DEMAND FOR A FORUM FOR WORKSHOPS IN INDIAN RAILWAY
What an omnipotent forum can do for us?
Constituency of the forum:
The forum consists of two members from each community based associations and recognized/ unrecognized trade unions so as to work in coordination with the respective bodies and the forum. This forum is to function along with an officer, a senior supervisory staff and a senior ministerial staff. Stores department can offer a member to join this forum. Number of members cannot exceed ten and each has their own assignment of work. No members can continue to hold any responsibilities in their associations and trade unions from which they are selected from. The associations and trade unions can recommend each ten names of their members from which two members are selected. Once enrolled the member can no longer function as a member of their mother association or trade union. It is the call of present for establishing a forum as the administrations in government sector is dormant in solving issues related to healthy development of humane qualities among staff.
Purpose of the forum:
1. Since the forum is purported to solve issues arising out due to common confusions in intra personnel relationships, the forum will have to consist of a psychiatric counselor from railway medical branch. As the forum may have to deal with cases that crop up due to the steady increase in the number of women staff, the forum must inevitably consist of such medical branch support in order to maintain disciplined conduct of male staff against the women staff and the vice versa. Therefore a legal consultancy can be obtained from staff who are qualified with legal education and experiences.
2. The forum we talk about here is an administrative wing with autonomous powers to intervene issues that hamper the work flow or inefficient functioning of administration itself.
3. Since intra administrative sections consume much time in executing abnormal delay in normal works such as arrear of wages, increment, arrears, loans, computerization, accomplishing safety facilities to staff etc., the forum can function a boosting body so as to eliminate the hurdles that hamper the easy work flow.
4. When there arises an altercation between administrative wings, this forum can intervene in such issue and gets the problem solved thus avoiding much time lapse.
5. The forum can convene thrice in a week and discusses action for the next day. All activities are recorded and a separate cabin may be allotted for its purpose. All records, including the medical reports of the employee are to be preserved are to be treated confidential. Medical branch and the forum head have the authority and responsibility to maintain the secrecy of the documents.
6. Any staff including officers working inside Loco Works can make lodge complaints with this forum. Even members of staff family can lodge complaints on the staff erring in family level outside work premises. This is possible as the forum consists of medical, legal counselors.
7. Supervisory staff can suggest names of staff to the forum who need psychological, managerial counseling trough which the real problem that broods the staff mind can be learnt, studied and get enlightened. Both the management and the staff are benefitted.
8. Any possible rift between trade unions or other social and communal associations can be referred to this body.
9. Any misunderstanding between staff can be brought to this body so as to get immediate solution in order to quell the bothersome aftermath effects.
10. The forum can suggest head quarters the just demands of staff with recommendations from the competent authority.
The other cultural benefits of the forum
This forum is not an equivalent or substitute for trade unions or existing welfare cell as this body possesses more authority in promoting intra personnel skills and furthering the developmental process of workshop because it is a unified force of veritable social and labor factors in workshop. It reduces fatigue in persuading the working units of the workshop and its offices for optimum output. Moreover, this forum can serve the essential filling of the big gap in the prevailing system of management and the managed ones. The forum can serve effectively where trade unions cannot independently take decisions; the forum can brilliantly manage in the areas where management is hesitant or ineffective in solving issues headache to the whole system of discipline. In all, the forum is the timely need of the system where cultural decay is in advent and the social responsibilities has started to fade in some individuals who are the pillars of the railway workshops. Dear comrades, if you want to preserve the cultural values of those staff, worried about the integrity of this workshop and be sincere in improving the present system in to a flawless one, then, I recommend this forum is the only choice than anything. Consider it as it is the only way for a brilliant and dynamic railway workshop. I suggested this forum in 2006 to the administration when I happened to watch an employee, namely Sri.K.Senthilkumar slowly corrupted himself out of fears of job insecurity and got ousted out from the job. No one was ever able to identify the real cause of his strange behavior.
Lack of improving common morality among staff
I have several other judicious reasons why this forum is to be introduced so as to preserve the ethical intelligence of the workshop staff. I cannot identify the individuals for their sake who were corrupted due to the absence of instrumental body such as this forum. Remember, targeted individuals are always hapless and uncared ones. Your son or daughter may be the next one. We need a forum to take care of those at least for the sake of our own daughters and sons. There aren’t any body who can nurture and boost their morality so as to make them to work efficiently and live peacefully. Do consider this forum now, name it anyway you desire, reorder it anyway it can suit to the requirements of judicious and decent standards of living environment both inside and outside workshop. Within a year, this workshop can achieve a common goal for honorable and safe working. We need a forum where we can get judicious solutions for our genuine problems!
- S. Muthuraman, An out going Staff
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