ALL
INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL TAX
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
(Earlier
known as 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:
M.
Loganathan Flat
No. 6, SE 11, Shastri Nagar, Ghaziabad Harpal Singh
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Vice Presidents: B C Khatik, V
Pagare (Central) Diwakar Sahai, Sanjoy
Gupta (East) Ashish Vajpayee, Amadul Islam (North) G Srinivas Reddy, P
Ravichandran (South) R Keny, J B Parmar (West) Joint Secretaries: S P
Pandey, T J Manojumon (Central) Subrata Adhikari, SiddharthTewari (East)
Ramkesh Meena, S Sahai (West) Atul Kumar, R B Sahu (North) Bhoopesh, R V
Raghunandan (South); All India Convener:
A K Meena All India Coordinator: B L Meena Office Secretary: B C
Gupta Treasuer: M Kumar Organising Secretary: M Bajpai Liaison
Secretary: N S Maheshwari North Zone
Coordinator: Prabhakar Sharma Legal Coordinator: S Sabarwal
Vigilance Coordinator: R K Singh South
Zone Coordinator: U Sharma
(Recognised vide F.No.B-12017/17/2022-AD-IV A dt.
14.07.23 of CBIC, Govt. of India)
Ref. No.
115/AIB/C/23 Dt.
08.08.23
To,
Sh. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal,
Chairman,
CBIC, North Block,
New
Delhi.
Subject: Compassionate appointments.
Sir,
Kindly refer to the earlier requests of the Association on the
above subject and also the consolidated instructions issued by the CBIC on
compassionate appointments vide F.No.A.12012/52/2018-Ad.III.B Dt. 28.10.21. It is also
brought to your kind notice that there are numerous applications pending for
compassionate appointments in our CBIC all over India relating to pre as well
as post COVID period.
2. It
is further submitted with due regards that a number of officers have demised
due to COVID pandemic who were the sole bread earner for the family. Such
deaths have left the family in devastated condition needing urgently the due
funds/earnings for livelihood. Under the
unprecedented situation, these families are facing tremendous difficulties to
survive in addition to facing the saddest moments of unfortunate demise of
their earning hands.
3. Under the situation,
the specific relaxations are required to be given in r/o the enhancement of the
compassionate appointment quota. No need to submit that it is an extraordinary
situation requiring extraordinary action and relaxations. For the purpose, at
least one-time measure is required to give appointment to the compassionate
cases without any cap of 5% or so, so that even a single case is not left
without appointment.
4. The compassionate
appointment is an important issue and is to be taken up with the utmost
seriousness. The main issue is the availability of very limited number of
vacancies under this quota due to which a huge number cases are pending. This
happens because the compassionate appointment can only be made against only 5%
maximum quota of direct recruit Group C posts which mainly include MTS,
Havildar, TA etc. in our CBIC. So, hardly any vacancies arise for this purpose
due small strength of Group C officers in the CBIC.
5.
So, 5% cap needs to be
enhanced as per the situation especially in the CBIC where all posts with the
Grade Pay of Rs. 4200/- and above are categorized as Group B or A, whereas the
posts with Grade Pay of Rs. 4200/- and even Rs. 4600/- are still categorized as
Group C in some departments including CBDT. In CBDT, the compassionate
appointments are still made to the post of Inspector. Even in CSS,
compassionate appointments are made to the post of Assistant (now Assistant
Section Officer), a Group B non-gazetted post with the Grade Pay of Rs. 4600/-.
Earlier, the compassionate appointments were also being made to the post of
Inspector in the CBIC.
6. Accordingly, the
demarcation for the purpose of compassionate appointment is required to be
changed from Group C to Group B, non-gazetted or Grade Pay of Rs. 4600/-,
whichever is higher. Group C demarcation was made when Group D posts also
existed and the posts were classified as Group A, B, C and D. As on date, no
Group D posts exists in the Central Govt. and the posts are classified only as
Group A, B and C. So, there is no prudence of limiting the compassionate
appointments only to Group C posts. Compassionate appointments should be made
at least to the posts upto the level of Group B non-gazetted or equivalent,
i.e., Inspector in our CBIC (as was in the past) like CBDT. It will also help
to enhance the number of posts meant for compassionate quota.
7. Over and above,
special relaxations for compassionate appointment exclusively for the
dependents of COVID victims are required to be given without any ceiling. For
other (non-COVID) cases also, the quota is required to be enhanced accordingly,
so that no case for compassionate appointment is left pending. As a one-time
measure, all of such cases may kindly be settled by giving compassionate
appointments to the dependents of the deceased officers. It is also worth to
submit that the CBDT vide letter F.No. 610/012021-TCB Dt. 08.05.21 written to
their formations has already expedited the process of compassionate appointments
particularly keeping in view the unfortunate demise of the officers under the
COVID pandemic.
8. It is also worth to
mention that the point based merit system devised by CBIC vide
F.No.A.12012/52/2018-Ad.III.B Dt. 28.10.21 for processing the claims for
compassionate appointment is unable to give the justice to the dependents of
the Group B and A deceased officers. The points awarded against each parameter
alongwith total merit points earned in the compassionate appointment cases
should be applied separately and independently for all cadres by distributing
the vacancies among these cadres in proportion to their cadre strength.
Otherwise all vacancies, being too little in number in comparison to the total
strength, will be exhausted in giving appointments to the dependents of Group C
and erstwhile Group D officers only. The vacancies arising in each pay
scale/Level are also required to be distributed among all cadres in due
proportion for complete justice.
5. In view of above
and considering
the large number of applications pending for appointment on compassionate
ground including death occurred due to corona pandemic, it is requested to
kindly-
(i)
Enhance the quota for appointment on compassionate ground as a one-time measure
to give appointment to all pending cases without any cap, whether COVID cases
or non-COVID cases.
(ii) Distribute the vacancies belonging to compassionate appointment
in proportion of the strength of Group A, B and C cadres.
(iii) Start a special drive on relaxed conditions for compassionate
appointment to the dependents of the COVID victims for disposal of all such
cases without any cap.
(iv) To
enhance the quota exclusively for compassionate appointments from 5% or remove
any such cap on regular basis after disposal of all pending cases.
(v) To make
compassionate appointments upto the post of Inspector.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
(HARPAL SINGH)
Secretary General.
Copy with the request of 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.
