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Wishes
you and family
Happy & Prosperous
New Year
2015
Reference:
AIA/Circular-01/2015
Dated: 2nd January
2015
Dear Comrades
2015 is born. Let us hope
it would be better than 2014.
When hoping 2015 to be
better than 2014, we should go back and see how 2014 had been for us, the audit
and accounts employees, the central government employees, the workers and the
common people at large.
The 7 CPC started its
functioning, had preliminary interaction with the participating organisations
in National Council, JCM and slowly and slowly slowed down. The demands of the
employees for Interim Relief and DA merger have not yet been conceded. The new
government that came to power after the General Elections to the Lok Sabha in
April-May 2014 – giving beautiful dreams to the people at large – has
immediately on its assuming charge imposed ban on recruitment and creation of
posts. 100% FDI in Railways, 49% FDI in Defence productions & Insurance are
glimpses of the promised “Acchhe Din” (good days) that are visible as of now.
The Department formally
has recommended the pay scales to the CPC that we have been demanding and
shared the memorandum with us.
Most commendable
development is the coming together of the all the Central Trade Unions in a
convention on 15th Sept 2014 and their resolve to fight the
anti-people policies of the present day government.
One day Convention by all
the participating organisations of JCM on 11th December 2014 at
Delhi and the joint declaration it adopted calling upon the employees and
workers to fight against the most heinous attack that is being launched on the
government employees is quite encouraging and we have to carry that unity
forward in the year 2015. The unity is preserved and carried forward only when
it channelised into united actions on issues affecting one and all of us. And
success of the united actions and there-by the unity of the Central Government employees
in particular and the workers in general is what the toiling masses of the
country demands. And that has to be our New Year Resolve.
CARRY THE CAMPAIGN AND STRUGGLE
ON CADRE RESTRUCTURING, CHARTER OF DEMANDS
The National Executive Committee decided
that all the units adopt the given resolution in a general meeting on 8th
January 2015 and send it to CAG through proper channel. Followed by this the
Units should conduct extensive campaign on the charter of demands and our
proposals on cadre restructuring. A detailed report on the implementation of
the programme may be sent to HQrs. without fail. Draft resolution and brief
note on charter of demands is given along with this Circular.
With greetings
Yours fraternally,
(M.S. Raja)
Secretary General
To
The PAG/AG/DGA/PD/Director/DDA
....
Sir/Madam
Kindly
find enclosed a copy of the resolution adopted by the National Executive
Committee of the Association held at New Delhi on 11-13 December 2014.
The
general body meeting of the Association held on 8th January 2015
endorsed the resolution and the enclosed charter of demands.
The
same may kindly be forwarded to the Comptroller & Auditor General of India.
Thanking
you
Yours faithfully
(..........)
General Secretary
R
E S O L U T I O N
The
National Executive Committee of All India Audit & Accounts Association in
its meeting held on 11-12-13 December 2014 at New Delhi reviewed the developments
on the Charter of Demands and the proposals submitted by the Association on
cadre restructuring.
After
extensive deliberation the meeting came to the firm conclusion that the
proposals moved by the Associations have firm footing and is the only way out
to restore the effectiveness of the Indian Audit & Accounts Department
under the Comptroller & Auditor General of India in enforcing public
accountability as envisaged by the founding fathers of the Constitution. The
meeting therefore decided to pursue the proposals on cadre restructuring
submitted by this Association to the Comptroller & Auditor General of
India.
The
meeting decided to demand the implementation of the recommendations of the work
study (by Deloitte’) regarding man power requirement in IA&AD in toto and
go for local recruitment of personnel, ensure future man power mobility by bringing
all wings and branches in one station under one administration, enhancing the
reach of audit by strengthening compliance audit and providing better pay
scales and promotional avenues to the personnel of IA&AD.
The
meeting adopted the charter of Demands (Copy enclosed).
The
meeting decided to submit a copy of the Resolution to Comptroller & Auditor
General of India.
Sd/-
(M.
Duraipandian)
President
Charter of Demands
1. Immediate Restructuring of cadres
in IA&AD and grant the following pay structure to audit & accounts
cadres:
Auditor/Accountant
– PB2, GP 4200
SA, Grade I
- PB2, GP
4600
SA, Grade II
- PB2, GP 4800
AAO Gr. I
- PB2, 5400
AAO Gr. II
- PB3, 5400 on
completion of 4 years
AO
- PB3, 6600
SAO
- PB3, 7600
2. Grant atleast 5 promotions in
the career
3. i) Implement the work
study proposals of Deloitte’ group on man power requirement;
ii) Fill Up
all vacant posts through local recruitment
4. Permit Graduate MTS to negotiate SAS exam
5. Re-designate DEO as Audit/Accounts
Assistant; open up promotion chances for DEOs as Auditor/Accountant
6. Ensure equal opportunity in
promotion to stenos of the same station; end discrimination in pay scale
between H.Qrs office and field offices
7. Restore transaction/compliance audit
to the fullest extent
8. Strengthen Audit & Accounts to
Safeguard People’s Rights
Stop down-sizing; Stop outsourcing &
privatisation of Audit & Accounts;
Scrap
Curtailment/shedding of Audit functions in the name of Audit Plan; ensure
continuance of the existing Accounting and Auditing methodologies and
appropriate party days with scientific work norms; ensure effective Panchayati
Raj Audit & Accounts by sanctioning adequate posts; revisit restructuring
of Audit effected from 1..4. 2012.
9. a) Amend Company Law and DPC Act for Audit of Public Sector
Undertakings & Corporations even after reduction of Government share
to below 50%.
b) Amend Company Law to
ensure the Audit by IA&AD of all Public Limited Companies listed with Securities and Exchange Board
of India (SEBI)
c) Enact
necessary law to bring audit of all public Financial Institutions by IA&AD.
10. a) Vacate
victimisation of Association activists.
b) Allow democratic functioning of Association without interference
from administration
11. i) Withdraw
annual audit criteria introduced vide letter dt 27 January 2011.
ii)
Stop unilateral implementation of transfer policy in Commercial Audit &
P&T Audit
12. Implement Arbitration Award on SA pay Scale
13. Declare placing as AAO on
passing of SAS exam as direct recruitment and extend benefits of MACP to
Assistant Audit/Accounts Officers.
14. Designate Supervisor as AAO &
Earmark 50% of AAO post for seniority cum fitness promotion
15. Remove
differential treatment on pay fixation on promotion vis-Ã -vis direct recruitees
in all cadres
16. Stop downsizing of P&T Audit
Offices; conduct audit of private service providers as
per TRAI regulations.
17. Re-imburse hotel charges to Railway
Audit personnel wherever Railway accommodation is not allotted while on tour.
18. Restore
unilateral transfer policy.
19. Restore metal
Pass facility to AAOs in Railway Audit
20. Grant increment and
Grade Pay of 4800 from the day of Passing of SOGE
21. Withdraw PFRDA Act and ensure
statutory pension for all
22. Pay arrears of Pay from 1st Jan
1996 to 18th Feb 2003 as directed by Courts to audit
& accounts cadres
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Brief Note on Charter of Demands
1. Immediate Restructuring of cadres in
IA&AD and grant the following pay structure to audit & accounts cadres:
Auditor/Accountant
– PB2, GP 4200
SA, Grade I
- PB2, GP
4600
SA, Grade II
- PB2, GP 4800
AAO Gr. I
- PB2, 5400
AAO Gr. II
- PB3, 5400 on
completion of 4 years
AO
- PB3, 6600
SAO
- PB3, 7600
The issue of parity in Pay scale for SA
with Assistants in CSS maintaining vertical relativity has been our long
standing demand. Through struggles, we achieved it in the past, only to be disturbed
again and again. The court cases filed by some disruptionist elements and its
rejection by the Supreme Court caused immense damage to our demand, giving a
handle to the 6 CPC to reject the parity demand. The decision of the CAG
administration to upgrade the SA cadre with 75% direct recruitment of graduates
and to demand total parity with CSS for all cadres is the result of the
consistent persuasion of the demand, supported by the sustained agitations –
including the mass casual leave on 8th April 2010 – we conducted for
long.
The first step would be to snatch what has been denied to us repeatedly
and then we have to move forward for betterment of the service advancement of
the entirety of the personnel. In our memorandum to 7 CPC, we have elaborately
justified the above demands. (The memorandum has been mailed to every Unit; it
is also available in our blog-auditflag.blogspot.com). This demand will have to
seen from that angle.
2.
Grant atleast 5 promotions in the career
Confederation of Central Govt Employees
and Workers, for the first time, raised the issue of stagnation due to lack of
promotional avenues that are adversely affecting the morale of the employees in
various departments with the 5th CPC. The result was the scheme of
ACP which came into being from 1999. With the 6 CPC, the demand was to increase
it to 3 which was conceded but with clever dilution – instead of cadre
hierarchy Grade Pay hierarchy was introduced creating lot of disaffection and
confusion.
With the 7 CPC, the demand is for 5
promotions during the entire service – on the 8th, 7th, 6th,
5th and 4th year of the career. It is a fact that the
personnel of organised Group A services are entitled to get 5 promotions. The
personnel down below should also be entitled for the same hierarchical
promotional avenues.
It means, in our department our demand
is that: MTS should get a chance to reach up to AAO; ii) DEO up to AO and iii)
SA (in the new format) up to one level above SAO.
3. i)
Implement the work study proposals of Deloitte’ group on man power requirement;
ii) Fill Up all vacant posts through local recruitment
The department had entrusted the work
study to Deloitte’ group. The report is quite reassuring, demanding more
recruitment in all wings of the department. But the department has developed a
cold feet on the recommendations of Deloitte’ group. We demand that the report
submitted by Deloitte’ group on man power requirement of IA&AD be
implemented after discussion with staff side in the Departmental Council.
It is stated by the CAG administration
that 16000 personnel has been recruited during the last 4 years. But, our
experience is that with the rate of retirement at a faster rate and accumulated
vacancies and above all poor rate of retention of those recruited the man power
available today is quite insufficient.
IA&AD decided to refer the
recruitment to SSC when the SSC was recruiting the personnel locally. Since the
judgement of Supreme Court on Radhey Shyam and others vs UOI the SSC is
compelled to make the recruitment on all India plane with maximum personnel
allotted to the field offices from being other states without the knowledge of
local language. This recruitment policy also causes low rate of retention. In
the changed circumstances, we demand that IA&AD should come out of SSC and
go for own recruitment, statewise – this will ensure that the department gets
enough number of recruits, enhancing the rate of retention.
4. Permit Graduate MTS to negotiate SAS
exam
In the recent recruitment of MTS, many
of those recruited are with qualification graduation and above. The promotional
avenue for them is quite limited. These hands are of great asset to the
department. (The spectre of unemployment has made them to come as MTS). It
would be in the interest of the department that those who are graduates are
permitted to negotiate the SAS examination directly, on completion of 3 years.
5.
Re-designate DEO as Audit/Accounts Assistant; open up promotion chances for
DEOs as Auditor/Accountant
The demand of designation change is not
yet accepted; but the department has accepted our demand for promotional
chances for DEO as Auditor/Accountant.
6. Ensure equal opportunity in promotion to
stenos of the same station; end discrimination in pay scale between H.Qrs
office and field offices
It is quite an anomalous situation that
the stenographers recruited in the same station gets different promotional
avenues only because of the rank of the office one is attached. The
stenographers of the same station should be pooled together for the purpose of
promotions. Also, the difference/discrimination in pay scales of Stenographers
of H.Qrs office and the field offices be removed.
7. Restore transaction/compliance audit
to the fullest extent
CAG is called as “Watchdog of Indian
Finances”. Today, it is this salutation that remains, the content is lost. It
is not the executive who is responsible for it. If that being the case, one can
understand it. This degradation is done by none other than the bureaucracy of
IA&AD. Performance audit is given super importance over the
transaction/compliance audit. Man power is drastically reduced the audit
parties are curtailed, the show-man-ship has gone up. By changing the nomenclature
to compliance audit, the department has become compliant to the executive as we
do only certain cosmetic audit on this head.
If the nation is to be benefitted, then
the transaction audit has to be strengthened, a total review followed by overhaul
of the audit restructuring done in 2012 is to be undertaken.
8. Strengthen Audit & Accounts to
Safeguard People’s Rights
Stop down-sizing; Stop outsourcing &
privatisation of Audit & Accounts;
Scrap
Curtailment/shedding of Audit functions in the name of Audit Plan; ensure
continuance of the existing Accounting and Auditing methodologies and
appropriate party days with scientific work norms; ensure effective Panchayati
Raj Audit & Accounts by sanctioning adequate posts; revisit restructuring
of Audit effected from 1..4. 2012.
Neither the executive wants to protect
the people’s rights nor does the CAG want. What everybody wants is to somehow
remain afloat. As far as CAG’s bureaucracy is concerned, the only concern is to
create more posts at higher level at the cost of base level cadres. The
performance vis-a-vis the accountability is very low today.
Only an overhauling as proposed in our
proposal for cadre restructuring can bring about some desirable changes – the
mandate that flows from the Constitution and the accountability there-upon
should only be the concern.
9.
a) Amend Company Law and DPC Act for Audit of Public Sector Undertakings
& Corporations even after reduction of Government share to below 50%.
b) Amend Company Law to ensure the Audit
by IA&AD of all Public Limited Companies listed with Securities and Exchange Board of
India (SEBI)
c) Enact necessary law to bring audit of all public Financial Institutions by
IA&AD.
These demands have become all the more
important in the context of the Governments overdrive on privatisation and
selling of family silver. Public-Private-Participation (PPP) is going to be the
order of the day. This simply means handing over the national assets (credits
too) to the national and transnational corporate. The move to bring 100% FDI in
Railways and 49% in Defence rings alarm bells for audit also.
Whenever we discuss with our
administration “global practise” is what is being played up. The department is
not oblivious to the fact that in many of the “model” nations, whenever and
wherever public money is involved or common man’s money is involved, it is
brought under the scrutiny of Supreme Auditor of that nation. What we demand is
the same.
The topmost from any dick and harry in
the government also speaks of “globally friendly’ atmosphere! This is nothing
but allowing the transnational business conglomerates to loot the national
wealth. This is where the role of CAG as the “watchdog of Indian finances” has
to be seen and strengthened.
10. a) Vacate victimisation of Association activists.
b) Allow democratic functioning of
Association without interference from administration
There is no station in IA&AD where
gross misuse of authority against the employees, their Association and its
leaders has not taken place. Many of the Accountants General does not meet the
Association. The grievance redressal machineries have become defunct. The
Departmental Council has not met for seven years; the agenda submitted in June
2013 is still pending.
11.
i) Withdraw annual audit criteria
introduced vide letter dt 27 January 2011.
ii)
Stop unilateral implementation of transfer policy in Commercial Audit &
P&T Audit
The audit criteria issued by the CAG in
January 2011 is nothing but total abdication of constitutional responsibility
to help the corrupt executive in the light of the audit report on the deal with
Devas International on the allocation of S-band spectrum. The audit report was
suppressed. It did not get the importance as in the case of 2G or coal. The new
criteria was issued immediately after that, to ensure that such firms (though
in Public Sector) are left scot free.
12. Implement Arbitration Award on SA pay Scale
The award - granting parity in pay
scales to SA with Assistants in CSS from 1.1.1986 notionally and actually from
12.11.2011 - given in August 2004 is still pending for implementation. The UPA
government has even in its last days tried to move a resolution in the
Parliament for its rejection. Only because of the timely interventions by Com
Basudev Acharya ensured that it was not carried.
13. Declare placing as AAO on
passing of SAS exam as direct recruitment and extend benefits of MACP to
Assistant Audit/Accounts Officers.
The MGP states it very clearly that the
promotion on passing of SAS as AAO is not a regular line of promotion and term
it as a placement. This amply prove that AAOs are to be granted the benefit of
(deemed) direct recruitment and consequent benefits under MACPS.
14.
Designate Supervisor as AAO & Earmark 50% of AAO post for seniority cum
fitness promotion
The Recruitments Rule (RR) for SA is
about to be amended with direct recruitment of 75%. This is the pattern
available for Assistants in CSS. The Assistants in CSS so recruited is entitled
for promotion as Section Officer – 50 through Departmental Examination and 50%
through seniority cum fitness. The SAs should also be extended same channel of
promotions as the Assistants in CSS.
15. Remove differential treatment on pay fixation on
promotion vis-Ã -vis direct recruitees in all cadres
The demand is self explanatory.
The case that we filed has been
rejected by the Pr CAT. We are preparing for Writ Petition in HC, Delhi.
16. Stop
downsizing of P&T Audit Offices; conduct audit of private service providers
as per TRAI regulations.
We submitted this proposal in May 2007.
The department has avoided discussion on the subject since then. This demand is
same as the demands at 7,8 and 11.
17. Re-imburse
hotel charges to Railway Audit personnel wherever Railway accommodation is not
allotted while on tour.
In the pretext that personnel of
Railway audit are covered by the TA rules of Railways, this is denied. It is
the responsibility of the Department to ensure that our touring personnel gets
the entitled type of Railways accommodation or Railways arrange the entitled
type of accommodation. Otherwise the Hotel Charges be re-imbursed, be it by the
Railways or the Department.
18.
Restore unilateral transfer policy.
The demand is self explanatory.
19.
Restore metal Pass facility to AAOs in Railway Audit
The facility of metal pass to AAOs in
railway audit is denied on the ground that AAO in Railway Accounts are not
gazetted. Reply under RTI has stated that the AAO in Railway Audit with GP of
4800 is entitled for metal pass. But till date the department has failed to get
it extended to our AAOs.
20.
Grant increment and Grade Pay of 4800 from the day of Passing of SOGE
The demand is self explanatory
21.
Withdraw PFRDA Act and ensure statutory pension for all
The best social security measure that
we had, has been undone. Those who have entered the government service after
1.1.2004 has been denied of it. One cannot say for sure that the present day
pensioners and those in service (and covered by the CCS (Pension) Rules would
get pension in the days to come. The PFRDA Act has given sweeping powers to the
government to tinker with pension at any given point of time.
22. Pay
arrears of Pay from 1st Jan 1996 to 18th Feb
2003 as directed by Courts to audit & accounts cadres
The
demand is self explanatory.
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