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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-2/2020/1209- 29 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:
Guidelines regarding working of Pr. AOs/PAOs during Lockdown
Madam,
We are thankful to find in the website of the
office of the Controller General of Accounts that your office has issued Office
Memorandum No. CDN/MF.CGA/Misc/ 2020 dated 07-04-2020 providing guidelines
regarding working of Pr. AOs/PAOs during Lockdown. We have also noted from the
website that you have issued a D.O. bearing No. CDN/MF.CGA/MISC/2020 dated
07-04-2020 to all Pr. CCAs/CCAs/CAs appreciating their dedicated service and
continued support etc. But we as well as
the totality of Group B & C employees and officers are extremely
disappointed to find that, in none of the above documents issued by your office
on 7th April 2020, not even a single word appreciating
the yeomen service being rendered by them has been recorded. For performing the duties as workers of essential service, the
employees and officers of Civil Accounts Organisation have suffered beating by
Police at Hubli and atrocities of police in Mumbai, handled the documents
produced in the PAO, Salt, Jaipur by a Corona infected DDO and many other forms
of difficulties in various offices throughout the country including working
without even sanitizers and commuting to office without the support of
transportation facility from the administration in almost all stations etc. We
hope an equitable treatment and honour should have been given all those who
really endangered their life for the cause of essential service. We have
therefore, been directed to express our displeasure.
Further, we would like to state that
execution of the advisory dated 07-04-2020 shall suffer from following
practical difficulties and on those we seek your kind intervention:-
1.
Transportation
facilities are almost nil at the disposal of PAOs/ZAOs/RPAOs. Vehicles are not
available and Departmental authorities are not in a position to provide as the financial year ending enthusiasm is
over.
However, there are some isolated examples of
availability of departmental vehicles which are mostly being used by the head
of the 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. Therefore, no norm of social
distancing in the vehicles is being observed.
These apart, it has also been reported to us
that, in various cities invocation of Section 144 of Cr.PC and complete
lockdown has resulted into difficulty in vehicular movement and police
authorities are allowing only Govt. vehicles to ply. Hence there is no
option than to hire vehicles from department or seek help of state govt. for
vehicles by making necessary correspondence by local Civil Accounts
authorities.
Therefore, it is requested that necessary
directions from your august office may be issued in this regard.
2.
Various Branches of Banks are
functioning on need basis and there are difficulties in obtaining scrolls and
challans necessary for compilation of accounts. Persuasions to Bank authorities
from the local level are not yielding desired response. Hence, delay in account
finalization activities is imminent and the velocity of the issue may increase
in case there is intervention of the higher authorities.
Dates of finalization and submission of
accounts may therefore, be extended suitably keeping in view the situation
arises due to lockdown and its likelihood of further
extension.
3.
Majority of the
PAOs/ZAOs/RPAOs are situated in the premises of respective Departments.
Departmental authorities are following guidelines of lockdown issued by Govt.
of India strictly. As a result of this housekeeping and other auxiliary
services at govt. bldgs. are at standstill and creating health hazards for
those who attend office as essential service. It is not practically feasible for
PAOs/ZAOs/RPAOs to sanitize office premises twice in a day as per advisory of
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare because of the fact that the support
system available with the heads of local offices of Civil Accounts Organisation
is less than the minimum. Moreover, the auxiliary staff of CPWD and other
departments for supplying water and electricity etc wouldn’t be available for
the PAOs/ZAOs/RPAOs.
These practical difficulties are same all
over India with local variance and we are of the opinion that mere declaring
the office of CGA and Civil Accounts organization as essential service without
equipping the PAOs/ZAOs/RPAOs with all sorts of infrastructures for running the
offices independently, the payment and accounting functions shall not move as
essential service in its true sense.
We would also like to request that necessary steps may kindly be taken
to promote e-office/ work from home pattern.
We expect your personal intervention into the matter and look forward that,
measures for removal of impediments in discharging the duties by the lower
level officers and employees Civil Accounts organisation shall be taken.
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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