Tata Steel Jamshedpur to employ 500 employees’ children from Feb-March, 2021

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Employment to be provided in three annual phases

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur: In a landmark agreement between Tata Steel management and Tata Workers’ Union, the steel major has agreed to enroll 500 registered dependents of retired employees in a three year phased manner. The age criteria agreed upon is between 18 years and 42 years. A written test in English or Hindi based on the candidate’s preference will be held after which other procedures pertaining to their enrollment will will take place.
The agreement to enroll 500 registered, children and dependents of Tata Steel employees was signed by the Company’s Vice President (HRM) Suresh Dutt Tripathy, Vice President (HRM) designate Atrayee Sarkar and Zubin Palia while TWU’s signatories were President R Ravi Prasad, Deputy President Arvind Pandey and General Secretary Satish Singh.
In a press meeting convened by Tata Workers’ Union after the agreement was signed, R Ravi Prasad announced that 500 registered sons and dependents of Tata Steel employees would be enrolled in the Company the process of which will commence in February-March, 2021. This will be the first time in a decade that Tata Steel will be enrolling registered sons and dependents of erstwhile employees. Prasad said that the agreement had come through after years of persistence.

The TWU president informed that the enrollment of 500 registered dependents was agreed upon during the grade revision agreement and at that juncture the maximum age limit of candidates was 40 years which the union successfully urged for revision upto 42 years. He said that after the COVID-19 pandemic, the process of enrollment will commence in February-March, 2021.

Elaborating further R Ravi Prasad stated that the process of enrollment will commence with a written examination that candidates will have to answer either in Hindi or English as per their convenience. The questions will be on objective pattern and the subjects will be upto the Matriculation level. Successful candidates will then undergo medical tests. Those getting through the medical tests will be selected and will have to undergo one month’s training and will be on probation for a period of six months. The candidates will have to successfully pass the probation period. All trainees will be paid monthly stipend of Rs 8,778 as per the government’s minimum wage norm. After completion of their training period they will be enrolled in NS Grade 1. The breakup of the 500 enrolled employees’ sons and dependents in three phases will be 175 in 2021, 175 in 2022 and 150 in 2023.

Moreover, there have been amendments in medical facilities by which families of permanent and retired Tata Steel employees in NS Grade will be eligible for medical facilities.
TWU President R Ravi Prasad said that the agreement on employment in Tata Steel even during the COVID pandemic is indeed heartening as a result of which employees, retired employees and their registered dependents will be benefitted.

TWU Deputy President Arvind Pandey stated, “The demand for enrollment of the registered sons and dependents of employees was being pursued over a long period of time and today the demand has seen the light of day. The registered children and dependents of Tata Steel employees and those who have retired will stand to gain handsomely.”
Satish Singh, General Secretary of TWU observed, “It was during the grade revision agreement that the agreement to enroll registered children of employees was agreed upon and today, the long pending issue has been mutually resolved.”
It may be mentioned here that prior to the agreement on employment of registered sons of employees in the Company on Wednesday, November 4, an agreement with the Company had been effected on March 8, 2011 when Raghunath Pandey was the TWEU President. Under that agreement 682 persons were enrolled in NS Grade, 347 in Security and 100 matriculate candidates were absorbed as para medical staff.