Report on the performance of the Association since last annual general body meeting held on 18th March 2012 to till date.
Dear Friends,
On behalf of the P&T Audit Officers’ & Sr. Audit Officers’ Association, I would like to welcome all delegates and invitees to this historic moment of our 4th Annual General Body Meeting. We are thankful to our friends and members of BAO Lucknow for hosting this meeting. We are also thankful to the members of P&T Audit, Category II Association and P&T Audit Category III Association of BAO Lucknow for extending their all out co-operation to make this meeting a great success. We are proud to have Sri P Prabhakar, President of All India Audit & Accounts Officers Association and Sri M G Venkatesh, former Vice President of our Association with us.
Homage
Before placing this report let us pay our homage to those memorable personalities who had sacrificed their lives for safeguarding the interest of the Nation to maintain the unity, integrity and security of our country. We also take the opportunity to pay homage to all the valiant fighters of working class movement who have departed us during the period.
We also express our deepest concern over the world wide terrorism which has posed a blatant threat to the sovereignty of our country also. This general body meeting strongly condemns the cowardly act of terrorists and expresses deep sympathy with the kin of the victims. We also pay our homage to all our brethren who departed us.
Situation prevailing around us
The unprecedented rate of inflation and soaring prices of the essential commodities due to the pursuance of the anti people economic policies of globalization and liberalization have made the lives of people not only miserable but unbearable also.
The basic amenities of life are becoming out of reach. People are hungry not because of the growing population or food is becoming scarce, but the fact is that people cannot afford to it. Food may be scarce, but it is improper international trade and economic policies that have led to immense poverty and hunger among the poor and ordinary people.
It would not be out of place to mention that corruption, both at national and international levels of our society has proved to be one of the major factors of poverty prevailing across the world. Corruption always undermines political development, democracy, economic development, the environment, people’s health and a lot more.
This meeting therefore urges upon the members of our association to promote and generate a great deal of awareness among the common people on these burning issues.
ACTIVITIES OF THE ASSOCIATION
Director General of Audit, Posts & Telecommunications is functioning with a strength of 224 Sr. AOs/ AOS in total. On date P&T Audit Officers ‘ & Sr. Audit Officers Association is having 182 members of which 6 new members were included during the last one year. Our members posted in the O/o the DGAP&T, Delhi and all of it’s Branch Offices (except BAO, Jaipur) are being kept aware of the functioning of the Association and the recent developments, through our website <www.paosaos.blogspot.in> which can be viewed easily by the words <p&t audit officers & sr audit officers association>.
The main objective of our Association has remained to unify and secure all members with the aim to achieve and fulfill our legitimate demands by all constitutional means and other recognized measures. There is evidence of several brutal attacks by the CAG’s Administration on democratic functioning of the mass organizations in IA&AD. Even in this prevailing situation of attacks and mounting pressures, our organization has been able to successfully participate in all the programs circulated by our federation ‘All India Audit & Accounts Officers Association’ in order to achieve conferment of Gr. A status to Sr. AOs, Up gradation of grade pays and other just demands as well as to uphold the dignity of C&AG’s Institution.
At the call of ‘All India Audit & Accounts Officers Association’ we organized lunch hour Demonstration at BAO Trivandrum, BAO Patna, BAO Chennai and BAO Hyderabad on 6/9/2012 to protest and condemn the recent attacks to C&AG and his Institution by certain political parties and sent Resolutions to DGAP&T and C&AG on this score.
On 8/12/2012 a convention of Central Govt. Gazetted Officers organization was held at Chennai. Our Leadership was represented there.
A country wide strike was called on 12/12/2012 and again on 20/2/2013 and 21/2/2013 by the Central and State Govt. Employees along with other working class people of India. Though we were not in a position to directly participate in it, we did extend our whole hearted moral support to them by wearing Demand Badges for i) Up gradation of Grade Pay of AOs and Sr. AOs, ii) JCM Status to Gazetted Officers. iii) Bonus for all Gazetted Officers. iv) Formation of Seventh Pay Commission and v) Merger of 50% DA with Basic Pay for all purposes.
Our demand for conferment of Gr. A status to Sr. AOs of IA&AD is now under litigation. On the order of Honorable Principal Central Administrative Tribunal, Delhi Bench the All India Audit & Account Officers Association has filed a Writ Petition to Honorable Delhi High Court. Members of our Association has tendered their moral support to our Federation and contributed Rs. One lakh eighteen thousand in total to the legal fund created for this purpose.
Two extended Executive Committee Meeting of our Association were held on 31/5/2012 at Delhi and on 31/10/2012at Bengaluru to discuss the Issues of P&T Audit and to chalk out the future course of action.
Our Association is worried about the blame being transferred on AOs/SAOs for the present deterioration of the performance of the Office of DGA P&T as a whole without going to the root cause of the problem. This Association whole heartedly supports any move made by the DGA for improvement of overall performance in qualitative and quantitative terms. It is to our credit that our suggestions made in the previous meeting with DGA (P&T) for proper elaborate in-house training for increasing the domain knowledge of the auditee organizations which is currently being implemented. The drastic shrinkage in the activities / investment and technological changes of the auditee organizations has led to the present situation. Besides, severe shortage in all functional cadres has further contributed for the present situation. This association is of the strong opinion that mere transfer of personnel without addressing the above mentioned core issues will be counter-productive.
Due to insufficient allotment of fund by C&AG Office to the Office of DGA P&T, in many Branch Offices a considerable number of claims are pending for quite long. The Executive committee during their last meeting with DGA P&T on 1/6/2012 had urged to ensure the provision of sufficient supporting staff at AAO cadre and to obtain sufficient allotment of funds to settle all the long pending TA Bills and other personal claims at the BAOs. This AGM notes with deep concern that the above mentioned issues have not been addressed yet.
Ignoring the above facts the recent proposal mooted by the authorities to transfer all Sr. AOs/ AOs who have put in long years of service in one particular BAO and posting to another BAO.
This Association’s effort to discuss the pros and cons of the issue affecting our lives seriously with DGA has not yielded any results so far. However the association is making all out efforts in this regard. By this time our members posted at different BAOs have resolved that ‘as there are certain norms already existing for transfer of Sr. AOs/ AOs, any change of the existing norms would cause considerable dislocation. The matter may therefore be discussed with our recognized Association.’ The resolutions as received from all the BAOs have been consolidated and communicated to DGAP&T and All India Audit & Accounts Officers Association to take up the issue in a larger forum.
The need of the hour is utmost unity in our thoughts, deeds and actions. By mere silent observation without a strong participatory action, we will not generate a position to resist the attacks made on our cadre in the coming days. We believe that our unity would definitely bring the much coveted success and help us in reaching our goals.
DATE : 20TH APRIL, 2013
LUCKNOW
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Yours fraternally,
(I N KITRANIA)
GENARAL SECRETARY
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