GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAY
(RAILWAY BOARD)
SBEC/Union Elec.2012/Modalities/1
New Delhi 18.03.13
Chief Personnel Officers
All Open line Railways and Metro Kolkatta
Sub: FINAL MODALITIES for Secret Ballot Elections for recognition of Unions/Federations on India Railways
Railway Board vide order no. ERB-I/2012/23/49 dated 09.11.12 has constituted a Committee as follows, to supervise and conduct Secret Ballot Elections for granting recognition to unions and federations on Indian Railways:
Chairman: Shri R.R.Jaruhar- Member Engineering (Retd) Railway Board
Member: Shri A. K. Nigam- Adviser Industrial Relations (Retd) Railway Board
Member Secretary: Shri Rajiv Kishore- Executive Director/ERP, Railway Board.
2. The terms of reference of the Committee are as follows:
i) To review the modalities framed by the earlier Committee for the elections held in November 2007/frame modalities to conduct next Secret Ballot Elections to recognise Unions;
ii) To form code of conduct/discipline for the elections on the lines of Code of Discipline of Ministry of Labour suitable for Indian Railways;
iii) To function as a nodal body for conducting and supervising the secret ballot:
iv) To suggest the mechanism for arbitration on disputes arising out of elections; and
v) Recognition of Federation(s) at Board’s level.
3. Further vide communication no. 2012/E(LR)III/LR/Misc/5(SB)-Pt. dated 08.03.13, Railway Board has advised that “instructions in compliance with courts orders dated 03.03.2010 in WP (C) No. 26/2008 and order dated 30.01.2012 in LPA no 550.2010 of Hon’ble High Court of Delhi which has been upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in their order dated 22.01.13 in Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No. 23523/2012, will follow separately”.
4. The Committee has uploaded DRAFT MODALITIES on the website on 11.03.13, calling for suggestions/views upto 5.30 pm on 15.03.13. The Committee received large number of suggestions through email and letters from various stake holders and unions from all over the Indian Railways.
5. On the basis of these suggestions, Railway Board advice dated 08.03.13 and specific Terms of Reference assigned to the Committee, the Committee has framed the following FINAL MODALITIES which are enclosed for information of all concerned. The FINAL MODALITIES have been uploaded on the official website of Railway Board, under the webpage titled “Secret Ballot Elections Committee”
6. It is requested that the enclosed Notice may be put up at prominent Notice Boards so that all concerned may be able to access the FINAL MODALITIES on the website
7. Hindi version shall follow.
RAJIV KISHORE
Executive Director/ERP
& Member Secretary, Secret Ballot Election Committee.
