Minutes of the Meeting of Indian Railway
Pharmacist Association
Core Committee, held at Mathura Cant.
on 19.07.2013
The
first Core Committee meeting after formation of the new body under the
presidentship of Sri. L.S.Chandel (Sri.V.G.Zambre, President/IRPA/NDLS took the
leave) and Smt. Revathi.M, General Secretary/IRPA/NDLS, held at Mathura Cantonment on 19.07.2013 in the presence of following
Core Committee Members.
1. Smt.
Revathi.M - SCR
2. Sri. Jaswanth
Singh – NR
3. Sri. S.P. Verma – DMW/Patiala
4. Sri. Veerendra Pratap Mall – NER/GKP
5. Sri. Narayan Chavan Das – SER
6. Sri. Bhupendra pal – NCR
7. Sri. Sunil P Parande – WR/JRH
8. Sri. Ashok Kumar Gupta – ECR/Samasthi pur
9. Sri. Tapan K jena – SER
10.
Sri. R.P
Chaubey – WCR
11.
Sri. G.N.Singh
– ECR
12.
Sri.
K.K.Pranami – NR
13.
Sri. Manoj Kumar
– NR/DLI
14.
Sri. Anand
Gupta – NR/DLI
15.
Sri.
Venkateshwarlu – SCR/KCG
16.
Sri. Sandeep
Chaurasia – NER
17.
Sri. G.R.Singh
– NCR/Agra
18.
Sri.
A.N.Mishra – NCR
19.
Sri. A.K.Gupta
– NCR
20.
Sri. Ravinder
Thomar – NCR and others
Welcome
address was given by Smt. Revathi.M, GS/IRPA/NDLS, after welcoming address 2
minutes were mourned in the memory of the people who laid down their lives in
Uttarakhand. She narrated about the financial condition of the IRPA and asked
the advices of each and every member present in the meeting to give suggestions
to improve the financial matters of IRPA.
She
also told how to improve the cadre in all Railways, for this she insisted that
17 zones should be divided into Four Regions. Each region comprised of Northern
region, Southern Region, Eastern Region and Western Region. And all Industrial/Production
units under one unit & it were agreed in the meeting by all the members
that, Sri.S.P. Verma,Pharmacist,DMW/Patiala will lead as Secretary for all the PU’s.
Regarding
the Fast Track committee that the legitimate issue of wavering of Rs.2800/-
Grade pay, and implementation of
Rs.5400/- Grade pay to our cadre should be implemented soon. In this regard
Sri. Ragavaiah, GS/NFIR/NDLS has already raised the issue in the Rly.Board in
the month of December-2012. IRPA has already requested both the
Federations for wrongful resentment of
MACP implemented to our cadre, in this regard both federations have written the
letters to the Railway Board not to consider placement of Pharmacists from
Rs.2800/- Grade Pay to Rs.4200/- Grade pay as 1st MACP. The first
MACP should be considered as Rs.4600/- Grade Pay. Regarding MACP, IRPA will
communicate to the federations and Railway Board to review and implement the 3
MACP’s to the Pharmacist cadre after clarifying with DOPT.
It
was advised to all zonal Railways to send the all pharmacists Phone numbers
& email id’s as early as possible to the IRPA to enable to reach all the
pharmacists with latest developments of the cadre and association. Also
requested to all the zones to deposit Rs.10000/- per year as special fund to
meet the challenges etc.. for the
forthcoming 7CPC.
It
was decided in the meeting that, all the zonal bodies should conduct 3 meetings
in the divisions in their respective zones and send the minuts to the IRPA so
that, the problems of the Pharmacists i.e. administrative problems will be
solved through concerned CMS/CMD
It
was also decided in the meeting after
taking the views from all the members to amend the duties and responsibilities
of Pharmacists as per the Pharmacy act – 1948 Section 42 and Article -14 and
the Dispensaries /Lockup dispensaries in some parts of Indian Railway are
running without Pharmacists, which is illegal and against pharmacy act and
considered to be offensive. DG(RHS)/NDLS and CMD’s of respective zones should
immediately intervene in this matter and pharmacists should be posted at the
earliest or the action will be taken by Drug Controlling Authority of India.
The
Pharmacists in many railways are facing lot of hardships due to non-filling up
of vacancies. In this connection soon , IRPA will conduct the meetings with
both federations and DG(RHS), and it is
requested to all zonal secretaries immediately conduct meeting with the both
unions in their respective zones regarding filling up of vacancies , amendment
of IRMM & MACP policy and send the minutes to the IRPA.
It
was decided in the meeting that, IRPA will file a case regarding the wavering
of Rs.2800/- Grade pay as initial grade and implementing 3 MACP Policies
irrespective of Fast Track Committee after the hearing of the case filed by the
FIPO/NDLS on 31.07.2013
General
Secretaty/IRPA requested Sri. L.S Chandel, Patron/IRPA to give his valuable
suggestions. He addressed to the meeting to strengthen the financial
matters and to pay the subscription amount for the year 2011-12, 2012-13 &
2013-14 from all the zones. He has approached the both federations to resolve
the problems of the cadre.
Sri.
Tapan K Jena, has advised to constitute advisory committee for 7CPC in which
minimum 2 persons from each zone and universal duties should be implemented
across the Indian Railways.
Then Core committee
requested to give their valuable suggestions one by one.
From SER Sri. Tapan K
Jena & N.C.Das felicitated Sri. L.S.Chandel on his post superannuation.
Vote
of thanks given by Smt. Revathi M and she appreciated that NER has come
forwarded to conduct the meeting. She thanks all the pharmacists of NER and
other staff of Mathura Cantonment for extending their coordination.
Sri.Ravinder Singh Tomar to make the
meeting grand success.
