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, SomnathChakrabarty
(west); Ashish Vajpayee, PranaveShekhar (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, SanjeevSahai
(West); Harpal Singh, Sanjay Srivastava (North); M. Nagraju, P. Sravan Kumar
(South); Anand Kishore, AshutoshNivsarkar (Central) Office Secretary: C.
S. Sharma Treasuer: N. R. MandaOrganising 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. 119/AIB/U/19
Dt. 06.06.19
To,
Sh. Pranab
Kumar Das,
Chairman,
CBIC,
North Block,
New Delhi.
Sub: Upgradation/redesignation under GST like State Governments.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the Order No.
07/Ad.IV/2019 of CBIC issued today vide No. A-11013/17/2019-Ad.IV Dt. 06.06.19 redesignating
the post of Superintendent of Central Excise working in the Directorates under
CBIC as Additional Assistant Director (AAD).
2. Inviting your kind attention to
the earlier representations of the Association on the subject-matter, it is again
submitted with due regards that the State governments have already upgraded/redesignated the posts by one
rank for their officers under GST. But no such measures have been taken for our
officers by our CBIC.
3. Not only the counterparts of our Superintendents
(CTOs) in the State GST have been
re-designated/upgradaed as Asstt.
Commissioner but they have also been placed in a pay scale equivalent to Level-10 by the state Governments under GST.
4. Even more, Asstt. CTO has been upgraded to CTO, CTO to Asstt.
Commissioner, Asstt. Commissioner to Deputy Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner
to Joint Commissioner, Joint Commissioner to Addl. Commissioner and so on in
the state governments under GST. This has put our officers under a very insulting,
demoralizing and humiliating position particularly in dealing with the trade
which results into weak indirect tax administration at Centre in comparison to
the States.
5. Two different sets of hierarchies have been created
for collecting GST, one manned by erstwhile Central Excise and Service Tax
officials and the other manned by the erstwhile state VAT officials.
6. Pertinently, the CGST and SGST Acts are identical
(except for some state specific details) and even the provisions for cross
empowerment have been enshrined in the respective Acts. Ideally, one expects
that the nomenclature of the posts in both the hierarchies would be the same
and a particular designation would define the same ranking authorities/officers
in both.
7. In the case of CGST, entire process relating to
Registration has to be carried out by the Superintendent whereas it is carried
out by the Asstt./Deputy Commissioner in case of SGST. The Asstt./Deputy
Commissioner is a post senior to Superintendent in our Department whereas it is equivalent to our Superintendent under
SGST.
8. But despite of the functional parity with the Asstt./Deputy
Commissioners of SGST, our Superintendents are perceived by the public and
trade as officers junior to their counterparts in SGST. Even the SGST officials
of equal rank (Asstt. Commissioners) treat them as inferior. Thus, the scenario
is highly demoralizing and humiliating for the officers of the rank of
Superintendent who are bearing a significant load of GST implementation and furtherance.
9. It is also well pertinent to
mention that the point of upgradation/redesignation of officers under GST at
par with the SGST was always agreed by the administration during the course of
meetings with the Association. This point was also raised by the Association in
the meeting of 18.08.17 chaired by the Member (Admin) and was minuted against
para 14.9 of the minutes of this meeting issued vide the OM dated 01.09.17 of
CBIC vide No. C-30013/06/2012-Ad.IVA Vol.-II (Pt) but nothing has been done
till date in this regard.
10. This matter was also raised
before our Hon’ble Prime Minister by the Association which was forwarded to our
CBIC by the PMO. It was further forwarded to Ad.IVA by the CBIC but nothing has
been done till date.
11. In view of the
above, it is requested that the same steps (if not better
than the GST counterparts in state governments) may also kindly be taken to
upgrade/redesignate the posts in our CBIC from the lowest to the highest level
alongwith enhancing the pay scale of our Superintendent at par with the erstwhile
CTOs of the states to motivate and create the feeling of the job-satisfaction
among the officials of the CBIC for more efficient furtherance of GST in the
interest of the revenue.
Thanking
you,
Yours sincerely,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy with the request for necessary action to:
1) The Revenue Secretary, North Block, New Delhi,
2) The Cabinet Secretary, Govt. of India, President
House, New Delhi.
3) The Designated Officer, PMO, South Block, New
Delhi.
