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
Mob.9848088928 mail
Id:aiacegeo2019@gmail.com
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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, Siddharth 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 North Zone Coordinator: C. P. Verma
(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. 32/AIB/A/21
Dt. 17.02.21
REMINDER
To,
Sh.
Sandeep M. Bhatnagar,
Member,
Customs, CBIC,
North
Block, New Delhi.
Subject:
Option for purchase of weapon issued on loan basis.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the various communications of the
Association on the subject matter made to the Board including
Ref. No. 79/W/15 Dt. 24.06.15, Ref. No. 142/W/15 Dt. 16.11.15,
Ref. No. 116/AIB/G/17 Dt. 05.10.17 and Ref.
No. 238/AIB/G/18 Dt. 30.08.18.
2.
Your kind attention is also invited to the meeting of the Association
held on 15.03.12 with the administration under the employee grievance redressal
mechanism. The subject-mentioned point was duly agreed in the meeting but no
action has been taken till date.
3.
It is further submitted with due regards that the scheme to sell the weapons to
the departmental officers by the CBIC was started initially without any
condition of returning the same on retirement. Later on, it was changed to
‘loan basis’ with the condition of return of weapon to the CBIC on retirement
while the politicians are privileged to purchase the same on nominal price. Our
officers are being asked to return the same on retirement whereas the
politicians are privileged to purchase even another one/s after every 3 years.
Presently, many of the departmental officers are in possession of a fire arm on
loan basis issued by the department out of seized & confiscated weapons
with the condition to surrender the same on retirement. It is reiterated that
the departmental officers, however, were authorized to purchase these weapons
at the nominal price at the start of the scheme without any condition of
return.
4.
It is further submitted that-
i)
Many of the officers are already on the verge of retirement who were issued the
weapon for self defence.
ii)
Earlier the department used to sell these fire arms to the departmental
officers as well as some other categories of the citizens.
iii)
The scheme of selling the weapons to the departmental officers has been
withdrawn while others are still entitled to purchase the same from the
department. Not only it, others can purchase another weapon/s on some specified
frequency after purchase of earlier weapon/s.
iv)
It appears to be gross injustice to the departmental officers that they are
deprived of the facility to purchase the weapon from their own department
despite of being instrumental to seize and confiscate not only the weapons but
also the gold, foreign currency and other prohibited/restricted goods. They
have always to face white collar criminals, chronic economic offenders,
hardcore smugglers, drug traffickers & other criminals during the disposal
of their duties. Despite of this all, other categories of citizens still have
the facility to purchase these weapons while ours not.
v)
The threat perception to the life of the departmental officers is increased
multifold from the side of the economic offenders and hardcore smugglers etc.
after the retirement due to vanishing of the departmental safety shield as
compared during the service.
5.
In view of the above, it is requested that-
i)
The necessary steps may kindly be taken to reinstate the initial scheme of
selling the weapons to the departmental officers and
ii)
The officers intending to hold the loaned weapon with them after retirement for
self defence may also kindly be allowed to do so after charging the price of
the weapon from them at par with the officers who were allowed to purchase the
same on permanent basis in the past.
Thanking you,
Yours
sincerely,
(HARPAL
SINGH),
Secretary
General.
