(RECOGNIZED
BY GOVT. OF INDIA)
Central
Headquarters
Central Office:
- Address for
Communication:-
Room No. 351,
‘B’ Wing,
17/2 – C, P & T Quarters
Loknayak Bhawan, Kali
Bari Marg
Khan Market, New Delhi –
110003
New Delhi - 110001
No:- AICAEA/HQ/A-2/2019/665-667
Dated: 19.12.2019
To
Smt. Soma Roy Burman,
Controller General of
Accounts,
Department
of Expenditure,
Ministry
of Finance,
4th Floor, GPOA, Block-E,
INA,
New Delhi –
110023
Subject: -
Harassment and terrorization to the Employees and non-compliance of Orders of
CGA by CCA, Steel and Mines and his administration - request for intervention
regarding.
Madam,
I on behalf of this Association have been directed to refer
the above mentioned subject and draw your kind attention to the following few
lines:-
1. As per the
Government of India decisions, the Controller of Accounts,
Ministry of Mines was declared as Head of Department from the very date of its
inception in 1976 in terms of the provision of Chapter 5 of DFPR. It was done
keeping in view that the Head Quarters office of GSI under the Ministry of
Mines is located in Kolkata since its formation. Thus from 1976 onwards, CCA, Ministry of Steel had been conferred the status
of Head of Department for Ministry of Steel and CA, Ministry of Mines, Kolkata
for the erstwhile Department of Mines and Ministry of Mines at present.
2.
Immediately after taking
over the charge of CCA, Steel and Mines, the present CCA took steps for discontinuation
and withdrawal of powers of the head of the Department of from CA, Ministry of
Mines, Kolkata on the plea that the same should rest with the CCA, Steel and
Mines.
3.
The Budget allotment
by GSI HQ (as the D.G. Finance sits in Kolkata office) for the Civil
Accounts set up was being provided to the CA, Kolkata who used
to re-allocate the same amongst Pr.AO & PAO's GSI
conveniently. After withdrawing the head of the Department status of
CA, Kolkata, the GSI HQ has been asked by the present CCA, Steel and Mines to
send the total Budget allotment to the Principal Accounts office instead of
Controller of Accounts, Ministry of Mines Kolkata in violation of the forty
years long well settled system. Fall out of the change in system has finally
victimised the interest of the employees at large and it would be clearly
evident from the penultimate portion of the contents of this letter.
4. Alongwith withdrawal of powers of the head of the Department from the
CA, Mines, Kolkata, the present CCA and his administration took simultaneous
steps of forceful withdrawal of some of the Accountants/ Senior Accountants by
pick and choose method from Kolkata, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Lucknow
etc. and their redeployment to the
Principal Accounts Office, Ministry of Mines, Delhi on the ground of shortage
of Accountants in the office. But none of the employees were issued
formal transfer orders and they were kept under the strength of their
respective PAOs. However, due to agitations by its Branches, when this Association
had sought intervention of higher authorities, CGA office had kindly intervened
into the matter. As a result of this, no unwilling officials had been brought
to reorganised Principal Accounts of Ministry of Mines in Delhi by the CCA,
Ministry of Steel and Mines and his administration other than one of the
Accountants from PAO, GSI, Lucknow who was successfully isolated by the
administration of CCA, Mines, New Delhi. The employees of the said office
was also threatened by the administration of CCA, Mines that, in case of any
form of protest by the employees or by the local Association, all such
officials who shall be pioneering the protest shall also be ordered for posting
to Delhi. The innocent employee concerned was so deeply traumatised that, he had
reported to Delhi office without even waiting for disposal of his
representation submitted by him in this regard.
5. It was extremely surprising to note subsequently that, when a few
employees from various other stations had been forcefully posted to Principal
Accounts Office of Ministry of Mines, Delhi, a set of the employees from
Principal Accounts Office of Ministry of Mines, Delhi has been shifted to
Principal Accounts Office of Ministry of Steel, Delhi by retaining them in the
strength of the Ministry of Mines. Though such a step has been taken ignoring
the basic principles of transfer policies prescribed by the DOPT but it seems
required caution was taken by administration of CCA to avoid the
complications of inter Ministry transfer of Accountants/ Senior Accounts from
Ministry of Mines to Ministry of Steel for which the CCA is not competent. We
have ascertained from our sources that, those employees of Principal Accounts
Office of Ministry of Mines have been moved out of the office and deployed in
Ministry of Steel who are well known honest and integral workers for decades.
Apart from the above, our Units and Branches from different
parts of the country have brought the following facts of harassments to our
information:-
- Unnecessary delay in settlement of
personal claims for months’ togather:- Apart from delaying
other personnel claims, even in
reimbursement of medical claims, the CCA, Ministry of Steel and Mines and
his administration are harassing the
employees. In spite of having clear permission from CGHS, the
administration of CCA, Mines is raising unnecessary objections and
delaying the reimbursements for months’ togather. Examples : -
a)
The
administration of CCA, Mines has been asking to provide separate dependency
certificate from the employees along with the bill in spite of having CGHS
cards.
b)
In
Hyderabad most of the empanelled hospitals are not allowing treatment on
credit. Therefore, after clearing the hospital bills by the low paid employees
of their own they require to wait for at least 3months to get their
reimbursements. Similar condition has been reported by the Kolkata office also.
c)
Inspite of
production of emergency certificates from the competent medical authorities in
the cases of emergency treatments for both indoor and outdoor treatments, the
administration of CCA, Mines is denying reimbursements of medical claims. One
of the employees of PAO, GSI, Jaipur who has retired from Government Service in
August 2019 has not yet been reimbursed his medical claim he had submitted during
his service period.
- Delay in respect of all administrative
matters: - The management of the Administration of
CCA, Ministry of Mines has collapsed to such an extent that the employees
are not getting their routine nature benefits on time in spite of the fact
that the government of India has been routinely advising the heads of the
Departments not to delay in implementing governments decisions with regard
to the benefits applicable to the lower level employees. But the employees
are facing a situation of total harassment with regard to their
promotions, MACP, confirmation and other related issues in respect of Gr-B
(ng) and Gr-C employees.
- Unnecessary harassments for allotment of
budget: Some of Units and specially our
Kolkata Unit has informed that the Principal Accounts office is
unnecessarily harassing the office in allotting the budget on
one plea or the other and it causes serious problems for the employees.
Your office vide OM No. A-22014/1/2018/MF.CGA/AAO/IMT/88, 89
and 90 Dt.25/10/2019 has implemented the standing rotational transfer policy in
respect of AAOs and subsequently clarified that all AAOs transferred shall be
in the status of stand relieved on 30th November 2019. But the CCA, Steel and Mines has not relieved the AAO
working in the Administration of Principal Accounts Office, Ministry of Mines
so far. We know, we may be questioned for raising this matter, but at the same
time, we also hope that you would be kind enough to appreciate that one of the
prime reasons for the birth of this letter is connected with the fact of
piecemeal implementation of the orders of CGA by the heads of the departments
according to their conveniences which is having both direct and indirect
adverse impact on the categories of employees this Association is representing.
In fact, the lower grade employees are facing the treatment of domestic
servants from the CCA, Steel and Mines and his administration.
Therefore, on behalf of this Association, I request you to kindly
intervene and settle the following:-
1. Arrangement for restoration of the status of Head of the Department to
Controller of Accounts, Ministry of Mines, Kolkata.
2. Reposting of all unwilling employees who have been dislocated from their
original station or office of posting with the intention of harassment to
them by the administration of the CCA, Steel and Mines.
3. Stopping all sorts of harassments and terrorisations by the CCA, Mines
and his administration to the lower level employees.
4.
Taking
appropriate action to ensure implementation of orders of CGA by the heads of
departments of Civil Accounts organisation so that the sanctity of the status
of the CGA is maintained and the employees work with confidence and due dignity.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Sd/-
(V.Bhattacharjee)
Secretary General
Copy for kind information and necessary action to:-
1.
Shri Binoy Kumar,
Secretary, Ministry of Steel, Room No. 291, New Delhi – 110001.
- The Secretary, Ministry of Mines, Room No. 320, ‘A’ Shastri Bhawan,
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi – 110001.
(V. Bhattacharjee)
Secretary General
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