PSA's Crimes Continue

PSWA-PM/009/2009 15/06/09

To To
The Hon’ble Minister for I&B The CEO
Ministry of I&B Prasar Bharati
Shastri Bhavan PTI Building,
New Delhi. New Delhi-1.

The Secretary The Chairman
Ministry of I&B UPSC
Shastri Bhavan Shahjahan Road
New Delhi. New Delhi

The Secretary All Members,
DOP&T Prasar Bharati Shahjahan PTI Building,
New Delhi New Delhi-10001.

Subject: Request for stopping /keeping in abeyance of cadre review to IBPS and feeder cadre and also the Scheme of equating organized services like IBPS with the IAS , until the outcome of ongoing enquiries regarding hundreds of illegal recruitments/promotions to gazetted posts (from Pex to SAG) in the Programme Cadre of AIR and DD resulting in large scale recruitment scam and also pending review DPCs in programme cadre from 1982 to 1989 and 1990 onwards .

Respected Madam/ Sir,
At the time of the Cadre Review meetings this association has clearly pointed out that the Cadre review should be undertaken only after the long pending review DPCs in the programme cadre are held. Further, it was also pointed out by this Association that through RTIs and other documents sufficient evidence and documents had been given to the Department that showed that there had been large scale recruitment scam and promotions of illegal persons to the IBPS. Whereas , the records of UPSC and SSC recruited programme personnel are available in the Department , even basic records including mode of entry , appointment details, qualifications at the time of appointment, background etc of hundreds of other personnel who have been inducted /interpolated in the programme cadre at various periods are strangely not available. It is also understood that there are even cases where from one family, fifty persons have been engaged on contract and then regularized. Further, AIR and Doordarshan is the only organization , where persons engaged without any specialized qualification or knowledge or training for 72 days in a year , have then been regularized as Trexs and granted the payscale of Group B gazetted Officers (6500-10500). Similarly , persons engaged on monthly contract in 1983/1984 such as existing DDGi/cs like Sh. H.K. Pani, Smt Deepa Chandra and Smt Aparna Vaish were directly inducted into Class I service flouting all statutory rules. Even the fitment of contractual employee , Sh. G. Jaylal (who served as Acting DG,AIR) into Class I service (Pex selection grade) was done illegally as UPSC recruited Programme Executives with similar or more qualifications had as per rules to complete at least 11 years regular service in the grade of Pex to become Pex Selection grade. Records show that Sh. Jaylal was wrongly fitted as Pex (selection grade) from the date of his joining on contract as at the same time, UPSC recruited Programme Executives could not become PEX selection grade even after completing 25 years of regular service in the grade of Pex! Such largesse given to Sh. Jaylal was done by violating statutory norms and by granting him undue benefits whereas even SC/ST Pexs recruited with similar or more qualifications by UPSC were denied their rightful dues. Sh. Jaylal, Sh. Pani, Smt Aparna Vaish, and Smt Deepa Chandra were also illegally made ASDs retrospectively from 1986. There are many such cases that will surface under the eyes of the enquiry committee.
This Association appreciates the efforts of Sh. B.S. Lalli, CEO, Prasar Bharati , to set right many wrong things in AIR and Doordarshan specially by ordering an impartial enquiry regarding illegal recruitments/promotions to the posts of JTS to SAG of the IBPS. Action initiated in this matter by both DDG(A), AIR Sh. Raj Kamal and GM(P) Shri P.K. Pathak is also acknowledged and appreciated.
It is however learnt that due to vested interests operating at different levels and under the pressure of the illegal DDGs/Directors of the Programme cadre - there is a move to finalise cadre review proposal by ignoring the above mentioned facts with the specific motive and intention of further complicating the enquiries and review DPC’s related works.
It is also learnt that DG:AIR is trying to implement the scheme equating IBPS and other organized services with the IAS (subject to a 2 year gap) though they are aware that the immediate implementation of this scheme for the programme cadre (without conducting the pending review DPCs ordered by Hon’ble Courts and prior to the outcome of the enquiry on the recruitment /promotion scam) would amount to once again giving give further “undue” benefits to illegal and ineligible persons interpolated into the IBPS.
In the circumstances, this Association reiterates it demand that the both the Cadre Review and equation with IAS scheme be stopped immediately and kept in abeyance until the completion of the enquiry referred to above and the pending review DPCs from 1982-1989 and 1990 onwards in the Programme cadre of AIR and DD. It would indeed be a travesty of justice that illegal persons continue to reap benefits , while a major portion of the regular programme cadre recruited through UPSC are stagnating for 27 years in the same grade.
It is requested that DG:AIR, the cadre controlling authority for AIR and Doordarshan should be directed to refrain from implementing the IAS Scheme in the programme cadre and from changing the cadre structure of existing IBPS Rules1990 until the completion of pending review DPCs/outcome of enquiries related to the recruitment/promotion scam in the programme cadre.
Yours sincerely,

Pramod Mehtaa.
President PSWA
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Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.
Hon’ble Vice President of India .
CEO, Prasar Bharati
Cabinet Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India.
DG, AIR
DG,DD
CBI
ADG, DD
CVO, Prasar Bharati
All DDGs .
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