ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
Patron
Chief Patron
Patron
A.
Venkatesh
Ravi Malik
C. S. Sharma
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President:
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Shrimali (West) Anand Narayan, Prabhakar Sharma (North) H Sadanand, M Nagaraju
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Ref. No. 198/AIB/M/20
Dt. 28.11.20
To,
Sh.
M. Ajith Kumar,
Chairman,
CBIC,
North
Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Work on holidays.
Sir,
It is submitted
with due regards that Range Offices are
being assigned the work and forced to do the same on consecutively three
holidays, i.e., 28.11.20 to 30.11.20, in the fashion as it is the financial
emergency or the end of a financial year. Such non-statutory directions are
placing the officers under tremendous pressure, agony, hypertension and undue
hardship as they are forced to ignore their families, relatives and social life.
Your goodself may appreciate that the officers are already under mental and
emotional pressure to cope up with the present situation under unprecedented
COVID pandemic to take care of themselves and their family members besides
discharging their social obligations as well as official responsibilities. They
are already working with full zeal and energy to maximise the revenue
collection but forcing them to work on holidays is very much detrimental to
their health, both physical and mental, also giving them emotional shock to
make them prey of hypertension against the govt. policy to keep the employees
relaxed, refreshed and tension free. This spoils their health mentally as well
as physically despite of the govt. policy to keep them healthy.
2. As per the
DOPT guidelines, the employees are to be motivated to proceed on leave to be
relaxed and refreshed. As per the DOPT OM No. 14028/3/2000-Estt(L) Dt.
22/27.03.01, the govt. servant are to be encouraged to take leave periodically.
It is desirable in the interest of public services that the govt. servants take
the leave on suitable intervals and return to work relaxed and refreshed. But,
very unfortunately, our officers are forced not to be relaxed and refreshed even
on holidays, what to say about to get them proceeded on leave to get relaxed
and refreshed. Their family as well as social life is totally disturbed by
forcing them to work on holidays without any statutory provisions. They are being
forced to work like bonded labour even on holidays even during late hours of
evening without any incentive or compensatory leaves. They are being treated like
slaves in our greatest democracy of the world due to autocratic approach of the
higher authorities. Even on working days, they are forced to work without due
infrastructure and manpower. No social distancing norms are being followed and
our officers are forced to work like animals even during the corona pandemic
without the prescribed office space being provided to them. As a result, the
corona cases are on regular increase in our offices. The space meant for our
officers is occupied by the higher authorities without having any thought for
the health and safety of our officers. The most of the higher authorities in
the field formations are occupying the rooms beyond their entitlements. Many of
them are occupying the rooms even bigger than our Hon’ble Finance Minister. Not
only it, they are availing so many unentitled facilities in unofficial manner
whereas our officers are deprived even from due entitlements and basic
amenities. Huge money is incurred on higher authorities whereas even due bills
of our officers are not being passed due to want of the funds and lingered even
for years. If any higher authority is transferred, unwarrantedly huge
expenditure is made to decorate their rooms, procure new furniture &
machines and even to decorate their personal toilets and urinals at new places like
an emergency whereas our officers are forced to work under inhuman conditions.
Even the vehicles meant for official works for our officers are being used by
authorities in unentitled manner as personal property. The authorities always
need more than one vehicles of desired brands to be at their disposal to be
used by their families for personal works.
3. The holidays,
whether weekly or gazetted, have been declared by the govt. under statutory
provisions. The six days week was changed to five days by the govt. to give
more opportunity to the govt. servant to pass time with family and fulfill
social obligations to be more relaxed and refreshed under statutory provisions.
But, very unfortunately, it seems that the personal pleasure of our own higher authorities
to give non-statutory directions to our officers is even above the statutory
provisions resulting total harassment to the lower officers by disturbing their
private hours meant specifically for their families. The feelings of the
officers are that they at least be spared on holidays to pass undisturbed time
with their families. It is also very unfortunate that the response of the trade
is no way welcoming when contacted for revenue mobilization or any other work. Needless
to say that they will pay interest, if they delay the filing of their return. They
also feel harassed, if contacted during COVID induced economic slowdown. Our
officers are forced to work without any holiday due to the non-statutory
directions to work on holidays beyond law. Our higher authorities shall have to
understand this all. Otherwise system shall collapse as many of our officers
have already started to apply for VRS due to being succumbed to unwarranted
pressure created by the higher authorities.
4. It is also worth
to mention that our officers are being forced for physical verification of the
premises of the trade without providing the basic infrastructure and vehicle
required to visit to the said premises. The recent non-statutory directions to
work on holidays seem like a financial emergency. Such types of directions are
not even seen for revenue augmentation in the month of March. Even in financial
emergency, the officers are not forced to ignore their families, health, social
relations etc.
5. In view of
the above, it is requested to kindly interfere in the matter to protect our
officers from unwarranted pressure who are already working beyond their human
capabilities despite retiring with single promotion in the career and facing the
worst pay prospects. It is requested that-
i) The officers
may kindly not be directed to work on holidays in routine manner until and
unless it is not necessary due to any extra ordinary situation in public
interest under statutory provisions.
ii) The officers
may kindly be provided adequate infrastructure for office work, so that they
may perform their duties hassle free and efficiently.
iii) The officers
may kindly be allowed to relax and refresh at least on holidays, so that they
may perform better on working days because continued work pressure without
leave is very much detrimental to their physical, mental and emotional health.
iv) The officers
may kindly be allowed to avail leave to be relaxed and refreshed.
Thanking
you,
Yours sincerely,
(HARPAL SINGH),
Secretary General.
Copy with
the request for necessary action to:
1) The
Finance Secretary, North Block, New Delhi.
2) The
Member, GST, CBIC, North Block, New Delhi.
