OFB - IR section IOFS officers attitude

It is understood that OFB is refusing the bye laws amendments of AIANGO and NDNGS associations after the merger of AF,SH and FMs with JWMs, stating that Gazetted and non gazetted people can not form a single association. But MOD aand DEOPT says that there is no bar on forming an association includidng the gazetted and non gazetted employees. Further the Gazettee says that CM and JWMs comes under Group 'B' Category. But DIR/IR and DDG/IR having their own thinking about sanctioning the recognition to these associations after amendments of their bye laws after the merger of the Group 'B' Gazetted and non gazetted posts. Insiders says that these officers desires to help the existing gazetted officers association by eliminating these two associations by dividing the supervisory staff between the Chargemen and JWMs to create unrest in the supervisory cadre. GOD only can save this organization from these officers. Others says that this gazetted officers association obtained recognition against the recognition rules with the help of these officers.

RTI INFORMATION OFB

THE POSTS IN THE PAY BAND PB-3 WITH GRADE PAY RS.5400/- AND ABOVE, HAVE BEEN CATEGORISED AS GROUP 'A' AND THE POSTS IN PAY BAND PB-2 WITH GRADE PAY NOT LESS THAN RS.4200/- HAVE BEEN CATOGORISED AS GROUP 'B'. HOWEVER THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE REASONS FOR SUCH DIVISION IS NOT WITH OFB.

BOTH JWM AND AWM ARE GAZETTED POSTS. AS SUCH DISTINCT CATEGORY CLAUSE CCS(RSA) RULES DOES NOT APPLY.

JWM IS THE GROUP 'B' GAZETTED POST AND IS UNDER SUPERVISORY CADRE.

CHARGEMAN SANCTIONED STRENGTH 12,085 EXISTING STRENGTH 8,287
jJWM ; 7,694 ; 6,404
AWM ; 375 ; 322

MINISTRY OF FINANCE DID NOT AGREE TO THE PROPOSAL FOR UP-GRADATION OF THE GRADE PAY IN RESPECT OF JWM POST, THE POST OF JWM AND AF,FN,SH HAVE BEEN MERGED AS PER RECOMMENDATIONS OF 6TH CPC.

Destructive Role of Senior IOFS cadre of OFB

THE EXISTING SERVICE ASSOCIATIONS AMENDED THEIR BYE LAWS AFTER THE MERGER OF AFS,SHS,FMS ( GROUP B NG ) WITH JWMS (GROUP B Gazetted). They want both CMs and JWMs should be in their Associations, since both belong to Group B category,having same BP with different GP.nd JWMs .But OFB refused their request and informed that their request of amending bye laws are not considered vide the Lt.No.14/31/2012A/IR dt.18thJan 2012. That means that CMs and JWMs should not be in one association and should have seperate associations. Here OFB not follows the Rules. The actual Position is : CCS (RSA) Rules 1993 says Association can be formed between distinct category of Govt. servants having common interests.

Largest Association shall have 35% membership and second shall have 15%.

Any amendment in bye laws shall be made with proper approval of Govt.

After publication of Gazettee notification dated 9-4-09 and conseqent upon merger of AF/FM/SH with JWM,Associations amended bye-laws to include JWM as members as after publication of GO where it classified the Govt.employees as Group A,B,C & D depending upon their pay and paybands, Both CM and JWM are in Group B only. MOD vide their letter dated 28th March 2011 stated that there is no bar on Non-Gazetted Officers and the Gazetted officers forming one association, but there can not be more than two associations in one organisation representing the same distinct categories. ( as per CCS(RSA) rules there is no more than two is not spelled). OFB has never defined any functional duties of any cadre and followed as on date. As far as decipline is concerned the CCS(Conduct) rules covers to all employees.

MOD directed OFB to take into confidence all the concerned associations and exam the issue but OFB taken decisions of its own with malafide intentions. OFB informed in their letter dated 31-5-2011 that CM works under JWM so administrative and functional problems may occur. Here OFB forgotten that JWM works under one HOS JWM. OFB accorded Recognition to IOFGOAssociation,where JWM and Promoted AWM are members (JWM is a Gr.B and AWM is a Gr.A). Here JWM has to work under AWM. There is one more association IOFS exists where AWM to DGOF/Chairman are members ,where all the AWM works under WM, and the WMs work under DGM and DGM works under JT.GMs and so on.

It seems that these IOFS cadre decided to destroy this Otdnance Factories due to their selfish ends. Already Mr.Gupta ex.chairms demoralised the supervisor cadre by merging and the present chairman wants to divide the supervisory cadre. He says that JWM is a Group B gazetted post but comes under Supervisory cadre. It is unfortunate that MOD is also a spectator in this game plan of detroying the OFB to encourage Private Sector.

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One Year Sultans of OFB

It is unfortunate to note that the OFB Chairman's tenure is 12-15 months. Firse 3 months they visit the factories to know the conditions and the last 3 months they visit for farewells. Only 6 months only they try to do their own business,ignoring the productivity. The 6th Pay Commission recommended for reduction of pay scales with grade pays but not the grades. OFB allowed their Group A officers grades and reduced the grades of Supervisory staff merging the CM II with CM I and AF,SH,FM( Group B Non Gazet) with JWM ( Group B Gazet). This merger was opposed by NDNGSA and supported by AIANGO and all Federations. The then Chairman,Sri.Agarwal opposed the merger of Af with JWM, since they are having different functions in production line. This was supported by then Members of OFB. After his one year tenure, Sri.Gupta became Chairman , who supported as a Member and after becoming Chairman supported the merger to please the federations and the AIANGOassociation, ignoring the reasons of opposing the mergers of NDNGSA and announced the Merger acceptance.
After Merger the two Associations are amended their bye laws and submitted for their approval on the basis of MOD letter and GO. The MOD letter says that there is no bar on the associations of G & NG can become members in one association, but the number of associations should be not more than 2. As on date there are 3 recognised associations i.e AIANGO, NDNGSA and IOFGOA. So the last one looses their recognition on the basis of their strength. MOD asked the OFB vide their letter No.14(1)/2009/D(JCM) dated28-3-2011 asking to verify the membership of AIANGO and NNDNGSA on the basis of their membership of CM and JWMs(before merger they are AF,SH,FM) and call a meetring of these 3 associations and explain the position for their future rcognition . Here OFB is not interested to follow their instructions due their own interests.
Now OFB refused to accept their bye laws of these associations and informed MOD vide their letter No.OFB OD No.14/31/2011/A/IR dt.31.5-2011, stating that A larger number of NGOs have become GOs after the said merger and hence both associations have proposed to include those GroupB GOs also in their membership. (It seems that OFB is ignorant/pretending ignorant of the effects of the merger of group B nongazetted people with Group B gazeted people by merging with out giving any promotional financial benefits,( seems foolish)
Further OFB says that if NGO's and GO's represent the same association,administrative and functional problems may occur, since the NGOs(CMs) have to work under the supervisory and functional control of the GOs. Here OFB officials seems that they can fool the MOD by saying this, ignoring the Pay commission observations that CMs to JWMs comes under Supervisory staff only. People knows that these JWMs are re-atogorised ex-Foremans, with out any financial benefits and has to work of the ex-foreman only.(as per the OFB letter only) If the present Chairman seems knows only now, the problem and forgotten the effects before ordering the Merger. When he accepted the merger with knowing the effects on production, then why he raises hue and cry for their joining in one association is not understood and seems foolish. It is a fact that AWMs to Chairman comes one formal service association only.
Now he remembers the CCS(RSA) Rules 1993 Rule 5(c)" membership of the service associions has been restricted to a distinct category of Government services, having interest of all such government servants servants being eligible for membership of the service association". At the time of merger of these two posts with out any financial benefits, seems he lost the memory of the CCS rules and Ordered the Merger.
Now only he raised this issue of recognition of the Associations as per the MOD letter that only 2 associations permitted, since the concerned officials desires to save the IOFGOA, thus raising the issues. There is a practice that the CCS rules can be changed depending upon the changes in the structure of the government servents. As per GO, there are only Group A,B,C,D and not defined who are G and NG. The existing CMs and JWMs are coming under Group B with the basic pay of Rs.9300-34000 with GP of Rs.4200 and Rs.4600. So they can be in one association. All ready the NDNGSA already raised the same problems , if the mergers are accepted. But the present Chairman ignored and carried the Merger and raising the same problems to save IOFGOAssociation.
The NDNGSA suggested the 4 grade structure in the intgerest of the organisation.But MOD and OFB not agreed and now raising the function and production supervisory isues by OFB seems to mis guide MOD for their misdeeds in the past.
Now the retired persons suggest the following for future recruitment and promotions in the interest of the production and productivity at ordnance factories.
CM II Rs.9300-34000 basic with GP 4200 for new recruitees
CM I -do- 4600 for existing ones
FM
No.AF -do- 5400 for promotees
JWM -do- 6600 for existing and promotees.
This is the suggestions can be studied by all associations and federations and implement for better production in future.

Ordnance Factory Board Draws 6,800 crore Upgrade Plan

"The OFB has made a detailed project report about long-to submit to MOD in April for approval for up gradation plan.

Really the defence experts knows about Ordnance Factories?

It is ufortunate to observe that none of the experts talks bout Ord.factories, while discussing the Defence needs. They talk about the role of Defence PSUs and other small scale industries and their requirements and the failures of MOD which is not having any defence procurement policy and no political will etc.,No one talks about the important of Ordnance factories and the need of their improvments. The recognised trade unions and service associaions including the officers never talk about the production and productivity of these 41 factories. The Senior Officers only bother about their promotions and perks. Now a days people talks about R&D failures and the R&D claims their achievements. But OFB failed to project their achievements and their future plans periodically, to the public. The insiders says that there is no accountability, Integrity, and Leadership in the OFB. Still they are not adopted the modern corporate systems and still contimuing the old aged british systems, other than the payments. No R&D thinking, no marketing technologies. Following the MOD instructions and manufacturing the same old items with little modifictions suggested by the DRDO. It seems that they know only to manufacture the same old items with out up dating .
It is also observed that the existing group A Gazetted Officers only supervise the next below Group'B' officers and the industrial employees, with out thinking about, the organisation future and bringing the latest production modern technology.It seems that majority are lagging the quality of either technocrats or administrators. The top brass simply follows the top few federaion leaders instructions/advises to run the factorie, with out following any policies or principles.They want only industrial peace and not the production. The present Ordnance factories are running with limited number of committed workers and the supervisory staff and definetly not by the top few bosses.
It is high time for the Top Officers including the GMs to review the situation and motivate the existing Federations and Service Associaions leaders to think about production and productivity of the factories. They should maintain decipline and good clean and green surroundings of production areas The production problem should be discussed at the JCM and Works Committee, platforms along with the welfare isues. At the same time these federation/association leaders should watch and expose the corrupt and inefficient officers in the interest of the organisation.