Minutes of SCREA 12_12_09
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Minutes of meeting of Engineers Association of South Central Railway Date: 12 th December 2009 Place : Railway Institute (Senior Institute), Bhoiguda, Secunderabad. Time : 11.00 hrs., to 14.00 hrs. 1.0 Around 300 enginee rs from cadres of Junior Engineer s, Section Enginee rs and Sr. Sect ion Eng inee rs from Civ il Engi nee ring , Mech anic al Eng ine ers, Elec tric al Engineering and Signal and Telecommunication Engineering departments of Open line as well as construction organizations of South Central Railway are gathered at Railway Institute, Bhoiguda, Secunderabad. 2.0 Sri Venk ata Ramana, SSE/Wor ks/SC invited veteran Sr. Sect ion Eng ineers from Civil, Mechanical , Electrical and S&T departments from the gathere d engineers as chair persons of the meeting. 3.0 Sr i K. Ve nk at a Ramana, SSE/ WS/CME(OL) /HQRS ad dr esse d the at te nd ed engineers on the cause of the gathering and invited Sri K.L.V.S.Viswanadham, SE/P.Way/ PCE(OL)/Hqrs to appraise the activities of All India Railway Engineers’ Federation and need for formation of Engineers’ Association at Zonal Level. 4.0 Sri K.L.V.S.Vis wan adham, SE/P .Way /PCE(OL), exp lain ed the followin g poin ts through a power point presentation. o How Rail Engineers are parting from family, social and global relations due to the responsibilities they are shouldering. o The responsibilities shouldered by Rail Engineers were compared with the managerial skills of an MBA acquired employee. o The growth in pay scales of other categories vis-à-vis Rail Engineers during V and VI pay commissions was shown in tabular form as well as in a bar graph during power point presentation. o The cadre of Engineers with similar designations in other Central Govt., and PSUs was compared with Rail Engineers. o Enl ight ene d the recommen dati ons of Just ice Kha nna Committe e to ban supervisors from joining labour organizations and highlighted associations set up by other cadres of Railway such as Station Masters’ association, Guards’ council, Loco Running Staff Associa tion, Ministerial staff associat ion, RPF association etc. o Analyze d the reasons for failure of organiz ations like DEAR, EAIR etc., formed hitherto. o Approv al of the assembly was sought whether there is a need for an Associa tion of Rail Engineer s at this juncture . Collectiv ely the assembly approved the need and decided it as urgency. 5.0 An ad-hoc committee is nominated by the gathered engine ers, till such time elections are conducted, to represent and serve the organization.
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Minutes of meeting of Engineers Association of South Central Railway
Date: 12th December 2009Place : Railway Institute (Senior Institute), Bhoiguda, Secunderabad.Time : 11.00 hrs., to 14.00 hrs.
1.0 Around 300 engineers from cadres of Junior Engineers, Section Engineers and
Sr.Section Engineers from Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineers, ElectricalEngineering and Signal and Telecommunication Engineering departments of Openline as well as construction organizations of South Central Railway are gathered atRailway Institute, Bhoiguda, Secunderabad.
2.0Sri Venkata Ramana, SSE/Works/SC invited veteran Sr.Section Engineers fromCivil, Mechanical, Electrical and S&T departments from the gathered engineers aschair persons of the meeting.
3.0Sri K.Venkata Ramana, SSE/WS/CME(OL)/HQRS addressed the attendedengineers on the cause of the gathering and invited Sri K.L.V.S.Viswanadham,
SE/P.Way/ PCE(OL)/Hqrs to appraise the activities of All India Railway Engineers’Federation and need for formation of Engineers’ Association at Zonal Level.
4.0Sri K.L.V.S.Viswanadham, SE/P.Way/PCE(OL), explained the following pointsthrough a power point presentation.
o How Rail Engineers are parting from family, social and global relations due to
the responsibilities they are shouldering.o The responsibilities shouldered by Rail Engineers were compared with the
managerial skills of an MBA acquired employee.o The growth in pay scales of other categories vis-à-vis Rail Engineers during V
and VI pay commissions was shown in tabular form as well as in a bar graphduring power point presentation.
o The cadre of Engineers with similar designations in other Central Govt., and
PSUs was compared with Rail Engineers.o Enlightened the recommendations of Justice Khanna Committee to ban
supervisors from joining labour organizations and highlighted associations setup by other cadres of Railway such as Station Masters’ association, Guards’council, Loco Running Staff Association, Ministerial staff association, RPFassociation etc.
o Analyzed the reasons for failure of organizations like DEAR, EAIR etc.,
formed hitherto.
o Approval of the assembly was sought whether there is a need for an Association of Rail Engineers at this juncture. Collectively the assemblyapproved the need and decided it as urgency.
5.0 An ad-hoc committee is nominated by the gathered engineers, till such timeelections are conducted, to represent and serve the organization.
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6.0Following engineers are nominated with mentioned portfolios to serve theorganization.
S.No
Portfolio Department Name of the Engineer
1. President Engg (OL) A.Kannan (SSE/PW/PCE(OL)
2. Wkg.President Mechanical (C&W) M.Prabhucharan(SSE/C&W/SDGM(Vig)/HQ)
3. Sr.Vice President S&T (Sig)
4. Vice President-ZPN Zonal President Nominee(Electrcal (Con/Pro)
Jayaraman, SSE/Con/CAO/SC
5. General Secretary Engg (OL) K.L.V.S.Viswanadham
6. Joint General Secy. Mechanical (WS) K.Venkataramana(SSE/WS/CME(OL)
7. Organizing Secy. Electrical (OL) Kulkarni, SSE/Elec
8. Addl.Org.Secy-GSN Genl.Secy.Nominee(S&T) M.Nageswara Rao, SE/Drg/CSTE(OL)
9. Finance Secretary Engg. (con) K.Nageswara Rao, JE/W/CAO/SC
10. Addl. Finance Secy. S&T (Tele) MVSS Murthy, SE/Tele/DSTE/SC
11. ZWC Member-1 Engg (OL-Drg) S.Chandrahas,SSE/Drg/PCE(OL)12. ZWC Member-2 Engg (Bridges) Naveenkumar,SE/Br/ZCETC/KCG
13. ZWC Member-3 Engg (Wks) P.Srinivasulu, SE/W/PCE(OL)
14. ZWC Member-4 Engg (TM) Smt.Devi, SSE/TM/PCE(OL)
15. ZWC Member-5 Electrical (OL) Purna Rao,SSE/Ele/M/RN/SC
16. ZWC Member-6 Electrical (OL) Divakar, SE/Ele/M/RN/SC
17. ZWC Member-7 Electrical (Drg) MahendrSingh,SSE/Drg/CEE(OL)
18. ZWC Member-8 Electrical (OHE) B.R.Mukharji, SSE/OHE/MLY
19. ZWC Member-9 Electrical (TRD/PSI)
20. ZWC Member-10 Mechanical (Drg) T.Ravi Babu, SSE/Drg/CME(OL)
21. ZWC Member-11 Mechanical (C&W) S.V.S.N.Raju, SSE/Chg/CME(OL)
22. ZWC Member-12 Mechanical (R&L) M.A.RajasekharaReddy,SSE/CME
23. ZWC Member-13 S&T (Sig)
24. ZWC Member-14 S&T (Tele)
25. ZWC Member-15 S&T (Drg) Dharma Rao, SE/Drg/CSTE(OL)
26. Auditor Mechanical (WS) M.A.Wahid Khan,JE/C&W/CME(OL)
7.0 As only few representative could attend from S&T department, the representativevacancies were kept to fill up after due consultation with S&T Engineers.
8.0Formation of ad-hoc Zonal Working Committee was witnessed and sanctified by the
veteran Sr.Section Engineers acting as Chair Persons.
9.0Representatives from divisions delivered their opinions and guidelines for function of Engineers’ Association.
9.1. Sri Akbar Ali Khan, SSE/PW/GT, expressed the current working conditions of Rail Engineers in field, duly quoting example of P.Way Engineers’ work load andconditions of working without having even clerical assistance in maintainingoffice apart from tedious field work. He narrated the punishments issued toGroup C&D categories by administration unilaterally without practical approach
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and without providing required infrastructure. How existing trade unions arefailing in dealing with Engineers was pointed out by him. He stressed the needfor an association to deal with the cadre of Rail Engineers and wished a successof the association.
9.2. Sri R. Satyam, SE/P.Way/RJY, emphasized the need of collective responsibilityof each engineer in keeping any association strong to achieve their goals. He
requested that all Rail Engineers should think of their future and said that if notnow, never the cadre of Rail Engineers can unite and will be the worst ever affected cadre.
He told how inferior angle was shown on the cadre even during impartingadvanced training programmes those will up grade the knowledge that will be re-utilized to railways. Even during foreign training programs, only Class-I officersare preferred. But, none of the foreign trained Group A officers are taking anyresponsibility during times of distress and pushing blame on subordinateengineers.
10.0Sri A.Kannan, SSE/P.Way/PCE (OL) and President nominate conveyed his thanksto the gathering for nominating him as Ad-hoc President with a faith to lead theassociation. Sri Kannan explained the importance of subordinate engineers in thesystem through a slide show. He also explained the chronological way of growth inpay structure to other non-technical Group C cadres vis-à-vis Rail Engineers. Heprojected the points about the APPEAL put forth by the S.O.Engineers to Group
A&B officers in the IRICEN WEBSITE General forum to know their opinions andthe reply given by Sri CARMULUS, AGM/RVNL/KOLKATTA duly supporting thedemands of the Sub ordinate Engineers
11.0 At this juncture, draft constitution framed for working of Association was put forth
the assembly for approval by Sri K.L.V.S.Viswanadham duly spelling out eachhead and its relevancy to the working of the association. Gathered engineersaccepted the Constitution and authorised the ad-hoc body to enrol the membershipfor the association. All have accepted the title for the association as “SOUTHCENTRAL RAILWAY ENGINEERS’ ASSOCIATION” and authorised to affiliatethe association to “ALL INDIA RAILWAY ENGINEERS’ FEDERATION” torepresent the cadre at the nation level.
12.0 Following aims were spelled out by Sri K.L.V.S.Viswanadham, General Secretarynominate as the aims of organization.
12.1. Appraise about the injustice done to the cadre of rail Engineers duringvarious pay commissions in pay fixation as well in proper recognition vis-à-visengineers of other central government and PSUs through AIREF before RailwayBoard and Railway Ministry.
12.2. Promoting technology transfer among Rail Engineers in variousdepartments of SCR duly utilizing the fast growing technology.
12.3. Represent difficulties faced by Rail Engineers in execution of duties andgrievances of Rail Engineers before competent authority and get it redressed in
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a harmonious way at Division and Zone levels and to represent through AIREFat Nation level.
12.4. Deriving innovative practices with optimum utilization of availableresources and to keep SCR as best Railway among the Indian Railways.
12.5. Inculcation of brotherhood among all Rail Engineers so that the cadrestands united and strong.
12.6. Taking up social responsibilities as humans during distress occasions.
12.7. Making administration to organize periodical development trainingprograms for Rail Engineers to up grade their technical skills and knowledgewith progressing technology by innovative methods.
13.0 Sri K.Venkata Ramana, SSE/WS/CME (OL)/RN conveyed vote of thanks to all thegathered engineers and conveyed best wishes and success to the organization.
