ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
Patron
Chief Patron
Patron
A.
Venkatesh
Ravi Malik
C. S. Sharma
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9313885411
President:
Address for communication: Secretary
General:
T. Dass Flat No. 6,
SE 11, Shastri Nagar, Ghaziabad Harpal Singh
Vice Presidents: B L Meena, K V Sriniwas (Central) Chinmoy Ghosh, Rajashish Dutta
(East) Ashish Vajpayee, Amadul Islam (North) B Pavan K Reddy, M Jegannathan
(South) Sanjeev Sahai, U D Meena (West) Joint Secretaries: S P Pandey, T
A Manojuman (Central) Apurba Roy, Siddhath Tewari (East) A K Meena, S K
Shrimali (West) Anand Narayan, Prabhakar Sharma (North) H Sadanand, M Nagaraju
(South); All India Coordinator: B L Meena Office Secretary: B C
Gupta Treasuer: Manoj Kumar Organising Secretary: Soumen
Bhattachariya Liaisoning Secretary: Bhoopendra Singh
(Recognised by G.O.I., Min. of Fin. vide letter F.No.
B. 12017/10/2006-Ad.IV A Dt.21.01.08)
Office address: 206, B wing, CGO Complex II, Kamla
Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad
Ref. No. 64/AIB/C/20
Dt. 15.04.20
To,
Sh. M. Ajit Kumar,
Chairman,
CBIC,
North Block,
New Delhi.
Sub: Forcing officers to attend the office in violation
of the MHA orders under lock down.
Sir,
Your kind attention is also invited
to some unwarranted directions being given to the officers to attend the office
during lock down in Gandhinagar Commissionerate. Same thing is happening in
Delhi in the Directorates like Anti-profiteering. Same situation is being faced
by the officers in Lucknow Audit. There may be many more places where the
officers may be facing the same situation.
2. It is to submit with due regards
that the govt. is very serious on the lock down and “total lock down” has again
been extended till 03.05.20 to fight corona pandemic except essential services.
Some additional relaxations are to be given w.e.f. 20.04.20 at the places
barring containment zones. It is also worth to submit that the govt. has already
declared 170 districts under the hotspot category.
3. Today on 15.04.20, our CBIC has also issued an order vide
F.No. C.50/30/2020. Ad.II reiterating the MHA guidelines of today and ordering to
follow these guidelines scrupulously. As per these guidelines, 100% officers of
Deputy Secretary (our Joint Commissioner) and above have to attend the office
w.e.f. 20.04.20 and others have to attend upto 33% as per the requirement
provided the offices don’t fall under the containment zone.
4. Our officers are already engaged in the revenue
augmentation work throughout the country by working from home and doing the
work with full obedience. But it is not understandable why they are being
forced to attend the office in violation of the MHA orders in the serious time
of corona pandemic. It is also worth to mention that our officers may be exposed
to the corona pandemic by it. All of our officers are also already attending the
phone calls and social media messages from the trade as well as from higher
authorities as part of the online outreach programmes initiated by the CBIC.
5. It is reiterated that the most of the Superintendents and
promotee Group A officers are more than 50 years of age and underlying medical
conditions like diabetes, hypertension etc. Exposing these vulnerable officers
to the open may endanger their lives due to the pandemic and also their family
members may get infected by them.
6. Our officers are already engaged in the official works
from home including MSME involved in essential supply chain by attending
various revenue related functions including GST registration, processing of
refunds, online outreach and grievance redressal help desk for resolving tax
payers’ queries during lock down so as to keep the wheels of economy moving in
the present difficult time. The officers are not on leave but they are working
from home using VPN facility specially given to them, so that they can use the
GST network to facilitate the trade for the ease of doing business.
7. In view of the above, it is requested that all offices
under the CBIC may kindly be very specifically directed to follow the MHA
orders strictly and not to force the officers to attend the office in violation
of the MHA orders not only to protect their lives and their family members’
lives from corona pandemic but also to save them from any penal
action/punishment as mentioned in MHA orders.
Thanking you,
Yours
sincerely,
(HARPAL
SINGH),
Secretary
General.
Copy with the request for necessary action to:
1) The Revenue Secretary, North Block, New Delhi.
2) The Secretary, MHA, North Block, New Delhi.
3) The Cabinet Secretary, President House, New Delhi.
