher officials are written their own judgements.

3.    Security Cadre: First and second Cadre review, the security staff were not given any benefit and hence a separate proposal was commenced to address the above overlook. However during the Third Cadre Review process the above proposal was amalgamated with the ongoing Cadre review. The nature of duty of security personal had undergone a sea change during the last two decades. For accomplishment of total security they are trained to handle all the modern electronic gadgets. But no attention has paid towards the Security Guard’s promotion and demerger. The entire Cadre is demoralised on seeing the outcome of Third Cadre review.
4.    Drivers: Drivers are another important cadre among the non gazetted employees and the administration was not successfully pursued the proposal of this cadre. Our drivers are not functioning as conventional drivers and they are the part of important strategic activities of our nuclear programme. Unfortunately the proposal of elevated entry scale and subsequent promotional scales are not considered. The entire driver community is disappointed when they were hoping better outcome from the Third cadre review.
5.    Stenographer: On implementation of 6th CPC steno grade II and Grade I (5000-8000 and 5500-9000) were got merged. The nodal ministry was insisting to revise the recruitment rule to deal with the merger of pay scale. Since last twelve years Department has not revised the Recruitment Rules and hence no pay fixation benefit was extended to the senior promoted employees. The Stenographer cadre Grade I & Grade II is merged and allowed an inferior level pay (level 6).
6.    MTS cadre in DAE: In the secretariat MTS cadre continuously working without any promotional avenue in their career. The Department again miserably failed to pursue the Ministry of Finance for these low paid employees.
7.    Purchase and store: In this DPS cadre purchase assistant and senior purchase assistant are kept in level VI even though one is feeder post and other one is promotion post. It is repeated in the case of store keeper and senior store keeper.

         These observations are based on the available information in the above OM. We have sought the details of proposal sent from DAE to MF and numbers of posts were existing and number of posts sanctioned in the cadre review. However it is evident that at lower level working hands are drastically reduced and the functioning of the office will affect badly.
        We therefore request you to kindly review the fallouts of third cadre review and initiate for the remedial proposals without further delay. The staff side request you to allow a personal hearing for discussion exclusively on third cadre review.  

Thanking you    

                                                                                Yours faithfully,

    
                                                                                 A.Sreedharan
                                                                               (Gen.Secretary)

        Cc: The Director, BARC