Tuesday, July 28, 2015

    
LETTER HANDED OVER TO SHRI M.J.JOSEPH,
CONTROLLER GENERAL OF ACCOUNTS BY ALL INDIA CIVIL ACCOUNTS EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION CATEGORY-II ON 24TH JULY 2014 AT TRIVANADRUM

 All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category-II
CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS
C/o ZAO, CBDT, 3rd Floor, San Juan Towers,
Old Railway Station Road, Cochin-682018
Mob. No. 09446047688, e-mail:- gopaljicbec@gmail.com
No. AICAEA C-II/HQ/2015/ 440                                                                           Dated: 24th July, 2015
To 
           Shri. M.J.Joseph,
           Controller General of Accounts,
           Ministry of Finance,
           Department of Expenditure,
           7th Floor, Loknayak Bhawan,
           Khan Market,
           New Delhi – 110 003.

Sir,
             I on behalf of the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II, welcome you in the city of Trivandrum.  I also convey sincere thanks for providing us a few minutes time despite your busy schedule.
            As the representative of the Employees organizations of Civil Accounts and being the Secretary General of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II in specific, I would like to draw your kind attention to the following few points.
1.                              When a delegation of the representatives of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association and All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II met you in Delhi in your Chamber on 2nd June 2015 and submitted a memorandum carrying the request for undertaking cadre review of Group B and C category employees and settlement of 19 other long pending issues of the AAOs and other categories, you had kindly assured to hold a discussion on all the issues at the earliest. We therefore, request that a meeting for discussion and settlement of 20 items submitted to your kind self may be convened at the earliest.

2.                              Prior to 2002 all categories of employees from the grade of AAO to Group-D were the members of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association and the Civil Accounts authorities were all along a recognized the Association.  However, in 2002 after completion of membership verification under CCS (RSA) Rules, 1993, the then Civil Accounts authorities conveyed the composite All India Civil Accounts Employees Association that it would be granted recognition under CCS(RSA) if it removes the cadre of JA0/AAO from its membership. The JAO/AAOs now AAOs had therefore, formed a separate Association in the name of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II in 2003 and submitted all relevant documents required for recognition under CCS (RSA) Rules 1993. We thereafter requested the authorities to undertake membership verification and grant recognition to the Association. The Association also observed all formalities it was asked and obeyed all instructions given to it from time to time. But it is very unfortunate that, even after more than a decade the Association has not been granted recognition under CCS (RSA), Rules, 1993 on the plea that, it does not represent 35% of the total number of employees which is totally untenable.
Moreover, inspite of repeated requests, the office of the Controller General of Accounts is not issuing instructions to the departmental heads and DDOs to deduct its membership subscription at the enhanced rate it has proposed after deciding for the same in its conferences.
There are nearly two thousand AAOs and among them many are working in remotest corners of the country. The grievances of the employees in the cadre need to be addressed in a regular manner. As the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II has no recognition, authorities do not interact with the representatives of the Association officially on the issues of its members.
The situations discussed above are not prevailing in any of the Accounts and Audit departments of the country. In the Indian Audit Accounts Department, though the employees’ organizations of AAO and rest of the category of employees have been categorized as Category II and Category III respectively at the lower formations but at the apex level a single joint forum is allowed to represent both categories. We therefore request you to
a)      Grant Recognition to the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II immediately in terms of the relevant rules of the Government of India.
Or
b)      Re-categorize the employee’s organizations as was there prior to 2002 and allow the AAO and rest of the category of employees to be the members of same Association i.e.  All India Civil Accounts Employees Association.

3.                  As has been discussed in the para 2 above, the AAOs compose a large section of the employees and they are working in a strategic position of the department. They have multifarious functions and they are basically responsible for maintaining technical soundness in the functions of the departments. The transfer policy being operated in the Civil Accounts organization is basically for the AAO cadre only. But the transfer policy being with several impractical aspects the AAO cadre altogether has been suffering extremely. The Associations have been persistently requesting the authorities to adopt a mutually agreed transfer policy and they have submitted their proposals several times. Now also issue is a part of the 20 point memorandum submitted by the representatives of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association and All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II on 2nd June 2015.
4.                  Fixation of pay of officials at Rs.7500/-x1.86 + G.P of Rs.4800/- to those who were promoted as AAO after 01.01.2006 from the date of promotion and orders for giving revised option as implemented in C&AG may also be implemented in Civil Accounts setup.(implementation orders of C&AG enclosed).
5.                  The Hon’ble CAT, Chennai bench in a common order dated 29.10.2010 passed in OAs 966 & 967 of 2009, has ordered to extend the benefit of MACP scheme in favour of the AAOs by fixing their Grade pay at Rs.5400/- with effect from the date on which the said benefit was extended to the Accts/Sr.Acctts and the accrued arrears were disbursed to the applicants in various offices of C& AG. The Civil Accounts Organisation being a part of Organised Accounts cadre the same benefit should be extended to AAOs in Civil Accounts setup.
At the end we would like to request you once again to settle these issues at the earliest and a meeting with the representatives of the Associations may be convened urgently to resolve all the 20point charter of demands submitted by us jointly.

Thanking You

Yours sincerely



                                                                                                                                 Sd/-
(G.K.Nair)
Secretary General


  NATIONAL FEDERATION OF CIVIL ACCOUNTS ASSOCIATIONS
                                                               Represented By
          All India Civil Accounts Employees Association
                                                 (RECOGNISED BY GOVT. OF INDIA)
                                             CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS: NEW DELHI
              All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category -II
     CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS: COCHIN
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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. NFCAA/HQ/A-1/Cir-6/2015                                                                               Dated: 28.07.2015

To,
                All Federal Executive Members,
                All Women Committee Members,
All Branch Secretaries of AICAEA & AICAEA Cat- II

Dear Comrades,
NATIONWIDE ONE DAY STRIKE ON 2ND SEPTEMBER 2015
As per the Call of All Central Trade Unions, Independent Federations and Confederation
NATIONWIDE INDEFINITE STRIKE FROM 23RD NOVEMBER 2015
As per the Call of National Joint Council of Action of All JCM National Council Staff Side Organizations Including Railway, Defence & Confederation
The National Executive Committee meeting of the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers was held at New Delhi on 12.07.2015. Affiliated organizations, General Secretaries of State Committees (COCs) and CHQ office Bearers attended the meeting. After detailed deliberations for about six hours, the meeting took the following important decisions.
(I)     2nd SEPTEMBER 2015 NATIONAL STRIKE:
1.    Confederation and all its affiliated organizations shall participate in the Nationwide one day strike on 2nd September 2015 as per the call of all Central Trade Unions and independent Federations.
2.      Charter of demands on which the strike is being organized on September 2nd by Confederation shall include
(1)   12 point common charter of demands affecting all sections of the Indian working class and
(2)   10 point charter of demands of the central government employees formulated by the National Joint Council of Action.
(See Charter of demands attached – Annexure-I)
3.      Intensive campaign should be conducted among all Central Government Employees by each individual organization by holding General body meetings, conventions, office-to-office campaign and gate meetings. Notices, pamphlets and posters should be printed and circulated to all offices and employees. Wide publicity should be given through print and electronic media. All websites of affiliates shall exhibit the campaign details, photos etc.
4.      Confederation CHQ Leaders shall visit all important centres throughout the country between August 16th and 31st and address Joint Conventions/meetings of the employees. Meetings should be organized by the state/District level units of the Confederation (C-O-Cs). Advance planning should be made by the C-O-Cs to make the campaign programmes of All India Leaders a grand success, by ensuring maximum participation of employees from all affiliated organizations.
5.      State/District Units of the Confederation shall plan and organize their own campaign programmes at state/District level.
6.      Strike notice will be served by Confederation CHQ to the Cabinet Secretary, Government of India on 11th August 2015. On the same day each individual affiliated organization of the Confederation should also serve strike notice to their respective Departmental heads. Demonstrations in front of all important offices should be held on 11th August 2015. Copy of the strike notice served by each organization should be sent (email) to confederation CHQ.
7.      All affiliated organizations shall make maximum efforts to ensure participation of maximum number of employees in the 2nd September strike. More than 10 crores organized and unorganized workers will be participating in the strike.
8.      All affiliated organizations should issue their own separate circulars to all the lower units directing the Branch/District/Divisional/State/Circle level leaders to start campaign work immediately and also to ensure maximum participation of employees in the strike.
(II)   23rd NOVEMBER INDEFINITE STRIKE:
1.      Confederation and all its affiliated organizations shall commence their own independent intensive campaign especially among grass-root level workers from now onwards.
2.      At the same time Confederation state/District level leadership (C-O-Cs) should take initiative to organize joint conventions of National Joint Council of Action at maximum possible centres.
3.      Immediately after the 2nd September strike and after submission of report by 7th CPC, the Confederation National Executive will meet again and decide further programmes to intensify the campaign programme for the success of 23rd November indefinite strike.
JOINT DELEGATE SESSION OF AIC OF AICAEA AND AICAEACATII ENDORSED THE CALL
The Joint delegate session of the delegates of 14TH All India Conference of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association and 6th All India Conference of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II held in Chennai on 17th July 2015 unanimously to endorsed the decision of the National Executive meeting of the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers and directed the rank and file membership of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association and All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II to participate and make the strike on 2nd Septem2015 a cent percent success.
The joint delegate session further decided to exhort the Branches and Units to bring the contents of the memorandum of the staff side JCM once again to the knowledge of the employees and prepare them for the proposed indefinite strike action of the CGEs including Railways and Defence workers from 23rd November 2015.
 The Joint delegate session unanimously appealed upon the totality of the membership of the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association and the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II to take active part in all meetings and conventions organized by Central Trade Unions, jointly with state Government Employees Federation, Bank, Insurance and other public sector undertakings.
The joint delegate session further decided that the NFCAA shall take joint effort for mobilization of the members. Joint tour programme shall be drawn up and Branches/ stations/State/ Regions shall be visited by the Federal executive members jointly.   All Branches shall make their own tour programme too and ensure visit of all Units within 15th August 2015.  Members should be explained the 12 point charter demands raised by the Central Trade Unions and 10 point Charter demands of the Confederation/NJCA.
Further, as per convention joint strike notice for the strike shall be served to CGA by both Associations on 11th August 2015 as per the direction of the Confederation.
With warm greetings,
 (V.Bhattacharjee)
Secretary General
Strike tour programme
The strike tour programme decided by the NFCAA is as below.
Sl. No.
Station /State/ Branch
Name of Federal Executive Member- Com.
Station From
1.        
Kerala
G.K.Nair
P.K.Gopi
A.Muhamad
Cochin
Cochin
Trivandrum
2.        
Tamilnadu and Pondicherry
K. Venkatasubramanian
B. Sitharam
Narasimhan Gopinathan
A.                 Balasubramanian
Manivasan
(They shall make more than one group and visit all stations)
Madurai
Chennai
Chennai
Chennai
Chennai
3.        
Telengana and Andhra Pradesh
A.Huparikar
B.S.Nagendra
Hyderabad
Hyderabad
4.        
Nagpur
                               K.M.Maundekar
                               A.Huparikar
B.S.Nagendra
Nagpur
Hyderabad
Hyderabad
5.        
Pune
Ajay K Patole
Rajesh Singh
Mumbai
Mumbai
6.        
Nashik
Ajay K. Patole
R.G.Bharne
Amal Sule
Mumbai
Mumbai
7.        
Bhopal
K.M.Maundekar
Joseph S. Nikalje
Nagpur
Mumbai
8.        
Gujrat
T.A.Makwana
K.M.Chauhan
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
9.        
Rajasthan
Ravishankar Tank
Jaipur
10.    
Delhi and NCR
Ravinder Kumar
V.Bhattacharjee
N.K.Sharma,
Jagdish Kumar,
V. Keshari
Kamlesh Kumari
(They shall make more than one group and visit all stations)
Delhi
Delhi
Delhi
Delhi
Delhi
Delhi
11.    
Bangalore
K.Venkatasubramanian
G.K.Nair
Madurai
Cochin
12.    
North East
V.Bhattacharjee
Gautam Chakraborty
P.Manna
Delhi
Shillong
Shillong
13.    
Bhubaneswar
L. Swaminathan
Subhendu Roy  Choudhury
Chennai/ Bhubaneswar
Kolkata
14.    
Ranchi
Shantanu Bhattacharjee
Debraj Singha Roy
Kolkata
Kolkata
15.    
Uttar Pradesh
V.Bhattacharjee
Abhay Kumar
Delhi
Lucknow
16.    
Patna
V. Bhattacharjee
Chinmay Mukhapadhayay
Delhi
Kolkata
17.    
West Bengal
V.Bhattacharjee
Subhendu Roy  Choudhury
Pranab Acharya
Chimay Mukhapadhyay
Debraj Singha Roy
Arijit Lahiri
Barnali Dolui
Arunava Banerjee
(They shall make more than one group and visit all stations)
Delhi
Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata
Farakka

ANNEXURE
2ND SEPTEMBER 2015 STRIKE CHARTER OF DEMANDS

PART-I
1.      Urgent measures for containing price-rise through universalisation of public distribution system and banning speculative trade in commodity market.
2.      Containing unemployment through concrete measures for employment generation.
3.      Strict enforcement of all basic labour laws without any exception or exemption and stringent punitive measure for violation for labour laws.
4.      Universal social security cover for all workers
5.      Minimum wages of not less than Rs. 15,000/- per month with provisions of indexation.
6.      Assured enhanced pension not less than Rs. 3000/- P.M. for the entire working population.
7.      Stoppage of disinvestment in Central/State PSUs.
8.      Stoppage of contractorisation in permanent perennial work and payment of same wage and benefits for contract workers as regular workers for same and similar work.
9.      Removal of all ceilings on payment and eligibility of bonus, provident fund; increase the quantum of gratuity.
10.  Compulsory registration of trade unions within a period of 45 days from the date of submitting applications; and immediate ratification of ILO Convention C 87 and C 98.
11.  Against Labour Law Amendments
12.  Against FDI in Railways, Insurance and Defence.
PART-II

1.      Effect wage revision of the Central Government Employees from 01.01.2014 accepting memorandum of the staff side JCM; ensure 5-year wage revision in future; grant interim relief and merger of 100% of DA; Include Gramin Dak Sevaks within the ambit of 7th CPC. Settle all anomalies of 6th CPC.
2.      No Privatization, PPP or FDI in Railways, Defence Establishment and no corporatization of Postal services.
3.      No ban on creation of new posts. Fill up all vacant posts.
4.      Scrap PFRDA Act an re-introduce the defined benefit statutory pension scheme.
5.      No outsourcing, contractorisation, privatization of governmental functions; withdraw the proposed move to close down the printing presses, the publications, form stores and stationery departments and medical stores Depots; regularize the existing daily-rated/casual and contract workers and absorption of trained apprentices.
6.      Revive the JCM functioning at all level as an effective negotiating forum for settlement of the demands of the Central Government Employees.
7.      Remove arbitrary ceiling on compassionate appointment.
8.      No labour reforms which are inimical to the interest of the workers.
9.      Remove the ceiling on payment on bonus

10.  Ensure five promotions in the serve career.