ALL
INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TAX
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
(Earlier
known as All India Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers)
Patron
Chief Patron
Patron
A.
Venkatesh
Ravi Malik
C. S. Sharma
Mob. 7780255361 Mob. 9868816290 Mob.
9313885411
President:
Address for communication: Secretary
General:
M.
Loganathan Flat
No. 6, SE 11, Shastri Nagar, Ghaziabad Harpal Singh
Mob.8758262698 mail
Id:aiacegeo2019@gmail.com Site:cengoindia.blogspot.in Mob.9717510598
Vice Presidents: B C
Khatik, V Pagare (Central) Diwakar
Sahai, Sanjoy Gupta (East) Ashish Vajpayee, Amadul Islam (North) G Srinivas
Reddy, P Ravichandran (South) R Keny, J B Parmar (West) Joint Secretaries: S
P Pandey, T J Manojumon (Central) Subrata Adhikari, SiddharthTewari (East)
Ramkesh Meena, S Sahai (West) Atul Kumar, R B Sahu (North) Bhoopesh, R V
Raghunandan (South); All India Convener:
A K Meena All India Coordinator: B L Meena Office Secretary: B C
Gupta Treasurer: M Kumar Organising Secretary: M Bajpai Liaison
Secretary: N S Maheshwari North Zone
Coordinator: Prabhakar Sharma Legal Coordinator: S Sabarwal
Vigilance Coordinator: R K Singh South
Zone Coordinator: U Sharma
(Recognised
vide F.No.B-12017/17/2022-AD-IV A dt. 14.07.23 of CBIC, Govt. of India)
Ref.
No. 77/AIB/A/24
Dt. 25.09.24
REMINDER
To,
Sh.
Sanjay Kumar Agarwal,
Chairman,
CBIC,
North
Block, New Delhi.
Sub:
Inter-Zonal (Intra-Cadre) and Inter-Cadre disparities.
Sir,
Kindly refer to
the Ref. No. 43/AIB/P/24 Dt. 13.06.24, 67/AIB/A/24 Dt. 06.09.24, 71/AIB/A/24
Dt. 12.09.24 and 73/AIB/A/24 Dt. 19.09.24 alongwith other various
communications of the Association on the subject matter.
2. It is submitted
with due regards that the subject matter is being pursued by the Association
since long. Accordingly, a committee was constituted by the CBIC to examine
subject matter and frame comprehensive modalities to remove the said disparities
but nothing happened till date in actual terms.
3. As your
goodself knows that there exists difference of around four years in the
promotions to the post of Asstt. Commissioner within CGST zones and the
Guwahati zone is lagging behind all other zones in this regard. Likewise,
around six years disparity exists in the promotions to the post of
Superintendent. It is also worth to mention that the officers working in
Customs zones are getting far better promotions than CGST officers and reaching
upto the level of Addl. Commissioner and Commissioner (5/6 promotions) despite
of being recruited in the same cadre of Inspector. Needless to submit that the
officers working in CGST zones are retiring as Superintendent or ad-hoc Asstt.
Commissioners (1/2 promotion).
4. The Association
has already suggested various measures to remove the said disparity including
the following, which may kindly be given due consideration –
(A) Creation of
supernumerary posts: Supernumerary
posts may be created at each level of promotion to bring the parity based on
the number of the officers working in the zones lagging behind the other zones.
These posts will be personal in nature and be abolished with the retirement of
the concerned officer. Thus, the resultant original cadre strength in the
promotional post will not change. The various courts including the Apex Court
have ordered to use this device to bring parity in promotions. No functional
post will be required to be created for it.
(B)
Notional promotions: Like creation of
supernumerary posts, the measure like notional promotion may also be taken to
bring parity in promotions. This will also be personal in nature. The various
courts including the Apex Court have ordered to adopt this measure also to
bring parity in promotions. No functional post will be required to be created
for it too.
(C)
In-situ promotions: The parity in
promotions may also be brought by giving in-situ promotions to the officers
working in the zones lagging behind. In it, the concerned officer will get
higher designation with the pay scale of the post but will be working on the
lower post till functional post become available. Such Scheme was approved by
our Board on persuasion by the Association in the year 2011 but the same has
not been implemented by our CBIC till date due to the reasons known to the
concerned authorities only. No functional post will be required to be created
for it too.
(D) Formulation of a department specific
scheme like Flexible
Complementary/Dynamic Assured Career Progression Scheme (as
prevalent in the Department of Science & Technology and also in the
Ministry of Health): In-situ promotions may also be given to the
officers working in the zones lagging behind based on such scheme. No functional post will be required to be
created for it too.
(E)
Non-functional Upgradation: A scheme to
bring at least financial parity may also be brought. Such scheme was
recommended at least on four occasions for our officers by our CBIC on
persuasion by the Association but nothing done finally. No functional post will be required to be created for it too.
5. It is also
worth to mention that the Cabinet also recommended on persuasion by the
Association in the year 2013 to bring specific measures to remove the
stagnation of our officers independent of cadre restructuring but nothing
done by our CBIC till date due to the
reasons known to the concerned authorities only.
6. As an instant
measure, our officers may be promoted as per the in-situ promotion scheme
approved in the year 2011 by the CBIC on pursuance by the Association for
the removal of disparities in promotions as referred in para 4(C) above. This
scheme is required to be implemented from the date of its approval, i.e.,
18.02.11, to give actual benefit to our officers at the earliest.
7. The matter is
required to deal with full seriousness as being done in the case of Group A. If
a direct recruit Asstt. Commissioner is not promoted to the post of
Commissioner within 17 years, he/she is started to be termed as stagnated and
comparison is made with the IAS officers of his/her year. Despite of having
lucrative promotions, direct recruit IRS officers are mentioned stagnated in
every cadre restructuring proposal including the ensuing one. In the last cadre
restructuring, they were given parity in promotions with the IAS and an Asstt.
Commissioner became Commissioner within 17 years as a result. But no such serious
efforts are being made for executive cadres appointed at Inspector level. We
will have to understand their pain to do something really serious to remove these
disparities, if we are so serious to remove the disparities of IRS officers
with IAS. In our own CBIC, we are unable to remove disparities of the cadre/s
of our own working within CBIC whereas we always talk to remove inter
departmental/inter ministry disparities in the case of direct recruit Group A
officers. Not only it, they are also enjoying NFU to grant them financial
parity with IAS.
8. In view of the
above, the Association is very hopeful and requests that all the
measures/submissions made by the Association on the issue till date may kindly
be given due consideration with full seriousness. It is reiterated that all the
measures suggested in para 4 above would require no functional post to be
created.
Thanking
you,
Yours sincerely,
(HARPAL SINGH),
Secretary General.
Copy with the request for necessary action to:
(1) The Revenue Secretary, North Block, New Delhi.
(2) The Cabinet Secretary, President House, New Delhi.
