The scheme of Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) was introduced in the year 1966 as a sequel of the recommendations of the Second Pay Commission. The scheme is indented to serve as a Grievance Redressal mechanism for addressing issues raised by the staff. It covers nearly 95% of the regular civil employees. However, Gazetted Group ‘B’  Officers are not covered by the scheme except Gazetted Group ‘B’ officers of the Central Secretariat. Thus other Gazetted Group ‘B’ Officers are discriminated vis a vis the Gazetted Group ‘B’ Officers of the Central Secretariat. The absence of a Redressal scheme has left the Gazetted Group ‘B’  Officers without any means to voice their grievances before the Government.

The Officers have been demanding for a separate Grievance Redressal set up akin to the JCM or at least, a platform to negotiate the common issues of Gazetted Group ‘B’ Officers across various departments with the representative of CBEC. Their voices have so far fallen on deaf ears. AIACEGEO insisting that the issue be examined by the CBEC and a Grievance Redressal Mechanism for the Gazetted Group ‘B’  Officers be introduced so that the discrimination is removed and the genuine grievances of gazetted officers   numbering around 18,000 are meaningfully addressed by a forum and the present condition that chokes them into despair is removed.