No. CC/ATCG/OPR-MAN/2017/04

A ·· J / The Chairman ~~Airports Authority of India ~ Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan

New Delhi -110 003.

ern], lll dIll I d ~?I<P 111 C'~ (1lR(f) AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS' GUILD (INDIA)

091h October, 2017

Creation of posts in Department of ATM- Executive Director (E-9) and General Manager (E-8).

Sir,

A TC Guild expresses its heartfelt thanks to AAI management for creation posts in Deptt. of A TM at the level of Executive Director (E-9) - 02 posts and General Manager (E-8)- 08 posts. These posts have been created after getting approval from the Ministry of Civil Aviation based on the requests by Airports Authority of India vide letter F. No. A.60011/05/2015/MPP, dated 301h October, 2015 wherein the following proposals were made for ATM cadre:

Posts Year wise creation ATM 2013 2014 2015 2016 Total Executive Director 01 01 01 01 04 (E-9 level) General Manager 09 04 02 08 23 (E-8) level

2. As you are aware, during the ICAO USOAP Audit in 2006, huge shortage of ATCOs was pointed out and AAI was asked to fill this gap at the earliest. Consequent to this, under the USTDA, AAI appointed Washington Consultancy Group (WCG) to assist AAI to plan for the staffing of Air Traffic Control Officers in order to ensure safe and efficient management of Indian Air Space. The AAI Board had accepted the recommendations in its 1561h Board (September, 2013) and 1571h Board meeting in December, 2013 and as decided by the sub-committee of the AAI Board, had approved the creation of posts from E-1 to E-9, which V'las to be filled up year-wise from 2013 to 2016. The Sub-Committee of the AAI Board was comprised of the then Member (HR), Member (Finance) and Member (ANS) which have substantially downsized the numbers and ultimately after deliberations in several AAI Board meetings, the short term and near term manpower requirement was approved. The sub-committee had proposed creation of additional 04 ED and 45 GM posts.

3. Even though, the AAI Board approved the creation of posts in December, 2013, the proposal for concurrence of Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) was submitted on 301h

October, 2015, after a gap of nearly 02 years.

4. On 041h August 2017, competent authority has approved the creation of 02 no. posts

of ED and 08 posts of GM in the A TM Directorate against the AAI recommended 04 no. of EDs and 23 no. of GMs (posts created in 2013). It is also worth to mention that the ministry concurred posts include 01 post of ED and 01 post of GM for the Certification of A TS Personnel (CAP) Directorate, which was not at all a part of creation of post by the AAI Board in 2013.

5. It is understood that the justification for the posts was made by M/s McKinsey, an agency not having any expertise in ATM staffing.

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6. There have been many new areas of functioning in the A TM Directorate which are of national and international importance. For example, introduction of two stream ratings, certification of A TS Pers01mel, training of 1 ,000 newly recruited ATCOs in the last one and half years, commissioning of many new equipments, introduction of new procedures for operational efficiency and capacity enhancement etc.

7. It is disappointing and disheartening to see that care is not being taken to address the stagnation issues in A TM directorate. The situation is so precarious that officers recruited by NAA (through an advertisement in 1986 as Aerodrome officers, E-3 equivalent) are Jt. GMs whereas in other disciplines like Engineering, finance and HR, who so ever joined 6-10 years after them have already become General Manager 3-4 years back and some are also Executive Directors. (Some data provided in Annexure-1)

8. All promoted to the grade of General Managers in recent years in various disciplines were much junior to the direct recruit officers in ATM Directorate. Some recruited as non­executives, after the recruitment of aerodrome officers, have become General Managers. This is a big disgrace to the individuals as well as to the organization where the HR Directorate has been found wanting to mitigate the situation.

9. Referring the issue of justification of GM (ATM) posts created by the AAI Board to Mls McKinsey is inexplicable and unacceptable simply because of the facts that all these activities are being tailor-made to deny the due to ATM executives.

10. The structural ratio i.e. the sanctioned strength of total number of executives to the sanctioned strength of GM and ED in A TM discipline is alarmingly low in ATM Directorate vis-a-vis other disciplines. (Annexure- II)

11. It is requested to impress upon Ministry for the approval of the posts created by the AAI Board in 2013.

Assuring you of our best cooperation of all times and offering to discuss this issue to arrest the growing demoralization, resentment and demotivation.

With0f~

(D K Behera) General Secretary

Copy to:

The Member ;{;;irports Authority of India:

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for information and necessary action

Annexure- 1

Sl. No. Name Designation Date of Date of Remarks joining in joining in

S/Shri AAI resent grade

1 B. Murugan GM (Engg.-E) 14.06.1988 24.04.2009 2 . AKAgarwal GM (Engg.-E) 14.09.1989 3 Sanjay Jain GM (Engg.-E) 25.01.1989 10.04.2009 ED (HR) 4 AK Sharma GM (Engg.-E) 04.01.1989 07.07.2006 ED 5 Chander Shekhar GM (Engg.-E) 01.12.1988 13.04.2009 6 G Chandrmouli GM (Engg.-E) 15.09.1989 25.10.2010 ED 7 BPS Gaur GM (Engg.-E) 22.02.1990 30.06.2011 8 Rakesh Kalra GM (Engg.-E) 26.12.1988 28.05.2007 ED 9 K. L. Sharma GM (Engg.-E) 16.03.1989 16.04.2009 ED 10 Anil Kumar Pathak GM (Engg.-C) 30.01.1989 12.07.2006 ED 11 SRK Sudhakar GM (Engg.-C) 04.04.1990 17.07.2006 ED 12 NK Shukla GM (Engg.-C) 02.01.1989 29.07.2006 13 KK singh GM (Engg.-C) 02.01.1989 23.05.2007 14 SK Vyawahare GM (Engg.-C) 08.10.1961 13.04.2009 15 S. Sree Kumar GM (Engg.-C) 05.12.1989 18.06.2009 ED 16 GD Gupta GM (Engg.-C) 20.09.1989 27.04.2009 17 R.K. Nirwal GM (Engg.-C) 23.12.1981 22.12.2009 18 HS Balhara GM (Engg.-C) 01.02.1989 25.10.2010 19 MNNRao GM (Engg.-C) 18.02.1991 25.10.2010 20 Pradeep Kumar GM (Engg.-C) 20.06.1990 30.06.2011 21 KP Jose GM (Engg.-C) 31.07.1990 30.06.2011 22 SP Yadav GM (Engg.-C) 29.06.1990 30.06.2011 23 Anil Kumar Gupta GM (Engg.-C) 08.09.1990 30.06.2011 24 Sanjiv Jindal GM (Engg.-C) 19.10.1994 30.06.2011 25 DKKamra GM (Engg.-C) 15.11.1994 30.06.2011 ED 26 Vivek Upadhyay GM (Engg.-C) 01.01.1991 30.06.2011 27 Gautam Biswas GM (Engg.-C) 27.05.1988 05.09.2014 ED 28 Pradee Sharma GM (Engg.-C) 11.04.1988 20.07.2015 29 MK Abdul Azeez GM (Engg.-C) 19.05.1989 13.07.2015 30 Somnath Dass GM (Engg.-C) 20.06.1990 31.07.2015 31 ADKannan GM (Engg.-C) 09.07.1979 06.08.2015 32 Sanmukh Jugani GM (Engg.-C) 22.02.1989 04.08.2015 33 G Rajsekhar GM (Engg.-C) 22.02.1989 06.08.2015 34 R. Madhavan GM(finance) 08.04.1994 12.07.2011 35 Uendra Nath GM(Finance) 27.05.1992 12.07.2011

Upadhayay 36 Vijay kumar GM(finance) 01.03.1990 24.07.2012 37 Dharmendra GM(Finance) 24.01.1994 01.07.2014

Bhjwani

38 KS Sivakumar GM_(finance) 01.03.1990 08.06.2015 39 CV Deepak GM(Finance) 07.1 1. 1995 22.05.2015 40 J . Bala Sekar OM( finance) 08.12.1995 22.05.2015 41 V. Vidya GM(Finance) 05.03.1990 05.06.2015 42 Matyajeet Paul GM(Finance) 06.01.1990 04.10.2017 43 G. Jayshree GM(Finance) 05.03.1990 04.10.2017 44 JB Saini GM(Financ~ 27.04.1998 04.10.2017 45 Pawan Aggarwal GM(Finance) 30.04.1992 04.10.2017 46 R. Ramani GM(Finance) 02.10.1984 04.10.2017 47 Balwant Singh GM(Finance) 09.03.1993 04.10.2017

L. Kupulingam GM(Finance) 05.01.1996 04.10.2017 48 JK Goel GM_(HR) 17.08.1982 16.06.2011 49 R. Prabhu GM(HR) 15.03.1994 12.05.2015 50 Maya Lavania GM(HR) 27.11.1995 11.05.2015 51 Nivedita Dubey GM(HR) 27.11.1995 18.02.2016 52 Harbir Singh GM(HR) 11.05.1984 28.01.2016 53 K Nagraj GM_(HRJ 01.10.1996 30.06.2016 54 Gyan Batra GM(HR) 09.07.1990 01.07.2017 55 Rakesh Singh GM (Ops.) 28.01.1985 29.10.2010 ED 56 Ashok Srivastava GM (Ops.) 26.07.1985 24.04.2011 57 TE Ramgopal GM (Ops.) 21.10.1985 01.07.2014 58 KK Shobhy GM (Ops.) 04.11.1994 01.07.2014 59 VA Churey GM (Qps.) 02.05.1989 01.07.2014 60 Anil Garg GM (Ops.) 02.05.1989 01.07.2014 61 SS Balan GMJO_l)_sJ 02.05.1989 16.12.2016

Note : Many Joined in the grade of E-1 or as non-executives.

Annexure - II

Sanctioned strength of executives- GM for various Directorates:

Cadre Sanctioned Strength Total No. of GM Ratio executives {GM to total number

of executives in the Directorate)

HR 806 10 0.012 Finance 600 16 0.026 Engineering 1979 45 0.022 ATM 3901 30 0.007 CNS 3826 33 0.008 Operations 823 11 0.013 Airport System 81 2 0.024 IT 111 1 0.009 Commercial 1-44 1 0.006 Land Management 60 2 0.033

Cargo 182 3 0.016 Security 179 1 0.005 Technical 134 3 0.022 Law 63 2 0.031 PR 20 1 0.050 CP&MS 35 2 0.057