MINUTES OF THE X BGM OF
AIRASA
VIRTUALLY HELD ON 12-12-2020
& 13-12-2020
IN THE ON LINE PLATFORM “ZOOM
MEETING”
As resolved in the on line CWC Meeting of AIRASA, held
on 26-09-2020 and 03-10-2020, the X BGM of AIRASA was conducted on 12th
and 13th December 2020, on line, via “ZOOM Meeting”.
Shri.
Joginder Babbar ,AGS welcomed the 111 participants from almost all the
Railways, Units and the Guests. As the President did not participate, despite
several reminders to him, the Central office bearers present authorized Shri.
Ashok Dwivedi, Addl. General Secretary, to conduct the proceedings.
The meeting started with observing two minutes
mourning, for the Accounts Staff and Officers who lost their life/dear one’s
life to Covid 19.
Shri.
S. Mohan, Patron, All India Audit and Accounts Staff and Officers Association,
former Secretary General, Confederation of Central Government Gazetted Officers
Organisations, inaugurated the BGM with his thought provoking address.
In
his address, he highlighted the fact that the recent change, in the base year
for calculating the Price index, shall adversely affect our DA/DR payment,
which already is under freeze. He said that the Government did not consult the
Staff side before finalizing it. He said
that the exercise was initiated with the intent of revising the base year as
2013, but while announcing, it was arbitrarily changed as 2016.
He
recalled the golden days of AIRASA leading the fight, for improved pay scales
in V CPC and its success, based only on which, the same was extended to all
other Audit and other Organized Accounts. But, he lamented, that in the last 10
years, many benefits achieved by the Organised Accounts and Audit has not been
extended to Railway Accounts brethren and that there has been no serious protests
from the Railway Accounts side. In particular,
he pointed out that they have achieved 15% promotional quota in Supervisor
Cadre (Sr.AA in Railways) and introduction of a new grade “Asst. Supervisor”. He said the promotion to AAOs (Sr.SOs in
Railways) on passing SAS Exam is treated as recruitment and three MACP benefits
are being extended to the employees, from the date of promotion to that Grade. He
also pointed out that they have achieved Group A status for the Sr. Audit
Officers in Grade Pay Rs.5400 in PB 3 and succeeded in creation of 6000 posts
in GP Rs.7600. He offered all help to
AIRASA in framing strategies to fight for the above. He also alerted that
serious steps towards privatization of Railways and merger of departments will
adversely affect the Railway Accounts and the cadre has to be educated about
this.
Shri.
N. Srinivasan, former GS/AIRASA, extended his whole hearted thanks to Shri. S.
Mohan, for accepting his invitation and for the enlightening speech.
He
expressed shock that AIRASA is lagging so behind and that the fight for these
demands should start at the right earnest, without any further delay. He said
that a review of the so called AIRASA’s Website clearly shows that, in the last
nine years only two demands( grant of GP of Rs. 5400/- and V CPC arrears) have been given attention
out of the 14 demands that were pending as in 2011.
Shri. Ashok
Dwivedi, then presented the General
Secretary’s Report in his capacity as the Additional General Secretary, since the General Secretary had
retired from Railway Service on 28-02-2019.
He presented
to the BGM, the developments, as
detailed below, that took place since last BGM of AIRASA held on the 19th and
20th of April 2018, at New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, organised by AIRASA/NF
Zone/New Jalpaiguri Branch.
The BGM
at NJP was attended by 8 Central Office bearers and a few Zonal representatives
and Accounts Staff of CN/NJP office. President Shri. Partha Bhattacharjee had presided
over the meeting.
Shri. Ashok Dwivedi, stated that the following resolutions were
passed in the BGM held at NJP. 1) Follow
up action to be taken for implementation of Para 11.40.82 and 11.40.83 of the
7th PC recommendations with Hon’ble Ministers, MPs and Railway Board Officials.
Office bearers are requested to meet BJP MPs in this regard and ask them to put
pressure to Hon’ble Minister for DOPT and Railway Board Officials. 2) GP of
JAAs to be upgraded to 4200 from the present 2800 on the lines of ASM cadre. 3)
Entry point of CGII should be passing Appendix IIA and they should be fixed on
2800 GP. 4) LDC 30% and 70% to be scrapped. Selection should be based only on
Seniority. 5) Maintain Departmental hierarchy in Accounts Department and
elevate AA to GP 4800 instead of 4600 GP. 6) Mobilisation and collection of
funds should be done vigorously, duly informing GS and Secretary-Finance of AIRASA
periodically. 7) Gazetted status should be given to all Sr.SOs/Sr.TIAs/Sr.ISAs,
as applicable for Organized Accounts.
He said that, in the delegate session that followed, he
conveyed sincere thanks to all the office bearers of AIRASA/NJP unit, for
organising such a grand BGM with excellent hospitality. He also recalled the
success of AGM held at Ratlam. He had also demanded that juniors should not be
paid more than seniors in pay matters. He had also suggested to amend the
AIRASA constitution, for induction of retired, experienced and knowledgeable
persons as office bearers. But this demand was rejected by the then General
Secretary, who himself had only 10 months of service left, a fact he did not
disclose in that Meeting and allowed himself to be elected for a term of two
years.
A
CEC meeting of AIRASA was held on 21st September 2018 Friday at New Delhi. The meeting was held at the request of Sri
Ramesh Kumar ADFM/ Northern Railway and former Working President of AIRASA ,
who was large hearted enough to bear all the expenses, on the eve of his
Superannuation. Many past and the then present
office bearers attended the Meeting. Nothing
much was discussed there, except regarding grant of GP Rs. 5400 on completion
of four years in GP Rs.4800.
After that, the GS and the President have reportedly visited
New Delhi 5 or 6 times and had mainly followed up on the issue of implementing GP
of Rs. 5400 on completion of four years in GP Rs.4800 and payment of arrears
issue. Nothing else was said to have been pursued.
He mentioned that the most important development, in the
last two years, was the verdict of Hon’ble Supreme Court, ordering payment of V
CPC arrears within 3 weeks time. Since
it was not implemented, a caveat was filed in the Hon’ble Supreme Court. Since, it was reported that there had been no
development in the issue, a second caveat was filed on completion of 90 days. Now it is gathered that the SLP filed by the
Administration side will come up for hearing on 14-12-2020. Our representative
in New Delhi will follow up.
He also said that, after a gap of 9 years, the issue of
enhancing the percentage of Sr AA posts on par with other Audit and Accounts
has been taken up and two reminders have been sent to FC in this regard.
AGS assured that action will be taken up seriously after
the BGM is over regarding other pending demands, by the new Central Office
bearers.
Then, the AGS PRESENTED THE FINANCIAL REPORT also,
since the Secretary- Finance, has not submitted the Accounts and did not present
himself in the Meeting, despite many reminders by WhatsApp and Speed Post.
AGS had to present the
report, based on the Account Statements obtained from the Bank. He stated that an amount of Rs. 8,10,000/-
has been taken from the interest portion of FDs and transferred to the current
account of AIRASA as against the resolution passed in the BGM held at Jhansi in
2015 to withdraw Rs. 2 lakhs only from FD, to meet the expenses connected with the
Case filed in Delhi High Court regarding payment of V PC arrears from 1-1-96 to
18-02-2003.
Apart from this, amounts received as Membership fee and
Donations amounted to Rs. 2,50,000/-. But, the net balance as on date is only
Rs. 75850/- which is shocking and
does not make any sense. An amount of
Rs. 3.8 lakhs has been transferred in the last two years to the personal
account of Mr. Reji George retired General Secretary and Cash Withdrawn from central account is Rs. 201344/- An amount of Rs.111000/- has been paid to the Lawyer
for appearing in the arrears case.
DELEGATES SESSION 12-12-2020 & 12-03-2020 :
In the delegate session that
followed, Shri. Shailendra Kumar Sr.AFA/ E C Rly (former GS/AIRASA) spoke
as a Special Guest. S/Shri/Smt. Manoj Shukla-C.Rly, M.L.Narayanan -SEC.Rly, R.K.Saraswat-C.Rly
(Retd), Ramesh Kumar-N.Rly (Retd), P.K.Bhatnagar-NCR-JHS, Dharmendra Kumar, NCR, PRYJ. Vikas
Pathak-NCR-PRYJ, Mukesh Khare-N.C.Rly-JHS, Ranjan Sharma-ERly-Kolkata, J.P.Maurya-W.Rly-Ajmer,
Dilip Singh Rathore-NWR-Ajmer, Amit Kamani-W.Rly-RJT, V.B.L.Srivastav-Agra-NCR,
T.K.Rajkumar-S.Rly-MAS, Ajai
Pathak-JBP-WCR, Sudarshan M.N.-ICF-PER, Antony
Selvan-S.Rly-MDU, Gyanendra Shukla-WCR-BPL, Mahesh Khaneja-N.Rly-NDLS, Sayed Rahat
Bakht-S.E.Rly-Kolkata, Sunil Kumar-JUC-N.Rly, N.K.Singh -WCR-JBP, Ramakant Singh-WCR-JBP, G.Satyanarayana-SCR-SC,
Parmindarjit Singh-NDLS-N.Rly, Om Prakash Mishra-NCR-CNB, Smt. Shobha-G. C.Rly-CSTM, Kamlesh Chatuvedi-N.E.Rly-GKP (Retd), Bharat
Mishra -NCR-PTYJ, Venkat Ramaiah-SCR-SC, B.B.Mahto-SECR, Shiv Ram
Shukla-WCR-BPL, Ashok Singh-NWR-Ajmer, Kamat-C.Rly-CSTM, Alok Shukla-JP-NWR and
many others participated and expressed their views on the following subjects :
1.
Large number of App.IIA
passed Accounts clerks are waiting for promotion to JAA Cadre and the need for
restructuring the present ratio 20 : 80 as 10 : 90 and to take steps to promote
all ACs in the waiting list by promoting them against DR quota vacancies.
2.
Following up of the demand
for allotment of the Grade pay of Rs.4200 to JAAs on par with ASMs.
3.
Fixation of minimum pay on
promotion equivalent to the pay structure given to Direct Recruits by the VI
CPC.
4.
Increasing the percentage of
Sr. AAs from the current 1% to 15% on par with Audit and other Accounts cadre.
5.
The delay in implementation
of VII CPC recommendation of granting the GP. Rs.5400/- on completion four
years in Rs.4800/-
6.
Grant of MACP
benefits to the promotee JAAs, treating their promotion as JAA on passing
App.IIA examination, as Direct
Recruitment.
7.
Group B status to all Sr.
SO(A)s/Sr. ISAs/Sr. TIAs and abolition of 70% and 30% exams
and
many other demands pending for more than
10 years.
Additional General Secretary replied
to the discussion, which continued to the second day also. He said that Hon’ble
Minister of Railways, Member-Finance and all other officials concerned will be addressed
on all the pending issues and issues raised now, after passing necessary
resolutions. He expressed his confidence of achieving these genuine demands one
by one, at the earliest.
After
this, the General Secretary’s Report and Finance Report was accepted by the
General Body.
The Meeting
passed the resolution to amend Item No.7, 11 and 16(a) of the Constitution as
detailed below unanimously by all members present in the Meeting.
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Existing |
Amended as |
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7. The management of AIRASA shall be vested in a General Council consisting of
the President, One Working President, 7 Vice Presidents, General Secretary, 2
Additional General Secretaries, 2 Dy. General Secretaries,7 Joint
Secretaries, Secretary Finance, 2 Secretary Communications, 7 Central Organising
Secretaries along with Zonal Committee Members, Divisional Committee members,
Members of Production Units/Projects/Plants. a.The following Officials viz. 1. President 2. Seven Vice Presidents 3. One Working Presidents 4. General Secretary 5. Two Additional General Secretaries 6. Secretary Finance 7. Three Secretary Communications 8. Three Dy. General Secretaries 9. Seven Joint Secretaries 10.
Seven Central Organizing
Secretaries 11 Management of Divisional branch: The branches at the Divisional Hd. Qr. offices be known as Divl.
Branch. The Committee of the Divisional HQ. Branch shall be formed in the
Divl. AGM as per present constitutional provision. The Branch Secretaries and
Branch Presidents of the branches operating within the jurisdiction of the
divisions ex-officio members of the Divisional HQ branches. AGM will be held
every year, however, election will be held bi-annually before 31st Jan. A The management of AIRASA of Divisional
Branch shall consist of
15 days notice shall be necessary for organizing meeting. Committee
will hold meeting at least once in three months. Divisional Office bearers will be elected in AGM from amongst ordinary
members in Division. The functioning of the Divisional Office bearers will in be in
accordance with Zonal Office bearers, however, their jurisdiction will be
limited to the respective divisions only. 16. (a) The
finance of the AIRASA shall be contributed by the branches at the share of
Rs.40/- per year for every members to the Centre, Rs.30 to the Zone and
Rs.30/- to the Division/ Unit will be remitted on the basis of membership
shown in their quarterly statement. |
7. The management of AIRASA shall be vested in a
General Council consisting of the President, One Working President, 6 Vice
Presidents, General Secretary, 1 Working General Secretary, 1 Additional
General Secretary, 2 Dy. General Secretaries, 6 Joint Secretaries, 1 Secretary Finance,
2 Secretary Communications, 6 Central
Organising Secretaries along with Zonal Committee Members, Divisional
Committee members, Members of Production Units/Projects/Plants. b.
The following Officials
viz. 1. President 2. Six Vice Presidents 3. One Working President 4. General Secretary 5. Working General Secretary 6. One Additional General Secretary 7. One Secretary Finance 8. Two Secretary Communications 9. Two Dy. General Secretaries 10.
Six Joint Secretaries 11. Six Central Organizing Secretaries. 11 Management of Divisional branch: The branches at the Divisional Hd. Qr. offices be known as Divl.
Branch. The Committee of the Divisional HQ. Branch shall be formed in the
Divl. AGM as per present constitutional provision. The Branch Secretaries and
Branch Presidents of the branches operating within the jurisdiction of the
divisions ex-officio members of the Divisional HQ branches. AGM will be held
every year, however, election will be held bi-annually before 31st Jan. A The management of AIRASA of Divisional
Branch shall consist of
15 days notice shall be necessary for organizing meeting. Committee
will hold meeting at least once in three months. Divisional Office bearers will be elected in AGM from amongst ordinary
members in Division. The functioning of the Divisional Office bearers will in be in
accordance with Zonal Office bearers, however, their jurisdiction will be
limited to the respective divisions only. 16. (a) The finance of the AIRASA shall be
contributed by the branches at the share of Rs.60/- per year for every
members to the Centre, Rs.20 to the Zone and Rs.20/- to the Division/ Unit
will be remitted on the basis of membership shown in their quarterly
statement. |
Following this, the process of
election of the new Office bearers for the years 2020-21 to 2021-22 started.
First the Additional General Secretary obtained the approval of the General
body for amending the Constitution to reduce the number of posts 28. Shri. N. Srinivasan, former General Secretary/AIRASA,
was nominated as Election Officer, to conduct the free and fair election of the
new Office Bearers. A panel, proposed by the CWC Meeting held the previous
night, duly taking in to account the nominations by the Zonal Committees of all
the Zonal Railways, was presented by the nominated Election Officer to the BGM.
The election of 28 Office bearers was done and the approval for the list of 20
Permanent Invitees to the Central Working Committee was accorded in a peaceful
manner by acknowledging with their thumbs up signal in their screen. There was
no dissent.
The BGM unanimously elected the
following Office Bearers for the years 2020-2022 and Permanent Invitees to the
CWC.
NAME POST
DESIGNATION UNIT/OFFICE
S/SRI/SMT
1. C M CHENGAPPA PRESIDENT Sr. ISA MYS, SW. Rly
2. ANTONY SELVAN WORKING PRESIDENT Sr.
SO(A) MDU, S. Rly
3. S KRISHNA
KUMAR GENL.SECRETRAY. A A Hqrs, S. Rly
4. ASHOK DWIVEDI SECY-FINANCE A
A Hqrs, CCG, W. Rly
5. ARAVINDAR KAUR VICE-PRESIDENT Sr.SO(A) DMW/PTA
6. J P MAURYA ,, Sr. SO(A) W. Rly, TA- AII
7. SYED RAHAT
BHAKT ,, A A HQRS, S E Rly
8. ASHWANI KUMAR ,, Sr. ISA W&S,ASI,
N Rly
9. D P KHUNTIA ,, Sr. SO (A) HQRS, E CO. Rly
10.NANAK DEV ,,
Sr. ISA RCF,
KXH
11.PARMINDERJIT SINGH WORKING
GENERAL SECRETARY Sr. SO(A) BH N. Rly
12. M N SUDARSAN ADDL. GENEL SECY Sr. SO(A) ICF, PER
13. TAPAN BAISYA SECY. COMMUNICATION Sr. SO(A) CLW
14. M. L.
NARAYANAN ,, A A
NGP, SECR
15. MANOJ SHUKLA DY. GENL.SECY Sr. SO(A) TA,Hqrs, C. Rly
16. GYANENDRA
SHUKLA DY. GENL.SECY Sr. SO(A) BPL, W C Rly
17. BHUSHAN KUMAR CENT.ORG.SECY Sr. SO(A)
HQ, HAJIPUR, EC Rly
18. DILIP SINGH
RATHORE ,,
Sr. SO(A) TA, AII W.Rly
19. G SATHYA
NARAYANA ,, Sr. SO(A) Hqrs, S C Rly
20. MUKESH KHARE ,,
A A JHS, N C Rly
21. JAYASHREE PUNTAMBEKAR ,, Sr. SO(A) BSL, C Rly
22. S B TIWARI ,, Sr. SO(A) HQRS/NCR
23. MANOJ KUMAR
SINHA JOINT. SECY Sr.SO(A) W/JMP,
E Rly
24. RAMESH KUMAR ,, Sr. ISA
GKP, N E Rly
25. ABDUL
SHAFIQUE ,,
Sr.
TIA NGP, S E C Rly
26. ALOK SHUKLA ,,
Sr. SO(A) JP, N W Rly
27. PRADEEP DAS
GUPTHA ,, ASV N F Rly
28. VINOD KHODANKAR ,, Sr. SO(A) NGP, C Rly
PERMANENT
INVITEES to Central Working Committee apart from Zonal Presidents & Zonal
Secretaries.
S/Shri/Smt
1. S.C.MAHAPATRA
E. Co. Rly (Retd)
2. L.VENKATRAMANI I
C F
3. SADHANA STEEL WCR
4. A.K. CHASKAR
W C R (Retd)
5. N. SRINIVASAN
S. RLY (Retd)
6. R K SARASWAT
C, Rly (Retd)
7. S. VENKATESWARAN S
Rly (Retd)
8. D. NAGESHWARA RAO S C Rly (Retd)
9. JOGINDERPAL SINGH N. Rly
10. BASHIR KHAN C.RLY
(Retd)
11. R.K.SHANDILYA W.C.RLY
12. K CHATURVEDI N E Rly (Retd)
13. RAMESH KUMAR N Rly
(Retd)
14. VELAYUDHAN P. C
Rly (Retd)
15. P MAHANTO N F Rly
(Retd)
16. DILIP TAMULI
N F Rly
17. ALEX LOBO
W Rly
18. EKTA GUPTA W.C.RLY
(Retd)
19. ASHOK ROY S.E. RLY (Retd)
20. D. GOVINDARAJULU S. C RLY
(Retd)
The following Resolutions were passed
based on the discussions held on
12-12-20
and 13-12-2020.
1.
This
Meeting urges the Hon’ble Minister of Railways and CEO, Railways to stop
merging some of the sections of Accounts department with Personnel branch as
this move will hamper the independence of Accounts functions and will disturb
the parity with other Accounts and Audit departments of Central Government as
Railway Accounts is part of Organised Audit and Accounts departments of Central
Government, as established by all the Pay Commissions, till date.
2.
This
Meeting appeals to the Hon’ble Minister of Railways to implement the Apex
court’s verdict allowing payment of V CPC arrears of Pay from 1-1-96 to 18-02-2003 to all
eligible Accounts employees.
3.
As large number of App. IIA
passed Accounts clerks are waiting for promotion to JAA Cadre, Railway Board
will be addressed for restructuring the present ratio of 20 : 80 as 80:20 and
to clear all waiting list by promoting them against DR quota vacancies.
4.
This
Meeting reiterates the long pending demand of grant of next higher
level of Pay available for ACCOUNTS CLERKS and the demand
for allotment of the Grade pay of Rs.4200/-
to JAAs, on par with
ASMs as recruitment qualifications are one and the same.
5.
The meeting decided to appeal
for Fixation of minimum pay on promotion
equivalent to the pay structure given to Direct Recruits by the VI CPC.
6.
It was resolved to give more
thrust to the long pending demand of increasing
the percentage of Sr. AAs from 1% to 15% on par with Audit and other Accounts.
7.
The meeting condemned the
unreasonable delay in implementation of VII
CPC recommendation of grant of GP. Rs.5400/- on completion four years in 4800/- to Railway Accounts and
urged immediate implementation.
8. The erstwhile Group D staff in level 2
should be promoted to Level 3, as Accounts Clerks on seniority basis as most of
them are either Matriculates or Graduates.
9.
The
II financial upgradation under MACP should be extended to all CG II promotees,
treating their promotion as JAA on passing Appendix IIA examination as Direct
Recruitment.
10. This Meeting requests Hon’ble Minister
for Railways to extend Group ‘B’ Status to all Sr.SO(A)s/Sr. TIAs/ Sr. ISAs and
abolish 70% and 30% selection to the post of AFA as recommended by
Parliamentary Petition Committee in 2011.
11. This Meeting reiterates the demand to
implement the modified ACP duly allowing the next Grade Pay, as per the next
hierarchy in the Accounts department.
12. This meeting demands the restoration of
grant of three Additional Increments to ASVs for passing App. IV Exam and
increase the percentage of Sr. ASVs as 80%.
13. This Association requests the
restoration of Qualification increments, in lieu of Qualification Allowance,
for passing App.IIA& IIIA Examinations, ICWAI, MBA (Finance) duly including
it as ‘PAY’ for all purposes.
14. The Meeting decided to persist with
demand for change of designations of Accounts cadre on par with other Organised
Audit and Accounts departments pending for the last 15 years.
15. It was also decided to request the
Railway Board to organise online Training Sessions on subjects like GST etc.,
repeatedly, for the benefit of staff dealing with the same.
Following this the newly elected
General Secretary addressed the Meeting and said that he has taken over the
reins of the organisation at a crucial juncture. He told the august gathering
of members and other office bearers that all the pending demands of the cadre
would be raised at the appropriate levels and fruitful results could be
expected only with the guidance and active cooperation of one and all.
The
on line BGM was concluded with vote of thanks by Shri. Ashok Dwivedi, Secretary, Finance.
On 14-12-2020,
from 19.00 hrs. onwards, a meeting of the new Central Office bearers and other
CWC members was also conducted, virtually in the online platform “zoom meeting”.
Shri. C.M. Chengappa, President-AIRASA
presided over the Meeting and deliberated on the actions to be taken
immediately.
(S
KRISHNA KUMAR)
GENERAL SECRETARY
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