All India
(A Coordinating Body of National Federation of RRB Officers
& National Federation of RRB Employees)
Adviser: Ajit Kumar
Ghosh
President: C. Rajeevan
Secretary General: A. Sayeed 1 Nazrul Islam Avenue VIP ROAD
Circular
No. 42 Date:
- 18-08-2014
To
All Units/State Federations/C.C. Members/
Office Bearers/ All others concerned
Dear
comrades,
Sub:
- Scheme of
Compassionate Appointment on Compassionate Grounds in Public Sector
Banks.
Ref: - 1. Our Circular No.39 dated 11-08-2014
(enclosing GOI order dated 07th August,
2014 to the IBA )
2.
Our letter under ref. no. 125 dated 11-08-21 04 addressed to Sri Alok Tandon,
Secretary, DFS , MOF, GOI with copy
to the Deputy Secretary, DFS , MOF,
GOI and the Chief General Manager (IDD), NABARD, Mumbai.
We have already taken up the matter for
implementation of the compassionate appointment scheme in RRBs too at the
earliest.
With greetings
Comradely yours
(A Sayeed Khan)
Secretary General
Enclo as stated above for
information –
-
IBA letter dated 11-08-2014 and
Compassionate Appointment Scheme.
HR
& INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
No.
CIRHR&IR/2014-15/532/476
August,
11. 2014
Chief
Executives of all Public Sector Banks
Dear
Sir/Madam,
Scheme of Compassionate Appointment on
Compassionate Grounds in Public Sector Banks
Please refer to our Circular No. PD/CIR /76/532/1549
dated the 19th July, 2007 under cover of which a “Scheme for
Appointments of dependents of deceased employees on Compassionate grounds in
exceptional cases” and “Scheme for payment of Ex-gratia amount in lieu of
appointment on Compassionate grounds” approved by the Government of India,
Ministry of Finance were circulated to all Public Sector Banks.
2. Thereafter, IBA was in correspondence with Ministry of Finance,
Department of Financial Services. In the
course of such correspondence, Department of Financial Services had asked IBA to submit an agreed proposal after consulting
unions/Associations. Accordingly, a
joint proposal on broad parameters was submitted for approval of the
Government. We have since received
approval from the Government of India vide its letter D.O. F No. 18/2/2013-IR
dated 7th August, 2014 for the revised “Compassionate Appointment
Scheme in Public Sector Banks” as follows.
(i)
To open the
Compassionate Appointment in PSBs on the lines of Central Government
(ii)
Discontinuing
the provision of ex-gratia in lieu of Compassionate Appointment in PSBs.
(iii)
The Scheme
shall be applicable from 5.8.2014.
3. We enclose a copy of the Scheme for adoption in your Bank
with approval of the Board of the Bank.
Yours
faithfully,
Deputy
Chief Executive
Encl.
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SCHEME FOR
COMPASSIONATE APPOINTMENT IN PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS
(w.e.f. 5.8.2014 vide
Ministry of Finance D.O.F.No.18/2/2013-IR dated 7.8.2014)
1. COVERAGE
1.1.
To
a dependent family member of permanent employee of a Public Sector Bank(PSB ) who -
a) dies while in service (including death by
suicide)
b) is
retired on medical grounds due to incapacitation before reaching the age
of 55 years.
(incapacitation
is to be certified by a duly appointed Medical Board in a Government Medical
College/Government District Head Quarters Hospitals/Panel of Doctors nominated
by the Bank for the purpose).
1.2.
For
the purpose of the Scheme, “employee” would mean and include only a confirmed
regular employee who was serving full time or part-time on scale wages, at the
time of death/retirement on medical grounds, before reaching age of 55 years
and does not include any one engaged on contract/temporary/casual or any person
who is paid on commission basis.
2.
DEPENDENT FAMILY MEMBER
2.1. Spouse; or
2.2. Wholly dependent son(including legally adopted
son); or
2.3. Wholly dependent daughter (including legally
adopted daughter); or
2.4. Wholly dependent brother or sister in the case of unmarried employee
3.
AUTHORITY COMPETENT TO MAKE
COMPASSIONATE APPOINTMENT
3.1 Chairman & Managing Director.
3.2. Executive Director
holding current charge of Chairman & Managing Director.
3.3. Board of Directors
in special types of cases.
3.4.
While dealing with proposals for appointment on compassionate grounds in
otherwise eligible cases, where disciplinary action was pending against the
deceased employee/employee retired on medical grounds or if the deceased
employee was involved in serious financial irregularities, embezzlement of
funds, committing frauds, etc., banks will continue to abide by the guidelines
issued by the Government of India, requiring consideration and decision in each
case by the Board of the Bank/Authority appointed by the Board.
4.
POSTS TO WHICH APPOINTMENTS CAN BE
MADE
4.1. The appointment shall be made in the clerical and sub-staff cadre only.
5.
ELIGIBILITY
5.1. The family is indigent and deserves immediate
assistance for relief from financial destitution; and
5.2. Applicant for compassionate appointment
should be eligible and suitable for the post in all respects under the
provisions of the relevant Recruitment Rules.
6.
EXEMPTIONS
6.1. Compassionate Appointment under the
Scheme are exempted from observance of the following requirements:
6.1.1.
Normal
Recruitment Procedure i.e., without the agency of selection like
IBPS/Employment Exchange, Recruitment Board of Bank, etc.
6.1.2.
The
ban orders on filling up of posts issued by Government of India or any
controlling authority.
7.
RELAXATIONS
7.1.
Upper
age limit could be relaxed wherever found to be necessary. The lower age limit should, however, in no
case be relaxed below 18 years of age.
(Note-1:
Age eligibility shall be determined with reference to the date of application
and not the date of appointment;
Note-2: Authority competent to take a final
decision for making compassionate appointment in a case shall be competent to
grant relaxation of age limit also for making such appointment).
8. TIME
LIMIT FOR CONSIDERING APPLICATIONS
8.1. Application for employment under the
Scheme from eligible dependent should normally be considered upto five years
from the date of death or retirement on medical grounds and decision to be
taken on merit in each case.
8.2. However, Bank can consider request for
compassionate appointment even when the death or retirement on medical grounds
of the employee took place long back, even five years ago. While considering such belated requests, it
should, however, be kept in view that the concept of compassionate appointment
is largely related to the need for immediate assistance to the family of the
employee in order to relieve it from economic distress. The very fact that the family has been able
to manage somehow all these years should normally be taken as adequate proof
that the family had some dependable means of subsistence. Therefore, examination of such cases would
call for a great deal of circumspection.
The decision to make appointment on compassionate grounds in such cases
may, therefore, be taken only at the Board level.
9. DETERMINATION/AVAILABILITY
OF VACANCIES
9.1. Appointment on compassionate grounds
should be made only on regular basis and that too, only if regular vacancies
meant for that purpose are available.
9.2. Compassionate appointment can be made
upto a maximum of 5% of vacancies falling under direct recruitment quota in
clerical cadre or vacancies identified in the sub-staff category. The Bank may hold back 5% of vacancies in the
aforesaid categories to be filled by appointment on compassionate grounds. A person selected for appointment on
compassionate grounds should be adjusted in the recruitment roster against
appropriate category, viz., SC/ST/OBC/General Category, depending upon the
category to which he/she belongs.
9.3. Widow appointed on compassionate ground
upon re-marriage will be allowed to continue in service, even after
re-marriage.
10.
WHERE THERE IS AN EARNING MEMBER
10.1. In deserving cases, even when there
is already an earning member in the family, a dependent family member may be
considered for compassionate appointment with the prior approval of the
competent authority of the bank who, before approving such appointment, will
satisfy himself that grant of compassionate appointment is justified, having
regard to the number of dependents, assets and liabilities left by the
employee, income of the earning member
as also his liabilities including the fact that the earning member is
residing with the family of the employee and whether he should not be a source
of support to other members of the family.
10.2. In cases where any member of the
family of the deceased or medically retired employee is already in employment
and is not supporting the other members of the family of the deceased employee,
extreme caution has to be observed in ascertaining the economic distress of the
members of the family of the deceased employee so that, the facility of
appointment on compassionate ground is not circumvented and misused by putting
forward the ground that the member of the family already employed is not
supporting the family.
11. MISSING EMPLOYEE
Cases
of missing employees are also covered under the scheme for compassionate
appointment subject to the following conditions:-
11.1.
A
request to grant the benefit of compassionate appointment can be considered
only after a lapse of at least 2 years from the date from which the Employee
has been missing, provided that:
(i)
an
FIR to this effect has been lodged with the Police,
(ii)
the
missing person is not traceable, and
(iii)
the
competent authority feels that the case is genuine;
11.2. This benefit will not be applicable
to the case of an Employee:-
(i) who had less than two years to retire
on the date from which he has been missing; or
(ii) who is suspected to have committed
fraud, or suspected to have joined any terrorist organisation or suspected to
have gone abroad.
11.3. Compassionate appointment in the case
of a missing employee also would not be a matter of right as in the case of
others and it will be subject to fulfilment of all the conditions, including
the availability of vacancy, laid down for such appointment under the scheme;
11.4. While considering such a request, the
results of the Police investigation should also be taken into account; and
11.5. A decision on any such request for
compassionate appointment should be taken only at the level of the Chairman
& Managing Director of the Bank.”
12.
PROCEDURE
a)
The
prescribed proforma may be used by the bank for ascertaining necessary
information and processing the cases of compassionate appointment.
b)
The
Officer from the Staff Welfare Department of the Bank should meet the members
of the family of the employee in question immediately after his death to advise
and assist to them in getting appointment on compassionate ground. The applicant should be called in person at
the very first stage and advised in person about the requirements and
formalities to be completed by him/her.
c)
An
application for appointment on compassionate ground should be considered by the
Committee of officers consisting of three officers; one Chairman and two
members in the rank of Deputy General Manager/Assistant General Managers. The Officer from the staff welfare department
may also be made one of the members of the Committee, depending upon his
rank. The Committee may meet during the
second week of every month to consider cases received during the previous
month. The applicant may also be granted
personal hearing by the committee, if necessary, for better appreciation of
facts of the case. The recommendation of
the committee should be placed before the Competent Authority for a
decision. If the Competent Authority
disagrees with the committee’s recommendation, the case may be referred to the
higher authority for a decision.
13. UNDERTAKING
FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED EMPLOYEE
The person
appointed on compassionate grounds under the Scheme, should give an undertaking
in writing (as in Annexure) that
he/she will maintain properly the other family members who were dependent on
the deceased employee in question, and in case it is proved subsequently (at
any time) that the family members are being neglected or are not maintained
properly by him/her, his or her appointment may be terminated forthwith. This clause should be incorporated as one of
the conditions in the offer of appointment applicable only in the case of
appointment on compassionate ground.
14. REQUEST
FOR CHANGE IN POST/PERSON
When a
person has been appointed on compassionate ground to a particular post, the set
of circumstances, which led to such appointment should be deemed to have ceased
to exist. Therefore –
a)
He/she should strive in his/her career like
his/her colleagues for future advancement and any request for appointment to
any higher post on considerations of compassion should invariably be rejected.
b)
An
appointment on compassionate ground cannot be transferred to any other person
and any request for the same on consideration of compassion should invariably
be rejected.
15. SENIORITY
A person
appointed on compassionate ground in a particular year may be placed at the
bottom of all the candidates recruited/appointed through direct recruitment,
promotion, etc. in that year, irrespective of the date of joining of the
candidate on compassionate ground.
16. TERMINATION
OF SERVICE
The
compassionate appointment can be terminated on the ground of non-compliance of
any condition stated in the offer of appointment after providing an opportunity
to the compassionate appointee by way of issue of show cause notice asking
him/her to explain why his/her services should not be terminated for
non-compliance of the condition(s) in the offer of appointment and it is not
necessary to follow the procedure prescribed in the Disciplinary Action and
Procedure therefor.
In order to
check its misuse, the power of termination of service for non-compliance of the
conditions in the offer of compassionate appointment should vest only with the
CMD of the Bank.
17. GENERAL
i)
Appointment
made on grounds of compassion should be done in such a way that persons
appointed to the post do have the essential educational and technical
qualifications and experience required for the post consistent with the
requirement of maintenance of efficiency of administration.
ii)
It
is not the intention to restrict employment of a family member of the deceased
or medically retired sub-staff employee to an erstwhile sub-staff post only. As
such, a family member of such erstwhile sub-staff employee can be appointed to
a clerical post for which he/she is educationally qualified, provided a vacancy
in clerical post exists for this purpose.
iii)
An
application for compassionate appointment should, however, not be rejected
merely on the ground that the family of the employee has received the benefits
under the various welfare schemes. While
considering a request for appointment on compassionate ground a balanced and
objective assessment of the financial condition of the family has to be made
taking into account its assets and liabilities (including the benefits received
under the various welfare schemes mentioned above) and all other relevant
factors such as the presence of an earning member, size of the family etc.
iv)
Compassionate
appointment should be made available to the person concerned if there is a
vacancy meant for compassionate appointment and he or she is found eligible and
suitable under the scheme.
v)
Requests
for compassionate appointment consequent on death or retirement on medical
grounds of erstwhile sub-staff may be considered with greater sympathy by
applying relaxed standards depending on the facts and circumstances of the
case.
vi)
Compassionate
appointment will have precedence over absorption of surplus employees and
regularization of temporary employees.
ANNEXURE
PROFORMA REGARDING EMPLOYMENT OF DEPENDENTS OF BANK
EMPLOYEE
DYING WHILE IN SERVICE/RETIRED ON MEDICAL GROUNDS
(Deceased/retired on medical grounds)
(b) Designation ______________________________
(c) Date of birth of the deceased/retired employee ______________________________
(d) Date of death/retirement on medical grounds _______________________________
(e) Total length of Service rendered. _______________________________
(f) Whether permanent or temporary ______________________________
(h) Whether belonging to SC/ST/OBC. _______________________________
II. (a) Name of the candidate for appointment. _______________________________
(b) His/Her relationship with the deceased/retired
employee _______________________________
(c) Date of birth _______________________________
(d) Educational Qualifications. _______________________________
(e) Whether any other dependent family member has
been appointed on compassionate grounds
______________________________
III. Particulars of total assets left including amount of ______________________________
(a) Family Pension
______________________________
(b) Gratuity
______________________________
(c) Provident Fund Balance _______________________________
(d) Life Insurance Policies
(including
Postal Life Insurance) _______________________________
(e) Moveable and Immovable properties and
annual
income earned therefrom by the family _______________________________
(f) Insurance _______________________________
(g) Encashment of leave _______________________________
(h) Any other assets. _______________________________
Total _______________________________
IV. Brief particular of liabilities, if any ______________________________________________________
V. Particulars of all dependent family members of the deceased
employee
(if some are employed, their income and whether they are living together or separately)
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VI. DECLARATION/UNDERTAKING
1. I hereby
declare that the facts given by me above are, to the best of my knowledge,
correct. If any of the facts herein mentioned are found to be incorrect or
false at a future date, my services may be terminated.
2 I hereby also declare that I
shall maintain properly the other family members who were dependent on the deceased
employee mentioned against 1(a) of Part-A of this form and in case it is proved
at any time that the said family members are being neglected or not being
properly maintained by me, my appointment may be terminated.
Date:
Signature of the candidate
Name
: __________________________
Address
: ________________________
__________________________
Shri/Smt/Kum___________________________________________is
known to me and the facts mentioned by him/her are correct and verified by me.
Date: Signature
of witness*
Name :
__________________________
Address:
_________________________
__________________________
___________________________
* either any employee in the Senior level of
Bank or Gazetted rank official from State/Central Government.
PART-B
(TO BE FILLED IN BY OFFICE IN WHICH EMPLOYMENT IS
PROPOSED)
(b) His/Her relationship with the deceased/retired employee________________________________
(c) Age (date of birth), educational qualifications
____________________________________
and experience, if
any
____________________________________
____________________________________
(d) Post for which employment is proposed ____________________________________
(e) Whether there is vacancy in that post within the
ceiling of 5% prescribed under the scheme of ____________________________________
compassionate appointment.
(f) Whether the candidate fulfils the requirements of the ___________________________________
Recruitment Rules for
the post.
(g) Apart from waiver of recruitment procedure
what other relaxation are to be given ____________________________________
II. Whether the facts mentioned in Part-A have been
verified by the office and if so, indicate the records ____________________________________
III. Personal recommendation of the Competent
Authority ____________________________________
(With his signature and office stamp/seal)
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