ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
Patron
Chief Patron
Patron
A.
Venkatesh
Ravi Malik
C. S. Sharma
Mob. 7780255361 Mob. 9868816290 Mob.
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. 66/AIB/C/20
Dt. 17.04.20
To,
Sh. M. Ajit Kumar,
Chairman,
CBIC,
North Block,
New Delhi.
Sub: Preventive measures against corona to open offices.
Sir,
As your goodself knows, it is to
submit with due regards that the offices are to be opened w.e.f. 20.04.20 under
relaxed conditions with the selective officers as per the requirement as per
the MHA guidelines. Our CBIC
has also issued a brief
order vide F.No. C.50/30/2020. Ad.II Dt. 15.04.20 in this regard. In the said
order of the CBIC, there is no mention about sanitation and disinfection
measures to be taken in our offices as envisaged in the MHA order.
2. Keeping in
view the safety of the lives and health of our officers and their families, the
following measures are required to be taken and ensured by all the
offices under the control of the CBIC-
(a) Thermal
screening of every entrant at the main gate before entering into the office
premises.
(b) Hand sanitization
by everybody before entering into the office premises.
(c)
Fumigation/disinfecting of whole office campus including each room, toilet,
corridor, gate, furniture, office equipments, files, stationary, canteen,
vehicles, common areas, lawn etc. before 20.04.20 and at regular
intervals after it.
(d) Providing
gloves,
facial masks and hand sanitizers to all officers and also
full body suits (PPEs) whenever and wherever required.
(e) Revised
sitting arrangements by providing the prescribed office space to every
officer to follow the social distancing.
(f) All possible
efforts to exempt officers with age of 50+ years or having ailments like
hypertension, diabetes, chest/nasal/breathing problem etc. including other
serious diseases/health condition for deployment of 33% officers. Enhancement
of age group for exemption only if 50+ years officers are insufficient.
(g) Availability
of contingent staff & sweepers in sufficient number with instructions for
cleaning and spraying of disinfectants in rooms, toilets, wash basins and
corridors frequently.
(h) Providing official
transportation to and fro offices to enable officers to attend offices safely
with proper social distance, since no public transportation is available and private
vehicles are not allowed except for the specified categories.
(i) Minimisation
of physical exchange of files or complete on line exchange.
(j) Not
allowing the visitors into the office premises.
(k) Providing
of passes by state/district administration to the officers for movement.
(l) Not
opening of the offices in the hotspot/containment areas as the govt. has
already declared 170 districts as hotspot throughout the country.
(m) Exempting
the officers who are residing in hotspot/containment areas.
(n) Following
of all directions and SOP issued by the MHA in this regard.
(o) No action
against any officer, if he/she is unable to attend the office due to the
prevailing circumstances not under his/her control.
3. Regarding
point No. 2(o) above, the message of our Chief Commissioner of Vizag Zone is
brought to your kind notice as reproduced below-
“Dear officers, Commissioners are
already working from office and I will be in office from today and from 20/4
onwards JC and above attend and rest will attend for four days till 3/5. Covid 19 has not ended as hoped but going strong so please
take all precautions. No one need to meet me in person- please use phone, video
cal, intercom etc All files to be sanitised before handling. I have asked that no
staff including my sepoy, PS, PRO etc to come. They will attend as per roster
from 20/4. Those Officers who are not in office
please advise them to work from home. As you are aware doctors from our service
are going to be used in front line shortly. I am told that State GST is not
working as per our guidelines, never mind. Associations
have written to me that they will do Office work only if they are treated as
was in pre Covid days and we will take care of staff and they also feel they
won’t access AIO even from home and they cannot do frontline work under section
65, please list out such people who don’t work at least from home to be removed
under 56J or Article 311. so please follow Government of India, CBIC and AP
State government instructions issued from time to time. Please stay safe
yourselves and your family and friends. Hope for safe India and safe world.”
4. It is to submit further that we
don’t know how many of our authorities are pleased to have such approach to
remove our own officers under 56J and Article 311. However, it is worth to mention
that our authorities should work like our family Heads instead of behaving
merely like administrative Heads. All of them are requested to
concentrate on welfare measures to be taken by them for their subordinates
instead of being pleased to remove the subordinates under 56J and Article 311. We
very much expect them to act as our “Welfare Officers” instead of doing damage
to us. Our Chief Commissioner should have appreciated the problems being faced
by the subordinate officers regarding AIO and other works to act to resolve these
problems instead of removing them particularly when he himself accepted that Covid 19 has not ended as hoped but
going strong.
5. In view of the above, it is requested that all offices
under the CBIC may kindly be very specifically directed to take due measures as
specified by the MHA alongwith the measures submitted above and not to remove
the subordinates under 56J and Article 311. Instead to be pleased to remove the
subordinates, our authorities should be pleased to protect their lives and
their family members’ lives in this time of corona pandemic.
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.
