Fire Officer, Southern Range, Berhampur, Ganjam

Introduction

Background of this Hand-Book (Right to Information Act. 2005):

As per RTI Act-2005 and Odisha RTI Rules,2005.

Objective / Purpose of this Hand-Book:

As per RTI Act-2005 and Odisha RTI Rules,2005.

Who are the Intended users of this hand-books?

As per RTI Act-2005 and Odisha RTI Rules,2005.

Organisation of the information in this hand-book.

As per RTI Act-2005 and Odisha RTI Rules, 2005.

Definitions of various terms used in the handbook.

As per RTI Act-2005 and Odisha RTI Rules, 2005.

Contact person.

As per RTI Act-2005 and Odisha RTI Rules,2005.

Procedure and Fee Structure.

As per RTI Act-2005 and Odisha RTI Rules,2005.

 MANUAL-1 

Particulars of Organization, Functions & Duties

[Section-4 (1) (b) (i)]

1. Aims & Objectives :

  1. Mission & Vision :
  1. History & Background :

FIRE SERVICES

BACKGROUND

The Fire services are not well organized in India. In recent years, the requirements for fire safety cover have increased manifold whereas the development of Fire Service has not made much headway. The setting up of Industrial Plants at a fast pace with extensive use of hazardous materials and the construction of larger and taller buildings have multiplied the problems of fire fighting. The fire hazards are no longer confined to big cities and manufacturing centers only. Vast quantities of hazardous commodities are daily moved by different modes of transport all across the country posing complicated fire rescue problems. If the objective of ensuring safety of life and property in urban and rural areas is to be achieved, then a complete over-hauling of fire service organization is called for. The fire services need to be organized properly with adequate infrastructure and equipment for keeping pace with advancement of technology and economic growth.

4. ROLE OF FIRE SERVICES IN INDIA:

Role of Fire Service in India broadly is extinguishing fire and protecting life and property in case of fire. Fire Service role has changed dramatically in the last few years. Some changes were influenced by external forces, while the impetus for others was the organization itself. All these changes have increased the risk of the profession. The fire service now responds to hazardous material incidents, advanced emergency medical situations, high angle rescue and confined space rescue incidents, trench and collapse operations, underwater rescue and more. It has been said that “when the experts panic, they call the fire department." In the immediate aftermath of any disaster coordinated search and rescue efforts are critical to saving lives and property. Past experience has shown that in the exigencies of disasters, whether it be a large scale or comparatively smaller ones the armed forces are frequently called upon to assist the civil authorities. However, the mobilization and deployment of armed forces for search and rescue delays response time which is critical for the survival of disaster victims. It is necessary that districts and States should have their own arrangements for carrying out search and rescue operations immediately after a disaster. Enhancement of search and rescue capabilities of the State and districts for quick response will save lives. This can be achieved with the minimum of additional cost by developing the Fire Services as multi hazard response units.

5. Grievance & Redressal Mechanism :

The grievance of public is heard on every Monday (if it is not a holiday) by the Fire Officer Southern Range, Berhampur for the Fire Service personals posted in Southern Range Fire Stations / Establishment.

6. Working Hours both for Office & Public:

Normal working hours both for office and public, except Sundays and public holidays is normally from 10.00 A.M to 05.30 P.M.

7. Working Hours:

Opening Hour: 10.30 AM

Closing Hour: 5.30 PM

8.Office address:-Fire office, S.R Berhampur

At-Gopalpur Junction,On-NH-16, Po-Bahadurpeta, Dist- Ganjam,pin-760007

 

MANUAL-2 

Powers & Duties of Officers & Employees

[Section-4 (1) (b) (ii)]

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Designation

Administrative Duties

Operational Duties

1

Fire Officer, Southern Range, Berhampur

1. Administrative Control of all Fire Stations under Southern Range Berhampur.

2. In order to maintain efficiency and for the good upkeep of the equipment and appliances, he shall inspect all Fire Stations at least once in a Calender year and furnish his inspection reports to Fire Service Directorate. During inspection he shall also conduct tactical exercises. In the inspection note, the Fire Officer should record his comments on the functioning of the Fire stations, note the level of discipline, the morale of members of the force, the condition of the vehicle/equipment and give a clear picture of the working of the Station and record his views also.

3. He should also visit Fire Stations preferably by surprise. He should attend serious & major fire calls, if required to examine the cause of fire as well as test the efficiency with which the Fire Brigade operated and suggest measures to remove deficiencies or lacuna if any. He shall also transact all other business concerning his duties and his office and those allotted to him by his superior officers.

4. He should inspect the Fire Service appliances at range level. He will supervise the working of the Range workshop functioning under his control.

5. He shall ensure the proper receipt, custody and issue of all items of appliances, equipments, stores and other valuable articles supplied on Govt, account and prompt disposal under proper authority of all condemned and unserviceable articles.

6. He should inspect his office once a year.

7. He should exercise control over expenditure of Government funds.

8. He shall head the transfer committee of Division/Range for transfer of fire service personnel the rank of FMr LFM, FMD, Dr. Hav, within the range.

9. The Fire Officers shall be drawing-cum-Disbursing Officer and Officer-In-Charge Accounts. Apart from supervision of work of the accounts section, the working of reserve office, Fire Service Workshop, Clothing and G.P stores are also closely supervised by them. They are to ensure that the vehicles, appliances and other firefighting equipments at Hdqrs, and in Ranges are properly stored and not allowed to deteriorate by negligent or improper use or storage affecting life and efficiency of appliances and equipments. They are to inspect Fire Stations also as per Annual Programme approved by Fire Officer.

10. He will ensure the Fire Prevention activities within the range.

1. Overall control of all kinds of Operational Duties as per direction of the Director General  & to guide the Officers & Staffs during emergency calls as per requirement.

2

Deputy Fire Officer

1. The Deputy Fire Officers at Circle shall supervise the functioning of fire stations within their circle. They will inspect/visit the Fire Stations within the circles once in a calendar year on approval of concern range Fire Officer. He should attend/supervise the emergency call if necessary. He may mobilize man power and appliances from his circle for helping major emergency calls where additional support is require. He will ensure the fire prevention activities within the Circle.

1. To attend all major and serious call and other emergency calls.

2. To supervise any assigned duties as per direction of Range Fire Officer.

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Fitter Station Officer, Southern Range Workshop

1. A Fire Service Range Workshop will function under the control of Range Fire Officer. It will be headed by a Technical Officer not below the rank of Fitter Station Officer (Technical). The function of Fire Service range workshop will be alike Fire Service Southern Range Workshop. Director General of Fire Service may add or assigned further technical repair works of different appliances and equipment as per the need.

2. The discipline control and effective supervision of the range workshop staff posted under him.

3. Whenever it is found      necessary that the repairs of the Fire Service vehicles at remote Stations should be attended to by the workshop Staff, the Fitter Station Officer (Technical) with the necessary staff should proceed to such Stations with the necessary tools and equipment attend to such repairs as per orders of competent authority. On his return he should submit a detailed report of the work attended to by him.

4. He will attend to the repairs of any vehicles /pump /appliances on instructions from competent Officer. He will not leave the garage during working hours without permission of the authorities.

5. He will maintain such registers as will be ordered from time to time by competent authority.

6. Southern Range Workshop will monitor that the electrical repairs of vehicles and pumps, welding and lathe work, Blacksmith work, Carpenter work, Painting and denting work, repair of boat & OBM and other repairs of equipment and appliances, etc.

7. Work distribution will be done by the competent authority of the Southern Range Workshop.

 

 

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Reserve Section Reserve Station Officer-I (Administration)

Force Management, Service Management, Recruitment(Fresh & Under Rehabilitation Assistance Scheme), Reward & Punishment, Retirement & Pension, Leave, D.O Publish, D.O book Maintenance & communication orders, Other such duties assigned by Fire Officer as during exigency.

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Reserve Section Reserve Station Officer-II (Store and Appliances Maintenance)

Repair of vehicle/pumps/equipments, Repair of electronic gadgets like computer system/printers/Xerox machines etc. Purchase of spare parts, OC items, equipments. Preparation of POL bills of CR (stock & committee entry), Maintenance of M.V.M.P statements of different Fire Stations/posts, Deposit of MV Tax, Disaster Response, Right to Information Act., Casual Leave register Maintenance, Mobilization of vehicles/equipments during F.P duty & other emergency, Management of mechanic staffs for repair work.

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6

Reserve Section Reserve Station Officer-III (Prevention)

Issue of Fire Safety Recommendation, Issue of Fire Safety Certificates, Inspection of proposed sites for construction of new buildings, Inspection of existing buildings, Files relates to monthly/quarterly/yearly statements, Files relates to Mock drill

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Establishment Section Head Clerk

 

Maintenance of cash book(Govt. & Private), Bank transactions, Correspondence with treasury, Overall supervision of all correspondence and accounts matter.

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8

Establishment Section 2nd Clerk (Junior Account)

 

Fire Protection arrangement during fair, festival, law & order, VIP, VVIP duties etc.,  Compliance in respect to assembly questions, Issue of various permission in respect of FS personnel, All correspondence of ministerial staffs like transfer, promotion, disposition, leave etc., Correspondence like training aspects like NFSC, Nagpur, G.A.A. BBSR, Correspondence of Govt. quarters of Southern Range, Correspondence of various advances like HBA, MCA, Computer advance, Medical advance, Correspondence of opening of new fire stations under Southern Range, All other miscellaneous correspondence, Audit compliance

 

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Establishment Section 3rd Clerk (Junior Clerk)

 

Assignment of central diary (receive & dispatch), Maintenance of stamp record, Maintenance of building matters, Correspondence of inspection of fire stations, Correspondence on vouchers, Correspondence on final GPF, Correspondence on monthly returns

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10

Establishment Section Stationary and TA (Junior Clerk)

 

Assignment of stationary articles, Assignment of travelling expenses, Correspondence on monthly returns

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Establishment Section Contingent Assistant (Junior Clerk)

 

Drawl of RCM, spare, equipment, POL, TTB, Telephone bill, electrical wages, water charges and other bills

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Establishment Section Pay Account (Junior Accountant)

 

Drawl of Salary, Drawl of GPF, Drawl of arrear, Drawl of HBAr MCA, Computer, Recovery of dues, Drawl of pension, HRMS

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  MANUAL-3 

Procedure Followed in Decision Making Process

[Section-4 (1) (b) (iii)]

The head of the public authority takes the final decision on the subject as per the powers and duties assigned. Various laid down procedures of Government and different levels are being followed while taking a decision on various matters. All decisions which affect public are disseminated to the public through various means of communication.

  MANUAL-4 

Norms for Discharge of Functions

[Section-4 (1) (b) (iv)]

  MANUAL-5 

Rules, Regulations, Instructions, Manuals & Records for Discharging Functions

[Section-4 (1) (b) (v)]

 

  MANUAL-6 

Categories of Documents Under Control

[Section-4 (1) (b) (vi)] 

1. List of Office Orders, Circulars, Notifications, letters, Registers, resolutions, proceedings of the meetings, memorandums and other relevant documents etc.

(Example: Register of Files, Register of Registers, Employee Attendance Register, Accounts related registers, RTI registers under Odisha RTI Rules).

  MANUAL-7 

Particulars of Arrangement in Formulation of Policy

[Section-4 (1) (b) (vii)]

  MANUAL-8 

Boards, Councils, Committees & Other Bodies Constituted

[Section-4 (1) (b) (viii)]

 

  MANUAL-9 

Directory of Officers & Employees

[Section-4 (1) (b) (ix)]

Sl.

Name

Designation

Contact No.

Fax

E-mail ID

1

2

3

4

5

6

1

Bichitra Kumar Panda

Fire Officer

0680-2220028

0680-2220028

fosr-bpr@gov.in

2

Purna Chandra Marndi

Deputy Fire Officer

0680-2220050

-

dfobpr-ofs@gov.in

3

Lukesh Minz

Station Officer

-

-

-

4

Premananda Kishan

Station Officer

-

-

-

5

Jagdish Prasad Khora

Station Officer

-

-

-

6

Damodar Nayak

Fitter Station officer

-

-

-

7

Sisupal Behera

Hav. Mech

-

-

-

8

Sanjeeb Kumar Dhal

Hav. Mech.

-

-

-

9

Asish Kumar Sahoo

Hav. Mech.

-

-

-

10

Jajati Kesari Samal

Hav. Mech.

      
11

Chiranjib Nayak

Helper FMD-305

-

-

-
12

Gouttam Sethy

Helper Fireman-305

  - - -

13

Sunil Kumar Sahoo

Fireman Driver-300

-

-

-

14

Bibhuti Bhusan Parida

Fireman Driver-45

-

-

-

15

Raj Kumar Jena

Fireman-3551

-

-

-

16

Deepak Kumar Muduli

Fireman-1875

-

-

-

17

Nilachal Nahak

Fireman-3047

-

-

-

18

Siba Swagat Dash

Fireman-184

-

-

-

19

Biswaranjan Jena

Fireman-3452

 - - -
20

Sangram Palai

Fireman-3658

 - - -
21

Sandeep Behera

Fireman-2128

 - - -
22

Pradeep Pradhan

Fireman-3272

 - - -
23

Nilanchal Nahak

Fireman-1231

 - - -

24

Rakesh Kumar Samantray

Fireman-2548

-

-

-

25

Keshav Chandra Mohanty

Fireman-2991

 - - -

26

Pradeep Kumar Gouda

Fireman-3011

 - - -

27

Manas Ranjan Barik

Fireman-3440

 - - -

28

Jitendra Kumar Tripathy

Head Clerk

 - - -

29

Sarat Kumar Mohapatra

Jr. Clerk

 - - -

30

Minati Panda

Jr. Clerk

 - - -

31

Sunita Sahu

Jr. Clerk

 - - -

32

Pragnya Kumari Acharya

Jr. Clerk

 - - -

33

Debaraj Nayak

Watchman-cum-sweeper

 - - -

Sl.

Name

Designation

Contact No.

Fax

E-mail ID

1

2

3

4

5

6

26

Sarat Kumar Mahapatra

Junior Clerk

-

-

-

27

Minati Panda

Junior Clerk

-

-

-

28

Sunita kumara Sahu

Junior Clerk

-

-

-

29

Pragnya Kumari Acharya

Junior Clerk

-

-

-

30

Debaraj Nayak

Sweeper-cum-Night Watcher

-

-

-

 

MANUAL-10 

Monthly Remuneration & Compensation of Officers & Employees

[Section-4 (1) (b) (x)]

Sl.

Name

Designation

Pay Level (As per IPS Pay Rule, 2016)

Basic Pay (Rs.)

Net Pay (Rs.)

1

2

3

4

5

6

1

Bichitra Kumar Panda

Fire Officer

Level-13

80,900/-

91,806 /-

2

Purna Chandra Marndi

Deputy Fire Officer

Level-12

55,200/-

69,366/-

3

Lukesh Minz

Station Officer

Level-09

38,700/-

60,572/- 

4

Premananda Kishan

Station Officer

Level-09

37,600/-

56,195/-

5

Jagdish Prasad Khora

Station Officer

Level-09

41,100/-

64,261/-

6

Damodar Nayak

Fitter Station Officer

Level-09

47,600/-

40,802/-

7

Sisupal Behera

Hav (Mech.)

Level-06

30,800 /-

46,090/-

8

Sanjeeb Kumar Dhal

Hav (Mech.)

Level-06

27,400/-

41,309/-
 9 Asish Kumar Sahoo

Hav (Mech.) 

Level-06

 27,400/-

37,958/-
10 Jajati Kesari Samal

Hav. (Mech.)

Level-06

 27,400/-

38,500/-
11 

Chiranjib Nayak

Helper FMD-305

Level-4

26,000/-

42,273/-
12

Gouttam Sethy

  Helper Fireman-2051

Level-5

29,300/-

39,249/-

13

Sunil Kumar Sahoo

Fireman Driver-300

Level-04

26,000/-

37,528/-

14

Bibhuti Bhusana Parida

Fireman Driver-45

Level-04

27,600 /-

42,226/-

15

 Raj Kumar Jena

Fireman-3551

Level-04

26,000 /-

34,833/-

16

Deepak Kumar Muduli

Fireman-1875

Level-04

26,000/-

34,323/-

17

Nilachal Nahak

Fireman-3047

Level-05

26,800/-

38,467/-

18

Siba Swagat Dash

Fireman-184

Level-04

24,500/-

36,567/-

19

Biswaranjan Jena

Fireman-3452

Level-05

26,800/-

35,947/-

20

Sangram Palei

Fireman-3658

Level-04

23,800/-

34,292/-

21

Sandeep Behera

Fireman-2128

Level-05

29,300/-

44,809/-

22

Pradeep Pradhan

Fireman-3272

Level-05

26,800/-

34,542/-
23

Nilanchal Nahak

Fireman-1231 

Level-05

  30,200/-

38,058/-

24

Rakesh Kumar Samantray

Fireman-2548

Level-05

28,400/

37,786/-
25

Keshav Chandra Mohanty

  Fireman-2991

Level-05

26,800/-

36,503/-

26

Pradeep kumar Gouda

Fireman-3011

Level-05

26,800/-

39,767/-

27

Manas Ranjan Barik

Fireman-3440

Level-05

26,800/-

38,467/-

28

Jitendra Kumar Tripathy

Head Clerk

Level-11

56,900/-

62,715/-

29

Sarat Kumar Mohapatra

Jr. Clerk

Level-05

29,300/-

40,162/-

30

 Minati Panda

Jr. Clerk

Level-04

26,000/-

39,407/-

31

 Sunita Sahu

Jr. Clerk

Level-05

26,800/-

40,637/-

32

Pragnya Kumar Acharya

 Jr. Clerk

Level-04 

26,000/-

35,787/- 

33

Debaraj Nayak

  Watchman Cum-Sweeper

Level-04

 36,100/-

39,704/- 

Sl.

Name

Designation

Pay Level (As per IPS Pay Rule, 2016)

Basic Pay (Rs.)

Net Pay (Rs.)

1

2

3

4

5

6

26

Sarat Kumar Mahapatra

Junior Clerk

Level-04

25,200 /-

24,099 /-

27

Minati Panda

Junior Clerk

Level-04

23,100 /-

23,428 /-

28

Sunita kumara Sahu

Junior Clerk

Level-04

23,100 /-

25,428 /-

29

Pragnya Kumari Acharya

Junior Clerk

Monthly Remuneration

14,330 /-

12,772 /-

30

Debaraj Nayak

Sweeper-cum-Night Watcher

Level-03

31,500 /-

26,297 /-

  MANUAL-11 

Budget Allocated to each Agency

[Section-4 (1) (b) (xi)]

  MANUAL-12 

Manner of Execution of Subsidy Programmes

[Section-4 (1) (b) (xii)]

 

  MANUAL-13 

Particulars of Recipients of Concessions, Permits or Authorizations Granted

[Section-4 (1) (b) (xiii)]

  MANUAL-14 

Information Available in an Electronic Form

[Section-4 (1) (b) (xiv)]

  MANUAL-15 

Particulars of Facilities Available to Citizens for Obtaining Information

[Section-4 (1) (b) (xv)]

  MANUAL-16 

Names, Designations & Other Particulars of the Public Information Officers

[Section-4 (1) (b) (xvi)]

Asst. Public Information Officer (APIO):

Sl.

Name

Designation

Contact No.

Fax

E-mail ID

1

Lukesh Minz

Station Officer

0680-2220050

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fosr-bpr@gov.in

 Public Information Officer (PIO):

Sl.

Name

Designation

Contact No.

Fax

E-mail ID

1

Purna Chandra Marndi

Dy-Fire  Officer

0680-2220050

-

fosr-bpr@gov.in

 First Appellate Authority (FAA):

Sl.

Name

Designation

Contact No.

Fax

E-mail ID

1

Bichitra Kumar Panda 

Fire Officer

0680-2220028

0680-2220028

fosr-bpr@gov.in

MANUAL-17 

Other Useful Information

[Section-4 (1) (b) (xvii)]