GENERAL SECRETARY DRAFT REPORT

THIS IS A PRIVILEGE TO ME TO PRESENT THE GENERAL SECRETARY S

AGM- REPORT TO
ALL INDIA NAVAL TECHNICAL SUPERVISORY STAFF
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS .
LAST AGM WITH ELECTION CONDUCTED ON 09TH JANUARY 2013,
AS PER OUR ASSOCIATION BYE-LAW CLAUSE-15(a) TO CONDUCT AGM
EVERY YEAR , TODAYS AGM SUPPOSE TO BE HELD END OF DECEMBER
2013 OR FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY 2014, UNFORTUNATELY AGM IS
DELAYED BECAUSE OF MANY MANY UNAVOIDABLE CIRCUMSTANCES,
THAT IS MAINLY NON AVAILABILITY OF CANTEEN PREMISES, COURT CASES
AND OFFICE
BEARERS VICTIMISATION ETC, ANY HOW I HUMBLY
APOLOGISED FOR THIS AGM DELAY ,
AND WE STRONGLY BELIEVE AGM IS THE BEST COMMUNICATION WITH OUR
MEMBERS.
FROM 09TH JANUARY TO 31ST DECEMBER 2013
DREAMS OF OUR ASSOCIATION, BECAUSE
DEDICATION AND TRUST OF OUR MEMBERS.

WE ACHIEVED SO MANY
OF OUR COMMITMENT ,

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS.
1-

OTA AT PAR WITH INDUSTRIAL WORKERS UNDER SECTION 59 OF

FACTORIES ACT 1948,

AT THE TIME OF AGM THERE WAS A DEMAND FOR DEBATE IF WE ARE

ELIGIBLE OR NOT TO GET UNDER SECTION- 59, BECAUSE SOME OF
OUR MEMBERS ARE STRONGLY OBJECTED THAT WE WILL NOT GET O.T
UNDER THIS SECTION , SO WE EXPLAINED TO THEM UNDER THE
EXISTING FACTORIES ACT,AND THEY ALL ARE CONVINCED . SPECIALLY
OUR EX-SECRETARY
MR.SRIBHAGVAN SINGH THOMAR. THAT
DEBATE
WAS ON 15TH JAN 2013 ,
THIS IS OUR LONG PENDING DREAM WHICH W E ACHIEVED AND ALSO
FOR THE COMING GENERATIONS.
2.

PROMOTIONS ON 2TIER-

SOME OF OF OUR MEMBERS HAVE DOUBT ABOUT 2TIER PROMOTIONS

WITHOUT RECRUITMENT RULES.

AFTER SO MANY ARGUMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE DOPT ACCEPTED

OUR DEMAND AND ISSUED NOTICE FOR FUTURE DPC MUST CONDUCT
ONLY ON 2TIER ,
AND WE ACHIEVED THIS AND ALL DPCS AFTER 2012 CONDUCTED ONLY
ON 2TIER.
3.SPECIAL DQEAFTER THE DOPT ORDER WE CONVINCED THE CONCERNED AUTHORITY
TO CONDUCT SPECIAL DQE(.for one time benefit) THIS TIME ALSO SOME OF
OUR MEMBERS OBJECTED , BUT WE ARE HAPPY TO DECLARE THAT 415
MEMBERS ARE FILLED THE SPECIAL DQE FORM AND 397 MEMBERS
APPEARED THE SPECIAL DQE AND 365 MEMBERS ARE QUALIFIED FOR
THE PROMOTION.
THIS IS ALSO OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT,
4-DPC 2013 -2014
WAS CONDUCTED AND DECLARED ON 31ST OCT WITH EFFECT FROM
30TH SEPTEMBER , 198 CHARGEMAN WERE PROMOTED TO FOREMAN AND
MAJORITY OF THEM ARE DETAINED IN THEIR EXISTING DEPARTMENT, THIS
IS ALSO OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME SO
MANY MEMBERS OF OUR ASSOCIATION BECAME FOREMAN.
DPC 2013 -14 ALSO PROMOTED 192 HSK ( INDUSTRIAL) TO CHARGEMAN
.THEY
ALSO
RETAINED
IN THEIR
EXISTING
DEPARTMENT.SO
APPROXIMATELY 400 SUPERVISORS GOT 2TIER BENEFIT.
THIS IS ALSO OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT.
5. JCM-3
OUR ASSOCIATION ACHIEVED THIS AFTER A VERY LONG BATTLE AND OUR
HONURABLE PRESIDENT SHRI. B.B.MOHANTY IS REPRESENTING JCM-3 FOR
AINTSSA .
6.C.E.C (central executive meeting )
THIS TIME C.E.C CONDUCTED AT MUMBAI AND OUR REGIONAL OFFICE
BEARERS
( ie, VISHAKAPATANAM AND KOCHI ) ATTENDED
THE MEETING AND IT WAS A VERY WARM AND CORDIAL MEETING . FOR
THE FIRST TIME ALL OUR AINTSSA OFFICE BEARERS-(HEAD QUARTER)
ATTENDED THE SAME.

7. MACP
TOTAL - -( 3 LIST PUBLISHED) ARE ELIGIBLE FOR MACP . MOST OF THE
CASES ARE SETTLED WITH NEW GRADE PAY AND AREARS,
8.DDMA & DTM

9. F/MANS DIRECT RECRUITMENT

WE STRONGLY
OBJECTED
THIS
MOVE - .AFTER SO
MANY
CORRESPONDENCE AND ARGUMENTS WITH THE CONCERNED AUTHORITY,
WE APPROACHED TO THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL.
HONURABLE COURT VERDICT WAS IN FAVOUR OF US AND MANGEMENT
ACCEPTED,.SO THIS ALSO OUR ACHIEVEMENT.

9.RETIREMENT
DURING THIS PERIOD ( JANUARY 2013 TO DEEMBER 2013)-------- OF OUR
MEMBERS RETIRED AND WE CONDUCTED RETIREMENT PARTY, AND GIVEN
THEM GIFT (AINTSSA-MOMENTO) AND BOUQUEY .

10.THANKS
TO ALL OUR AINTSSA MEMBERS FOR GIVEN US A CLEAR MANDATE
AND A HUGE MAJORITY TO SERVE ONE MORE TIME ,
ONCE AGAIN I
SHRI AVINASH LAXMAN MAHTRE , PROMISED WHATEVER
WE PRESENTED IN FRONT OF YOU AT THE TIME OF ELECTION ,
DEFENITELY WE WILL CONCENTRATE AND FULFIL. ( .most of them already
fulfilled) AND WE ALL ARE THANKFUL TO OUR MEMBERS FOR THEIR
VALUABLE HELP AND CO-OPERATION ,
CONCLUSION-

IN THE COMING YEARS THIS ASSOCIATION WILL GO IN AN EVEN HIGHER

GEAR WITH ENTHUSIASM FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL OUR MEMBERS
WITHOUT ANY FAVOURTISM, CORRUPTION, CAST, CREED AND RELEGION.

ONCE AGAIN THANKS AND SALUTE TO AINTSSA

( A.L.MAHTRE)
General Secretary

ALL INDAI NAVAL TECHNICAL SUPERVISORY STAFF ASSOCIATION

Estb- 1949
HEAD OFFICE: NAVAL DOCKYARD MUMBAI
GENERAL SECRETARY REPORT
It was, of course, genuinely a great privilege for me to become our Associations
General Secretary. I was very conscious of the responsibilities attached to this office
and also very excited at the opportunity being afforded to me and our team to lead this
august body. In many ways it was a steep learning curve for me and our team, but I was
also clear that my past Trade Union experience was a great strength in this new
responsibility.
It gives me great pleasure to present this report of our Association activities
throughout our tenure. Our work continued on many fronts, and I shall highlight
hereunder some of our major work/achievements.
Our Association won the post of Vice President in CDRA
In the election, during the last AGM of our Confederation, Shri AS Raza, Secretary of
our Association was a candidate for the post of Vice-President in CDRA and won it.
Office for Association
The Association has modernized its office with necessary furniture, internet PC,
Cupboards, telephone connection and other assets. Most of the office bearers make
themselves available at the Association office to attend the members all the time and all
the official correspondences from various offices including MoD are received in time by
the office.
Oficial Website for AINTSSA
The present committee has introduced its official website [www.aintssa.com] which is a
hit in the cyber world. The website was launched by non other than the Hon. Raksha
Mantri Shri AK Anthonyji and was inaugurated by the Admiral Superintendent, ND[MB].
Three CECs
The Association has conducted three CECs in its tenure at Karwar, Visakhapatnam and
Kochi to resolve various issues pertaining to Technical Supervisors of Navy.
Better quality of food in Supervisors canteen at par with industrial canteen rates.
Our present committee terminated the contract of the previous contractor and
introduced a new contractor for better food in respect of quality and quantity in the price
as low as Rs.10/- to our members, which costs Rs. 25/- to the non-members.
Presentation of mementos to the retiring supervisors.
We made memento of our Association and started presenting it to the retiring
supervisors on their farewell functions arranged by Association.
Pay fixation under FR-22 to the directly recruited supervisors.

A large number of cases, in which pay fixation under FR-22 was denied to the
departmental candidates, were solved by our team of office bearers.
Overtime without supervisors
In many production departments workers were directly deputed to work without deputing
a supervisor which was viewed seriously by the Association and finally a written
directive was issued to stop the practice.
Unsolved ACP cases
11 long pending 2nd ACP cases which were misunderstood and treated as promotion
during their up gradation by Expert Classification Committees implementation in the
year 1981 were resolved by this present committee.
Holding of AGM
In accordance with the clause 15(a), Bye laws of our Association, the General Body
Meeting should be held once at least in every year. The GBM was being conducted
biennially, on the date of the election and elected committee was never answerable to
the members during its tenure. The present committee having understood the legality
and seriousness started formal GBMs like the one being held on 25th Jan 2012 not
only to adhere with the laws but also to make it as a good opportunity to communicate
with members.
Outsourcing of technical Supervisors
As it is known to all members that Naval Dockyard (Mumbai) administration was
appointing some private people on contract basis to meet the deficiency of technical
supervisors in QC Dept. on trial basis and on its success had a plan to implement it in
other production departments, the present committee of AINTSSA severely oppose it by
framing a Joint Action Committee with all other service Associations and trade unions.
The Joint Action Committee wholeheartedly fought the outsourcing of supervisors case
and introduction of RFiD system in Naval Dockyard, Mumbai. Subsequently the
administration had to cancel the outsourcing of supervisors and deferred the
introduction of RFiD system.
Two DPCs in a single calendar year
There was no DPC held during the year 2010 and during Jan 2011, the DPC 2010-11
was published. The administration was in a negative view to constitute the DPC 2011-12
during 2011stating no vacancy is available but the present executive committee forced
the management to conduct DPC 2011-12 during the year 2011 with promoting 107
Nos. CM II, 86 nos. CM I, 70 nos. AFM and 30 nos. FM.
Retention of all the CM I & FM (G) during DPC 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13
During the DPC 2010-11 which was published in Jan 2011, the junior promotes in CM-I
and FM (G) were to be transferred to the outstations since CM II and CM I & AFM and
FM (G) were merged and read designated to Chargeman and Foreman w.e.f. 01st Jan
2006 and there was no financial benefit, the Association took the issue seriously and

succeeded in retaining all the supervisors in their present stations. The same was
followed during DPC 2011-12.
Retention of almost all the supervisors in the same station during DPC 2012-13
The Association did not allow the transfer of even a single supervisor to the out station
during DPC 2012-13 if the vacancy was available in the same station.
Saved the seniority of all CM I , who had refused for promotion to AFM at
outstation and promoted them in the DPC2011-12 at Mumbai
Despite ample of vacancies available at Mumbai some AFM and CM II were transferred
to outstations. The Association argued the issue competently and could manage to post
them at there present station without loosing their seniority.
Effected all pending transfer applications from outstation
There were a lot of transfer applications from all the outlying depots pending without
action since years. The Association effected all the pending transfers during DPC 201112.
New transfer policy
The present committee introduced a new transfer policy, in which transfers from the
outstations to Mumbai will be considered after 02 years in personal grounds and after
six months on extreme compassionate grounds.
OTA at par with industrial workers (under section 59 of Factories Act 1948)
The present committee was very much determined that the supervisors were to be paid
OTA at par with industrial workers and therefore a case to pay the OTA to technical
supervisors at par with industrial workers had been taken up by the present committee
with Ministry of Defence. which is under consideration.
Cancelled the direct recruitment of AFM in Naval Armament Depots
An advertisement was published in the employment news dated 02-08 April 2011 for
recruitment of 10 posts of AFM (AWS) and AFM (Factory) by Staff Selection commission
in Naval Armament Depot.
The Association objected it strongly and wrote to Director General Naval Armaments
and subsequently the recruitment process was cancelled.
Court Cases
Re-employment of armed force personnel as CM-I & AFM
The present committee has challenged the advertisement published in the employment
news dated 23-29 Oct 2010 to reemploy 67 nos. of AFMs and 34 nos of C/M-I. The
Association challenged the advertisement in CAT (MB) and the process is stayed.
Pay fixation benefit under FR 22 (1)a (i) for the promotion in the merged grades after
01.01.2006 The OA is being heard in CAT (MB).

Court case for upgradation of pay scales

The present committee had taken up this issue with the Central Executive Committee
and authorized the Divisional Office, Kochi to file a case to upgrade the grade pay of
CM to Rs. 4800/- and of FM to Rs. 5400/-. The OA is being heard at CAT (Ernakulum).
MACP cases
The present committee was shocked to notice that no action was initiated by the
Dockyard administration to upgrade the supervisors pay under MACP scheme till Feb
2011. The present committee started form zero on MACP and expedited the
proceedings locally as well as in IHQ (Navy).
Status: 540 No of cases in two separate batches cleared with DCE list published and
maximum fixations are over. Very few left out cases are being sent to IHQ (Navy) for
approval and a departmental screening committee has been set up to approve the
outstanding & fresh cases.
.
Payment of Revised DA Arrears on OTA
The administration had arbitrarily stopped the revised DA rates on OTA since July 2008;
the Association had approached various concerned forums and regularized the revised
DA rates on OTA with the payment of arrears.
Allotment of JCM to our Association
The present committee had put up the case strongly with CDRA and has been allotted
with one JCM-II & one JCM III member. The present committee has decided to retain
the JCM III with the Head office and nominate one office bearer from divisional office
Visakhapattanam for JCM II.
Membership increased from 758 to 1060
You will appreciate that our membership has been increased from 758 to 1060 in our
tenure and the measure factors in this are the present transfer policy and retention of
AFMs FMs in the Association.
During the tenure of our present committee, we have met the dignitaries like Hon.
Raksha Mantri, Defence Secretary, COP, C-in-C (WNC), DGONA, CGDA, PCDA, ASD
ND (MB), ASD ND (Vizag) FO (K) etc. to resolve different welfare, administrative and
organizational issues.
Our vision for future
Pay parity
Defence personnel were pressing their demands including grant of non functional up
gradation, with a fierce tenacity. They were determined to make the authorities pay
heed. According to them, they had been dealt with unfairly ever since independence
and that is because their salaries have not been at par with civilian class A officers,
including Para Military Forces, like BSF and CRPF. That being the case, civilian officers
get the pay of a joint secretary by the time they complete 16 to 19 years of service while
defence officers attain that level of pay only after 30 years.

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court directed the Centre to re-fix the pay of
defence personnel retrospectively from January 1, 1986 including the component of
rank pay that was wrongly denied to them since the Fourth Pay Commission.
In the same line AINTSSA has planned to approach the court of laws if the demand for
pay parity with the service officers [Lieutenants in Navy], whose basic pay [2200] was
less than a Senior Foremans basic pay [2375] during the Fourth Pay Commission.
One Rank-One Pension
The gap between past pensioners and their younger equivalents does not necessarily
keep widening with every successive pay commission. Over the years several
improvements have been made in pension of past pensioners. The pension of past
pensioners has revised in accordance with the recommendations of each successive
Pay Commission, as accepted by the Government. The Sixth Pay Commission had
recommended fitment formula and modified parity for past pensioners, in order to
reduce the gaps, which were accepted by the Government. As per the central Govt.,
pension Improvement is an ongoing process and considerable improvements have
been made in the pensions of armed forces personnel. The Group of Ministers (GoM)
had in 2005 improved the pensionary benefits of PBORs. On the recommendations of
PMO, a Committee was set up under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary in June,
2009 to look into the issue of `One Rank One Pension and other related matters. After
considering all aspects of the matter, the Committee keeping in mind the spirit of the
demand, suggested several measures to substantially improve pensionary benefits of
Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) and Commissioned Officers, which have been
accepted by the Government and orders for implementation of all the recommendations
have been issued. Similar recommendations with appropriate justifications for other
employees in the same Ministry [MOD] will be demanded by AINTSSA.
7TH Central Pay Commission
Emphasizing on the idea of living wages to the employees, the First Pay Commission
was constituted in May, 1946 under the chairmanship of Srinivasa Varadachariar. The
commission basically recommended that the lowest rung employee should at least get
minimum wages. The Second Pay Commission set up in August ,1957 under the
chairmanship of Shri Jagannath Das recommended that the pay structure and the
working conditions of the government employee should be crafted in a way so as to
ensure efficient functioning of the system by recruiting persons with a minimum
qualification. Under the chairmanship of Raghubir Dayal, the Third Pay Commission set
up in April 1970 gave its report in March 1973 adding three very important concepts of
inclusiveness, comprehensibility and adequacy for pay structure and going beyond the
idea of minimum subsistence. Constituted in June 1983, the Fourth Pay Commission
submitted its report in three phases within four years under the chairmanship of P N
Singhal. The Fifth Pay Commission was set up in 1994 under the chairmanship of
Justice S. Ratnavel Pandian recommended to slash government work force by about
30% and not to fill about 3,50,000 vacant position in the government departments which
could not be implemented due to serious protest by different Confederations and
Federations.

In July 2006, the Cabinet approved setting up of the Sixth Pay Commission which was
set up under the chairmanship of Justice B N Srikrishna which submitted its
recommendations to the Govt. on March 23, 2008. The existing wage structure revised
by 6th CPC and implemented from January 1, 2006 is not only anomalous but also
totally irrational and inadequate. It is anomalous because by giving a system of Pay
Band and Grade Pay, it restricted the pay scales to 20 under four Pay Bands ( PB-1,
PB-2, PB-3 & PB-4). There is no scientific determination of fitment benefit. For one, who
is at the minimum or lower stage will get a higher benefit and one who is at the higher
stage in the pre-revised pay scale will get lesser benefit. The existing wage structure is
also irrational because it is not based upon any principle of wage determination like
need based minimum norms or fair comparison with outside rates which is universally
applicable in all the other countries of the world. The wage structure given by 6th CPC
has totally smashed the existing relativities. The lowest minimum wage has not been
fixed for unskilled worker. It has been fixed at the level of skilled worker, who is a
matriculate. Such a wage structure is not acceptable to the people of India because a
large number of rural youth who do not acquire the matriculation are languishing in the
employment market. The existing relativity between unskilled and skilled worker was
50%. But the recommendations of 6th CPC reduced it to 20%. General
recommendation regarding Pay Band is that it should be 1.86 multiple of the existing
pre-revised minimum so that it represents the existing Pay and Allowances as
admissible on January 1, 2006. The Central Government however, has given higher
multiple of three times of pre-revised minimum in PB 4 without offering any explanation
for this unrelated increase. The demand of the employees that at least 2.625 times of
the existing wages may be uniformly provided, if not three times, which has not been
accepted by the Government. The 5th CPC has revised the entire wage structure by
applying a common multiple of 3.25. Such a common multiplying factor has not been
provided by the 6th CPC. Therefore, it has recommended a wage structure which gives
inflated benefit to Group A Officer and very reduced and inadequate benefit to the rest
of the employees.
Another important aspect of pay revision is the merger of DA as Dearness Pay. Way
back in 1962, when the 2nd CPC had not given any formula for DA and the Government
had imposed a very retrograde DA formula by not providing 100% neutralization, the
Confederation has raised a demand for indexing of the wages annually as is being done
in other countries like Great Britain. The Gadgil Committee appointed by the
Government recommended for the merger of total D A with Pay for the purposes of
pension. The Third CPC then had recommended that as soon as the Cost of living Index
crosses 272 points, the DA then admissible should be merged with pay for the purpose
of pension.
Later on, the employees organizations further negotiated and obtained merger of DA up
to 320 points, not only for the purpose of Pension but also, for the purpose of Pay and
Allowances.
The next merger of DA up to 468 points (148% of D A ) was done by Government before
appointing the 4th CPC. Employees Organizations then demanded that the system of
merger should be regulated and should happen automatically as and when the DA
increased by 50%. The Government then negotiated a settlement by merging 20% DA

and referring the rest of DA merger to the 5th CPC and conceding all other demands.
The 5th CPC merged 98% DA which was then admissible and recommended that as
and when the DA increase of 50% takes place, it should be merged with the Pay. Thus,
the Central Govt. employees achieved a well regulated merger of DA with pay as and
when it is increased by 50%. But, the 6th CPC has undone this achievement. Therefore,
continuation of the system of merger which has been recommended by the 5th CPC
and accepted by the Government should continue.
The most important reason to demand for appointing 7th CPC effective from January 1,
2011 is that while the wage revision in all the Public Sector Undertakings and in other
Sectors usually takes place every 5th year, the same for the Central Govt. employees
has been fixed for 10 years which is unconstitutional. The next revision in the Public
Sector Undertakings is due from January 1, 2012, the last being with effect from
January 1, 2007. Thus, question arises as to why should Central Government
employees have to wait for a longer period of 10 years before the next revision
becomes due? It is on this consideration that the All India Naval Technical Supervisory
staff Association along with its confederation[CDRA] will demand the setting up of 7th
Central Pay Commission immediately to revise the wage structure.
In the coming years the Association will go in an even higher gear with the platform set
by this committee to achieve greater heights.
On all the fronts, the present team of Office bearers has punched above its weight.
Many many thanks to our Young and dynamic President Shri AL Mhatre for leading
from the front, for his unflinching commitment & hard work. I would also like to place on
record my sincere thanks to all the hard works that all the Office bearers of divisional
offices, branch offices, Executive committee members and all the members have put in
since last two years and best wishes to all your families.
(BB Mohanty)
General Secretary