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:
SampatRai, VatanKamble (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, LaxmiLalSinghvi
(Central); N. N. Lal, R. K. Solanki (North); G. Srinath, S. Chandrasekar
(South); AshwiniMajhi, 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. 142/A/14
Dt.
15.07.14
To,
Sh. Arun Jaitley,
The Hon’ble
Finance Minister,
Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Sub: Request for appointment.
Sir,
It is submitted with due regards that the
Central Excise Superintendents are forced to retire on a PB2 post with only
single promotion in the service career of 35-40 years after joining as
Inspector whereas their common entry counterparts are easily enjoying PB4
levels after getting 5-6 promotions after entry into the same level of PB2. The
Central Excise Superintendents are getting promotion (if any) merely to Junior
Time Scale while their counterparts of CPWD, CSS, CSSS, AFHQS, Rajya
Sabha Secretariat, Railway Board & many
others
like Administrative Services, Police Services, Forest Services, Engineering
Services, Foreign Services, State Services etc. to Senior Time Scale. These poor officers are also forced to work under
the extreme juniors of Customs belonging to the same cadre in the same
organization of CBEC. Their counterparts of the Income
Tax (CBDT) and CSS under the same Department of Revenue are able to reach the
post of Commissioner and Joint Secretary. The Central Excise Superintendents are also deprived of the due pay scale/pay band
& grade pay and facing the worst career prospects in comparison to their
analogous counterparts.
2. They are totally
demoralised and have nothing to be job-satisfied or motivated. If career
prospects were disclosed in the advertisement for recruitment, these officers
would have never joined this job. The rights to grow, make progress and live
with dignity have been snatched from them. There is no change in the scenario
regarding their career prospects despite of the repeated representations,
pleadings & requests to the administration. Everybody
in the corridors of power of CBEC seems to be worried only about the stature,
interest & character of the IRS paying no heed to the career prospects
& job-satisfaction of the actual workforce (Central Excise Superintendents
& Inspectors) already collecting the government revenue always above the
set targets despite of total disappointment and humiliation.
3. In view of the above, it is very
much requested to kindly grant the due time as per your convenience to the
Association to discuss the following points for the due redressal-
A. Immediate implementation of cadre restructuring as our officers
are regularly retiring without promotion and convening of single DPC to regularise ad-hoc promotions
to the post of Asstt. Commissioner in accordance with the rules existing on the
date of regular DPC.
B. Scheme to improve the
career prospects of Central Excise Superintendents/Inspectors independent of
cadre restructuring to bring parity with common entry counterparts of CSS etc. to
retire our officers also in PB-4 and non-functional time scale in PB3 instead
of PB2 to Superintendents after 4 years of service
like other counterparts.
C. Initial pay scale equivalent to
the Grade Pay of Rs. 5400/- in PB3 to the Superintendent of Central Excise
w.e.f. the date of the grant of the same to the analogous counterparts of CBI
etc. along with other perks as being granted to the later ones, implementation
of the CBEC circular issued vide F. No. A-26017/44/94-Ad II (A) Dt. 08.03.95
regarding arrears of pay and retrospective implementation of the pay scale
revision of the Superintendents of Central Excise at par with NCB.
D. Next
promotion of Central Excise Superintendent to STS post like other group ‘B’
gazetted officers of Central as well as State Governments and qualifying services/residency periods in accordance of DOPT OM
No. AB-14017/61/2008-Estt.(RR) dt. 24.03.09.
E. Batch
to batch Non Functional Financial Upgradation to the Central Excise executive
officers at par with the best placed counterparts of CSS etc. on the lines of
Group ‘A’ vs. IAS.
F. Merger of group ‘B’ Executive non-gazetted and also gazetted
grades under CBEC into one and counting of regular service as
per F. No. A/60/13/RTI/2006-Ad.IIIB Dt. 26.05.06 of CBEC.
G. Filling-up of all posts of Asstt. Commissioner first
from the Central Excise Superintendents only till all of Central Excise
Superintendents of 2002 enter into group A like Appraisers and to take measures
that no senior officer of Central Excise is forced to work under the junior
officer of Customs belonging to same cadre.
Thanking
you,
Yours faithfully,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.