ALL
INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President:
Address for communication: Secretary General:
Lokanath
Mishra 240,
Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)
Ravi Malik
Mob.
09437314941 mail Id:
ravimalik_sweet@yahoo.com Mob. 09868816290
Vice Presidents: Sampat Rai, Vatan Kamble (Central); Anurag Chaudhary, Ravi
Joshi (North); A. Ravinder Singh, Rajan G. George (South); A. S. Roy,
Shubhrangshu Deb (East); P. D. Nimhan, S. K. Jha (West)
Joint
Secretaries: Anand Kishore, Laxmi Lal Singhvi
(Central); N. N. Lal, R. K. Solanki (North); G. Srinath, S. Chandrasekar
(South); Ashwini Majhi, V. N. Jha (East); G. K. Jhala, M. K. Misra (West)
Office
Secretary: C.S.Sharma (Mob. 09313885411) Treasurer: N.R.Manda (Mob. 09871483585)
(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. 13/A/13
Dt. 20.01.14
To,
Sh. P.
Chidambaram,
The Hon’ble
Finance Minister,
Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Sub: Revival of
Satyagraha.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the Ref. No. 93/A/12 Dt. 31.12.12, 27/H/13
Dt. 04.03.13, 33/A/12 Dt. 18.03.13, 34/A/12 Dt. 19.03.13, 44/A/12 Dt. 02.04.13,
54/A/13 Dt. 10.04.13, 68/A/13Dt. 26.04.13, 207/A/13 Dt. 22.07.13 etc. of the
Association.
2. It is submitted with due regards
that it was being expected to improve the career prospects of our officers as a
result of the ensuing cadre restructuring. But very disappointingly & unfortunately,
the temporary posts of Asstt. Commissioner have been created with the clause of
no promotion to the promoted officers beyond this. As a drastic outcome, only
1% of our officers will be able to enter group ‘A’ at the fag end of career
against regular posts without any hope for further promotion despite of the DOPT guidelines that the cadre
restructuring should mean to mitigate the stagnation of the stagnated
employees. Instead of taking
some positive measures in accordance of the recommendations of the Cadre Review Committee to bring some
specific measures for improvement of the career prospects of group B officers
independent of the cadre restructuring, the CBEC is planning to increase the
residency period for promotion from group B
non-gazetted to group B gazetted post and also from group B gazetted to JTS.
Not only it, they are also planning to reduce the promotion quota for entry
into group A by introduction of examination in the name of some recommendations
of IInd Administrative Reforms Commission. No
need to submit that this all is being done to limit our promotional avenues
within the post of Superintendent.
3. As already submitted, our officers are
retiring in PB2 after getting only one promotion in the service career of
35-40 years while other common entry counterparts of ours are easily entering
& enjoying PB4 levels after getting 5-6 promotions. We are deprived of the due
pay scale/pay band & grade pay and facing the worst career prospects.
Our officers are getting promotion (if any) merely to Junior Time Scale while
other counterparts of CPWD, CSS etc. to Senior Time Scale. The employee
grievance redressal mechanism has totally failed. We are forced to work
under the extreme juniors of Customs belonging to the same cadre. All of
our officers are totally demoralised and have nothing to be job-satisfied or
motivated. If career prospects were disclosed in the advertisement for
recruitment, these officers would have never joined this job. The rights to
grow, make progress and live with dignity have been snatched from us. There is
no change in the scenario regarding our career prospects despite of the
repeated representations, pleadings & requests being made by the
Association for many decades. All of our grievances have been unredressed for
decades despite of the assurances.
4. Everybody in the corridors of power of CBEC is worried
only about the stature, interest & character of the IRS even for those
officers who have not yet taken birth but nobody has any worry for the career
prospects & job-satisfaction of the actual workforce (Central Excise
Superintendents & Inspectors) already collecting the major portion of the
government revenue. The DOPT Minister agreed to Sh. Punia, the Chairman of SC
Commission, to consider the proposal devising specific measures to address the
problem of stagnation of the Central Excise Superintendents & Inspectors,
if referred to DOPT. It was expected that a proposal of parity with the best
placed common entry counterparts would be mooted under consultation with the
Association by the CBEC on the lines of parity being granted to group ‘A’
officers with their best placed counterparts. But very unfortunately, no step
has been taken till date on the issue for our officers who are already retiring
with single promotion in the career in comparison to 5/6 promotions of their
counterparts. This shows the mind set-up of our IRS authorities to keep our
officers retiring after single promotion by not allowing them even to enter the
junior group ‘A’ whereas they have ensured upto 9 promotions for themselves in
the ensuing cadre restructuring by creating the posts at Apex, HAG+ etc. levels in higher scales even without
availability of the eligible officers and also without any functional
requirement.
5. In view of the above, the Association is
forced to submit that the Satyagraha programme may be revived in the near
future by observing peaceful programmes before the residences of the concerned
authorities starting from the ADG (HRM) of CBEC, if no change in attitude &
approach of the authorities is noticed and the
concerned authorities show no seriousness to devise the measures for our
officers to grant them parity with their best placed common entry counterparts
enabling them to enter into group PB4.
Thanking
you,
Yours faithfully,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy with the request for necessary action to-
1) The MOS, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance,
North Block, New Delhi.
2) The Secretary, Department of Revenue, North Block, New
Delhi.
3) The Chairperson, CBEC, North Block, New Delhi.
4) The Member (P&V), CBEC, North Block, New Delhi.
5) The DG, HRD, CBEC, New Delhi.
6) The ADG, HRD (HRM), CBEC, New Delhi.
(RAVI MALIK).
