" IRS OFFICERS PROMOTED FROM THE GRADE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CENTRAL EXCISE ARE ALSO MEMBERS OF AIACEGEO. THIS IS THE ONLY ASSOCIATION FOR SUPERINTENDENTS OF CENTRAL EXCISE AND IRS OFFICERS PROMOTED FROM THE GRADE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CENTRAL EXCISE THROUGH OUT THE COUNTRY . President Mr.T.Dass and SG Mr. Harpal Singh.

Thursday 27 November 2014

REPRESENTATIONS SUBMITTED TO CHAIRMAN, CBEC.

ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President:                                          Address for communication:                                            Secretary General:
R. Chandramouli                        240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)                                                   Ravi Malik
Mob. 08939955463                      mail Id: ravimalik_sweet@yahoo.com                                      Mob. 09868816290
Vice Presidents: P. Parwani, L. L. Singhvi (Central); Anurag Chaudhary, Ravi Joshi (North); N. Raman, G. Srinath (South); B. K. Sinha, Ashwini Majhi (East); Rajesh Chaher, J. D. Patil (West) Joint Secretaries: Anand Kishore, J. S. Aiyer (Central); R. K. Solanki, Ashish Vajpeyi (North); M. Nagaraju, Ajithkumar P. C. (South); P. K. Sen, S. Bhattachariya (East); Jasram Meena, M. K. Mishra (West) Office Secretary: C. S. Sharma
Treasurer: N. R. Manda Liaison Secretary: A. S. Kundu Coordinator on Telangana: P. Shravan Kumar
(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. 215/M/14                                                                          Dt. 24.11.14
To,
Sh. K. Srivastava,
The Chairman, CBEC,
North Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Request for redressal of grievances.
Sir,
With due regards, the following grievances are submitted for kind redressal at your end-
1. No gradation between regular and temporary AC’s: The Association came to know that the post of temporary Asstt. Commisioner is being placed at lower grade than regular Asstt. Commissioner in the amended IRS Recruitment Rules in r/o cadre restructuring despite of no such approval being made by the Cabinet or any other concerned authority/nodal department. In the existing IRS RR’s also, there has been shown no difference between the regular and temporary posts. All posts of Asstt. Commissioner, whether temporary or regular, have been created on the basis of the functional requirement of the CBEC without any differentiation between their function, job or work responsibilities. There is also no difference between the pay scale or classification of the temporary & regular posts. Both have been placed in the same pay band & grade pay and also classified as Group ‘A’ without any clause of subordination. Same procedure is adopted to conduct the DPC for promotion to both from the common Group ‘B’ gazetted post. Two grades can’t be created for a single post whether it is termed as regular or temporary. It is, therefore, requested kindly not to make any differentiation between the regular and temporary posts of Asstt. Commissioner by bifurcating the same post under two grades.
2. DPC for 2013-14, 2014-15 & 2015-16 for promotion to the post of Asstt. Commissioner: CBEC is already behind by two modal years in r/o the said DPC. DPC for a financial year should be conducted well in advance latest by the month of January of the preceding year. Thus, the DPC for 2014-15 should have been conducted latest by January, 14 and the process for 2015-16 should have also been started in the month of August, 14 as per the schedule prescribed by DOPT. The promotions against 200 posts of Central Excise share for 2013-14 are still pending and the names of more than 30 retired or unfortunately expired officers have also been mentioned in the latest promotion order. A good number of officers facing no charge sheet or suspension or prosecution have also not been promoted vide above mentioned order whereas their juniors have been promoted. The chain vacancies to the tune of 498 on account of cascading effect from higher side are also required to be added for the DPC. It is, therefore, requested to kindly conduct the immediate DPC for the post of Asstt. Commissioner for 2014-15 by duly adding the chain vacancies also, also conduct the DPC 2015-16 latest by January, 15, issue promotion orders against 200 posts of Central Excise share for 2013-14, issue promotion orders of more than 30 serving officers in lieu of the retired or unfortunately expired officers and issue promotion orders for the officers whose juniors have been promoted despite of these seniors facing no charge sheet or suspension or prosecution.
3. Non-availability of infrastructure & staff: After last cadre restructuring, the staffside faced the lack of even sitting space because their rooms were occupied by the higher authorities. Like last occasion, our officers entered even into IRS on promotion as a result of current cadre restructuring are still to be provided with the sitting space. They are sitting here & there due to want of the office space. Neither they nor Superintendents have been provided with the prescribed office space, due amenities and required staff. Superintendents are being forced to perform the duties of Inspectors by ordering for maintenance & custody the records/files and also initiate original noting and produce the files to higher authorities. Superintendent, being a gazetted supervisory officer, is not supposed to do this. It is, therefore, requested that the Superintendents and promotee IRS officers may kindly be provided with the prescribed office space, due amenities & required staff alongwith other basic facilities & infrastructure for smooth functioning of the Govt. work. The Superintendents may kindly not be forced to do the work of lower seats and the equal distribution of Inspectors may be made to provide Assisting Hands to them. If any lapse occurs due to the want of prescribed infrastructure, it is also requested not to kindly victimize any officer devoid of due infrastructure including prescribed office space, due amenities and required staff alongwith other basic facilities. 
4. Transfer & posting policy: On various places, transfer & posting policy is not being followed. The authorities are using their individual pleasure in the matter of transfers instead of following the clear clauses of the transfer & posting policy. It is requested to ask the field formations to frame the transfer & posting policy under the consultation of the service Associations of stake holder and also to follow the same without any discrimination or exception with no room for individual pleasure considering the genuine compassionate grounds of the staffside.
5. Grant of MACP upgradation in promotional hierarchy: The Supreme Court vide order in SLP No. 7467/13 filed against the judgement of High Court of Chandigarh in CWP No. 19387/11 has already confirmed the  order dt. 31.05.11 of Chandigarh CAT for grant of MACP upgradation in the promotional hierarchy. The same verdict has also been given by the Principal Bench of CAT in OA No. 904/12 and 864/14 and by Madras High Court in W.P. No. 11535/14 and M.P. No. 1/14 on 16.10.14 undoing the para 8.1 of MACPS but no relief is being given to the officers on the issue. The Principal Bench of CAT has also directed to implement the judgement of Chandigarh High Court vide its order dt. 15.09.14 in OA No.2553/13. It is, therefore, requested to scrap para 8.1 of MACPS instructions and grant MACP upgradations in the promotional hierarchy without offsetting with the time scale.
6. Allocation of Appraisers to Central Excise Zones: A good number of Appraisers have been allocated to various Customs formations manned by the Central Excise personnel under the jurisdiction of Central Excise Commissioner/Chief Commissioner where the Central Excise Superintendents have already been working as Customs Officer. It is, therefore, requested not to allocate the Appraisers to the Central Excise Zones for Customs work. Instead of it, the equal number of Superintendents may be increased by reverting these Appraisers to their parent Customs Houses. It will give a bit solace to the acutely stagnated Central Excise Inspectors in r/o the promotional prospects. It is also requested that the Customs formations falling under the jurisdiction of Central Excise Commissioner/Chief Commissioner may kindly be kept continued to be manned by Central Excise personnel only.
7. Retrospective implementation of the pay scale revision of Central Excise Superintendents at par with NCB: The Superintendents of Central Excise and NCB have always been treated at par. Both categories were also the part of the common seniority list meant for promotion to the AC post under same RR’s. The NCB was brought under the control of Home Ministry some years ago. Despite being analogous posts and treated always at par, the Superintendents of NCB have been placed under the pay scale of Rs. 7500-12000/- w.e.f. 01.01.96 whereas the Superintendents of Central Excise w.e.f. 21.04.04. It is also worth to submit that the Superintendents of NCB were also granted the time scale at par with the Superintendents of Central Excise considering their analogous character to give them equal treatment. It is, therefore, requested that the Superintendents of Central Excise may also kindly be given the benefit of the pay revision w.e.f. 01.01.96 like the Superintendents of NCB instead w.e.f. 21.04.04.
8. Implementation of circular issued vide F. No. A-26017/44/94-Ad II (A) Dt. 08.03.95 regarding arrears of pay: As per the Jabalpur CAT verdict, above circular regarding payment of arrears to our Inspectors at par with the Inspectors of CBI etc. was issued by the CBEC. All of then Inspectors have now become Superintendents but the said circular still remains unimplemented. It is, therefore, requested to implement the said circular immediately.
            Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,


 (RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President:                                          Address for communication:                                            Secretary General:
R. Chandramouli                        240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)                                                   Ravi Malik
Mob. 08939955463                      mail Id: ravimalik_sweet@yahoo.com                                      Mob. 09868816290
Vice Presidents: P. Parwani, L. L. Singhvi (Central); Anurag Chaudhary, Ravi Joshi (North); N. Raman, G. Srinath (South); B. K. Sinha, Ashwini Majhi (East); Rajesh Chaher, J. D. Patil (West) Joint Secretaries: Anand Kishore, J. S. Aiyer (Central); R. K. Solanki, Ashish Vajpeyi (North); M. Nagaraju, Ajithkumar P. C. (South); P. K. Sen, S. Bhattachariya (East); Jasram Meena, M. K. Mishra (West) Office Secretary: C. S. Sharma
Treasurer: N. R. Manda Liaison Secretary: A. S. Kundu Coordinator on Telangana: P. Shravan Kumar
(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. 216/M/14                                                                          Dt. 25.11.14
To,
Sh. K. Srivastava,
The Chairman, CBEC,
North Block, New Delhi.

Sub: Figures in r/o the Appraisers posted in Central Excise Zones.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the Ref. No. 215/M/14 Dt. 24.11.14 of the Association and the submissions made during the meeting of yesterday.
2. As asked, the figures of the Appraisers allocated for the Customs work under the jurisdictional area of various Central Excise Commissioners/Chief Commissioners in r/o point No. 6 (Allocation of Appraisers to Central Excise Zones) are submitted as below-
i) 80 in Delhi Central Excise Zone.
ii) 55 in Gujarat Central Excise Zone.
iii) 30 in Bangalore Central Excise Zone.
iv) 32 in Cochin Central Excise Zone.
v) 20 in Hyderabad Central Excise Zone.
vi) 20 in Vizag Central Excise Zone.
vi) 11 in Lucknow Central Excise Zone.
vii) 9 in Meerut Central Excise Zone.
viii) 8 in Pune Central Excise Zone.
ix) 5 in Nagpur Central Excise Zone.
x) 1 in Nasik Central Excise Zone.
xi) 5 in Aurangabad Central Excise Zone.
xii) 6 in Chandigarh Central Excise Zone.
xiii) 3 in Coimbatore Central Excise Zone.
xiv) 5 in Guntur Central Excise Zone.
xv) 15 in Trichy Central Excise Zone.
xvi) 2 in Shillong Central Excise Zone.
xvii) 4 in Bhubneshwar Central Excise Zone etc.
                         
                          Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,


 (RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy with the request for necessary action to:
The Member (P&V), CBEC, North Block, New Delhi.

(RAVI MALIK)
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President:                                          Address for communication:                                            Secretary General:
R. Chandramouli                        240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)                                                   Ravi Malik
Mob. 08939955463     mail Id: ravimalik_sweet@yahoo.com, Site: cengoindia.blogspot.in      Mob. 09868816290
Vice Presidents: P. Parwani, L. L. Singhvi (Central); Anurag Chaudhary, Ravi Joshi (North); N. Raman, G. Srinath (South); B. K. Sinha, Ashwini Majhi (East); Rajesh Chaher, J. D. Patil (West) Joint Secretaries: Anand Kishore, J. S. Aiyer (Central); R. K. Solanki, Ashish Vajpeyi (North); M. Nagaraju, Ajithkumar P. C. (South); P. K. Sen, S. Bhattachariya (East); Jasram Meena, M. K. Mishra (West) Office Secretary: C. S. Sharma
Treasurer: N. R. Manda Liaison Secretary: A. S. Kundu Coordinator on Telangana: P. Shravan Kumar
(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. 217/P/14                                                                          Dt. 26.11.14
                                                                                                IMMEDIATE PL.
To,      
Ms. Joy Kumari Chander,
The Member (P&V), CBEC,
North Block, New Delhi.

Sub: Pension & retirement benefits to the promotee Asstt. Commissioners retiring this month.

Madam,
As the message received from some places and matter already raised before your goodself, it is submitted with due regards that the PAOs are objecting the pension& retirement benefits of the promotee Asstt. Commissioners retiring this month saying that the vigilance clearance/NOC is required from the Board level instead of local level in their case. As conveyed to the Association, the relevant communications have already been sent to the CBEC from some zones in this regard. It is also worth to submit that these officers were recently promoted in the month of October, 14 based on the recent vigilance clearance.
2. In view of the above, it is requested to kindly take the necessary steps on the issue and direct the PAOs not to get the officers retired without the grant of the pension & retirement benefits.
                          Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,


RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
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