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Tuesday 19 June 2018

NFU/promotion scheme


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
Mob.7780255361       mail Id:ravimalik_sweet@yahoo.com, Site: cengoindia.blogspot.in      Mob.9868816290
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. 154/AIB/P/18                                                                          Dt. 19.06.18
To,
Sh. Nagendra Kumar,
Under Secretary, Ad.IIA, CBIC,
North Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Grievance Petition of All India Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers-reg.
Sir,
Kindly refer to your letter F.No.A-26017/237/2017-Ad.IIA Dt. 25.05.18 regarding pgportal grievance petition No. PMOPG/E/2018/0143428 Dt. 30.03.18 in r/o Batch to batch Non Functional Financial Upgradation (NFU) to our officers to grant financial parity with the best placed counterparts of CSS etc.
2. The non-functional financial upgradation (NFU) has already been brought for Group A officers vide DOPT OM No. AB.14017/64/2008-Estt.(RR) Dt. 24.04.09 to grant them financial parity with their counterparts of IAS, the best placed Group A cadre. So, no need to say that bringing of NFU to grant financial parity to Group B officers with the best placed counterpart is also urgent need of time. As far as the CCA and duties & responsibilities are concerned, the same are also different for all Group A cadres. Association has not compared Superintendent with CSS but asked for grant of NFU to bring financial parity with the best placed counterpart. Even otherwise, the Superintendents have been conferred with higher duties & responsibilities in comparison to any other counterpart of them including CSS. No need also to say that the CBIC has already recommended the grant of NFU for Superintendents at least on four occasions.
3. The issue of at least five functional promotions to officers after joining as Inspector has already been recommended by the CBIC vide OM F. No.A-26017/154//2015-Ad.IIA Dt. 22.02.16 in r/o 7th CPC report which needs to be taken up seriously by our CBIC.
4. The study team constituted by the CBIC has taken no step till date on the issue even after the expiry of more than 4.5 years of the recommendations of the Cabinet/CRC/Cabinet Secretary to take extra measures to remove stagnation of group B Central Excise executive officers independent of cadre restructuring.
5. The temporary posts of Asstt. Commissioner have been created for a limited period with the clause of no further promotion. Even if these 2118 posts are further extended, our officers will not be able to get five promotions due to the clause of no further promotion after being promoted against these pots. Moreover, these posts have also not been included in the RRs. So, our officers will not be able to get adequate career progression on account of these posts.
6. If direct recruitment to Group A service can’t be less than 50%, the remaining 50% meant for promotions may kindly be made “post based instead of vacancy based” as our officers are always at loss on account of it being vacancy based. However, the DOPT has already asked that direct recruitment should not be more than 3% of the total strength. In such case, the remaining 47% may also kindly be attributed for the purpose of promotions. Reduction in the percentage of direct recruitment will also help to improve the stature of direct Group A service instead of affecting it adversely. This is the only reason that DOPT also asked to minimize the direct recruitment to the limit of 3% otherwise the officers of the same batch may be Additional Commissioner or Commissioner or Principal/Chief Commissioner or Member/Chairman. 
7. In view of the above, it is requested to kindly take necessary steps to bring non-functional financial up-gradation (NFU) to Central Excise officers joining as Inspector at par with the best placed Group B counterparts of CSS etc. for the sake of justice at least to grant them financial parity and also bring Flexible Complementary/Dynamic Assured Career Progression Scheme or separate service or in-situ promotion scheme for Superintendents to grant them minimum five promotions after joining as Inspector.
            Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,



 (RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.