21. Item No. NC-48/ 14/21 - Grant Recognition to all employees organizations fairly and transparently - restore function of departmental and office councils in terms of the JCM Scheme.

The Staff Side has requested to the forum of Department Councils must be revived immediately in all Departments. The Chairman, National Council has to ensure that the Council meetings are convened once in four months and the issues raised therein are settled in a reasonable time frame.

All administrative Ministries/ Departments are to constitute Department Council, Regional Councils and Office Councils etc. by incorporating the representatives of recognized Service Associations as Staff Side members of those councils at the Department level and below in terms of the JCM Scheme. A large section of administrative authorities are not following the orders of the Government of India. they have kept the applications for recognition to the service Associations for years together despite the fact that the employees Associations of their respective departments have fulfilled all conditions for grant of recognition under the CCS (RSA) Rules, 1993. Pending cases of recognition of all India Civil Accounts employees Association Category-II (representing Assistant Accounts Officers across the country working under the Controller General of Accounts, New Delhi). All India DAVP Employees Association under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and All India Nursing Council Employees Association are some of the Classic examples. The Cabinet Secretary being a chairman of the National Council, is expected to ensure that the Council meetings are convened once in four months.