Cadre restructuring of Store Keeping Staff in Ordnance Factories Organisation

A proposal on Cadre restructuring of Store Keeping Staff in Ordnance Factories Organisation has been forwarded to Ministry of Defence to obtain its approval to remove the acute stagnation in Store keeping cadre

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
ORDNANCE FACTORY BOARD
10-A, SHAHEED KHUDIRAM BOSE ROAD
KOLKATA – 700001

Sub: Cadre restructuring of Store Keeping Staff in Ordnance Factories Organisation.

After the implementation of the VIth CPC by the Govt. of India, there is a growing demand from staff side to review the Cadre of Store Keeping Staff in the Ordnance Factories Organisation.

2. Accordingly the issue has been examined with the following terms of reference.
I) To examine the stagnation profile of existing Supervisor(Stores) and Store Keepers.
ii) To examine any other issues related to the career progression brought out by the Indian Ordnance Factories Non-Technical Supervisory Staff Association.
iii) To suggest a viable cadre structure proposed in the Non-Tech. (Stores) discipline for the Supervisors (Stores) and Store Keeper.
3. Consequent upon the implementation of the 6th CPC the cadre structure of Store Keeping Staff in the OF. Organisation is as follows :-

Name of the post Pay Band
&
Grade Pay
Sanction
Strength
Residency period post 6th cpc
Store Keeper PB-I
G.P. Rs. 1900/-
1076 Nil being a DR Post
Supervisor (Stores) PB-i
G.P. Rs. 2400/-
827 8 Years.
Chargeman (Stores) PB-2
G.P. Rs. 4200/-
725 10 Years.
JWM(Stores) PB-2
G.P. Rs. 4600/-
317 5 Years.

4. There is acute stagnation in the Store Keeping cadre. For promotion from Storekeeper to Chargeman (Stores) the residency period required is 18 years. About 394 employees are stagnating far from date of holding Store Keeper post. Relatively, stagnation amongst
Supv(NT/S) is much more as compared to stagnation amongst Store Keepers. In Store Keeper post 9 years is 69 and for Supv. the said no. is 165. One of the main reasons for stagnation is redii&on in the sanction stren h of Chargeman (S) due to abolition of

5. Also, the Cadre review of stores stream has not been undertaken for a long time. There is considerable stagnation at the level of Supv.(NT/S) as stated earlier. For Supv.(NT/S) with a strength of 827 posts there are about 363 promotional posts of CIM(S), which is another main reason for acute stagnation.

6. After implementation of the recommendation of the 5th CPC different intergrade ratios were prescribed for Technical and Non-Technical Supervisory Staff in the Ordnance Factories Organsiation vide M of D letter No.44(1)/200211111D(Fy-ll) dt. 01.10.2002 (copy enclosed). For Non-Technical Supervisory Staff the ratio for JWM & CJM works out 30:70, where as for Technical Supervisory Staff i.e. JWM(T) and C/M(T) the ratio is 40:60, which also puts non-technical staff in a disadvantageous position as far as career prospects are concerned.

7. Considering all the above facts; the revised stature is proposed to be as follows.

Post Proposed Strength Proposed Ratio
JWM(Stores) 417 14
Chargeman(Stores) 894 30
Supervisor(Stores) 834 28
Store Keeper 834 28

8. The financial implications of the cadre restructuring is as follows.

Grade PB & G.R in
Rs.
Midpoint
of the PB
Plus G.R
in Rs.
Present
Sanction
Strength
Proposed
Sanction
Strength
No. of posts
proposed to
be created or
surrendered
Financial implications per month
Store Keeper PB-I,
5,200-20,200 G.P. 1900/-
14600 1076 834 (-)242 (-)242×14600 =(-)3533200
Supervisor(S) PB-I,
5200-20,200 G.P. 2400/-
15100 827 834 (+)7 (+)7×15100 =(+) 105700
Chargeman (S) PB-2,
9,300-34,800 G.P. 4200/-
26250 725 894 (+)169 (+)169×26250 =(+)4436250
JWM(S) PB-2,
9,300-34,800 G.P. 4600/-
26650 317 417 (+)100 (+)100×26650 =(+)2665000
Total :- 2945 2979 (+)34 (+)3673750

The financial implication per annum works out to Rs. 3673750×12=Rs.44085000/-. For matching saving, it is proposed to surrender 254 posts of Labourer in the pay band-i, Rs. 5,200- 20,200/- and G.P. Rs. 1800/-, (financial implication per annum for 254 posts of Labourer = 14500x254x12 = Rs. 44196000). This will result in savings of Rs. 111000/- per annum.
9. Ministry of Defence is requested to kindly approve the above proposal for cadre restructuring of Store Keeping Staff

source: INDWF

 

 

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