REPLY OF THE ALL INDIA
CIVIL ACCOUNTS EMPLYEES ASSOCIATION AGAINST ABOLITION 0F 10% PROMOTIONAL QUOTA
FOR SENIOR ACCOUNTANTS
All India Civil Accounts Employees Association
(RECOGNISED
BY GOVT. OF INDIA)
CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS
Phone No. 23345070, Mob. No. 9868520926,
e-mail:- v.aicaea@gmail.com
Central Office: - Address for
Communication:-
16-A, Akbar Road Hutments, 17/2 – C, P
& T Quarters,
New Delhi: - 110011
Kali Bari Marg, New Delhi-110001
No:
AICAEA/HQ/A-2/2015/2134 Dated: 22.09.2015
To,
Shri M.J. Joseph,
Controller General of Accounts,
Ministry of Finance,
Department of Expenditure,
Loknayak Bhawan,
Khan Market,
New
Delhi – 110003
Subject: - Recruitment Rules of AAOs –
Regarding.
Ref: - Your
office letter No: - A-12018/1/2010-MF.CGA/RR/406
dated 10.08.2015 and reminder dated 08.09.2015.
Sir,
In response to
the above mentioned letter of your office, we would like to inform you that,
opinion was sought from our Branches and Units on the proposal of your office
to create the post of Supervisor (Accounts) in place of the 10% promotional
quota for promotion of Senior Accountants as AAOs. On the basis of the opinions
given by our Branches and Units we would like to submit the following:-
1.
From the very date of inception of Civil Accounts Organization,
the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association had been demanding
reservation of 50% posts in the cadre of JAO (at present AAO) for promotion of
Senior Accountants on seniority cum fitness basis. But the Civil Accounts
authorities were never been considerate enough and agreed to concede this
demand. As a result, large numbers of highly skilled Accountants/ Senior
Accountants, most of whom were graduates, had been forced to retire from
service after working in the same post for their entire service length. Obviously,
the basic cadre of Accountant/ Senior Accountant was extremely frustrated and
agitated in their minds. However, due to
sustained struggle by the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association up to
the extent of Indefinite fast and strike actions etc., the Civil Accounts
authorities had finally agreed in the year 2000 to reserve 10% posts in the
cadre of JAO for promotion of Senior Accountants. The other important angle of
making such a provision was to pave the way for the ACP benefit to Senior
Accountants which was implemented by the Government on the basis of the
recommendation of 5th CPC in 1999.The CCAs (JAO and AAO) Recruitment
Rules, 2000 stipulates that 90% of the
post shall be filled up from the seniority list of persons who have passed the
Junior Accounts Officer (Civil) Examination and 10% of the post in the grade of
Junior Accounts Officer shall be filled up by promotion from a common seniority list to be drawn up and
maintained by the CGA of Sr. Accountants who have rendered not less than 10 years
service in the grade on the basis of selection cum seniority and who have
crossed the age of 53 years as on 1st January of the year.
The 6th
CPC had recommended for delayering of cadres. The Government of India had
adopted this recommendation and made applicable in respect of Central
Secretariat cadres. The Government had also asked all departments to follow the
procedure. In terms of these guidelines, the authorities of CBEC, CBDT have amended
the Recruitment Rules to improve the service conditions of their employees. While
implementing the 6th CPC recommendations, Government had merged the
posts of Junior Accounts Officer and Assistant Accounts Officer and created single
cadre of AAO (Gazetted). So the post of
Junior Accounts Officer ceased to exist in the Central Civil Accounts
organization with effect from 01.01.2006 and all JAOs irrespective of their
merit or seniority had been elevated to the posts of AAO.
The
original demand of the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association being
reservation of 50% posts of JAOs for promotion of Senior Accountants, provision
of 10% of the posts of JAO available at present is in fact less than 2% of the
total number of posts of AAOs. Moreover, the cadre of JAO being non-existent,
it can no longer be a determining factor for fixation of promotional quota for
the Cadre of Accountant/ Senior Accountant.
Hence, the cadre of Accountant/ Senior Accountants being more than
three times bigger than the cadre of AAO, 30% of the total number of the post
of the cadre of AAO should be available for promotion of the cadre of Accountants/
Senior Accountants which is most logical and totally justified demand of the
Association.
2.
Though the Civil Accounts
organization is being identified as a part of the organized Accounts cadre, but
the functioning of Civil Accounts organization and facilities available with the
organized Accounts cadres of other Accounts and Audit organizations are not
comparable. A few examples are as discussed below-
a)
Civil Accounts organization is spread over more than 40
Ministries/Departments of the Government of India. The Ministries and Departments
are functionally different from each other. Naturally, these conditions are
reflected on the Accounting and payment functions and the Civil Accounts
employees are required to adjust with such conditions for ensuring the smooth
payment and Accounting functions. This condition is totally different from
other accounting organizations where the accounting setup is required to deal
with only one department/Ministry.
b)
The Civil Accounts organization is technically most advanced
organization and responsibilities on each and every cadre of Civil Accounts are
more in comparison to other organized Accounting cadres. All cadres of Civil
Accounts organization have accordingly been trained and equipped by the Civil
Accounts authorities. Unlike other Accounts organizations, payment and accounting
activities take place through tiny Pay and Accounts/Zonal Accounts Offices in
Civil Accounts Organization where Accountants and Senior Accountants require sharing
more responsibilities than their counterparts working in other organized
Accounts. Moreover, there are several instances where the Accountants and
Senior Accountants are independently handling the accounting and payment
functions. Those are ;-
i)
Field pay units of CBDT and
ii)
Offices under merged DDO
scheme.
c)
All cadres of Civil Accounts Organization bear All India transfer
liability on them. The AAOs of Civil Accounts organization require to serve
anywhere in India. No all India transfer liability is there for the Accountant,
Senior Accountant and AAOs working in IA&AD or other Organized Accounts
departments.
d)
The Accounts Employees working in Railways are having the
privilege of availing Railway pass on par with the Railway employees while such
type of a facility is not at all available with the Civil Accounts Employees.
e)
The Defence Accounts Employees are permitted to avail the Defence
Canteen facility where all consumer items are sold with heavy subsidy. Such
type of facility is far from the dream of the Civil Accounts Employees.
f)
Departmental pool accommodation facilities are available for all
organized Accounts cadres except Civil Accounts Employees.
So, the cadres of
Civil Accounts organization being in different footings of higher responsibility with less privilege and functional requirements of the organization being
different, the Civil Accounts
organization could have its own cadre regulation/promotion policy which
need not essentially be exactly same to another department or organization.
3.
The letter of your office under reference is silent about
following pertinent issues which could lead us to the stage for formulating a
considered view :-
i)
Pay scale and grade pay of Supervisor (Accounts)?
ii)
Number of posts likely to be earmarked as Supervisor (Accounts)?
iii)
Procedure under which the posts shall be distributed
Ministry/Department wise and Station wise?
iv)
Status and responsibilities of Supervisor (Accounts)?
v)
Whether Supervisor (Accounts) shall be given the facilities that
are available for AAOs?
vi)
Whether the existing condition of age bar of 53 years shall
continue as one of the eligibility conditions for promotion.
vii)
Whether the Sr. Accountants who have already been promoted as AAO
against 10% promotion quota shall be re-designated/reverted as Supervisor
(Accounts)?
viii)Whether the
employees from other departments who have been inducted laterally in the cadre
and accommodated as AAOs simply on the ground that they were drawing the Grade
Pay Rs. 4800/- in their parent department and who are not AAO(C) passed
officials shall be redesignated/reverted as supervisor (Accounts)?
Therefore, being unable to reach to
any conclusion due to the above discussed situations, I have been directed to request you the
following:
1.
kindly to direct your office to provide us
(a)
the proposal(s)
of your office on the points discussed in Sl.No.3 and
(b)
the proposal(s)
for amendment(s) in the Recruitment rules of different relevant cadres
2.
Convene an
exclusive meeting on the subject matter with the representatives of the
Association so that a final conclusion could be there at an early date.
Thanking
you,
Yours
Sincerely,
(V.Bhattacharjee)
Secretary General
