15/1089-90, VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA
(P.O.), Dt. GHAZIABAD
(U.P), PIN-201012
Reference: AIA/Circular-01/2016 Dated: 16th January 2016
To
Unit Secretaries,
Members & Spl. Invitees – NE &
Members of Women’s Committee
Dear Comrades,
NE CALLS FOR
* INTENSIFIED CAMPAIGN ON RETROGRADE
RECOMMENDATIONS OF 7 CPC
** MASSIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE
3 DAY DHARNA UNDER NJCA BANNER
*** PREPARATION FOR INDEFINITE
STRIKE
The
National Executive Committee held on 9th January 2016 at Hyderabad
endorsed the views expressed by the Confederation of Central Government
Employees and Workers and also by the NJCA on the recommendations of the 7 CPC
and called upon the personnel of IA&AD to join the struggles for
improvements in the recommendations.
The
NE re-iterated the decision of the NJCA, endorsed by the Confederation, to
demand to recalculation of the minimum wage determined by the 7 CPC, terming it
arithmetically wrong and hence a fraud on the employees. The minimum wage and
the fitment formula have to undergo changes as per the Dr Aykroyd formula,
based on the current prices of essential commodities as prevalent in the market
on 1.1.2016. The meeting adopted the 26 point charter of demands and decided to
mobilise the membership and the entirety of working personnel in Indian Audit
& Accounts Department in the struggle for ensuring the acceptance of the 26
point charter of demands.
The
NE meeting called up on the all the Units and the members to join enmasse in
the 3 –day dharna on 19-20-21 January 2016, call for which has been given by
the NJCA.
The
NJCA has decided to organise the indefinite strike in the first week of March
2016 if the government does not negotiate and settle the demands raised by the
Staff Side, JCM vide its letter dated 10th December 2015 within two
months. The NJCA would meet on 8thFebruary 2016 to decide the date
of strike, if no negotiated settlement is arrived at by then.
The
NE meeting noted that though it is nearly two months since the submission
of the report by the 7 CPC the
Government is yet to form the Empowered Committee - except a statement
regarding its intention to do so no concrete measure has been initiated.
(The
government has now announced that the cabinet approval has been given for the
appointment of empowered committee, though the formal notification on its
constitution has not been done).
It
looks as if the government intends to dilly-dally and delay and thus deny any
improvement in the recommendations of the 7 CPC which are nothing but a fraud
on the employees.
There
is a need to intensify the campaign amongst the employees and officers, raising
a banner of revolt on the recommendations of the 7 CPC. The anger prevalent
amongst the employees should be channelised through organisational mobilisation
so that more and more employees and officers join the protest actions and the
indefinite strike.
While
focussing on the general recommendations of the 7 CPC on the minimum wage,
fitment formula, HRA, Advances, CCL etc, we should also educate the employees
and officers of the raw deal given to the IA&AD and Organised Accounts
Cadres by the 7 CPC. Our Circulars 26 and 28 (of 2015) may be widely used in
this regard. Our Letter to CAG on the recommendations and improvements required
may also be used in the campaign. (Copy
enclosed).
The
National Executive Committee authorised the Secretariat to chalk out
appropriate mobilisation programmes through visit of office-bearers to various
stations. It further decided to co-ordinate with programmes chalked out
Confederation.
With greetings,
Yours
fraternally
(M.S.Raja)
Secretary
General
ALL
INDIA AUDIT & ACCOUNTS ASSOCIATION
CSV WARRIER BHAWAN
15/1089-90,
VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA (P.O.), Dt. GHAZIABAD
(U.P), PIN-201012
Ph: 0120-2881727/98681 45667
Reference:
AIA/B-1/74/2015 Date: 3rd December 2015
To
The
Comptroller & Auditor General of India,
9, Deen
Dayal Upadhyay Marg,
New Delhi – 110124
Subject: Recommendations of 7 CPC and
IA&AD - reg.
Sir,
I am to invite your kind
attention to the recommendations of the 7 CPC. All India Audit & Accounts
Association is of the considered view that the 7 CPC has let down the Central
Government employees in general and Audit & Accounts cadres especially.
This Association, with a
deep sense of gratitude, acknowledges the honest and sincere efforts made by
the Hon’ble C & A. G of India in projecting the just demands of various
cadres of IA&AD, recommending up-gradation of the scales of staff in IA
& AD in his memorandum to 7th CPC.
But the 7th CPC without
analysing - critically and rationally - any aspect of the memoranda submitted
by the Hon’ble CAG of India as well as the Staff Side has summarily rejected
all the submissions made before it by the CAG of India (and also by the Staff
Side) resulting in great disregard to the august office. This outright
rejection of the demands put up by the CAG of India and the staff side has
given a stunning blow to the morale of the personnel of IA&AD.
We are sure that the Hon’ble CAG of India will
make unfailing efforts in making Government understand the indignation and
heart burn of the staff of IA & AD.
It is further submitted
that the C&AG of India to use his good offices to make the government
understand the negation of factual positions on the part of 7 CPC with regard
to grant of parity in pay scales to Senior Auditor/Accountant vis-Ã -vis
Assistant of CSS.
We here-by submit our
comments & views on the departmental issues vis-Ã -vis the report of the 7
CPC.
1.
a) We request that the government may kindly be moved on the specific comment
of the 7 CPC that the Government had
never granted parity in pay scale to SA with
Assistants of CSS. This
statement of 6 CPC remained to be corrected and has been repeated by 7 CPC.
This statement is factually
wrong and hence totally unacceptable. In 1983, the Government of India had vide letter
from SC Mahalik, Jt. Secretary, Min. of Finance, Deptt of Expr. addressed to
Shri AK Mitra, Director (Staff), O/o C&AG of India DO No 110141/1/78-EG-I,
dated September 21, 1983 accepted the demand for grant of parity – to 80% of
Auditor cadre. (Copy enclosed).
The 4th CPC
extended the pay higher pay scale to Accountants also - OM No F.5
(32)-E.III/86-Pt.II, Ministry of Finance, Deptt of Expenditure date 12th
June 1987. (Copy enclosed).
The laborious effort of the
Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad in conducting work study on the then
Auditor’s cadre has been given a burial by the successive pay commissions. This
point may kindly be driven home.
b) The 7 CPC has rejected
the demand for GP 4200, PB2 to Auditor/Accountant on the untenable ground that
they are not subjected to personal interview at the time of recruitment. The
fact that they have to qualify a departmental confirmatory examination for
confirmation, failing which facing reversion as LDC, has been overlooked.
2)
The recommendation of 6 CPC with regard to grant of GP 5400 in PB3 to all
Gazetted officers remained to be implemented in the case of AAO of IA&AD
and Organised Accounts.
In Chapter 11.62,
vide para 18 on IA&AD the 7 CPC recommends “replacement levels for AAO, AO
and SAO”. But vide Para 11.12.140 – Ministry of Defence, Organised Accounts -
the report states “The Commission is therefore of the view that there is no
justification for excluding officers in the organised accounting departments
who are at GP 4800 from this dispensation. It therefore recommends that all
officers in organised accounts cadres (in the Indian Audit and Accounts
Department, Defence Accounts Department, Indian Civil Accounts
Organisation, Railways, Post and
Telecommunications) who are in GP 4800 should be upgraded, on completion of four years’ service
to GP 5400 (PB-2), viz., Pay level 9, in the pay matrix”.
This may kindly be ensured that this
recommendation is implemented in IA&AD without fail.
(The slight of IA&AD
and thus CAG of India may please be strongly objected to).
3) The 7 CPC has also not
accepted the demand for grant of higher pay scale to AOs and SAOs. The
rejection of the demand by the 7 CPC is quite arbitrary and lacks logic –
rather, the 7 CPC has
failed to advance any logic for refusing higher pay of GP 6600 and 7600 in PB3
to AOs and SAOs. The argument that Senior Audit/Accounts Officer is a feeder
cadre for Gr A is arising from wrong understanding. The SAO, on promotion, is
posted as Dy Accountant General/Dy Director on promotion, not at the level of
Direct Recruitee IA&AS.
4)
The same treatment has been meted out to Divisional Accountants and Divisional
Accounts officers. The submissions made by the CAG of India as well as by the
Staff Side has been totally ignored and rejected.
5)
Apart from the rejection of the demands on pay scales that the Department and
the staff side put forward, the 7 CPC has also recommended for the
discontinuance of all advances – including advances for Travel, Tour etc and
advances for medical treatment. The discontinuance of advances for travel and
tour will have an adverse impact on the personnel of IA &AD more than any
personnel of any other department. We
therefore submit that the Department may insist on continuance of all existing
advances.
6)
Also, the recommendation for production of bill or voucher for re-imbursement
of accommodation charges and daily travelling expenses is to be waived as it
was done after the implementation of 6 CPC recommendations. Self certification
should be permitted disregarding the level (in the pay matrix) in which the
person is placed.
7)
Qualification
Pay (Chapter 8.9)
On grant of additional pay/increment on passing of SAS
examination also, IA&AD has been left out while there is a recommendation
for Railway Accounts Staff.
The relevant portion of the report of 7 CPC is reproduced
below:
“8.9.43 It is
granted to Accounts staff of Indian Railways for qualifying certain
examinations.
Clerks Gr.II
(Accounts Clerks)/Typists on passing App-II Examination
|
Rs. 180 pm
|
Sr. Accounts
Assistant/Accounts Assistant/Stock Verifier/
Typist/Stenographer
on passing App-III Examination
|
First
Year Rs 240
Second
Year Rs 420
|
8.9.44 Demands have been received to increase the
allowance to four times its present value.
Analysis and Recommendations
8.9.45 Since the allowance is not indexed to DA, it is
recommended to raise it by a factor of2.25. The amount will further rise by 25
percent each time DA crosses 50
percent. The nomenclature should be changed to Railway
Accounts Examination Allowance.”
It may kindly be ensured that
IA&AD personnel is also assured of the additional pay/increment as is
recommended for Railway Accounts Staff on passing of SAS examination.
The 7 CPC is totally silent on the
Qualification Pay granted to Auditor/Accountant on passing of Departmental
Confirmatory examination. Grant of Qualification pay for Auditor/Accountant
on passing of Departmental Confirmatory examination may also be increased on
the same analogy of using the multiplication factor of 2.25 with further rise
by 25% each time the DA crosses 50%.
8) On Internet Allowance, Mobile Phone Allowance &
News Paper Allowance, it has been recommended by 7 CPC - “The ministries should continue dealing with these
allowances on their own, subject to the ceilings notified by the Ministry of
Finance from time to time. The present ceilings should, however, be raised by
25 percent and the entire amount should be paid, lump sum, to the eligible
employees without the need for production of vouchers.” (Para 8.17.61). This
may please be made applicable for the personnel of IA&AD also.
It is requested that the
CAG of India may take a firm stand in the Empowered Committee that may be
formed to finalise the recommendations so that the ignominy faced by IA&AD
and its personnel from top to bottom is rectified and higher pay scale is
granted to personnel of IA&AD (and also of Organised Accounts).
We shall be submitting our
comments and proposals on the general recommendations of the 7 CPC on minimum
wage etc separately.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours
faithfully,
(M. S.
Raja)
Secretary General
ALL
INDIA AUDIT & ACCOUNTS ASSOCIATION
CSV WARRIER BHAWAN
15/1089-90,
VASUNDHARA, VASUNDHARA (P.O.), Dt. GHAZIABAD
(U.P), PIN-201012
Ph: 0120-2881727/98681 45667
Reference: AIA/B-1/75/2015
5th December 2015
To
The
Comptroller & Auditor General of India,
9, Deen
Dayal Upadhyay Marg,
New Delhi – 110124
Subject: Recommendations of 7 CPC on
Minimum Pay etc - reg.
Sir,
This
is in continuation to this Association’s letter AIA/B-1/74/2015 dated 3rd
December 2015 on the recommendations of the 7 CPC.
Issues specific to IA&AD has
been covered in our earlier letter mentioned above. Here, we present our views
and objections to the recommendations of the 7 CPC on issues such as minimum
pay, fitment formula, increment, MACPS, allowances and other general issues,
briefly.
1. Minimum Wage
We strongly disapprove the method of
calculation of minimum wage.
1. The rates of
commodities are taken from a dubious source i.e. Indian Labour Institute
Shimla. Prices of commodities arrived at is 9217.99
The website of the Agricultural Ministry
gives the retail prices of various places. Even according to it the prices of
commodities will come to Rs. 11,342 as on 1.11.2015.
Secondly, the Commission has taken the
average of 12 months. This is not acceptable.
It should be as on 1.1.2016 or atleast as on 1.11.2015.
For Misc. 20% is correctly taken. Whereas for Educational and Recreation the
S.C. judgement is 25%, the CPC has reduced it to 15%. Not acceptable.
Housing must be 7.5%. This has been taken as a
lumpsum of Rs. 524 i.e. 3% similar to the exercise done by the 6th
CPC. Not acceptable. It has to be 7.5% .
The weightage for skilled labour has been
correctly taken at 25%.
i) If Aykroyd formula is applied correctly as
agreed upon in the 15 ILC (1957) added with the 25% weightage as directed by
the SC in 1992, the minimum wage would work out to Rs 20,760/- even on the
fraudulent figure of 9218/-
Adding 3% against future DA, it would
become) Rs 20760+623 = Rs 21,383/-
ii) If the agricultural ministry figures are taken
for computation, then 9218 would be replaced by Rs 11,342/ and the minimum wage
would be Rs 25,549/- as on 1.11.2016.
The minimum pay needs to be
corrected as above.
2. Fitment Formula
2.57 is
arrived at on the basis of an arbitrary, unscientific and hence irrational
calculation of minimum wage at Rs 18,000/- . Change in minimum pay and thus a
change in the fitment formula is a must.
The fitment formula has to be
corrected based on the proposal given at 1.
i.e. 3.05 according to 1 (i)
and 3.65
according to 1 (ii) which is the most logical and correct one doing justice.
3. Ratio between
Minimum wage and highest wage
Highest
salary: 18000:225000 i.e. 1:12.5
If we
take pay of Cabinet Secy the ratio is 1:14.
The ratio is more than even what the
6th CPC recommended.
We
demand a ratio of 1: 8
4.
Multiplication Factor
The
pay scales have been constructed by applying different multiplication
factor.
While it is 2.57 for PB 1, 2.62 for
PB2, 2.67 for PB 3, 2.72 for PB4 and 2.81 for Secretary level officers.
The different rates are
meant to maintain the existing disparity introduced by the 6th
CPC.
The common multiplication
factor should be applied – after the correcting the minimum wage calculation.
5. Increment
The increment granted is less than
3% as per the matrix given.
For e.g., in the matrix
level 1, the pay becomes 18500 after one increment instead of 18,540. This could be seen at many
stages.
3% increment should be
ensured to all at every level, stage.
6. HRA
HRA as per centage of pay
has been reduced to 24%, 16% and 12% from the existing 30% , 20% & 15% -
the CPC has irrationally applied a
multiplication factor of 0.8 at every stage which is not acceptable. The
existing rates should be retained.
7. Increment on Promotion
Only one increment
recommended, it should be raised to two increments (on promotion).
8. Group Insurance
Huge
hike is proposed under group insurance scheme. This is quite disproportionate.
It should be reduced to Rs
350, Rs. 750 & Rs. 1500 with insurance cover of Rs 3,50,000, Rs. 7,00,000
and Rs. 15,00,000
9. MACPS
1.
MACPS should be unambiguously on the basis of cadre hierarchy available in the
respective Departments.
2.
The condition of “very good’ the annual performance appraisal to be eligible
for getting benefit of MACPS is not acceptable.
The eligibility criteria should be only “average” in the APR.
10. Efficiency Bar
Introduction of “Efficiency
Bar” which was discarded by 5 CPC and linking future increments to earning of
Very Good remark in the APR is totally reprehensible and hence not acceptable.
This should not be accepted. The present status should continue.
11. Advances
All kinds of interest free
advances are recommended to be abolished. This is a retrograde recommendation.
All existing interest free advances such as Travel & tour advance, festival
advance, cycle advance, medical advance, house building advance, natural
calamity advance etc. should continue.
12. Allowances
Allowances like for Small
family Allowance, Cash Handling allowance etc should continue.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours
faithfully,
(M. S.
Raja)
Secretary General
