Friday, 16 December 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
They are protesting anomalies in wage revision created by DFS order
In protest against what they call anomalies in the wage revision created by an order issued by the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance, Government of India, the All India NABARD Officers’ Association (AINBOA) has given a strike call on December 16. The retired officers and employees have also extended their support to the association.
The officers of NABARD had been on agitation ever since the DFS order was issued on September 14 this year which was followed by the administrative circular on September 21 to implement the order. After many representations, and rounds of dialogues with the officials of DFS over the last two months the association claim that they are left with no other choice but to go on strike, which will be followed by a march to Parliament and hunger strike.
“First, the order introduced dual and differentiated pay for the same cadre of officers – higher for those who had come from Reserve Bank of India at the formation of NABARD in 1982 and lower for those directly recruited by NABARD. One of the allowances reduced is Grade Allowance which is paid as per the grade of an officer. However, according to the DFS order, officers in lower grades are drawing higher grade allowance than officers in higher grade thereby making a mockery of the nomenclature “grade”. This is in contravention to ‘equal pay for equal work’ in the same organization,’’ said a communiqué from the association.
