There are 26 CCA
Offices which are located across the length and breadth of the
country. They are performing the following vital functions:
A) STATUTORY FUNCTIONS:
i)
PENSION: With the promulgation of Rule 37(A) of the CCS
Pension Rules, the government has a critical role in the payment of
pension to the erstwhile government servants absorbed in the PSU.
The CCA Unit is responsible for budgeting of pension expenditure and
authorization of retirement benefits on CDA and IDA pay scale.
ii)
PENSION CTROBUTION AND LEAVE SALARY: The CCA offices
carry out the functions of collection, scrutiny and monitoring of the
amounts to be received as pension contribution and leave salary by
the Government.
iii)
NEW PENSION SCHEME: New Pension Scheme was introduced
w.e.f. 1.01.2004. The CCAs are required to prepare statements showing
Government servant contribution and Govt. contribution. The amount so
deducted is to be sent to trustee bank every month under intimation
to Directorate. The central record keeping agency for NPS is National
Securities Depositing Limited (NSDL). Hence, the contribution
recovered from the salary of NPS subscribers are to be uploaded
through NPSCAN system provided by NSDL. The amount so recovered has
to be reconciled with the booked figures of CAC every month by the
CCA office.
iv)
GPF & LONG TERM LOANS ACCOUNTING: The CCA offices
are also responsible for maintenance for GPF, long term loans and
advances and their recovery/accounting.
v)
AUDIT FUNCTIONS: The CCA Offices have been exercising
post audit on the disbursement made by the designated banks and post
offices on account of the pension and allied benefits to the
pensioners.
vi)
FUNCTIONING AS CPIOs UNDER RTI ACT, 2005: Officers in
the offices of CCA have been designated as Central Public Information
Officers (CPIO) and Departmental Appellate Authorities (DAA) for
ensuring smooth provisioning of information under the RTI Act 2005
for all matters being dealt with by CCA offices.
vii)
PAO & DDO FUNCTIONS: CCA office is the basic unit
of departmentalized accounts organization and performs the PAO and
DDO functions for field offices like TERM, WMO and RLO.
viii)
State of work report – Preparation of state of
work report of the CCA office and submission of the same to
Directorate by 12th of the following month.
ix)
Reconciliation of RBI balances – RBI
balances booked during the year every month by CCA offices and to
settle the discrepancies, if any, during the financial year. Review
of balances statement to be prepared by CCA offices after closure of
annual accounts every year.
B) REVENUE FUNCTIONS
i) LICENCE FEE:
a) Licence Fee Collection: The
Office of Controller of Communication Accounts (CCA) is responsible
for collection of licence fee from all commercial licensees of
Cellular, Basic, Unified Access Service, NLD, ILD, Commercial VSAT,
PMRTS services, Internet Service Providers (without Telephony),
Internet Service Providers (with telephony), New Licensees of
Internet service and licences of Captive VSAT, CMRTS, Radio links,
Microwave links and OFC links. This is being done for all the 1072
licensees, wherever licence fee is applicable.
b) Scrutiny of Documents &
Verification of deductions: They are also responsible for
scrutiny of documents submitted by the licensees viz. AGR statements
and affidavits and also verify the deductions claimed by USAL and
CMTS operators.
c) Bank Guarantees: CCA offices
are also responsible for maintenance of Performance and Financial
Bank Guarantees of above-mentioned licences and ensure encashment for
non-renewal and non-fulfillment of terms and conditions of respective
Licence Agreements.
d)
Assessment and calculation of licence fee: CCA offices
are doing this function
for
ILD, NLD, Commercial VSAT, PMRTS, Internet Service Providers (with
telephony), New Internet licences on the basis of Audited Annual
Accounts and other audited financial statements submitted by the
licensees, calculation of licence fee for licences of Captive VSAT,
CMRTS, Radio links, Microwave links and OFC links is done on the
basis of number of terminal/channels working. This work is being
performed for 364 lincences issued by DoT.
ii) SPECTRUM CHARGES:
(a)
The work relating to collection of spectrum charges in respect of
private GSM service providers on revenue share basis has been
transferred to CCA offices w.e.f. 1st April, 2004 with
detailed guidelines vide DoT OM No.WFD/1018/2004 dated 6.2.2004 as
well as vide OM No. WFD/1012/9/WFD/2004-05 dated 17.10.2006. The work
relating to collection of spectrum charges in respect of private CDMA
service providers was transferred to CCA Offices w.e.f. 1st
April, 2005 vide DoT Order No.WFD/1018/2004 dated 1.3.2005. The work
relating to collection of spectrum charges from M/s BSNL and M/s MTNL
for their service areas was transferred to CCA offices w.e.f.
1.7.2005 vide DoT Order No.WFD/1018/2004 dated 4.5.2005.
(b)
The CMTS, Basic, and UASL licensees may approach the concerned CCA
offices for clarifications, if any, regarding the spectrum charges,
challans for payment, etc. Copies of the various OMs/orders quoted
above can also be downloaded by browsing the WFD hyperlink at the
DoT’s website.
C) USO DISBURSEMENT
The
USO Fund of India in the sector came into existence on 01.04.2002. It
is funded by way of contributions from the various service providers
and presently the universal service levy stands at 5% of the adjusted
gross revenue (AGR). The fund in India, which is one of the largest
in the world is disbursed and monitored at the State level by the
offices of CCAs. While performing the USO functions, the CCAs are
verifying the claims before the funds are disbursed. They also carry
out physical inspection and monitoring, for establishment the
veracity of claims. CCA Offices have been designated by USO Fund
Administration as facilitates to liaise with State Government, IPs,
USPs, Distant Administration, local bodies to ensure timely roll out
of mobile phase I scheme within their jurisdiction wherein
approximately 7871 towers are being installed in remote and rural
areas.
D) ADMINISTRTATIVE FUNCTIONS
The
CCAs are performing DDO functions for WMO and VTMs, the field offices
of DoT. Apart from carrying out other administrative functions as the
Head of the Departments (HOD), the CCAs also handle court cases at
field level where the Government of India is a party in matters of
licence fee, spectrum charges, pension, absorption issues etc. The
CCA offices are also conducting Pension Adalats to settle the pension
related grievances at a single forum that was not hitherto available
to them.
Internal
check inspection of field units – The work related to
the yearly internal audit of the DoT units (other than CCAs, i.e.,
VTM, WMO etc.) in the circles has been transferred to the CCA offices
with detailed guidelines, vide OM No.1-1/2003/DDG (A/C)/ICU dated
23.7.2008.
With
a view to ensuring a better information outreach on the
functions/activities of the CCA offices to those who are covered
there under, several CCA offices have launched websites. The contents
of the websites have been designed with the special focus on the
specific information requirement of the clientele, while equally
focusing on the role of the CCA Unit as the interface between
DoT/Government of India and the different stakeholders. In a short
span of time, the CCA Units have carved out a niche for themselves by
bringing the different stakeholders of DoT together.
