15/1089-90,
VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA (P.O.), Dt. GHAZIABAD (U.P), PIN-201012
Website: www.auditflag.blogspot.com
Reference: AIA/Circular-10/2017 Dated:
13th April 2017
To
Unit
Secretaries,
Members
& Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of
Women’s Committee
Dear
Comrades,
OBSERVE
ASSOCIATION DAY
It is on 15th April
1923 first they met to form All India Civil Accounts NG Association, at Nagpur.
The only agenda was to request the 'visible God' the CAG, to restore the parity
in wages with Assistants in CSS that was disturbed in 1919 on the
recommendations of Isligton committee report. For years, the annual gathering
was done ritually reiterating the plea. Over the time, the then Assistant
Accounts officer - today's AO/SAO - who was at par with Under Secretary of CSS
was also downgraded.
The Independence and
the popular movements elsewhere brought life to the All India Civil Accounts NG
Association. The focus shifted from parity to self-respect and the movement
gained momentum.
Over the sever sacrifices
and untold sufferings of hundreds of known and unknown heroes, we are here
today, with respectability.
The question today is
whether we are doing our bit to safeguard whatever has been passed on to us by
our valiant predecessors.
We are under attack,
in multiple forms. The changes that CAG is bringing about in the department,
the dilution and thus subversion of the concept of Public Accountability, the
undignified behaviour of good number of IA&AS officers and their utter
contempt for norms and rules are not properly exposed and countered
organisationally.
On the other hand, the
government is determined to deny the CG employees their legitimate demands -
even the assurance by group of ministers to revisit the minimum wage is not
honoured. Allowances on revised pay are denied for more than a year. the demand for ensuring minimum pension and exclude CG employees from NPS is rejected.
Contractorisation is
the order of the day. Govt functions are being corporotised as is happening in
CPWD. This corporotisation is a prelude to privatisation.
The personnel of
autonomous bodies including Kendriya Vidyalaya, Navodaya Vidyalaya are not paid
revised pay scales even though OM extending the 7 CPC recommendations have been
issued. Bonus paid to them is being recovered.
All these are warnings to all central govt employees. The hard earned rights could be under attack any
time, in the days to come, if we do not resist the policies and decisions that
have anything to do with denial of workers rights.
A vibrant, democratic
Association alone can organise a fight back.
The Association Day is
the occasion to recollect the path that we have travelled, to asses our present
day position, to decide the task for today and the immediate tomorrow and to rededicate ourselves to work to
achieve the tasks at hand.
Because of continuous
holidays, it is not possible to observe the Association Day on 15th
April or the next day - even preparing for the same need time.
We may therefore
observe the Association Day on 19th April by
hoisting Association flag and holding meeting in all offices.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally
Sd/-
M. S. Raja
Secretary
General
