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In our last issue of CONTACT, we highlighted how the 20th March 2018 Judgement of the two

Judge Bench of Hon’ble Supreme Court comprising Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit has diluted the provisions of The Scheduled Castes and The Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 causing serious apprehension among the Adivasis and the Dalits including SC/STs that the Order of the Top Court will lead to more discrimination and crime against the backward communities. However, witnessing the resentment of SC/ ST Communities in the Country, the Government passed “THE SCHEDULED CASTES AND THE SCHEDULED TRIBES (PREVENTION OF ATROCITIES) AMENDMENT ACT, 2018 on 17th August 2018. As per sub clause 2 under clause 1 this Act shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notifi cation in the Offi cial Gazette, appoint. Unfortunately, no such notifi cation has been issued by the Central Government in that effect till date. Thereby, the SC/ST Community in the Country have been deceived.

In another blow to Reservation System more particularly in the reservation in faculty positions in higher-educational Institutes, on 22nd January this year, the Hon’ble Supreme Court had dismissed a Special Leave Petition challenging the system of imposition of what is popularly being called the 13- Point Roster- a new method to appoint teaching faculty which will signifi cantly reduce seats for candidates from the SC, ST and OBC communities across the country.

In the 13-Point Roster, a position for any reserved group is reached by dividing 100 by the percentage of the quota that the group is entitled to. For example, the OBC quota is 27%, therefore, they get 100/27 = 3.7, that is, every 4th post for which a vacancy arises. SCs,

likewise, get every 100/15 = 6.66, that is, every 7th post, and STs get 100/7.5 = 13.33, that is, every 14th vacancy. Thus, the lower the percentage of reservation provided to a category, the longer it will take for a candidate from that category to be appointed to a reserved post.

As per the formula for determining reserved posts, it is only after 13.33 positions (14 in round fi gure) are fi lled that every reserved category gets at least one post. The expression “13-point roster” refl ects the fact that 13.33 (or 14) vacancies are required to complete one cycle of reservations. Based on this, every 4th, 7th, 8th, 12th, and 14th vacancies are reserved for OBCs, SCs, OBCs, OBCs, STs respectively in the 13-point roster. Which means, in “13-Point Roster” (i) there is no reservation for the fi rst 3 positions and (ii) even in the full cycle of 14 positions, only fi ve posts or 35.7% go to the reserved categories, which is far short of the constitutionally mandated ceiling of 49.5% (27% + 15% + 7.5%).

In 200-Point Roster, all reserved categories can get their constitutionally mandated quantum of reservation Once 200 seats are fi lled i.e. out of 200 posts, 101 would go to unreserved while the remaining 99 would be split among SC, ST and OBC candidates as per the mandated 15%, 7.5% and 27% respectively. And since no single department in an institution can have 200 seats, it made sense to treat the whole institution/university (rather than the department) as the ‘unit’ to calculate the quota.

All central universities adopted the 200-Point Roster System by 2014 of implementing reservations by considering a college or university as one ‘Unit’ for calculating the number of reserved seats. But in April 2017, Allahabad High Court struck down the 200-point

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roster, saying “If the University is taken as a ‘Unit’ for every level of teaching and applying the roster, it could result in some departments/subjects having all reserved candidates and some having only unreserved candidates.”

The Supreme Court upheld this decision, the UGC notifi ed changes to its guidelines, directing universities to treat the department, rather than the university or college, as the ‘unit’, thus bringing back the 13-point system.

A glimpse of the future effect of the 13-point roster is visible in the advertisements for faculty positions after the UGC’s March 5, 2018 notifi cation. Central University of Haryana reportedly advertised 80 seats, but none for SCs, STs, and OBCs. IGNTU (Amarkantak) reportedly advertised only one reserved post against total posts of 52, and Central University of Tamil Nadu reportedly advertised only 2 reserved posts against total posts of 65.

Following a furore and wide spread protests and demand to scrap the 13-point roster and to pass a bill to reinstate the previous 200 point roster system, the Centre moved a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme

Court in April, 2018. The court rejected the petition in January 2019. Subsequently, the Cabinet cleared an ordinance to bring back the 200-point roster. But the ordinance was reportedly challenged in the court the very next day.

Now all the SC, ST and OBC communities across the country are having serious apprehension of imposition and implementation of the 13-Point Roster and further dilution of reservation in other departments too. Much will depend upon the sincerity of the Central Government in bringing back the 200-Point Roster to allay the fear and apprehension of all the backward communities. An united and concerted action at the National Level by all the organizations representing the SC, ST and OBC communities may compel the centre to expedite the process.

In this 128th Birth Anniversary of the greatest son of India Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, we therefore need to strengthen the movement for equality in the path shown by him.

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RESERVATION TO ECONOMICALLY WEAKER SECTIONS (EWSs) IS

DILUTING THE FUNDAMANTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION

The concept of Reservation is envisaged under Article 16(4) of the Constitution of India which states, “Nothing in this Article shall prevent the State from making any provision for

reservation of appointment or posts in favour of any Backward Class of citizens which in the opinion of the State, is not adequately represented in services under the State”. Through incorporation of this important Article in the Constitution, Dr B.R Ambedkar not only introduced reservation of appointments but also In Posts. The words ‘posts’ in Article 16(4) ensured reservation in all positions. Thus, reservation in promotion is not a barrier.

In Indra Sawhney case in 1992, the Supreme Court declared that the above Article 16(4) does not cover Reservation in Promotion. This prompted the Government of India to

bring the 77th (seventy seventh) Constitution Amendment Act through which Article 16(4)(A) was inserted in the Constitution. This Article reads as, “Nothing in this Article shall prevent the state from making any provision for reservation in matters of promotion, with consequential seniority, to any class or classes of post in the services under the state in favour of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes which, in the opinion of the State, are not adequately represented in the services under the State”.

Hence, the original Article 16(4) which provided Reservation of Appointments

or Posts in favour of any Backward Class of Citizens got mention of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes through insertion of Article 16(4)(A) in the Constitution of India. The Constitution has therefore no provision for Reservation in favour of Economically Weaker Sections (EWSs). There is no stigma associated with poverty, i.e. rich and poor which is associated with Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. As a result of linking Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe status with birth, even if the economic conditions of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe is improved, the stigma with caste or tribe remains till death. Similar is not the situation with rich and poor. The Government passed the Economically Weaker Sections Reservation Bill in an unprecedented speed, without incorporating such a provision in the Constitution of India through suitable Constitutional Amendment Act. With a view to nullify the Hon’ble Supreme Court judgement of 1992 fixing ceiling on maximum reservation to 50% which became the law of the land under Article 142 of Constitution of India and Government OM number 5(2)-72/IR dated 26.04.1972 fixing maximum quantum reservation to 50% Government should have promulgated an ordinance or passed an Act to remove this ceiling before making the EWSs Reservation Act. It has been

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passed in extreme haste. Thus this Act suffers from birth deformity.

If such reservation was targeted to address the poverty of the poor, the Government should have taken into account the families living below poverty line (BPL) which is estimated to be 29.8% of the total population as per Planning Commission Estimation. Out of this 29.8%, leaving the already covered reserved category of people if reservation was extended as a onetime measure for the rest, the society could have been benefited to a certain extent. But neither any fruitful discussion was initiated in the Parliament nor any prior information was circulated through media but the bill was passed. So the bill became subject to criticism as a political gimmick.

The Government miserably failed to initiate appropriate steps to implement reservation in private sector of the Country which contributes about 40% of the total employment of the Country. Implementation of Reservation in promotion through Constitution Amendment Act which was initiated by the previous Government (Constitution Amendment Bill 117) should have been passed by the present Government on urgent basis. No new posts at lower levels like Group C, Group D and various Grades of Officers in Public Sector, Banking Sector are created due to non promotion of those Grades employees to higher positions. Thus no initiative to maintain adequate representation as has been assured under Article 16(4)(A) of the Constitution of India is initiated by the Government of India. The proposed reservation in direct recruitment in Central Education Bill is also yet to get Government’s go ahead. This situation has forced many people to doubt the sincerity of the present Government for ensuring social justice by giving adequate representation of all sections of the population at all levels. The Government has also done nothing to increase the population employment ratio to create more employment opportunities for its citizens. Thus the reservation failed to yeild deserved results as engisaged in the Constitution.

The Government of India, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel & Training issued OM No.36039/1/2019-Estt(Res) dated 31.01.2019 releasing operating guidelines for implementation of Reservation for Economically Weaker Sections. The Government however has neither withdrawn the OM NO. 5(2)-72/IR dated 26.04.1972 issued in view of Hon’ble Supreme Court judgement nor has issued any instructions regarding the non operation of 50% ceiling on Reservation, thereby giving rise to large scale confusion. The model 200 points roster devised as per 2nd July 1997 Judgement of the Honourable Supreme Court of India has been also modified as per this O.M. by creating reserved points of EWSs in the said roster.

The criteria fixed by the said Act regarding Gross Annual Income is below Rs 8 Lakhs per annum. Also persons whose family owns or possesses any of the following assets shall be excluded from being identified as EWSs irrespective of family income:

i. 5 acres of agricultural land and above;

ii. Residential flat of 1000 sq. Ft. And above;

iii. Residential plot of 100 sq. Yards and above in notified municipalities.

iv. Residential plot of 200 sq. Yards and above in areas other than the notified municipalities.

Further, the property held by a “Family” in different locations or different places/cities would be clubbed while applying the land or property holding test to determine EWSs status. The term “Family” for this purpose will include the person who seeks benefit of reservation, his/her parents and siblings below the age of 18 years as also his/her spouse and children below the age of 18 years.

If the income distribution pattern of the Country is considered, almost 50% population of the Country will fall under this EWSs Criteria, but reservation is only for 10%. Thus, the system of Reservation to EWSs is bound to create an adverse impact on the fundamental Constitutional Principles on Reservation.

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CORPORATE LEVEL STRUCTURED MEETING HELD WITH CORPORATE LEVEL STRUCTURED MEETING HELD WITH OUR NATIONAL FEDERATION AT CORPORATE CENTER OUR NATIONAL FEDERATION AT CORPORATE CENTER

MUMBAI ON 30MUMBAI ON 30THTH MARCH 2019 MARCH 2019

Corporate level structured meeting with our National Federation was held at Corporate Centre on 30th March 2019. The Corporate Management team was represented by DMD (HR) & CDO, CGM (HR), GM (Law), Chief L.O. for SC/ST and GM (REHBU), DGM (IR), DGM (PM), AGM and Support Officer, Reservation Cell and other Corporate Center Officials. Our National Federation team was led by the Secretary General, National President and all Circle GSs and Presidents. The meeting took place in a very congenial atmosphere. The main issues discussed in the meeting are:

(1) Providing befitting office accommodation to National Federation at Corporate Centre and posting of our Chief Liaison Secretary thereat

which the Management agreed to consider.

(2) Implementation of reservation in promotion in all those grades where adequate representation of SC/ST has not been achieved. The deficit of SC/ST Officers at AGM and above level was a serious concern raised by the Federation in the meeting.

(3) The Concession for promotion from JMGS –I to MMGS-II in view of withdrawal of interview and our letter to the Chairman was discussed. The Management confirmed that the ZOS concept for SC/ST will be maintained in view of representation of our Federation. Thus the concession will continue.

(4) In response to our demand for 15 days Union leave to minimum 7 office bearers of each Circle

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and Transfer Immunity to our module level DGSs, the DMD & CDO suggested to arrange for a tripartite meeting with DFS officials to clarify the matter and proceed accordingly. The federation welcomed the proposal.

(5) In regard to our demand for implementing reservation in all temporary appointment the DMD & CDO confirmed that all Circles have been suitably advised to implement reservation in temporary appointment of retired officials. The Secretary General pointed out that with a view to non implement such reservations some Circles started daily basis appointment. The DMD & CDO clarified that no Circle can resort to such practices and action will be taken against such Circles.

(6) The periodicity of all quarterly meetings starting from Corporate level to A.O. level was raised in the meeting and the corporate management assured to abide by the GOI instructions.

(7) Extension of housing loan without creation of equitable mortgage to SC employees in notified scheduled areas in similar line with HBL to ST employees was raised in the meeting. The management agreed to consider the demand.

(8) The federation raised the issue of non inclusion of our representative when any policy is formulated or any change in the existing policy is made. The federation pointed out that as a result of such non inclusion, the interest of SC/ST employees in SBI is affected seriously. The 2003 career path as well as present change in the promotion policy etc

are glaring examples. The DMD (HR) & CDO advised that the matter may be clarified in the proposed tripartite meeting with DFS.

(9) The federation insisted strongly to send the recommendation to the Government of India for appointment of Director in the Central Board of the Bank as per our nomination. The Secretary General explained how the appointment of Director in the Central Board from among SC/ST employee will safeguard the interest of the downtrodden section of the Society as well as help the Bank towards fulfillment of its Social obligations. The DMD & CDO replied that some confusion in regard to modalities are to be clarified for which no recommendation for Director was sent by the Bank.

(10) Re-incorporation of SC/ST categories’ Status in HR Dashboard was insisted upon by our Federation which the DMD & CDO agreed after incorporation of certain checkpoints.

(11) The large backlog of ICT in clerical grade in Ahmedabad Circle was also raised in the meeting.

(12) Non selection of any ST candidate at Asstt. Grade in some of ST states like Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh and shortfall and backlog of ST was raised in the meeting which the management agreed to examine.

The meeting ended with vote of thanks extended by Chief L.O. and GM from Corporate Management side and Addl. Secretary General Com. Bansidhar Sethi from our Federation side.

“Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social

democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which

recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.”

Dr B R Ambedkar

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CORE COMMITTEE MEETING AND COURTESY VISIT TO OUR CHAIRMAN

CORE COMMITTEE MEETING HELD AT CORPORATE CENTRE ON 27TH DECEMBER 2018 WITH OUR NATIONAL FEDERATION

COURTESY VISIT TO OUR CHAIRMAN AT HIS CHAMBER ON 27TH DECEMBER 2018. OUR FEDERATION CONVEYED HIM GREETINGS OF OUR ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP AND HANDED OVER TO HIM THE NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS CARD. HE WAS VERY HAPPY FOR THE VISIT AND CONVEYED HIS GOOD WISHES TO US.

The Core Committee Meeting with our Federation took place at Corporate Centre on 27th December 2018. Our Core Committee comprises of National President, Sr. Vice President, Secretary General, Addl. Secretary General, Chief Liaison Secretary, Treasurer General and one member. All the Core Committee members were present in the meeting. The meeting first took an assessment of the steps taken as per last Corporate Level Structured Meeting. In the agenda of the meeting the federation raised inclusion of National Federation representatives in the discussion when any new policy is formulated or any change in the existing policy or agreement is made to safeguard the interest of SC/ST Employees. The Core Committee pursued for granting fifteen days union leave to seven of our office bearers in each Circle. Implementation of reservation in all temporary appointments including employment of retired employees was strongly insisted upon in the meeting. The Management agreed to implement the same. The Core Committee pointed out that transfer immunity to our module level Deputy General Secretaries of all Circles are still awaited which the Management agreed to examine. The Core Committee insisted on sending recommendation for appointment of Director in the Central Board of the Bank from among SC/ST as per instructions of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. The Management informed that still the modalities could not be fixed, however the matter is under consideration. The meeting took place in a very cordial atmosphere

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Our Managing Director, Retail & Digital Banking Shri Praveen Kumar Gupta visited Local Head Office on 16/03/2019. Our SEWA team welcomed him at Local Head Office in our traditional way with a flower bouquet, phoolam Japi and traditional tribal shawl as a mark of respect to him.

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On this 128th Birth Anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar let us have the glimpses of Baba Shaheb in the thoughts and the views of Columbia University said to have shaped America to lead the world. In the light of the Columbian Babasaheb let us make endeavor to see the light of modern India.

In the annals of Columbia University Ambedkar was a leader in the struggle for Indian independence, the architect of the new Nation’s Constitution, and the champion of civil rights for the 60 million members of the “untouchable” caste, to which he belonged. He spoke and wrote ceaselessly on behalf of “untouchables,” but his passion for justice was broad: in 1950 he resigned from his position as the country’s first minister of law when Nehru’s cabinet refused to pass the Women’s Rights Bill. Ambedkar was committed to maintaining his independence, and many of the positions he staked out in a long and complex relationship with Gandhi—on the future of Hinduism, for example—remain central to debate within Indian society.

Ambedkar received a scholarship to Columbia from the Maharaja of Baroda. He was awarded his Columbian PhD in Economics; earned his MA in 1915 and then DSc at London School of Economics before. In 1952, Columbia presented him with an honorary (honoris causa) Doctorate for his service as “a great social reformer and valiant upholder of human rights.” In 1995, a bronze bust of Ambedkar was donated to Lehman Library by the Federation of Ambedkarite and Buddhist Organisation of the United Kingdom.

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THE PERCEPTIVE OF MODERN INDIATHE PERCEPTIVE OF MODERN INDIA

At Columbia, Ambedkar studied under John Dewey,who inspired many of his ideas about equality and social justice. Ambedkar later recounted that at Columbia he experienced social equality for the first time. “The best friends I have had in my life,” he told the New York Times in 1930, “were some of my classmates at Columbia and my great professors, John Dewey, James Shotwell, Edwin Seligman and James Harvey Robinson.”

In 1936, Ambedkar wrote the Annihilation of Caste for a meeting

of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers. However, the group withdrew their invitation after

seeing the draft of his speech. As a result, Ambedkar published the work himself, and it became an

instant classic. The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning offers

an annotated version of the work at their Annihilation of Caste website. Columbia’s celebration of its 250th anniversary in 2004 included a profile of Ambedkar on its website.

AMBEDKAR’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAKING INDIA MODERN: Framing of the Constitution

Dr BR Ambedkar is rightly called the father of Indian Constitution due to his colossal contribution in making of the Constitution. He was the Chairman of the drafting committee which played a huge role in the drafting of the constitution. He studied the constitutions of various countries and introduced the best of the features that

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suited Indian context. He played a pivotal role in bringing in social justice to the Indian constitution. He emphasized that economic justice and social justice are indispensable to achieve political justice. He succeeded in providing basic rights to the depressed classes who were denied their basic rights and subjected to discrimination deprivation, exploitation and oppression for long. His commitment for the upliftment of the depressed classes can be seen when he promptly submitted his resignation from the post of the first Law Minister of independent India when some members of the constituent assembly objected to introduction of reservations for the backward classes. He also played an important role in formulating the directive principles of state policy and called it along with the fundamental rights as the soul of the Indian Constitution.

After the completion of his work on the Constitution of India, Dr.Babasaheb as he was fondly known by that name, said “I feel the Constitution is workable; it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the Country together both in peace time and in war time”.

Dr. Ambedkar was strictly opposed to Article 370, and a bold and honest person as he was, he had no reservations in explaining why:

“You wish India should protect your borders, she should build roads in your area, she should supply you food grains, and Kashmir should get equal status as India. But Government of India should have only limited powers and Indian people should have no rights in Kashmir. To give consent to this proposal, would be a treacherous thing against the interests of India and I, as the Law Minister of India, will never do it.”

This is what Dr. Ambedkar said to Sheikh Abdullah, the founder of National Conference, and one of the most prominent leaders of Kashmir at the time of Independence.

Dr. Babasaheb is one such great thinker, leader and intellectual of his time in India who has not only changed the life of millions of untouchables but shaped India as the biggest democratic nation by writing its Constitution. What is well known about Dr. Ambedkar is his fights against Caste system in India, But what is

not known is how Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had also Impacted the Indian economy.

Agriculture and land reforms

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had made in-depth study of Indian Agriculture, wrote research articles, organised Seminars and Conferences in order to solve the problems of agriculture and farmers, also led farmer’s movement. His thoughts on agriculture are found in his article “Small Holdings in Indian and their remedies”(1917) and also in “Status and minorities”(1947).

He mentioned that holding of lands by few people is an acute problem of Indian agriculture which has various disadvantages, like difficulties in cultivation and utilization and resources, increasing cost, low productivity, inadequate income and low standard of living. According to Dr. Ambedkar, Productivity of agriculture is related to not only with the size of holdings of land but also with other factors such as capital, labour and other inputs. Therefore, if capital or labour etc are not available in adequate quantity and quality, then even a large size land can becomes unproductive. On the other hand small size land become productive if these resources are available in plenty. With this thought the ‘Land Ceiling Act’ is passed after Independence.

He also mentioned about the slavery and exploitation of labour bounded under caste system is extremely bad for economical development and fought for its abolition.

His other suggestion for solving agricultural problem are collective farming, economic holding of land or equal distribution of land, Large scale industrialization, provision of money, water, seeds and fertilizers by the Government, cultivation of waste land by allotting waste land to landless labour, minimum wages to labours, control and regulation of private lenders of loan to farmers.

Dr Ambedkar’s concept of collective farming is flourishing in France and other parts of Europe to achieve food security. The idea of water resource management by Dr Ambedkar resulted in sustainable Multi Purpose River Project in Damodar Bhakra and Nangal and many others contributing to the economy of the country.

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India’s Currency Problems: the genesis of RBI

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s thoughts has a great impact on current Indian currency system. Under British rule when India Govt. was struggling with falling value of Indian Rupee, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in 1923 wrote ‘The problem of Rupee, its origin and solution’. He focused his studies and research on the condition of Indian currency during British India. He wrote research thesis on it. In his thesis, he argued that the gold exchange standard does not have stability. The developing countries like India cannot afford gold exchange standards, and besides this, it also increases the risk of inflation and price rise. He proved with statistics, data and reasons how the Indian Rupee has lost its value and hence the purchasing power of Rupee is falling. He suggested that govt. deficit should be regulated and money should have a circular flow. He also suggested more attention should be given on price stability than exchange rate stability.

This book as a memorandum was presented to Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance, also known as Hilton- Young Commission whose recommendation eventually led to the establishment of Reserve Bank of India which has proudly with stand every challenges of the economy of the country.

Ambedkar’s Principle on Taxation

Dr. Ambedkar expressed his views on taxation in the manifesto of ‘Swatantra Majdur Party’ in 1936. He opposed Land Revenue and its system and their taxes as the burden of these taxes are significant on the poor sections of the society. He suggested some taxes as follows.

Tax should be imposed on payer’s capacity and not on income.

Tax should be less on poor and more on rich.

Tax exemption should be given up-to certain limit.

There should be equality between different sections in tax imposition.

Tax should not lead to lowering the standard of life of the people.

Land Revenue tax should be more flexible and should

not belevied on agricultural land.

He suggested that Indian tax system at that time was based on discrimination and inequality.

Present Indian tax regime is almost based on the views of Dr Ambedkar only.

Nationalisation of Industries

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar thought that fast development of India is impossible without Industrialization. According to him creating large scale employment produces essential goods for mass consumption. It utilizes raw materials, reduces foreign dependence and increasing security to labour, ultimately leading to the overall economical development of the country. The private sector industries can not make big industries for want of large scale investments. So, government should come forward to start large scale industries. The smaller industries should be kept in private sector. The insurance and transport companies should be nationalized. Right to strike should be given to labourers. After the independence the industrial policy of the Indian government is in keeping with Dr. Ambedkar’s expectations.

Strategy for economic development

Dr. Ambedkar believed that the strategy for India’s Economic development should be based on eradication of poverty, elimination of inequities and ending exploitation of masses. He emphasized exploitation has many dimensions. In fact in India, social or religious exploitation is no less oppressive than economic exploitation and it should be eliminated.

Democratic State Socialism

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar has presented a Democratic State Socialism to the Constitution Committee. The main points are :

1) All basic industries should be owned and run by the state.

2) Insurance and agriculture should be nationalized and managed by the state.

3) Maintenance of Productive resources by state.

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4) Just Distribution of Common produce.

5) Provision for compensation of land or industry acquisition in the form of bonds.

6) The distribution of village and among the families in a village for collective farming

7) No discrimination as landlord, tenants and agriculture labours.

8) All agriculture input like capital, seeds, fertilizers etc would be provided to collective farming by the government.

9) Distribution of agriculture income only after payment of land revenue tax.

10) Punishment according to rules for those who do not follow

Dr. Ambedkar wanted this state socialism to be included in the Constitution so that no legislature could change or reject it. But it could not come into existence as the Constitution Committee rejected it. It is suggested that the conditions of labourers, farmers and poor people would have been different if this had not been rejected. But despite the rejection, the spirit Dr Babasaheb’s Democratic State Socialism is refulgent in the Preamble of the Constitution.

Free Enterprises Economy

It is surprising enough that Dr. Ambedkar had already suggested free economy, globalization, liberalization and privatization as early as in 1923, But recently Indian government has adopted this policy in the name of Economic Reform under pressure led by the USA through the Breton Woods Institutions. In this respect Dr. Ambedkar was a century ahead to propound the same. He had stressed that the value (Price) of a rupee must be kept stable if the policy of free economy is to be successful.

Population Control - Family Planning

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar said that the control of the Country’s economy is impossible if the population is not controlled. Hence he forcefully argued for population control and family planning in India. Later on in keeping with his views the government of India has adopted

family planning as a national policy under tutelage of the Ministry of Family Welfare and Child Development.

Emancipation of Indian Women

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s contribution to economic development and progress of women is significant. According to him, participation of women in the economic development is impossible without developing their social status and equality. But due to bad economic conditions of women in India, India’s economic progress is hampered. So, it is important to improve the economic condition of women and give them equal rights and freedom of occupation. Women in the country are have various entitlements nowadays owing to the vision of Dr Ambedkar as he said, “the progress of the country can only be measured by the degree of progress which women have achieved”.

The Concept of Human Capital

Dr. Ambedkar argued that concept of human capital in India is useless if the poorer and down trodden untouchable dalits are not recognized by other classes as human beings with equal social prestige and religious basis. It is therefore impossible to use this human capital in the economic development of India. The Concept of Human Capital of Dr Ambedkar was posthumously translated into a Ministry called Human Resource Development.

Ambedkar’s mark on Indian trajectories of democratic justice based on the ideas of liberty, equality, and fraternity could be heard during US President Barack Obama’s address to the Parliament of India in 2010. President Obama invoked Ambedkar’s contribution to the Indian Constitution and Indian society, saying “We believe that no matter who you are or where you come from, every person can fulfill their God-given potential. Just as a Dalit like Dr. Ambedkar could lift himself up and pen the words of the Constitution that protects the rights of all Indians. We believe that no matter where you live – whether a village in Punjab or the by lanes of Chandani Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore – every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future.”

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Constitutional and Legal Provisions

Objective of providing reservations to the Scheduled Castes(SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in services is not only to give jobs to some persons belonging to these communities. It basically aims at empowering them and ensuring their participation in the decision making process of the State. Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy, while delivering the majority judgement in the matter of Indra Sawhney & Ors Vs. UOI & Ors, observed that public employment gives a certain status and power, besides the means of livelihood. The Constitution has, therefore, taken special care to declare equality of opportunity in the matter of public employment. Keeping the broader concept of equality in view, Clauses (4) and (4A) of Article 16 of the Constitution declare that nothing in the said Article shall prevent the State from making any provision for reservation of appointments or posts in favour of backward class of citizens which in the opinion of the State is not adequately represented in the services under the State. Article 16 of the Constitution and also

CHAPTER – 1 INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION

THE CONCEPT OF RESERVATION IS OFTEN UNFORTUNATELY MISUNDERSTOOD AS A TOOL IN THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE FEW EMPLOYEMENT AND CERTAIN OTHER FACILITIES TO SC/ST COMMUNITIES, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE EMPHASISED THAT RESERVATION IS A SYSTEM OF SILENT SOCIAL CHANGE BY ENSURING EQUALITY AND PROPORTIONATE PARTICIPATION OF ALL SECTIONS OF THE POPULATION WHICH IN TURN TAKES THE COUNTRY TOWARDS PROGRESS, PROSPERITY AND GROWTH.

WE ARE THEREFORE REPRODUCING THE VIEWS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AS MENTIONED IN THE BROCHURE ON RESERVATION FOR SC/ST TAKEN FROM THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND TRAINING.

PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK “https://dopt.gov.in/ .” > Notification > OMs/ Orders > Brochure on Reservation For SC, ST and Other Backward Classes in Services (PART-I).

Article 335 which have direct bearing on reservation in services are reproduced below:

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(2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, descent, place of birth, residence or any of them, be ineligible for, or discriminated against in respect of, any employment or office under the State.

(3) Nothing in this article shall prevent Parliament from making any law prescribing, in regard to a class or classes of employment or appointment to an office under the Government of, or any local or other authority within, a State or Union territory, any requirement as to residence within that State or Union territory prior to such employment or appointment.

(4) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State

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from making any provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favor of any backward class of citizens which in the opinion of the State, is not adequately represented in the services under the state.

(4A) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from making any provision for reservation in matters of promotion, with consequential seniority, to any class or classes of posts in the services under the State in favor of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes which, in the opinion of the State, are not adequately represented in the services under the State.

(4B) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from considering any unfilled vacancies of a year which are reserved for being filled up in that year in accordance with any provision for reservation made under clause (4) or clause (4A) as a separate class of vacancies to be filled up in any succeeding year or years and such class of vacancies shall not be considered together with the vacancies of the year in which they are being filled up for determining the ceiling of fifty per cent reservation on total number of vacancies of that year.

(5) Nothing in this article shall affect the operation of any law which provides that the incumbent of an office in connection with the affairs of any religious or denominational institution or any member of the governing body thereof shall be a person professing a particular religion or belonging to a particular denomination.

335. The claims of the member of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall be taken into consideration, consistently, with the maintenance of efficiency of administration in the making of appointments to services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a State.

Provided that nothing in this article shall prevent in making of any provision in favor of the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes for relaxation in qualifying marks in any examination or lowering the standards of evaluation, for reservation in matters of promotion to any class or classes of services or posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a State.

Besides, Article 46 provides that the State shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and, in particular, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation.

Articles 341 and 342 of the Constitution which define as to who would be Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes with respect to any State or Union Territory are quoted below:

341. (1) The President may with respect to any State or Union territory, and where it is a State after consultation with the Governor thereof, by public notification, specify the castes, races or tribes or parts of or groups within castes, races or tribes which shall for the purposes of this Constitution be deemed to be Scheduled Castes in relation to that State or Union territory, as the case may be.

(2) Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Castes specified in a notification issued under clause (1) any caste, race or tribe or part of or group within any caste, race or tribe, but save as aforesaid a notification issued under the said clause shall not be varied by any subsequent notification.

342(1) The President may with respect to any State or Union Territory, and where it is a State after consultation with the Governor thereof, by public notification, specify the tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups within

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tribes or tribal communities which shall for the purpose of this Constitution be deemed to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to that State or Union Territory, as the case may be.

(2) Parliament may by law include in or exclude from the list of Scheduled Castes specified in a notification issued under clause (I) any caste, race or tribe or part or group within any caste, race or tribe, but save as aforesaid a notification issued under the said clause shall not be varied by any subsequent notification.

The Constitution does not define Other Backward Classes. However, in pursuance of the judgment of Supreme Court in Indira Sawhney’s case, the Government enacted the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) Act in April, 1993. As per Section 2 of the NCBC Act, “Backward classes” means such backward classes of citizens, other than the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, as may be specified by the Central Government in the lists. For the above purpose, Section 2 also defines “lists” as lists prepared by the Central Government for providing reservation in appointments to backward classes of citizens, which, in its opinion are not adequately represented in services, under the Government of India and any local or other authority. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has notified the lists of Castes / Communities which are treated as Other Backward Classes.

It may be noted that the Constitution imposes inter-state area restrictions so that the people belonging to the specific community residing in a specific area, which has been assessed to qualify for the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes status, only benefit from the facilities provided for them. Similar restrictions are applicable to the OBCs also. Since the people belonging to the same caste but living in different States / Union Territories may not necessarily suffer from the same disabilities, it is possible that two persons belonging to the same caste but residing in different States/ U.Ts may not both be treated to belong to SC/ST/OBC. Thus the residence

of a person in a particular locality assumes a special significance. This residence has not to be understood in the literal or ordinary sense of the word. On the other hand it connotes the permanent residence of a person on the date of the notification of the Presidential Order scheduling his caste/tribe in relation to that locality.

The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 (as amended from time to time) states that no person professing a religion different from Hindu or Sikh or Buddhist religion can be deemed to be a member of a Scheduled Caste. There is, however, no religious bar for being treated as Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class.

Evolution of the Scheme of Reservation

On attainment of Independence, instructions were issued on 21-9-47 providing for reservation of 12 ½ per cent of vacancies for SCs in respect of recruitment made by open competition. In case of recruitment otherwise than by open competition this percentage was fixed at 16 2/3 per cent. Difference between recruitment by open competition and otherwise then by open competition has been explained in Chapter-II. After the Constitution was promulgated, MUA, in its Resolution of 13-9-50, provided 5 per cent reservation for STs apart from the percentage fixed for SCs already in force. The 1951 Census showed that the percentage of SCs in the total population was 15.05 per cent and that of ST 6.31 per cent. The percentages were not revised at the time as a comprehensive bill revising the lists of SCs and STs was under consideration. The other reason for not revising the percentage was that reservation had already been provided for SCs in posts filled otherwise than by open competition to the extent of 16.66 per cent and instructions had also been issued for following a regional and local percentage for Class III and Class IV posts attracting candidates from a locality or a region. The 1961 Census revealed that the SC and ST population in proportion to the Indian population stood at 14.64 per cent and 6.80 per cent respectively. Accordingly, the percentage of reservation for SCs and STs was increased

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from 12 ½ and 5 per cent to 15 per cent and 7 ½ per cent respectively on 25-3-70. The 1971 Census did not warrant any such review. The actual impact of 1981 Census figures on all India percentages could not be known because the Census of 1981 could not be carried out in the State of Assam. The Government in 1993 introduced reservation for Other Backward Classes in direct recruitment broadly at the rate of 27%. After introduction of reservation for OBCs, total reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs comes to 49.5% in case of direct recruitment on all India basis by open competition and 50% in case of otherwise than by open competition. As per various judgments of the Supreme Court, total reservation for these communities cannot exceed the limit of 50%.

Reservation has been extended to different modes of promotion in stages. In 1957, reservation was provided for SC & ST in departmental competitive examinations. Reservation in promotion by selection in Group C and Group D was provided in 1963 and in the same year reservation in departmental competitive examination was limited to Class III and Class IV only. The position was slightly changed in 1968 when reservation in limited departmental examination to Class II, III and IV and promotion by selection ‘to Class III and IV was subjected to a condition that element of direct recruitment should not exceed 50 per cent. Reservation in promotion by ‘seniority subject to fitness’, came in force in 1972 subject to the condition that the element of direct recruitment does not exceed 50 per cent. In 1974, reservation in promotion by selection from Group C to Group B, within Group B and from Group B to the lowest rung of Group A was introduced subject to the condition that the element of direct recruitment, if any, does not exceed 50 per cent. The limitation of the direct recruitment not exceeding 50 per cent was raised to 66 2/3 % per cent in 1976 and to 75% in 1989.

Reservation till 1.7.1997 was computed on the basis of number of vacancies filled. The Supreme Court in the case of R.K. Sabharwal Vs. State of Punjab held that the reservation should be determined on the basis of

number of posts in the cadre and not on the basis of vacancies. Accordingly post based reservation was introduced w.e.f. 2.7.1997. The basic principle of post based reservation is that the number of posts filled by reservation by any category in a cadre should be equal to the quota prescribed for that category. Prior to introduction of post based reservation, there was a provision of exchange of reservation between SCs and STs. After implementation of the post based reservation such exchange is no more permissible.

Prior to 1975, scientific’ and technical posts required for conducting research or for organizing, guiding and directing research were exempted from the purview of orders relating to reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. In 1975 however, the above orders were modified and it was decided that the scheme of reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes should also cover appointments made to scientific and technical posts up to and including the lowest grade of Class I in the respective services wherever they were exempt from the purview of the scheme of reservations. The amended orders were however not made applicable to Department of Space, Department of Electronics, and in regard to recruitment of trainees to the training school of the Department of Atomic Energy. In the case of these latter departments, the orders in force prior to 1975 continue to apply.

Various relaxations and concessions are given to SC/ST candidates like relaxation in upper age limit, exemption from payment of examination/application fees, relaxation in qualification of experience at the discretion of the UPSC/competent authority, relaxations in standard of suitability etc. Some relaxations like in upper age limit are also available to OBCs.

Institutional Safeguards

Each Ministry / Department is required to nominate officers of the rank of Deputy Secretary or above to work as Liaison Officer who take care of implementation of instructions relating to special representation of SCs/STs/OBCs in their respective Ministries and attached and

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subordinate offices. The system of nominating Liaison Officers has also been extended to the offices under the Heads of Departments. Ministries/Departments have been asked in 1969 to set up a small Cell within each Ministry/Department under the direct control of Liaison Officer to assist him to discharge his duties effectively.

The Constitution provides for the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes which have wide ranging powers and functions in regard to matters pertaining to Scheduled

Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively. The Government has also set up the National Commission for Other Backward Classes. Besides, there is a Committee of Parliament on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes. The Committee inter-alia examines the position regarding representation of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in the services under the various Ministries and other Government organizations and makes suitable recommendations for bringing about improvement therein or removing bottlenecks detected by it during the course of a study.

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On 18th February 2019 the Circle Level Quarterly Structured Meeting with our Association took

place in the conference hall at Local Head Office, Guwahati. The Circle Management was represented by Chief General Manager, Shri Sunil Kumar Tandon along with Shri Digmanu Gupta, General Manager NW-II, Shri Ajay Kumar Singh, General Manager NW-I, Shri Ashish Kumar Biswas, DGM & Circle Development Officer, Shri Gautam Roy Choudhury, DGM (B&O) Guwahati and Shri Subhas Das, DGM (B&O) Shillong, Shri Bijoy Kumar Kuzur, DGM (B&O) Silchar, Debashish Mitra, DGM (B&O) Jorhat, Shri

Uttam Hazra Choudhury, DGM (B&O) Dibrugarh on V.C. The Assistant General Manager (HR), AGM & Liasion Officer for SC/ST, AGM & Liasion Officer for OBC and other support Officers were also present in the management team. Our Circle Association was led by Comrade Srikant Deka, President and Comrade Rajat Kumar Das, General Secretary with total 30 (Thirty) members representing the entire Circle. The meeting took place in a very cordial atmosphere. The Agenda discussed in the meeting are :

1. Posting of SC/ ST Officers at LHO and all other Administrative Offices and Regional Offices in proportion to reservation percentage. The data was provided in the meeting by the AGM (HR) which shows that against benchmark of 22.5% the posting of SC/ST Officers in those offices have crossed 38.50%. This care of the management has brought cheer in the house and everybody praised the Circle Management with applause.

2. The Association pointed out Non Observance of Government of India instructions in conducting

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pre promotion and pre recruitment training for a minimum 6(six) complete days. The Government instruction was also quoted by General Secretary in the meeting. The management assured to comply with the instructions.

3. The verification of Caste/ Tribe Certificate from issuing authority before confirmation of employment and not allowing migration of candidates from other states in Group C position was raised in the meeting. Detailed discussion in this meeting took place and appropriate modalities were advised to be followed.

4. The Association requested for arranging Annual Workshop on reservation policy which the General Manager NW-I immediately asked for arranging as soon as possible.

5. The Association asked for inclusion of few lectures regarding Government policy on Reservation

in all training programme duration of which is 6 (six) days and above. The management agreed for implementation.

6. Improvement in functioning of Liaison Mechanism was discussed in the meeting in detail and appropriate road map in this respect was advised by the Chief General Manager of the Circle.

The Chief General Manager also suggested to have tie up with the Universities and the Colleges spread across the entire North East for imparting training and motivating the local boys and girls for joining in Bank service so that the deficit character of North East Circle is addressed. All members of the Association appreciated the suggestion and L&D Department was advised to work in this dimension.

The meeting ended with vote of thanks by Shri Nandu Ram Sharma CM (L&D) from management side and Shri Hemant Kharkongor, Vice President from association side.

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MODULE- MIRRORMODULE- MIRROR

GUWAHATIOn 19th January 2019 the module level Quarterly Structured meeting with our Association took place at AO, Guwahati. The Module Management was represented by Deputy General Manager (B&O), Regional Managers, Chief Manager (HR) and other support

Officers. Our Circle Association was led by Comrade Srikant Deka, President and Rajat Kumar Das, General Secretary, all Deputy General Secretarites and other leader of the circle. The meeting took place in a cordial atmosphere. The agenda discussed in the meeting are:1. Posting of SC/ST officers at AO and RBOs in proportion to Reservation percentage. The data was

provided by the CM (HR) which shows that against the benchmark of 22.5% the posting of SC/ST Officers in those offices have crossed the minimum benchmark except RBO-IV. It was assured by the management to look into matter immediately.

2. The Association pointed out Non Observance of Government of India Instruction in conducting pre-recruitment and Pre-promotion training for a minimum of 6 (six) days. The Government instructions were also briefed by our General Secretary in the meeting. The management assured to comply with the instructions.

3. Improvement of Liaison Mechanism was discussed in the meeting in detail and appropriate corrections were assured by the Management. The Association insisted for implementation of reservation as per Corporate Centre guidelines in temporary employment of retired employees.

SILCHARSilchar Administrative Office Level Quarterly Structured Meeting with our Association was held on 22nd January 2019 at Zonal Office Conference Hall, Silchar. All the Regional Managers along with their Managers (HR), Chief Manager (HR), Chief Manager and Liasion Officer for SC/ST and Other support Officers of Administrative Office participated in the meeting. Our Association team was represented by Shri Rajat Kumar Das, General Secretary and Shri Ralkhuma Ralte, Senior Vice President along with a team of 19 (Nineteen) leaders. A long pending demand of our Association for providing AO Level Office Accommodation got fulfilled through inauguration of our Association Office by the Deputy General Manager (B&O),Shri Bijoy Kumar Kuzur along with our General Secretary Shri Rajat Kumar Das.

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SHILLONGAdministrative Office Quarterly Structured Meeting with our Association took place on 08th February 2019. The meeting started with the welcome address by the Chief Manager (HR) of the AO. The Deputy General Manager of the AO, Shri Subhas Das in his Opening Speech welcomed all the Association leaders and appraised the house about the progress made by the Module in various parameters. He praised

all the employees for their contributions in the growth of the Bank and assured compliance of all the requirements for safeguarding the interest and progress of SC/ST Employees. Our General Secretary, Shri Rajat Kumar Das in his opening speech appreciated the Deputy General Manager and his team and assured full support of our entire membership for further growth of the Bank. In the meeting various agenda were discussed and spot resolution were also arrived at. The meeting took place in a very congenial atmosphere and ended with vote of thanks extended by Shri Soumendra Vijay, AGM, Shillong-Rural from management side and Shri Ramesh Hasnu, DGS Dimapur, from Association side.

JORHATOur Jorhat AO Level Quarterly Structured Meeting was held on 22nd February 2019 at Dimapur. Shri Debashish Mitra, DGM (B&O) AO, Jorhat along with all the Regional Managers of the Module and their Managers (HR), Chief Manager (HR), Liaison Officer of the module represented the Management side. Our Association team was represented by Shri Rajat Kumar Das, General Secretary and Shri Hemant Kharkongar, Vice President along with 17 (seventeen) leaders.The agenda discussed in the meeting are:1. Posting of SC/ST officers at AO and RBOs in proportion to Reservation percentage. The data was

provided by the CM (HR) which shows that the posting of SC/ST Officers have crossed the minimum benchmark except RBO-IV. It was assured by the management to look into matter immediately.

2. The Association pointed out of Non Observance of Government of India Instructions in conducting pre-recruitment and Pre-promotion training for a minimum of 6 (six) days. The Government instructions were also briefed by our General Secretary in the meeting. The management assured to comply with the instructions.

3. Improvement of Liaison Mechanism was discussed in the meeting in detail and appropriate corrections were assured by the Management. The Association insisted for implementation of reservation as per Corporate Centre guidelines in temporary employment of retired employees.

The meeting took place in a very cordial atmosphere and ended with vote of thanks from both the sides.

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DIBRUGARHThe Module Level Quarterly Structured Meeting for Dibrugarh Module was held on 15th February 2019 at the Conference Hall of AO. At the outset of the meeting the Chief Manager (HR) welcomed all participants in the meeting. The Deputy General Manager (B&O), Uttam Hazra

Choudhury in his opening remark explained the achievements of the module and praised all the employees for their contributions even at hard pressed situation. Our Circle President Shri Srikant Deka in his opening remark appreciated the contribution of the module in the overall growth of the Circle. Our General Secretary Shri Rajat Kumar Das also praised the module team. The meeting discussed on various agenda amicably and resolved many issues over the table. The meeting ended with vote of thanks from both the sides.

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THE JOURNEY IN PURSUIT OF UNITY, SOLIDARITY AND BROTHERHOOD

Our Circle General Secretary Shri Rajat Kumar Das was elected initially to the position of Secretary General of our National Federation in 2014. After taking over charge of the Federation his first priority was to unite the whole Country’s State Bank of India SC/ST Employees

movement for safeguarding their rights and interest and thereby strengthening the National Federation. He visited all the Circles. In every Circle SC/ST members gathered in large numbers and listened attentively to his deliberations.

The march for unity, solidarity

and brotherhood from Circle to Circle started enhancing our strength further and futher. The meeting with the Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of SC/ST, National Commissions for SC, ST and Safai Karamcharies, Department of Financial Services brought more focus and Empowerment.

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The Corporate Centre Level Structured Meetings as well as Meetings at Circle Level pave the opportunities to redress the grievances of the members. The democratic functioning of the affiliate SEWAs has been ensured in all Circles. Thus the National Federation became not only a most disciplined and vibrant association but also the largest Federation of SC/

ST Employees in the financial sector of the Country. This is a unique classless association of serving employees in the Country. Babasaheb’s three canons: Educate Agitate Organize is the sole mantra, the guiding power of our mission to stir up the very soul of SCs and STs. They are aware of their present

state of affairs. They are also proud of the contribution they have made to the Country in the past, enriching culture, civilization and history. They are sincere, honest and people of impeccable integrity. They are people having aspirations to grow like others in the same organization. The National Federation is performing the

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role of platform marshalling the expectations and grievances of the SC and ST employees in SBI spread over the whole of the country.

The principal instrument and inspiration for resolutions of matters pertaining to SCs and STs are enshrined in the Article 16(4) and 16(4)(A) of the Constitution. The Parliamentary Committee

on Welfare of SC and ST is listening to the National Federation as grievance auditor periodically. The National Federation of SC ST Employees in SBI plays an important role before the Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of SCs and STs in the Bank to resolve issues by bringing there to the notice of GOI.

The Secretary General of the National Federation is very often required to tread the corridors of power in the National Capital to maintain liaison with DFS, National Commission of SC, National Commission of ST, National Commission on Safai Karamcharies, Ministry of Welfare for SC and ST,

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Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Labour and Employment and a posse of MPs having resource and influence in the Parliament and Govt as well.

So may it be Kolkata to Kerala or Chennai to Chandigarh or Bangalore to Bhubaneswar or Hyderabad to Ahmedabad, Amravati or Patna to Bhopal or Lucknow to Jaipur or from

Mumbai to National Capital on to the onerous journey to Guwahati. The Secretary General moves with courage in heart and vision in mind. All the way he is getting support and encouragement from the National President. Warm felicitations are always waiting for the leaders bearing the flag of hopes high. Vivid love and affection are being showered

upon the leader to embolden to fight for the cause and justice.

The Secretary General is crusader for liberty, equality, development and social empowerment of the weaker section in the society – the phenomenon explicit in his character since he was a student. He is very articulate in his presentation like a trained

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reporter. He is an indomitable orator on public opinion that may augur social transformation. His interpretation of the Constitution is indisputable, just like any other attorney. His inferences on OMs with respect to Reservation Policy irrefutable and correct.

We are in the Country where democratic set up as the foundation is ensured by the Constitution.

Agitation is the birth right in democracy. For any organizational action with objective of social propagation, the requirement of unity is foremost and unity is the inherent strength. Let us cherish National Federation as the milestone of unity in SBI.

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RREGGIONAL COUNCIL, AIZAAWLLRegional President : Pu C Zoliana Regional Vice President : Pi F. Lalchhanhimi Regional Secretary : Pu Henry L Hrahsel Asst. Regional Secretary : Pi Lalrindiki HmarRegional Treasurer : Pi Lalramchhani RalteExecutive Member : Pi Sheryl L VanchhawngExecutive Member : Pu Albert KC LalvullianaCircle Vice President SEWA NE : Ralte Ralkhuma

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

B. R. Ambedkar

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DIBRUGARH is an administrative district in the State of Assam in India. The district occupies an area of 3381 sq. Km. and has a population of 13,27,748 (2011 census). The main communities inhabiting the district include Ahoms, Tea Tribes, Sonowal Kacharies, Chutiyas, Muttock, Moran etc. This district is situated on the upper valley of the river Brahmaputra which runs for about 95 km in the district to the Patkai foothills on the south. Burhi Dihing is the main tributary of the river Brahmaputra and has many sub tributaries which flow through the area. This district is bounded by Dhemaji district and a part of Lakhimpur district in the north, part of Sibsagar and Arunachal Pradesh in the south, Tinsukia district in the east and Sibsagar district in the west.

MAIN ATTRACTIONS OF DIBRUGARH DISTRICT

1. ASSAM MEDICAL COLLEGE :- The Assam Medical College was first started as Berry-White School of Medicine in the year 1900. On November 3,1947, the college was officially renamed Assam Medical College and one of the oldest in India too. The 1st ever x-ray machine in India was installed at Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh. The hospital attached to the medical college provides medical care for free to the thousands of local citizens and to the rural folks from villages nearby. Being the oldest hospital of the North-East region it caters to the need of lakhs of patients per annum.

2. STATE BANK OF INDIA, DIBRUGARH :- On 1st May, 2019, the State Bank of India, Dibrugarh Main Branch will be celebrating its 96th anniversary. The ertwhile Imperial Bank of India, Dibrugarh branch was established on May 1st, 1923. This branch was the 1st commercial branch of any bank in the entire North-East and is older than any nationalized bank branch in the north eastern region.

One of the prominent persons was Late Radha Gobinda Baruah, who was the 1st Indian employee of the branch. He was instrumental in the opening of this 1st bank branch in the entire North- East region.

REGGIONAL COUNCIL, DIBRUGAARHSitting (L to R) :- Sri Dinesh Kr Mili, DGS (Dibrugarh), Sri Suresh Ch. Das. Asstt. Finance Secretary

(CWC), Sri Pronab Sonowal, Regional President (Dibrugarh), Sri Ashok Kr. Das, Regional Secretary (Dibrugarh)

Standing (L to R) :- Sri Kumud Das, Regional Vice President (Dibrugarh), Sri Kalyan Kumar Doley, Asstt. Regional Secretary, Sri Tarun Ch. Sonowal, Member, Sri Sankar Mech, Treasurer.

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SSEWAA REGIONAL COUNCIL, JORRHATTLeft To Right- Duke Saikia (Member), Ajoy Kumar Hazarika (Regional President), Chandrama Sonowal

(Member), Dilip Chandra Das (DGS, Jorhat), Bishnu Kinkar (Regional Secretary)

“However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.”

Dr B R Ambedkar

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REGGIONAL COUNCIL, SHILLONNGFront row, left to right : Darrell Sawian, Scott Malngiang, Evandarisha Warjri, Malvorine Kharbuli, Ibaiada

Khongwir, Banrishisha Kharsyntiew, Philarika Rangad, Railang .Back row, left to right: Aibok Kharrangi, John Kharkongor, Deric Warbah, Gregory Kharshiing, Kevin

PYNGROPE (RP), Iashanlang Rangad, Bashan Jyrwa

REEGIONAL COUNCIL, SILCHAAR

Sitting from left: Manindra Chandra Das- Regional Secretary, Himanghsu Barman- Regional Vice President, Kushing Kamei- Regional President, Pradip Kumar Dhar- DGS Silchar CWC N.E. Circle.

Standing from left: Other members: Bikramjit Roy, Mrinal Laskar & Ritham Das.

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REEGIONAL COUNCIL, TRIPURRASitting (L to R): Sri Goutam Kumar Biswas, Regional President (North), Sri Sanjoy Debbarma AGS

(Silchar Module), Sri Gopal Debbarma, Regional President(South)

Standing (L to R) : Sri Tribanku Ranjan Das, Regional Secretary (South), Sri Santosh Basfore (Member), Sri Khokan Chakma (Treasurer), Sri Satis Debbarma,Regional Secretary (North)

RREGIONAL COUNCIL, TURAA(Left to Right): Tiamenla Ch Momin (Regional Secretary), Linda M Marak (Regional President), Saroda A

Sangma (Executive Member), Swati Daring (Treasurer)

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speciality Doctors consultations at Rs. 2100 for Offi cers and Rs.1500.00 for Award Staff respectively

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SPECIAL FEATURES OF KAZIRANGA TRANSIT HOUSE: Just near to Senoy Nagar Metro Station Food of the North East is available at the kitchen of the

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Ideal stay for rest and recupation.

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Babasaheb Ambedkar was the first person who brought the Revolutionary Bill “Equal pay for

equal work irrespective of sex” in India in terms of Industrial workers and restricted to 8 hours working.

He also brought “Mines Maternity Benefit Bill” for women as a Labour Minister in the Viceroy Executive Council. But; It is very unfortunate that today people criticize him and remember him only for implementing Reservation System in India but he is not remembered for his contribution and conscience he brought in the Country about EQUALITY. Babasaheb was a West influenced scholar and his interest towards feminism rights were influenced by the achievement of Rights for Women in Britain and America in the 19th Century era. Ambedkar always emphasized on Women’s Right to Education, Equal treatment with men, Right to Property and involvement of Women’s in the political process, etc. Babasaheb once said “It is education which is the right weapon to cut the social slavery and it is education which will enlighten the downtrodden masses to come up and gain social status, economic betterment and political freedom”. Today we all are witnessing the positive changes in the society because of his future forecasting thoughts and provisions he made for women while drafting the Constitution of India. There were many leaders who fought and talked about Women, but Babasaheb was the only person who changed the effort via law. Without Babasaheb the position of Women today in India would have only been a question of discussion. Incorporation of Equal Right to Vote and

DR. BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR

The Architect of Women EmpowermentEqual Fundamental Rights for Men and Women in the Constitution of India by this Greatest Son of India helped in building a New India.

The Constitution of India also contains various revolutionary provisions, which provide for equal rights and opportunities for both men and women. Some of them are:-

• Article 14 guarantees that the State shall not deny equality before the law and equal protection of the laws;

• Article 15 prohibits discrimination against any citizen on the ground of sex;

• Article 15 (3) empowers the State to make positive discrimination in favour of women and children;

• Article 16 provides for Equality of Opportunity in matters of public employment;

• Article 23 prohibits trafficking in human beings and forced labour;

• Article 39 (a) and (d) enjoins the State to provide equal means of livelihood and equal pay for equal work;

• Article 42 enjoins upon the State to make provisions for securing just and humane conditions of work, and for maternity relief;

• Article 51A(e) imposes a Fundamental Duty on every citizen to renounce the practices derogatory to the dignity of women;

Doddi Ganesh, Office Secretary, SEWA, N.E Circle

I like the religion that teaches Liberty, Equality & Fraternity

By Dr. B.R Ambedkar

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• Article 243D (3) provides that not less than 1/3rd of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Panchayat to be reserved for women, and such seats to be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Panchayat;

• Article 243T(3) provides that not less than 1/3rd of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Municipality shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Municipality;

• Article 243T(4) provides reservation of offices of Chairperson in Municipalities for SC, ST, Women in such manner as the legislature of a State, may by law provide;

In pursuance of the above Constitutional provisions, various legislative enactments have been framed to protect, safeguard and promote the interests of women. Many of these legislative enactments have been in the sphere of labour laws to ameliorate the grivences and improve working conditions of women labour.

Babasaheb Dr. B.R Ambedkar brought Hindu Code Bill as a first Law Minister of the Country for empowerment of Women in the society and governance in true sense. But when the said bill was not passed by the Ministry headed by Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru, Babasaheb without any hesitation or greed for power resigned as Law Minister. In his thoughts he mentioned, “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved”.

The Constitutional rights which are enjoyed today by all citizens of the Country are only because of one person i.e. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.

It is therefore necessary for all Women to know the contribution of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar which has brought empowerment for them which in turn has given prosperity to the Country. The vision of Dr Ambedkar is relevant in achieving every progress by the Country, so all of us with sincerity should look into the Ambedkarian philosophy.

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The Secretary General and President of our National Federation attended the Annual General Meeting

of Bhopal circle held at Indore on 15.07.2018. Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot, Hon’ble Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India was the Chief Guest in the meeting. Our Federation submitted a memorandum to him for resolving the Core Grievances of SC/ ST Employees prevailing in State Bank of India which is reproduced below:

CORE GRIEVANCES OF SC/ST EMPLOYEES PREVAILING IN STATE BANK OF INDIA

We express our sincere gratitude to your kind authority for forwarding the Memorandum submitted by us to the Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan on 18.01.2018 to Shri Arun Jaitley ji, Honourable Finance Minister and Secretary (SJ&E) in your Ministry for

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF BHOPAL CIRCLE HELD AT INDORE ON 15.07.2018

OUR FEDERATION MEMORANDUM TO SHRI THAAWARCHAND

GEHLOT, HON’BLE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE &

EMPOWERMENT, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

necessary action (Dy. No. 142850/OSD/M(SJ&E) dated 13.03.2018). We regret to inform that although the matter was forwarded by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services vide their VIP Reference Memo No. 10/08/2018-Welfare dated 10.05.2018 to the Chairman, State Bank of India for looking into the issues raised by us in the memorandum, but our Bank has turned down all the 13 (thirteen) grievances raised by us in the aforesaid memorandum. There were 5 (five) issues relevant to Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services, the

response of which has not yet been made by the respective department of the Ministry of Finance. In view of this situation we have urged upon the Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services vide our Letter No. NF/FM/F-01/18-19/15 dated 07.06.2018 for arranging a tripartite meeting between our Bank, Finance Ministry and our Federation for arriving at a fruitful decision on the issues raised in the Memorandum. We request before your good office to kindly give necessary direction to the concerned department for arranging this proposed tripartite meeting at the earliest.

02. Implementation of Reservation in promotion as per (1) Honourable Supreme Court of India order dated 05.06.2018 in SLP (c) No. 31288 of 2017 (2) Government of India, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personal and Training, OM No. F No. 36012/11/2016-Estt. (Res-I){PT-II} dated 15.06.2018. We have requested the

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Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services, Government of India vide our Letter no. NF/FM/F-01/18-19/17 dated 07.07.2018 to withdraw their OM No. 6/2/2009 dated 18.07.2016 through which they have restricted implementation of reservation/ concession in promotion upto Scale III only. As a result, the representation of SC/ ST in DGM and above positions in SBI stands very negligible i.e. 4.69 % SC and 1.22 % ST. With a view to ensure adequate representation of SC/ ST Officers upto the level Chief General Manager, SBI needs to fulfill grade wise shortfall of 327 SC Officers and 245 ST Officers. The Ministry has been requested accordingly. The copy of our letter is enclosed for favor of your kind perusal and issue of necessary direction.

03. Appointment of Officer and Workmen Director from SC/ ST in the Central Board of SBI. In terms of power conferred upon Government of India under Section 19 (ca) and (cb) of SBI Act 1955 we have prayed before the magnanimity of our most Respected Prime Minister cum Chairman 125th Birth Anniversary Celebration Committee of Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R Ambedkar to appoint Officers and Workmen Director from among SC /ST Officers and employees to safeguard the interest and monitor the progress of SC /ST communities. This issue was represented by us in the last Parliamentary Committee meeting held on 09th February 2015 at Mumbai. As a continuation of our persuasion we had met MOS for Finance, Respected Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Ji on 11.08.2017 and submitted a

Memorandum to him. The Honourable Minister was kind enough to give necessary direction vide Memo No. MOS(F)/VIP/2017 Dairy No. 551311 dated 14.08.2017 to consider the matter which was forwarded by Ministry of Finance (Departmental of Financial Services) to the Chairman of State Bank of India vide OM NO. 20/22/2017-Welfare Dated 28.08.2017, but the matter is still pending.

It is a matter of great regret that since the formation of State Bank of India NO SC/ST Officer or member of Staff has ever been appointed as Director in the Central Board of SBI.

Our Bank has taken a stand that as per Gazette of India Extraordinary, Notification dated 19.11.2008, Amendment to Rule 3 - only the representative union to the Bank can furnish the name of 3 (three) employees for appointment of Director under Section 19 of State Bank of India Act, 1955. We are also a representative union representing almost 30% SC/ST Employees of SBI, but we have not been asked to furnish the name of SC/ST Employees for appointment of Director. Thereby, not only we have been discriminated but also denied social justice and opportunities to safeguard the interest of SC/ST Employees and general SC/ST population in the Central Board of the Bank. We, therefore urge upon you to be kind enough to immediately intervene in the matter and arrange for rotation system in recommending name by the 3 (three) unions namely (i) State Bank of India Officers Federation, (ii) State Bank of India Staff Federation and (iii) National Federation of SBI SC/ ST Employees. Our turn should be considered on priority basis for Officer and Workmen Director this time.

A copy of the Gazette Notification dated 19.11.2008 is enclosed for favor of your kind perusal and issuance of necessary directions.

We are confident that your magnanimous authority will be kind enough to look into the above core issues and take appropriate steps as you feel deem fit for ensuring Social Justice to the SC/ST Employees in the largest Bank of the Country.

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The Secretary General and President of our National Federation had a very cordial meeting

with Union Minister for Labour and Empowerment, Shri Santosh Gangwar ji at his office chamber over a cup of tea on 31st July 2018. After detailed discussion with him, our Federation submitted a memorandum to him. The Hon’ble Minister has immediately forwarded the memorandum to the Finance Minister for initiation of action on the points raised in the memorandum. He also assured our leadership of his full support towards the causes of our member. A gist of the memorandum is reproduced as under:

MEMORANDUM POINTS

(I) Implementation of Reservation in Promotion up to the level of Chief General Manager

Honorable Supreme Court of India in its judgment Dated 08-01-2016 has given the responsibility to implement reservation in

MEETING WITH UNION MINISTER FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYEMENT

SHRI SANTOSH GANGWAR JI AT HIS OFFICE CHAMBER ON 31ST JULY 2018 AND SUBMISSION OF MEMORANDUM

promotion and if implemented up to which level, to State and Banks. Accordingly the Government of India, Ministry of Finance issued OM No 6/2/2009-Welfare Dated 18-07-2016 directing all Banks including SBI Chairman to submit data on the status of representation of SC/ST upto Scale III as well as up to Scale VI (DGM) level. The data submitted by the Banks clearly shows inadequate representations of SC/STs in all Banks beyond Scale III. Although the Banks were supposed to submit data for the Officers who were promoted up to the Scale III under reservation or concession only but instead they have reported the entire SC/ST officers strength without excluding those Officers selected on own merits. Thereby a rosy picture emerged and Government of India Vide OM No 6/2/2009- Welfare dated 20th October 2016 advised that there may not be any need

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to change the existing reservation policy since representation of SC is 17.79% and ST is 7.53% up to scale III level in Banks. Although the data was collected upto Scale VI level but the said OM is totally silent on inadequate representations of SC/ST Officers beyond MMGS III cadre in Banks.

We have written letter to the Secretary DFS Ministry of Finance to review the above OM Vide No NF/FM/F-01/17-18/05 Dated 30th May 2017 (Copy enclosed as Annexure- A for your kind perusal) but till date we have not received any reply from the Secretary DFS in this regards. We therefore urge upon you to be kind enough to intervene in the matter for early extension of reservation in promotion to ensure adequate representation at all levels. We also urge upon you to be kind enough to pursue the Government of India to introduce appropriate bill in the Parliament and make it an Act to protect and ensure reservation in promotion.

(II) Appointment of Officer and Workmen Director from SC/ST in the Central Board of SBI.

In terms of power conferred upon the Government of India under Section 19 (ca) and (cb) of SBI Act 1955 we have prayed before the Honorable Prime Minister cum Chairman of 125th Birth Anniversary Celebration Committee of Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R. Ambedkar to appoint Officer and Workmen Director in State Bank of India Central Board from among the SC/ST officers and employees to safeguard the interest of SC/ST communities. We are yet to receive any reply in this regard. Copies of our letter marked as Annexure- B are enclosed with the request to your august self to be kind enough to look into the matter for a fruitful resolution.

(III) Involvement of our representative in the ongoing Bipartite Negotiations with Indian Bank Association and in Negotiations

within SBI

Government of India through compendium on reservation Vide File No 19/4/2014-Welfare Dated 23rd December 2014 under Clause No. 9.5 B instructed that while negotiating fresh agreement with Unions, endeavor should be made to associate member belonging to SC/ST communities with the negotiating team constituted. This instruction was originally issued by the Government of India when Associations of SC/ST Employees were at formative stage. Now our Federation is the largest Federation representing the SC/ST Employees but neither the IBA nor our own Bank SBI is inviting us in such process of negotiations for which the interest of SC/ST employees are getting adversely affected.

(IV) Improvement of Liaison Mechanism for SC/ST in State Bank of India

One of the most important issues which need your kind and immediate intervention is improvement of liaison mechanism for SC/ST in SBI. After merger of 5 (Five) Associate Banks, SBI has become the largest employer of SC/ST in financial sector. Therefore an effective liaison mechanism to safeguard the interest of SC/ST and for implementation of Rules of Reservation is the urgent necessity. In SBI, starting from Corporate Centre to LHO and Module level, Officers engaged with other important duties are nominated as Liaison Officers and they are not appointed. As a result the concerned official hardly gets any time to contribute for the cause of the welfare and improvement of conditions of SC/ST in SBI. The liaison mechanism must be redesigned in the same line with official language cell in SBI to serve the purpose.

(V) Review meetings by the Ministry of Finance and the apex body of all Banks i.e. IBA need to be convened

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Ministry level review meeting with all SC/ST Employees organizations in financial sector has not been convened for the last many years. Those meetings proved to be the finest initiatives by Government of India to ameliorate the grievances of SC/ST employees in financial sector in the past. Specific directions were given in those meeting to the Financial Institutions particularly the Banks to resolve many issues over the table.

Indian Bank Association is, although working as a forum of all Banks, not convening any meeting with the SC/ST Employees Welfare Associations. They are negotiating service conditions and other issues with the Unions but not involving SC/ST Associations despite GOI instructions. We are confident that your good office will initiate appropriate steps in this regard to involve our Federation in the ongoing Bipartite negotiation.

(VI) Introduction of Performance Review System on credit delivery to SC/ST borrowers from RBO level to Corporate level

With a view to improve the economic conditions of SC/ST population in the Country, all Banks need to put a monthly Performance Review System in force from RBO level to Corporate level of the Banks and a monthly Progress Report submission to be introduced for credit delivery among SC/ST borrowers to evaluate their financial progress.

(VII) Sanctioning of Housing Loan to ST employees of SBI residing in Scheduled Areas without insisting for Surety

Since mortgage of land in many Scheduled Areas

particularly in the hilly States of N.E., parts of Odisha, Uttarakhand etc is not possible due to certain legal complications, tribal employees are facing immense difficulties in getting housing loan for construction of house. They are insisted for providing 2(Two) Sureties worthy for the amount of loan which is unjustified. The risk of loans are covered by SBI life policy and the superannuation benefits of the concerned employees, so the house building loan should be given to those employees without insisting for any surety.

(VIII) Immunity from transfer to our module level Office Bearers

Our Circle level/ Module level Associations in all Circles of State bank of India is recognized by the Bank. The Government of India has also acknowledged our Association working to safeguard the interest of the SC/ST employees. In our Bank each Module of the Bank covers a vast area covering 200 to 600 Branches. Our Module Level Office Bearers are therefore performing very important role by ameliorating the grievances of the SC/ST employees taking up their issues with the respective Deputy General Mangers. Therefore they need to be kept out of routine Transfer/ Posting exercise so as to enable them to act as a grievance redressal forum to safeguard the interest of the SC/ST employees against discrimination, deprivation, victimization, etc. We therefore urge upon you to be kind enough to issue necessary instructions through your Ministry to our Bank to grant transfer immunity to minimum 2(Two) Office Bearers of our Association in each module of the Bank.

“ Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person,whose mind is not free though he may

not be in chains, is a slave. Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence.”

Dr B R Ambedkar

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Dr. B.R Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar, was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement and campaigned against social discrimination towards the untouchables (Dalits), while also supporting the rights of women and labour. He was independent India’s first law and justice minister, the architect of the Constitution of India, and a founding father of the Republic of India. In India and elsewhere, he was often called Babasaheb, meaning “respected father” in Marathi and Hindi.

Ambedkar was a prolific student earning doctorates in Economics from both Columbia University and the London School of Economics and gained a reputation as a scholar for his research in law, economics, and political science. In his early career he was an economist, professor, and lawyer. His later life was marked by his political activities; he became involved in campaigning and negotiations for India’s independence, publishing journals, advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing significantly to the establishment of the state of India. In 1956, he converted to Buddhism initiating mass conversions of Dalits.

In 1990, the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, was posthumously conferred upon Ambedkar. He was

BABASAHEB: A BEGINNING OF NEW ERA

a leading activist and social reformer who gave his life functioning for the upliftment of the Dalits and the socially unwilling class of India. A messiah for the oppressed, he continuously fought for eradication of caste discrimination that had fragmented the Indian society and made it crippled. Born in a socially backward family, Ambedkar was

the victim of caste discrimination, inequality and prejudice. However, fighting all odds, he attained higher education. Thus he became the first ever untouchable to attain the same. As he suffered unbearable humiliation at the hands of caste - Hindus, he rose up for the abolishment of such system and thus he came up with several social and political reforms in modern India.

ATTENTION TOWARDS DALIT:

Although Mahatma Gandhi worked a lot for the untouchables, Dr. Ambedkar was the person who drew the attention of the Congress Organisation and the entire nation towards the grave problem of the depressed class and their deplorable state.

MOVEMENTS FOR THE ABOLISHMENT OF INEQUALITY:

He had a very clear aim in his mind for the abolishment of the practices of untouchability in the country. He started the movement called Self Respect Movement and an institution called ‘Bahiskrita Hitakarini Sabha’.

THE PANCHA-SUTRA LAW:

Ambedkar focused on the point that in order to earn a respectable position in the society, the Dalits need to follow a few principles. So he brought up the Pancha Sutras for Dalits so that they inculcate the zeal and

Bornika Mandal, Agri Asst.SBI Narsingpur ADB

“If I find the constitution being misused, I

shall be the first to burn it.”

“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by

the law is of no avail to you.”

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capacity to be at par with the modern society; it consisted of the following rules:

• Self Improvement

• Self Progress

• Self Dependence

• Self Profess

• Self Confidence

THREE-TIER PROCESS:

Dr. Ambedkar appealed his community to change the style of life they were leading so as to match with the needs of the time and thus he launched a three-tiered process of Education-Agitation-Organisation for the Dalits or Untouchables so that they can overcome all social barriers and can attain a good position in the society.

EXPRESSION OF DISAPPOINTMENT:

He expressed his disappointment regarding the caste and Varna system in his famous book “Annihilation of Caste” (1936). He quotes in the book Harijan (1933) that “The Outcaste is the product of the Caste System”. He also embraced Buddhism and rejected Hinduism as a mark of disillusionment in the year 1956.

SEPARATE ELECTORATE FOR DALITS:

So as to strengthen the political field, he demanded for Separate Electorate for the Dalits in the first round table meeting which was held in London in the year 1930. He spoke for the equal citizenship for the untouchables and he even prepared a declaration of the fundamental rights

of depressed classes and submitted it to the minorities sub-committee.

ANTI-TOUCHABILITY LEAGUE:

Ambedkar supported the anti-touchability league which launched a campaign all over the country to secure for the depressed classes enjoyment of their civil rights such as taking water from the village wells, admission of children in the village school.

LAND AND AGRICULTURAL REFORMS:

Ambedkar was champion in providing farming rights and fighting for farmers and peasants. In 1927 Dr. Ambedkar stressed the need for land reforms and argued in Bombay legislative council that ‘smallness or largeness of an agricultural land holding is not determined by its physical extent alone but by the intensity of cultivation as reflected in the amounts of productive investment made on the land and the amounts of all other inputs used, including labour.’ He raised voice for peasants’ farming and land cultivation rights which eventually led many Shudra castes getting pieces of their own land for farming like Patels, Kanbis, Kapus, Jat etc. who were just bonded labourers before. He also stressed the need of industrialisation as he envisioned in 1927 itself that the agriculture will not be able to yield large pool of labours.

REFORMATION OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT POLICIES:

Due to Ambedkar’s efforts, the working hour was reduced to 8 hours from 14 hours in 1942 by British government after Ambedkar raised voice in favour of labour unions. He also framed many laws as labour acts. Women and child protection act provided rights and safety of women at workplace.

GUIDELINES FOR RESERVE BANK OF INDIA:

Ambedkar was a great reformist and also a great economist. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar In 1923 wrote ‘The problem of Rupee, its origin and solution’. He focused his studies and research on the condition of Indian currency during British India.

“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”

“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress

which women have achieved.”

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GLOBALIZATION, LIBERALIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION:

Dr. Ambedkar had suggested free economy, globalization, liberalization and privatization as early as in 1923. Indian government started to adopt this type of policies by 1991. In this repect, Dr. Ambedkar was like a half-century ahead. He also stressed that the value of a rupee must be kept stable if the country wants to gain more from free economic policy.

In short Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was a multifaceted personality. Dr. Ambedkar had a short life and yet a most extraordinary one. He rose up from dust, from being treated worse than an animal to becoming the father of the Indian Constitution. He was not only the Messiah of Schedule Caste, but a true icon for whole India. His legacy, his works and his contribution will affect each and every Indian in positive manner everyday. Really in thy Salute.

“I refuse to join with them in performing the miracle—I will not say trick—of liberating the oppressed with the gold of the tyrant, and raising the poor with the cash of the rich.”

-Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical

Edition, B. R. Ambedkar.

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NATIONAL LEVEL WORKSHOP ON RESERVATION POLICY HELD AT PANCHKULA, CHANDIGARH ON 21ST AND 22ND NOVEMBER 2018

AT THE BEHEST OF CORPORATE CENTRE.

RESERVATIONWORKSHOP

AT PANCHKULA

Chandigarh

The members are eagerly waiting to receive our Secretary General at Panchkula,Chandigarh

The two days training programme was conducted by Dr. H.S. Rana, Principal Director, institute of Public administration, Bengaluru.

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The representation of Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Officers in SBI as on 31st March 2019 as per HRMS Dashboard

Scale GradeTotal No of

PostsNo. of SC Offi cer % of SC No. of ST Offi cer % of ST

TEG-SS-I CGM 71 1 1.41 NIL 0.00

VII GM 193 9 4.66 4 2.07

VI DGM 777 42 5.40 9 1.16

V AGM 3767 365 9.69 106 2.81

IV CM 11417 1625 14.23 732 6.41

REPRESENTATION OF SC/ST OFFICERS FROM SCALE IV & ABOVE IN SBI

The representation of Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Officers in SBI as on December 2017 as per HRMS Dashboard

Scale GradeTotal No of

PostsNo. of SC Offi cer % of SC No. of ST Offi cer % of ST

TEG-SS-I CGM 73 1 1.37 NIL 0.00

VII GM 202 7 3.47 2 0.99

VI DGM 789 42 5.32 11 1.39

V AGM 3787 350 9.24 105 2.77

IV CM 10881 1681 15.45 735 6.75

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We are very happy to learn that SBI SC/ST Employees Welfare

Association N E Circle is bringing out CONTACT an in house

magazine with the motto “Educate Organise Agitate” which

will be very benefi cial to SBI employees in the country in

general and N E Circle in particular.

We wish you all a grand success

Chairman

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SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to Circle Chief General Manager, Shri Sunil Kr. Tandon

SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to General Manager, NW-I, Shri Ajay Kumar Singh

SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to General Manager, NW-II, Shri Digmanu Gupta

SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to General Manager, Circle Audit Office, Shri Shekhar Srivastava

ON 1ST JANUARY 2019 OUR SEWA TEAM CONVEYED NEW YEAR GREETINGS TO OUR CIRCLE CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER, BOTH THE GENERAL MANAGERS, GENERAL MANAGER CIRCLE AUDIT OFFICE, GUWAHATI, DGM&CDO, DGM(B&O) AND AGMs OF THE RBOs.

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SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to Circle DGM & CDO, Shri Ashish Kumar Biswas

SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to Circle AGM, HR, Shri Bijoy Deka

SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to AGM, RBO-I, Smt. Ajanta Hazarika

SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to AGM, RBO-IV, Miss. Surabhi Bhattacharyya

SEWA Team Conveying New Year Greetings to DGM (B&O), A.O., Guwahati, Shri Gautam Roy Choudhury

Deep in our hearts We believe the prospeuity of SBI is our prospeuity when we walk hand in hands...

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Dr. B R Ambedkar popularly known as Dr. Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a

great nationalist, social thinker, political reformer and philosophical writer. He stood for all political, social and cultural actions which increased the reason of human development and happiness. He was the soul for the Constitution of India. He crusaded for the betterment of the exploited and depressed classes. He played important role in making India a modern India. Dr. B.R Ambedkar was among the most outstanding intellectuals of India in the best sense of the word. He was a leading activist and social reformer who gave his life functioning for the upliftment of the Dalits and the socially unwilling class of India. A messiah for the oppressed, he continuously fought for eradication of caste discrimination that had fragmented the Indian society and made it crippled. Born in a socially backward family, Ambedkar was the victim of caste discrimination, inequality and prejudice. However, fighting all odds, he attained higher education, any thus he became the first ever untouchable to attain the same. No sooner after completing his higher studies, he launched himself politically fighting for the rights of the depressed class and inequality practiced in the society. He was an advocator of social equality and justice. Academically trained as a jurist, he went on to become the first Law Minister of Independent India and the framer or chief architect of the Constitution of India. He laid special emphasis on dignity, unity, freedom, and rights for all citizens as enshrined in the Constitution. Ambedkar advocated democracy in every field social, economic and political. For him social justice meant maximum happiness to the maximum number of people.

CONTRIBUTIONS OF DR. B. R. AMBEDKAR

TOWARDS MAKING A MODERN INDIA

Dr. Ambedkar was a freedom fighter of the truest kind, not merely dreaming of setting India free from British rule, but of transforming India into a Country where freedom holds meaning for everyone. While Mahatma Gandhi led fellow Indians in a struggle against discrimination in South Africa, Dr. Ambedkar led a battle, too, against prejudice within his own Country. By securing equality, he was creating a more equal world for all. Dr. Ambedkar considered education as a powerful

instrument for raising the overall status of the depressed and deprived classes. He thought, It is education that furnishes moral arsenal for any social

movement, the more education the more the chances for progress. In his struggle for the liberation of the Dalits from the Hindu social slavery, Ambedkar had the right cognizance of the role that education has to play. He desired the elevation of the depressed classes to be the responsibility of the enlightened people in the Country. Thus he established a chain of schools, colleges and hostels under the shield of the People’s Education Society which he had founded in 1945. His emphasis, however, does not rest merely on academic education. He had realised the importance of mass education. Accordingly he conceived education as a means to make the Dalits aware of their social realities and to develop in them courage and commitment to fight casteism. He published four periodicals namely ‘Mooknayak’ (1920), ‘Bahishkrit Bharat’ (1927), ‘Samatha’ (1929) and ‘Janata’ (1930). His career as teacher, principal and member of Legislature enabled him to get insight into the academic and administrative problems of higher education, it also provided him rich experience and knowledge of the complexities of educational concerns.

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He urged the teachers and the educated parents to meet the requirements and challenges of the modern world and called on them to work for inculcation of rational thinking and scientific temper among the masses in general and the young generation in particular. To him, education is the only right weapon to cut down social slavery. It will enlighten the dalits to achieve elevated social status, economic betterment and human and political rights. It would enhance adjournment of the age old values and would inculcate the values required for a pluralist society. It is out of this conviction that he made ‘educate’ the first word of his slogan “Educate, Agitate, Organise”.

Ambedkar’s birth in an ‘untouchable’ community made him undergo humiliating experiences. In those days untouchability was deeply entrenched in the minds of the caste Hindus. Ambedkar fought the caste-ridden unjust society on all fronts- social, religious, political and economic. His encounter with casteism and untouchability opened a new course in the social reform movement in India. Unlike the earlier reformers who limited the cause of social progress and welfare within a general frame of reference, Ambedkar concentrated his power and resources on the cause of liberation of a particular section, the Dalits.

Ambedkar’s ideological conflict with the Hindu social order and casteism developed into direct action in March 1924 when a meeting of the untouchables was convened at the Damodar Hall, Bombay. The foundation of” Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha” set a concrete platform to represent the grievances of the depressed classes. During the early phase of his movement Ambedkar demanded equal rights particularly social and religious, for the Dalits. But later the association set importance extra on the political rights of the depressed classes. Ambedkar no more fought within the fabric of Hinduism. While the congress boycotted the Simon Commission he did not hesitate to tender evidence before it on behalf of the Dalits. He felt that it was his duty to promote their interests by demanding separate electorates. On this matter he had to confront with Gandhiji in the Second

Round Table Conference. Ambedkar formed the Independent Labour Party (1LP) to promote the cause of the depressed classes. When, under the Government of India Act 1935, election to the provincial legislatures was declared, his party contested the election in seventeen seats in the Bombay Presidency and won fifteen. However, congress formed the government and Ambedkar joined the opposition. A notable achievement of his party in the legislature was the introduction of the bill for abolition of Mahar Watan and Khoti. The bill was aimed at liquidating the feudal land tenure system that prevailed in the Konkan region. As a member of the constituent assembly and as chairman of the Draft Committee of Indian Constitution, Ambedkar did his best to safeguard the interests of the depressed classes. The constitution established a uniform or single system of citizenship law for the country. It outlawed the stigma of untouchability and prohibited discrimination on the ground of religion, caste, race and sex. There are provisions in the Constitution for protecting the political rights of the depressed sections of the society.

Dr. Ambedkar’s work in economics is noteworthy. His views on public finance and agriculture are landmark in Economics. Prof. A. K. Sen has also said, “Ambedkar is my Father in Economics. He is factual celebrated champion of the disadvantaged. He deserved additional than what he has achieved today. His contribution in the field of economics is splendid and will be remembered forever..!”Ambedkar said, “Economy” in public expenditure does not simply mean a low level of public spending, but it is the clever use of finances so that every paisa fetches the most benefit. Those in charge of public funds must strive to evaluate alternative methods of achieving the objectives and see to it that leakages do not occur. He was of the view that governments should spend the resources garnered from the public not only as per rules, laws and regulations, but also to see “faithfulness, wisdom and economy”. Overruling in a conversation in the Bombay Legislative Council on October 10, 1927, Dr. Ambedkar argued that the solution to the agrarian question “lies not in increasing the size of farms, but in having concentrated

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cultivation that is employing additional capital and more labour on the farms such as we have.” Further on, he says: “The better method is to begin cooperative agriculture and to compel owner of little flooring to join in cultivation.” Thus Ambedkar’s thought on public Finance and agriculture has vital relevance and are still applicable in the current situation of India. In order to improve output of agriculture sector, government is needed to take measures on the basis of Dr. Ambedkar’s consideration.

He was out spoken about his ideas of nation building. He possessed great foresight and his warnings about the future of India ring so true today. In a speech before the constituent assembly he cautioned his fellow legislators against the use of non-constitutional methods of protest,

such as civil disobedience and Satyagraha, because they were essentially an anarchic in nature. He rallied against the Indian tendency to engage in hero worship. He was afraid that the people of India would lay their liberation at the feet of someone they worshipped or entrust them with extraordinary limitless powers. He also underlined the importance of creating not just a political democracy, but also a social and economic one. His PhD thesis was inspired to set up the Finance Commission of India and his works helped a lot in framing guidelines for the RBI Act 1934. He was one of the founders of Employment Exchanges in our country. He played a vital role in the establishment of the National Power Grid System, Central Water Irrigation, Navigation Commission, Damodar valley project, Hirakud project and Sone river project.

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