To
All the Branch Secretaries/Presidents &
the Secretariat members including the members of JCM (RC),
ITEF, Kerala Circle.
Dear Comrades,
The Secretariat and Executive Committee meetings of ITEF, Kerala Circle shall be held on 20.6.2013 at 10.00 am at Aayakar Bhavan, Thrissur as per Notice and agenda attached. Com. K P Rajagopal, Secretary General, ITEF (CHQ) shall address the Secretariat/Executive Committee members in the meeting. All the Branch Secretaries are requested to intimate the details of participations besides the Branch Secretaries and Presidents to Com. A G Narayan Hari, J.S. (HQ) & Acting General Secretary. All the members are requested to go through the Circulars issued by the ITEF (CHQ) on cadre restructuring and put forth valuable suggestions.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K S Sajeev,
General Secretary,
ITEF, Kerala.
Sectt & Executive Committee meeting-on-20-06-13
dear friend,
dear stenographer friend,
U mean to say that dept is functioning only because u people. First of all what is the importance of taking dictation in present situation? This used to be a requirement of time when there were no computers and typewriter was the only media of preparation of letters. So stenos/personal staff were employed specially for this purpose. But n the our dept this staff due to their proximty to the higher ups succeeded to grab a major portion of promotional avenues pushing back the poor ministerial staff, who were mainly LDCs/UDCs and promotees from Group D. While all jobs related to the assessment, audit, judical, TDS, administration, recovery, appeal, prosecution, search, survey ,tax collection, demand, processing jobs (just a few to menton) were done by the TAs/STAs, they were sidelined in the issue of promotions. If we just go through the Office Procedure manual Volume 1 and see the duties of TAs/STAs and Stenos one will wonder how this steno cadre can claim ITI promotion. This means without doing any duties of a TA/STA at lower level, one fine morning they are reaching that post. My friend claims that without steno’s dept work will come to a standstill, but we when their strength was just 185 in 2009 nothing happened and now it is 2500(as he claims) nothing is happening. And now we have Hindi stenos too, they cannot under stand the meaning of “Start” but u have to say “Shuru karo..” (I am not exaggratng,in fact this story was told by a steno frend of mine and happened in chennai during a dictation test). And they will be also eligble for ITI promotion just with three year service..what a pity condition. On other side the TAs, who are specially selected for the job with graduation qualification and computer skills after joining the dept after going through two tier test are to wait for years to become ITIs. As my friend says TAs dont claim that they are equal to IRS, but my steno friends with just the 10th pass should not equal them with TAs either. Shorthand has lost all its relevance at the present and just software called speech recognition software offered by many software companies will do ur job 100% better than u people. And remember, as u claims stenography is not a qualification at diploma or degree level,but it is being taught in small institutes even without proper registration. Nowadays all officers are provided wth computers and without help of stenos they can complete their job with the help of TAs, who are proficient on computers. Just see the duties of a steno in Office procedure(I am sure…u have not seen it….just a few lines only….as I said taking dictation and atteding telephone…nothing more), then u will know about urself and there will be no claim for ITI promotion from your side…. Our dept is facing shortage of personal staff…. why u are interested to do a job in which u are not combatant while there are large of vacancies waiting for you in your own channel….
Mr. Ravi, will you please explain what is meant by taking Dictation ? Stenographer is a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand. Help of good Stenographers makes the Officer more perfect. This you might not be knowing because you are seeing only the Orders dictated and transcribed by the Stenographers and you never knows how it has been framed. This is just like the computer on which you are going to read this letter. You never know how this Computer is made but only working on it, you think that you are the maker of that computer. Now your work has taken away by the CPC and there your work is being carried out by College pupil. We all are very well knowing how to work on computer and we know how much difficulty there in just clicking OK buttons on the screen. Come on an take dictation, or just heard what the officer want on a particular letter or in an order and draft it by you and by a Stenographer, you will see the difference, because in order to get such efficiency, we have put our efforts years together, and you simply says that our work is nothing. i.e. why in the cadre restructuring in CBEC, they put requirement of more Stenographers. i.e. why the Recruitment of Stenographers again started in CBDT. Your statement that “As the case is such, Steno cadre is not eligible at all for promotion to the cadre of Inspector whereas they are getting special quota for the promotion” is questioning the Fundamental Right, which you may not be knowing. You may be Graduate and IRS cadre are also consisting of Graduates only, then will you say that you are equivalent to them ?
In the recommendations of the 6th CPC vide para 3.1.15 it was suggested that :-
simultaneously separate recruitment to the Ministerial and stenographer cadres in the field offices shall cease immediately. All future recruitment in the pay scale of Rs. 6500-10500 corresponding to the revised pay band PB2 or Rs. 8700-34800 along with grade pay of Rs. 4200 for every field office shall be made as Executive Assistants whose qualification as well as method of recruitment shall be as prescribed for Executive Assistants in the Secretariat. 50% of the posts in this grade shall be filled by direct recruitment of candidates possessing minimum qualification of a graduate degree and one year diploma in computer. The existing incumbents in the Ministerial and Stenographers Cadres in the field offices shall continue as distinct cadres till the time the administrative Ministry concerned a procedure for their job enlargement/enrichment, retraining and redeployment in one unified cadre.”
When the proposal of Cadre Restructuring of IT Department was introduced initial in the year 2003 the working strength of Stenos is only 185 and no further recruitment was being made but from 2009 onwards, the recruitment for Stenographers was again started by the Staff Selection Commission and a large number of Stenographers have already been joined in the Department. Now the working strength has crossed the figure of 2500.
My objection merely is this, that the post of Executive Assistant was to be created on the basis of recommendation of 6th CPC but in any department of Central government even in the Ministry of Finance, neither the post of Exe. Assistant was created nor the cadre of Stenographer was merged with other Ministerial Cadre then why this only happen in IT Department.
It is also pertinent of consider that Prior to 1980-81 the Pay Scale of Stenographer was Rs 425-700, whereas it was Rs 425-800 in the case of Inspectors. Now as per the restructuring F.No.A-11013/1/2013-Ad.VII, dated 31/5/2013, of the CBDT, New Delhi, the cadre of stenographers has been placed with the Drivers. The mighty fall surely create frustration among existing stenographers.
Before this so called merging, no view of Stenographers has been taken into consideration. Hence, it is submitted that this merging may be taken back by the CBDT and DPC should be conducted as per the existing RR.
In the recommendations of the 6th CPC vide para 3.1.15 it was suggested that :-
simultaneously separate recruitment to the Ministerial and stenographer cadres in the field offices shall cease immediately. All future recruitment in the pay scale of Rs. 6500-10500 corresponding to the revised pay band PB2 or Rs. 8700-34800 along with grade pay of Rs. 4200 for every field office shall be made as Executive Assistants whose qualification as well as method of recruitment shall be as prescribed for Executive Assistants in the Secretariat. 50% of the posts in this grade shall be filled by direct recruitment of candidates possessing minimum qualification of a graduate degree and one year diploma in computer. The existing incumbents in the Ministerial and Stenographers Cadres in the field offices shall continue as distinct cadres till the time the administrative Ministry concerned a procedure for their job enlargement/enrichment, retraining and redeployment in one unified cadre.”
When the proposal of Cadre Restructuring of IT Department was introduced initial in the year 2003 the working strength of Stenos is only 185 and no further recruitment was being made but from 2009 onwards, the recruitment for Stenographers was again started by the Staff Selection Commission and a large number of Stenographers have already been joined in the Department. Now the working strength has crossed the figure of 2500.
My objection merely is this, that the post of Executive Assistant was to be created on the basis of recommendation of 6th CPC but in any department of Central government even in the Ministry of Finance, neither the post of Exe. Assistant was created nor the cadre of Stenographer was merged with other Ministerial Cadre then why this only happen in IT Department.
It is also pertinent of consider that Prior to 1980-81 the Pay Scale of Stenographer was Rs 425-700, whereas it was Rs 425-800 in the case of Inspectors. Now as per the restructuring F.No.A-11013/1/2013-Ad.VII, dated 31/5/2013, of the CBDT, New Delhi, the cadre of stenographers has been placed with the Drivers. The mighty fall surely create frustration among existing stenographers.
Before this so called merging, no view of Stenographers has been taken into consideration. Hence, it is submitted that this merging may be taken back by the CBDT and DPC should be conducted as per the existing RR.
In the recommendations of the 6th CPC vide para 3.1.15 it was suggested that :-
simultaneously separate recruitment to the Ministerial and stenographer cadres in the field offices shall cease immediately. All future recruitment in the pay scale of Rs. 6500-10500 corresponding to the revised pay band PB2 or Rs. 8700-34800 along with grade pay of Rs. 4200 for every field office shall be made as Executive Assistants whose qualification as well as method of recruitment shall be as prescribed for Executive Assistants in the Secretariat. 50% of the posts in this grade shall be filled by direct recruitment of candidates possessing minimum qualification of a graduate degree and one year diploma in computer. The existing incumbents in the Ministerial and Stenographers Cadres in the field offices shall continue as distinct cadres till the time the administrative Ministry concerned a procedure for their job enlargement/enrichment, retraining and redeployment in one unified cadre.”
When the proposal of Cadre Restructuring of IT Department was introduced initial in the year 2003 the working strength of Stenos is only 185 and no further recruitment was being made but from 2009 onwards, the recruitment for Stenographers was again started by the Staff Selection Commission and a large number of Stenographers have already been joined in the Department. Now the working strength has crossed the figure of 2500.
My objection merely is this, that the post of Executive Assistant was to be created on the basis of recommendation of 6th CPC but in any department of Central government even in the Ministry of Finance, neither the post of Exe. Assistant was created nor the cadre of Stenographer was merged with other Ministerial Cadre then why this only happen in IT Department.
It is also pertinent of consider that Prior to 1980-81 the Pay Scale of Stenographer was Rs 425-700, whereas it was Rs 425-800 in the case of Inspectors. Now as per the restructuring F.No.A-11013/1/2013-Ad.VII, dated 31/5/2013, of the CBDT, New Delhi, the cadre of stenographers has been placed with the Drivers. The mighty fall surely create frustration among existing stenographers.
Before this so called merging, no view of Stenographers has been taken into consideration. Hence, it is submitted that this merging may be taken back by the CBDT and DPC should be conducted as per the existing RR.
Dear friend,
I think you are very much worried about the “TAs with just three years marching towards grade pay 4200/-“. First of all just remember the fact – this TAs are with Graduation qualification, cleared Data Entry test and recruited for all tax collection, demand and assessment related duties of the dept. Starting from recruitment year 2006 they undergo two tier test conducted by SSC(Now three tier wef 2010) for selection. And just see stenographers duties given in Manual of Office procedure Volume I. As per the duties given stenos are personal staff and you can only claim promotion in PS cadre. see the duties, taking dictation, attending telephone etc are your duties. As the case is such, Steno cadre is not eligible at all for promotion to the cadre of Inspector whereas they are getting special quota for the promotion. This should be stopped with immediate effect and stop the injustice done towards the cadre of TAs, who are the backbone of the dept. ……this will also be a solution to the acute shortage of steno cadre staff in the dept, since they will remain in their entitle cadre………
During the Meeting, the Stenographers from each branches should also be allowed to participate as there is no representatives in any Branches, except Shri Suresh from Calicut Branch, to represent the Stenographers Cadre as now it is necessary to explain the wrong claims putforth by the Ministerial Cadres against the Stenographers Cadre. This has become an all India Agenda, because, when the cadre restructuring proposal originally came in the year 2009, as per the ITEF CHQ stand, there were only 185 Stenographers in the Department and there was no any recruitment in this Cadre. However, from 2009 onwards, there were more than 2500 Stenographers Gr-III joined in the Department, and the Recruitment Process is going on by the Staff Selection Commission. The changed scenario upto 22/5/2013 was not considered, either by the ITEF nor by the Department. Now there are large number of vacancies in the cadre Stenographer Gr-II and Gr-I, the Stenographers Gr-III was in queue for the promotion, the cadres have been merged. This is injustice because from 1/3/2010, it is not known for what reason the promotions for the cadre Stenographer Gr-I &^ II was not made, and TAs with 3 years experience was marched over to the Grade Pay 4200. Now not only in CCIT (CCA) wise representation, we need, CWC representation also.