UNION CABINET APPROVED THE CADRE RESTRUCTURING OF CBEC ON 05.12.2013!!!
Congratulation comrades !!! The union cabinet today approved the cadre
restructuring of CENTRAL EXCISE & CUSTOMS department!!!
Dear friends,
Namaste.
Cadre restructuring has now been
approved by the cabinet resulting in the promotions of thousands of our
officers to group ‘A’ which never happened in the history. Likewise, thousands
of Inspectors & Ministerial officers will get promotion and the benefit
will also cascade to lower side. Only a few of us were able to get entry into
group ‘A’ at the fag end of career till date but now it is the historic moment for
the celebrations. Thanks to all who toiled and contributed for this success of
the Association. Also thanks to all of the concerned authorities including FM,
Cabinet Secretary, Revenue Secretary, Expenditure Secretary, DOPT Secretary,
our Chairperson & Members of CBEC, our DG & ADG of HRD alongwith their
Addl. Commissioners to Asstt. Addl. Directors/Superintendents & other
staff.
But this is not the final
celebration. We have still to do a lot for our officers and our fight will
continue until all of our officers are able to at least attain Ist stage of PB4
level. So, we have to be ready for
further steps to be taken by our Association including strong & effective
agitational programme at the appropriate time.
Alongwith agitational programmes
& administrative efforts, we may need to take legal recourse on many of the
issues. There are already at least 6 cases being pursued in the legal courts-
i) parity in promotions with intra-organisational counterparts in Delhi CAT (we
may also need to file the legal case regarding promotional parity, functional
or non-functional, also with inter-departmental counterparts if govt doesn’t do
anything in the matter in consonance of the recommendations of CRC to do
something extra for group ‘B’ officers), ii) time scale in PB3 in Delhi CAT,
iii) undoing of offsetting of MACP upgradation with time scale & undoing of
para 8.1 in Delhi CAT (as per legal advice, we may have also to file one independent
case on undoing of para 8.1 after going through the reply of the govt), iv) arrears
of pay in Cuttack CAT, v) pay scale of Superintendent in Cuttack CAT and vi)
arrears of pay in Jabalpur High Court filed by the then Inspectors Association.
As far as the Jabalpur High Court case is concerned, our Association may have
to become party in this case to expedite it because the reply of the govt has
already been filed but rejoinder is still awaited to be filed. This case was
posted in the month of September, 13 but didn’t come to hearing. Whatever will
be the result, we have to expedite it as all of then Inspectors have now been
become Superintendents and they are also keeping retired on regular basis. One
of our officers, who is one individual party in this case, contacted the
concerned advocate but he (advocate) didn’t respond properly saying that he
would talk to the office bearer of the then Inspectors Association only. So,
our role starts in the matter. Not only these cases, we may have to file some
more cases including benefit of time scale to all concerned Superintendents
after Ist ACP during the stint as Inspector, benefit of stepping up of pay
under ACP/MACP to all concerned Superintendents, implementation of extended
panel to benefit our officers, issuance of fire arm on sale basis instead of
loan etc. and many more if the concerned authorities have deaf ear to our
causes. We need hefty funds not only for the legal issues but also for many
other miscellaneous purposes. So, all
the units are requested to clear their dues including subscription & funds
immediately, rather in advance also. All are requested to fund the Association
maximum to their capacity. All individuals are also requested to fund the
Association, so that none of our causes is defeated at least for the want of
funds. If even only Rs. 5000/- per individual are funded to our
Association, it will result into a very big legal fund. Everybody knows that an
amount of Rs. 5000/- is merely a meagre amount per gazetted officer in the
present time but this meagre amount will result into hefty legal funds, if we
all take interest. Small drops will certainly accumulate into big ocean by this.
And we have to make it a regular habit like making charity for ourselves.
The notification regarding cadre
restructuring is now expected to be issued very soon on receipt of the minutes
of the cabinet meeting by CBEC. As a result of it, the process of promotion of
2118+150 group B officers to group A will start. In addition to it, around 344
promotions will cascade from higher side. And DPC for around 149 existing vacancies
of AC is already on the cards and around 125 more existing vacancies should
also cascade from higher side. So friends, it is the time of celebrations for all
of us. None of our senior now will retire without promotion. Moreover, the
retirement vacancies against 2118 will be utilized for the promotion of promote
officers only without any Direct Recruitment against these for coming 5 years. I hope that nobody will like to halt the
process by adopting any legal measure in individual interest regarding cadre
restructuring.
Love,
Ravi Malik.
SG/AIACEGEO
