ALL INDIA SAVINGS BANK CONTROL EMPLOYEES
UNION
(Service union under Dept. of Posts)
HQ- B-105, JAY
DWARKA CHS LTD, BEHIND AAI LAUNDRY, NEW AYARE ROAD. DOMBIVALI
[EAST] DIST –
THANE – 421 201 MAHARASHTRA CIRCLE.
R. K. TANDAN P. A. MHATRE K. R. DATE
President General Secretary Treasurer
ICO (SB) New Hydrabad PO SBCO, Mahim HO SBCO Chembur HO
Lucknow- 226 007 Mumbai 400 016 Mumbai 400 071
Cell 9415025900 9818188067 9892863647
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Bulletin No 04
Dated 23.03.2012
To,
All Circle Secretaries, Office Bearers and Members,
On behalf of Circle and Central working committee I wish all of you best wishes
for Hindu New Year and Gudi Padva festival.
Our Central Working Committee Meeting is scheduled to be
held at Ambaji (Gujarat Circle) from date 23.05.2012 to 24.05.2012. This place
is about 25 K. M. from Abu Road Railway Station and 65 K. M. from Palanpur
Railway Station on Ahamedabad Delhi Rail root. Accommodation will be available
from morning of 23.05.2012 to evening of 24.05.2012. All office bearers will
please plan their journey accordingly. Copy of notice of CWC Meeting is sent
herewith.
MADRAS HIGH
COURT CASE
Department vide letter no 16/75/2010-SR dated 26.08.2011
has held abeyance its earlier order no. 16/75/2010 –SR dated 29.06.2011 in
respect of cancellation of recognition granted to AIPSBCO Employees Association
and directed to CPMG Tamilnadu Circle to file affidavit in Madras High Court on
behalf of Department. But the CO Tamilnadu has not taken any action so far. As
such our union had to file case in Madras High Court. First hearing of the said
case will be held on 26.03.2012.
CIRCLE
CONFERENCE – UTTARAKHAND CIRCLE
Circle Conference of Uttarakhand Circle was held on date 17
and 18 March 2012 at Deharadun. Following office bearers have been elected in
the conference.
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CIRCLE PRESIDENT
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CIRCLE SECRETARY
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TREASURER
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Shri M. P. S. Tyagi, Tehari HO
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Shri J. P. Joshi, Nainital HO
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Shri R. L. Dobhal, ICO (SB)
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CIRCLE
CONFERENCE – ASSAM CIRCLE
Circle Conference of Assam Circle has been held on date 15th
and 16th Oct. 2012 at Guwahati and following office bearers have
been elected by the General Body.
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CIRCLE
PRESIDENT
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CIRCLE
SECRETARY
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TREASURER
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Shri
R. K. Baishya, Dhubri HO
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Shri
P. C. Kalita, ICO (SB)
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B. R.
Bhattacharjee,Guwahati
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CORRESPONDANCE
WITH ADMINISTRATION
Copy of Ltr. No. CHQ/AISBCEU/2011/66 Dated
12.03. 2012 addressed to DDG (P)
Sub:
Recruitment in PA (SBCO) cadre
Sir,
This is
regarding recruitment in PA (SBCO) cadre in Head Post Offices. Because of non
creation of additional justified posts and curtailment in vacancies under ADR
plan in last some years there is acute shortage of staff in SBCO in all the
Circles. Now the Department is approaching towards CBS which requires
up-to-date ledger agreement and voucher checking of all categories but pending
since long. In the year 2011 there was no fresh recruitment but vacancies are
occurred due to retirement.
This union therefore requests your kind honour to cause to
fill up all the existing vacancies in PA (SBCO) cadre to make the CBS
practicable.
Thanking
you,
Yours sincerely,
(P. A. Mhatre, General Secretary)
Copy of Ltr.No. CHQ/AISBCEU/2011/65 Dated
06. 03. 2012 addressed to Ms Indu Gupta CPMG Haryana Circle
Sub: Unwarranted charges on SBCO staff of Ambala City HO and
Ambala GPO for the RD amount defrauded by counter PA of Model Town Ambala SO
and GDS BPM Landa BO under Kesri SO in account with Ambala GPO.
Madam,
This is regarding unwarranted charges kept on SBCO staff of
Ambala City HO and Ambala GPO for the RD amount defrauded by counter Assistant
of Model Town Ambala SO and GDS BPM Landa BO under Kesari SO in account with
Ambala City HO and Ambala GPO respectively.
The SSPO Ambala Division has charged following SBCO staffs
for negligence under various paras of Manual of S.B. Control Procedure and
instructions issued by the Directorate
and thus violating Rule 3(I)(ii) and Rule -3(I)(iii) of CCS (Conduct) Rule
1964.
1. Shri R. K. Goel
(Supervisor SBCO)
2. Shri Surender Sharma (PA SBCO)
3. Shri H. P. Vaid (PA SBCO)
4. Smt. Neelim Saini (PA SBCO)
5. Smt. Meenu ( PA SBCO)
On going through the charges kept on the above staff
members it is seen that they are made scapegoat only to recover the defrauded
amount. It is stated that the staff of the SBCO had not observed para no. 15,
29, 33, 34, 36, 38, 78(6) and 78(8) and various instructions issued by the
Department. In case of fraud at Ambala City HO the counter PA has manipulated
the figures of RD denomination and in fraud case of Ambala GPO the GDS BPM has
accepted the RD deposits but not accounted for in Govt. account. In the charge sheets
it is mentioned that if the staff would have observed the above mentioned paras
of Manual of S. B. Control procedure and various instructions issued from time
to time the frauds would have been detected earlier. In these cases the opinion
of this union is as under.
- It is stated that the staff of
SBCO has not observed provisions of the para 15 of the Manual od S. B.
Control. As per said para the supervisor SBCO has to check 10% entries of
posting made in SB-62, SB-63 and SB -62 (a) register and do 5% test
checking of vouchers. The discrepancies pointed out in the charge sheet of
Supervisor are of minor nature like non filling the date on SB -7 form and
illegible impression of date stamp. But it is a fact that the staffs of
SBCO are instructed not to raise objection on such minor mistakes.
- As per para no. 29 of Manual of S.
B. Control procedure the SB/RD branch should hand over documents to SBCO
daily. But in practice it is not happening. Daily documents are given
to SBCO in bulk and there is abnormal delay in submitting the same. The
supervisor SBCO had already brought this fact to the notice of SSPO
through monthly progress report. As such the supervisor SBCO has not
violated the provisions of para 29 of SB Control procedure.
- Para no. 33 and 34 relates to
working out closing balance of HO as a whole. Every month the supervisor
SBCO has to work out closing balance in every savings category of the HO
as a whole. It is very strange to say that working out closing balance in
SB - 86 consolidated journal will detect the fraud committed by counter
PA. The closing balance is merely the figure arrived after adding deposit
and deducting withdrawal in closing balance of last month.
- As per para 36 of Manual of S. B.
Control procedure the SBCO staff has to check non cash transactions
relating to accounts transferred in and transferred out and check short
paid or excess paid interest on closed accounts. This will also not detect
fraud.
- Para no 38 relates to verification
of binder balances. The present staff strength of every SBCO in Haryana
Circle is too meager that attending RD data feeding in computer vide
letter no113-1/2002-SB dated 05.05.2003 is not possible. DG (Post) vide
letter no. 116-9/07-SB dated 26.06.2008 and subsequent letters on the subject
had directed to get the RD data entries work done through outsource
because it is an additional work to SBCO. But in your circle said work was
not got done either by outsource or by deploying additional man power to
SBCO. The Divisional head has not taken any action to get the said work
done through outsource. If said work would have been got done the RD
ledger balance verification would have been completed and fraud would have
been detected earlier.
- In the charge sheets it is noted
that the SBCO staffs had not called six monthly listing of balances for
balance verification. But fact is that only receipt of six monthly lists
of balances would not have served the purpose. The creation of RD data
through outsource was not got done in your circle as directed by the
Directorate.
- In last ten years there is heavy
increase in work load but staff strength has reduced to one half. As such the SBCO staff can not complete
the entire work allotted to them.
- In case of fraud at Landa BO under
Kesri SO in account with Ambala GPO the GDS BPM has not accounted for the
amount to Govt. received by him. The amount which is not credited to Govt.
at all cannot be checked by the staff and it’s non credit cannot be
detected.
This union here
requests your kind honour to refer DG (P) letter no C-32016/07/2006- VP dated
14.11.2006 in which it is stated that while fixing the contributory negligence
the situation under which the officials have worked should be considered. There
is acute shortage of staff in SBCO as compared to increased work load. The work
done by the staff of SB/RD branch has no quality. As such most of the time of
SBCO staff is utilised in rectifying the mistakes done by SB branch staff and
SBCO staff could not attend their entire work. Also kindly refer to the
provisions of CCS (CCA) Rules 1965-Rule 11 (3) in which it is stated that the
one who is not directly responsible for
causing any pecuniary loss to the Govt. cannot be made responsible for
the loss sustained to the Govt. in this connection the judgment of CAT
Ahamedabad Bench on O. A. 75 of 1998
decided on 04.09.2001 may please be referred to. In this judgment the impugned
order of punishment was rejected by the honourable CAT. In these cases the SBCO staff is also not
directly responsible for the frauds committed by the counter PA and GDS BPM
hence action should not be taken on them please.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
(P. A. Mhatre,
General Secretary)
Copy of Ltr. No. CHQ/AISBCEU/2011/62
Dt. 24. 02. 2012 to Sh. A. S. Prasad DDG (FS)
Sub: Creation of authentic set of data relating to SOs of
RD/MIS/SCSS at
HPO through outsourcing / FTP
mode.
Ref:
Your office letter No. 116-09/2008-SB dated 15.03.2011.
Sir,
This is regarding creation of authentic set of data
relating to SOs of RD/MIS/SCSS accounts at HPO.
As per SB Order no. 2/2008 dated 04.02.2008 the staff of
SBCO has to check one deposit entry in each quarter of RD closed account with
data available in computer of SBCO or with list of transactions of single and
double handed SOs. The Supervisor SBCO has also to certify the balance of the
account in case of issue of duplicate pass book. In this connection this union
wishes to put up following difficulties in implementing this procedure for
immediate action at your end.
Even though the Directorate had issued the orders to update
the RD data feeding, actually not done in most of the HOs and Circles due to
acute shortage of man power. In many Circles in most of the HOs the data is not
available in computer of SBCO. RD returns are pending with SB/RD branch since
long. There is no sufficient man power available in SBCO for feeding RD/MIS
data entries. There is also shortage of space for arranging LOTs/ Vouchers
office wise, month wise and year wise.
Vide your DO NO. 116-09/07-SB 26.06.2008 addressed to all
Heads of Circles it was proposed to get the data entries work of RD/MIS /SCSS
categories done through outsource. Said order was also reiterated vide your
office no. 116-09/2008-SB dated 15.03.2011 but in many circles and HOs said
order is not implemented and RD/MIS data entries are still pending. Under this
situation it is difficult for SBCO staff to check 100% RD vouchers and certify
balance for issue of duplicate pass book of single and double handed SO.
Now in most of the Circles and HOs SB data of sub offices
is being brought through email or pen drive and uploaded in computers of SO SB
group of HO. If this procedure is also adopted in case of RD/MIS/SCSS 100%
checking of vouchers will be possible and there will not be any scope for frauds.
This union therefore requests your kind honour to get the
RD/MIS/SCSS data entries done through outsource or arrange to bring the RD/
MIS/SCSS data through FTP mode from computers of SOs.
Thanking
you,
Yours
sincerely,
(P. A.
Mhatre, General Secretary)
APPEAL
Except two/three circle no one has remitted its quota to
CHQ. All Circle Secretaries /Treasurers are requested to send their quota to
treasurer of CHQ union. It is also requested to contribute for recognition case
of Madras High Court.
With warm
wishes,
Yours
truly
(P. A. Mhatre, General Secretary)
