Fraud Corporation of India ( FCI
) ?
No
, I have not given that name to the Food Corporation of India
It
is none other than the Supreme Court of
India , which seems to think so !
Following
are the " reasons " ( as reported in Times
of India , a few weeks back ) :
#
On Jan 09 , SC said, " there was something
seriously wrong with the FCI where 370 departmental labour
were each paid Rs 4.5 lakh a month , a salary
much more than the President of India "
#
Report of a high level committee said ,
* Rs 1800 crore salary bill for
labourers in FCI , was unacceptable
* Apart from these 370 , there
were other departmental labourers who earned a monthly average salary of
Rs 80,000 and
that in contrast, the Contractual Labourers doing the same job earned Rs 10,000
per month
#
Vikram Singh Jangra ( advocate for FCI ) admitted
that the average cost per month per worker was Rs 80000/-
#
Supreme Court remarked :
" They are just loading and unloading sacks of
food grain. How are they paid so much when the Contractual
Labour for the same job gets paid Rs
10,000 ? This means there must be many who must be subletting the
work to the Contractual Labourers and
drawing salary without doing anything "
# The Government admitted :
Those drawing salaries in lakhs had actually
engaged Contractual Labourers .
#
Amit Sibal ( advocate for FCI Workers Union ) said
:
* Since the salaries could not be paid to the
Contractual Labourers , the departmental labourer who engaged
them was collecting the entire
money for their behalf, showing erroneously that a single departmental labourer
was drawing hefty salary
#
Earlier , the Bombay High Court had passed
following directions to FCI :
* Reduce the mind-boggling
incentive scheme prevalent in FCI
* Make the labourers jobs
transferable
* Abolish depots
* Abolish the system of
departmental labourers in phases
#
Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar informed SC :
The Centre has issued a notification on
July 06, to revert to Contractual Labourers for loading and unloading
of food grains sacks at FCI depots
MISSING LINKS :
#
What punishment , if any , was handed out to those
" Labour Department Supervisors " who ,
* failed to mark as " absent " those departmental labourers and
instead marked them as " present
"
* allowed entry to those
Contractual Labourers , who were NOT engaged " directly " by FCI
#
Does the Central Government notification , violate
the " Contract Labour Abolition and
Regulation Act " ,
which stipulates monthly wages to
Contract Labourers equal to those paid to regular workers at the bottom of
the scale ?
#
If regular workers are to be replaced by the
Contract Labourers , what will those 370 regular workers do ?
I suppose , they will continue to draw
their wages ( obviously , much higher than the monthly average of
Rs 80,000 ) for playing cards in FCI premises !
#
Do FCI have any established ," Productivity Standards" for " Tons
of grains loaded / unloaded per work-day " ?
#
What are the " Permanent Workers / Contractual
Workers / Total Wage Bill / Ave wage per worker per month "
scenarios in other Government
Corporations such as STC / MMTC / ASI / GSI
and hundreds of PSUs ?
It
is high time , our decades old " National
Productivity Council - NPC " is requested to carry out an
exhaustive work-measurement study of ALL such Corporations and establish clear OUTPUT PER WORK-HOUR norms
#
Annual Salary Bill of the Central Government ( for 39 lakh employees in 2016-17
) is Rs 183,936 Crore
Government could easily save 5 % of that bill ( = Rs 9,197 Cr ) , by simply
implementing MAD ( Mobile
Attendance Device ) described in my following email to the NDA Ministers / MPs
on 01 June 2016 :
" From
BAD to MAD "
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03
Aug 2016
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parekh
Marol
, Mumbai , India
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