Observe Demands Day
On 30th December

Mobilise all Audit/Accounts Officers
Sr.Audit/Sr.Accounts Officers
In Your Office/Station
Hold Lunch hour General Body Meeting
Adopt the Charter of Demands
Pass the resolution unanimously

Prepare every one of our Officer
For wearing Black Badge
To the cause of our upgradation of Grade Pay
During the third week of January

Prepare every one of our Officer
For Day Long Dharna
Before C&AG Office
To the cause of our upgradation of Grade Pay
During the Budget Session of Parliament

Send report to Head Quarters
Intimate Number of members
Willing to participate in the
Lunch Hour Demonstration
During the Day Long Dharna

----Secretary General

Circular No 10-2008-09

To
The National Executive Members &
The Secretaries of the Affiliates.
Dear Comrades,

National Executive on 7th & 8th Dec: The National Executive Committee met at Hyderabad on 07-12-2008 & 08-12-08. The National Executive Committee Members including special invitees attended the meeting. The Meeting was presided over by Com.K.T.Sridharan. Com. V.Nageswara Rao, General Secretary of Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers, Andhra Pradesh Unit inaugurated the National Executive Meeting. Veteran leaders Com.V.Srinivasan, Former Treasurer of Our Association and Com.K.Premkumar former Asst. Secretary General of All India Audit and Accounts Association greeted the meeting.

The National Executive Committee paid rich tributes to Com C.S.V. Warrier, former Secretary General of All India Audit and Accounts Association and Com.P.S.Rana former Secretary General of All India Audit and Accounts Officers Association who expired last month.

At the out set the entire National Executive condoled the death of common people in the recent terror attacks in Mumbai and placed on record its appreciation of the role played by the exemplary Police Officers during terror attack in Mumbai in defending them and also the brave role played by our Commandoes during these times. The National Executive condemned in unequivocal terms the terror attacks on the common, ordinary, innocent human beings.

The National Executive unanimously adopted the amended Constitution of the Association which was approved by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

The National Executive discussed with great concern about the treatment meted out to our main demand of up gradation of Pay scales of AOs and Sr.AOs. The National Executive decided to build a rock like unity of all Audit and Accounts Officers to pursue the cause. It appealed to all its members must stand together, shoulder to shoulder, and express our unity unequivocally. It is imperative to demonstrate that such denial of justice would only reinforce our determination to seek justice relentlessly and that we would not be demoralized by such heinous denial by the pay commission, by the government or by the department.
The National Executive unanimously decided on the following programmes:
(a) To prepare the officers for an ultimate ‘Direct Action’ to support our efforts through negotiation with the Govt./C & A.G of India to achieve the up gradation of pay scales for SAOs/AOs by March ’08. With this direction in mind, the affiliated organizations were directed to organize ‘All India demands day on 30th December. (Charter of Demands enclosed).
(b) To organize ‘Black Badge wearing’ by all officers in the Head office as well in the field duties during Feb. ’08.
(c) To conduct the ‘Day Long Dharna before C&AG office by the National Executive, inviting all the officers to participate in the lunch Hour Demonstration before the C&AG Office supported by field level Lunch hour Demonstrations during the month of February/march.
Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers is on War Path: The Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers has called upon all its affiliates to Serve Strike Notice on 2.01.09 for Indefinite Strike to commence from 20th Jan 2009 on 20 point charter of Demands. As these demands have direct impact on our cadre also we fully support this agitation programme. The leaders of Confederation of Central Government Officers have discussed amongst themselves about this Strike Call. The Federation therefore calls upon all its units to render their opinion in this regard which should be communicated to the Head quarters.

Yours Fraternally,

S.Mohan
Secretary General.

R E S O L U T I O N
This General Body meeting of ……..Association, O/o……held on 30th December 2008 notes with concern that there is no meaningful dialogue by the C&AG administration with All India Audit and Accounts officers Association on its charter of demands.
This General Body meeting records it deep resentment over the drastic reduction of manpower over the years which has affected the overall performance of the Department and demands that all the vacant posts be filled in so as to enable proper compilation/maintenance of accounts and effective conduct of audit to the fullest possible extent.
This General body meeting is of the strong view that to boost the morale of the Officers which is at its lowest ebb – time bound promotions in these cadres be introduced without any delay.
This General body meeting takes strong exception to the denial of bare minimum democratic rights to Officers to organize and record their democratic dissent. In many stations recognition has not been granted to Associations despite passage of more than a year. On the other hand attempt is made to stifle the voice of protest by not even forwarding their representations/resolutions to the head of the department without observing laid down norms and even on being pointed out no corrective action is initiated.
This General Body meeting therefore urges upon the CAG of India to:
1 Settle all the Demands submitted in the Charter.
2 Fill up all vacancies in the Department so as to enable the AO/Sr.AOs to
Perform their duties effectively.
3. Grant time bound promotion to AO cadres.
4. Honour democratic rights of Officers serving in this Department. Grant/Restore
Recognition of field Associations.


Adopted Unanimously.

…………………….
President (of the meeting)

Charter of Demands
1. Audit /Accounts Officers and Senior Audit/Accounts Officers should be given Scale of Pay in PB 3 with Grade Pay of Rs.6600/-and Rs.7600/- respectively.
2. Age restriction of 53 Years for induction into IA&AS should be removed.
3. Quota for induction into IA&AS cadre should be increased to 50% from existing 331/3 %.
4. Confer status of I.A. & A.S to promoted Sr. A Os directly in the rank of DAG/DD instead of AAG/AD, by giving weightage to their long year’s experience.
5. (a) Fill up all vacancies in the Department so as to enable the AO/Sr.AOs to perform their duties effectively and to do their Accounts and Auditorial functions efficiently.(b) Adequate number of posts should be created in all the Audit/Accounts offices, corresponding to the increased workload in the cadre of AOs/SAOs.
6. (a) Welfare Officer Post should be created in each Audit/Accounts office without reference to the total number of staff working in that office. (b)Welfare officer post should be filled up on the basis of strictly on seniority by the C&AG himself without being referred to the UPSC.
7. Wards of AOs/SAOs dying in harness should be given Compassionate Appointment without taking into account their Terminal Benefits.
8. (a) Dilution of Audit function should be stopped. A thorough review of the existing Audit Plans should be made and audit made more effective.
(b) Audit of Panchayat Raj institutions should be strengthened by creating adequate number of posts in that wing.
(c) The financial transactions of LIC, Public Sector Banks, Privately held public Limited companies, Non Government Organizations, Companies which are substantially financed by the Government without any limitation on the percentage of share capital, all regulatory bodies, Special Purpose Vechicles should be subjected to audit of C&AG.
9. AOs should be promoted to the cadre of SAOs immediately after completing 2 years in the AOs cadre as was done previously by adopting the "Prospective Seniority List".
10. (a) Frequent interventions in the Democratic functioning of Association by the Administration should be stopped. (b) Harassment of Office Bearers of the Associations should be stopped immediately; (c) All types of victimisations should be vacated; (d) Conducive working atmosphere should be created in the dept. (E) Restoration of Grievance redressal Machinery in field offices. (F) Periodical, “Formal meetings” should be conducted for settling the local problems.
11. Re-imbursement of food bills should be made on the basis of Self Certificates.
12. Railway Audit Parties on tour duty should be allowed to stay in hotels as per their entitlements whenever accommodation is not available.
13. Uniform Transparent transfer policy should be devised in the Commercial, Railway audit, P&T audit wings. There should not be any arbitrary transfer.
14. Closure of Resident Audit units in the Commercial Audit wing and reduction of posts in the MAB offices should be stopped.
15. Reduction of posts and down sizing of the P&T audit wing should be stopped.