Anomalies in the Revised Wage structure of Cadres
of IA&AD and Organised Accounts Establishment
AGENDA ITEM NO.6 OF MACPS:
Supervised staff placed in higher Grade Pay than that of the Supervisor.
AGENDA ITEM NO. 28 OF NATIONAL ANOMALY COMMITTEE:
Grant of grade pay of Rs.5400 in PB2 of Assistant Accounts Officer:
It has been decided that these items would be discussed separately with the staff side by the Joint Secretary (Pers) Department of Expenditure and Joint Secretary (Estt) Department of Personnel and Training.
Fresh Explanatory Note on issues to be discussed is submitted here under:-
VI CPC has recommended revised Pay Band and Grade Pay for the posts of Senior Auditors/Accountants (para 7.56.8), Section Officer, Assistant Audit/Accounts Officers, Audit/Accounts Officers and Senior Audit/Accounts Officers (vide para 7.56.9) and Divisional Accountants/Divisional Accounts Officer Grade II/Divisional Accounts Officer Grade I and Senior Divisional Accounts Officer (vide para 7.56.13).
2. In para 7.56.10 for other posts in IA&AD, the Commission has recommended that –
The Commission has separately recommended parity between Secretariat and non-Secretariat Organisations in Chapter 3.1 of the Report. Recommendations have also been made for various common categories posts in chapter 3.8. These recommendations will also extend to the posts in IA&AD.
As such the posts of Auditor/Accountant being in the Pay Scale of 4500-7000 should be placed in the PB2 Rs 9300-34100 with Grade Pay 4200 as table below Para 3.1.14of SCPC report.
3. In Para 3.1.14 it has been recommended that Head Clerk/Assistant /Stenographer II/equivalent in pre-revised pay scale of Rs.4500-7000 and Rs.5500-8000 will be merged with pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.6500-1050 and placed in Pay Band-2 with grade pay of Rs.4200.
4. In para 7.56.8 the VI CPC had recommended for Senior Auditors/Accountants PB-2 with Grade Pay of Rs.4200 thus placing Assistants in CSS and SAs in identical pay band and grade pay. It may however be mentioned that it is not correct that Government has never conceded the principle of parity between Assistants of CSS and the Senior Accountants/Auditors. It was in year 1983 that Government had proposed to grant the Pay Scale of Assistants of CCS i.e. Rs.420-800 to the 80% of posts of Auditors who were designated as Senior Accountant. The IV Central Pay Commission had also recommended the Pay Scale of Rs.1400-2600 for Assistants of CSS and Senior Auditors/Accountant which was accepted by the Government. Further the Pay Scale of Assistants of CSS Rs.5500-9000 granted to the Senior Auditors/Accountant notionally w.e.f. 1.1.1996 and actually w.e.f. 12.03.2003.
5. The Government of India after implementing the revised Pay Structure recommended by the VI CPC by which the Assistants of CSS who were in the pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.5500-9000 as on 1.1.06 were therefore assigned the revised PB-2 with grade pay of Rs.4200 have granted the higher Grade Pay of Rs.4600 vide DOPT OM No. F.No I/I/2008-IC dated 16th November 2009. The Senior Auditors/Accountants should also be granted higher Grade Pay of Rs.4600 in PB-2.
6. In para 3.1.14 of VI CPC Administrative Officers Grade II/Senior Private Secretary/equivalent in subordinate offices who were in the Pay Scale of 7500-12000, have been assigned the pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.7500-12000 for fresh recruits and Rs.8000-13500 on completion of 4 years and placed in PB-2 with grade pay of Rs.4800 & Rs.5400 after 4 years.
The Section Officer who has been placed in PB-2 with Grade Pay of 4800 should also be granted Grade Pay of Rs.5400 on completion of 4 years service.
7. VI CPC in para 7.56.9 has observed that – “The post of Section Officer would, therefore, also need to be upgraded. The post will consequently be placed in the next higher grade carrying the Grade Pay of Rs.4800 in pay band PB-2 of Rs.8700-34800 (revised by Government 9300-34800) that corresponds to the pre-revised pay scale of Rs.7500-12000. This upgradation will place posts of Section Officers and Assistant Accounts/Audit Officers in an identical Pay Scale, thus necessitating the upgradation of the latter category”.
The Pay Commission, therefore, recommended that “the post of Assistant Accounts/Audit Officer should, therefore, be merged in the Pay band PB-2 Rs.9300-34800 alongwith Grade Pay of Rs.4800 that corresponds to the pre-revised Pay Scale Rs.7500-12000 (assigned to the post of Audit/Accounts Officer).
8. Obviously by recommending PB-2 alongwith Grade Pay Rs.4800 the Commission had erred as because this PB-2 with Grade Pay of Rs.4800 had been recommended by the VI CPC for Section Officers post and therefore the higher PB-2 Grade Pay of Rs.5400 was necessary for the post of A.O. with which the post of AAO was recommended by the Pay Commission.
The Government of India has accordingly granted PB-2 with Grade Pay of Rs.5400 for the post of A.O.
9. However there is an error committed by the Government in sub-para (c) of para I(x) of the Resolution No.1/1/2008-IC dated 29.08.2008 wherein it has been stated that “In IA&AD and all organised accounts cadres, posts of Section Officers and Assistant Audit/ Accounts Officers will be merged and placed in PB-2 with Grade Pay of Rs.4800 as recommended by the Pay Commission.
10. The Pay Commission has, however, and categorically felt the necessity of upgrading the pay scale of Assistant Audit/Accounts Officer and therefore recommended that the post of Assistant Accounts/Audit Officers, therefore, should be merged with the post of Audit/Accounts Officer who were then in the pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.7500-12000 and have now been granted PB-2 alongwith Grade Pay of Rs.5400 by the Government.
11. It is therefore proposed that the post of Assistant Audit/Accounts Officer may be placed in PB-2 with Grade Pay of Rs.5400.
12. The Audit/Accounts Officer had been assigned the pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.7500-12000 with effect from 1.1.1996 as recommended by the C CPC. 20% posts of Divisional Accountants had been upgraded as Senior Divisional Accounts Officer as a result of restructuring and granted the pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.7500-12000 bringing them at par with the Audit/Accounts Officer.
13. The VI CPC has recommended that Senior Divisional Accounts Officer who were in pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.7500-12000 may be upgraded to pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.8000-13500 corresponding to PB-3 alongwith Grade Pay of Rs.5400.
It is therefore proposed that Audit/Accounts Officers may also be granted upgraded pre-revised Pay Scale of Rs.4800-13500 and corresponding PB-2 alongwith Grade Pay of Rs.5400 in order to maintain the existing parity between the Pay Scale of Senior Divisional Accounts Officer and Audit & Accounts Officer.
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