MINUTES OF THE FIRST
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING OF INDIAN REVENUE SERVICE (CENTRAL EXCISE
AND CUSTOMS) PROMOTEE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION HELD AT NACEN, MUMBAI ON
21.12.2014
1. The meeting started
with customary lighting of lamp by the dignitaries followed by welcome address
by Smt. V Kolhatkar, General Secretary of the Mumbai Zone on behalf of the
organiser. Shri S K Patil, Organising Secretary of the Association, briefed on
the formation of New Association before handing over the proceedings of meeting
to the Secretary General, Shri Loknath Mishra. The House nominated Shri.
Anindya Roy of Kolkata to preside over the meeting, as the President of the
Association, Sri AK Sharma could not attend.
2. The
main proceedings started with the address by the Secretary General, Sri Lokanath
Mishra. He apprised the House upon the circumstances that lead to formation of
the new Gr-A promotee officers’ Association and elaborated on the actions
undertaken by the current ad-hoc Body under his leadership, as reflected in the
‘Action Taken Note’ (the full text of the ‘Action Taken Note’ can be viewed in
the Association’s site CENGOA.BLOGSPOT.IN), presented before the House for such meeting. He
pointed out, inter alia, that apart from submitting Memorandum to the 7th
CPC, the newly formed Association has been able to give oral evidences twice
(one at Mumbai and another at Jodhpur) before the CPC, on the basis of
invitations received from the Commission, highlighting the demands like direct
promotion of the Gr. B Gazetted officers to the senior Gr. A posts (STS) like
many other counterparts and non-functional
financial upgradation of the Gr. A
promotee officers at par with their counterparts of CSS on batch to
batch basis. He also elaborated on the points regarding necessity of
amendment of the proposed draft Gr. A Recruitment Rule 2014 and requested the
House to take keen interest in all the related activities with increased
vigour.
3. Sri Ravi Malik, Secretary General of the AIACEGEO
addressed the House and elaborated on the issues like confusion about the
status of the Assistant commissioners appointed through temporary and permanent
posts, holding of DPC for further promotion to the grade of Assistant
Commissioner, non-availability of infra structure, grant of MACP in promotion
hierarchy etc.. He apprised the House on the complex course of events that
ultimately led to the issuance of the promotion order of the Gr. B executive
officers in October 2014. He also
emphasised the need to maintain sustained pressure on the authority to achieve the desired goal of ensuring pay
benefits in PB-4 to all the executive officers joining the department as an
Inspector Central Excise. He also requested the new
Association to stay united with the Gr-B executive on the issues of common
interest.
4. The House deliberated upon various issues like formation,
name and status of the new Gr-A Association including any possible change of
Name, amendments of the proposed draft Gr. A Recruitment Rule 2014, problems
being faced by the newly promoted officers all over India, among others.
As far as the formation, name and status of the new
Association is concerned, majority of the representatives suggested for a
change of name particularly with reference to the word ‘promotee’. The
representatives of the Pune, Patna, Kolkata and Mumbai opined in favour of
creating an independent Association keeping in view the possible difficulties,
constitutional or otherwise, in induction of officers from cadre of Customs
with an organisation which encompasses only Central Excise, Service Tax and
Land Customs officers . Majority of others were of the opinion that the issues exclusively
concerning the interest of the Assistant Commissioners can be best tackled by
an independent Association and preferred maintaining an issue based truck with
the Superintendents’ Association. Some, however, favoured the common platform
with the Central Excise Superintendents’ Association like that of Income Tax
department. Sri Lokanath Mishra, Secretary General of the newly formed
Association, explained that the Association was
created hurriedly with the sole objective to submit separate Memorandum before
the 7th CPC. Since at the time of submission of the Memorandum
before the 7th CPC by the AIACEGEO, he was also President of
AIACEGEO, he decided to submit the separate Memorandum in the capacity of
Secretary General of a welfare Association in stead of a service Association.
He, accordingly, requested the House to change the name of the Association, if
required, after submission of the report by 7th CPC. The
House, after due deliberation, decided to continue the status quo of the newly
formed Gr A officers’ Association till the general body meeting. Any decision
regarding the change of name and status of the newly formed Association and
adoption of Constitution was also deferred to that extent. It was also decided
that present ad-hoc office bearers of newly formed Association will continue to
function their capacity till such time.
5. The House also deliberated upon the proposed amendments to
the draft Gr-A Recruitment Rules floated by the CBEC. The representatives
pointed out series of shortcomings in the proposed draft RRs and expressed
dissatisfaction over the discrimination inflicted upon by the Board on the
promotee officers. The delegation of Kolkata & Pune came up with concrete
suggestions for bringing out correct amendments to ensure just, fair &
equitable promotions to the Gr-B officers recruited in Gr-A by way of Promotion
in conformity with the Hand Book on Recruitment Rules (HBRR) issued by the
Nodal Ministry viz., DoPT. The House agreed & authorised Shri. Anindya Roy
and Shri. S K Patil to prepare a draft-reply on the proposed amendments to RRs,
for further submission by the newly formed Gr A officers’ Association,
incorporating, among others, the aspects like base cadre parity vis-à-vis
common seniority list among feeder cadres and change of ratio from the existing
50:50 between the Direct recruit Assistant Commissioner to 90:10.
6. Different representatives raised the issue of acute lack
of Infrastructure and shortage of space faced by the Officers recently promoted
particularly with reference to the formation like CESTAT. It was also pointed out with grave concern
that in the formation like DGST, officers have been posted without even having
existence of any office premises. The House then decided that keeping in mind
the general feeling of discrimination, strong protest will be lodged with the
authorities and assigned Shri. Pramod Savant Shri A Kulgod to prepare the draft in this regard
covering all aspects for
submission.
7. Sri A K Sasmal,
General secretary of the Central Excise Superintendents, Mumbai stressed the
need of condemning the step motherly
attitude of the Board towards the Gr A officers, appointed on promotion,
as reflected in the proposed Gr-A RRs.
Shri. Dabral, who was in the cadre of Superintendent Customs
(Preventive) before promotion to the grade of Assistant commissioner, appreciated
the efforts of all concerned in securing promotional of the Gr. B Executive
feeder cadres in a historic manner.
Shri N.K. Mishra, retired Assistant Commissioner
from Mumbai, pleaded to form a pensioners’ forum for all retired officers of
Central Excise and Customs department under the aegis of the newly formed
Association.
Shri V. Singh, Assistant
Commissioner from Patna Zone requested the representative from Kolkata Zone to
hold the next executive committee meeting at Kolkata.
8. Shri. K S Pandit, retired Assistant Commissioner,
appraised the House on the current state of a petition filed by him in
individual capacity and informed that
recently, about more than 100 retired officers have joined in his petition
presently lying before the Hon’ble Supreme Court. He requested the newly formed
Gr. A Association to join and support his petition by
way of filing one IA. The Secretary
General, while appreciating the efforts made by Shri K.S. Pandit in challenging
the issue before the Apex Court, informed that a case in Principal Bench of
CAT had already been filed by the AIACEGEO to maintain base cadre parity
by duly challenging the RRs. He observed that the case filed by Shri K.S.
Pandit was related to implementation of
the judgement dated 03.08.11 of the Apex Court w.e.f 01.01.97 and, accordingly, there was no harm
in supporting the case filed by Shri K.S Pandit so long as anything contrary to
the case pending in Principal Bench for base cadre parity was not
appealed. He also observed that in rejoinder, Shri K.S. Pandit had cited
the Apex Court decision delivered in Badani’s case, which was related to
notional promotion also. After due deliberations, the House decided in
favour of joining and supporting the case filed by Shri K.S. Pandit in Apex
Court by way of filing IA without, however, stating anything, before the Apex
Court, contrary to the case filed in Principal Bench by AIACEGEO to maintain
base cadre parity in promotions. The House requested Shri K.S. Pandit to
provide a copy of his petition to the Secretary General for record. The House
also requested the Pune Zone to bear all related expenditure likely to be
incurred in the process of filing of IA by the Secretary General including
expenses incurred towards finalisation of petition with advocate etc.
9. The
Secretary General, Lokanath Mishra appealed to the House to motivate general
members in their zones and create strong reserve funds of the new Gr-A
Association and requested the Organising Secretary to maintain the
Accounts. He also requested
all the Central Executive Committee members to hold general body meetings in
their respective zones to elect zonal office bearers and to form a
pensioners’ forum urgently before the next all India meeting. On behalf of the
Association, he thanked all the delegates, guests and, office bearers in
attending the meeting and making the meeting a grand success. He also thanked
the organisers for arrangement of the meeting in a short time.
10. The meeting was attended by the office-bearers of
Mumbai Zone/s, Pune Zone, Kolkata Zone, Bhubneshwar Zone, Patna Zone, Ahmadabad
Zone & Indore Zone. The representatives of Lucknow Zone, Bangaluru Zone,
Kochin Zone, Shillong Zone, Jaipur Zone & Chennai Zone conveyed their
support telephonically as most of them could not make it due to cancellation of
flights(Spice-jet effect). The Secretary General of AIACEGEO,
The President of AIACEGEO, Delhi Unit, The General Secretary of AIACEGEO,
Mumbai, Unit, Joint Secretary AIACEGEO (West Zone) , Retired Asst. Commissioners
S/Shri K.S. Pandit and N.K. Mishra also attended the meeting. The President,
AIACEGEO, who could not attend the meeting because of some medical reasons, conveyed
his best wishes for a successful meeting through SMS.
The following delegates/office bearers/ guests attended the
meeting.
SL. NO.
|
Name of Offficer
|
Designation
|
Mobile No.
|
Email id
|
|
1
|
V U BRAHMAKSHATRI
|
AC
|
C EX THANE-II
|
9619903048
|
|
2
|
ASHOK B KULGOD
|
AC
|
CESTAT MUMBAI
|
9322826968
|
|
3
|
M P S SENGAR
|
AC
|
C EX MUMBAI-II
|
9869270089
|
|
4
|
S S PATIL
|
AC
|
ST AUDIT-III
|
9892005171
|
|
5
|
SHIBENDRA DAS
|
AC
|
C EX RAIGAD
|
8082418525
|
|
6
|
RAMESH R RAHATE
|
AC
|
CRYSTAL IT PARK INDORE
|
9925070984
|
|
7
|
G R DESAI
|
AC
|
SOLAPUR
|
9850663049
|
|
8
|
PRAMOD SAWANT
|
AC
|
AUDIT ST PUNE
|
9850085285
|
|
9
|
K S PANDIT
|
AC
|
PUNE RETIRED
|
9890301231
|
|
10
|
S K PATIL
|
AC
|
AUDIT ST PUNE
|
9822530530
|
|
11
|
P D NIMHAN
|
AC
|
ST PUNE
|
9423015011
|
|
12
|
A S ROY
|
AC
|
VIG KOLKATTA
|
9432263228
|
|
13
|
G P GURG
|
AC
|
AUDIT-I ST MUMBAI
|
9820241889
|
|
14
|
G S
RAHORE
|
AC
|
C EX
THANE-I
|
9322794573
|
|
15
|
B B
DABRAL
|
AC
|
ICD
MULUND
|
9820303793
|
|
16
|
GOPI RAM
MEENA
|
AC
|
MUMBAI
CUSTOMS-II
|
9967719474
|
|
17
|
V P SINGH
|
AC
|
C EX
RANCHI
|
9430930593
|
|
18
|
LOKNATH
MISHRA
|
AC
|
C EX
BHUBNESWAR
|
9437314941
|
|
19
|
VARSHA
KOLHATKAR
|
AC
|
C EX MUMBAI-III
|
9821074307
|
|
20
|
V N
THAKKAR
|
AC
|
C.EX
AUDIT AHMEDABAD-I
|
9998847339
|
|
21
|
ANAND JAGTIANI
|
AC
|
SEZ
MUNDRA
|
9825030248
|
|
22
|
RAVI
MALIK
|
SUPDT
|
C EX
DELHI
|
9868816290
|
|
23
|
C S
SHARMA
|
AC
|
C EX
DELHI
|
9313885411
|
|
24
|
L V
BISHT
|
AC
|
ST-VI
MUMBAI
|
9892186388
|
|
25
|
REKHA
JOSHI
|
AC
|
ST AUDIT
PUNE
|
9422513685
|
|
26
|
LALIT
SUNEJA
|
AC
|
CESTAT
MUMBAI
|
9820459424
|
|
27
|
UMESH
PALAV
|
AC
|
C EX
THANE-II
|
9322236221
|
|
28
|
J D
DESHMUKH
|
AC
|
MUMBAI
CUSTOMS-I
|
9820060874
|
|
29
|
P D NAIK
|
AC
|
C EX
THANE-I
|
9892910000
|
|
30
|
P D
DALWANI
|
AC
|
ST-II
MUMBAI
|
9329918595
|
|
31
|
C G
SHAHANE
|
AC
|
DG ST
MUMBAI
|
9987332045
|
|
32
|
K H
KHAIRAZ
|
AC
|
MUMBAI
CUSTOMS-I
|
9821310134
|
|
33
|
A K
SASMAL
|
SUPDT
|
ST MUMBAI
|
9820930885
|
|
34
|
M K
MISHRA
|
SUPDT
|
MUMBAI
|
||
35
|
N.K.
MISHRA
J.P.
SHARAMA
|
AC
AC
|
MUMBAI,(RTD)
MUMBAI
|
9869461097
9702800400
|
|
11. The meeting ended with vote of thanks on behalf of the
organiser as extended by Shri. Garg to all the participants & delegates.
(LOKANATH
MISHRA)
SECRETARY
GENERAL.
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