15/1089-90,
VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA (P.O.), Dt. GHAZIABAD (U.P), PIN-201012
Website: www.auditflag.blogspot.com
Reference: AIA/Circular-21/2017 Dated: 29th September 2017
To
Unit
Secretaries,
Members
& Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of
Women’s Committee
Dear
Comrades,
WELCOMING THE NEW
CAG
Shri Rajiv Mehrishi,
former Home Secretary to Govt of India, has taken over as new Comptroller &
Auditor General of India. We welcome him.
His might be the shortest tenure as CAG of
India, hardly two years and eleven months or upto August 2020, in the
independent India.
For one to deliver, it
is sufficient. The reverse also would hold good. But let us think positive and
expect good.
Our expectations,
genuine ones, are quite few. Let there be a good beginning, rather rewriting of
the approach towards the non-IA&AS personnel of IA&AD, towards
discharging the duties bestowed by the constitution and being loyal to the
people of the country by strengthening the audit & accounts at grass root
level and championing the cause of public accountability.
Performance audit, a
worthless postmortem which only brings publicity to certain officers promoted
by Vinod Rai, has become a bane for the Department. Manpower is diverted to
performance audit at the cost of Compliance audit, the pillar of public
accountability. This has to be corrected.
Audit and accounts of
Panchayati Raj Institutions is another important area which is totally
neglected where 80% of revenue is spent. The Department has a big screen which
it has ignored so far. The department has potential to grow and reach
throughout the country.
The manpower of the
IA&AD has been drastically reduced over the last two decades, where as the
number of IA&AS personnel has gone up, especially their promotional avenues.
There is total reduction and deduction at lower level. The rationalisation of
staff strength in audit is the latest nail towards that. There is a need to
increase the man power at base level cadres, i.e. auditor and accountant and SA
with more phased promotional avenues.
The administration has
to become responsive to issues raised by staff side in IA&AD. There is need
to correct the amoral officers at field level.
We will expect the
dispensation under the present CAG Shri Rajiv Mehrishi to be responsive to the
above which will chart a new course for IA&AD.
We still remember Shri
Narahari Rao and Ranganathan. We even
forgot other names. Hope Shri Rajiv Mehrishi would make us remember him for the
good that he may do for the Department and its personnel.
We
have raised these expectations through a letter addressed to the CAG of India,
copy enclosed.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally
Sd/-
M. S. Raja
Secretary General
Departmental
Council (Staff Side)
Joint Consultative Machinery
For Central Government
Employees-IA&AD
Room No. B-006,
AGCR Bldg,
New Delhi – 110002
Email: dc.audit.staffside@gmail.com
Reference:
B-7/2017
26th
September 2017
To
Shri Rajiv
Mehrishi,
Hon’ble Comptroller & Auditor General of India
9,
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg,
New
Delhi – 110124
Sir,
I, on behalf of audit & accounts
employees and officers, congratulate you on your appointment as the Comptroller
& Auditor General of India. We also welcome and greet you as the Head of
the Supreme Audit & Accounts Institution.
It is our hope that under your leadership
this institution would be further strengthened in its independence from the
Executive, achieve expansion of its jurisdiction to encompass the audit and
accounts of Panchayati Raj Institutions and become much more effective than
what it is today in rendering the Executive Government accountable to Public.
We offer our all out support and cooperation to you in these endeavours.
We take this opportunity to suggest
that existing employer – employee relations in the Department needs to be
improved by instituting a system of regular and more frequent discussions
between officers and the Staff representatives and quick settlement of the
collective grievances and demands of employees. Few cases of punitive measures
against some staff representatives and activists in some few field offices and
restrictions imposed on the peaceful protest have to be given fresh
consideration and undone so as to balm on scars of collective entity of the
employees and generate new climate of happiness and cheer.
Finally,
we suggest that both at the field offices level and at the HQrs staff
representatives may be consulted periodically on how to improve audit systems
and practices. If for this purpose, standing committees are constituted,
employees would welcome it.
At your convenience, kindly give us
some time to meet you.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(M. S. Raja)
Secretary, Staff
Side
