नौवहन महानिदेशालय
Directorate General of Shipping
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Government of India
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Roles And Responsibilities

Sl No. Designation Responsibilities
1 Dy. Director General of Shipping
  • Sagar Mey Yog & Sagar Mey Samman
  • Crisis response only in the Crisis Response and Grievance Redressal meeting held every Wednesday by the Crisis Management Group
  • SWBAT circular
  • SWFS Restructuring
  • ILO Matters
  • IMO Matters
  • Sagar Mey Samman
  • Sagar Mey Yog
  • SPFO Matters
2 Nautical Surveyor-cum-DDG (Tech.)
  • Dealing with disputes of ship owners/ RPSLs and seafarer's
  • Seafarer's grievances
  • Cases of compensation for wage/ death/ injury etc
  • BSID/ CDC/ INDOS aspects - technical administration related
  • RPSL Matters (Merchant Shipping- Recruitment and placement of Seafarer's Rules)
  • Supervision of the functions of the Seafarer's employment offices and shipping office
  • Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Rules)
  • Coordination with DG, COMM and Crisis Response
  • Coordination with Seafarer's Unions and Associations
  • Liaison with MHA for shore leave matters
  • Aspects related to coordination with MEA/ MoPSW on Seafarer's abandonment and repatriation and seafarer crisis / repatriation of mortal remains etc/ case to case follow up with MoPSW/ MEA and any other official authority necessitated
  • Conduct of the weekly Crisis Response and Grievance Redressal system
  • Matters relating to Crew Manual and compilation and up-dation of all circulars except for Sea farer Welfare subdivision circulars and executive orders
  • Conduct of MLC Compliance Board agenda aspects related to Seafarer's Processes
  • VIP reference and Parliamentary questions and RTIs related to Seafarer's Processes
  • Matters related to CPGRAMS, and court cases related to Seafarer's processes matters
3 Deputy Nautical Advisor-cum-Sr. DDG (Tech.)
  • Seafarer Welfare Fund Organisation and all matters including ERP and management oversight
  • Seafarer's Provident Fund Organisation and all matters including ERP and management oversight
  • Matters related to Sagar Mey Yog (Seafarer's wellness program)
  • Matters related to Sagar Mey Samman (Gender inclusion for seafarers)
  • Seafarer welfare infrastructure initiatives under SWBAT with the Ports and other authorities
  • Seafarer safety training aspects
  • Matters relating to Crew Manual and compilation and up-dation of all circulars except for Sea farer Processes subdivision circulars and executive orders
  • Support for the increase in the percentage of seafarers to the global pool by India in consultation with the Maritime training Division/ Branch/ Wing
  • Matters related to CPGRAMS, and court cases related to Seafarer's welfare matters
  • Crew Milap program as annual event
  • MoUs with international and national entities like ISWAN, ITWF, GMU, Sailor's Society
4 Assistant Director General of Shipping Branch Officer.
5 Assistant
  • Crew Casualty related matters
  • Seafarer death related matters
  • Missing seafarer related matters
  • Serious injury of seafarer related matters
  • Crisis reviews meeting matters
  • VIP references - Casualty related matters
  • Branch related infrastructure, resources etc.
  • Crew Branch - Annual reports
  • Suraksha Pratham concept (with NT wing)
  • Crew Branch review meeting matters
  • MLC Compliance Board meeting matters
  • Policy related matters
  • Grievances of women seafarers
  • The Crisis response mechanism and platform and seamless integration into the Crisis Management module and integration with the DG, COMM
  • Branch training needs & capacity building
6 Executive Assistant -2 (UDC)
  • Detained seafarer cases
  • Arrested and jailed seafarer cases
  • Procurements under Branch
  • Seafarer abandonment cases and responses
  • NMB and NWB matters
  • MoU with NGOs, Trade unions
  • Expert Committees - Crew branch matters
  • Crew Connect & Annual conclave programmes
  • Strategies: Cruise Bharat & growth of seafarers
  • Control and standardization of data custody, access control, user access and cyber security compliance for all crew operations on the technical platform
  • Review of the existing old e- governance platform and the legacy system and seamless integration with data migration into the new platform for crew
  • Data analytics and data sets for crew operations with short term projections on the crisis part and long-term projects on strategy to increase seafarers and also critical data sets for issues related to casualty and analysis thereof.
  • Future strategies - Training needs for seafarer
  • Port Welfare facilities / SWBAT matters
  • SWFS related matters
  • SPFO related matters
7 Lower Division Clerk
  • RPSL agencies related matters
  • Article of Agreement (AoA) matters
  • E-migrate / Form 1 related matters
  • Seafarers Indos and profile matters
  • Comprehensive Grievance module
  • Grievances of seafarers & redressal meetings
  • DG Comm welfare responses
  • CIP / Inspection checklist of RPS agencies
  • Rules review - RPS / MLC & Survey matters
  • IT E-Governance related changes
  • The 24 x 7 Grievance redressal module and the roll out and stabilization and upkeep and reporting etc
  • Popularization of the DG, COMM and the 24 x 7 help line and integration of the two in the grievance redressal module
  • Roll out of the RPSL module and the system control and updates thereof with the systems manual etc
8 Upper Division Clerk
  • Examination reforms (NT/Engr. wing)
  • Seafarer immigration sign-on / off matters
  • VIP references matters
  • RTI matters
  • PMO references
  • Seafarer Shore-leave related matters
  • PQ related matters
  • Co-ordination branch matters
  • Social media exchanges
  • Hindi reports
  • MSW related matters (with NT wing)
  • Crew branch rules & regulations consolidated compendium manual
  • CPGRAMS matters
  • Court related matters
  • CDC and BSID matters
9 Data Entry Operator -
10 M.T.S -