Harassment of Officer/s at Pune RO by District Administration - Election duty

ALL INDIA NABARD OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION

MUMBAI

02 March 2014

The Chairman
NABARD

Head Office                           
Mumbai

Respected Sir ,

Continued Harassment of Officer/s at Pune RO by District Administration-Election Duty

Please refer to our letter dated 26/09/2014 on the captioned subject requesting your good offices to intervene favourably in the matter of harassment being meted out to officers of Maharshtra RO, Pune by the district/state administration.

We are pained to note that inspite of the fact that more than 5 months have elapsed the officers concerned are still running from pillar to post to get the Case/FIR closed. The matter of fact remains that as per CEC, GoI, notification itself officers/employees of Financial Institution, that includes NABARD, are exempted from being drawn up for election duties as a matter of routine.  CEC, GoI guidelines also make it very clear that officers/employees who are aged and suffering from severe health related problems are to be exempted from election duties.  In the instant case NABARD, Pune has communicated to the  Election Officer (who has requisitioned the services of three officers by NAME- Mr R L Sahane, AGM,  Ashish Mokashi, Mgr and N V Nimje, AM.) that keeping in view the office exigencies and non availability of officer (as Mr Nimje has gone abroad) and the high age profile and health related aspects ( Mr Sahane being aged 60 years and due for retirement in November 2014) it is not possible for NABARD to depute them.  Subsequently, on insistence from EO, NABARD did depute Mr Mokashi and Mr Pathak in lieu of Mr Sahane, still the EO, in a brazen display of high handedness has not allowed the two officers to take up the election duty and instead, reportedly lodged an FIR under malice against the officers (MR Sahane, Mr Mokashi and Mr Nimje) and kept the two officers under illegal confinement at the Police Station (even the copy of the FIR was not provided to officers or to NABARD). The officers are continued to be hounded by the district authorities and are made to feel like as if they have committed some heinous crime. The matter has also been reported in the local media and the image of NABARD has been painted in a bad taste. What is more painful and deplorable is that Pune RO remains a passive spectator to all this and the officers are left to fend for themselves.  Needless to say that officers at Pune in specific and all over the country in general are highly aggrieved by this incident.

We, therefore, request your intervention at the highest levels to ward off such personal attacks on the institution as also on NABARD officers and also solicit all legitimate assistance i.e. services of a lawyer and other legal remedies to our officers at Pune.

Yours Sincerely ,
       Sd/-
(Dr D S Chauhan)
General Secretary