Dear friends,
namaste.
Meeting on Group 'A' transfer/posting guidelines was held today under the Chair of Member (Admn). DG, HRD, ADGs, HRD and Commissioner (Coordination) alongwith other concerned officials were also present in the meeting. Meeting was held in a very healthy atmosphere and principally, the points submitted by us were agreed. Main points were not to change the zone/station of promotee Group A officers/ACs, if retiring within 5 years, cut off date to be 30th June instead of 31st March etc. The point of increase in number of zones to keep the officers at nearby places on transfer was also discussed. Submissions about consideration of representations and Association matters were also made. Submissions made during the meeting are placed below-
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
namaste.
Meeting on Group 'A' transfer/posting guidelines was held today under the Chair of Member (Admn). DG, HRD, ADGs, HRD and Commissioner (Coordination) alongwith other concerned officials were also present in the meeting. Meeting was held in a very healthy atmosphere and principally, the points submitted by us were agreed. Main points were not to change the zone/station of promotee Group A officers/ACs, if retiring within 5 years, cut off date to be 30th June instead of 31st March etc. The point of increase in number of zones to keep the officers at nearby places on transfer was also discussed. Submissions about consideration of representations and Association matters were also made. Submissions made during the meeting are placed below-
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
President:
Address for communication:
Secretary General:
A.
Venkatesh
240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)
Ravi Malik
Vice Presidents: Apurba
Roy, P. C. Jha (East); A. K. Meena, Somnath Chakrabarty (west); Ashish
Vajpayee, Ravi Joshi (North); B. Pavan K. Reddy (South); K.V. Sriniwas, T. J.
Manojuman (Central) Joint Secretaries: Ajay Kumar, R. N. Mahapatra
(East); B. S. Meena, Sanjeev Sahai (West); Harpal Singh, Sanjay Srivastava
(North); M. Nagraju, P. Sravan Kumar (South); Anand Kishore, Ashutosh Nivsarkar
(Central)
Office
Secretary: C. S. Sharma Treasuer: N.
R. Manda Organising Secretary: Soumen Bhattachariya
(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. 32/AIB/T/18
Dt.
06.02.18
To,
Shri S. Ramesh,
Member (Admn), CBEC,
North Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Draft transfer & placement guidelines for
Indian Revenue Service (C&CE) officers-reg.
Sir,
Kindly
refer to the letter F.No. 8/B/137/HRD(HRM)/2013 Pt. IV Dt. 31.01.18 of the o/o
DG, HRD.
2. With due regards, the following
suggestions are submitted for kind consideration-
(i) Regarding para 4.6, officers on promotion
from Group B having balance service of 5 years or less may kindly not be
transferred out of the station where they were working at the time of promotion except
willing ones. This issue was also discussed with the Chairperson prior to last
promotion orders and she was pleased to agree to it. The reason behind it is
that these officers are prone to various old age diseases and having regular
treatment at the existing station. All of them are also busy to fulfill their
family obligations like settlement
of the career issues of young wards, settlement of
marriage of their
wards particularly daughters, care of old & ailing parents being
under medical supervision at the existing station etc. If they are transferred
at this stage, neither they shall be able to fulfill their family obligations
nor be able to transfer whole family to new place or have double settlements,
one at the old place and another at the new place due to financial constraints.
No need to say that these officers get promotion on the fag end of career without benefit of even a single rupee. They are not
in the position to get their family transferred to the new place with them due
to prevailing circumstances. This will put them under unwarranted financial
burden. However,
these officers are not required to be transferred to other zones, if vacancies
exist in their own zone as was also followed in earlier orders including
October, 2014. If vacancies don’t exist, the youngest officers may be
transferred to nearby zone and called back to the parent zone as soon as
vacancies occur. If the change is
inevitable, their station may be changed within their own zone. Para 2.1.5 also
says about the change of station only, not the change of zone.
(ii) The period of more than 9 months has been
mentioned to be treated as a complete year in para 7.1. In consonance of
it, the officers having less than 3 years and 3 months (rather 5 years
and 3 months) service left may kindly be posted to their
choice of region/zone.
(iii) Para 3.2 deals with
placement committee and placement of officers of the level of Addl. Commissioner and below. The draft proposal is that all the
officers would be placed at the
disposal of the Committee of Chief Commissioners for the posting in respective zone. It is worth to submit in this regard that the promotee Asstt. Commissioners were directly posted to Customs Zones in 2014. But now it appears that
henceforth the promotee Asstt. Commissioners from Central Excise wouldn’t get exposure of Customs as the postings in Customs will be given on the basis of the tenure spent in
CGST. In the zones such as Mumbai and Gujarat where Customs postings are fairly better, the promotee group A officers who are first posted to Central Excise/CGST wouldn’t be able to make into Customs even after 3 years on account of being promoted on fag end of the career. Under such circumstances, the promotee Asstt. Commissioners of Central Excise will never be able to get Customs posting for the want of required tenure on account of their residual
service being short. For this, a certain ratio for promotee group A officers of Central Excise stream may kindly
be fixed and they may be posted there directly.
(iv) Regarding para 11.3, it has been mentioned that the officers having less than 3 years of service left may
be posted to their choice of region/zone. This is a welcome gesture by the Board but the cutoff date for calculating 3 years has not been mentioned. Para 7.1 of the
draft policy, however, says that the cutoff date for transfer would be taken as 31st March. It is understood by it that the CBEC may take 31st March as cutoff date for calculating 3 years period for
retirement. In this regard, it is submitted that 30th June has been considered as cutoff date for all purposes till now. Last time also while sending the promoted officers out of region/zones, 30th June was taken as cutoff date and many officers having even a few days more than 3 years had to go out. Accordingly, the cutoff date may
kindly be taken as 30th June as being considered till last transfer order.
(v) Para 2.1.8 talks
about the addressing of grievances only after the joining of new assignment.
Regarding this, it is submitted that this condition may kindly be relaxed
because it will place the individual as well as the administration in awkward
situation. Moreover, it will also put unwarranted burden on Govt. exchequer in
the form of transfer grant to be given to the transferee to join new place.
(vi)
The compassionate grounds including DOPT guidelines, medical ones of self/parents/family
members, working spouse, retirement within three/five years, ward appearing for
Board examination etc. are also to be
duly considered as per the representations made by the concerned officers.
(vii)
Additional point/s, if any, will be submitted during the meeting.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy
with the request for necessary action to:
1)
DG, HRD, CBEC, New Delhi.
2)
ADG, HRD (HRM-I), CBEC, New Delhi.
3)
ADG, HRD (HRM-II), CBEC, New Delhi.
(RAVI MALIK)
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
President:
Address for communication:
Secretary General:
A.
Venkatesh
240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)
Ravi Malik
Vice Presidents: Apurba
Roy, P. C. Jha (East); A. K. Meena, Somnath Chakrabarty (west); Ashish
Vajpayee, Ravi Joshi (North); B. Pavan K. Reddy (South); K.V. Sriniwas, T. J.
Manojuman (Central) Joint Secretaries: Ajay Kumar, R. N. Mahapatra
(East); B. S. Meena, Sanjeev Sahai (West); Harpal Singh, Sanjay Srivastava
(North); M. Nagraju, P. Sravan Kumar (South); Anand Kishore, Ashutosh Nivsarkar
(Central)
Office
Secretary: C. S. Sharma Treasuer: N.
R. Manda Organising Secretary: Soumen Bhattachariya
(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. 34/AIB/G/18
Dt.
08.02.18
To,
Sh. S. Ramesh,
Member (Admn), CBEC,
North Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Transfer/posting of the promotee
Asstt. Commissioners in their zones-request regarding.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the earlier requests of the Association
on the above matter.
2. It is again submitted with due regards that many of
the Asstt. Commissioners promoted in the last promotion order have been
transferred out of their zones despite of the vacancies being existed in their
zone. As on date, the posts of Asstt. Commissioner are also lying vacant in the
Directorate offices/NACEN in the respective zone alongwith a good number of
posts being lain vacant throughout the country in the field formations too.
3. It is also worth to submit that these officers have
been promoted merely on ad-hoc basis against temporary posts to be in effect
only upto December, 2018. Nobody knows the fate of these officers after
December, 2018 whether they would continue on these posts or not. If they don’t
continue, they will again be asked to work on the parent post but not known
where they would be posted on parent post. No need to say that these officers
have been promoted as ad-hoc Asstt. Commissioner at the fag end of the career
without benefit of even a single rupee and their transfer to other zones has
put them under financial constraints on account of having double establishments
(one at the parent place and another at new one) due to not being in position
to transfer their family to new place under their compelling circumstances
including old & aged parents getting medical treatment at parent place,
studying (academic as well as professional courses) wards, marriage process of
wards (particularly daughters) etc.
4. The Association was impressed that officers would not
be transferred to other zones, if vacancies exist in their own zone. Further if
vacancies don’t exist, the youngest officers will be transferred to nearby zone
and will be called back to the parent zone as soon as the vacancies occur. Same
procedure/policy was followed in the earlier transfer orders.
5. It is also worth to submit that compassionate grounds
including medical ones of self as well as family members, working spouse,
retirement within specified period, ward appearing for Board examination etc.
etc. are also to be considered sympathetically as per the representations made
by the concerned officers.
6. In view of the above, it is requested to kindly-
i) Consider the transfer of the officers to their own
zone, if the vacancies exist including Directorate offices/NACEN etc.
(willingness may also kindly be sought for Directorate/NACEN/deputation seats).
ii) Consider the compassionate grounds as represented by
the concerned officers.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Secretary General.
