(a) whether there is any transfer policy in Coal India Limited;
(b) if so, the salient features of this policy;
(c) if not, the reasons therefor;
(d) whether a number of engineers appointed to work in the mines are doing marketing and administrative work in big cities in the absence of the transfer policy; and
(e) if so, the reaction of the Government in this regard?
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR COAL (SHRI SYED SHAHNAWAZ HUSSAIN)
(a)&(b): Coal India Limited has a well defined transfer
policy. As per this policy the executives of M1 and above
grades who are working for more than 10 years in the same
company and having more than 2 years for retirement are
transferrable. The transfer policy further stipulates that
large scale transfer is to be avoided but at least 10% of
the executives specifying the criteria should be transferred
each year. In order to effectively implement this transfer
policy, a decision has been taken in the year 1998 to
transfer 20% of executives each year based on station
seniority. As per the said policy, executives of M1 and
above grades working in sensitive discipline are
transferrable from existing company on completion of 5
years. Executives working in sensitive discipline in E1 to
E5 grades are to be rotated within the company on completion
of 3 years.
This year a policy decision was taken to transfer all
the executives of M1, M2 and M3 grades who had remained in
the same company/ place of posting for 20 years and more.
However executives working in medical
discipline, World
Bank Project, Longwall and new technology and in project
costing Rs. 100 crores and above have been excluded.
(c): Does not arise in view of reply to part (b) above.
(d)&(e): The persons doing marketing / administrative work
are also governed by the transfer policy and transferred
from their place of posting as informed by CIL.