MIB merger of 5 movie, media models triggers concern over central authorities worker standing amongst staffers

Confusion prevails within the corridors of 5 movie and media models beneath Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) merger, which was introduced by the Cabinet on December 23. Senior officers in addition to different employees members are ready for the federal government to offer readability in regards to the new construction of National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), which can now turn into an umbrella organisation, and way forward for the staff, particularly these immediately employed with MIB or via autonomous our bodies.
Employees of Films Division (FD), National Film Archive of India (NFAI), Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI), Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), that are to be merged with NFDC as per the brand new choice, are anxious about their future and need to know if their advantages as central authorities workers will proceed when transferred to a public sector utility (PSU) such because the NFDC.
While the federal government introduced that an appointment of a transaction adviser and a authorized adviser might be made to supervise “transfer of assets and employees and to oversee all aspects of operationalisation of the merger”, there was no transfer on that entrance; this has added to uncertainty amongst these organisations.

Employees of FD, NFAI, DFF and CFSI are additionally questioning the knowledge of merging these 4 organisations into NFDC, which is comparatively smaller as in comparison with FD, and has carried out poorly in the previous few many years.
Staffers from FD, the biggest of the 5 organisations, have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that though they aren’t in opposition to the merger of the movie our bodies, they’re involved in regards to the standing of the staff after the merger.
“…the employment status (of the FD employees) and all benefits should be continued as it is without any disturbances, their government accommodation and CGHS facility also be continued to keep them as central government employees and avail all the central government facilities…,” reads the letter signed by the employees affiliation dated January 7.
According to different staffers at FD, Additional Secretary Anju Nigam held a gathering with the heads of all 5 media models and employees representatives on February 3, however couldn’t present them any readability about the way forward for the 4 media models to be merged with NFDC.

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“Although we are not against the merger as such, we conveyed to her the surprise in the way bigger bodies like Films Division has been merged into a smaller body. In comparison to NFDC, Films Division is much richer in assets and manpower and, hence, NFDC and other media units should have been merged with Films Division, as was done in the case of banks where non-performing banks were merged with bigger banks,” stated a employees member of FD on situation of anonymity.
Dhanpreet Kaur, director (movies), MIB, informed The Indian Express that the merger is not going to have any adversarial impression on present workers.
“Their apprehensions have been taken into account and they will be taken care of while carrying out the merger. When the Minister MIB made the announcement of the cabinet decision, he has made it clear that employees will not be adversely affected,” Kaur stated, including that the cabinet offered MIB with a two-year time window to undertake the merger.
The NFDC, which was established in 1975 with the aim of improvement and promotion of the Indian movie business, has an worker energy of 134 whereas FD established in 1948, tasked with the manufacturing of documentaries and information magazines for presidency programmes, has 609 workers.
Employees of FD, NFAI, CFSI and DFF, who presently have a central authorities standing and are available beneath CCS guidelines, are additionally apprehensive how NFDC will be capable to operate in the long run as a lot of the actions carried out by these our bodies don’t generate any income.
An worker of FD stated, “There is a widespread apprehension that this newly merged corporation will not last for a long period merely with a one-time corpus fund. Annual support from the government will alone help this organisation to run smoothly. Hence, it’s important that more thought is given while merging the MIB’s media unit into a PSU like NFDC,” stated a employees member, who didn’t want to be named.
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