All India Civil
Accounts Employees Association
(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-2/2020/665-667
Dated: 27.01.2020
Smt. Soma Roy Burman,
Controller General of
Accounts,
Department
of Expenditure,
Ministry
of Finance,
4th Floor, GPOA, Block-E,
INA,
New Delhi – 110023
Subject: - Computer based
AAO (Civil) Examination – Regulation and Syllabus – reg.
Madam,
This Association is very happy to
note from the OM. No. 34012/MF.CGA (E)/AAO Online Exam/Vol.II/1049, dated 15th
Jan, 2020 of your office that you have kindly decided to introduce the new
computer based AAO (Civil) Examination from the year 2020 onwards and published
Regulations and syllabus on 15th January, 2020. This Association has also noted that,
majority of the suggestions and proposals offered by it through its letter
dated 29-06-2018 and in the formal meeting convened by the CGA authorities on
21st August 2018 including the suggestion for continuation of eight
papers in the examination have been accepted and accommodated suitably in the
provisions of the Regulations and the Syllabus.
On account of this favorable action of your
office, the main portion of the item “ No. 2. Restoration of AAO (Civil) Examination system discontinued since last
two years - implementation of the new pattern of examination and continuation
of exemptions acquired by the candidates in the old pattern of examination in
consideration of proposals given by the AICAEA” submitted by the Co-ordination
Committee of Civil Accounts Employees & Officers Associations vide its
MEMORANDUM No.COC/CA/2019/Corr-20 Dated: 02.12.2019 has been settled. A
large number of aspiring fresh candidates shall now be able to appear for the
examination after waiting for nearly five years.
Therefore, on behalf of the
Association, I offer sincere thanks to you and totality of the officers and
staff members of your office who have kindly endeavored to resolve this long
pending issue.
However, total settlement of the
issue is yet to be there, as the entire cross section of candidates who had
cleared upto 7(seven) papers and some among them who could not clear their 8th
paper for a few marks in the previous system of AAO(Civil) Examination are waiting for justice. Non-consideration of
the requests of these set of candidates and the repeated requests of the
Association to allow this set of employees to migrate to the new system of
Examination with the exemption acquired in the existing system has created a
disastrous situation for the career prospects of the candidates who had made
their sincere and hard labour to clear those papers. In connection with this, I
would like to draw your kind attention towards some of the facts discussed
below:-
1. Vide OM issued on 27th Sept, 2017 by
your office, the candidates were asked to fill up their "willingness or
unwillingness" to appear in the papers out of 8. It implies that the
candidates were about to be given chance in the successive upcoming
examinations. It was also mentioned that syllabus, pattern or mode of exam
'may' undergo changes, but there was no mention that the
"exemption(s)" would be nullified.
2. Vide OM dated 15th May, 2018
"Draft Syllabus, Pattern" were published for comments of
stakeholders. All stakeholders including this Association had responded against
the same in their own way and the authorities of CGA Office has taken care of
all the suggestions like method of examination, number of papers and validity
period for exemption(s) etc. But the justifications given by this Association
for continuation of exemption(s) secured by candidates in the existing system
of examination were not considered which has pushed the career prospects of
nearly a thousand employees to uncertainty. They are feeling mentally tortured
and helpless.
3. Continuation of exemptions in the
process of change in the pattern of departmental examinations is universal and
a part of natural justice.
a.
While
the erstwhile pattern of JAO (Civil) examination was transformed as AAO (Civil)
Examination in the year 2006 in the Civil Accounts organization, exemptions of
previous system were allowed in spite of bringing drastic changes in the
Syllabus and pattern of the examination system by dispensing with the earlier
Part-I and Part-II examination procedure.
b.
We
have gathered information that, in spite of change in the pattern of the SAS
examination in IA&AD in the recent past i.e. in the year 2010, the facility
of continuation of exemptions from old system to new system has been continued.
4. Meanwhile many candidates who were
Lower Division Clerk (LDC) had been promoted as Accountants after clearing only
4(four) papers of old pattern of examination during the period between 2006 and
2018 and are now facing the threat of reversion to their original posts while
some of them have become Senior Accountants by now and even promoted as AAOs on
ad-hoc basis in accordance with the promotion policies adopted by the office of
the Controller General of Accounts.
5. As per Regulations 2020 issued by
O/o CGA dated 15th January 2020, now there are 8 papers and syllabus are approx.
95% same except few changes necessitated due to time lapse between the last
examination and forthcoming examination.
In view of the
above circumstances and as per the opportunity made available for the
stakeholders in
para 16.3 of the OM dated 15th Januarys 2020, I on behalf of the
Association
have been directed to request you
the following-
(i)
Exemptions
secured by all the candidates may kindly be allowed to carry forward in the
respective papers, and the chances availed by those candidates be exhausted as
per para 5 of the OM dated 15th Januarys 2020 (e.g. If a candidate has availed two (02) chances and has passed three
(03) papers, he/she may be exempted to appear those respective three papers and
allowed to appear rest five (05) papers in 04 more chances as per para 5 of
Regulations 2020).
(ii)
Those
candidates who are due to clear only one paper i.e. who have cleared 7 out of total 8 papers by
exhausting 6 (six) chances may kindly be
given at least one chance to appear as
per the CGA’s Special Examination Regulations 2011.
We request you to kindly convene a
meeting with us exclusively on this item at your level in the first week of
February 2020 and thereby give us the opportunity to supplement our views we
have placed through this letter and there is a settlement of this issue across
the table through mutual dialogue so that the candidates who are having exemptions in some of
the papers could start their preparations for appearing the forth coming
examination immediately with a clear understanding in them.
Thanking you,
Yours
sincerely,
(V.
Bhattacharjee)
Secretary
General
