Monday, February 28, 2011

DO YOU KNOW about your Foremem.

Do you Know that 35 years back, there is a post called Foreman(T&NT) in our Ordnance factories. He used to be the Head of Section and taking the responsibility for his section employees and also for production and productivity of the section. Under him the Asst.Foreman, CM I & II and Supervisor 'A' & 'B" used to work. The Asso Works Managers are used to draw the basic of AF's and work under the guidance of this Foreman. No Foreman works under another Foreman. This Foreman is fully accountable for his sections production schedules and the concerned GM's used to respect and give regards for his status. At that time there are only few Officers posts exists,i.e AWM,WM, Dy.Manager, Manager and GM.
Now ths situation is changed. Are you people are happy for this situation, where there is no Work Culture and ethics and morals.
Think and advise.

Monday, February 21, 2011

PAY STRUCTURES AT ORDNANCE FACTORIES

Total Industrial Employees at Ordnance Factories.(41) Nearly 72,000.
Grades , Pay scale and Grade Pay.
1. Semi Skilled/Un Skilled. Rs.5200-20,200. Rs. 1800
2. Skilled -do- Rs.1900
3. HS II -do- Rs.2400
4. HS I/MC -do- Rs.2800
5. MACP Rs.9300-34800 Rs.4200
Techinical Supervisory Staff nearly 8,500.
1.Chargeman Rs.9300-34800. Rs.4200.
Group "B" Gazetted Officers. nearly 8500.
1.JWM Rs.9300-34800 Rs.4600.
Group "A" Gazetted Officers nearly 1500.
1. Asst.Works Manager Rs.15600-39100 Rs.5400
2. Works Manager -do- Rs.6600
3.DGM/Jt.Director -do- Rs.7600
4. Jt.GM/Director Rs.37400-67000 Rs.8700
5. Addl.GM/DDG -do- Rs.10,000
6.Sr.GM/Sr.DDG Rs.69000-80000 Rs.12,000
7. AddlDGOF/Member Rs.75000-80000 Fixed
8. DGOF/Chairman Rs.80,000 Fixed
There are nearly 4500 NIE's in the Clerical and non-technical staff.
Note:-1. No scientific ratio of industrial employees,technical supervisory cadre, and Group 'B' and 'A' Gazetted Officers.2.AWM cadre gets time scale promotion and other are not.3. CM suppose to control/guide the, IE Cadre of MACP , who draws the, same pay and grade pay. 4.Officers are having 8 promotional chances, Industrial employees are having 5 promotional chances and the Production line Supervisory is having one post i.e, CM. 6. This one CM is responsible for controlling /guiding the industrial employees and answerable to his 9 superior officers ,for any production lapses.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Measures to ImproveOrdnance Factories.

The Ordnance factories has played a creditable role in the supply of Arms,Ammunitions, Combat Vehicles and Clothinbg to the Indian Armed forces ,Navy,Air force and Para Military Forces, after Independence. Of late due to certain developments taken place, the Organisation has received set backs and lost the lustre. This has naturally lowered the morale of one and all connected with the Organisation. Now it is time to take strong measures to put the Organisation back on the track and put an end to the squabbles and make it an capable of providing latest requirements of the Armed Forces. It should be capable of reducing our dependency on imports and should be the first choice of the customers.
The following are some of the measures suggested to achieve the above role.
1. At present the IOFS is one of the last choice of the aspirants of Civil Service Examination and Engineering Services Examinations. The Government may appoint a high power committee with experts from IIM,ASCI to suggest measures for making the service result oriented aand attractive. The committee should elicit the feed back by various means like personal contact, interaction at various levels, and comparison with similar services and industries. The IOFS rules should be modified to allow highly qualified and experienced Officers enter at JAG,SAG,HAG grades on similar lines like DRDO and DGQA.
2.The Focus and prime consideration is to be the Soldier and his confort,satisfaction while using the products like arms ,ammunition and combat vehicles like tanks etc., If defects intimated then throughly investigated and remedial actions to be taken. If any persons responsible for these defects to be punished.
3.In the interest of the production , the first level of supervisory staff to be strengthened by providing suitable number of grades, to supervise and motivae the industrial employees,in the interest of production and productivity.
4.A plethora committe have been formed by OFB to define the functions,responsibility and accountability of Officers and Supervisory staff. These may be updated and orders to be issued for them to become operational with immediate effect.
5.Direct Recruitment in suitable grades of workmen,staff and officers for R&D and complicated maintainance jobs to be resorted to.
6.Material Management procedures to be revised to ensure that required material to be positioned very well in time. The GM,Addl.DGOF and DGOF should be made responsible for any lapses.
7.An energetic setup of marketing and PRO to be at OFB and units consisting of professionals recruited by open advertisement.
8. The Quality Control and Accounts Chiefs to be under the contgrol of DGOF.
9.Set up an empowered committee set up at OFB to deal with grievances and service matters.
Well Wishers are requested to send their views/suggestions to Sri.M.S.HARI, e-mail ID harimsv2009@yahoo.in for publication pleae.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Merger of Group 'B' Posts at OFB

It is unfortunate to note that the Ordnance factory Board overlooked their own decision and ordered the merger of AF(T), F(NT) and SH (Gr.B(NG) with JWM (Gr.G) posts. By this OFB reduced the factory production level supervisor staff to one post i.e, Chargeman. Now this single Chargeman has to report to JWM and AWM,WM,DGM, Jt.GM,AGM and finally to GM of the Factory. He will be made responsible for production and productivity and the other higher officers will excape from the poor/low production, in the factories, since they are not having any accountability. It is unfortunate to note that MOD failed to do their duty of proper Cadre Review at Ordnance Factories. It is understood that th present strength of IE's at OFB nearly 70,000 and the supervisory CM's nearly 8000, the JWMs are nerly 7000 and the group A officers are nearly 1600 or more. Further it is understood that MOD treating these ordnance factories at par with DGQA like service organisations while fixing the cadres strength and grades, ignoring that Ordnance Factories are comes under the category of Industry and not a service orgnistion.