N.F.C.A.A. CIRCULAR NO.6
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF CIVIL ACCOUNTS
ASSOCIATIONS
(All India Civil Accounts Employees Association
All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category
–II)
17/2–C, P & T Quarters, Kali Bari
Marg, New Delhi-110001
No. NFCAA/HQ/A-1/2014/Cir-6 Dated:16th April,
2014
To
All Federal Executive Members,
All Women Committee Members,
All
Branch Secretaries of AICAEA & AICAEA Cat- II
Dear Comrades,
EXTENDED FEDERAL EXECUTIVE
MEETING HELD AT NAGPUR ON 5TH APRIL2014
ENDORSED
The Resolution Adopted By The National Convention
Of Central Government Employees Held On 4th April 2014 and Appealed
Upon The Rank and File Membership To Act In the Direction Of Understanding
Reflected Through The Resolution of National Convention Of Central Government
Employees.
DECIDED TO
Strengthen The JAC Further
And
Resort To legal actions and Organizational
Actions In Support Of Departmental Demands
The
extended Federal Executive Meeting of the National Federation of Civil Accounts
Associations was held on 5th April 2014 in the Conference hall of
the GSI, Nagpur. 27 Federal Executive (including 2 women committee) members
(from Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai,
Cochin, Mumbai, Nagpur, Delhi and Lucknow), Com. Rajesh Singh, Branch
Secretary, AICAEA Cat-II, Mumbai Branch, Com. Ajay K. Patole, Branch Secretary,
AICAEA, Mumbai Branch, Com. P.K. Gopi, Branch Secretary, AICAEA, Kerala Branch,
Com. K.M. Moundekar, Branch Secretary, AICAEA, Nagpur Branch, Com. Ravinder
Kumar, President, AICAEA, Delhi Branch, Com. Amit Kumar Chawla, Branch
Secretary, AICAEA Cat-II, Pune Branch, Com. S.N. Mathurkar, Branch Secretary,
AICAEA Cat-II, Nagpur Branch and four observers from Nagpur and Delhi attended
the meeting. Com. T.R. Janardanan, President, NFCAA Presided over the meeting.
Following items of agenda were discussed:-
Agenda No.1.Review of the decisions of last meeting
held in Delhi on 11th & 12th January 2014.
At
the very outset, the meeting reviewed the status of the items discussed in the
Federal Executive meeting held in Delhi on 11th and 12th
January 2014 and decisions taken on those. This meeting had also adopted strike related programmes
including tours etc. at the instance of Confederation. The reviewed status of
the items were observed to be as below --
·
Joint strike notice by AICAEA and
AICAEACATII was served to CGA on 21st January 2014. The Branches
submitted the notice to the local authorities.
·
The tour programme adopted for strike
action was partially implemented as some of the Federal Executive members did
not visit the station(s) assigned to them.
·
The 48 hours strike call on 12th
& 13th February 2014 was implemented in the Civil Accounts
Organization successfully. All major Branches and their Units participated in
the strike.
·
The call given by apex JAC to hold day long
Dharna on 29th January 2014 was implemented by some of the Branches.
·
Follow-up actions on departmental demands
was taken. But, no programmatic action was implemented.
·
The processing of RTI petition for taking
up the irregularities in the form of allowing only one year service for
deputationist for appearing AAO© examination
with the authorities was not done.
·
Branches and office bearers did not carry out
the directions taken on e-payment.
·
The issues like elevation to the post of
Sr. Accountant is not a promotion and stoppage of recruitment of consultant
were not take up.
·
Majority
of the sectional issues were taken up with the authorities concerned.
·
The pensioners of Tamilnadu and
Pondicherry formed the Branch of Pensioners Association.
·
The Branches have not furnished the
details of non-departmental employees for the purpose of exploring the
possibilities of forming an all India organization of non-departmental
employees.
·
The progress on grant of recognition to
AICAEA Cat-II and renewal of recognition of AICAEA is not up to the mark.
However, the federation headquarters has issued circular for signature
campaign.
Agenda item No:- 2 Participation in the National Convention of
Central Government Employees on 4th April 2014 and implementation of
the decision regarding.
The
National Convention of the Central Government Employees and workers was held on
4th April 2014 at Nagpur. As per the direction of Confederation,
more than 20 Federal Executive/Women Committee members and Branch Secretaries
participated in the convention as delegates. The convention unanimously passed
a resolution urging upon the Central Government Employees and officers of the
Country to take part in the election process of 16th Loksabha and exercise
their franchise in favour of pro-working class, democratic and secular
candidates/parties.
Supporting the resolution, seven
Federal Executive members took part in the discussion and expressed that this
resolution should be endorsed.
Accordingly, the extended
Federal Executive meeting passed a resolution(furnished on page 6.) in support
of the resolution passed by the National Convention of Central Government
Employees held at Nagpur on 4th April 2014 and appealed upon the
Civil Accounts Employees to act in the direction of understanding emerged from
the National Convention of Central Government Employees.
Agenda No:- 3, Review of the
success of two day’s strike on 12th & 13th February
2014.
The meeting under took
detailed review of the success of the strike on 12th and 13th
February 2014 in the Civil Accounts Organization. The call of strike was given
by the Confederation of Central Government Employees and workers in support of
the 15 point of charter of demands of the Central Government Employees. The
apex level Joint Action Committee of Accounts and Audit Employees organizations
had endorsed the call of Strike and decided to incorporate the JAC demands as “Part
II Charter of Demands” of the Strike notice.
The National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations endorsed the
strike call and decided to take all possible efforts to ensure the success of
the strike. The strike was cent percent in many places like Tamilnadu, West
Bengal, Odisa, Hyderabad, Kerala, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and various other stations.
Strike was partial in many other stations/states like North East, Nagpur, Pune,
Gujrat, Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan etc. 17 Federal Executive
/Women Committee/Branch Secretaries participated in the discussion and
expressed their views. The meeting concluded that the strike was successful in
Civil Accounts Organization and it congratulated the rank and file membership
who participated and made the strike a grand success.
It was however, observed by the
meeting that the participation of Civil
Accounts employees in the organizational actions in general and strikes in
particularly remain limited within the
states/stations/ Branches where the members are spontaneously participating in
the strikes. The meeting therefore, decided that, to
broaden the area of performance outside
the periphery of the traditional areas/stations necessary steps shall be taken.
The meeting also noted with
grave concerned that some of the Federal Executive/women committee members/Branch
Secretaries did not participate in the strike. The meeting failed to appreciate
such actions of the leaders of the organization especially who are the national
level Office bearers and directed them
not to commit such type of mistakes in
future.
Agenda No. 4 - Review of the
success of JAC programmes on 29th January 2014 & 26th
March 2014.
The
joint National Executive meeting of the constituents of apex JAC held in Delhi
on 11th January 2014 had given the call of Unit/Branch wise Dharna at
all stations on 29th January 2014 and thereafter local JAC level Dharna on 26th
March 2014. The extended Federal Executive meeting undertook the review of the
success of those programmes.
Taking part in the
discussion, Federal Executive Members reported
that -- both the programmes were
implemented in Mumbai. In West Bengal the Dharna
of 29th January 2014
was held but the Joint Dharna of 26th March was not held. Though efforts were taken by
the Associations of Civil Accounts,
other constituents did not come forward on the pretext of election duties etc. A detailed note to the Federation
headquarters has been submitted by the West Bengal Branches in this respect. The
programme of 29th January 2014 was converted into a lunch hour
demonstration in Delhi. For organizing joint Dharna on 26th March, a meeting was convened by local JAC ,
Delhi well in time, but unfortunately, other
constituents made their presence in the Dharna only during lunch hour. Com. M. S.
Raja, Chairperson, apex JAC was invited to inaugurate the Dharna. Com. S.K. Vyas,
Adviser, Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers addressed
the lunch hour meeting. Though the programme of 29th January 2014
was implemented by the Tamilnadu and Pondicherry Branches, the Dharna of 26th
was not held due to backing out of other
constituents taking the plea of Loksabha elections. At Lucknow the Branch level
Dharna on 29th Janauary2014 was implemented and the joint Dharna of
26th March was not held due to the fact that no meeting of JAC was
held and only ‘smses’ were sent informing the programme. At Nagpur Dharna of 29th
January 2014 was implemented by the Branches
and the joint Dharna of 26th March 2014 was converted into a lunch
hour demonstration by the local JAC as the leaders were busy for preparation of
the National Convention of Central Government Employees held on 4th April 2014. At Pune
none of the programmes was implemented as there is no other Accounts and Audit
organization at Pune and JAC is non-existant.. The Dharna of 29th
January was not held in Kerala due to a local hartal call on that day .
However, the joint Dharna of 26th March 2014 was held successfully.
In Hyderabad, the local JAC has been revived, the Dharna of 29th
January was implemented successfully and the Joint Dharna of 26th
March was held very successfully as there was whole hearted participation of
all constituents of JAC.
The extended federal Executive
meeting appreciated the role of leadership of Civil Accounts in implementing the JAC decisions.
The decision of apex JAC to resort to “Signature Campaign” in support of its long pending charter of
demands was endorsed by the extended
Federal executive meeting.
Since the 7CPC has been brought into existence, the meeting considered that , it is very necessary to
strength the JAC and keeping this aspect into consideration, the meeting took following decisions --
1.
Wherever the local JACs have been
revived, mailing details shall be made available to apex JAC.
2.
As there are certain organizational problems
prevailing in the All India Audit and Accounts Association, Branches of Civil
Accounts shall take effort to form/revive the local JAC in the places where
there is no local JAC or the same is defunct. The leadership of All India Postal Accounts
Association shall also be pursued and co-ordinated to take the task of taking leading position in forming/ reviving
local JACs .
3.
The apex JAC shall be requested to pursue
the leadership All India Defence Accounts Employees Association to direct its
field units to actively participate in the JAC activities.
Agenda
No. 5 – Departmental Demands present status – next course of action.
The extended federal
executive meeting observed that no demand has been settled since the last meeting
and situation remains the same. After discussion, it was decided that a letter
seeking meeting with CGA shall be issued once again and in case there is no
response, action programmes shall be initiated. As a first step, call shall be given for unit wise meeting/demonstration.
Opinion of the house on filling CAT
cases regarding - (a) grant of
minimum entry pay on promotion, (b)
benefit of higher pay scale to DEOs at par with the defense Accounts department
and (c) treatment of personnel
appointed as Acctt. after open competitive examinations for LDCs as direct
appointment for MACP purpose, was sought
which seems to be inevitable and necessary. It was also reported in the meeting
that the national executive meeting of AICAEA Cat-II has decided to initiate a
legal battle on the issue of minimum pay
immediately. The matter has been
discussed by them with the Advocate and a contribution of 500/- each from
the affected personnel shall be collected and if possible, could be jointly
filed along with the affected LDCs promoted as Accountant. The house had
mandated litigations discussed through raising of hands as per proposal of the
chair.
The hostility of CGA towards
AAOs was discussed especially relating to postings and transfers etc. and it
was decided to take programmatic approach in this regard.
Agenda No. 6 – Organizational
Review.
(a) Membership verification – position of signature campaign
regarding.
As
per the decision of last meeting, the call of joint Signature Campaign for
grant of recognition to AICAEA Cat-II (which is pending since last twelve years)
and re-recognition of AICAEA Cat-II (which is due to since August 2013) was
given with the direction to the Branches/Units/Members to collect the
signatures of all members and deposit the signature campaign sheets to the
federation headquarters within 10th April 2014. Opinion of the
Federal Executive members was sought about the feasibility of collecting the
signatures within the proposed date and consider various other practical and technical aspects related to the matter.
15 Federal Executive
members participated in the discussion. While
discussing, different opinions had been given by them. It was expressed by some
of the participants that signatures may be collected separately from the
members of two different Associations in two separate sheets. A proposal for
demanding re-merger and granting recognition to composite All India Body of
members of two Associations was also given by one of the federal executive
members and the same was endorsed by
some of the members. Considering
the ongoing 16th Lok Sabha Elections till 16th May 2014,
it was proposed by some of the Federal Executive members that the date of
collection and sending signatures to Federation headquarters may be extended to
31st May 2014.
The meeting finally took
following decisions:-
1.
All the Branches and Units shall discuss
the issue of merger of AICAEA and AICAEA Cat-II as one single Association like its
original formation and forward their views to Federation headquarters. They
shall examine the issue with reference to (a) the conditions prevalent in the Employees organizations of other Accountant
& Audit departments, (b) Failure of the Civil Accounts Authority to
regulate the CCS(RSA) Rules, 1993 in the organization and (c) the broader interests
of Civil Accounts Employees.
2.
The signature campaign shall be
conducted. All members of AICAEA and AICAEA – II shall give signatures in same
sheet.
3.
The signature sheets shall be forwarded by
Branches/Units to the Federation headquarters within 31st May 2014.
(b) Functions
of Branches, Units, Central Headquarters & Federation Headquarters:-
Due
to lack of time, this item of agenda could not be discussed in details.
However, the members present in the house were unanimous in opinion that,
decisions taken in earlier meetings on this item should be implemented and all
other actions required to strengthen the Organization should also be taken.
Agenda No:- 7 – Holding of 6th
Federal Council meeting at Ahmedabad
It was reported that, the
Gujrat Branches have not so far decided about the hosting of 6th
Federal Council meeting and the Central Working Committee Meetings of AICAEA
and AICAEA Cat II. Due to non availability of any representative from the concerned
branches in the meeting, it was decided that Secretary General shall discuss
the matter with the Branches of Gujrat
and take a final decision. The Branches of Kerala has informed the house that, alternate
venue could be at Cochin and Kerala Branches are ready to host 6th
Federal Council meeting and the Central Working Committee Meetings of AICAEA
and AICAEA Cat II .
Agenda No:- 8 – Formation of
Civil Accounts Pensioners Association
In the Federal Executive
meeting held n January 2014, a Conveners committee was formed and it was
decided that, the members this committee shall take initiative of forming
state/ Branch level pensioners Associations in their respective state/Branches.
The meeting observed the progress in this respect is there. The Pensioners of
Tamilnadu have formed the Branch in Tamilnadu. The meeting therefore, appealed
upon the members of conveners committee and
all other retired leaders of AICAEA and AICAEA Cat-II to inculcate speed
in the process of forming Branches in their respective states/stations/Branches
so that a national level Pensioners Association of Civil Accounts could be
formed at the venue of next Federal Council meeting by holding a convention.
Agenda No:- 9 – Formation of
Non-departmental Employees Association
It was decided in the Federal
Executive meeting held in Delhi on 11th & 12th
January 2014 that the West Bengal Branches shall send the copy of the
constitution adopted by the Non-regular Employees Association, West Bengal
Branch, Kolkata to all other Branches of the country. It was also decided that,
all Branches shall collect the informations about the no. of non-regular
employees working in their respective Branches/states.
As per the decision, West Bengal
Branch has emailed the above mentioned constitution to federation headquarters
and the Federation Headquarters in turn has forwarded the same to all Branches.
Federal Executive members from
different stations furnished the information in respect of their
Stations/Branches.
1.
West Bengal Branch 46(Forty six) persons working as
DEO/Causal Labour.
2.
Mumbai:- 31
(Thirty one) persons working as DEO/Causal Labour.
3.
Andhra Pradesh:- 1 (One) person is working as DEO.
4.
Nagpur:- 2
(Two) persons are working as causal Labour.
5.
Pune:- 1
(one) person working as DEO.
Since maximum member of
non-departmental employees are working Delhi, the Branches of Delhi have been
directed by the meeting to collect the informations at the earliest and take
initiative of forming a Branch at the earliest. The meeting directed all
Branches to send reports in respect of their Branches alongwith lists within
31.05.2014.
Agenda No:- 10 – Miscellaneous
Under this item, Federal Executive
members from Lucknow raised the issue of pendency of three compassionate appointment
cases of Lucknow. It has been assured to him that the issues shall be taken up
expeditiously.
Federal Executive members from
Mumbai raised the issue of delay in grant of promotion to Gr.D (MTS). It has
been decided to takeup the issue urgently with the authorities.
The
issue of pendency of 3 MACP cases of Kerala was raised by Federal Executive
members from Kerala. He has been requested to ask Branch Secretary, AICAEA to send
a letter containing the details.
The fixation of date of AAO©
Examination, centers for examination and also the question of eligibility of
persons to appear AAO© Examination who
worked on deputation basis and absorbed only one year ahead of the date
of examination were also discussed. However, due to paucity of time, no
decision could be taken on these matters. it was therefore decided that,
Federal Executive members shall refer the matter to their respective Branches
and request them to send their views/opinion at the earliest.
Felicitations
Com. A. Ozarkar, Asstt. Secretary General, All
India Association of Pay and Accounts Officer (Civil) and Shri M.P. Despandey,
Sr. AO, PAO, GSI, Nagpur came to the venue of meeting to offer their greetings.
Both of them were offered warm welcome and felicitated with garlands. In
return, they also greeted the august house through their brief speeches. The gesture
shown by Shri Ozarkar and Shri Desh Pande was well appreciated by the house and
it was also expressed by the house that
their actions have strengthened the knot of understanding among the employees
and AO/Sr.AOs.
D.N. Dekate, AAO ( retired from,
PAO, Mines, Nagpur handed over a cheque
of Rs. 5000/- (rupees five thousand) only to the organization. Com Dekate was
felicitated and offered thanks by the
Federal executive meeting.
Before
concluding the meeting, Com. T.R. Janardanan, President offered thanks to the
Branches of Nagpur on behalf of totality of the Federal Executive members/
Branch representatives for making
elaborate arrangements of food and accommodation etc. to ensure that the
extended Federal Executive meeting could be a grand success. Other Branches
have also been requested to take steps like Nagpur.
With
warm greetings,
(V.Bhattacharjee)
Secretary General
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RESOLUTION
The extended Federal Executive meeting of National
Federation of Civil Accounts
Associations held on 5th April 2014 at Nagpur deliberated on the
Resolution adopted by the National Convention of the Central Government
Employees & Workers held under the auspices of the Confederation of Central
Government Employees and Workers’. The
Resolution appealed to the Central Government Employees to take part in the
election process of 16th Loksabha and exercise their franchise in
favour of pro working class, democratic and secular candidates and parties.
The
extended Federal Executive meeting endorsed the Resolution adopted by the above
Convention and appealed to the Civil
Accounts Employees to identify their
friends and ensure the success of those who stood with them and fought for the
cause of the workers and common people,
and cast their mandate
accordingly in the forth coming 16th
Lok Sabha to be held during April-May, 2014
The extended Federal Executive meeting
also agreed with the decision of the convention that the National Secretariat
of the Confederation to review the political situation emerging after the election and take appropriate decision to mobilize
the rank and file of employees
and workers for an eventual industrial action to the settlement of the charter
of demands.
Resolved to forward the copy of the
Resolution to the Secretary General, Confederation of Central Government
Employees & Workers, New Delhi for his kind information and record.
(T.R.Janardanan)
President
