Dear Friends,

For the upcoming 7 CPC I have a few points which needs to considered by various veterans and also serving armed forces personnel in projecting the requirements for a separate PC for the defence force and also not to be equated with the IAS/IPS as has been the process till date. These points have been raised comparing a soldier on the IB, LOC, LAC or in CI Ops versus a babu in his office. There needs to be a common platform in raising these demands irrespective of the services and arm of the three services taking into account the person who face the harshest. Reading the points given under we must realise that the soldier and babu must never be compared on the same platform and also that as the soldier not only does work at least three times more than the babu his pay and allowances be at least three times that of him.

(a)          The soldier is on a 24 hrs duty round the clock 7 days a week for 365 days a year. A babu does a 9 to 5 job and works an 8 hr shift only.

(b)          A soldier has to do with a makeshift office which his bunker while a babu operates from an office desk which is well furnished and in a good working environment.

(c)           A soldier eats what he cooks and sleeps in the office his bunker while a babu after his office hours goes back to the comfort of his home and his family.

(d)          The soldier does not have the luxury of having fixed working hours which vary day to day and are also dictated by the visitors that is the enemy while a babu has fixed working hours which are convenient to him and his visitors.

(e)          No special sanction is required for the soldier to be made to work more than 8 hrs a day while the babu is dictated by labour laws and special sanction has to be taken to make him work more than 8 hrs a day in form of over time allowances.

(f)           When a soldier applies for leave he ends up losing the weekends and holidays in between the leave period as he is on duty 24/ 7/ 365 while in calculating a babus leave weekends and closed holidays are not counted. Thus extra leave authorised to soldiers becomes null and void.

(g)          A soldier cannot be absent from any duty at his own will, if absent it is considered as Absent Without leave which is a punishable offence under various services acts while a babu can go on leave without pay at his will.

(h)          If few soldiers gang up together to project a view it can be considered as a mutiny and it having a death penalty given by the commanding officer in operations while the babu is free to form unions and to go on strikes without any fear of even loss of any pay, allowance etc.

(j)           For any offence the soldier is faced with various in house enquiries and given in house punishments based on various services acts which at par with legal laws while a babu cannot be tried for any offence or be given a punishment in house.

(k)          The soldier does not only do the job content specified as per his work but has to be a jack of all trades so as to provide succour to the citizens when all state machinery fails while the babu will only do the job profile specifies in his charter of duties and not anything extra even at the of cause peril to the citizens.

(l)            A soldier can get injured or killed in his office the bunker while just sitting, having a meal or for that matter attending natures call due to the job content while the job content does not entail any kind of risk to the babu in his office.

(m)         A soldier cannot leave his office or post without being relieved by another soldier even if his on duty time is over while a babu can be missing from his chair without any reason and if his duty entails handing over to the next babu the moment his duty time is over he need not wait for physical hand over to the next babu.

(n)          A soldier is accountable to every second while on duty, otherwise it may cost him his or his colleague’s life while a babu is not accountable for any of his action or inaction even if it jeopardises the Org, citizens or the country.

(n)          A soldier is expected to work in any kind of terrain which more than often is inhospitable and is duty bound to follow all commands of his seniors while a babu may choose to refuse to do work in an area not of his liking and can even disobey orders of his seniors of his free will.

(o)          A soldier who has once joined the force forgoes his fundamental rights as a citizen of the country and is dictated by the various acts, rules and regulations of the services while a babu continues to enjoy firstly all the fundamental rights as a citizen of the country and is then dictated by rules and regulations.        

(p)          A soldier cannot have biases of religion, organisations, political affinity and is debarred from joining any such institutions while a babu has the full liberty to follow his religion, join any organisation and can have political affinity. In fact a babu can leverage as a vote bank for his own gains.  

 Please propagate these and do add more points to justify the need for a separate pay commission and a much higher pay scale or equivalence than the babus.