Dear friends,
Namaste.
1. A meeting of JAC was held today on 29.07.15 with the Revenue
Secretary. The agenda of the meeting is attached herewith. He was pleased to
listen us cordially, interacting & making due queries during our
submissions and noting relevant things on our representation. Seemingly, he was
positive on every point but couldn’t give any assurance on the spot intending
to get report from the CBEC on our submissions. He, however, looked very
serious about our grievances and gave no negative impression. Seemingly, he was
agreed to all of our points. Let us see what happens and what will be the final
outcome.
2. One more meeting is expected with the DOPT Minister on 03.08.15 as
asked by AIACEGEO and IRSITOA. Both letters are attached herewith. Sh. A. K.
Sharma (President of IRSITOA) & myself are in regular touch of the staff of
the DOPT Minister and are ready to attend the meeting even on shortest
confirmation.
Love.
RAVI MALIK/ SG/ AIACEGEO
IRS (INDIRECT TAXES)OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION
Secretary
General: Address for
communication: President:
Lokanath
Mishra C.R.Building
, Bhubaneswar-751007
A.
K. Sharma
Ref
No.IRSITOA/2015/106
Dated:- 15.07.15
To,
Sh. Jitendra
Singh,
Hon’ble Minister
of State, DOPT,
New Delhi.
Sub:
Request for appointment.
Sir,
It is submitted with due regards that our oficers are forced to
retire on a PB2 post with single
promotion in the career after joining as Inspector barring 1% whereas their common entry counterparts are
easily enjoying PB4 levels after getting 5-6 promotions. They are also forced to work
under the extreme juniors of Customs belonging to the same cadre. Their counterparts of Income Tax (CBDT) and the Assistants of CSS
under the same Department of Revenue are able to reach the post of Commissioner
and Joint Secretary. Almost all other counterparts of them are also reaching
the PB4 levels. All of other cadres below Group ‘A’ except Inspectors &
Superintendents are also already getting 5 to 6 promotions in CBEC.
2. In view of the above, your
goodself is requested to give an appointment to the Association as per your
convenience enabling us to make submissions in person relating to the following
points-
(A)
DIRECT PROMOTION TO STS POST:The most of group ‘B’ gazetted
officers in the Central as well as State governments are being promoted directly
to a Senior Time Scale (STS) post with Grade Pay of Rs. 6600/- including CSS, CPWD,
Railway Board, CSSS, AFHQ, MEA, RajyaSabha Secretariat, Ministry of
Parliamentary Affairs, CVC, UPSC, Directorate of Enforcement in Revenue
Department itself, Forest services, Police services, Foreign Services,
Engineering services, State Services etc. while Central Excise Superintendents are being promoted
merely to a Junior
Time Scale (JTS) post with Grade Pay of Rs. 5400/-. Central Excise
Superintendents (Group ‘B’ Gazetted post) may also kindly be granted promotion
directly to a Senior Time Scale post with Grade Pay of Rs. 6600/- to maintain
parity with similarly placed employees of other departments.
(B) UNIFORM PROMOTIONAL HIERARCHY:Thepromotional hierarchy is varying
department to department.
(i)
Somewhere
Group ‘B’ Gazetted Officers are promoted to a post carrying a Grade Pay of Rs.
5400/- in PB3 (in CBEC, CBDT, Department of Post etc.) whereas to a post
carrying a Grade Pay of Rs. 6600/- at other places (CSS, RajyaSabha Secretariat, CSSS, AFHQ, MEA, MPA, CVC,
UPSC, Enforcement Directorate in Revenue Department itself, Railway Board,
Administrative services, Forest services, Police services, DANICS, DANIPS,
CPWD, State services etc.).
(ii)
Like
it, somewhere Group ‘B’ Non-Gazetted Officers are promoted to a post carrying a
Grade Pay of Rs. 5400/- in PB3 (CBI, IB, Hindi departments etc.) whereas they
are being promoted to a post carrying a Grade Pay of Rs. 4800/- (CBEC, CBDT
etc.) or Rs. 4600/- (CPWD etc.) at other places.
(iii)
(a) Somewhere
promotional hierarchy is 4600à6600à8700 (CPWD etc.).
(b) Somewhere 4600à4800à6600à7600à8700
(CSS, CSSS, AFHQ, MEA, MPA, CVC, UPSC, Railway Board etc.).
(c) Somewhere 4600à5400à6600à7600à8700
(Hindi departments, CBI, IB etc.) (d) Somewhere it is 4600à4800à5400à6600à7600à8700
(CBEC, CBDT, Department of Posts etc.).
So, the
promotional hierarchy after entry into group ‘B’ is required to be made uniform
for the sake of justice to all. The posts
under the grade pays of Rs. 5400/- & 6600/- and also Rs. 7600/- &
8700/- being functionally same, the ideal promotional hierarchy for all
after entry into Group ‘B’ seems only to be 4600à6600à8700à10000.
It is, therefore, requested to make the promotional hierarchy uniform for all
Group ‘B’ officers as 4600à6600à8700à10000 on the pattern of CPWD.
(C) BATCH TO BATCH NON FUNCTIONAL FINANCIAL UPGRADATION TO THE
CENTRAL EXCISE EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AT PAR WITH THE BEST PLACED COUNTERPARTS OF
CSS ETC.All organised group ‘A’ officers
recruited with IAS, the best placed group ‘A’ service, in the same pay scale
through common examination have been granted financial parity with counterparts
of IAS. They have been granted non-functional financial up-gradation vide
DOPT OM No. AB.14017/64/2008-Estt.(RR) dt. 24.04.09 to compensate the lack of
promotions as compared to IAS. As far as group ‘B’ officers are concerned, the
CSS and RajyaSabha Secretariat etc. officers are the best placed group ‘B’
officers like IAS in group ‘A’. The group ‘B’ officers at Central Excise
Inspector and Assistant of CSS level are recruited in a common scale of
pay through common examination conducted by SSC. The officers
recruited as Assistant (Group-B, Non Gazetted) in the Ministries get the
benefit of promotions upto the Joint Secretary or above level. However, their
counterpart Central Excise Inspectors recruited also as Group-B (Non Gazetted)
through same common All India competitive examination get only one functional
promotion in 35/40 years of service despite of working on more important seats
of revenue collection. Thus, the CSS counterparts are retiring 4-5 grades above
the officers recruited as the Central Excise Inspector. On account of this, the
CSS counterparts are getting 60% more pay than the officers recruited as
Central Excise Inspector. Even the pension of CSS counterparts is more than the
salary of the officers recruited as Central Excise Inspector.It is requested
that the officers recruited as Central
Excise Inspector be granted at least non-functional financial upgradation at
par with their counterparts of CSS on batch to batch.
(D)INTRODUCTION OF
FLEXIBLE/DYNAMICPROMOTION / COMPLEMENTING SCHEME:The problem of acute stagnation in the cadre of
Superintendent can be solved, if a flexible/dynamic promotional scheme is
introduced for them after joining as Inspector. The flexible promotional scheme was introduced in the Department
of Science and Technology. The DOPT vide Notification No. 2/41/97-Plc dated
9.11.98 made the regulation of in-situ promotion under such Flexible
Promotional Scheme. It has been further reviewed by DOPT and modified
Flexible Complementing Scheme guidelines issued vide OM No.
AB/4017/37/2008-Esst(R) dated 10.09.10. FCS and MACPS both are also applicable
simultaneously. In the same manner, dynamic promotions scheme was adopted for
other categories including drivers. It is requested to kindly introduce a Flexible/Dynamic
promotional/complementing scheme on completion of qualifying years of service
as prescribed by DOPT under OM dated 24.03.2009 for granting in-situ
promotions after every 5 years in the service career of the officer in the hierarchy of functional
promotions after joining as Inspector.
3. It is further submitted that
the detailed submissions would be made at the time of personal discussions.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
(A. K. SHARMA),
President.
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President: Address for
communication:
Secretary General:
R.
Chandramouli 240, Razapur,
Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.) Ravi
Malik
Vice
Presidents: P. Parwani, L. L. Singhvi (Central);
AnuragChaudhary, Ravi Joshi (North); N. Raman, G. Srinath (South); B. K. Sinha,
AshwiniMajhi (East); Rajesh Chaher, J. D. Patil (West) Joint Secretaries: Anand
Kishore, J. S. Aiyer (Central); R. K. Solanki, AshishVajpeyi (North); M.
Nagaraju, Ajithkumar P. C. (South); P. K. Sen, S. Bhattachariya (East);
JasramMeena, M. K. Mishra (West) Office Secretary: C. S. Sharma Treasurer:
N. R. MandaLiaison Secretary: A.
S. KunduCoordinator on Telangana: P.
Shravan Kumar
(Recognised by G.O.I., Min. of
Fin. vide letter F.No. B. 12017/10/2006-Ad.IV A Dt.21.01.08)
Ref. No. 91/A/15
Dt. 15.07.15
To,
Sh.
Jitendra Singh,
Hon’ble
Minister of State, DOPT,
New
Delhi.
Sub: Request
for appointment.
Sir,
It is submitted with due regards that Central Excise
Superintendents are forced to retire on a PB2 post with single promotion in the career after joining as Inspector barring 1% whereas their common entry counterparts are easily
enjoying PB4 levels after getting 5-6 promotions. Central Excise Superintendents are getting promotion (if any) merely
to Junior Time Scale while their counterparts of CPWD, CSS, CSSS, AFHQS,
Railway Board, MEA, CVC, UPSC, MPA, RajyaSabha Secretariat & many others like
Administrative Services, Police Services, Forest Services, Engineering
Services, State Services etc. to Senior
Time Scale. They are also forced to
work under the extreme juniors of Customs belonging to the same cadre.
Their
counterparts of Income Tax (CBDT) and the Assistants of CSS under the same
Department of Revenue are able to reach the post of Commissioner and Joint
Secretary. Almost all other counterparts of them are also reaching the PB4
levels. All of other cadres below Group ‘A’ except
Inspectors & Superintendents are also already getting 5 to 6 promotions in
CBEC.
2. In view of the above, your goodself is requested to give
an appointment to the Association as per your convenience enabling us to make
submissions in person relating to the following points-
(A)
DIRECT PROMOTION TO STS POST: As
submitted above, the most of
group ‘B’ gazetted officers in the Central as well as State governments are
being promoted directly to a Senior Time Scale (STS) post with
Grade Pay of Rs. 6600/- including CSS,
CPWD, Railway Board, CSSS, AFHQ, MEA, RajyaSabha Secretariat, Ministry of
Parliamentary Affairs, CVC, UPSC, Directorate of Enforcement in Revenue
Department itself, Forest services, Police services, Foreign Services,
Engineering services, State Services etc. while Central Excise Superintendents are being promoted
merely to a Junior
Time Scale (JTS) post with Grade Pay of Rs. 5400/-. Central Excise
Superintendents (Group ‘B’ Gazetted post) may also kindly be granted promotion
directly to a Senior Time Scale post with Grade Pay of Rs. 6600/- to maintain
parity with similarly placed employees of other departments.
(B) UNIFORM PROMOTIONAL HIERARCHY: Thepromotional hierarchy is varying
department to department.
(i)
Somewhere
Group ‘B’ Gazetted Officers are promoted merely to a post carrying a Grade Pay
of Rs. 5400/- in PB3 (in CBEC, CBDT, Department of Post etc.) whereas to a post
carrying a Grade Pay of Rs. 6600/- at other places (CSS, RajyaSabha Secretariat, CSSS, AFHQ, MEA, MPA, CVC,
UPSC, Enforcement Directorate in Revenue Department itself, Railway Board,
Administrative services, Forest services, Police services, DANICS, DANIPS,
CPWD, State services etc.).
(ii)
Like
it, somewhere Group ‘B’ Non-Gazetted Officers are promoted to a post carrying a
Grade Pay of Rs. 5400/- in PB3 (CBI, IB, Hindi departments etc.) whereas they
are being promoted to a post carrying a Grade Pay of Rs. 4800/- (CBEC, CBDT
etc.) or Rs. 4600/- (CPWD etc.) at other places.
(iii)
(a) Somewhere
promotional hierarchy is 4600à6600à8700 (CPWD etc.),
(b) Somewhere 4600à4800à6600à7600à8700
(CSS, CSSS, AFHQ, MEA, MPA, CVC, UPSC, Railway Board etc.),
(c) Somewhere 4600à5400à6600à7600à8700
(Hindi departments, CBI, IB etc.) and
(d) Somewhere it is
4600à4800à5400à6600à7600à8700
(CBEC, CBDT, Department of Posts etc.).
So, the
promotional hierarchy after entry into group ‘B’ is required to be made uniform
for the sake of justice to all. The posts
under the grade pays of Rs. 5400/- & 6600/- and also Rs. 7600/- &
8700/- being functionally same, the ideal promotional hierarchy for all
after entry into Group ‘B’ seems only to be 4600à6600à8700à10000.
It is, therefore, requested to make the promotional hierarchy uniform for all
Group ‘B’ officers as 4600à6600à8700à10000 on the pattern of CPWD.
(C) BATCH TO BATCH NON FUNCTIONAL FINANCIAL UPGRADATION TO
THE CENTRAL EXCISE EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AT PAR WITH THE BEST PLACED COUNTERPARTS
OF CSS ETC. All
organised group ‘A’ officers recruited with IAS, the best placed group ‘A’
service, in the same pay scale through common examination have been granted
financial parity with counterparts of IAS. They have been
granted non-functional financial up-gradation vide DOPT OM No.
AB.14017/64/2008-Estt.(RR) dt.24.04.09 to compensate the lack of promotions as
compared to IAS. As far as group ‘B’ officers are concerned, the CSS and
RajyaSabha Secretariat etc. officers are the best placed group ‘B’ officers like
IAS in group ‘A’. The group ‘B’ officers at Central Excise Inspector and
Assistant of CSS level are recruited in a common scale of pay through
common examination conducted by SSC. The officers recruited as Assistant
(Group-B, Non Gazetted) in the Ministries get the benefit of promotions upto
the Joint Secretary or above level. However, their counterpart Central Excise
Inspectors recruited also as Group-B (Non Gazetted) through same common All
India competitive examination get only one functional promotion in 35/40 years
of service despite of working on more important seats of revenue collection.
Thus, the CSS counterparts are retiring 4-5 grades above the officers recruited
as the Central Excise Inspector. On account of this, the CSS counterparts are
getting 60% more pay than the officers recruited as Central Excise Inspector.
Even the pension of CSS counterparts is more than the salary of the officers
recruited as Central Excise Inspector. It is requested that the officers recruited as Central Excise
Inspector be granted at least non-functional financial upgradation at par with
their counterparts of CSS on batch to batch.
(D) INTRODUCTION OF FLEXIBLE/DYNAMIC
PROMOTION/COMPLEMENTING SCHEME: The
problem of acute stagnation in the cadre of Superintendent can be solved, if a
flexible/dynamic promotional scheme is introduced for them after joining as
Inspector. The flexible
promotional scheme was introduced in the Department of Science and Technology.
The DOPT vide Notification No. 2/41/97-Plc dated 9.11.98 made the regulation of
in-situ promotion under such Flexible Promotional Scheme. It
has been further reviewed by DOPT and modified Flexible Complementing Scheme
guidelines issued vide OM No. AB/4017/37/2008-Esst(R) dated 10.09.10. FCS and
MACPS both are also applicable simultaneously. In the same manner, dynamic
promotions scheme was adopted for other categories including drivers. It
is requested to kindly introduce a
Flexible/Dynamic promotional/complementing scheme on completion of qualifying
years of service as prescribed by DOPT under OM dated 24.03.2009 for
granting in-situ promotions after every 5 years in the service career of the
officer in the hierarchy of functional
promotions after joining as Inspector.
3. It is further submitted that
the detailed submissions would be made at the time of personal discussions.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE
(Representing Staff Associations/Federations under
Central Board of Excise & Customs)
Ref No. 04/2015
Dated:
29.07.15
To,
Sh.
Shaktikanta Das,
Revenue
Secretary,
North
Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Submissions under Employee Grievances Redressal Mechanism by
the staffside under CBEC.
Sir,
First of all, many many thanks to
call us for the meeting. The points in brief for your kind consideration and
due redressal are submitted as below-
1. Consultation with staffside on pay
matters regarding 7th CPC: It
is requested to form an implementation cell having Staff Associations/JAC as member
to implement the CPC report after duly considering the submissions/views of the
staffside.
2. Timely DPCs:It
is requested to conduct immediate DPCs for all vacant posts as officers are
retiring without promotion despite of promotional vacancies being in hand. DPC may
kindly be conducted immediately for serving officers, if there is any problem
to collect the information in r/o retired officers. Decentralised vigilance
clearance and maintenance of ACR dossiers etc. may kindly be made centralized
to avoid the delays.
3. GFR 254:It
is requested to grant ad hoc promotions to the lower officers by operating the
posts being vacant at higher levels (for the want of eligible officers) by
downgrading to lower levels under GFR 254 till eligible officers are available
at higher levels.
4. GST:It
is requested to give units only uptoRs. 10 lacturnover to states,otherwise it
mayresult in no work left for usmaking our career prospects ‘the bleakest to
bleakest’.
5. Recruitments Rules:It
is requested to finalise the RRs immediately under consultation with the
staffside. No DPC may kindly be delayed for the want of pending RRs keeping in
view the DOPT provisions not to delay any DPC waiting for pending RRs.
6. Minimum five functional
promotions:It is requested to grant minimum five functional
promotions to our officers like counterparts of other departments. If
functional promotions are not possible due to some unavoidable technicalities,
organization specific flexible/dynamic promotion scheme may kindly be adopted
to grant at least five in-situ promotions or even non-functional upgradations
in uniform promotional hierarchy. Promotional hierarchy differs department to
department in discriminatory manner, e.g., (i) à4600à6600à8700à
(CPWD etc.) (ii) à4800à6600à7600à8700à
(CSS, CSSS, MPA, MEA, AFHQ, CVC, Ministry of Railways etc.) (iii) à4600à5400à6600à7600à8700à
(IB, CBI, Hindi departments etc.) (iv) à4600à4800à5400à6600à7600à8700à
(CBEC, CBDT, department of Posts etc.) etc. which needs to be made uniform for
the sake of justice to all. It is worth to submit that the grades under 5400
& 6600 as well as 7600 & 8700 are functionally same. It is also worth
to submit that the Cabinet also recommended bringing specific measures for our
stagnated employees independent of cadre restructuring. No need to submit that
promotional posts even in new higher grades with higher pay scales have been
created for group A in cadre restructuring despite of eligible officers not
being available but no measures have been taken to reach stagnated group B and
C officers to higher levels.
7. MACP anomalies:It
is requested to kindly undo the MACP anomaliesimmediately. Para 8.1 and
offsetting of time scale against MACP upgradationmay kindly be undone
particularly keeping in view the legal verdicts to grant MACP upgradations in
promotional hierarchy and also stepping up the pay of seniors, if getting less
pay than juniors under ACPS/MACPS. The court verdicts may kindly be implemented
in general instead of forcing equally placed officers to go to the courts to
get relief.
8. Vigilance matters:It
is requested to follow the time bound schedule in vigilance matters. If
prolonged, the observation period after finalization of the case may kindly be
shortened accordingly.
9. Infrastructure & prescribed
office space: It is requested to take immediate steps to
provide infrastructure & prescribed office space to staffside and promotee
group A officers.Staffside is being discriminated in the matter since 2002 by
getting their rooms vacated for group A officers.
10. Employee Grievance Redressal
Mechanism:It is requested to follow the mechanism at centre (including
Revenue headquarters) as well as field formations at regular intervals (two
months extendable by one month) for all categories of officers by holding
minuted meetings.
11. 1% incremental Incentive:It
is requested to grant the benefit to all categories of officers instead of only
group A without any exception or discrimination.
12. Comprehensive Health Insurance
Scheme:It is requested to implement the scheme already initiated by
the HRD of CBEC.
Thanking you with the request for early issuance of the minutes,
(RAVI MALIK),
Joint Convenor.
Mob. 9868816290.
Address for communication-
240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201002
(U.P.)