Canara Bank Officers' Assocaition : Circulars

MINUTES OF THE 184th JOINT CONFERENCE HELD BETWEEN THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MANAGEMENT OF CANARA BANK AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CANARA BANK OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION AT HEAD OFFICE, BANGALORE ON 13th JULY, 2011.

PRESENT :

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MANAGEMENT:

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Sri A K Nahar, General Manager welcomed Sri S Raman, Chairman & Managing Director and the Representatives of the Central Negotiating Team of the Canara Bank Officers’ Association and the Representatives of the Management to the Joint Conference and requested our Chairman & Managing Director to address the gathering.

While addressing the Members of the Central Negotiating Team, Sri S Raman, Chairman & Managing Director stressed upon the need for improved customer service. Further, he urged that the Officer Employees should have the full knowledge of our products, particularly I.T. products like Mobile Banking, e-banking etc. He advised that Officers should themselves use these products, so as to enable them to market the products effectively.

Further, he emphasized the need for initiating steps towards recovery of the NPA, since Auto NPA concept has been implemented by the Bank. He also laid thrust regarding achieving targets especially under CASA, Low Cost Deposits and Retail Business and further improving the number of performing branches to 70%. Sri K R S Murthy, President, Canara Bank Officers’ Association and Sri M Rasupandi, Chairman, Canara Bank Officers’ Association welcomed the Chairman & Managing Director and assured that with the collective efforts, the objectives of the Bank shall be achieved and all efforts will be taken to advise the Officers’ community to have more diligence while lending and to avoid frauds. Sri R K Avasthi, General Secretary welcomed the Chairman & Managing Director to the Joint Conference and while reciprocating the views expressed by the Chairman & Managing Director assured the continued support of the Officers’ community for achieving the Corporate goals. He also assured that the I.T. Products will be propagated among all the Officer Employees. With this the following agenda items were taken up for discussion:

The Representatives of the Association requested for finalisation / declaration of promotion vacancies for Officers from JMG Scale I to MMG SCALE II, MMG Scale II to MMG Scale III and MMG Scale III To SMG Scale IV for the year 2011. The matter of declaration of vacancies and zone of consideration for promotion in respect of Officers from JMG Scale-I to MMG Scale-II, MMG Scale-II to MMG Scale-III and MMG Scale-III to SMG Scale-IV for the year 2011 were discussed and finalized according to the long term Promotion Policy agreed on 10.08.2010. The details are as under:

Scale	No. of vacancies
A. For promotions from JMG Scale-I to MMG Scale-II [including Specialist Officers]	700
B. For promotions from MMG Scale-II to MMG Scale-III [including Specialist Officers].	400
C. For promotions from MMG Scale-III to SMG Scale-IV	200

The vacancies regarding Specialist Officers are as under: PROMOTION TO MMG SCALE II

Categories Scale II	Vacancies Declared
a) Law Officers	1
b) Security Officers	1
c) Hindi Officers	1
d) Technical Field Officers / Net Work Administrator / Telecom Engineer	3
e) Junior Economists	1
F) Financial Analyst	1
Total	8

Categories	Scale III
	Vacancies Declared
a) Law Officers	4
b) Security Officers	2
c) Hindi Officers	1
d) Technical Field Officers /	3
e)Computer Programmers / Data Base Administrator	3
f) Agri Business Marketing	3
g) SME Marketing Manager	3
Total	19

However, it was mutually agreed that the unfilled vacancies for Specialist Officers will fall back to the general merit vacancies.

2 IMPROVEMENT / ENHANCEMENT IN REIMBURSEMENT OF CONVEYANCE EXPENSES TO ALL OFFICERS INCLUDING THE PROBATIONARY OFFICERS

The Representatives of the Association informed that the revision has taken place seven years ago and requested for Improvement / Enhancement in Reimbursement of conveyance expenses to all Officers. The Representatives of the Management informed that the matter will be looked into.

3 EXTENDING THE FACILITY OF REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES OF CLEANING MATERIALS TO ALL THE OFFICERS

The Representatives of the Association requested for extending the facility of reimbursement of expenses of cleaning materials to all the Officers. The Representatives of the Management informed that the Competent Authority has permitted reimbursement of expenses of cleaning materials to Officers occupying Bank quarters i.e. Bank owned and Bank leased quarters only. However, the matter regarding the reimbursement of cleaning materials to all the Officers will be looked into.

The Representatives of the Association requested for Uncapping the ceiling on Festival Advance. The Representatives of the Management informed that recently, Board of Directors have permitted to enhance the limits for the employees who have joined the Bank on or after 06.12.1990 and the enhanced limits have been permitted from 01.01.2011. The request of the Association in this regard will be examined.

5 APAS (ANNUAL PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM) – NEED FOR COMMUNICATING THE RATINGS TO THE APPRAISEES

The Representatives of the Association while informing that in the present scenario of transparency and openness, it is not in the interest of the Officers’ community as well as the Bank to resort to confidential appraisal and requested to communicate the ratings of APAS (Annual Performance Appraisal System) to the Appraisees to enable the officers to seek up-gradation of the ratings. The Representatives of the Management informed that the present policy of APAS was approved by the Board of Directors after thoroughly examining the various aspects involved. It was also informed that in the case of a rating “Below Average”, the rating is being communicated to the appraisee. However, the request of the Association will be looked into.

The Representatives of the Association raised the issue of Problems tagged with the implementation of CBS and brought to the notice various problems in implementing the CBS and impressed to revive the CBS Monitoring Committee which were earlier examining such issues. The Representatives of the Management informed that CBS Monitoring Committee has been re-constituted and a Meeting in this regard will be convened shortly to sort out the issues.

The Representatives of the Association brought to the notice of the Management that the machines given to the Currency Chests are obsolete and frequently breaking down and unable to recognize the fake notes. Moreover, the Vendors are also not giving AMC. They highlighted the need for supplying sophisticated machines to detect fake notes. The Representatives of the Management informed that Bank has procured Note Sorting Machines to all our Currency Chests and informed that these Machines have the facility to detect the fake notes. Further, if any specific problems have been furnished, the matter can be referred to the concerned Wing for further action.

The Representatives of the Association requested for providing CC TV facility to all the branches / ATMs. The Representatives of the Management informed that the matter will be referred to the concerned Wing for further action.

The Representatives of the Association took up the issue of review of disciplinary matters. The Representatives of the Management informed that the review/appeals are considered based on the merits of each case.