SUB-COMMITTEE NO. 1
FOR PROMOTION TO THE GRADE OF ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER
(FROM GROUP ‘B’ TO ‘A’)
(Report dated 06.06.2014)
This is in continuation to the Meeting held with the Chairperson, CBEC on 20.05.2014, the minutes of the same were circulated on 26.05.2014 with the directions contained therein for further review of the progress on 03.06.2014 but review could not be done on the said. However, the present review is on 09.06.2014.
Progress: (A) Superintendent Central Excise:
(i) In response to the action taken by the Member (P&V) regarding pendency of the dossiers, it is submitted that till date only 40 Dossiers/ information are pending from 06 Cadre Controlling Chief Commissioners of Central Excise & Customs alongwith Vigilance Status, Penalty Statement, and Integrity Certificates etc.Out of 40 Dossiers, 34 are pending with Mumbai Zone. Despite repeated reminders, the dossiers have not been received from Mumbai Zone. The Vigilance section of Mumbai-I has informed that they have requested all the 17 Commissionerates (including Pune, Goa and Nasik )for submission of the same directly to Committee No.I. It seems that the office bearers of Mumbai , Pune, Nasik, Goa Units are not active to pursue the issue also.
(ii) As submitted earlier individual folder of each of the eligible officers has been prepared and a total of 3104 such folders have already been scrutinized. The last submission was of 750 folders.
(iii) During the course of scrutiny of above mentioned individual folders, it has been noticed that there are some deficiencies regarding non-providing of ‘No Report Certificate’ or ‘No Review Certificate’. Such numbers are 266 till date and same may come down after scrutiny of the correspondence so received from various Cadre Controlling Authorities. The action is in progress and will be completed shortly. The below bench mark is negligible i.e. 19 (BLR – 02, CHD -01, Chennai – 01, Cochin – 01, DHL – 01, JPR – 01, KOL – 02, Mumbai – 03 CBN – 01 and VDR – 06).
(iv) Vigilance clearance in respect of 2333 officers has been checked and included in the Zone of Consideration.
(B) Superintendent of Customs (Preventive):
(i) It is submitted that till date only 02 Dossiers/ information are pending from 02 Cadre Controlling Chief Commissioners of Customs alongwith Vigilance Status, Penalty Statement, and Integrity Certificates etc. Zone wise pendency is Kolkata 01 and Mumbai – 01.
(ii) Scrutiny of individual folders has not been done so far but it has been noticed that there are some deficiencies regarding non-providing of ACR/APAR and ‘No Report Certificate’ or ‘No Review Certificate’. Such numbers are 95 till date and the same is due non-providing of ACR/APAR for the period 2007-2008, mainly by Chennai, Cochin & Mumbai Cadre Controlling Authorities. The action is in progress and will be completed shortly. The below bench mark is ‘NIL’ till date.
(iii) Vigilance clearance in respect of 357 officers has been checked and included in the Zone of Consideration.
(C) Appraiser:
(i) It is submitted that till date only 23 Dossiers/ information are pending from 03 Cadre Controlling Chief Commissioners of Customs alongwith Vigilance Status, Penalty Statement, and Integrity Certificates etc. Zone wise pendency is Chennai – 13, Kolkata 01 and Mumbai – 09.
(ii) During the course of scrutiny of 94 individual folders, it has been noticed that there are some deficiencies regarding non-providing of ACR/APAR and ‘No Report Certificate’ or ‘No Review Certificate’. Such numbers are 64 till date and the same is due non-providing of ACR/APAR for the period 2007-2008, mainly by Chennai Cadre Controlling Authorities. The action is in progress and will be completed shortly. The below bench mark is ‘NIL’ till date.
(iii) Vigilance clearance in respect of 61 officers has been checked and included in the Zone of Consideration.
Pending: (i) The zone of consideration of eligible Superintendent of Central Excise which has already been sent to JS (Admn), CBEC by the sub-committee vide its letter C. No. II(3)/6/2013-Sys/1249 dated 29.04.2014 for vetting by the Ad-II B Sectionis still pending. Only one order regarding disposal of representations/ memoranda for fixation of Seniority/ Change in Date of Birth etc has been received so far.Vide office memorandum dated 27.05.2014 seniority position of three of the Supdt. of Central Excise has been rectified. Finalization of representation may help the committee to prepare the Extended Panel of eligible officers in terms of DOPT’s OM dated 09.04.1996 as amended vide OM dated 02.08.2002.
(ii) It is pertinent to mention that sub-committee is still working on 2268 vacancies sanctioned in the Cadre Restructuring vide letter dated 18.12.2013 and is in non – receipt of any such information regarding unfilled backlog vacancies from the concerned Section of CBEC. However, as submitted in the last meeting, the sub-committee is in a position to prepare fresh Zone of Consideration, in case, the number of vacancies increased in due course and after finalization of any representation by the CBEC.
