ALL
INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TAX
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
(Earlier
known as All India Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers)
President:
Address for communication: Secretary General:
Kajal
Kumar Mandal Flat
No. 6, SE 11, Shastri Nagar, Ghaziabad Harpal Singh
Mob. 9957366172 mail
Id:aiacegeo2019@gmail.com Site:cengoindia.blogspot.in Mob. 9717510598
Chief Patron: Ravi Malik Patrons: A. Venkatesh, C. S. Sharma, M. Nagaraju
Vice Presidents: B C
Khatik, K D Venkatraman (Central) Swapan
Kr Das, Subrata Adhikary (East) Ashish Vajpayi, B B Sharma (North) G Srinivas
Reddy, G Ananda Sukumar (South) Siddhraj Parmar, Vimal Kishore Soni (West) Joint
Secretaries: Manoj Kumar, T J Manojumon (Central) Pradyut Purkayastha,
Ashis Maji (East) Rajeev Prakash, Anil Sreedharan (West) Prabhakar Sharma, R B
Sahu (North) K Yugandhar Kumar, S M Kosalaya Devi (South); Office Secretary:
B C Gupta Treasurer: Manoj Kumar Liaison Secretary: Bhoopesh Organising
Secretary: Utkarsh Sharma South Zone Coordinator: R Keny Legal
Coordinator: S Sabarwal Joint Organising Secretary: Jayant Dey
East Zone Coordinator: Debasish Modak
(Recognised
vide F.No.B-12017/17/2022-AD-IV A dt. 14.07.23 of CBIC, Govt. of India)
Ref.
No. 38/AIB/D/25
Dt. 28.05.25
To,
The Chairman
CBIC, North Block,
New Delhi.
Sub: DPC for the post of Asstt. Commissioner.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the earlier
representations of the Association about the continued delay in convening the DPC
for the post of Assistant Commissioner.
2. It is again submitted with due regards
that a significant number of officers are retiring every month without promotion
despite of thousands of vacancies existing in the grade of Assistant
Commissioner. The most of the Assistant Commissioners are already holding multiple
charges overburdening them for the want of DPC.
3. The Association understands that the
DPC process has been held in abeyance due to the court case pending in the
Hon’ble CAT, Mumbai in OA No.
407/2020. We are informed that the final hearing in the matter was
concluded on 10.03.2025
and the case has since been reserved
for orders. However, more than two and half months have elapsed
but the order is yet to be pronounced.
4. It is understood that Shri Santosh Mehra, Member (A), who
was part of the bench that heard the matter, has since been transferred to CAT,
Bangalore from Mumbai. It appears that his transfer may have inadvertently
contributed to the delay in issuing the final order. We wish to bring to your
kind notice that in a similar situation involving OA No. 21/1089/2019 and connected matters before the CAT
Hyderabad, despite the transfer of Shri
Sudhir Ranjan Mishra, Member (J) to CAT Cuttack, the order
which was reserved on 17.10.2023, was subsequently pronounced on 09.01.2024
after appropriate administrative arrangements were made by the Hon’ble
Principal Bench.
5. In view of this precedent, it is
requested to kindly take up the matter
with the Hon’ble Principal Bench of CAT, New Delhi and request
to facilitate the pronouncement of the reserved order in OA No. 407/2020 by the Bench that
originally heard the matter, at the earliest.
6. In addition to the above, your kind
attention is also invited to another case namely Ashok Kumar vs. Union of
India (OA No. 4762/2024) pending before CAT, New Delhi, where a blanket stay has been granted on the
conduction of the DPCs for promotions from Group B to Group A. In this regard,
it is submitted that the promotions to the post of Assistant Commissioner are
made from following three feeder streams:
(i) Superintendent of Central Excise
(ii) Superintendent of Customs (Preventive)
(iii) Appraisers of Customs
7. The promotion is governed by a fixed
ratio of 13:2:1.
Therefore, the pendency or legal challenge involving one feeder stream does not and should not affect the
filling of vacancies for other two streams. Unfortunately, during the hearing
in the Ashok Kumar case, this crucial aspect appears not to have been
adequately presented resulting in a stay applicable to all streams.
8. Accordingly, it is requested that the departmental counsel in the Ashok
Kumar matter may be specifically
instructed to approach the Hon’ble Tribunal for partial vacation of the stay in
respect of the streams of Superintendent of Central Excise and Superintendent
of Customs (Preventive), so that the DPC for the post of Asstt. Commissioner
may be convened at least for these streams, which are unrelated to the dispute
raised by the petitioner.
9. The Association is very confident that these
long-pending matters may be resolved with kind intervention of your goodself,
thereby alleviating the undue hardship being faced by thousands of eligible
officers for promotion who continue to serve the department with utmost
dedication.
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
Member (Admn.), CBIC, North Block, New Delhi.