MINUTES OF THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (CEC) MEETING HELD ON 24-25 NOVEMBER 2011

NATIONAL BANK OFFICERS’ASSOCIATION (NBOA)

C/O NABARD, HO,   BANDRA-KURLA  COMPLEX

MUMBAI

 

MINUTES

The CEC meeting of NBOA was held on 24/11 & 25/11/2011 at Mumbai. The meeting was chaired by Sri U.K.Mohanty , President , NBOA and was attended by the following CEC members-

 S/Shri

1. D.K.Majumdar, Vice-President

2. Dr D S Chauhan, General Secretary

3. Nitin Nerurkar, Organising Secretary

4. A k S Chauhan, Treasurer

5. M. Jha, Zonal Secretary (E)

6. V K Pahwa, Zonal Secretary (N)

7.  P Pandey, Zonal Secretary (C)

8.  A. Lokare, Zonal Secretary (W)

9. A. Bajpai, EC Member

10.  B.V. Rao, EC Member

11. A. Das, EC Member

12. Ms. Swati Randive, EC Member

13. N.C. Pareekh, Secretary, J&K

14. Sunil Pandey, Secretary, Uttrakhand

15.  A Shinde, Secretary, Karnataka

16. Shankar Ghose, Vice President, West Bengal

17.  S. Narshimhan, Secretary, AP

18. M.K.Baruah, Secretary,  Assam

19. Paras Ram, Secretary, HP

20. B.K.Choudhary, Secretary, Jharkhand

21.  K. Malligaraj, Advisor, NBOA.

 the following business transacted -

 1. The participants were made aware about the circumstances leading to deferment of our proposed Lunch Hour Demo on 16/11/2011. it was reiterated that the protest was deferred on account of clear cut assurance given by the CGM (HRMD) that Annual discussion will most likely be arranged with Chairman on 25/11/2011 or at the next available date at the earliest but not later than 10/12/2011. It was also very categorically stated that the HRMD shall revert back to NBOA positively by 18/11/2011 and firm up the date. CGM (HRMD) also indicated that the Check-off facility provided to NBOA in respect of deduction and remittance of monthly subscription shall be restored immediately. It was noted that though the bank has restored the cheque-off facility, it has not bothered to firm up the date for the Annual Discussions, as was promised.

 2. Subsequent to this, unit wise details were collected towards the cases pertaining to suspension, memos given, Financial recoveries ordered and cases pertaining to sanctioning of leaves. It was pointed out that in all at least 65-70 cases of such harassment were resorted to by the bank in the last 3 to 4 months.

 3. The cases pertaining to sanctioning of EOL to the officers, LTC recovery cases, punishment transfer cases and suspension cases were discussed in threadbare.

 4. The banks continued stance to skirt a meaningful discussion with NBOA on subjects of great importance such as RESTRUCTURING & REPOSITIONING of NABARD, was also apprised to the participants.

 5. The CEC then passed a resolution demanding the bank to immediately revoke the suspension of Sri Sushil Kumar, AM, HO, Mumbai.

 6. The CEC also decided to convene a gate meeting on 25/11/2011 at Mumbai so as to apprise the members about the recent developments. Subsequent to this the Mumbai unit convened and organised a very well attended and successful gate Meeting on 25/11/2011. The office-bearers of the central unit apprised the members of the latest developments, with specific reference to the management's obstinate stand not to enter into a meaningful discussion with the NBOA on all the issues of importance, specially on repositioning & Restructuring Exercise and Harassment cases pertaining to the officers.

 7. Subsequent to this, the office bearers went in delegation to CGM (HRMD) and submitted the resolution passed by the CEC and requested him to revoke the suspension of the officer concerned immediately. The office-bearers also requested him to favourably resolve the issues pertaining to EOL, LTC related recoveries and other victimisation cases too. The office-bearers also requested the CGM (HRMD) to give a firm date for conduct of Annual discussions with the chairman. The response of the CGM (HRMD) was as under-

 A) On the issue of revoking the suspension of the officer, he chose to be noncommittal.

 B) On the issues of EOL and LTC related cases he first opined that NBOA should not take-up individual cases to which we humbly responded that Association comprises of Individual members only and we are duty bound to take-up the cases of all the members as and when required with the management.

 C) Subsequent to this, CGM (HRMD) was again non committal on all the issues pertaining to harassment.

 D) Regarding the Annual Discussion, the CGM (HRMD) indicated that NBOA should wait upto January 2012 for getting a date for the discussions as Chairman is too busy in the month of December 2011. We responded by requesting him that NBOA is prepared to have a discussion even on holidays and any venue and time as may be convenient to Chairman. Further to it we also requested that if management wants to resolve the issue, it could give us a written communication on the date of Annual discussions to be held in January 2012, off course that too will be subject to official exigencies of the Chairman on the particular date. In spite of this, the CGM (HRMD) was not in a mood to fix any time frame for the discussions.

 E) in fact at  a given point of time he indicated that NBOA need not worry about the organisational matters and just wait and watch for the things to unfold and everything being done by the management is  in the best interest of NABARD.

 F) The office-bearers then indicated to him that bank is forcing NBOA to proceed on agitation path and that we are left with no other option. The CGM (HRMD) indicated that in case NBOA proceeds on an agitation path then the bank will act tough. The meeting with CGM (HRMD) ended with NBOA telling him politely that we don't want a confrontation but if it is being thrust upon us and Chairman/Bank is not prepared to even discuss with NBOA about the legitimate concerns affecting the interests of the officers and the organisation then NBOA shall also to perform its duty as entrusted to us by the officers community.

 8. The CEC was then briefed by the GS about the contents of the meeting held with CGM (HRMD) and the CEC has then unanimously resolved to proceed on an agitation path as per the following program-

 A) LUNCH HOUR DEMONSTRATION ON 02/12/2011 AT ALL THE UNITS AND SUBMISSION OF MEMORANDUM TO BE SIGNED BY ALL THE OFFICERS. ( Draft memorandum being sent separately latest by 30/11/2011)

 B) LETTER TO BE WRITTEN BY NBOA TO ALL THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BANK BY 09/12/2011 (the letter shall be finalised by office-bearers of the central unit and forwarded to BODs by the stipulated time frame)

 C) LUNCH HOUR DEMONSTRATION ON 09/12/2011 AT ALL THE UNITS

 D) BLACK BADGE WEARING BY ALL THE OFFICERS FROM 12/12/2011 TO 16/12/2011.

 E) LETTER TO ALL THE HON’BLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT BY CENTRAL UNIT OF NBOA LATEST BY 26/12/2011.

 F) DHARNA BY THE OFFICE-BEARERS FOR ONE HOUR AFTER THE OFFICE HOURS ON 26/12/2011 AT ALL THE UNITS

 G) DHARNA BY THE OFFICE-BEARERS FOR ONE HOUR BEFORE THE OFFICE HOURS ON 27/12/2011 AT ALL THE UNITS

 I) CONVEYING OF NATIONAL COUNCIL AT NEW DELHI ON 10/& 11/ 01/2012 TO TAKE THE STOCK OF THE SITUATION AND CHALK OUT FUTURE COURSE OF ACTION.

 AS SUCH ALL THE UNITS ARE ADVISED TO CONVEY GENERAL BODY MEETINGS AT THE RESPECTIVE UNITS AND APPRISE THE MEMBERSHIP WITH THE ABOVE DECISION OF THE CEC AND ENSURE FULL AND PROPER IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGITATION PROGRAM AS CHALKED ABOVE.

 9. OTHER DECISIONS -

1) It was decided that in order to have adequate communication with the members Mr Amlan Das, CEC member , shall administration the blog of NBOA having the address   www.ainboa.blogspot.com                                         .

Mr Amlan was authorised to operate the blog within the overall supervision of the President NBOA and GS, NBOA. It was decided that only that correspondence which is marked to the blog by President and GS shall be put up on the blog and Mr Amlan shall take adequate measures to publicize the address of the blog among all the members at Mumbai. All the unit secretaries are requested to publicize the address among its membership and request them to hit the blog regularly to have the updates.

 II) All the units who have not sent their levy and subscription to the central unit may immediately do so and in any case it may be remitted by 15/12/2011.

 III) it was also decided to engage the services/consultancy , on voluntary basis , from a legal expert in the matters pertaining to NBOA. Sri AKS Chauhan, Treasurer was requested to do the needful on this aspect at the earliest.

 The meeting ended with a vote of Thanks proposed by the Vice President.

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(Dr D.S.Chauhan)

General Secretary

Place: Bhopal

Date: 28/11/2011