Dear friends,
namaste.
"HAPPY
NAVRATRA, MOHARRAM & DUSSHERA TO ALL WITH FAMILIES"
1. A meeting
was held today with the Hon'ble Minister. Submissions made to him are
attached herewith. He was pleased to say to have one more meeting with us
accompanied with the Memeber (P&V) soon to rdress our issues.
Love.
RAVI MALIK.
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ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF
CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President:
Address for communication:
Secretary General:
R.
Chandramouli 240, Razapur,
Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)
Ravi Malik
Vice Presidents: P. Parwani, L. L.
Singhvi (Central); AnuragChaudhary, Ravi Joshi (North); N. Raman, G. Srinath
(South); B. K. Sinha, AshwiniMajhi (East); Rajesh Chaher, J. D. Patil (West) Joint
Secretaries: Anand Kishore, J. S. Aiyer (Central); R. K. Solanki,
AshishVajpeyi (North); M. Nagaraju, Ajithkumar P. C. (South); P. K. Sen, S.
Bhattachariya (East); JasramMeena, M. K. Mishra (West) Office Secretary: C.
S. Sharma
Treasurer: N. R. MandaLiaison Secretary: A. S. KunduCoordinator on Telangana: P. Shravan
Kumar
(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. 126/G/15
Dt. 15.10.15
To,
Sh.
JayantSinha,
Hon’ble
Minister of State, Ministry of Finance,
North
Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Submissions under employee
grievance redressal mechanism.
Sir,
With due regards, the following points are
submitted for your kind consideration with the request for early redressal-
A
(i). Immediate conducting of DPCs upto 2015-16 panel year for the post of
Asstt. Commissioner as per DOPT provisions as our officers are regularly
retiring without promotion despite of a huge number of promotional vacancies
being in hand: It is requested to kindly direct the CBEC to take immediate
steps to update the DPCs as the CBEC has conducted the DPC only upto 2013-14
for the post of Asstt. Commissioner. The DPCs for the years 2014-15 and 2015-16
should have been conducted in the month of January-14 and January-15
respectively. It is also well pertinent to submit that 2118 posts of temporary
Asstt. Commissioner have been created merely for 5 years only for the
promotions of the promotee officers, out of which 1¾ years have already expired
and our officers are forced to retire without promotion despite of thousands of
promotional posts being in hand.
A
(ii).Conducting of
single DPC to regularise ad-hoc promotions since 1997 to the post of Asstt.
Commissioner in accordance with the rules existing on the date of regular DPC: It is
requested to kindly direct CBEC to take immediate steps to complete the work as
regularization has been done only upto March, 2002 after 1997. As a special
case, a single DPC may kindly be conducted for the purpose in accordance with
the rules existing on the date of regular DPC instead of conducting the yearly
DPCs. Regularisation may kindly be done w.e.f. 1979 instead of 1997 as the
rules applicable since 1979 have been replaced by current rules as per the
directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in W. P. (C) No. 385/10.
B
(i). Scheme to improve the career prospects of Central Excise
Superintendents/Inspectors independent of cadre restructuring to bring parity
with common entry counterparts of CSS etc. to retire our officers also in PB-4:
Our officers are retiring with single promotion on a
PB2 post whereas their counterparts are easily attaining PB4 levels. The Group ‘B’ Gazetted officers of ours join the
job as Inspector (Group ‘B’ Non-Gazetted) and retire as Superintendent after getting
only one promotion during the entire service career of 35-40 years barring
1%.Their common entry counterparts of other organizations including CSS and CBDT
under the same Department of Revenue of same Ministry of Finance are getting 5 to 6 promotions upto the level of
Joint Secretary/Commissioner after being
recruited through one and the same process in the same grade. The matter was raised before the Cabinet Secretary
and he was pleased to recommend to the Cabinet to bring the measures to remove
the stagnation of our officers independent of cadre restructuring which was
duly approved by the Cabinet but no step has been taken till date even after
expiry of more than 1¾ years. There is no change in the scenario regarding their
career prospects despite of the repeated requests and representations made to
the administration. Gross injustice is being done to these officers despite of
being instrumental with full dedication & commitment to collect the biggest
portion of Govt. revenues always above the set targets. It is
requested to kindly bring the scheme accordingly
to enable our officers also attaining PB4 levels. Temporary posts of Asstt.
Commissioner created in the cadre restructuring are also unable to do the
desired good for our officers, that’s why the Cabinet approved to
bring
measures independent of cadre restructuring on the issue of stagnation. These
temporary posts will only enable to get around 4% of our officers get JTS post
without any right for further promotions.
B
(ii). Non-functional time scale in PB3 instead of PB2 to Superintendents
after 4 years of service like other counterparts of CSS etc.: Our officers have been granted the time scale in
PB2 whereas other counterparts including
CSS, CSSS, Railways, DANICS, DANIPS, AFHQ, MEA, MPA, CVC, UPSC etc. in PB3. It is requested to kindly undo the
discrimination.
C (i). Initial pay scale equivalent to
the Grade Pay of Rs. 5400/- in PB3 to the Superintendent of Central Excise
w.e.f. the date of the grant of the same to the analogous counterparts of CBI
etc. along with other perks as being granted to the later ones: Our officers are also deprived of the due pay scale
in comparison to their analogous counterparts in addition to facing the worst
career prospects. Our analogous counterparts of CBI etc. have been
granted the pay scale equivalent to the grade pay of Rs. 5400/- in PB3 by the
orders of 1996 with retrospective effect since 01.01.86 disturbing the
well-established parity by the govt. without the recommendations of CPC and
also without any increase in their responsibilities vs. our increased
responsibilities. It is requested to kindly
undo
the discrimination by giving same or better treatment to the Central Excise
Superintendent in the matter of pay scale w.e.f. 01.01.86. It is also worth to
submit that the Inspectors of Central Excise and CBI have already been granted
the same pay scale w.e.f. 21.04.04. It is gross injustice to Central Excise
Superintendent by not granting the pay scale at par with DSP of CBI
particularly when the feeder posts of Inspectors have already been granted
parity.
C (ii).Implementation of the CBEC
circular issued vide F. No. A-26017/44/94-Ad II (A) Dt. 08.03.95 regarding
arrears of pay: This circular was issued based on the orders of
Jabalpur CAT for the payment of arrears of pay to our officers at par with the
CBI Inspectors w.e.f. 01.01.86 but the same is still unimplemented. It is requested to kindly direct the CBEC
toimplement the same immediately. Unfortunately, no action is being taken
despite of repeated assurances given by the administration.
C (iii). Retrospective implementation of
the pay scale revision of the Superintendents at par with NCB: Superintendents
of NCB and Central Excise were the part & parcel of one & the same RRs
once upon a time having a common seniority list for being promoted to the same
post of Asstt. Commissioner. Pay scale of Superintendents of NCB has been
upgraded and they have also been granted time scale after 4 years of service
based on our precedent. But they have been granted retrospective benefit since
01.01.1996 whereas we have been given prospective benefit since 21.04.04. It is requested to kindly undo the
discrimination by placing Central Excise Superintendents in the higher scale
also w.e.f. 01.01.96.
C (iv). Implementation of para 7.15.24
of 6th CPC report: The Chief Enforcement Officers
under our own Department of Revenue were placed in the pay scale of Rs.
8000-13500/- without recommendations by CPC vide Order F. No. 1612612004-Ad.I.C
dt. 04.10.05. The 6th CPC under
para 7.14.25 recommended to maintain parity
between the post of Chief Enforcement Officer and Central Excise Superintendent etc. which has not been implemented
till date. Subsequently, the post of Chief Enforcement Officer was
re-designated as Assistant Director. The duties and responsibilities of
Assistant Director (re-designated) of Enforcement Directorate are at par with
the duties and responsibilities of the post of Central Excise Superintendent.
The Central Excise Superintendents join in Enforcement Directorate as Assistant
Director on deputation basis also. The Govt. (Department of Expenditure) has,
however, approved an initial grade pay of Rs. 5400/- in PB2 for Central Excise
Superintendents on 21.11.14 considering
para 7.15.24 of the report of VIth CPC but the lower authorities in
Expenditure wrote finally vide UO No. 6/37/98-IC Dt. 24.11.14 to send the case
to 7th CPC against the approval by the competent authority. It
merely shows the willful hostile discrimination against Central Excise
Superintendents by the lower rung authorities of Expenditure. It is requested to kindly undo the
discrimination by implementing the para 7.15.24 of 6th CPC report.
D. Next promotion of Central Excise
Superintendent to STS post like other group ‘B’ gazetted officers of Central as
well as State Governments: The most of the group B gazetted
officers of Central as well as State Governments are being directly promoted to
a STS post including CSS, CPWD, Railway Board,
CSSS, AFHQ, MEA, RajyaSabha Secretariat, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs,
CVC, UPSC, Enforcement Directorate in the Department of Revenue itself, Forest
services, Police services, Engineering services, Administrative Services, State
Services etc. while Central Excise
Superintendents are being
promoted (if any)
merely to a JTS post. It is
requested to kindly undo the discrimination by granting next promotion
in STS to Central Excise Superintendent also.
E.
Batch to batch Non Functional Financial Upgradation to the Central Excise
executive officers at par with the best placed counterparts of CSS etc. on the
lines of Group ‘A’ vs. IAS: The officers of other group A cadres
have been granted financial parity in the form of NFU with the counterparts of
IAS but no such measures to grant at least financial parity to the Central
Excise Superintendents/Inspectors with the best placed group B counterparts
have been taken despite of the revenue targets being achieved by them always
above the set targets and also being the most stagnated category of the group B
govt. officers. It is requested to kindly grant them at least financial parity
with the best placed group B counterparts like CSS etc. in the form of batch to
batch Non-functional Financial Upgradation (NFU) based on the precedent of
group A for the sake of justice particularly keeping in view their
extraordinarily acute stagnation.
F. Undoing of MACP irregularities
(para 8.1, upgradation in promotional hierarchy and offsetting of MACP
upgradation with time scale) as our officers were able to get the grade pay of
Rs. 5400/- in PB3 after 24 years of service under ACPS while now getting the
same after 30 years of service under MACPS:
It is requested to kindly undo the para
8.1 and offsetting of MACP upgradation with time scale and also grant the MACP
benefit in the hierarchy of functional promotions particularly based on the
various court verdicts. It is worth to submit that our officers are the worst
hit category under MACPS as they were
able to get the grade pay of Rs. 5400/- in PB3 after 24 years of service under
ACPS while now getting the same after 30 years of service under MACPS.
G. Taking measures that no senior officer of Central Excise is forced to work
under the junior officer of Customs recruited in the same grade in the same
organization of CBEC: The officers recruited as Central Excise
Inspector are forced to work under the extreme junior officers recruited as
Customs Examiner in the same grade/cadre of Inspector through same process in
the same organization of CBEC with same administrative hierarchy and nature of
job under the same Department of Revenue of the same Ministry of Finance. It is requested to kindly undo the
discrimination by bringing them at par maintaining the relative seniority in
accordance of their initial recruitment without reverting back the Customs side
officers. Instead, our officers may kindly be brought at par with them in
promotions by promoting to respective levels. We wish Customs side officers to
get even more promotions but we also request that we also be made at par with
them being belonged to same cadre and also recruited through common process. It
is worth to submit that 1984 Examiners have already become Addl. Commissioner
(5 promotions) and shall become Commissioner soon whereas 1984 Central Excise
Superintendents are still to become Asstt. Commissioner (only 1 promotion) and
shall retire from same level.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary
General.
