NOINO WZ writes to RM(P&IR), WZ (Camp: Satara)

14^th Oct 2011

The Regional Manager (P&IR),

L.I.C.Of India,

Western Zone,

Mumbai.

Respected Madam,

            At the outset, we welcome you on your maiden visit to our Satara DO. On this occasion we take opportunity to remind you about our meeting with Zonal Manager on 29^th August 2011 in which your good-self was also present. In that meeting we had discussed some of the following important issues of Class-I officers of our Zone which are yet to be resolved. We expect the Zonal Office to address the issues raised by us. The issues which we discussed were as below :-

1. Transfers of ABM(S)’s:  In respect of this we had submitted that only few transfer cases are left for consideration and these cases should be considered in the current round only. We were informed by the management in our discussions that there were excess marketing officials in almost all divisions in Maharashtra, but we feel that this should not be the reason for not considering the transfers of ABM(S)’s, because if at all any new criteria  of transfer is to be implemented, it should be implemented from the next year.  These ABM(S)’s who have applied for request transfer to their desired places are not at fault for excess number of marketing officials in a particular division. The move to recruit more marketing officials was a conscious decision taken by the then management in view of the situation prevailing at that time. How can the ABM(S)’s who are working outside their respective home divisions be penalized for that?

            We, therefore, again request you to consider the transfers of these ABM(S)’s and transfer them to their desired places as they have already completed more than 3 years and are due for transfers. 

2. Job Rotations:  In the ensuing round of Job rotations very few officers were job rotated. In fact 84 officers were promoted from ABM(S) to BM (only 2 of them refused) this year & 39 were job-rotated from AAO to ABM(S). We feel that there are 35 more vacancies of ABM(S) to be filled. We therefore request you to consider more officers to the cadre of ABM(S) in the supplementary round as early as possible.

3. Transfer of AAO’s:- Now the AAO notification has been issued and it will take around two to three months to complete this process as a result of which the officers who are due for transfer to their desired places and eagerly waiting for their transfers will be getting the same late. We, therefore, suggest you to transfer the eligible officers immediately without waiting for the entire round to complete.

4. Transfers of Physically Challenged officers:- At present we are transferring Lady promotee officers to their desired places after one year. This criterion for lady officers was introduced by our worthy Zonal Manager when he was RM(P&IR) of our Zone, for which he deserves a word of appreciation. On the same lines we request you to consider the transfer application of Physically Handicapped promotee officers after one year in the current round of Promotions/Transfers in the cadre of AAO. Needless to add here that the number of such officers is very meager, it may be around 2 or 3 in our Zone. This will also send a positive signal to all physically challenged officers.

5. Ill-treatment of Marketing Officials: - Every body concerned is aware that the entire Corporation is not doing well this year. This is a natural corollary of the prevailing situation in the entire Insurance industry as well as the economy of the nation. We are equally concerned about the situation. However, there is a disturbing trend on part of the senior officials to talk rudely to junior marketing officials particularly the ABM(S) & BM(S). We have also been reported with extreme cases of insulting of these junior officials that too in the presence of all. This type of attitude is primitive & not going to help. Though we don’t expect the management to treat the habitual non-performers with kid gloves, we also expect the management to behave in a more mature manner. The need of the hour is to encourage the marketing officials, not to demoralize them by chiding them rudely. An overwhelming majority of the junior marketing officials are very sincere in their works. If the whole Corporation is not doing well, then the strategists should also equally share the blame for it.

                               We, therefore, feel that the age-old method of talking tough should be done away with & more humane approach should be adopted.

6. Biased Attitude of Manager (P&IR) DM, Nagpur DO :-   We have informed you that Manager(P&IR), DM, who is also the Mentor of Class-I federation (a proof of which is already given to you) is acting in a totally biased manner thereby creating a lot of problems in the Nagpur Division. In the last week Class-III unions of Nagpur Division also held protest demonstrations against his biased attitude. We feel that basically a person who holds a post in the Union should not be given charge of such an important portfolio. We, therefore, again demand to relieve him of his portfolio immediately in order to avoid further complications.

7. Information sharing Meeting:-  We have repeatedly demanded that Information sharing meeting should be conducted at ZO/DO level in order to have a proper liaison between the management and the unions, however no such meeting is called by the ZO/DO. We again request to hold regular information sharing meetings at least on a quarterly basis at ZO/DO level.

                       

                        We hope looking at the severity of the issues you will do the needful in the interest of all officers of our Zone in particular and in the interest of our Zone in general.

           

V.V.Shastri

Secretary, NOINO, WZ.