Department of Official Language
Central Secretariat Official language
Service (CSOLS) 11.22.125 The demands of
the CSOLS are summarised below: i. Creation of ten additional posts of Joint
Secretary/Senior Director in GP 10000 have been demanded to mitigate stagnation
at the level of Director. ii. It has been submitted that the Committee of
experts on cadre restructuring of CSOLS and the Committee of Parliament on
Official language have also recommended creation of posts at higher level on
functional justification. iii. Merger of existing 36 posts of Joint Director
with existing 18 posts of Director at the level of Director, citing
justification that both Joint Director and Directors are performing the same
duties. iv. Following merger of the post of Joint Director with the post of
Director, the level of post with GP 7600 would be missing and so to make
parallel hierarchy with the CSS, upgradation to GP 7600 from existing GP 6600
with re-designation of the posts as Dy. Secretary has been demanded. v. For the
Assistant Director, upgradation from GP 5400 (PB-3) to GP 6600 has been
demanded with re-designation of the post as Under Secretary. The justification
given
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Index is that in spite of lower qualification prescribed for the
post of Assistant Director in some other departments like Enforcement
Directorate, NCRB and NCB, they are placed in the GP 6600. vi. For the post of
Junior Translator upgradation from GP 4200 to GP 4600 has been sought with
re-designation of the post as Hindi Assistant, for the sake of parity with CSS.
The justification given is that while the post of Junior Translator requires
Masters Degree
with two years’ experience and Diploma certificate course in translation as
essential qualification, there are many other posts with lower requirement but
higher grade pay. vii. For the post of Senior Translator demanded upgradation
from GP 4600 to GP 4800 and GP 5400 (PB-3) after four years of service with
re-designation of the post as Section Officer. 11.22.126 The demands relate to
issues of creation of new posts, merger and upgradation of existing posts and
re-designation of various posts with upgraded pay scales. This Commission is
not dealing with issues relating to cadre restructuring. 11.22.127 The issue of
pay parity between Junior translators and Assistants of CSS cannot be accepted
as the two cadres are performing differen functions.
Central
Hindi Training Institute (CHTI)
Research Assistant (Language) 11.22.128 Central Hindi Training Institute (CHTI) has five
sanctioned posts of Research Assistant Language in GP 4200. These are isolated
posts. It has been demanded that these Research Assistants be placed in GP 4800
at par with the pay scale of Hindi Pradhyapak. The justification for this
demand is that up to the IV CPC, there was pay parity as per the given
position:-
Posts
III CPC IV CPC V CPC VI CPC
Research
Assistant Language
Group-B,
₹550-900
Group-B,
₹1640-2900
Group-B,
₹5500-9000 GP 4200
Hindi Pradhyapak
Group-C,
₹550-900
Group-C,
₹1640-2900
Group-B, Upgraded to
₹6500-10500 GP 4800
11.22.129 It has been stated that the nature of duties and responsibilities as
well as educational qualifications of Research Assistant (Language) and Hindi
Pradhyapak are similar. However, a comparison of the Recruitment Rules shows
that Hindi Pradhyapak must possess B.Ed.
qualification in addition to Masters in Hindi as well as two years’ experience
of teaching Hindi at Senior Secondary level whereas RA (Language) requires
Masters in Hindi/English plus two
years’ experience in translation/teaching/ research/writing. 11.22.130 Besides
the above, the entry criteria are different for the two posts - it is direct
recruitment in case of Hindi Pradhyapak while it is on
deputation/absorption/re-employment basis in case of Research Assistant
(Language).The duties and responsibilities are also not very
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teaching oriented. Therefore, the upgrade of Research Assistant to GP 4800 is
not recommended. 11.22.131 CHTI is a subordinate office under the Department
of Official Languages,
therefore the detailed recommendations in regard to headquarters-field
parity discussed
in Chapter 7.1 would be applicable here.
Hindi Pradhyapak 11.22.132 Hindi Pradhyapak Parishad has raised the
demand to upgrade pay of the Hindi Pradhyapak of Central Hindi Training
Institute (CHTI) from GP 4800 to GP 6000. They have justified the demand on the
ground that they impart official language Hindi training to all nonHindi
knowing Central Government/PSUs employees/ Bank Officials from clerical level
to the level of Secretary to the Government of India. They take classes of 40-45
hours per week whereas Assistant Professors (GP 6000) take classes of 16 hours
in a week with 30 hours of weekly availability. They also perform some other
duties like imparting basic Hindi Computer Training and Advanced Computer
Training in Hindi to employees/officers with a fixed target of 20 trainees for
each programme. 11.22.133 It is seen that Hindi Pradhyapaks have demanded
higher GP 6000 at par with Assistant Professor in College and Universities and
Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore. The requirement of educational
qualification/experience as provided by the Director, Central Hindi Training
Institute, Department of Official Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, shows
that the educational qualification for the post of Assistant Professor is MA
with 55 percent and National Eligibility Test (NET) or Ph.D. The educational
qualification for the post
of Hindi Pradhyapak, on the other hand is Master’s Degree in Hindi with English
as one of the subjects at degree level either as compulsory or optional or as a
language paper from
recognised University or equivalent, Bachelor’s degree in Education from a
recognised University/Institute or equivalent and two years’ experience of
teaching Hindi at Senior Secondary level. 11.22.134 As seen above, not only are
the educational qualifications required for the post of Assistant Professor
different from that of Hindi Pradhyapak, the work content of the two position
is different. 11.22.135 The Hindi Pradhyapaks are already placed in GP 4800
as against the normal
replacement scale of GP 4200 [in respect of V CPC pay scale of ₹6500-200-10500]. The
Commission therefore does not find the demand of Hindi Pradhyapak justified.