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Reference:
AIA/Circular-14/2019 Dated:
17th September 2019
To
Unit Secretaries,
Members & Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of Women’s Committee
Dear Comrades,
The
agenda meeting with AWK
Langstieh, DAI (HR) was held on 16th September 2019. DG, Staff, AC
(N), SAO/JCM & AAO (JCM) were present from the administration Staff. The
Association was represented by Comrades Tapas Bose, President, KC Mathai, Vice
President and Anilkumar, Additional Secretary General in addition to the
Secretary General.
Brief
on the discussion on agenda items is given below.
1.
Restructuring
of cadres in IA&AD
DAI informed that the report
submitted by V. Kurian Committee is now under the consideration of top
management. He assured to expedite the decision making process but did not
commit on a deadline.
DAI further stated that on
finalization of the same by the Department it will require approval by the
nodal ministry and DOPT and thereafter by the Union Cabinet which will take its
own time.
2.
5 time promotion to all cadres from entry
level
DAI assured that cadre restructuring
committee is seized of the matter. Lack of
promotional avenues and resolution there-of is being considered.
3.
Promotion of DEO as Auditor/Accountant
The
promotional avenues for all cadres including DEOs will be taken care of by the
cadre restructuring, assured DAI.
4.
Conduct
SAS exam in the old format, grant unlimited number of chances to Part II candidates
and undo system of negative marks.
DAI did not agree to revert back to old format, but assured
to revisit the question of number of chances.
5.
Conduct
SAS exam in A&E offices
It
was stated that SAS (Audit) has been opened for all in A&E offices where
the vacancy position is 10% or less.
Further
review would be undertaken on finalization of cadre restructuring.
6.
Recruitment of local personnel in all non
gazetted cadres & opening up of Unilateral transfer
It was informed that DOPT has been
moved to amend RR of certain cadres adding the condition of knowledge of
local/regional language as requirement, as a test case. On approval of the same
by DOPT, the Department will approach SSC to recruit personnel accordingly.
Opening up of unilateral transfer cannot be
considered now, said DAI.
We were also informed that
deputation channel is available for those who are genuinely in need of it. In
this context, when it was pointed out that many offices are not circulating the
deputation related notifications amongst the staff members, DAI agreed to
upload all such notifications in the CAG website which will be accessible for
all.
7.
Re-designation of Supervisor as AAO and grant
of NFU at Level 9 to Supervisors on completion of 4 years.
It
was assured that the demand would be further examined.
8.
Grant of full functional facilities to
Associations
DAI agreed to re-issue the circulars
regarding facilities to Association with
directions to follow them.
He also assured to resolve the
pending recognition related issues. (we made specific reference to MAB, Mumbai,
Southern Railway Audit, Chennai, Bihar Civil Accounts Association, Western
Railway Audit, C knowledge of local/regional language as requirement Cat 2 and
Allahabad audit).
To a specific reference to the
discontinuance of membership of Sowmitra Bandopadhyay of Defence Audit
Association on his outstation transfer against the extant orders, DAI assured
take corrective measures.
9.
Inclusion of AAOs under JCM Scheme
DAI informed that DOPT did not agree to the proposal.
10.
Fixation of Pay on promotion as Supervisor
after grant of MACP at GP 4600
We
were informed that DOPT has refused to reconsider the present position stating
that it is as per 7 CPC recommendations.
11.
Uniform nomenclature for all cadres upto SAO.
DAI
said that this can be considered when cadre restructuring is finalised and
ready for implementation.
12.
Filling up of vacancies/recruitment of
personnel in the Departmental Canteens
DAI agreed to expedite the process
of recruitment in departmental canteens.
We insisted on regularizing all contract staff working in
the canteens. DAI agreed to examine the demand.
13.
Implement
SC judgement in WP (Civil) No. 82 of 2011 to “civil servants”
only; no transfer of Gr B & C personnel under the cover of the said
judgement.
DAI enquired whether this demand to specific to outstation
transfer or to all transfers even with in the station. We said that it is
specific to outstation transfers and made a reference to transfers in MAB,
Hyderabad to Vishakhapatnam.
DAI agreed to examine.
14.
Restore
sports quota recruitment.
The recruitment
notification is already issued.
On recruitment in the Volleyball
stream DAI informed that the HQr is collecting data from all offices and it
would be processed and decision would be taken soon.
15.
Liberal approach on Compassionate Ground
appointments
To our insistence of excluding the value of house from
the financial status, DAI assured to review and if found necessary to revise
the conditionalities on financial status of the dependents of the employee who
died in harness.
He further stated that it is upto the Accountant General to
take a judicious decision based on the committee’s recommendations and HQr
cannot intervene on this.
16.
Prospective application of “very Good’ Bench mark
for MACPS
DAI
pointed out that it under discussion in NC, JCM and Department would implement
the decision of DOPT on this.
17.
Grant of additional work to P&T Audit,
Nagpur
DAI
proposed to refer the item to DGA, P&T and asked us to meet DGA, P&T to
sort out the matter.
18.
Grant
of NFU to Level 9 to Adhoc AAOs
DAI
assured to examine it once again after calling for details from field offices
on the number of persons affected
Presentation
on One IA&AD, One System (OIOS)
Prior to commencement of the agenda
meeting, there was a presentation on One IA&AD, One System by the IS Wing,
HQr. Shri Sriram, DG made the presentation in the presence of DAI.
In nutshell, it proposes to make the
audit to wholly IT based. Every Auditor/Senior Auditor, AAO, AO/SAO would be
given laptops, key documents would be captured in camera, every communication
with the auditee organisation and also within the audit party and also the
office/wing would be online with back-ups. The idea is to paper-free audit
offices. It is proposed to start it as pilot project in certain offices/wings.
Though we do accept that we will
have to adopt most updated IT system in the present world in our discharge of
duties, certain doubts remain on the practical side of it. And we raised those
doubts.
1. If
there is a theft or loss of lap top, the personnel will be penalized, he/she
also will be preceded under CCS (CCA) Rules – is there is any guarantee/protection
against that?
2. What
about the connectivity – even in cities connectivity is poor, how it would be
in mofussil areas and villages? How the work as well as data transfer can
materialise? (It was pointed out that in the city of Delhi itself downloading
of GST related documents takes lot of time).
3. What
would be role of DEOs?
4. What
would be the reduction in PIP in the HQr sections?
5. Whether
the field offices would be robbed off the functional autonomy as every action
would require approval of HQr.
6. Whether
it will help in improving transparency at all levels?
These doubts were raised. IS wing
also shared some of the concerns such as connectivity, loss/theft of lap top
etc. But other points were mostly left unanswered.
(In addition, many more issues that
may affect the personnel may come up on implementation of the OIOS, such as
reduction in the number of tour parties etc.)
We request all the Units to give
their comments on this important presentation so as to enable the HQr present a
comprehensive response to the proposal. Copy of the proposal are attached to
this Circular.
With greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
(MS
Raja)
Secretary
General
