Adhoc Bonus for the year 2008-09

I am very much happy to inform you all that the order for Payment of Adhoc Bonus for the year 2008-09 to the Central Govt. Employees has been issued by the Ministry of Finance. The Members may download the Orders from the Ministry of Finance Web Site or from here as well.

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Rates of D.A. to Staff Side Members of JCM/OCM

The New Rates of reimbursement of Hotel Bills and Food Bills for the Staff Side Members for Attending J.C.M./O.C.M Meetings has been revised. The Members may download the New Orders from the following link.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9b54c1b039d57eacd2db6fb9a8902bda

Payment of 60 % Arrears of 6th CPC Ordered

I am very much happy to inform you all that the Govt. has ordered for Payment of 60% of Arrears of 6th CPC to its employees.

Notification of Approval of Horticulture Division No. II Unit

The unanimous Election of the following Office Bearers for the Unit Working Committee of HORTICULTURE DIVISION NO. II UNIT, NEW DELHI held at Safdarjung Tomb, New Delhi on 07.08.2009 is hereby Approved on behalf of the C.W.C. of AIASA. The Unit will function as fully recognized body of the All India Archaeological Service Association with immediate effect till further orders.

CHAIRMAN : SHRI. ARUN KUMAR
VICE CHAIRMAN : SHRI. RAMASHANKAR
UNIT SECRETARY : SHRI. RAJENDRA KUMAR
JOINT SECRETARY : SHRI. ROBERT SAMUEL
TREASURER : SHRI. JNANCHAND KHANNA
INTERNAL AUDITOR : SHRI. HARISH JOSHI

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(B.A. Chandra Shekhar)
Secretary General

List of Central Working Committee Members of ASA along with their Mobile Numbers.

1. S.C. Sharma, President - 94150 60227
2. Bhim Sain, Vice President - 98109 48656
3. B.A. Chandra Shekhar, Secretary General - 94498 54779
4. M. K. Verma, Addl. Secretary General (North) - 94150 92529
5. R. Gnana Prabhu, Addl Secretary General (South) - 99017 18418
6. B. Moharana, Addl. Secretary General (East) - 93370 60351
7. Rohit Shah, Addl. Secretary General (West) - 99252 21796
8. Abdul Saleem, Addl. Secretary General (Central) - 98932 74779
9. Aqueel Ahmed, Dy. Secretary General (North) - 99274 14304
10. G. Kamaraj, Dy. Secretary General (South) - 94404 22864
11. Shivshankar Yadav, Dy. Secretary General (East) - 99729 61968
12. S.B. Rindhe, Dy. Secretary General (West) - 98600 82350
13. Vijay Sharma, Dy. Secretary General (Central) - 94250 18390
14. C.M. Pillai, Internal Auditor - 94955 24568
15. V. Ramesh, Treasurer - 94490 73302
16. Somla Naik, Departmental Council Member - 94484 39989
17. T. Chenchuratnam, Departmental Council Member - 94403 19449
18. M.A. Khan, J.C.M Member - 98890 93142
19. B.A. Ranganath, J.C.M. Member - 94497 82512
20. N. Ch. Peddintlu, J.C.M. Member - 94908 87329
21. Rajesh Johri, J.C.M. Member - 99789 67853
22. P.G. Deshmukh, J.C.M. Member - 94226 17988
23. Utpal Chakravorty, J.C.M. Member - 99546 25188
24. Sanjay Angarey, J.C.M. Member - 94065 27972
25. Ashok Kondal, J.C.M. Member - 98166 14516
26. L.R. Sudheendra Rao, J.C.M. Member - 98459 43936
27. Kailash Chandra Joshi, J.C.M. Member - 98110 40060
28. Meeta Srivastava, CWC Councillor - 94151 52015
29. K.M. Saxena, CWC Councillor - 94257 78293
30. A.M Agharia, CWC Councillor - 98250 47086
31. A. Rasheed Khan, CWC Councillor - 94402 78294
32. Bimal Tiwari, CWC Councillor - 97325 30256
33. R.K. Dwivedi, CWC Councillor - 98234 50186
34. Subhash Bomble, CWC Councillor - 94489 72739
35. K.M. Murali Krishna, CWC Councillor - 94410 16882
36. Bhanu Prakash Verma, CWC Councillor - 94217 47752
37. Sridhar Nanda, CWC Councillor - 98610 06870
38. G. Srinivasa Rao, CWC Councillor - 98451 97265

Modified Notification of Approval of Aurangabad Circle Unit

In partial modification of the Notification of this Association contained in Letter No. ASA/2009-362 to 368 dated 3.8.2009, The Election of the following Office Bearers for the Unit Working Committee of AURANGABAD CIRCLE UNIT, AURANGABAD held on 20.07.2009 at Aurangabad is hereby Approved on behalf of the C.W.C. of AIASA. The Unit will function as fully recognized body of the All India Archaeological Service Association with immediate effect till further orders.

CHAIRMAN : SHRI. D.S. KOLI
VICE CHAIRMAN : SHRI. B.S. TADAVI
UNIT SECRETARY : SHRI. S.L. MAGRE
JOINT SECRETARY : SHRI. SAKHARAM NAMADEV JADHAV
TREASURER : SHRI. A.K. TURE
INTERNAL AUDITOR : SHRI. V.I. RAMTEKE

OFFICE COUNCIL MEMBERS
STAFF SIDE LEADER : SHRI. S.L. MAGRE
OFFICE COUNCIL MEMBER : SMT. NEETU S. BHITRE
OFFICE COUNCIL MEMBER : SHRI. E.M. SOLUNKE
OFFICE COUNCIL MEMBER : SHRI. D.T. ASAR
OFFICE COUNCIL MEMBER : SHRI.RAJESH KARTARSINGH DULGAJ
OFFICE COUNCIL MEMBER : SHRI. ASHOK ASARAM SOSTHE

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(B.A. Chandra Shekhar)
Secretary General

Delegation of Administrative powers to the Regional Directors

To
The Director General
Archaeological Survey of India
Janpath, New Delhi – 110 011.

Sub: Delegation of Administrative powers to the Regional Directors –
Modification of orders- requested.
Ref: Your office Order No. 88/2009-Adm.I dated 22.07.2009.

Sir,

I write to inform you that, while thanking your kindself for taking bold steps in establishing the Regional Directorate offices and delegating financial and administrative powers to the Regional Directors, I am to draw your kind attention to our discussions held on 8th July 2009 during which, you had assured us that the powers of transfers of any cadres will not be delegated to the Regional Directors. But to our surprise, the power of Transfer of Group ‘B’ (Gazetted), Group ‘B’ (Non-Gazetted), Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ within the Region has been delegated to the Regional Directors vide your Office Order cited above.

As you are kindly aware, hitherto, when the powers of transfer of all cadres through out the country were vested with the Office of the Director General, the Gr. B, C and D staff were transferred from one Circle to another Circle or Zone, only when they are promoted to the higher posts and such promotional posts were not available in their Circle/Zonal offices of other branches or when there were requests from individual officials to join their family. The powers were never misused for harassing any officers or staff members of any cadre. Now, I am sure, the powers of transfer delegated to the Regional Directors will definitely be misused to harass and black-mail the officers and low paid staff members of Gr. B (Non-Gazetted), Gr. C and D Cadres. We have living examples of harassment and blackmailing meted out to number of low paid Gr. C and Gr. D staff by some Circle and Zonal officers with limited powers of transferring them within the jurisdiction of the Circles/Zones in general and Female employees in particular. When such Gr. C and D staffs were transferred to a very distant places from their original posting, they were unable to maintain two establishments, one for themselves at the new place of posting and another at their original place of posting for the sake of their children’s education, thus, they were forced to opt for voluntary retirement. In the process, the Department has lost number of very richly experienced Group D staff who were striving hard in cleaning and removing vegetation even from a very peak of the monuments. You are kindly aware, of recent, education has become a very costly affair and every citizen has an ambition of providing good education to their children. But such unhealthy transfers of Gr. C and Gr. D staff to a far off place throws cold water on their ambition and their children have to suffer lack of good education.

Further, such transfer powers are not vested with the Directors working in the office of the Director General. There will be a great frustration among such Directors working in Directorate office without such powers on the one hand and on the other, the Regional Directors, who have enjoyed enormous powers, will hesitate to work in the office of the Director General, when they are transferred from the Regional Directorate to the office of the Director General.

Further, I would like to draw your kind attention to the Sl. No. 6 of the above Office Order wherein the powers of sanction of G.P.F. Advances in respect of all the Group A,B,C and D Officials of the Horticulture Branch has been delegated to the Chief Horticulturist. In this connection, it is brought to your kind notice that the Horticulture Branch of Archaeological Survey of India has been spreaded across the country and the staff working in this Branch are rendering yeomen service by laying out beautiful Lawns and Gardens highlighting the environs of the Nationally Protected Monuments which is being appreciated by the National/International tourists visiting these Monuments. The Horticulture Branch has at present Four Divisions located at Agra, New Delhi, Mysore and Bhubaneswar respectively and nearly 2000 employees of Group A, B,C, D are working in these Divisions and the jurisdiction of these Divisional Offices are very vast. At present though these Divisional Offices are having lack of Ministerial staff, but however they are managing to get the work achieved with the existing staff. If the said orders have to be implemented by the Chief Horticulturist stationed at Agra, the employees who are applying for sanction of G.P.F. Advances for their immediate needs feels very difficult and it may take months together to get their advance sanctioned and the main purpose of their requirements will definitely be defeated. In order to protect the interest of these staff, it is absolutely necessary that the powers of sanction of G.P.F. Advances and Final Withdrawals be restored with the Division Heads.

In the circumstances explained above, I would request you kindly to review your decision and issue a Corrigendum withdrawing the powers delegated to the Regional Directors of transferring officers and staff members of all Gr. B, C and D cadres and restore the same with the office of the Director General again in the larger interest of the justice and equity.

I hope, you will consider our request in a right spirit and review your decision in order to protect the interest of the large number of employees working in the Department having due regard in your able and benign administration.

Thanking you Sir, in anticipation of your orders in the matter at the earliest.

Yours faithfully,

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(B.A. Chandra Shekhar)
Secretary General

Imparting of training to the Non-Matriculate Group D Staff

To
The Director General
Archaeological Survey of India
Janpath
New Delhi – 110 011.

Sub:Implementation of the recommendation of 6th CPC–Imparting of training
to the Non-Matriculate Group D Staff for placing in the Pay Band PB–I – Reg.
Ref: 1) This Association Letter No. ASA/2009-2124 dated 03.02.2009.
2) This Association Letter No. ASA/2009-2283 dated 06.04.2009.

Sir,
Kindly refer this Association letter citer under reference 1 & 2, wherein this association had requested your kind self to issue necessary circulars instructing all the Head of Offices of Circles/Branches to implement the recommendation of 6th CPC regarding imparting training to the non-matriculate Group D staff working in Archaeological Survey of India for placing them in the Pay Band PB-I of Rs. 5200-20200 with Grade Pay of Rs. 1800/- p.m as also for payment of Arrears w.e.f. 01.06.2009.

In this Connection, I write to bring to your kind notice that, in spite of Clear instructions by the Govt. of India and repeated requests by this association for imparting training to the Non-matriculate Group D Staff with in time schedule, no positive steps has been initiated by the Directorate, even after about a year of implementation of 6th CPC. The eligible Group D staffs are suffering from a monetary loss of about Rs. 400 to 700 per month due to non implementing of the decisions by the Govt. of India. The retirement dates of Many Group D staffs are fast approaching. If the training to the non Matriculate Group D staff will not be implemented immediately, it will be resulting in heavy loss during the payment of their retirement benefits, as well as during the fixation of their Pension.

Under the circumstances and facts stated above as also to protect the interest of low paid employees of this Department, I would request you kindly to arrange to issue necessary circulars instructing Head of Officers of all Circles and Branches to impart training to the Non-Matriculate Group D Employees and place them in the Pay Band PB – I with Grade Pay of Rs. 1800/- p.m as also to pay the arrears w.e.f. 1st January 2006 without any further loss of time, failing which this association is compelled to approach Higher Authorities for getting justice in the right earnest of the working class.

Eagerly Anticipating an early action in this regard.

Yours faithfully,
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(B.A. Chandra Shekhar)
Secretary General

Website of All India Archaeological Service Association

I am very much happy to inform you all that the All India Archaeological Service Association which is the one and only recognized association in Archaeological Survey of India looking after welfare measures of nearly 169 cadres of Non Gazetted Employees of A.S.I., has started its own website for posting all recent activities to communicate the same immediately to all the members of this four decade old Association spreaded throughout the Country.