15/1089-90, VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA (P.O.), Dt.
GHAZIABAD (U.P), PIN-201012
Website: www.auditflag.blogspot.com
Reference:
AIA/Circular-12/2018 Dated:
7th June 2018
To
Unit Secretaries,
Members & Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of Women’s Committee
Dear Comrades,
On 6th
June 2018, we had a courtesy meeting with Ms. Anjali Anand Srivastava, DAI.
Coms Tapas Bose, President, KC Mathai, Vice President and Anilkumar, Additional
Secretary General represented the All India Audit & Accounts Association,
in addition to the Secretary General.
Shri.
KB Jamal, Pr. Director, Staff, Shri Venkatanathan, AC (N) and Shri RK
Choudhary, AO/JCM were present from the official side.
Cadre
Restructuring
We enquired about the status of the
report on cadre restructuring committee. We were told that the Committee – like
any other Govt Committee (!) – could not meet its target date of 30th
April 2018 and it is trying to finalise the report by 30th June
2018.
We requested that the report may be
shared with the Staff Side and further discussions be held over the report. DAI
agreed to consider the request.
Verification
of membership of Associations, non/de-recognition of Associations
We pointed out the anomalous
position that emerge where many Associations are not treated as recognised
because reverification was/is not conducted by the administration on time. Such
cases have been reported from NE region and also by some other Units.
Further the application submitted by
many Associations – such Civil Audit Association Allahabad, EC Railway Audit
Association, Hajipur and Association at Mizoram – are yet to be granted
recognition despite passage of years after submitting the applications and
completing all the formalities.
In the case of Allahabad DAI
informed that the doubts raised by office of PAG have been clarified and it is
expected that the process would be completed soon. In other cases, wherever
recognition related problems exist, DAI sought a complete list from the
Association so as to address the issue.
The erratic position taken by the
administration vis-à-vis the membership position and constitutional amendment
of Commercial Audit Association, MAB-1, Mumbai was raised. The dichotomy in
applying the principles was also forcefully presented. Denial natural justice
was also raised. DAI assured to have a fresh look into the whole issue.
We drove home the point that all
these are the fall out of the deviation committed by the CAG administration
from the original CCS (RSA) Rules, 1993 wherein it was mandated that the
Associations will have to be recognised departmentally. We insisted that the
recognition process be revisited.
We also raised the issue of creating
lot of objections on the audited accounts submitted by the Associations at
field level as well as at Apex Level, on special fund/subscriptions etc. We
pointed out that a liberal reading of the CCS (RSA) Rules, 1993 will not lead
to such obnoxious objections, meant only to create hurdles in the functioning
of Associations. We also pointed out none of the departments, other than
IA&AD, raise such objections. DAI agreed to look into the issue.
Recruitment
to the Departmental Canteen
We pointed out that almost all
Departmental canteens are running with half the staff strength and there also
the number of regular employees has come down to below five (in majority of
canteens). We requested for recruitment of regular hands – by regularising the
contract/casual employees working in the canteen.
The
lack of response from HQr office to many of the letters from field office on
staff matters was brought to the notice of DAI giving a specific case from
Nagpur where the clarification sought on the promotion of MTS was not properly
replied for the last three years.
Lastly,
we stated that had the Administration acted upon the repeated warnings given by
this Association on the happenings/developments in Chennai, an ignominious
situation that brought bad name to the entire department could have been
avoided. We concluded with the hope that such warnings would not be ignored in
future.
With
greetings,
Yours
fraternally
M. S. Raja
Secretary General
