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. 256/AIB/NCB/18
Dt. 20.09.18
To,
The Chairman,
CBIC,
North Block, New
Delhi.
Sub: Retrospective
implementation of pay scale of Central Excise Superintendents at par with NCB
Superintendents.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the various requests
of the Association on the subject matter.
2. It is submitted with due regards that the pay scale
of the Superintendents of Narcotics Control Bureau was revised to Rs.
7500-12000/- from Rs. 6500-10500/- w.e.f.
01.01.96 with all consequential benefits vide U.O. No. 169/1/2005-IC dt.
11.04.05 of the Department of Expenditure leading to the issuance of Order F.
No. II/2(38)/2004-Estt. dt. 20.04.05 by the Narcotics Control Bureau whereas
the pay scale of the Superintendents of Central Excise was revised to Rs.
7500-12000/- from Rs. 6500-10500/- prospectively w.e.f. 21.04.04, i.e., from
the date of issuance of the order vide O.M. No. 6/37/98-IC dt. 21.04.04.
3. It is worth to submit that the
Superintendents of Narcotics Control Bureau were granted the retrospective
benefit despite of the fact that their pay
scale was revised even after the revision of pay scale of Superintendents of
Central Excise based on the parity and precedent of Central Excise
Superintendents. It is further submitted that the Superintendents in Narcotics Control Bureau were also granted the
non-functional time scale on completion of 4 years of service based on the
parity and precedent of the Superintendents of Central Excise.
4. Further, there exists an established parity and
relativity between the Superintendents of NCB (Narcotics Control Bureau) and
Superintendents of Central Excise as the nature of duties, mode of recruitment,
functions and responsibilities of these posts are the same. The Superintendents
of Central Excise are also working as Superintendents in NCB since the creation
of NCB. NCB was also a part of CBIC under the Department of Revenue and
remained its part till 18.02.03. The Superintendents of NCB were sharing common
seniority with the Superintendents of Central Excise for promotion to the Group
A post of Asstt. Commissioner till 18.02.03. The Allocation of Business Rules,
1961 were amended vide Notification No. I/22/1/2003-CAB dt. 18.02.03 [S.O.
193(E)] to include the NCB in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Even after that, NCB
is being monitored by the CBIC/Department of Revenue and the Superintendents of
Central Excise are till now performing their duties as Superintendents of NCB.
5. The mode of recruitment of the Inspectors in CBIC
and Intelligence Officers in NCB is also common. The posts of Superintendents
in CBIC and NCB are also filled-up through promotion from the Inspectors and Intelligence
Officers. The High Power Committee formed by the then Finance Minister also accepted
that the Superintendents of Central Excise and the Superintendents of NCB are
at par. Further, the Sixth Pay Commission had categorically observed vide Para
7.15.20 of its report that the duties & responsibilities attached to these
posts whether in Central Excise or in the Narcotics Control Bureau are similar.
6. Thus, the non-grant of retrospective
revision of pay scale to the Central Excise Superintendents is not justified as
the grave anomaly has arisen on account of the different dates of revision
prescribed by the Department of Expenditure for different categories of
employees. If the pay scale of the Superintendents of NCB was revised w.e.f.
01.01.96 by the Department of Expenditure, the prospective revision of pay
scale from 21.04.04 for the Superintendents of Central Excise is gross
injustice to them.
7. In view of the above, it is requested to give the
retrospective effect to the enhanced pay scale of the Central Excise
Superintendents at par with the Superintendents of NCB.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
