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SNEA(I)/CHQ/DIR(HR)/2012-14/21 Dated 21st October,
2013.
To
Director (HR),
BSNL Corporate Office,
New Delhi.
Sub:-
Implementation of first Time Bound promotion uniformly after 4 years for all
the Executives, instead of 4 to 6 years, to end discrimination of JTO/JAOs of recruitment
of 1993/94/95/96/97/98/99 with respect to later recruitments:-
Sir,
The Time Bound Promotion
policy was implemented in BSNL w.e.f. 01.10.2000 vide order dated 18.01.2007. As per the TBP
policy, the first time bound promotion will be due on completion of 4 years of
service from 01.10.2000 subject to the condition that Executives basic pay in
the current IDA scale has crossed/touched the minimum of the next
higher pay scale for which his upgradation is considered (relevant portion of
the TBP order dated 18.01.2007, para 3.1 is attached). This condition of
4 years was incorporated in the Time Bound Promotion policy inorder to address
the issue of past service weightage in DoT prior to 01.10.2000, otherwise
Executives of many recruitment years would get bunched together and their first
Time Bound Promotion would be due after 6 years only. As a result, those
reaching minimum of upgradation scale in 4 years got their first Time Bound
Promotion on 1.10.2004 whereas others got it depending upon when they reached
minimum of upgradation scale, however, not later than 1.10.2006. Actual demand of the Associations was however
that first Time Bound Promotion should be uniformly given after 4 years to all
the Executives, regardless of whether one reaches minimum of upgradation scale
or not.
After implementation of 2nd PRC
report w.e.f 01.01.2007, a very serious anomaly has arisen because of this
condition. After 01.01.2007, executives got their first time bound
promotion after four years whereas JTOs recruited in DOT in
1993/94/95/96/9798/99 and eligible for service weightage got their first time
bound promotion after six years. This discrepancy arose because before revision
of pay scales, first Time Bound Promotion to JTOs of 93/94/95/96/97/98/99 was
given from E1A to E2A scale in 2008 after completion of 6 years. However, after
revision of the pay scale in 2007, all the Executives started getting their
first Time Bound Promotion immediately after 4 years or as on 01.01.2007 since Time Bound Promotion is now being given
from E1A to E2 scale (provisional), instead of from E1A (E1+5 Increment,
provisional) to E2A. This was
precisely the demand raided by this Association i.e first time bound promotion for all the Executives after 4 years of
service at the time of finalization of EPP.
This
has resulted in a serious anomalous situation wherein executives who were
eligible for their first upgradation prior to 01.01.2007 got it after 6 years
whereas those who became eligible for first Time Bound Promotion after 1.1.1007
are getting it after 4 years. In other words, the JTOs of 1993/94/95/96/97/98/99
recruitment years got their first Time Bound Promotion on 01.10.2006, after 6
years of service since 01.10.2000 whereas the JTO/JAOs recruited after 1999 are
getting their first Time Bound Promotion immediately after 04 years of service
on 01.01.2007 itself. Thus in effect JTO/JAOs of 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
1997, 1998 and 1999 recruitment years having put in 3 to 4 years of service in
DoT prior to 01.10.2000 virtually got their first Time Bound Promotion after 9
to 10 years of service.
This issue can be addressed conclusively
only by extending the first time bound promotion uniformly for all the
executives after 4 years of service w.e.f 01.10.2000 without any condition of
crossing/touching the minimum of the next higher pay scale for which his
upgradation is considered. Your kind personal intervention is solicited to
address this issue by suitably amending the Time Bound Promotion policy provisions
to end discrimination among the Executives.
With regards,
(K. Sebastin)
Copy
to:
1.
Sri
K C G K Pillai, DIR(Fin), BSNL Board for information and n/a please
2.
Sri
S. S. Aggarwal, GM(Pers), BSNLCO for information and n/a please.
3.
Sri.
R K Goyal, GM(Estt), BSNLCO for information and n/a please
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