A meeting was held today on 16.09.26 with the Revenue Secretary. The following points were submitted and discussed-
(1) Acute
stagnation: Retirement of our officers only with single regular
promotion in the career after joining as Inspector and intra as well as
inter cadre disparities in promotions were brought to his kind notice alongwith
status of temporary posts of AC to be ended in December, 2027. He was pleased
to agree that these posts are with the clause of no further promotion. He also
enquired about the reason of temporary status of these posts which was 50:50
distribution of these between direct & promotee, if these were regular in
nature without being part of separate service for us. We made due submissions. The
approval of the Union Cabinet in 2013 to bring specific measures to
remove the stagnation of our officers independent of cadre restructuring was
also brought to his kind notice, on which nothing has been done till date. It
was also submitted that the in-situ promotion scheme approved by the
CBIC in 2011 has also not been implemented till date and also nothing has been
done in r/o the recommendations made by the Stagnation Committee constituted
by the CBIC itself. The zonal disparities in r/o the entry to group A were also
brought to his kind notice highlighting the 11 years gap being faced by the
Guwahati Zone in comparison to the fastest zone as none of the officers from
this zone became AC in the last promotion order.
The measures like
use of supernumerary posts and in-situ promotions to give parity
to the stagnated zones with faster zones was suggested by us. He was also
pleased to tell us about the idea of a scheme of giving higher scales at
prescribed intervals, if regular promotions are not available. The department
specific in-situ promotion schemes namely Flexible Complementary
Promotion Scheme (FCS) & Dynamic Assured Career Progression Scheme (DACP)
already prevalent in the Department of Science & Technology and Ministry of
Health respectively for their employees giving in-situ promotions on regular
intervals were also brought to his kind notice. It was also requested by us to
implement the in-situ promotion scheme approved in 2011 by CBIC as instant
measure to remove the promotional disparities at least upto the level of AC/DC.
He was kind enough to agree and to look into it. Let’s see
and hope for the best.
(2) DPC for the
post of Asstt. Commissioner: The pendency of DPC for the vacancy
years 2026 and 2027 was brought to his kind notice mentioning the seniority problem
of Delhi and Vadodara zones. He was hopeful that this seniority problem would
be resolved soon. The DOPT OM No. 28036/8/87-ESTT. (D) Dt. 30.03.88 for
ad-hoc promotions in the case of any seniority dispute or court injunction was
also brought to his kind notice requesting for early DPC for the years 2026 and
2027, so that the officers due for promotions may get the same. He was very positive
in the matter. Let’s see and hope for the
best.
(3) Ensuing cadre
restructuring of CBIC: It was brought to his kind
notice that the cadre restructuring was started in the year 2018 and is still
pending and never happens at prescribed intervals of 5 years in CBIC and no
cadre review also ever happened in CBIC specially for Group B or Group C
cadres. It
was also brought to his kind notice that the Association was promised to
provide the copy of the cadre restructuring proposal in a meeting with DG, HRD
of CBIC and also issue the minutes of the meeting but nothing done. It was also
submitted that the copy of the proposal was also provided earlier to the
Association before and after finalization of the proposal but the said proposal
was not materialized. So, it was requested that the Association may kindly be
duly consulted before the finalization of the proposal and the copy of the proposal
may also kindly be handed over to the Association before & after
finalization like in the past. It was also requested to adopt the State GST
pattern in Central GST also, both being governed by one & same GST Council.
He was pleased to ask to elaborate the same a bit. It was submitted by us that
the work may kindly be distributed among all officers from lower to higher
level based on the revenue involvement like in State GST and Income Tax instead
of overburdening the Superintendent and making the work Superintendent centric only.
Also manpower and infrastructure may kindly be provided like State GST. Let’s
see and hope for the best.
(4) In-rem
implementation of the revised pay scale w.e.f. 01.01.96 instead of in-personam: It was
brought to his kind notice that the pay scale of Inspectors &
Superintendents was revised w.e.f. 21.04.04 instead of 01.01.96 but various
courts have already ordered to implement the same w.e.f. 01.01.96 instead of
21.04.04 which is being implemented in-personam instead of in-rem despite of
the matter already being settled at the level of the Apex Court notionally
w.e.f. 01.01.96 and actually w.e.f. 21.04.04. We requested that, being finalized
at the level of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, the benefit should be given to all
similarly placed persons without forcing everyone to approach the legal courts.
He was pleased to agree that the most of these officers are pensioners and they
should get their due once the matter has been decided by the Apex court. Let’s
see and hope for the best.
