BRIEF RESUME

OF

14^th/6^th All India Conferences of

ALL INDIA CIVIL ACCOUNTS EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION,

ALL INDIA CIVIL ACCOUNTS EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION CAT II

And

6^TH NATIONAL WOMEN’S CONVENTION

Held from 15^th to 17^th July 2015 in Chennai

The 14^th All India Conference of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association, 6^th All India Conference of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II and 6^th National Convention of Women was held from 15^th  to 17^th July 2015 in COM. S. K. VYAS NAGAR, World University Service Center, No.8, Mayor V. R. Ramanathan Salai, Chennai. It is a unique feature that two major Associations of the Civil Accounts Organization conventionally hold their Confidences on the same dates in a common venue and it indicates that  no power on the earth could segregate the unity of Civil Accounts Employees and the National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations so far. Delegates from N.E., West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Pondicherry, Kerala, Mumbai, Nagpur, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Gujrat Branches participated in the Conference.  Women delegates from Tamilnadu and Pondicherry Branch, Delhi Branch, Mumbai Branch, West Bengal Branch and Madurai Unit attended the Women Convention and the Conferences.

Before commencement of Delegate sessions of two independent Associations separately, joint Inaugural session was held on 15^st July 2015 after flag hosting and offering of floral tribute to the Martyrs Column.

The flag of the Association was jointly hoisted by Com. K. Venkatasubramanian, President, All India Civil Accounts Employees Association and Com. A. K. Mehta, President, All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II amidst shouting of slogans in the language of workers and different regional languages of the country. Offering of Floral Tributes to the martyrs’ column was held in a systematic manner. All Guests, Federal Executive members, National Executive Members of AICAEA and AICAEA CAT II and all Delegates offered floral tribute to Martyrs column. Com. A. B. Sunilkumar, Secretary General of the All India Association of Pay and Accounts Officers (Civil) was present during the flag hoisting and he offered floral tribute to the Martyrs column along with all other Delegates.

INAUGURAL SESSION

The Inaugural Session was started at 10 A.M. of 15^th July 2015 in the COM. I.S. BILTORIA AUDITORIUM, COM. S. K. VYAS NAGAR, World University Service Center, No.8, Mayor V. R. Ramanathan Salai, Chetput, Chennai – 600031 and it was the Joint Session of All India Civil Accounts employees’ Association and All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category-II.

A  Presidium comprising Com. K. Venkatasubramanian, President, All India Civil Accounts Employees Association, Com. A. K. Mehta, President, All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II and Com. (Mrs.) Lakshmi Swaminathan, Chairperson, National Women’s Committee presided over the function. Com. V. Bhattacharjee, Secretary General, All India Civil Accounts Employees Association as well as the Secretary General, National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations and Com. G. K. Nair, Secretary General, All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II, Com A. Balasubramanian, Convener Reception Committee were on the Dias.

Com. K. Venkatasubramanian, President, All India Civil Accounts Employees Association offered the welcome address on behalf of the Reception Committee. He welcomed the Delegates, Guests, Observers and visitors through his brief speech.

Com. A. K. Padmanabhan, President, Centre of Indian Trade Unions formally inaugurated the Conferences. In his inaugural speech he discussed the policies being pursued by the present Government, the ongoing global economic crisis and its impact on working class and also the need of building up united movement of the working class of the country. He appealed upon the Civil Accounts Employees to prepare for the indefinite strike with effect from 23^rd November 2015 to be resorted to by Railway, Defence and rest of the Central Government Employees of the country under the banner of the National Joint Council of Action(NJCA) of the Central Government Employees and also make the call of strike on 2^nd September 2015 given by the major Central Trade Unions and independent federations of the country against the basic anti-working class policies of the Government a grand success. He wished the Conferences to be grand success.

Shri M. J. Joseph, Controller General of Accounts attended the function as Chief Guest. He was accompanied by Shri David Raju Dy. Controller of Accounts, Chennai and Ms. Priyanka, Asstt. Controller of Accounts, Chennai. While addressing the house, CGA discussed different issues. He stated that his office shall ensure a transparent transfer policy in the organization. Referring the demand of Cadre Review, he asked the Associations to provide more details on this demand. CGA also stated that, since the Civil Accounts organization is going to step into its 40^th year of its existence next year, country wide programmes of different forms have been planned to organize by him.  

Com. A. B. Sunilkumar, Secretary General All India Association of Pay and Accounts Officers (Civil) addressed the house on behalf of his organization. He emphasized on the need of building up strong unity among the employees and officers of the Civil Accounts organization. He also stated that, on the common issues of Civil Accounts Employees and Officers, the recently revived Co-ordination Committee of Civil Accounts Employees and Officers Associations shall decide to fight unitedly.

Com. M. Duraipandian, General Secretary, Co-ordination Committee of Central Government Employees and Workers, Tamilnadu State was also present as an invited guest and addressed the house. He appreciated the role being played by the Civil Accounts Employees in Tamilnadu. He placed a very critical view on the politics of the Government and appealed upon the Civil Accounts Employees to prepare and participate in the one day Strike on 2^nd September 2015 and indefinite strike with effect from 23^rd November 2015 call for which have been given by the Central Trade Unions and the NJCA respectively. He wished the conferences to be grand success.

All the Guests and leaders came to the session and addressed the house were accorded warm welcome by the Reception Committee through garlanding and offering of shawls by various leaders of the organization.

OPEN SESSION

The Open Session was held on 15^th July 2015 in the Com. I.S. BILTORIA AUDITORIUM, COM. S. K. VYAS NAGAR, World University Service Center, No.8, Mayor V. R. Ramanathan Salai, Chetput, Chennai – 600031 and it was the Joint Session of All India Civil Accounts Employees’ Association and All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category-II .

Com. K. K. N. Kutty, President, Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers offered the key note address.  Com.  Kutty narrated the challenging situation arisen in front of the working class due to various anti-working class approaches of the ruling class and other development around the globe. He explained the latest position of the demands and issues of the Central Government Employees pending in the National Council (JCM) and Anomaly Committee etc. The approach taken by the staff side National Council JCM towards the 7^th CPC and the background under which the NJCA has taken the decision of organizing the indefinite strike of central Government Employees   with effect from 23^rd November 2015 was narrated by him. He further informed that the National Executive meeting of the Confederation has endorsed the call of one day strike on 2^nd September 2015 in support of the charter of demands of Central Trade Unions and the Charter of Demands adopted by the NJCA. He appealed upon the Delegates to exert their best efforts to make the ensuing strike actions successful.

Com. R.N. Parasar, Secretary General, National Federation of Postal Employees addressed the house. He explained the anti-people policies of the present government and its adverse affect on the working class as well as the Central Government Employees. Referring the subject “Role playing by NFPE in the movement of Confederation and importance of smaller affiliates of Confederation” allotted to him, Com Parasar appraised the house that the NFPE has always remained as a part of the Central Government Employees Movement and it was one of the founder members of the Confederation of Central Government Employees& Workers from its inception.

Com. M. S. Raja, Secretary General, All India Audit and Accounts Association and Chairman JAC, addressed the delegate session. He discussed on the subject- “approach made by JAC before 7CPC and future task of JAC”. He informed about the approach taken by apex JAC on the pay scales of different cadres before 7CPC and the outcome of the discussion held with the 7CPC by his organization. 

Com. S. Mohan, Secretary General, All India Audit and Accounts Officers Association, Chennai had attended and addressed the Session.   He discussed on the “need for unity between officers and employees in Audit and Accounts organizations”. He informed that recently the Confederation of Central Government officers has been formed in its proper form and it shall function very co-cordially with the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers. He also assured full co-operation of his organization in all struggles of the Central Government Employees movement.

Com. Giriraj Singh, Genl. Secy. AIRMS & MMS E UGr ‘C’ deliberated briefly on the subject matter- “path to be adopted to further strengthen the bond of unity among Central Government Employees organizations”. He explained the need for deep-rooted unity among the employees and necessacity of making the ensuing strike actions successful.

All the Guests and leaders came to the session and addressed the house were accorded warm welcome by the Reception Committee through offering of bouquet by various leaders of the organization.

The Open Session was declared over after the speeches and felicitations to veteran Comrades were over.

WOMEN’S CONVENTION

The 6^th Joint National Women’s’ Convention of AICAEA and AICAEA Cat-II  was held on 16^th July 2015  from 2.30 to 4.30 PM under the banner of National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations(NFCAA). The convention was presided over by a Presidium comprising Com. (Mrs.) Lakshmi Swaminathan, Chairperson, National Women’s Committee, NFCAA and Com. G. K. Nair, President, NFCAA. Women delegates from Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Madurai, Hyderabad and Chennai attended the Convention. Almost totality of the Women employees from Chennai city attended the convention.

Com. V. Bhattacharjee, Secretary General, NFCAA gave a brief introductory speech on the background of formation of the National Women Committee and its present status and functioning. Apart from other things, he informed that, the Women Committee has come to existence in the year 2004 in the first convention held at Nagpur. Chairperson and Convener of the of Women’s Committee are the part of the National Executive Committee of the Association and authorities are also extending all facilities to them as National Executive members which is unique feature and such provision is available only in the Civil Accounts organization among the Central Government Employees organizations. He offered the assurance that the demands raised by the convention shall be the part of the Charter of Demands of the National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations.

Com. (Smt.) U. Vasuki, Vice-President, AIDWA inaugurated the 6^th National Women’s’ Convention formally. She explained the problems being faced by the Women employees in work spot, society and family. She explained that the Women Employees shall be able to protect their rights unitedly when they would strengthen their organization and participate in the organizational activities very effectively.

Ms. N. Sumati, Joint Controller General of Accounts attended the Convention as Chief Guest.  While offering her greetings, she congratulated the leaders and appreciated efforts of the organization in uniting and taking effort of protecting the women’s rights. She assured that full co-operation of the authorities shall always be there in resolving the problems of the Women employees, if any.

Com (Smt.) R. Seethalaxmi, National Convener, Women Committee, Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers addressed the convention as main speaker. She explained the activities of the National Women Committee of Confederation in details. She also appealed upon the employees to participate and make the strike on 2^nd September a grand success. It was informed by her that, the Confederation is organizing a Workshop exclusively for women employees on 9^th and 10^th October 2015 at Hyderabad.  Women Delegates from Civil Accounts employees’ organizations should therefore, participate in the said workshop as per the allotted quota.

On behalf of the National Women Committee of NFCAA, Com. (Smt.) N. Durga, Joint Convener presented the biennial report. Women Delegates from the stations like Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi participated in the discussion. The report was thereafter declared adopted unanimously.

All the Guests and leaders came to the session and addressed the house were accorded warm welcome by the Reception Committee through offering of bouquet by various leaders of the organization.

The 6^th National Convention of Women’s of “National Women Committee” of the NFCAA elected a eleven member National Women Committee representing Chennai, Madurai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi.

After the elections of Committee Members, the 6^th National Convention was declared over by Com. (Mrs.) L. Swaminathan, Chairperson.

JOINT DELEGATE SESSION

The joint Delegate session of the Delegates of AICAEA and AICAEACAT II was held from 10am of 17^th July 2015. The session was presided over jointly by Com. K. Venkatasubramanian, President AICAEA and Com. A. K. Mehta, President AICAEA Category II. The decisions of the independent Delegate sessions of two Associations had been reported by the Addl. Secretary Generals of two Associations.

Decisions

The Joint Delegate session discussed the following items of common agenda circulated by AICAEA and AICAEA CATII and took decisions on them:-

1.      National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations and building up of united movement of officers and employees of Civil Accounts organization.

Representatives of both AICAEA and AICAEA CAT II reported about the discussions held on agenda item in their respective Delegate sessions. It was observed that the authorities are reluctant to take up the demand of Cadre Review with the government and settle other major demands. On the issue of grant of Recognition to AICAEACAT II and NFCAA, the authorities are not ready to take any positive step. After detailed discussion the joint Delegate Session took following decisions

a)       Resolution demanding immediate settlement of the demand of Cadre Review and nineteen other very important demands handed over to the Controller General of Accounts on 2^nd June 2015 in the form of a Memorandum were by a delegation of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association and All India Civil Accounts Employees Association category II shall be adopted and forwarded to CGA. In addition, there shall be following organizational actions-

i)                    18^th August 2015: Black badge wearing, holding unit wise lunch hour meeting/ demonstration and forwarding of Resolution to CGA.

ii)                  10^th September 2015: Joint Day Long Dharna shall be organized by the Branch level NFCAA in front of the office of Sr. most Officer of the station. All office bearers of the Branches of AICAEA and AICAEA Cat-II shall sit for day long dharna by taking leave.

iii)                14^th October 2015: Half day walkout. Totality of the officers and employees shall stage half day walkout. 

b)       Resolution demanding immediate grant of Recognition to the All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category II and the National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations immediately in terms of the relevant rules of the Government of India or 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 has been adopted and forwarded to the CGA.

c)      In order to strengthen the organization, Branch level NFCAA shall be formed on war footings. Joint steps to improve the membership of both Associations shall be taken. All action programmes shall be implemented unitedly by two Associations unitedly under the banner of NFCAA.

d)      Membership subscription of both Associations was decided to enhance as Rs.80/-(Rupees eighty) only per member per month to mitigate the expenditure connected with organizational activities of various tiers and maintenance of Foreign Service of the Secretary General of NFCAA.

2.      “Joint Action Committee of Accounts and Audit Employees and Officers Organizations” – building up of united movement of Accounts and Audit Employees and Officers.

The functioning of Joint Action Committee was reviewed by the Joint Delegate session. It was observed that, though the apex JAC played its role before the 7^th CPC but the 7CPC did not give any opportunity to apex JAC for oral deposition in support of the Memorandum it had submitted.  Undoubtedly it is a major setback and its fallout shall be there on the Accounts and Audit Employees. Therefore, immediately after the 7CPC submits its recommendations to the government relevance of the existence of JAC shall be intensely felt by the Accounts and Audit employees and officers of the country.  On this point of view, the joint Delegate session has felt that the functioning of JAC should be revived/ reactivated/ improved at all levels and directed the NFCAA and its Branches to take effective measures to reactivate/ revive the local Joint Action Committees and take initiative to improve the functioning of the local JACs wherever is in existence.

3.      Involvement of Civil Accounts Employees in the Confederation activities and Working Class movements.

So far as the Confederation activities and Working Class movements are concerned, the joint Delegate session expressed its utter satisfaction over the role playing by the NFCAA, its affiliates and their branches and Units in majority of the states and stations. During the period under review, several organizational actions including the call of strike for more than one occasion were given by the Confederation and Central Trade Unions. All those were not only implemented by the largest section of the Civil Accounts Employees but the leadership of NFCAA played pioneering role in making the programmers successful in various parts of the country.  However, some of the stations and Branches are still lagging behind. The Joint Delegate session has directed the leadership of all those states/ stations/Branches/ Units to rise up from the slumber and join the mainstream.

The Joint Delegate session adopted a resolution endorsing the call of One day Strike on 2^nd September 2015 given by the Central Trade Unions and Independent federations of the Country in support of the 12 point Charter of Demands of working class and duly endorsed by the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers’. The resolution also dealt on the call of Indefinite Strike from 23^rd November 2015 given by the NJCA of Central Government employees and appealed upon the totality of the Civil Accounts Employees to participate and make the strike calls totally successful in the Civil Accounts organization.  The resolution has been forwarded to the Secretary General of the Confederation and endorsed to all branches and Units.

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE OF A.I.C.A.E.A

The 14^th All India Conference of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association has elected the following persons as National Executive Members of the Association.

Sl.No.	Name	Post	Min./Deptt.	Station
1.	Shri K.Venkatasubramanian	President	CBEC	Madurai
2.	Shri Shantanu Bhattacharjee	Working President	Health &FW	Kolkata
3.	Shri B.Sitharam	Vice-President	Commerce	Chennai
4.	Shri Ajay K.Patoley	Vice-President	Commerce	Mumbai
5.	Shri V.Bhattacharjee	Secretary General	CBEC	Delhi
6.	Shri Ajit Huparikar	Addl. Secretary General	Science & Technology	Hyderabad
7.	Shri S.Roy Choudhury	Jt. Secretary General	Mines	Kolkata
8.	Shri N.K.Sharma	Finance Secretary	MOST	Delhi
9.	Shri Prasenjit Manna	Asstt. Finance Secy.	MHA	Shillong
10.	Shri A. Balasubramanian	Asstt. Secy. General	CBDT	Chennai
11.	Shri R.G. Bharne	-do-	Supply	Mumbai
12.	Shri P.K.Gopi	-do-	CBDT	Cochin
13.	Shri Abhay Kumar	-do-	I&B	Lucknow
14.	Shri Ravishankar Tank	-do-	CBEC	Jaipur
15.	Shri K.M.Chauhan	-do-	CBDT	Ahmedabad
16.	Shri Arijit Lahiri	-do-	Mines	Kolkata
17.	Shri K.M.Maundekar	-do-	Mines	Nagpur

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE OF A.I.C.A.E.A CAT II

6^th All India Conference of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association Category-II elected the National Executive Committee of the Association.

Sl No.	Name	Post	Ministry/Deptt	Station
1.	Shri.B.S. Nagendra	President	Mines	Hyderabad
2.	Shri. Chinmay Mukhopadhyay	Vice President	Culture	Kolkata
3.	Shri. G. Narasimhan,	Vice President	Supply	Chennai
4.	Shri. Rajesh Kumar Singh	Vice President	Commerce	Mumbai
5.	Shri. Gopalakrishnan Nair	Secretary General	CBDT	Cochin
6.	Shri. Debraj Singha Roy	Addl. Secretary General	CBEC -1	Kolkata
7.	Shri. V.K. Keshari	Jt. Secretary General	CPAO	Delhi
8.	Shri. M.S. Manivasan	Finance Secretary	CBEC	Chennai
9.	Shri. Joseph S. Nikalje	Asstt. Finance Secretary	Textile	Mumbai
10.	Shri. A Muhammad	Asstt. Secretary General	Agriculture	Cochin
11.	Shri. Gautam Chakravarti	Asstt. Secretary General	Home	Shillong
12.	Shri. A.V.N.Rao	Asstt. Secretary General	HRD	Hyderabad
13.	Shri. Amol V Sule	Asstt. Secretary General	RTHS	Mumbai
14.	Shri. Arunav Banerjee	Asstt. Secretary General	Water Resources	Farakka
15.	Shri. Jagdish Kumar	Asstt. Secretary General	Civil Aviation	Delhi

NATIONAL WOMENS’ COMMITTEE

6^th Notional Convention of Women’s, Committee elected following women Delegates as National Women Committee Members.

Sl.No.	Name	Post	Min/Deptt.	Station
1.	Mrs. Lakshmi Swaminathan	Chairperson	CBDT	Chennai
2.	Mrs. N.Durga	Jt. Convener	I&B	Chennai
3.	Mrs. Kamlesh Kumari	Vice-Chairperson	CBEC	Delhi
4.	Mrs. Barnali Dolui	Convener	UD	Kolkata
5.	Mrs. S.Shanthi	Jt. Convener	CBEC	Madurai
6.	Ms.  Priyanka Ghosh	-do-	Plg, Stat & Prog Imp.	Kolkata
7.	Mrs. Brinda N	Committee Member	CBDT	Trivandrum
8.	Mrs. Pranali Sule	-do-	Finance	Mumbai
9.	Mrs. Lakshmi Venkatanathan	-do-	CBDT	Chennai
10.	Mrs. Chandraprabha K. Prasad	--do-	Agriculture	Chennai
11.	Mrs. S.Nirmala	-do-	UD	Chennai

THANKS TO TAMILNADU & PONDICHERRY BRANCHES

The AICAEA and AICAEACAT II Branches of Tamilnadu and Pondicherry had hosted the 14^th AIC of AICAEA, 6^th AIC of AICAEACAT II and 6^th National Convention of Women’s Committee of NFCAA under the Banner of Reception Committee. All the members of Reception Committee offered their relentless and round the clock service to make the Conferences successful. Right from the beginning the reception committee did its best to ensure that the events become successful. The Delegates were received at the Railway station and proper accommodations were provided to each and every Delegate. Women Delegates were given separate accommodations. Delicious food was arranged. All guests were given best possible reception. On behalf of the Delegates the Central Headquarters of AICAEA and AICAEACATII congratulated the entire team of Reception Committee and offered their thanks.