SATYAGRAHA
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Dear Friends,
Copy of the notice
sent for revival of Satyagraha is attached herewith for necessary action.
Love,
Ravi.
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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. 172/A/14
Dt.
29.08.14
To,
Sh. Arun Jaitley,
The Hon’ble
Finance Minister,
Govt. of India,
New Delhi.
Sub: Gathering before the residences of
the authorities under revival of Satyagraha.
Sir,
Kindly
refer to the Ref. No. 93/A/12 Dt. 31.12.12, 27/H/13 Dt. 04.03.13, 33/A/12 Dt.
18.03.13, 34/A/12 Dt. 19.03.13, 44/A/12 Dt. 02.04.13, 54/A/13 Dt. 10.04.13,
68/A/13Dt. 26.04.13, 207/A/13 Dt. 22.07.13, 13/A/13 Dt. 20.01.14, 28/A/13 Dt.
04.02.14, 39/A/13 Dt. 20.02.14, 49/A/13 Dt. 28.02.14, 95/A/13 Dt. 01.05.14 etc.
of the Association.
2. It is again submitted with due regards that nothing is left to
be happy in the life of the Central Excise Superintendents in relation of
career, pay or any other service matter. Despite of total demoralisation,
disappointment, job dissatisfaction, demotivation, humiliation &
frustration, the revenue targets are regularly being achieved above the set targets
by the sincere, committed & dedicated efforts of these officers. Under the
present circumstances, these officers are forced to retire at a PB2 post with only
single promotion in the service career after joining as Inspector whereas their
common entry counterparts are easily enjoying PB4 levels after getting 5-6
promotions. The Central Excise Superintendents are getting promotion (if any)
merely to Junior Time Scale while their counterparts of CPWD, CSS, CSSS, AFHQS,
Railway Board, Rajya
Sabha Secretariat & many others like Administrative Services,
Police Services, Forest Services, Engineering Services, State Services etc. to Senior Time Scale. The employee grievance redressal
mechanism has totally failed. These poor officers are also forced to work
under the extreme juniors of Customs belonging to the same cadre. Not only
it, the Central Excise Superintendents are also deprived of the due pay scale/pay band
& grade pay in comparison to their analogous counterparts. 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 & requests made to the administration. If career
prospects were disclosed at the time of the recruitment, these officers would
have never joined this job.
3. It
seems that nobody is worried about this actual workforce of CBEC. The direct
IRS officers have been ensured upto 9 promotions to upgrade them within the
standard residency periods prescribed by DOPT by creating the posts at Apex,
HAG+ etc. levels in the higher scales even without availability of the eligible
officers but no measures are being taken for the Central Excise Superintendents
& Inspectors to promote/upgrade them within the standard residency periods
prescribed by DOPT. Their counterparts of Income Tax (CBDT) and the Assistants
of CSS under the same Department of Revenue are able to reach the post of
Commissioner and Joint Secretary. Almost all other counterparts of them are
also reaching the PB4 levels. They were also reaching the level of Commissioner
or above in the remote past but the things have been distorted now in such a manner
in the CBEC that they are forced to retire merely on the post of Superintendent
after one promotion barring 1%. The CBEC is even unable to conduct the DPC for
promotions from Group ‘B’ to Group ‘A’ at prescribed intervals for this 1%. Nothing has been done for
these poor officers for decades to improve their career prospects. They are
given false assurances but nothing has ever happened. All of other cadres below
Group ‘A’ except Inspectors & Superintendents are also already getting 5 to
6 promotions in CBEC.
4. The cadre restructuring, which should have been implemented
immediately after its notification particularly keeping in view the monthly
mass level retirements of our officers without getting even IInd promotion, is
still pending even after more than 8 months of its notification. Now under the prevailing
circumstances, we have no option other than the revival of the Satyagraha
programme to sit before the residences of the authorities including Commissioners/ADG’s,
Chief Commissioners/DG’s, Joint Secretary, Members, Chairperson, Revenue
Secretary, MOS & FM requesting them for immediate implementation of cadre
restructuring and taking concrete measures independent of cadre restructuring
to retire all of our officers also in PB4.
5. In view of the above, our
officers limited to 51 in number will gather peacefully before the residences of the Joint Secretary (Admn.) & Member
(P&V) of the CBEC on 20.09.14 (Saturday) and the Chairperson of CBEC &
Revenue Secretary on 21.09.14 (Sunday) under the ‘51 programme’ requesting
these authorities to fulfill our demands as per the charter of demands enclosed
herewith. Under next step, such programmes will be observed before the
residences of the Commissioners & Chief Commissioners throughout India and before
the residences of other higher authorities in Delhi, if our demands are not
acceded.
Thanking you,
Yours
faithfully,
Encl: Charter of
demands.
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy
with the request for necessary action to-
1)
The Prime Minister of India, PMO, South Block, New Delhi.
2)
The MOS, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi.
3)
The Cabinet Secretary, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
4)
The Secretary, Department of Revenue, North Block, New Delhi.
5)
The Chairperson, CBEC, North Block, New Delhi.
6)
The Member (P&V), CBEC, North Block, New Delhi.
7)
The Joint Secretary (Admn.), CBEC, North Block, New Delhi.
(RAVI
MALIK).
CHARTER OF DEMANDS
A.
Immediate implementation of cadre restructuring to fill-up all group ‘A’ entry
posts as our officers are regularly retiring without promotion despite of
thousands of promotional posts being in hand.
B.
Scheme to improve the career prospects
of Central Excise Superintendents/Inspectors independent of cadre restructuring
to retire them in PB-4 by granting at least 5 functional promotions.
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. alongwith 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.
