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All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II
CENTRAL
HEADQUARTERS
Central Office: ZAO, CBDT, Mumbai, Room No. 270, 2nd Floor,
Aaykar Bhawan, M.K. Road, Church gate, Mumbai – 400020
No:- AICAEA-AICAEA CAT II/HQ/A-2/2020/1187-1208 Dated: 07.04.2020
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: Functioning of Government Expenditure System
during the operation of preventive measures to contain spread of COVID19-
request regarding.
Madam,
After declaring the services being rendered
by the office of the CGA and all lower formations functioning under it as
essential service vide Department of Expenditure OM. No. 23(4)/E.Coord/2020
dated 23RD March 2020 during the operation of preventive measures to
contain spread of COVID19, the members of All India Civil Accounts Employees
Association, All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II and All
India Association of Pay and Accounts Offers (Civil), in acceptance of the
decision of the Government of India most courageously they had plunged into action to ensure that all
payments on behalf of the Government are cleared within 31st March
2020 and thereby the importance and final date of closure of financial year is
not disturbed. In the process of discharging their duties, the employees and
officers had confronted very serious problems of following nature-
1.
Police atrocity at Hubbali, Karnataka: -One of our members at Hubali,
Karnataka was beaten by the local police on 27th March 2020 while he
was returning from duty and his complaint was not agreed to record by the local
Thana in-charge.
2.
COVID19 exposure in PAO Salt Ministry
of Industry, Jaipur: -
Employees and officers of PAO, Salt Ministry of Industry, and Jaipur had been
exposed to the threat of corona infection.
Reportedly, one of the DDOs of the PAO, Salt Jaipur who died due to the
infection of COVID19 had been handling and sending the bills of four DDOs to
PAO, Salt, Jaipur till 1st April 2020. Therefore, our members and
the members of their family are in severe panic.
3.
Insistence of local administration of
CBIC, Indore:-
we have been reported that the local administration of CBIC, Indore has also
directed the elderly lady official to reach to duty point on foot which is
nothing but an approach of violating the lock-down norm on the part of the
local administration.
4.
Non-supply of
protective equipment:-In Spite of a
DO letter to all the Secretaries of the Government of India by the Hon’ble
Secretary, Department of Expenditure, majority of the Principal Accounts
offices of Civil Accounts Organisation were reluctant in providing essential
protection facilities to the field offices. Similarly, the local
administrations were observed to be indifferent towards providing minimum
facilities to the lower level employees. In the majority of the offices,
sanitizers, masks or hand gloves were not provided and the advisory of social
distancing was not observed.
The condition
of ZAO, CBDT, New Delhi informed vide our letter endorsement No:- AICAEA-AICAEA
CAT II/HQ/C-10/2020/ 1173-85 dated: 07.04.2020 establishes the status of supply
of protective equipment in different offices in general.
5.
No
transportation:-No vehicle facilities for
bringing and dropping of staff between residence and duty point were provided
by the majority of the local administrations resulting in the officials’ being
forced to commute more than hundred kilometres every day at their own
risk.
As a responsible Service Associations we had assured our full
cooperation with the Government in these hours of crisis and our members have
done so in letter and spirit, but we are sorry to record here that the
administration did not fulfil their assurances.
Impact of Lock
down:-Further, we would like to
state that, the situation is getting worse day by day. Due to Lock Down in the
cities maintenance services in the office buildings/ premises has totally
collapsed. Impacts of lock down are the following-
1. There is no water supply, no cleaning of office
premises and the toilets/ washrooms are totally in unhygienic conditions.
2. Office canteens are not operating and at the same
time there is no availability of drinking water or food in and around the
office complexes.
6.
There are no departmental vehicle facilities. However, there are some
isolated examples of availability of departmental
vehicles which are mostly being used by the head of offices only.
Moreover, when the question of ferrying the staff comes, the basic issue of
social distancing is being ignored and 4-5 employees are forced to travel in
the one standard car.
Situation in Mumbai:-In addition to the above situations,
our Branches form Mumbai, the city which has been declared by the Government as
one of the hot spots has also reported that, the condition of City of Mumbai
being very serious where the Civil Administration and the Police authorities
are extra strict. They are not allowing even the Government Officials to
commute to their duty point without proper and valid direction from their
employers. Our Addl. Secretary General and an employee of PAO,
Commerce/Textile, Mumbai while returning from duty in his own car he was
stopped at the police picket in front of his residence (at 4 Bungalow area) and after pleading for
half an hour he was allowed to go. Similarly, another employee of same PAO who
was proceeding to his house by walking in Andheri area after being dropped by
the car nearby was intercepted by patrolling Police vehicle and threatened for
walking on the roads in the lockdown situation. But the local administration of
Civil Accounts Organisation instead of resolving the problem has been insisting
on the staff to attend the duty on the plea that CCA concerned has ordered for
the same. We regret that these are
untenable.
We are however, not against functioning
of the offices. Our members are committed to discharge their responsibilities.
But we request you to kindly consider the situation discussed in the preceding
part of this letter and take appropriate measures to minimize the difficulties
our members are facing and from the condition of mental trauma they are suffering
from. We also suggest that in terms of DOPT advisory the procedure of work from
home may kindly be promoted and implemented in Civil Accounts.
We consider that, if we are taken into
confidence at the time of decision making, the decisions shall be more
effective and worker friendly and thereby shall be more result orienting.
Thanking
you,
Yours Sincerely,
Sd/-
Sd/-
(Amol V. Sule) (Krishna K. Yadav)
Secretary General Secretary General
All India Civil Accounts All India Civil
Accounts
Employees Association Category II Employees Association
Copy to:-
1. The Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, North
Block New Delhi.
2. All National Executive Members of AICAEA and AICAEACAT II.
3. Secretary General, National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations,
New Delhi.
4. All Branch and Unit Secretaries concerned.
(Amol V. Sule) (Krishna K. Yadav)
Secretary General Secretary General
All India Civil Accounts All India Civil
Accounts
Employees Association Category II Employees Association
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