ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Patron
Chief Patron
Patron
A. Venkatesh Ravi
Malik
C. S. Sharma
Mob.
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President:
Address for communication: Secretary
General:
T. Dass Flat No. 6,
SE 11, Shastri Nagar, Ghaziabad Harpal Singh
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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. 85/AIB/C/21 Dt.
03.06.21
To,
Sh. M. Ajit Kumar,
Chairman, CBIC,
North Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Disparity
in promotions.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the news letter of your
goodself issued vide D.O.No.70/CH(IC)/2020 Dt. 31.05.21. It is mentioned under
para 5 of the said letter by your goodself that it is of great pleasure to
inform of good news for our Customs Appraisers. It has been mentioned by your
goodself about amended Recruitment Rules of Appraiser, 2021.
2. It is to submit with due regards that the
officers recruited as Examiner are already reaching the level of Addl. Commissioner
whereas the officers recruited as Central Excise/CGST Inspector are retiring as
Superintendent or at the most as temporary Asstt. Commissioner in the present scenario
despite of being belonged to the same cadre of Inspector. We, however, wish our
brethren Examiners to become Commissioner and Chief Commissioner and also above
with the only request to give us also the parity in promotions with them. So,
we were also expecting some good news for us to get parity in promotions from
your goodself which was promised to us in 2011 by the CBIC during the
presentation of the then cadre restructuring proposal and not given to us
despite of favourable order from the Hon’ble Central Administrative Tribunal,
Principal Bench, New Delhi.
3. It is also worth to submit that the
direct recruitment on the post of Appraiser was stopped in 2001 and the said
posts were to be abolished but not abolished till date due to the reason known
only to our CBIC authorities. There are already long existing inter-cadre
disparities in promotions among three streams of executive officers under CBIC
due to faulty human resource policies. For example, while the Inspectors of
Central Excise of the year 2002 (Shillong/Guwahati GST Zone) are still
stagnating in the same grade but the Examiners of 2016 or later have also become
Appraiser. Preventive Officers stand somewhere between Central Excise
Inspectors and Examiners. Such a situation creates an unhealthy and
demoralizing work environment reducing the efficacy and efficiency of the
Department as a whole. If the posts of Appraisers meant for direct recruitment are not
abolished, these inter-cadre disparities will increase even more.
4. In the ensuing cadre restructuring
of CBIC, the all of three categories of Inspectors, i.e., Central
Excise/CGST Inspector, Preventive Officer and Examiner, have already been
proposed to be merged to create a separate service namely IRS Branch B. So, it was better on
the part of CBIC to pursue the earliest finalisation of the ensuing cadre
restructuring (which was initiated in CBIC more than four years ago but still
pending with CBIC) instead of giving more benefits to a category in such a
hurried manner which is already far ahead of others.
5. It is really very painful that our own
authorities are not serious about our career prospects but they are more than
serious for our brethren Appraisers and Examiners and also direct recruit IRS
officers due to the reason known to them only. The cadre restructuring proposal
of the CBIC is yet to be sent to the DOPT whereas it was to be sent to them
upto the extended date of 28.02.19.
6. In view of the above, it is requested
to kindly keep the work of issuing amended recruitment rules for Appraisers/Examiners
on hold till the ensuing cadre restructuring is finalized and separate service
namely IRS Branch B is created. After the creation of IRS Branch B only,
amended recruitment rules about the new service may kindly be issued in which
the Appraisers/Examiners will automatically be covered.
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 DOPT Secretary, North Block, New Delhi.
3. The Cabinet Secretary, President House, New
Delhi.
4. The Hon’ble MOS, Ministry of Finance, North
Block, New Delhi.
5. The Hon’ble Minister of Finance, North
Block, New Delhi.
6. The Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, South
Block, New Delhi.
