MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

Minutes of BEC meeting held on 22-11-2015 at Technical Library, Secunderabad.

An executive committee meeting is held at 15:00 hrs., at Technical Library, Rail Nirman Bhavan, Secunderabad. Following office bearers and members of SCREA attended the meeting.

1.      Er. J.Rajkumar                                 President

2.      Er. G.Kumara Swamy                     General Secretary

3.      Er. G.Viswanathan                           Vice President

4.      Er. C.Ramesh                                   Vice President

5.      Er. G.Bhaskarachary                                    Addl. Org. Secy

6.      Er. A.K.Choudhury                         ZEC Member

7.      Er. T.Ramesh Kumar                      ZEC Member

8.      Er. P.V.Ramana                               Member

9.      Ch.Harish Babu                                Honorary Member

10.  Er. K.L.V.S.Viswanadham             Joint General Secretary/AIREF

11.  Er. C.Ravi Varma                            Member

12.  Er. B.Ilayya                                       Member

13.  Er. Poorna Rao                                 Addl.Finance Secy

14.  Er. Ch.Chandrasekhar                     ZEC Member

The following members have communicated through Mobile phone and taken their opinion on the points discussed.

15.  Er. Ravi Nagashankar                      Organizing Secy

16.  Er. M.R.K.Raju                                Joint General Secy

17.  Er. M.R.K.Prasad                            Finance Secretary

18.  Er. Narasimha Rao                          ZEC Member

The Corum have met at 15:00 hrs., as per the schedule.

1.      In view of the BGC conducted during the month of September 2015, Division President of Construction Organization; Division Secretary of Hyderabad Division and Division Secretary of Secunderabad division posts have become vacant as the said members were taken to Zonal Body. In view of the above vacancies, Er. P.V.Ramana, SSE/Works/ ORH/HYB is co-opted as Division Secretary of Hyderabad division in place of Er. Ravi Naga Shankar, Er. B. Ilayya, SSE/P.Way/EC/SC is co-opted as Division Secretary of Secunderabad division in place of Er. G.Kumara Swamy and Er. C.Ramesh is nominated as Division President of Construction organization.

2.      The corum have pursued the recommendations made by 7^th CPC and expressed its deep dissatisfaction on the recommendations of the 7^th CPC since the technical cadres were once again not given any importance. Though the 7^th CPC recommended for Group B status to all technical engineers, the Railway administration, with lame excuses and showing the court cases as hurdles denied career prospects and financial benefits to the technical cadres. In view of this, South Central Railway Engineers’ Association proposes following activities before the All India Railway Engineers’ Federation to pressurize the Railway administration to get justification of demands.

a.      Conducting Mass dharnas infront of all General Managers’ Offices and Divisional Railway Managers’ offices all over Indian Railways enlightening the injustice done to Subordinate Engineers. ( Phase-I)

b.      Relay Hunger strikes at Zonal and Divisional Headquarters (Phase-II)

c.      Wearing of black badges continuously till the administration responds on the injustice.

d.      Applying mass Casual Leave for one day all over Indian Railways.

e.      Cycle/Motor Cycle rallies enlightening the injustice made by Railway Administration. (Rallies will be conducted from one point to other point)

f.       Griefing Card Drive addressed to Chairman Railway Board and Railway Minister.

g.      Phone down agitation on Sundays.

3.      SCREA demands AIREF to accept the above proposals of SCREA and to implement over Indian Railways and issue notice to the Railway Board accordingly and to appraise the Zonal Engineers’ Associations accordingly.

4.      With the consent of AIREF, all above activities shall be organized in a grand manner and media coverage should be given widespread.

5.      IRTSA is organizing a dharna on 27^th November 2015 against the anomalies of 7^th CPC wherein injustice to Supervisory Engineers in the form of not granting Group B status to JEs/SSEs and improper placement of scales is being highlighted. GS/SCREA will extend support for the dharna through a letter on SCREA’s letter head for the above two points. 

6.      It is decided by the corum that the bank account should be transferred on the names of following office bearers with condition that out of four members any two members can operate the account with the consent of other two persons.

a.      Er. G.Kumara Swamy

b.      Er. C.Ramesh

c.      Er. P. Poorna Rao

d.     Er. M.R.K.Prasad.

The meeting concluded at 17:00 Hrs.

Signatures:

1.      Er. J.Rajkumar                                 President

2.      Er. G.Kumara Swamy                     General Secretary

3.      Er. G.Viswanathan                           Vice President

4.      Er. C.Ramesh                                   Vice President

5.      Er. G.Bhaskarachary                                    Addl. Org. Secy

6.      Er. A.K.Choudhury                         ZEC Member

7.      Er. T.Ramesh Kumar                      ZEC Member

8.      Er. P.V.Ramana                               Member

9.      Ch.Harish Babu                                Honorary Member

10.  Er. K.L.V.S.Viswanadham             Joint General Secretary/AIREF

11.  Er. C.Ravi Varma                            Member

12.  Er. B.Ilayya                                       Member

13.  Er. Poorna Rao                                 Addl.Finance Secy

14.  Er. Ch.Chandrasekhar                     ZEC Member

WHETHER TECHNICAL DIPLOMA WITH TRAINING IN RAILWAYS EQUALS TO B.TECH?

Dear Engineers',

A letter was drafted and submitted to Railway Board requesting grant of M.Tech Degree to those officers who possess B.Tech after two years of training in IRICEN/Pune since the officers are given rigorous training in various perspectives of Railway system. This training can be equated to two years of course study of M.Tech. It is an applauded suggestion. Meanwhile, similar training is being given to Group C Rail Engineers also before joining the Railway's stream.

Such is the case, One/Two years of training to Group C engineers shall also be equated and considered as B.Tech. Group C Rail Engineers are being trained in various facades of Railways.

Course Material during training: Engineering/Mechanical/Electrical/S&T Codes, Manuals of various kinds and voluminous in nature are mandate. Each Branch contains at least 10 to 12 Manuals each and to be read as Bhagavatgita. In addition, following manuals and Codes are essential to execute their jobs.

1. Establishment Matters - Establishment Code, Establish Manuals Vol-I & II, Establishment Circulars issued from time to time, Worksman Compensation Act, Payment of Wages Act, Hours of Employment and Periods of Rest, Conduct Rules, Pass Rules, 

2. Stores Matters-Stores Code, Stores Manual, Stock Verification Manual, Maintenance of DMTR, Ledgers

3. Interface management with various Departments- Obtaining traffic blocks/Power blocks through Operating Department, Preparation of wage bills etc., through Personnel Branch, joint inspections with State Government Departments

4. Safety Matters

5. Discipline and Appeal Matters

6.Maintenance of Railway Assets in accordance with various Codes, Manuals etc.

7. Schedules of Inspections and compliance to those inspections.

The above are only a few to name. During the training, each Engineer is studying more than 40 to 50 subjects and attending an exam at the last. Hence, we feel it is deserved for Diploma Engineers to be granted with B.Tech (Railway Engineering) Degree. At least, if it is not admissible to all Diploma Engineers, for those who put up minimum 15 years of service, shall be granted with B.Tech (Railway Engineering) in respective branches.

I request all Rail Engineers to participate in the voting question posted on the left top corner of this blog and extend your agreement. 

VISWANADHAM

Joint General Secretary/AIREF