Finance Commissioner Temjen Toy IAS has reiterated that the clarification issued earlier by the finance department to ACAUT on February 23 were based on facts and therefore, there could not be any question of either accepting or rejecting these facts. Toy was issuing a further clarification to ACAUT’s “rejection” of the department’s rejoinder which had appeared in the local media on March 3,2017 .
Drawing attention to ACAUT’s purported rejection of the finance department’s clarification, Toy said while the news item on February 23, 2017 pertained to allegation by ACAUT about “parking of more than Rs.5000 crore in state coffers” the other statement on March 3 “shifted to the utilisation of CSS funds, payment of state share and delay in payment of salaries to the RSA, RMSA and Hindi teachers.”
Nonetheless, Toy reiterated that the government was seriously concerned over the delay in payment of salaries to its employees and for which it had been taking all possible steps to mitigate the difficulties of such employees. However, he said there were procedural problems that needed to be tackled “as best as possible according to the situation arising from time to time.”
Taking a dig at ACAUT, Toy said it would have been proper if specific instances of irregularities committed by the finance department or its officials were brought to the notice of the authorities for appropriate action, instead of “making wild allegations”.
Further the FC stated that details of executive action taken by the government from time to time, cannot be a made the subject of public debate in the media. Toy asserted that the finance department did not wish to be drawn into such a debate and therefore, it will no longer respond to “such opinionated views in future.”
Toy reiterated that the government in general and finance department in particular, would continue to take actions as deemed necessary from time to time, to redress grievances of government employees as best as “is possible under the given circumstances.”
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