Brief resume of the meeting held between the CA (Admn), office of Pr.  CCA, CBDT and the representatives of the Association on 23^rd May 2013.

Following were present in the discussions

Official Side	Staff Side
1.Shri A. S. Singh, Controller f Accounts	1.Shri V. Bhattacharjee, Secretary General, NFCAA
2.Shri A. K. Chawla, ACA,	2.Shri A. K. Mehta, President, AICAEA, Cat-II
	3. Shri S. C. Bamrara, Asstt. Secretary General, AICAEA

1.      FILLING UP OF VACANT POSTS:-       In every office there is large number of vacancies in Group–D (now multiskilled), LDC and Accountant/ Senior Accountant. For example - in ZAO, Kolkata 16 posts of Acctts/ Sr. Acctts and 6 posts of LDCs are vacant. In ZAO, Shillong 9 posts of Accountant/Sr. Accountants out of 16 posts are vacant. There is no LDC in the office. One MTS post has also fallen vacant recently.  24 posts of Accountant/ Sr. Accountants were there under the jurisdiction of ZAO, Ahmedabad. At present 6 posts are lying vacant.       Since acute shortage of staff has been causing serious functional difficulty for the offices, vacancies may be filled up on priority basis.	Situation has improved. However due to legal restriction, some vacancies of Kolkata exist. There are 4 vacancies in Ahmedabad at present.
2.      REGULARISATION OF TEMPORARY STATUS EMPLOYEE – CASE OF SHILLONG:-     The issue of regularization of Shri Atul Malakar working as temporary status employee in ZAO, CBDT, Shillong is awaiting a favourable decision of your office. The matter is pending for quite a few years. All available and relevant documents in this respect have been provided by the office of ZAO, Shillong and Kolkata to your office. This Association has also discussed the matter several times and handed over the documents to your office for more than one occasion. At present there is a vacancy of MTS at Shillong due to voluntary retirement of one of the MTS working there.       Since the matter has already been delayed abnormally and the individual and his family members are passing the days with agony and tension, orders for regularizations of Shri Malakar may kindly be issued without further delay.	The matter shall be looked into at the earliest.
3.      DISCRIMINATION IN GRANTING PROMOTION TO THE POST OF ACCOUNTANT:-      Shri Ajoy Kumar Bagchi, Shri Aswini Kumar Sen, and Shri Tarun Kumar Nandi, Senior Accountants working in PAO, CPWD, EZ, Kolkata had been encadered as LDC in the Central Civil Accounts Service under CBDT setup in ZAO, CBDT, Kolkata on 5/11/1984, 03/12/1984 and 04/02/1985 respectively. But their juniors namely Shri Harabilas Mandal and K. K. Jana appointed as LDC on 14/03/1988 and 05/05/1988 respectively have been granted promotion as Accountant and Sr. Accountant prior to Shri Aswini Kumar Sen and Shri Tarun Kumar  Nandi..  As such, they are facing discrimination and heavy financial loss. The issue was referred to your office and the office of the CCA, UD by this Association as well as ZAO, CBDT Unit, Kolkata.   Responding to the request of this Association, CCA, UD has referred the matter to CGA.  Case of Ajoy Kumar Bagchi, Sr. Accountant, ZAO, CBDT, Kolkata may therefore be taken up with CGA without any further delay.	The reason for delay shall be examined and expeditious action shall be taken.
4.      RELEASE OF 2ND INSTALLMENT OF HBA:_       The   HBA II installment case of Shri Manab Kumar Das, Sr. Accountant, Kolkata is pending for more than a year. In this respect, the AICAEA, ZAO, CBDT Unit, Kolkata letter dated 03/05/2013 and   the ZAO, CBDT Kolkata letter No. ZAO/KOL/ ADMN/Association/2013-14/242-42 dated 3/532013 may kindly be referred.	Despite repeated persuasions, the Ministry is not providing Budget. The AICAEA may also write a letter to the authority  in this respect so that the authorities concerned may be further impressed the Office of Pr. CCA about the sufferings of the employees.
5.    PROVISION OF FUND FOR LONGTERM ADVANCES:-        It has been informed by our Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Chennai Units that, employees are not getting the long term advances for more than a year. Therefore, necessary action in this respect may kindly be taken. In this respect,  the AICAEA, ZAO, CBDT Unit, Kolkata letter dated 03/05/2013 and ZAO, CBDT Kolkata letter No.ZAO/KOL/ADMN/Association/2013-14/242-42 dated 3/532013 may kindly be referred.	Same as above (item 4)
6. PROMOTION OF SENIOR ACOUNTANTS AS A.A.Os UNDER 10%  PROMOTIONAL QUOTA:-       A good number of Sr. Accountants’  of Civil Accounts formation of CBDT  set up who were recruited in the year 1978 have not been granted promotion as AAO under 10% promotional quota while their juniors have already been promoted. A large section of Senior Accountants of Kolkata and Chennai are worst affected. Necessary action to remove the discrimination may kindly be taken       Shri Jai Shankar of Chennai is retiring on 31-05-2013. His case may please be accorded priority.       In this respect we also invite your attention to AICAEA, ZAO, CBDT Unit, kolkata letter dated 15/01/2013, ZAO, CBDT, Chennai letter No. ZAO/ CBDT/CHENNAI/ADMN/APAR/2013-14/01 dated 10/05/2013 to Sr. AO and this Association’s letter endorsement No. AICAEA/HA/A-2/1013/375-380 dated 15th May 2013 may be referred too.	According to the information available with the office of Pr. CCA, CBDT, all cases have been forwarded to CGA. However if any specific case has been left out, it may be brought to the notice of official side. Case of Sh. Jaishankar being looked into.
7.      ELEGATION OF FINANCIAL POWERS TO ZONAL HEADS:-       The ZAO Units of this Association has expressed that, financial powers had been delegated to the DCAs and part final withdrawal of GPF used to be sanctioned by DCAs.  But now the part final withdrawal of the staff of ZAOs is being sent to Pr. CCA office for sanction.  It takes more than one month to get sanction leading to inconvenience to the staff.  The sanction of part final withdrawal of GPF may therefore be restored to DCA, Chennai and DCA Kolkata.	Financial powers have been delegated as per rules. (Copy of the orders issued in this respect has been provided to the staff side).
8.      GRANT  OF HONORAIUM  TO ALL EMPLOYEES:-       There is resentment in general among the employees that, despite shortage of staff in the offices existing employees have been disposing off the works of the offices in the form of a team. But annual honorarium has not been granted to the employees. Hence it is requested that, all employees may be granted honorarium without any discrimination.	Responding to the request of staff side, official side assured that honorarium shall be granted to all deserving person.
9.      REQUEST FOR APPENDING OF PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED IN COMBINED SENIORITY LIST –         Shri M. Krishnan, Sr. Accountant Chennai has already represented in this regard on 04/03/2013 and his case has been forwarded to Pr.CCA office by the DCA, Chennai.	The matter shall be looked into with reference to RR.