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,
SomnathChakrabarty (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, SanjeevSahai (West); Harpal Singh,
Sanjay Srivastava (North); M. Nagraju, P. Sravan Kumar (South); Anand Kishore,
AshutoshNivsarkar (Central)
Office Secretary: C. S. SharmaTreasuer: N. R. MandaOrganising
Secretary: SoumenBhattachariya
(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. 212/AIB/G/18
Dt. 08.08.18
To,
Sh.
Balesh Kumar,
ADG,
HRM-I, CBIC,
New
Delhi.
Sub: Upgradation/redesignation under
GST like State Governments.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the meeting held on
01.08.18 on the cadre restructuring alongwith the Ref. No. 202/AIB/A/18 Dt.
29.07.18 and 204/AIB/A/18 Dt. 31.07.18 of the Association.
2. It is to submit with due regards
that the State governments have already upgraded (some even before the GST and
some after GST implementation) the posts by one rank for their officers. But no
such measures have been taken for our officers. Even the pay scale of the Superintendent
level officers is equivalent to the Level-10 in the State GST. Thus, the CTOs (the counterparts of our
Superintendents in State GST) have already been re-designated/upgradaed as
Asstt. Commissioner and also already placed in a pay scale equivalent to
Level-10 (Group ‘B’).
3. Thus, the post of CTO (equivalent to Superintendent or
even lower) has not only been placed under a pay scale with Pay Band of Rs.
15,600-39,100/- (PB3) and with Grade Pay of Rs. 5400/- equivalent to Level-10 but
it has also been upgraded to the post of Asstt. Commissioner by the state
governments. Even more, Asstt. CTO has been upgraded to CTO, CTO to Asstt.
Commissioner, Asstt. Commissioner to Deputy Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner
to Joint Commissioner, Joint Commissioner to Addl. Commissioner and so on in
the state governments. This has put our officers under a very insulting,
demoralizing and humiliating position particularly in dealing with the trade
which results into weak indirect tax administration at Centre in comparison to
the States.
4. Two different sets of hierarchies
have been created for collecting GST, one manned by erstwhile Central Excise
and Service Tax officials and the other manned by the erstwhile state VAT
officials. Pertinently, the CGST and SGST Acts are identical (except for some
state specific details) and even the provisions for cross empowerment have been
enshrined in the respective Acts. Ideally, one expects that the nomenclature of
the posts in both the hierarchies would be the same and a particular
designation would define the same ranking authorities/officers in both.
5. In the case of CGST, entire
process relating to Registration has to be carried out by the Superintendent
whereas it is carried out by Asstt./Deputy Commissioner in case of SGST. The Asstt./Deputy
Commissioner is a post senior to Superintendent in our Department. But despite
of the functional parity with Asstt./Deputy Commissioners of SGST, our Superintendents
are perceived by the public and trade as officers junior to their counterparts in
SGST. Even the SGST officials of equal rank (Asstt. Commissioners) treat them
as inferior. Thus, the scenario is highly demoralizing and humiliating for the
officers of the rank of Superintendent who are bearing a significant load of
GST implementation.
6. During the course of meeting, the administration was
kind enough to agree to the proposal submitted by the Association on the issue.
Accordingly, the Association was also asked to provide the relevant papers.
7. As asked, the copies of the orders relating Andhra
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Andaman & Nicobar etc. states are enclosed
herewith for ready reference alongwith the copy of the relevant document
mentioning the pay scale of CTO in Chhattisgarh.
8. In view of the above, it is
requested that the same steps (if not better than the GST counterparts in state
governments) may also kindly be taken to upgrade/redesignate the posts in CBIC
from the lowest to the highest level alongwith enhancing the pay scale of our
Superintendent at par with the CTO of the states to motivate and create the
feeling of job-satisfaction among the employees of CBIC for perfect
implementation and furtherance of GST in the interest of the revenue.
Thanking
you,
Yours sincerely,
Encls: As above.
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy
with the request for necessary action to:
The
DG, HRD, CBIC, New Delhi.
(RAVI MALIK)
