On 14th Dec 2011 NOINO, WZ delegation met Zonal Manager,WZ Shri R.R.Dash. NOINO delegation was led by Shri V.V.Shastri, Zonal Secretary,WZ, Smt Anagha Sant, WZ Organising Secretary, Shri Manish Patankar, WZ Jt.Secretary and Shri Anil Bhagdikar, NOINO, Divisional President, Nagpur DO. Smt Mini Ipe, RM (P & IR) was also present. The meeting continued for nearly 2 hours. Most part of the discussion was occupied by the issue of transfers & postings of AAO/PG-I. We discussed the following issues of Class-I officers in this meeting:-
1. Transfers of ABMS: We again pointed out that in the recent round of Job rotations to the cadre of ABMS only 6 ABMS were given transfers to their desired places. A few requests transfers of ABMS have not been considered. We demanded that these transfers should be considered forthwith. We have also submitted a list of such officers.
Zonal Manager stuck to his earlier stand and said that since there are no vacancies where these officers need transfer and there are excess numbers of marketing officials posted in almost all divisions in Maharashtra he could not transfer these officers but assured that after March-2012 he would review the situation and accordingly transfer these officers after March-2012 closing. We strongly protested this and said that whatever may be the situation these officers should be transferred to their desired places as they are out of their parent division for more than 3 years.
2. Transfers/Postings of AAO’s:- Since long, NOINO has been taking a considered view on the posting policy on promotion. It has been our stand that on promotion, AAO/AO should be posted in the same division; ADM/DM in the same Zone & SDM & above may be posted in the neighboring Zone. Over the years, a gradual shift in the WZ management’s policy has been seen due to NOINO’s efforts if one studies the office orders of the previous years. This issue was also raised in our meeting dated 29th August 2011 with the ZM. In today’s meeting we merely reiterated our earlier stand. We had brought to the notice of the management that:-
a) The number of applicants for Class I promotion is dwindling year after year. This is as much due to the lack of recruitment in Class III cadre as it is due to the posting policy which insists un-necessary displacement.
b) Shortage of staff quarters is also a factor.
c) As the average age is higher in LIC now, promote employees would like minimum disturbance.
We reiterated our stand of minimum displacement to encourage promotion & demanded that the promote officers should be posted either in the same division or at the most neighboring division. The Zonal Manager appreciated our suggestions and assured that due care will be taken while postings the officers on promotions, the new promote officers will be posted with minimum displacement.
Similarly we demanded transfers of AAO/PG-I who have applied for transfers to their desired places. We also demanded that request transfers of officers who have joined late or were selected in contingency list, as now they have also completed either 1 year in case of ladies and 2 years in case of male officers.
On this issue Zonal Manager was convinced but assured to take care of these applications after getting the entire data from the department. He indicated that the management will try to consider applications of those officers who have joined before 31st Dec 2010 .
We have also requested Zonal Manager to consider transfers of PG-I within one year as last year many programmers were posted in the same division without considering the request transfers of earlier programmers simply for the reason that they have not completed 2 years. Zonal Manager assured us to look into the matter.
3. Transfers of Physically Challenged officers:- On this issue we informed Zonal Manager that some of the officers who were physically handicapped were posted to remote places n the last round of AAO promotions as a result they are facing lot of problems in not only commuting to their home town but also facing problems at the place where they are posted. We requested Zonal Manager to consider the transfers of such physically challenged officers in this current round so as to rectify the mistake they have committed in posting them last year. We also informed Zonal Manager that at present we are transferring promote Lady Officers to their desired places after one year. On the same lines we have requested to consider transfer applications of those officers who are either facing severe health problems of their own or their family members.
On this issue Zonal Manager was positive and assured to take care after getting the data of such candidates from Zonal P&IR deptt.
4. Ill-treatment of Marketing Officials: - We informed Zonal Manager that 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 also informed him that we have been reported with extreme cases of insulting of these junior officials that too in the presence of all by SDM’s of some divisions. 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 work. If the whole Corporation is not doing well, then the strategists should also equally share the blame for it.
We demanded, that the age-old method of talking tough should be done away with immediately & more humane approach should be adopted. We also demanded strict action against such SDM’s. Zonal Manager patiently heard our say on this issue and assured to look into the matter.
5. Sanction of Car on completion of 5 years: - On this issue we informed Zonal Manager that in the recent past many of the Marketing officials have completed their 5 years of job rotation from the date of purchase of their car by virtue of which they are eligible for purchase of new car. On earlier occasions SDM’s were sanctioning the vehicles of marketing officials at divisional level, but since last few months their applications for purchase of new car are sent to Zonal office for sanction and Zonal office is not sanctioning the car to them.
While reacting on this issue Zonal Manager said that they have taken this decision to avoid further complications which were arising due to de-rotation in regular round of promotions/job-rotations and they will give sanction for purchase of new car after March-2011.
We protested this and submitted that if the vehicles are not sanctioned by the management immediately, there will be lot of unrest among all the Marketing Officials which will affect the performance of the Zone. We requested Zonal Manager that though the decision to grant 2nd stint of rotation in case of job rotations from Administrative side lies with him and it is his prerogative, but if SDM is fully convinced and is strongly recommending the names of deserving high performers for 2nd stint than they should be given 2nd stint immediately instead of waiting till March. Secondly, by not getting 2nd stint immediately their morale is going down and is ultimately affecting their performance.
We have also informed Zonal Manager that in case of officers from Development side, de-rotations are not there in their cases, only once in 2008 Corporation has done some experiment to give administrative exposure to some of the Marketing officials from Development side they were de-rotated, but after that this circular was scrapped and this procedure was not at all followed.
Hence we demanded that applications for purchase of new cars of marketing officials from development side should be sanctioned immediately as it is affecting the morale of these officers which in turn is affecting the New Business of WZ.
On this issue Zonal Manager was positive and assured us that depending upon the merits of the case vehicles can be sanctioned before March-2012 and also gave instructions to RM(P&IR) immediately to talk with all SDM’s in this regard.
6. Biased Attitude of Manager (P&IR) DM Nagpur DO : We reiterated our demand to relieve Mr.M.K.Joshi, Manager(P&IR), Nagpur DO from his present assignment as being the Mentor of Class-I federation he is acting in a totally biased manner thereby creating lot of problems in the Nagpur Division. We protested this and expressed surprise that a person who is an office-bearer (or a pseudo-office-bearer) in the Union has been continuing merrily with the portfolio of P & IR. We reminded the ZM that in the past we had pointed out to the Zonal Management that the Nagpur Nagpur
On this issue Zonal Manager assured to look into the matter
7. Other important issues: Apart from the above major issues we discussed some other important issues, such as Job-rotations to Programmers/Auditors, less no. of officers posted in Satellite offices, Problems faced by officers particularly from Marketing side, who are forced to work on Sundays and holidays by declaring some event marketing on the next working day, considering promotions of candidates who have not accepted promotion last year etc.
On all these issues Zonal Manager assured to look into the matter.
Information Sharing Meeting: We informed Zonal Manager that all the Divisional Offices are holding information sharing meeting for Development Officers & Agents on regular basis. However, all the divisional offices are not conducting Information sharing meeting for all classes. We demanded that information sharing meeting should be conducted for class-I officers at Zonal level & and also at Divisional level.
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