ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL
EXCISE
GAZETTED
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President: Address for
communication: Secretary General:
A. Venkatesh 240, Razapur,
Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)
Ravi Malik
Vice Presidents: Apurba Roy, P. C. Jha (East); A. K. Meena, Somnath Chakrabarty
(west); Ashish Vajpayee, Ravi Joshi (North); B. Pavan K. Reddy, M. Jegannathan
(South); K.V. Sriniwas, T. J. Manojuman (Central) Joint Secretaries: Ajay
Kumar, R. N. Mahapatra (East); B. S. Meena, Sanjeev Sahai (West); Harpal Singh,
Sanjay Srivastava (North); M. Nagraju, P. Sravan Kumar (South); Anand Kishore,
Ashutosh Nivsarkar (Central) Office Secretary: C. S. Sharma Treasuer:
N. R. Manda Organising Secretary: SoumenBhattachariya
(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. 89/AIB/A/19 Dt. 30.04.19
To,
Sh.
Rajendra Kumar,
Deputy
Secretary, Ad.IIA, CBIC,
North Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Implementation of the order given on
24.02.95 in OA No. 541/1994 by Jabalpur CAT.
Sir,
Kindly refer to your letter F. No. A-26017/237/2017-Ad.IIA Dt. 15.04.19 on the above matter.
2. It is to submit with due regards
that the Honourable CAT directed the government to issue a notification within
thirty days referring the matter to Vth CPC as to why the Inspector of CBI and
IB etc. had been granted higher pay than the Inspector of Customs and Central
Excise. The government was further directed to place the Inspector of Customs
and Central Excise at par with the Inspector of CBI from the date the later
category was placed in the scale of Rs. 2000-3200/- and pay arrears accordingly
to the Inspectors of Customs and Central Excise.
3. The complete order of the Honourable CAT has not been implemented despite
of same pay scale being recommended for both categories by the Vth pay
commission by downgrading the pay scale of the Inspector of CBI at par with the
Inspector of Customs and Central Excise. It is also worth to reiterate that no
appeal was made against the CAT order. It is also reiterated that the Honourable CAT gave no direction to refer the
matter to the Department of Expenditure.
4. Regarding the date of effect, arrears are to be
paid w.e.f. 01.01.86 instead of 01.01.96 as per the order given by the Honourable CAT. It is also worth to mention
that the government (Department of Expenditure) replied under the RTI vide OM
No. 1148/Dir(A)/2008 Dt. 08.12.08 that the pay scale of the Inspectors and Superintendents of Central
Excise and Customs was enhanced on 21.04.04 to grant them parity in pay scales
with the counterparts of CBI and IB.
5. As far as the question of non-consideration of
duties of Inspector of Central Excise and Customs at par with the Inspector of
CBI by pay commission is concerned, the pay commission nowhere said which
category is performing higher duties. Not only it, pay commission also didn’t
mention anywhere that the Inspectors of Central Excise and Customs are
performing lower duties than the Inspector of CBI. Rather, the government
(CBIC) recommended that duties and responsibilities of the Inspectors of
Central Excise and Customs are more arduous and hazardous than the Inspectors
of CBI etc. The government, however, again enhanced the pay scale of the
Inspector of CBI without the recommendations of the pay commission.
6. Accordingly, a High Power Committee was formed
by the then Finance Minister to look into the issue. The said committee
recommended the pay scale equivalent to the Inspector of CBI for the Inspector
of Customs and Central Excise. Thus, based on the recommendations of this
committee, the Inspectors of Customs and Central Excise were placed at par with
the Inspectors of CBI on 21.04.04 in the matter of pay scale but the payment of
arrears from 01.01.86 is still pending. Thus, the order of the Honourable CAT
has been implemented incompletely.
7. In view of the above, it is requested to kindly
implement the subject mentioned order of the Honourable Jabalpur CAT in
complete sense at an early date as the Vth CPC as well as government recommended
equivalent pay scale for both the categories.
Thanking You,
Yours sincerely,
(RAVI
MALIK),
Secretary General.
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL
EXCISE
GAZETTED
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President: Address for
communication:
Secretary General:
A. Venkatesh 240, Razapur,
Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)
Ravi Malik
Vice Presidents: Apurba Roy, P. C. Jha (East); A. K. Meena, Somnath Chakrabarty
(west); Ashish Vajpayee, Ravi Joshi (North); B. Pavan K. Reddy, M. Jegannathan
(South); K.V. Sriniwas, T. J. Manojuman (Central) Joint Secretaries: Ajay
Kumar, R. N. Mahapatra (East); B. S. Meena, Sanjeev Sahai (West); Harpal Singh,
Sanjay Srivastava (North); M. Nagraju, P. Sravan Kumar (South); Anand Kishore,
Ashutosh Nivsarkar (Central) Office Secretary: C. S. Sharma Treasuer:
N. R. Manda Organising Secretary: SoumenBhattachariya
(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. 90/AIB/P/19 Dt. 30.04.19
To,
Sh.
Pranab Kumar Das,
Chairman,
CBIC,
North
Block, New Delhi.
Sub: DPC for the post of Asstt. Commissioner.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the earlier requests
of the Association on the above matter.
2.
It is to
submit with due regards that the DPC for the transition year 2018 as well as
the calendar year 2019 are still pending being already overdue as the same were
to be convened between 01.08.17 to 31.01.18 and 01.05.18 to 31.10.18 respectively
as per the DOPT OM No. 22011/14/2013-Estt(D)
Dt.08.05.17.
3. It
is also worth to submit that the repeated stays are coming on the DPC/promotion
perhaps due to the improper presentation of facts before the courts or inaction/delayed
action by the concerned authorities particularly at local levels. Every time, the
Association is forced to go for the vacation of the stay alongwith the
administration. The DPCs for the years 2018 and 2019 are already overdue and
the officers are forced to retire without promotion despite of thousands of
posts being vacant.
4. Due to the lack of
timely action on the part of the concerned authorities, not only the officers
are crying for the want of the promotion but the CBIC is also facing the
shortage of manpower at the group ‘A’ entry level in GST as the officers are ordered
to look after the additional charges. The officers are so demoralized that some
of them have started to talk of “self-immolation” due to the humiliation being
faced by them. Not only this issue, huge number of employee grievances are long
pending but no meetings are being held to redress their grievances under the
Employee Grievance Redressal Mechanism.
5. It is also worth to
mention that all of these posts were created by the due approval of the Cabinet
for GST purpose. So, it is no way justified to keep these posts vacant due to
our inaction/delayed action or any other reason. It is also painful that no
efforts have ever been made to convene the DPC during the non-stay period.
6. In
view of the above, it is requested with folded
hands to kindly take serious steps to conduct
the DPC and issue the promotion orders at the
earliest possible date after getting the stay/s vacated.
Thanking
you,
Yours sincerely,
(RAVI
MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy with the request for necessary action
to:
1) The Hon’ble Minister of Finance, North
Block, New Delhi.
2) The Hon’ble MOS (Revenue), North Block,
New Delhi.
3) The Revenue Secretary, North Block, New
Delhi.
4) The Member (Admin & Vigilance),
CBIC, North Block, New Delhi.
5) DG, HRD, HRM, CBIC, New Delhi.
