Suggestion for Management of Holidays & Flexi Working Days.
Sanjeev Goyal
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No. SKG/PMO/050 16 Jun 2018
श्री नरेंद्र मोदी, प्रधानमंत्री,
Nirman Bhawan,
New Delhi-110 011.
https://pmopg.gov.in/pmocitizen/Grievancepmo.aspx MOPG/E/2018/0289090.
Sir,
Sub: Suggestion for Management of Holidays & Flexi Working Days.
Concerned Ministry: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(I) Public Holidays: The present list of public holidays of Central Govt. for runs for 19 days which contains 17 Gazeted Holidays (GH) plus 2 Restricted Holidays (RH). On an average we assume that 2 festivals would fall on either Saturday or Sunday. Considering that on an average there are 22 (365-104/12) working days, list is too long and practically is eating close to one month. This is very high compared to other countries and practically out numbers almost all countries of world. Some state Govts. even surpass this figure and are having a very long list of public holidays e.g. Haryana is having 36 holidays in 2017, Bengal 26 etc. This is apparently to appease public without serving any social cause. If we see the trend, demand for increase in holidays has not stalled. Still DOPT receive memorandum from employees union for additional holidays. With most of the Govt. organization following 5 days week, this entitlement is on very high side, often leading to disruption of work. Further, the present high list of holidays is unnecessarily creating disparity in public sector vis a vis private sector and is also one of factors unnecessarily creating extra charm for a Govt. job.
It is, therefore, felt that by putting a formula the problem needs to be fixed for good. We suggest that a package of holidays be offered to every Central Govt. office/PSU.
We hereby suggest a few alternatives to set it right:
(A) We suggest that a fixed 10 day package be allowed to all Govt. offices as public holidays. There should be a suggestive central list e.g. list may contain 6 following fixed holidays and balance 4 may be choosen by organization from the rest of list depending upon the geographical area/local customs/composition of employees etc.
Fixed Holidays:
1. Independence Day,
2. Deepawali,
3. Christmas,
4. Mahavir Jayanti,
5. Id ul fitr (Meethi Id),
6. Guru Nanak Birth Day
In addition allow them to avail as many holidays as they want for working in lieu of Saturday within the same calendar quarter. OR
(B) Allow every Govt. office a choice to have fixed 10 holidays to choose from a bucket at the beginning of calender year. The office may be given an option to allow extra holidays for working in lieu of Saturday.
Organisations working on 6 day week may be allowed to avail 12 holidays instead of 10 on annual basis.
(II) Flexi Week Day: The traffic problem in cities has become grave. Travelling on working day, amidst heavy traffic, from Monday to Friday leads too much wastage of precious time & energy in jams. Courts have also suggested Govt to stagger office timings. However, while we talk about flexi hours, it is felt that we may have flexi working days as well. Request consider if some organizations can be given the liberty to choose their weekly off other than Saturday/Sunday. It could be 2 consecutive days or there could be break after every 2 / 3 days. It is felt that organisations be rather encouraged to shift weekly off from Saturday & Sunday TO Sunday & Monday OR Friday & Saturday or any other combination. This will not only help redistribute load on road/electricity but also give some relief to overcrowded places like entertainment /hill stations.
(iii) Fluctuating Holiday: Everyone knows that judiciary in our country is over loaded with the huge pile up of pending cases. Every second, minute & hour of court time is extremely valuable as life and liberty of lakhs of people is at stake with each & every court verdict. Every ‘hearing date’ in court is a matter of life & death and is a huge mental & physical burden on all the persons connected with it due to anxiety and passing day of life of each party. Preparation of a hearing date entails a lot of work for all the parties associated.
We understand that due to Holidays the date of which is not fixed well in advance causes enmass postponement of a hearing date across country leading to enormous loss to the country and its citizens. The festivals depending upon sighting of moon are only decided on last moment i.e. previous night. So for example if an holiday is declared for 15th Jun and on the night of 14th Jun it was decided to postpone the holiday to 16th – How this shall be communicated to people that 15th is the working day? This has happened several times in past where due to such postponement rescheduling of cases has happened and day is wasted.
It is submitted that judiciary which resolves highly complicated matters may also like to devolve some time to save this huge loss of court time for the sake of crores of people involved in the litigation. Under present system in case of postponement practically 2 days are wasted. Among others, there could be following possible alternatives:
(i) When it is already known in advance that holiday may fluctuate the all hearings must be fixed on holiday and no hearing should be fixed for next day, with a caveat that in case holiday is not postponed the hearing shall happen on next day. No hearing should be fixed for next day, to keep a provision for postponement of festival. For example: if Id is falling on 15th Jun, all the court should use this as a working day and use this date like any other regular day with a caveat that in case 15th Jun is declared as holiday all hearings shall happen on 16th Jun. This simple trick can resolve all issues connected with fluctuating holidays and there will never be loss of 2 days.
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(ii) All such fluctuating holidays be converted into RH so that date is not missed,
Similar thing should also apply on Government offices. Generally the holidays are shown in red colour, it is suggested that such fluctuating holidays may be shown with some different colour say blue to indicate that it is not a fixed date for holiday and in case this day is not declared as holiday on previous night it shall be a working day. For example if likely date of Id is 15th Jun – In calendar it should be shown in blue colour to suggest that in case holiday is not confirmed depending upon declaration on Doordarshan/AIR on previous night it will be a working day. The DOPT order for Holidays does not prescribe clearly the methodology to be followed in case an already declared holiday is postponed due to not sighting of moon and is to be treated as working day.
These doctrines may be made applicable to all quasi-judicial authorities as well like all taxation authorities, labour courts etc.
We are sure that Government would be able to generate many more ideas to avert this huge loss caused due to such fluctuating holidays.
For consideration please. Please acknowledge
Regards,
S K Goyal
General Secretary – Dwarka Forum
D-103 Shivam Apts,
Plot-14, Sec-12,
Dwarka, N Delhi-110078.
REJIMON C K
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