Lok Sabha Question No. 3592 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-02
Subject: Posts Equivalent to Group A
Ministry: PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
Asked by: GANESH SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS (DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND TRAINING)

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3592 (TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.01.2019)

## POSTS EQUIVALENT TO GROUP A

## †3592. SHRI GANESH SINGH:

Will the PRIME MINISTER be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  officers  of  the  rank  of  Grade  level-1  and  above  of  Public  Sector  banks, financial institutions and insurance corporations are likely to be considered equivalent to Group 'A' officer of  Government of  India  and  those  claiming  reservation  under  Other Backward Castes category are likely to be considered in creamy layer;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has not fixed parity among Group 'B', 'C' and 'D' officers and employees in public sector enterprises and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether their salaries are likely to be linked with income/property norms;
- (e) if so, the details thereof along with the rules in this regard; and
- (f) the details of the number of Group 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D' officers and employees working in  all  the  undertakings  under the administrative control of the Government whose sons and daughters have been deprived of reservation from the year 2017 till date on the basis of income/ property criteria?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

(a) & (b):   The Department of Financial Services have notified the principles for determining the equivalence  in  respect  of  Public  Sector  Banks  (PSBs),  Public  Financial  Institutions(PFIs)  and Public Sector Insurance Companies(PSICs) on 06.12.2017 which are as under:

- (a)  Junior  Management  Scale-I  of  PSBs,  PFIs  and  PSICs  will  be  treated  as  equivalent  to Group A in the Government of India; and
- (b)  Clerks and Peons in PSBs, PFIs and PSICs will be treated as equivalent to Group C in the Government of India.

(c)  to  (e):     The  Department  of  Public  Enterprises  have  issued  an  Office  Memorandum  on 25.10.2017  conveying  the  guidelines  for  establishing  equivalence  of  posts  in  Central  Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) with posts in Government. As per the guidelines, all the executive level  posts  in  CPSEs i.e. Board level  executives and below Board level executives, which are managerial level posts, will be considered as "Creamy Layer", subject to the proviso that those executives whose annual income, as per criteria given in  DoPT OM dated 08.09.1993, is less than  Rs.  8  lakh  (as  amended  vide  DoPT  OM  No.  36033/1/2013-Estt.(Res)  dated  13.09.2017), will not fall under the Creamy Layer criteria.

(f):      As  per  the  guidelines  issued  by  the  Department  of  Personnel  and  Training  vide  Office Memorandum dated 08.09.1993, sons and daughters of the persons falling in the Creamy Layer are not entitled to the benefit of reservation available to the Other Backward Classes.

The data on the number of officers and employees working in the Undertakings under the administrative  control  of  the  Government,  (whose  sons  and  daughters  are  not  entitled  to  the benefit of reservation for Other Backward Classes), is not maintained centrally.

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