NABARD Officers Association calls for strike against wage revision order on Dec 16

New Delhi, Dec 15 (KNN) With the aim to protest against the anomalies in the wage revision created by an order issued by the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance, the All India NABARD Officers’ Association (AINBOA) have called for a full day strike on 16 December 2022, according to a report in The Hindu.

The NABARD officers have been on agitation ever since the DFS order was issued on September 14 followed by the administrative circular on September 21 to implement the order.

The order introduced dual and differentiated pay for the same cadre of officers - higher for those who had come from Reserve Bank of India at the formation of NABARD in 1982 and lower for those directly recruited by NABARD.

One of the allowances reduced is Grade Allowance which is paid as per the grade of an officer. However, according to the DFS order, officers in lower grades are drawing higher grade allowance than officers in higher grade thereby making a mockery of the nomenclature “grade”.

This is in contravention to ‘equal pay for equal work’ in the same organization.

According to an official release, after many representations and rounds of dialogues with the officials of DFS over last two months (as there is no regular chairman in NABARD at present and an Additional Secretary of DFS is in interim charge since August 1, 2022), they are left with no other choice but to go on strike which will be followed by a march to Parliament and hunger strike.  (KNN Bureau)