Joint Consultive Machinery set up

CHANDIGARH, Dec 14: Haryana has set up the promised Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) on the pattern of Whitely Council in the United Ki...

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CHANDIGARH, Dec 14: Haryana has set up the promised Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) on the pattern of Whitely Council in the United Kingdom for cooperation between the state government and its employees. The JCM will also work for improvement in efficiency and standard of public services as well as the welfare of employees, according to a notification issued here today.

The JCM – which was one of the poll promises made by the ruling Haryana Vikas Party in 1996 – would comprise a state-level committee headed Chief Secretary and departmental committees under the chairmanship of respective administrative secretaries. It would cover group “C” (Class three) and group “D” (Class four) employees in all the departments except the state police.

The state-level committee would have 18 members from the state administration and an equal number of representatives of employees. The departmental committee would have four senior members from the government and an equal member from staff side. The official members would include Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Financial Commissioners of Education, Revenue, Home, Transport, Finance, Health, Development and Panchayats, Animal Husbandry and Public Works Department (Public Health), Commissioners of Public Works Department (Building and Roads), Agriculture, Irrigation, Power, Legal Rememberancer and three members would be among the other administrative secretaries by rotation.

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The members representing the state government employees would be one each from haryana civil secretariat, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam, Haryana Power Generation Corporation, Public Works Department (Building and Roads), Public Works Department (Public Health), Public Works Department (Irrigation), Education, Transport, Revenue, Health, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Development and Panchayats, the notification said. Five members will be taken from other departments by rotation.

The concerned administrative secretary, who would be chairman of the departmental committee, will nominate members from the state administration. Members from staff side would be nominated by employees unions or associations of the concerned department. The chairman of state level and departmetnal committees will have the power to nominate any temporary member to the official side or staff side in connection with any particular item to be discussed by it at a meeting. The scope of such a departmental committee would include all matters relating to the conditions of service and work of the employees, their welfare, improvement of efficiency and standard of work.

The organisations of employees would nominate its representatives for a term of one year, but there will be no no bar to renomination. All deliberations of the committee would be only of an advisory nature.