28. Item No. NC-48/ 18/ 21 - Grant of Risk Allowance to the Employees involved in permanent and perennial recognized Risk Operations

Central Govt. Employees including Railways and Defence are engaged in highly hazardous and risky Operations which includes production/ manufacturing, processing, handling, loading, unloading, servicing, filling etc. Considering the risk involved in all these operations, the Cabinet has approved 45 such operations as risk and hazardous. Accordingly, a meager amount of Risk Allowance is paid to these employees. Even though the 7th CPC recommended for discontinuing Risk Allowance, the Committee of Secretaries chaired by the Cabinet Secretary has recommended for continuing the Risk Allowance. However, the Risk Allowance has not been brought under the purview of Risk and Hardship matrix recommended by the 7th CPC, rather the existing risk allowance was increased by 2.25 times. This also is a very meager amount. The employees who are engaged in these 45 operations and additional risky operations introduced are all in a high and risky environment. Therefore, the Staff Side proposes the following.

1. The existing risk allowance for the approved 45 risk operations may be brought under the purview of risk and hardship matrix recommended by the 7th CPC and the allowance should be not less than what is being paid to the Fire Fighting
2. After the Cabinet approval of 45 risky operations, many new risky operations have come in to existence in the Defence Therefore, such operations may also be included in the risk and hardship matrix.
3. Many new establishments have come into existence after the issue of the order on risk allowance, where risky operations are involved. All these left out establishments may also be included for payment of Risk Allowance .
4. Many category of employees such as Store keepers, , are not being paid risk allowance , even though they are involved in various Risk Operations. These left out categories may also be included for payment of risk allowance.

In this regard a High Level Committee constituted by Ministry of Defence have submitted various recommendations in this regard. The DOP&T has returned back the proposal of MoD with the observation to wait for the 7th CPC recommendation. In view of the present situation as mentioned above, the Staff side request that the proposal of the Staff side may be considered favourably.