MINUTES OF THE CEC MEETING HELD IN MUMBAI ON 28-29 JULY 2011

MINUTES OF THE CEC MEETING HELD AT MUMBAI ON 28 & 29 July 2011

The CEC meeting of the NBOA was held on 28 and 29 July2011 at Mumbai.

The meeting was chaired by Sri U.K.Mohanty, President, NBOA and was, besides the undersigned, attended by the following-

S/shri

1.      D.K. Mazumdar , Vice President

2.      Nitin Nerurkar , Organising Secretary

3.      A.K.S.Chauhan , Treasurer

4.      Sri  K.Malligaraj, Advisor

5.      K.Padmakumar , Zonal Secretary (S)

6.      P.Pandey , Zonal Secretary (C)

7.      V.K.Pahwa , Zonal Secretary (N)

8.      A.Lokare , Zonal Secretary (W)

9.      M.Jha , Zonal Secretary (E)

10.  A. Bajpai , CEC Member

11.   B.V.Rao , CEC Member

12.   Amlan Das , CEC Member

13.   Samuel Johnson , CEC Member

14.   Ms. Swati Randive , CEC Member

15.   Secretary ,Jammu & CEC Member

16.  Secretary , Dehradun & CEC Member

17.  Secretary , Kolkata & CEC Member

18.  Secretary , Guwahati & CEC Member

19.  Secretary/Representative , Bhubneshwar & CEC Member

20.  Secretary , Hyderabad & CEC Member

The CEC discussed various issues presently concerning the NABARD, NBOA & our members and the following decisions were taken:

I.        The Central executive Committee of National Bank Officers Association (NBOA) met on 28/07 & 29/07/2011 at Mumbai and discussed the reported move of the management & GOI to combine the post of Chairman and Managing Director into Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NABARD. This move negates the very basic structure of NABARD as enshrined in the NABARD Act as also the RBI & GOI policy on Corporate Good Governance.  CEC therefore resolved as under:

                                                    RESOLUTION NO. 1

‘The Central Executive Committee of NBOA resolved that the officers of NABARD strongly oppose the reported move of the GOI/management to abolish the post of Managing Director and replace the post of Chairman  of the organization by Chairman-cum-Managing Director. NBOA is of the firm belief that the organizational structure of NABARD having a Chairman and a Managing Director , as enshrined in the NABARD Act , 1981 , has served the organisation well and is also in tune with the present day requirements of Good Governance in Corporate entities as propagated by GoI and RBI.  CEC urges upon the Management & Board of Directors of NABARD and GoI to continue with the present organizational structure of NABARD of having a Chairman as its organizational head and a Managing Director as its CEO.’

The CEC further decided to send this resolution to PMO, MoF -GoI and other important functionaries as also to approach media to generate requisite mobilization in support of the issue.

II.           The Central Executive Committee further resolved as under-

                                        

    RESOLUTION NO. 2

‘The Central Executive Committee of NBOA urges upon the Ministry Of Finance, GoI to immediately fill up the post of Managing Director which is lying vacant for last three months from amongst the cadre officers of NABARD with due weightage to their seniority & experience in the field of agriculture & rural development.’

The CEC further decided to send the resolution to PMO, MoF – GoI and to other important functionaries as also to approach media to generate requisite mobilization in support of the issue.

III.  The Central Executive Committee also considered with serious concern the issue of victimisation & harassment of officers on trivial grounds. The victimisation of individual cases of officers including office bearers of NBOA was discussed in detail. It was therefore resolved as under-

     

                                     RESOLUTION NO. 3

‘That CEC strongly condemns the  victimization and harassment of the officers on trivial & unsustainable grounds and on many occasions without even following the laid down rules & procedures as enumerated in NABARD Staff Rules , 1982. It has led to widespread demoralization and demotivation of the officers community. NBOA urges upon the management to immediately revoke all such steps initiated and ensure non recurrence of incidence in violation of established norms & procedures in future.’

It was decided by the CEC that the resolution may be handed over to the Chairman along with a forwarding letter highlighting the details of such cases i.e. cases pertaining to suspension of Shri HNV Prasad, CGM and Ms. Suparna Tandon, AGM. Harassment & victimisation of Sri S.D.Singh,  AGM, Sri D.D.Gupta, AGM,  Sri Somesh Majumdar, AGM & Sri Ajit Singh, AGM. Leave matters of  Sri D.Shivdas,  Sri S.S.Singh , DGM and payment of gratuity & PF to a retired officer, CL issue of the Kolkata RO on the days when management did not keep the office open, arbitrary change in rules & regulations governing VOF, SRA, MAF and payment of reimbursements towards various perquisites.                                    

   

RESOLUTION NO. 4

IV.   The Central Executive Committee  has resolved as under-

‘CEC notes with great concern and anguish the decision of the bank to initiate penal provisions against a number of officers under the NABARD, LRTC Rules. This is in spite of the fact that the laid down norms and procedures governing the availing of LTC/LRTC have been followed by the officers concerned and all the necessary documents have been submitted by the officers at the time of availing the advance , settlement of bill and finally as per the additional requisition by the bank. The officers concerned have appealed to the Chairman to revert the decision of the Competent Authority. We earnestly urge upon the Chairman to take a favourable decision on the issue so that no actions is taken/proposed to be taken against the officers concerned.

V.     The Central Executive Committee further resolved as under-

                            

           RESOLUTION NO. 5

‘The CEC noted with the concern the undue delay in implementing the agreed upon package for the DDMs and earnestly urges upon the bank to implement it without further delay as the DDM package is primarily intended to refurbish the DDM Offices of NABARD commensurate to the stature of the organization.  Further more, most of the components of the DDM package were last revised in 2003 and as such an immediate revision is warranted. '

It was decided that all the DDMs and NBOA Units at ROs & HO shall submit a memorandum addressed to Chairman , NABARD on the issue on 22/08/2011 in case the matter is not resolved favourably by then.

VI.  The CEC has noted with great concern the delay in implementation of agreed upon issues of the first and second JCC meetings and also the non-convening of the third JCC which is delayed by more than 07 months and urges upon the management to implement all the decisions taken by JCC earlier without further delay and also convene the JCC meeting urgently.

VII. The Annual Discussion of the NBOA with the management has not been held since March 2010.We urge upon the management to hold the Annual Discussion immediately.

VIII. It was decided to communicate to CGM, HRMD about the following issues concerning various ROs and the HO.

a) Though the tariffs chargeable for VOF and SRAs have been arbitrarily hiked and implemented too, the accompanying upgradation in the VOFs and SRAs have not been done. Most of the ROs as well as the HO too have also not formed the ‘Supervisory Committee’ having a representation from NBOA to overlook the facilities etc. at the VOF & SRA.

b) The modalities adopted by the bank in allocating the funds under budgetary system and the provisions governing it  have been creating a lot of difficulties for the ROs in implementing the various administrative decisions and it requires an immediate revisiting. The present system of budgetary allocation is breeding delays in implementation and a lot of drudgery for the officers concerned and results in undue delays and detoriated service quality.

c) Gujarat RO: Bank is requested to initiate necessary amendments in its policy so that cases of pay anomaly as represented by Sri S.R.Jaggi, AM , vide his letter dated 04/04/2011 and of many other officers are rectified in due accordance.

d) Mumbai: The reimbursement in respect of insurance premium under conveyance expenses for the intervening periods of old and new insurance policies may be sanctioned to the officers concerned.

e) New Delhi RO:

i)  Airport allowance to P&SOs may be provided at par with that prevailing in RBI since Jan’2007.

ii) Bank may accord sanction for purchase of bank quarters as requested by NBOA , New Delhi unit vide its letter dated 19/07/2011 and Shimla unit addressed to Chairman , NABARD. Bank is also requested to increase the rental ceiling in respect of leased flats in New Delhi & Shimla at par with RBI.

iii) The officers of New Delhi RO who own their own houses outside the state of Delhi i.e. at Gurgaon, Faridabad, NOIDA, Ghaziabad etc. may be allowed facility of leased flat at New Delhi.

f) Maharastra RO:

i) Pending payments towards TA & HA may be immediately cleared to all those officers who were requisitioned to perform Election duties.

ii) Construction of quarters for Grade ‘C’ & above may be cleared so as to ease out the problem of accommodation to the officers posted at Pune.

g) BIRD/NBSC/TEs:

i) Providing special allowance to Principal & Vice principal of NBSC/TEs and to Director and Joint Director of BIRD at par with that being provided to Principal & Vice-Principal of  TEs of  RBI.

ii) Increase in number of faculty posts in BIRD commensurate to the per faculty training classes to be imparted/coordinated by each faculty in similar institutes like NBSC , SBIRD , IIMs , CAB etc.

h) Uttar Pradesh RO:

i) Proper maintenance of staff quarters at    BIRD campus. Modalities may be worked out in consultation with NBOA.

i) Uttarakhand RO:

i) Deduction of part of TA in case of officers traveling by Shatabdi express etc. towards food charges may be stopped forthwith as it is a practice which is neither being followed in RBI or in any other RO of NABARD and also at HO of NABARD.

ii) Leased flats may be allowed as per the extant rules to officers who may be owning own houses within the municipal limits of Dehradun but the covered area of such accommodation is less than 550 sq.ft.

iii) Since most of the places in Uttarakhand state are not connected by train services and the terrain is hilly and difficult , all the officers proceeding on official tours may be allowed to travel by taxi services and officers may not be forced to travel by ordinary buses.

iv) In case of non availability of tickets in the direct train services from Dehradun to Lucknow, the officers may be allowed to travel by Air via New Delhi as per the extant rules. It was resolved that in case the RO doesn’t allow such facility immediately the NBOA shall be constrained to issue a call to its members for not undertaking training related tours to NBSC/BIRD etc.

v) Construction of bank's flats as requested by the RO may be sanctioned at the earliest so as to mitigate the problem of accommodation to the officers posted at Dehradun pending which higher leased rentals may be paid to the officers on lines with RBI.

j) Jammu RO:

i)  Jammu being the hardship centre as per the Government notification, the tenure for posting at Jammu may be reduced to 3 years from the present 4 years and choice posting may be provided to all the officers on their repatriation after completing the full tenure at Jammu.

ii) RBI has extended a number of facilities to its officer posted at Jammu and the same may be extended to NABARD officers too.

iii) Since most of the places in J&K state are not connected by train services and the terrain is hilly and difficult , all the officers proceeding on official tours may be allowed to travel by taxi and officers may not be forced to travel by ordinary buses. This will take care of the security concerns too.

k) Andhra Pradesh RO:

i) All the officers may be allowed the  facility of taxi services for commuting to-n-fro to the airport which is situated in adjoining district of Hyderabad.

ii) Air travel may be allowed for traveling to places connected by air within the state too as per the extant TA rules.

L) Assam & other NE ROs:

i) Keeping in view the prevailing security concerns and as    per the norms & practices followed by the bank in other ROs , it is demanded to post the P & SOs at Guwahati and all other SOs of NE region at the earliest.

IX) Issue related to BCG: The CEC was invited to a ‘sharing of information’ meeting by the ED (SKM) on 29/07/2011. NBOA made it clear to the bank that as per our stand in the past , NBOA requests the bank to keep the association in loop on all the aspects of BCG related decisions and it may be done at a regular basis. It was also reiterated that any change in the DFI status of NABARD and service conditions of its officers shall not be acceptable to NBOA. It was decided to write back to the bank for having a detailed discussion on the issue and any decision which may impact the service condition of the officers and stature of NABARD may be discussed before hand with NBOA.

X) Issue related to Pension & Family Pension: It was decided to form a joint forum with RBI Officers Association and SIDBI Officers Association to fight for the cause jointly. It was decided to explore the possibility of having a joint meeting with RBI & SIDBI representatives in the last week of August ’11 to work out the modalities.

XI) It was decided that Sri AKS Chauhan, Treasurer , NBOA  will collect and forward the details to GS & President in respect of registration of NBOA under Trade Union Act or under the Societies Act. It may be done on urgent basis.

XII) It was decided that all the units may remit the 50% share of the levy collected to Central Unit immediately. Treasurer and OS were requested to advise the NBOA’s bank account number so as to facilitate the process.

XIII) It was also decided that all the units may get the monthly subscription deducted at Rs.100/= per member w.e.f. April’11 and remit the 50% of this amount to central unit immediately.

XIV) It was also decided that all the units may remit the arrears of subscriptions collected to prior to April ’11 @ 25 % of the monthly subscription so collected.

XV) It was decided that Executive Committee of NBOA at all the units shall hold a meeting with the local management at least once in a quarter of the year and intimate to GS & OS the status of such meeting as per the following proforma-

Date of Meeting	Attendd by OIC or not	Issues discussed	Major decisions taken	Remarks, if any

The first such MIS may be send to GS & OS latest by 10/10/2011 for the quarter ended September’11. Subsequently, the information may be forwarded to GS & OS by every 10th day of the succeeding month of the respective quarter.

XVI) It was also decided that all the units may hold a GB meeting at least once in a quarter and executive committee meetings at least once a month and confirm the same to the GS & OS along with the information sought for at para  IX) above.

XVII) It was decided that office-bearers meeting shall be held once in every two months starting August’11 at Mumbai.

XVIII) It was decided that the committee on amendment to Bye-laws of NBOA headed by Sri Malligraj and comprising of S/Shri Narayanan, Majumdar  P.Pandey and Samuel Johnson shall meet at Mumbai in the month of August’11 and finalise its report and submit the same to GS & OS latest by 31/08/2011 .

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks proposed by Sri D.K.Majumdar , vice-President of NBOA .

            

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          ( Dr.D.S.Chauhan )

          General Secretary

           10/08/2011