APPEAL TO ALL MEMBERS OF AIACEGEO
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
AIACEGEO(Pre)/Agitation/2012-13 Dated 08.02.13
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To,
All Members of AIACEGEO,
(Through: President/General Secretary of
all Units)
Comrades,
Sub- ‘Agitation against delay in Approval
of cadre Restructuring, non implementation of Apex Court order dated 03.08.11
retrospectively as per judgement &
Other related issues’.
The All India Association of Central Excise
Gazetted Executive Officers , the organization
representing about 11,800 Gazetted Executive Officers of the Central Excise, Customs and
Service Tax Department, has embarked upon an agitation
programme from 25/09/2012, demanding immediate approval of Cadre Restructuring
proposal of CBEC without any cut as cleared by the D/O Expenditure,
implementation of Apex Court Order dated 03.08.11 retrospectively as per
judgement, granting of GP-5400 in PB-3 to the grade of Superintendent of
Central Excise w.e.f 01.01.2006 , introduction of in situ scheme to remove
stagnation etc.. The department is already facing acute shortage of manpower
both at the staff and officers level, especially at the cutting edge level i.e.
Assistant Commissioners who are playing a very crucial role in revenue collection.
Near about 8000 nos. of
Superintendents have completed 30 year
of services as Inspectors and Superintendents combinedly at present and
waiting for their promotion to Gr-A. The Inspectors
who are joining in the department as direct recruit are retiring by
getting one promotion to the
grade of Superintendent in their service
career. Whereas those similar placed employees who are joining in Income
Tax department
or in CSS or as Examiner in Customs are getting almost 5 to 6 promotions
in
their service career, While 1992 batch Examiners are being promoted to
the
grade of Asst. Commissioner, the 1975 batch Inspectors are still
Superintendents and are being forced to work under the 1992 batch of
Examiners
who are quite juniors to them in
service. The parity is the basic concept of our Constitution, parity in
promotion is required to be maintained amongst the similar placed
employees of
same department, but till date the Govt. of India have not initiated any
action
to maintain parity in promotion amongst the Examiners/Preventive
Officers and
Inspectors of CBEC. The educational qualification, mode of recruitment
and
Grade Pay for these post are similar. The Examiner, Preventive Officers
and
Inspectors are being recruited by the same examination conducted by SSC.
The Honourable Apex Court have decided that one should at
least get 3 promotions in his service career. But Govt have not allowed
two
promotions to the cadre of Inspector of CBEC. Recently the Honourable
Apex Court
have decided for revision of recruitment Rules and making regularization
of
pending adhoc promotions since 97 on the basis of such new recruitment
rules, but Govt. of India
made contempt of the
said order dated 03.08.11 by not
regularizing the pending adhoc promotions on the basis of said new
amended
/revised recruitment rules retrospectively. Whereas in past in a similar
occasion Govt made adhoc regularization with retrospective effect to
allow
benefits to the officers of the Customs wing. Major revenue of Govt. of
India
are being collected through CBEC.
Inspectors and Superintendents are basically responsible for collection
of such
major revenue. But these officers are not being awarded at least two
promotions
in their service career and are not being granted with appropriate pay
as has
been granted to similar placed employees of Central Govt.
Considering
the utter frustration of Superintendents
who are languishing without any
promotion for around 18/20 years and being forced to work under their natural juniors by 17 years, AIACEGEO had
served a notice dated 31.12.12, on the Finance Minister of India informing about the proposed agitation
starting from 24.02.13, if all the 10
points charter of demands are not accepted
by 31.01.13 . The Member(P&V) has called us on 31.01.13 for
discussions and requested to allow further time but we refused to allow any
more time as in every months around 100 nos. of our members are retiring without getting any promotion to Gr-A. As the CBEC
has failed to meet the
deadline, AIACEGEO is constrained to
adopt the following mode of agitation :
a.
Boycott Excise Day on 24.02.13.
b. No
extra work for Budget or collection of revenue to achieve target if any.
c.
Only time-barring assessment work to be undertaken.
d. Wearing of Black-badge
from 24.02.13 to 01.03.13 & lunch
hours demonstration with slogans on 01.03-2013
e.
Non- attending of official duty beyond official hours and holidays( in
cluding Saturday and Sunday) etc.
f.
Mass resignations on 30.04.13.
The agitation will be further intensified (
if maximum of our Units
are furnished their willingness to apply for mass casual leave during
the last week of March 2013 or 1st week of April, 2013.)
The
above are the decisions of All India Body of AIACEGEO, all the affiliated Units
are required to implement the same without any deviation. If any unit will
deviate the approved programme, the same will be viewed in the next AEC meeting
of our Association.
AICEIA
has committed moral support for the above agitation, as the Cadre Review & Restructuring will provide
adequate staff & officers, moreover if all the demands as raised by
AIACEGEO will be accepted then all most all Inspectors will be benefited .
Further these demands will surely boost
the Revenue, which is primary for sustaining the developmental work undertaken
by the Government.
(LOKANATH MISHRA)
PRESIDENT
