CONGRATULATIONS

On behalf of All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association and on my own behalf I salute every one who has made the strike a Success. The Central Government Officers in general and Audit & Accounts officers in particular have demonstrated conviction and courage to express that they would not fail to register their emphatic protest – along with the rest of working class of this great nation – against the policies of the government that heap miseries on the common people causing unprecedented inflation and price rise, joblessness and job loss etc. The success of the strike becomes more noteworthy on the background of the publicity on implementation of the recommendations of 6 CPC with ‘improvements’.
The audit & accounts employees and officers and the central government employees, through the massive participation in the 20th August 2008 strike have stated in unequivocal terms their determination to fight against the denial of minimum wage and fitment formula and also against the move to contractorise the jobs in the government offices. The employees and officers have understood that the 6 CPC recommendations and its implementation by the Government are nothing but the extension of the neoliberal economic policies that the successive governments are pursuing for the last nearly two decades. This realization led to massive participation despite attempts to term the strike action as a political one. The employees and officers emphatically reacted against the politics of neo-liberal economic policies.
The participation of Audit & Accounts officers in IA&AD is noteworthy especially when the administration did their best to put hurdles.
The All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association once again Congratulates every member, every activist and every leader for the successful strike on 20th August 2008.
This success against all odds gives us confidence to decide on future actions on the 6 CPC related issues.


Yours Fraternally,

S.Mohan.
Secretary General.

Circular 6 All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association

To
The National Executive Members &
The Secretaries of the Affiliates.

Dear Comrades,
Resist the Arrogance, Rebuff the dishonesty; Ensure total strike on 20th August 2008
After a wait of nearly five months, the government has finally decided to implement the 6 CPC recommendations with effect from 1st September 2008, with some minor modifications. In this era of scientific discovery and technological advancement; various tools have been created to facilitate the delivery of news materials within the country. But unfortunately our Government have found ways of abusing such facilities to spread rumours with libel intent to reduce our fighting potential. Now the government has presented before people the acceptance of pay commission recommendations itself as an act of benevolence.
The fact is that as on 1.1.2006 the employees were drawing DA at 86%. The 6 CPC did not consider the DP factor and denied the benefit of 12%, an element that is already part of the pay. This 12% that was snatched away has now been restored. This is not a bonanza; it is not at all an additional increase. It is only restoration of what is due to the employees.
But what had the Staff Side, JCM and Confederation of officers demanded with Committee of Secretaries?
Re-computation of Minimum wages based on the actual prices that existed on 1.1.2006 and on the Supreme Court ruling on minimum wages and consequential reconstruction of Pay Bands.
The Gr D entry level (the minimum wage) remains unchanged at Rs 5740. Rs 7000/- is the entry level for Gr C. Squaring it off to 7000/- means an increase of Rs 80/- after applying the multiplying factor of 1.86. (2750x1.86 +1800=6915 ie Rs 6920/-)
What we have demanded was RS 10000 for Gr D at entry level and our demand with Committee of Secretaries was (as rock bottom) application of the principle applied by
5 th CPC (increase in the net national product for 10 years) i.e. an increase of 56.2% over the pay drawn on 1.1.2006 – 4743x156.2%= 7408 adjusted to Rs 7400- with consequential changes in all stages and pay bands.
PB-1 will now start at 5200 (instead of 4860) and PB2 will start at 9300 (in place of 8700) with no change in the Grade pay – as result of increasing the fitment to 1.86 in place of 1.74. This change will no way benefit an existing employee.
Fitment formula of 2.625:
The change from 1.74 to 1.86 will bring in a marginal increase, but that is what we are drawing, nothing new in it. This only gives a benefit of another DA merger, not of a Pay Revision.
A Pay Revision would be felt actually if a uniform fitment formula is made available universally. Fitment factor of 2.625 would give uniform benefit of 41% to all up to the scale of 8000-13500. (Gr A is already granted a higher rate).
No abolition of Gr D posts, No contractorisation :
The worst type of deception is shown here. Though the statement issued by the Government states that GR D in ministerial offices and Porters in Railways would continue to be recruited, their pay scale has not been revised.
Minimum benefit of 10% on promotion& Pension:
The demand for minimum increase of 10% in pay on promotion has not been accepted by the Government. The incremental benefit of 3% is paltry. The communiqué issued by Government is silent on the recommendations of 6 CPC on Pension, parity in pension of pre-1996 and post 1996 retirees, discrimination in the grant of family pension, minimum pension and revision in ex gratia to SRPF/CPF retirees, and especially on outsourcing (i.e. doing away with) Pension Commutation.
In the nutshell, a very big fraud has been committed on us. Government is using its propaganda machinery in such a manner that reminds one of Goebel (propaganda Secretary of Adolph Hitler) – repeat a lie hundred times, it will be accepted as the truth.
When we speak of Pay, the government speaks of pay and allowances (saying that it will be more than 10,000 pm) at the minimum level up to Group B level. But while speaking of maximum pay it speaks of only Pay (80,000).
It speaks of average hike of 21%. But it would not say how much at the lower level and how much for Group A Officers. The change of Base year for DA from 1982 to 2001 would affect the quantum of DA. The move to introduce separate Consumer Price Index for Government employees is an attempt to take away the existing compensation on price rise available to us and it has to be resisted with great vigour.
The Government’s eagerness to push through the PFRDA bill in the forthcoming session of Parliament commencing on 20th September 2008 is the gravest threat to social security available to every employee in the Central Government.
The unprecedented inflation and rise in prices of the essential commodities and its accelerating trend caused due to the pursuance of the anti-people economic policies of globalization, liberalization and privatization followed by the present Government has made the life of Central Government Employees, workers and poor people miserable and unbearable. The raging inflation nullifies whatever increase in DA is granted by the Central and State Governments and will wipe out any financial benefit that might accrue to the employees because of the implementation of much awaited VI-CPC modified recommendations.
We need to rise to the occasion and give a big rebuff to Government on its neglect and denial of our genuine demands. We have to put up a strong resistance to passage of PFRDA Bill.

Ensure Total Strike on 20th August as a mark of protest against the Arrogance & Dishonesty and Fraud on us.

With greetings,

Yours Fraternally,

S.Mohan.
Secretary General

Message from the Secretary General,Confederation Of Central Government Gazetted Officers Organisations.

Comrades,

Enclosed herewith is the notice served on the Cabinet Secretary by the CCGGOO for the proposed strike on 20/08/2008 on the 6th CPC issue.
All the costituent organisations of the CCGGOO are hereby requested to participate in the said strike and send a strong signal to the Govt. about our determined will to fight the injustice meted out by the 6th CPC Report.
By participating in the said strike, we shall be supporting and strengthening the CCGE&W (Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers).

Yours comradely,

Rajesh Menon
Secretary General

CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTED OFFICERS ORGANISATION
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Dated: 23.07.08

To
The Cabinet Secretary,
Rashtrapathy Bhawan Annexe,
New Delhi – 110 001.

Dear Sir,
This is to give notice that the Officers who are members of the affiliates of the Confederation of Central Government Confederation of Central Government Gazetted Officers Organisations will go on a day's strike on 20th August, 2008. The Demands in pursuance of which the Officers will embark upon the one day strike action is enclosed.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,


( Rajesh Menon )
Secretary General

Charter of Demands.

1.Accept the modifications suggested by the C.C.G.G.O.O (main demand for a uniform rate of fitment @ 120% of the existing pay) or the suggestions of Staff Side JCM in the Standing Committee meeting held on 7th May, 2008 and implement the 6th CPC recommendations accordingly.
2. Afford right to strike to Government employees.
3. Withdraw the new contributory Pension scheme and extend the existing defined benefit pension scheme to all Govt. employees including those recruited after 01.01.2004.
4. Stop privatization, corporatisation and downsizing of Government department and abandon the neo-liberal economic policies.

NEWS FROM THE DESK OF Secretary General
Mumbai 42,
Dated:07.08.08.

Dear Comrades,
One of our long pending demand, i.e Removal of Anomaly in the pay scale of AOs/Sr.AOs due to revision of pay scales of AAOs /SOs with effect from 19/02/2003, is achieved.
Some of the Sr. Accounts/Audit Officers, who were promoted as Accounts/Audit Officers prior to 01-01-1996 and were drawing more pay than their junior officers are, consequent to the up gradation of pay scales of officers up to the level of Assistant Accounts/Audit officers under Head Quarters Office Order No.6/82/EIII/B/91 dated 28-02-2003, drawing less pay than their junior officers who have been promoted to the cadre of Accounts/Audit officers after 01-01-1996. The anomaly has arisen due to up gradation of pay scales of all posts except that of the Accounts/ Audit Officers and Sr. Accounts/Audit Officers. After our prolonged struggle, negotiation at various levels the C&AG Administration has finally issued orders delegating powers to all the heads of Departments (Pr.AG/AG/PDA/PD(C)) to settle these cases. We are extending our sincere thanks to C&AG administration in this regard.

S.Mohan.
Secretary General.

Circular 5 of All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association

ALL INDIA ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
(Recognised by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India)
Ref. No. 59/NGE(JCM) 27-2006(Vol-II) dt. 12-03-2007
E Mail ID ‘auditacounts@gmail.com’
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No. AIAAAOA/Circular/2008-09/5 01.08.2008

To
The National Executive Members &
The Secretaries of the Affiliates

Dear Comrades,

SERVE STRIKE NOTICE ON 4TH AUGUST:
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STRIVE HARD FOR TOTAL STRIKE ON 2OTH AUGUST 2008
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As per the decision of the Convention, Our federation decided to join the one day strike on 20th August 2008 on the six demands that were finalised in the joint Convention of Central and State Employees & teachers on 8th July 2008, consequent to the decision of the Central Trade Unions and Federations in a convention held at New Delhi on 13th June 2008.

The demands adopted by National convention of Central and State Government employees and University, college and School teachers on 8th July, 2008

Accept the modifications suggested by the Staff Side JCM in the Standing Committee meeting held on 7th May, 2008 and implement the 6th CPC recommendations accordingly.
Afford right to strike to Government employees
Withdraw the new contributory Pension scheme and extend the existing defined benefit pension scheme to all Govt. employees including those recruited after 1.1.2004.
Stop privatization, corporatisation and downsizing of Government department and abandon the neo-liberal economic policies.

The Demands adopted in National Convention of Trade Unions on 13 May 2008
Take urgent step to contain price-rise through (a) universalizing the public distribution system throughout the country to cater all essential commodities at controlled price through PDS, (b) ban on futures and forward trading in all essential commodities, (C) reduction of tax in petrol and diesel, (d) stringent action against hoarding and black marketing.
Strict implementation of all labour laws particularly in respect of minimum wages, working hours, social security and safety and stringent action against all cases of violations; stop contractorisation and outsourcing
Scope of the Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Bill pending in Parliament should be expanded to cover all unorganised sector workers irrespective of BPL or APL category to ensure a national minimum social security benefit for them as per unanimous recommendation of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour with Central Govt Funding.
Farmers Loan Waiver Scheme to be extended to loans from private moneylenders; nationalized banks to extend easy credit to peasants at lower interest rate.
Lift ban on recruitment in Govt services; remove the negative and discriminatory features in the recommendation of 6th Pay Commission and finalise the same for implementation in consultation with the employees organisations; expedite regularization and grant of pension to 'gramin dak-sevaks.'
Expedite wage negotiation for the employees of Central PSUs including the contract workers without any conditionality.
This is the first time the government employees including the audit and accounts employees & officers in particular and the working class in general would be embarking upon a strike action on the issue of price rise that impacted adversely on the day to day life of the people at large. The All India Accounts and Audit Officers association cautioned the members against the plans of the present Government to accomplish the so-called unfinished agenda of neo-liberal reforms. Immediately after getting through the trust vote, the present Government had come out in its true colour. The Government could not suppress its zeal in announcing its plans for immediate measures to finish the so-called unfinished agenda of neo-liberal reforms, which obviously pertain to privatization and deregulation of financial sector - in pension, banking and insurance. The All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association felt these were designed to unleash complete deregulation to establish hegemony of private capital, both foreign and domestic, over the financial sector of the country.
Allowing voting rights for the foreign players in banking sector, unhurdled operation of foreign companies in the insurance sector and raising of the FDI cap, pushing the pension and other social security funds as fodders for speculative operations in the share market, privatisation/disinvestments of the profit-making Public Sector Undertakings etc are the retrograde measures on the anvil on the part of the present government, which could so long be stalled by the organized opposition by the entire trade union movement. The trade unions in this country denounces such overzealous posture by the present Government against taking such retrograde moves which would further throw the entire national economy deeper into the grip of speculative interests. In this background the All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association calls upon its officers to make the call of countrywide general strike of August 20, 2008 by the Sponsoring Committee of Trade Unions a total success and prepare for bigger countrywide united resistance struggle against such contemplated measures of privatization and deregulation of pension funds being touted overzealously by the present Government.
The All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association further calls upon every unit to endorse the notice that would be served to C&AG by All India Accounts & Audit Officers Association on 4th August 2008 by holding massive general body meetings.
Draft resolution that may be adopted in the GB is enclosed along with the Strike Notice that would be served to CAG.
The information regarding serving the notice may please be communicated to HQr through SMS on the same day followed by sending the copy of the notice served by post.
With warm regards,

Yours fraternally,

( S.Mohan)
Secretary General.

Invitation from Host Unit

CIVIL ACCOUNTS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
O/O the ACCOUNTANT GENERAL (A&E)-II, MAHARASHTRA, NAGPUR
(Recognised by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India)
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No.CAO/NGP/ Dated: 17th July, 2008


Dear Comrade,

All India Accounts & Audit Officers Association conference at Nagpur

You must have received the Notification from the Secretary General of All India Accounts & Audit Officers Association regarding 33rd biennial Conference to be held at Nagpur from 28th August to 30th August, 2008. The Conference of the officers Association is being held at a crucial juncture. The unprecedented inflation and rise in prices of the essential commodities and its accelerating trend caused due to the pursuance of the anti-people economic policies of globalization, liberalization and privatization has made the employees and officers’ life miserable and unbearable. The raging inflation nullifies whatever increase in DA is granted by the Central and State Governments and will wipe out any financial benefit that might accrue to the officers & employees if the VI-Central Pay Commission recommendations are modified and implemented.

The status and Pay packet of AOs/Sr. AOs has not only been ignored by the 6th CPC but also downgraded by recommending the Pay Scale much lower than the Pay Scale of Cadre, the work of which is being supervised by us. In our department the danger which is looming large on our head is regarding computerisation and ultimately surrendering of accounting functions, Increase in workload of Accounts/Audit officers day by day without any norms and discussions. Similarly, the percentage of audit is pathetically reduced to make the functions of Audit a mere formality. The audit wing of establishment, contingencies and works had become endangered species. Selection of review topics have done liberally and the staff surrender had begun in a great way. Many of our genuine demands like removal of age limit for promotion to I.A. & A.S, Conferring Status directly in the rank of DAG/DD instead of AAG/AD to Sr.A.Os promoted to I.A. & A.S. by giving weightage to their long years of experience, Creation of the post of Welfare Officer in each field office within IA&AD, Review of Audit Plan, Increasing Promotion Quota to I.A &A.S. to 50% from the existing 33 1/3%,Group A status to our cadre and maintaining horizontal/vertical relativity with different cadres of IA&AD have not been considered by the Department for the past so many years.

It is opportune time for us to discuss and decide our future course of action in this Conference. If we falter now, then the future of our cadre will be doomed and future generations would curse us for not taking appropriate action. In this background, the organising Committee has made elaborate arrangements for holding the Conference at Central Place in Nagpur to facilitate fruitful discussion and to arrive at unanimous decision on future course of action.

The venue has been fixed at Sugandha Mangal Karyalaya, Opposite Bhagawagarh Park, Ajit Bakery road Dharampeth, Nagpur 440010 from 27th August to 31st August. 2008. The venue is about 3 K.M. away from Railway Station and 4 K.M. from Maharashtra State Transport Bus Stand. Further, our volunteers will be present at Main porch of the Nagpur Railway Station (near Platform No.1) on 27th and 28th August, 2008 during day time. The volunteers will help the delegates/observers in getting prepaid auto services to reach the venue. The climate of the Orange City during this period will be hot and humid. The delegates are advised to bring light clothing only. Catering arrangements at the venue have been made from 27th evening to 31st Midday. The delegate fee/observer fee is fixed @ Rs.400/-(Rs. four hundred only) per delegate. The participant organisations are requested to intimate the names of delegates and programme of arrival at Nagpur latest by 20th August, 2008 so that proper arrangements can be made.
All the organisations of the IA&AD irrespective of their affiliation are requested to attend this conference in order to chalk out a united policy and programme. The Organisation Committee hopes that your unit will participate in large number in this conference so that we can unitedly take a proper decision to face the challenges.
With fraternal greetings,

Fraternally yours,

(S.V. Deshpande)
Secretary,
Reception Committee.
Mob:09423681336

PS: In case of any problem or help, the delegates are requested to contact any of the following office bearers: 1) Sh.A.S.Majumdar, 9420254539 (2) Sh.S.M. Tijare, 9423805694 (3)Sh. S.M. Darwhekar, 9226891553 (4)Sh. C.S.N. Murthy, 9422809103 and Sh. R.K. Srivastav,9422807600

Dear Comrades,

Please post your comments on the following message on Corporatisation of food.

S. Mohan.

Hungry for change

Karl Marx once noted, “The rate of profit is the motive power of capitalist production. Things are produced only as long as they can be produced with a profit.” Does this apply to food?
Every day millions worldwide are going hungry as food prices shoot up. In India prices jumped 12 percent in 2008 and are expected to raise more for the remaining part of the year. Eggs are up almost 30 percent. Milk is up more than 15 percent. Grains, fruits, vegetables and meats are sky high. A trip to the supermarket and Vegetable mandi has become a painful experience for low- and middle-income people as they contemplate the gold-plated prices and try to figure out how to put a decent meal on the table.
Yet food is nothing but a highly profitable commodity for giant agribusinesses Conglomerates like Archer Daniels, Midland, Cargill and Reliance dominate the worldwide production, processing and distribution of food, destroying local sustainable agriculture in the process, and reap mammoth profits as a result. For example, Cargill’s profits jumped by 82 percent last year, as food riots erupted in many poverty-stricken areas of the world and in our own country low- and middle-income people were forced to choose between paying for groceries or for rent, mortgage payments.
While fuel costs, biofuels, weather disasters and environmental degradation are all factors in rising prices, so is the pursuit of ever-bigger profits by investors and corporate chiefs. And food has become another hot item in Dalal Street portfolios. Many experts charge that speculation on food commodities has helped drive prices to the record highs we see in our supermarkets today. While the soaring prices are causing hardships for consumers, families of farmers are going under to the food conglomerates.
Wholesome and affordable food is a basic necessity of life. Corporations and private greed should not be deciding who eats and who doesn’t. Dalal Street speculators cannot be allowed to treat our food as their profit-making commodity. Strict regulation should be imposed to prevent this.
More fundamentally, we need a comprehensive national food and agriculture policy that protects consumers, family of farmers and our nation’s food supply and farmland. This is a real national security issue that needs urgent attention.

Circular No 4 of All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association

ALL INDIA ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
(Recognised by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India)
Ref. No. 59/NGE(JCM) 27-2006(Vol-II) dt. 12-03-2007
E Mail ID ‘auditacounts@gmail.com’
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No. AIAAAOA/Circular/2008-09/4 16.07.2008


To
The National Executive Members &
The Secretaries of the Affiliates

Dear Comrades,

NATIONAL CONVETION OF CENTRAL & STATE GOVT EMPLOYEES, UNIVERISTY COLLEGE TEACHERS & SCHOOL TEACHERS CALLS FOR STRIKE ON 20TH AUGUST 2008:The Joint Convention of Central and State Government Employees, University College Teachers and School Teachers held at Shah Auditorium at Delhi on 8th July 2008 decided to mobilise employees and teachers for a one day strike on 20th August 2008 against the anti-people economic policies of the government and the sky-rocketing price rise.

On behalf of our Federation, President Com.Radhakrishna participated in the Convention of Central and State Government Employees’ jointly organized by the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers’ and All India State Govt Employees’ Federation on 8th July , 2008. Com Rajesh Menon, Secretary General Confederation of Central Govt Gazetted Officers Organisations also attended the convention as an invitee. The convention unanimously decided to join the General strike of workers on 20th August 2008 being organized by the sponsoring committee of Central Trade Unions including Bank, LIC, and Public Sector etc. Com Rajesh Menon addressing the Convention declared that all efforts will be made to organize Gazetted Officers Organisations to join the strike. Com Radhakrishna while addressing the convention assured that the members of our Federation will join the strike on 20th August and will also serve strike notice on 4th August along with other organizations.

The Convention of Central and State employees and teachers on 8th July 2008 decided the following action programmes:

1. Joint Conventions at States/District/Industrial centres to be completed by 15th July,2008.
2. Massive demonstration/mobilization/dharna in all the states and Industrial centres on 30th July, 2008.
3. Serving of strike notice through demonstration on 4th August, 2008.
4. One day Strike on 20th August 2008.
It is requested that all our affiliated units should start effective campaign for the successful implementation of the strike on 20th August 2008. The Declaration of the Convention is already posted.

ON 6th Central Pay Commission Rumours are flying thick and Head Quarter is flooded with enquiries on Committee of Secretaries’ report on 6th Central Pay Commission. It is understood that it may be submitted to Government around 20th July 2008. The chances of core issues raised by the employees and officers being addressed are remote. Rather the govt. may go for cosmetic changes that will not benefit our cadre much. Our President met Asst.Comptroller & Auditor General (N) and other Officers in Comptroller & Auditor General’s Office and discussed certain important issues. In respect of Pay Scales of our cadres, the Asst.Comptroller& Auditor General (N) informed that the Department has presented before the Committee of Secretaries that the Pay Commission recommendation of merging of AAO and AO cadre should be annulled and that the Pay Scale of SAO should not be less than that of Under Secretary. A presentation has also been made before the Cabinet Secretary on the subject. It is further informed that the files regarding anomaly, our proposed amendments to the Constitution are still under process.

33rd Conference of All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association: (Dates Changed)The 33rd Conference of our Association is going to be held for 3 days from 28th to 30th August at the Orange City of Nagpur The venue of the Conference will be Sugandha Mangal Karyalaya, Opp to Bhagawagarh Park, Ajit Bakery road Dharampeth, Nagpur .No doubt, it is our conference to be held once in two years to talk about us, think about us, decide the future course of action to improve our working environment, living conditions and about our department. It is requested that all the affiliated units should send their respective delegates to the conference without fail.

With greetings,


Yours fraternally,


S.Mohan.
Secretary General.

All India Accounts & Audit Officers Association

Dear Comrades,

The declaration adopted in the Delhi Convention is for your information.

S.Mohan.
Secretary General.

8th JULY DELHI CONVENTION DECLARATION

Adopted unanimously at the convention of Central and State Government employees, University, College and School Teachers.

This Joint Convention of Central & State Govt. employees, Defence workers, University, College and School Teachers and other employees held this day, the 8th July, 2008 adopts the following declaration.
The Convention notes with distress that the Govt. of India and many State Governments in the country have been following the World Bank-IMF dictated neo-liberal economic policies unabated since 1991 despite the sustained and continued opposition and resistance of the working people. While fabulously enriching a few in the topmost strata of the society and allowing comfort to the high segment of the middle class, it has pushed millions of our countrymen to penury and poverty. While the economy is claimed to have grown at a faster pace during this period, the workers, peasants and common people became poorer in a much more accelerated manner.
The unprecedented inflation and rise in prices of the essential commodities and its accelerating trend caused due to the pursuance of the anti-people economic policies of globalization, liberalization and privatization has made the workers' and poor people's life miserable and unbearable. The raging inflation nullifies whatever increase in DA is granted by the Central and State Governments and will wipe out any financial benefit that might accrue to the employees if the VI-CPC recommendations are modified and implemented
The Central and State Govt. employees and the teaching community have always been in the forefront of the struggles and industrial actions organized under the auspices of Sponsoring Committee of Trade Unions. This convention, therefore, strongly supports the decision of the Sponsoring Committee to organize yet another one day countrywide united strike on 20th August, 2008 to oppose the disastrous economic policies and force the Govt to effectively control and bring down the rampant escalation of prices of commodities
The present ferocious trend of price-rise which has already touched about 12% has become a killer disease for the ordinary countrymen, but most astonishingly, the Central Government is betraying an extremely callous and indifferent attitude to this type of unforeseen price-rise and pooh-poohing it as nothing but a 'world phenomenon'.
The trade unions of the country including those in the Govt sector can not remain just as spectators, when employees and the common people are writhing with unbearable pain of this phenomenon. It is, therefore, the bounden duty of all trade unions to rise up to the occasion with vigorous protest compelling the Govt to control the spiralling price rise of essential commodities and rescue the people from this extremely tormenting and fatal situation.
It is diabolical that while the country is reeling under the unprecedented and uncontrolled price rise, the Govt. is crazy in pursuing the Nuclear Deal even at the cost of national sovereignty. Hence the needs for joining the countrywide strike on 20 August 2008.
This convention recognizes the fact that the Govt's attempt for withdrawal of the Statutory Pension Scheme of Govt. Employees to replace it with a contributory system is conceived to transfer funds from poor to rich and to finance the stock market operations. The mass scale outsourcing of regular jobs, contractorization, and privatization have become the modern instruments of exploitation. This is being applied in all Govt sectors including the teaching community and the teaching institutions. In all sectors; be it private, public or Government; denial of legitimate wages to the workers are encouraged blatantly by the Govt. Basic and hard earned labour welfare legislative enactments are sought to be replaced by reactionary ones to provide room for unhindered exploitation of workers and to appease the Trans-national Corporations.
Right to Strike for the Govt. employees has not yet been formally granted. This year is the 60th year of Declaration of Human Rights by the ILO. Govt. of India is a member State of the ILO. However, for the last 60 years Govt. of India has been consistently refusing to ratify the ILO convention 87, 98 in regard to TU rights and 151 concerning such rights to workers in public services. This convention demands of the Government to ratify the convention in 87, 98 and 151 and afford the right to strike to the Government employees.

This convention views the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission as yet another manifestation of the intent of the ruling class to intensify the neo-liberal economic policies. The 6th CPC has discarded all the established norms and principles of wage determination and has advanced untenable arguments to deny the employees the minimum wage. It has openly advocated Corporatisation and even privatization of major departments of the Govt. of India, Railways and Defence in particular. This convention asks the Government to deist from the practice of Corporatisation and privatization of Government departments. In consonance with the practices prevailing in the western world, the commission has suggested hefty pay packets and benefits for the top echelons in the bureaucracy denying in the process even the legitimate and genuine demands of the employees. The commission's recommendation to dispense with the existing Bonus scheme and introduce a system of performance related wage structure being bereft of any logic or merit has been rejected by all the organizations of Central Govt. employees unanimously. The convention condemns the suggestion made by the 6th CPC to abolish Group D Cadre and to stop recruitment of Group D employees as being superfluous in the Govt. departments and permit contractorization of these functions henceforth. This direction of the 6th CPC, if implemented by the Central Govt, will play havoc in the States, where the number of Group-D employees is in colossal numbers. This convention therefore demands the Govt. to enter into a meaningful discussion with the employees' organizations and bring about a satisfactory settlement on the recommendations made by the 6th CPC and ensure that the retrograde recommendation on stoppage of Group D recruitment is rejected.
The 6th CPC has not recommended to extend the existing defined benefit Pension Scheme for new recruits, which the Govt has stopped without any statutory sanction This is unacceptable and the Convention demands that the proposed new Contributory Pension Scheme which is yet to receive the assent of Parliament should be scrapped and all Govt. employees (including those recruited after 1.1.2004) brought within the ambit of the statutory defined pension scheme.
In addition to the above demands of the Govt sector in particular, the Convention fully adopts the Charter of Demands and endorses the programme of actions chalked out by the Sponsoring Committee in its national Convention held at New Delhi on 13th May, 2008 and calls upon the central and State Govt. employees, University, College and School Teachers to organize a day's countrywide strike on 20th August, 2008 in unison with the other sections of the working class in the country and carry out the following preparatory programmes of action.
Joint Conventions at States/District/Industrial centres to be completed by 15th July, 2008.
Massive demonstration/mobilization/dharna in all the states and Industrial centerson30thJuly, 2008.
Serving of strike notice through demonstration on 4th August, 2008.

This Convention urges that Central and State employees' organizations, Teachers and other section of employees in the Govt sector should take steps for successful observance of the Strike through unified and coordinated action in all States.

The Convention also calls upon the State Govt. employees and Teachers to organize solidarity action programme as and when the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers and other sections of the Central Govt. employees go for strike and other industrial action demanding satisfactory settlement of the 6th CPC recommendations.

The 6-Point Charter of Demands adopted by the Sponsoring Committee in National Convention of Trade Unions on 13 May 2008.
Take urgent step to contain price-rise through (a) universalizing the public distribution system throughout the country to cater all essential commodities at controlled price through PDS, (b) ban on futures and forward trading in all essential commodities, (C) reduction of tax in petrol and diesel, (d) stringent action against hoarding and black marketing.
Strict implementation of all labour laws particularly in respect of minimum wages, working hours, social security and safety and stringent action against all cases of violations; stop contractorisation and outsourcing.
Scope of the Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Bill pending in Parliament should be expanded to cover all unorganised sector workers irrespective of BPL or APL category to ensure a national minimum social security benefit for them as per unanimous recommendation of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour with Central Govt Funding.
Farmers Loan Waiver Scheme to be extended to loans from private moneylenders; nationalized banks to extend easy credit to peasants at lower interest rate.
Lift ban on recruitment in Govt services; remove the negative and discriminatory features in the recommendation of 6th Pay Commission and finalise the same for implementation in consultation with the employees’ organisations; expedite regularization and grant of pension to 'gramin dak-sevaks.
Expedite wage negotiation for the employees of Central Public Sector Undertakings including the contract workers without any conditionality.

All India Accounts & Audit Officers Association

This poem was recently nominated by UN for an award for the 'Best Poem'

- Written by a Kenyan student.

When I born,.... I black

When I grow up,....I black

When I go in Sun,.... I black

When I scared,.... I black

When I sick,....I black

And when I die,.... I still black

And you white fellow........

When you born, you pink

When you grow up, you white

When you go in sun, you red

When you cold, you blue

When you scared, you yellow

When you sick, you green

And when you die, you grey

And you calling me coloured??

Comrades this also applies to us (particularly many times) in the IAAD in a different context.
Please think it over…….

Courtesy to the Kenyan Student.

S.Mohan.

All India Accounts And Audit Officers Association

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Dear Comrades,
One day strike on 20th August, 2008.
National Convention of Central and State Govt. employees and teachers.

The sponsoring Committee of Trade Unions in the country has decided to organize one day strike action on 20th August, 2008 against the neo liberal economic policies of the Govt. of India. The latest manifestation of these policies is the report of the 6th Central Pay Commission. The report has discarded all the established norms and procedure in the determination of the wages of the Central Government employees and have openly advocated for outsourcing of its various functions, especially those presently carried out by the low paid workers belonging to Group D cadres. The existing relativities of the pay scale between the employees, officers and Class I officers have been disturbed wildly in favour of the Class I officers. The two major organizations of the Govt. of India i.e the Defence ordinance factories and Railways have been recommended to be corporatised. Besides there had been a subtle but definite attempt to drag the existing employees, officers into the vortex of the new contributory pension scheme. As the neo liberal economic policies of the government of India and its sixth pay commission report is having direct impact to our cadre, it had been and continues to be our endeavour to ensure the participation of all Central Govt. employees and Officers who are organized under the banner of the Confederation of Central Govt. employees and workers in such united industrial actions.

It has now been decided to hold a convention under the auspices of the Confederation of Central Govt. employees and workers, All India State Govt. employees Federation, the Federation of University and School Teachers of India on 8th July, 2008 at New Delhi. The venue of the Convention is:

M.P.C.U Shah Auditorium, Gujrati Samaj Marg, Near: Civil Lines Metro Station Delhi-110 054.

The Convention will commence at 1.30 PM and shall be concluded by 6.00 PM. In this regard, it is informed that the President of our Association Com.S.Radhakrisna will participate in the Convention on behalf of us.

With greetings,

S.Mohan.
Secretary General.

New website for our Association

Dear Comrades,
The All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association has created its own website for its Communication.No doubt we entered into a new step. By that way our communication channel would be strengtherned further. I request all of our officers utilise this website for getting the developments in respect of their service conditions, working environment, as well as the developments in our own department.
Thanks for your cooperation

S.Mohan.
Secretary General