CWRDM and CSIR Rules

Dear friends,

The Executive Committee of Centre for Water Resources Development and Management(CWRDM) held on 28-2-1978 has decided to provide CSIR grades and pay to Technical staff of cwrdm and secretariat grades and pay for non-technical staff of cwrdm. Consequently staff were recruited as per CSIR norms and Kerala Government Secretariat pattern. This was again confirmed by G.O.Ms. No. 30/87/STED dated 06-12-1987 and subsequent Government Orders.

At that time different laboratories under CSIR prescribed different qualifications for one and the same post and an attempt to eliminate this anomaly was done through Velluri/ Core / Varadarajan Committee report and by Thyagarajan sub committee formed for the implementation of the same in CSIR.

CWRDM was also full of anomalies as present in CSIR. For example M Sc first class holders were appointed in cwrdm as Technical assistant, Junior scientific Assistant, Senior Scientific assistant and even as Scientist. Thus when Velluri Committee report was implemented in Centre for Earth Science Studies(CESS), a sister organisation of cwrdm, we also started actions for the implementation of the same in cwrdm and an agreement was made on 23-3-1988 for the in toto implementation of the same in cwrdm. But it was not implemented as per CSIR Velluri committee report.

The salient features of CSIR Velluri Committee Report are;

1. Fast Track Promotion for higher qualified persons w. e. f 1-2-1981 but in cwrdm it was implemented w. e. f 23-3-1988. Consequently more than 7 years were lost to the higher qualified persons

2. As a result of implementation of Velluri Committee Report w. e. f 1-2-1981 the scale of pay of Technical Assistant Group II grade (2) in CSIR (Group I grade (2) in CWRDM) was changed to Rs 380-560 with effect from 1-2-1981 instead of Rs 330-560 given in CWRDM. Thus there is a difference of five increments in the basic pay of CWRDM Technical Assistant grade(2) compared to CSIR Technical Assistant grade(2). Latter this scale was merged with Rs 380-640 in CSIR with effect from 1-1-1996(as a result of Fifth Pay Commission Revision)

3. Changes introduced in CSIR were not implemented in CWRDM resulting much more complication in CWRDM. For example situations were arisen even Technical Assistants having lesser pay than Helper in State Scale.

4. As per MANAS w. e. f 1-4-88 there were seven grades in Group-III (Group II in CWRDM) in CSIR but in cwrdm it is only five even though our sister concern CESS has implemented it to six grades w. e. f 1-1-1994

5. Percentage limit for assessment promotion were replaced by Thresh hold marks w. e. f 1-4-88 as per MANAS for Group-II, Group-III and Group-IV in CSIR(Group I, Group II and Group III respectively in CWRDM). This facility is also implemented in CESS w. e. f 1-1-1994 which is also lacking in cwrdm.

6. Residency period were also changed for Group III and Group IV in CSIR(Group II and Group III respectively in CWRDM) as per REVISED MANAS w. e. f 1-4-92 onwards. Details are given below


CSIR Group-II ( CWRDM Group-I) Assessment Promotion Posts

Group/Grades	Scale of Pay	Eligibility for Assessment(Yrs)	Thresh hold i.e. Minimum Marks	Merit Assessment
II(1)	3050-4590	7, 8, 9, 11 and after remaining for one year at the maximum of the grade	60	N A
II(2)*	Rs 4500-7000	-do-	70	N A
II(3)	Rs 5500-9000	-do-	75	N A
II(4)	Rs 6500-10500

* The revised Scale of Gr.II(2) Rs 1350-2200/ II(3) Rs 1400-2300 have been merged to the Revised Scale of Rs 4500-7000 w. e. f 1-1-96 and such cases are to be regulated as per CSIR letter No. 17/66/94-PPS dated 2-8-2000

CSIR Group-III ( CWRDM Group-II) Assessment Promotion Posts

Group/ Grades	Scale of Pay	Eligibility for Assess ment(Yrs)	Thresh hold i.e. Minimum Marks
			Normal Assess ment	Merit Assess ment
III(1)	Rs 4500-7000	5, 6, 7, 9 and after remaining for one year at the maximum of the grade	60	N A	N A
III(2)	Rs 5500-9000	-do-	60	N A	N A
III(3)	Rs 6500-10500	-do-	70	80/4y	90/3y
III(4)	Rs 8000-13500	-do-	75	85/4y	90/3y
III(5)	Rs 10000-15200	-do-	75	85/4y	90/3y
III(6)**	Rs 12000-16500	5, 6, 8 and at the maximum of the grade	75	85/4y	90/3y
III(7)	Rs 14300-18300

**Staff in Group III(6), who possess the entry level qualification of Group IV, will only be eligible for assessment to Grade II(7), the condition of first class will, however, not be insisted up on the cases.

CSIR Group-IV ( CWRDM Group-III) Assessment Promotion Posts

(w. e. f 1 – 4 – 2007)

Group/ Grades	Scale of Pay	Resi- dency period	Thresh hold i.e. Minimum Marks for Merit Assessment
			1st chance	2nd chance	3rd chance	4th chance	5th chance
IV(1) Scientist-B	Rs 8000- 13500	3	85	80	70	65	60
IV(2) Scientist-C	Rs 10000- 15200	4	85	80	75	70	60
IV(3) Scientist-E1	Rs 12000- 16500	4	85	80	75	70	60
IV(4) Scientist-E2	Rs 14300- 18300	5	85	80	75	70	-
IV(5) Scientist-F	Rs 16400- 20000	5	85	80	75	70	-
IV(6) Scientist-G	Rs 18400- 22400	5
IV(7) Scientist-H	Rs 22400- 24500

Honorable Justice Shri T R Ramachandran Nair, Honorable High court of Kerala, through his judgment has given a verdict to redress the injustice inflicted up on the technical and scientific staff of CWRDM and I hope that the authorities will take necessary steps to remove the anomalies prevailed in cwrdm.

With hope for better future
velayudhan