ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President:
Address
for communication: Secretary General:
Lokanath
Mishra 240,
Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.) Ravi
Malik
Vice Presidents: Sampat Rai &
Vatan Kamble (Central); Anurag Chaudhary & Ravi Joshi (North); A. Ravinder
Singh & Rajan G. George (South); A. S. Roy & Shubhrangshu Deb (East);
P. D. Nimhan & S. K. Jha (West)
Joint Secretaries: Anand Kishore &
Laxmi Lal Singhvi (Central); N. N. Lal & R. K. Solanki (North); G. Srinath
& S. Chandrasekar (South); Ashwini Majhi & V. N. Jha (East); G. K.
Jhala & M. K. Misra (West)
Office Secretary: C. S. Sharma (Mob. 09313885411) Treasurer: N. R. Manda (Mob.
09871483585)
(Recognised by G.O.I.,
Min. of Fin. vide letter F. No. B. 12017/10/2006-Ad.IV A Dt.21.01.08)
Ref. No. 175/OS/13 Dt. 17.06.13
REMINDER
To,
Ms. Shobha L. Chary,
Member (P&V), CBEC,
North Block, New Delhi.
Sub: ACP/MACP
clarification.
Madam,
Kindly
refer to the Ref. No. 107/OS/13 Dt. 15.05.13 of the Association.
2. It is further submitted with due
regards that no response has been received on the matter even after expiry of
more than one month showing absolute non-seriousness of the concerned section while recovery from the salaries from our
officers has already been started. No clarification has been issued particularly on the following points
by the Board-
(a)
What grade pay will be paid to those officers on completion of 30 years who
have got time scale and then 2nd ACP upgradation between 01.01.06 and 31.08.08?
Whether they will be eligible for IIIrd MACP upgradation or will it be offset
against the time scale?
(b)
What grade pay will be paid to those officers on completion of 20 years or on
being eligible for IInd MACP upgradation who have got time scale before
completion of 20 years or prior to grant of IInd MACP upgradation? Whether they
will be eligible for next MACP upgradation or will it be offset against the
time scale?
(c)
If MACP upgradation is offset, what will the next upgradation will be
called/counted-IInd or IIIrd? How the IIIrd MACP upgradation will be granted to
the officers?
The officers falling under the categories (a) and (b) of para 2 above are
not being granted the due benefits by the field formations.
3. Every prudent person knows that any offset of ACP/MACP upgradation
with the time scale is not legally sustainable. Moreover, it is also not
understood how the time scale granted
between 01.01.06 and 31.08.08 (before
the origin of MACPS) can be
offset with MACP upgradation whereas the MACPS itself came into existence on 01.09.08. Even otherwise, the
MACP/ACP upgradation can no way be offset with the time scale because of both
having different identity as well as procedure for implementation. The time
scale is the part of the pay scale of the post being held by the employee which
requires no DPC whereas the ACP/MACP upgradation is not the part of the pay
scale of the post and it also requires DPC. The grade pays granted under the ACP/MACP
upgradation also belong to the higher post or higher hierarchy.
4.
No MACP upgradation is being offset even
by the State governments of Uttar Pradesh etc. One may say that MACP Schemes
adopted by the Central governments and State governments have no relation but
this notion is not correct because both
of the MACP Schemes (for Central and State governments) have been originated
from the same source, i.e., 6th CPC. It is also worth to mention
that the government was not having any intention to put its employees at loss
at the time of the formulation of MACPS as compared to ACPS. Rather, it was
formulated to grant additional benefit to the employees. In addition to MACPS,
one more additional financial benefit was granted independent of MACPS in the
form of time scale.
5.
As far as the para 8.1 of MACPS is concerned, it is nowhere (including MACPS
notification as well as Govt. resolution) mentioned that the time scale/NFSG
would offset one MACP upgradation. Para 8.1 merely says that the grade pays of
5400/- in PB2 and PB3 are separate grade pays for the purpose of MACP upgradation.
However, it is nowhere mentioned which is higher one.
6.
In view of the above, it is requested that a general clarification may kindly
be issued to all field formations clarifying each and every doubt on MACPS to
give justice to the officers at an early date without further delay as recovery
from the salaries of the officers has already been started in the field
formations. It is also requested that the field formations may be directed not to make any recovery until the issue is
settled finally.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary
General.
Copy with the request for
necessary action to:
1) The DG, HRD, CBEC, New
Delhi.
2) The ADG (HRM), HRD, CBEC,
New Delhi.
(RAVI
MALIK)