Counting of training period of Junior Engineers (JEs), Senior Section Engineers (SSEs) and other Technical non-gazetted staff for financial upgradation under ACPS/MACPS - Request for kind intervention and immediate redressal.

INDIAN RAILWAYS TECHNICAL SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION

(Estd. 1965, Regd. No.1329, Website http://www.irtsa.net )
No:IRTSA/Memo/ RB / 8-11 Date: 23-4-2011

Member Staff,
Railway Board,
Rail Bhawan, New Delhi
Respected Sir,

Subject : -   Counting of training period of Junior Engineers (JEs), Senior Section Engineers (SSEs)  and other Technical non-gazetted staff for financial upgradation under ACPS/MACPS - Request  for kind intervention and immediate redressal.

Reference :-  1. O.M No. 35034/3/2008-Estt. (D) Dated 19th May, 2009 of DOP&T. 2. Railway Board’s OM RBE No 101 dated 10.6.2009. 3. Railway Board’s letter No.E(NG)I/90/IC1/1, Dated 04.02.1991.

1.    We would like to bring to your kind notice the following genuine demand of Technical Supervisors /
Rail Engineers for counting of Training period for financial upgradation under MACPS, denial of  which puts them in a disadvantageous position vis-a-vis the non-technical employees without  training in the same Scale of Pay / Pay Band.


2.    Persons selected for regular appointment in Technical departments for the posts like Junior  Engineers (JEs), Senior Section Engineers (SSEs), CMA , CMS and other Technical posts are  required to undergo training for periods varying from one year to two years before formally taking  charge.


3.    Training imparted to those recruited through the Railway Recruitment Boards and later absorbed  as Junior Engineers (JEs), Senior Section Engineers (SSEs) on Railways is not pre-appointment  training in nature (as that of the Apprentices recruited under the Apprentices Act). The Stipend  paid during the training period to them is from the Revenue account and the Department of  Personnel & Training (DOPT) had already decided earlier that the training period shall be counted  for pensionary benefits, for issue of passes and drawal of increments, etc.


4.    Non-technical employees who are not required to undergo any training even though recruited on  the same date along with the Technical employees in the same Scale of Pay / Grade Pay earn  their Financial upgradation through ACPS/MACPS well before the Technical Staff. This put the  technical employees in a disadvantageous position vis-a-vis the non-technical employees, since  the period spent in the training by the technical employees are not counted for the purpose of  financial upgradation, under MACPS.


5. Railway Board’s letter No.E(NG)I/90/IC1/1, Dated 04.02.1991 on the subject of Counting of training
period for the purpose of drawing increments, states that, in case where a Government servant


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