Message

Comrades,

            We know that you all are busy with the work of preparation of statements of new pay and calculation of arrears on that, as per recommendation of 7^th CPC, the Gazette notification for which was published on 25 July 2016 (Notification) and subsequently Office Memorandum was issued on 29 July 2016 (OM). You might have just finished the work related to the annual increment w.e.f. 01 July and AGT of officers of various grades. I am sure that our officers are doing all these work effectively and correctly, besides their routine work. Please do not forget to collect the Form of option and undertaking from each individual officer, as per annexure of given OM, before finalising pay & arrears.

            This association has been constantly pursuing the pending issues with Board and some correspondences have been made on the developments in last couple of months. We have written letter to newly appointed honourable MoSF for removal of disparity with CBDT pertaining to our pay and promotional prospects (Pg 1, Pg 2). We also wrote to honourable Minister and other Board officials for effective implementation of 7th CPC recommendation with respect to the pay parity with CBDT and other formations. (Letter to MoSF Pg 1, Pg 2). We have also forwarded letter pertaining to the publication of Recruitment Rules (RRs) of Inspector in CBEC (see letter). It is my pleasure to inform that CBEC has issued a letter on 2^nd August 2016 (Letter), addressed to all CCAs, to fill up all vacant (Pre and post cadre restructuring) Group B & C posts on the basis of existing RRS, as has been demanded by this association (our submission Pg 1, Pg 2). I hope the work, to that effect, has already been commenced in all the zones. Zonal leaders are requested to pursue it with their respective CCAs. We have, once again, requested honourable Chairman, CBEC to look into our pending issues and grant us an appointment (Letter).

            It has been noticed that CBDT has put the draft RRs of Inspector and EA in their website, in which the qualifying service in the feeder grade posts has been proposed as three years in both. We are going to approach CBEC to have the parity with CBDT in both the RRs.

            This association is also trying its level best to get the DPC for CAO conducted in this month itself so that our senior AOs may have some good news. We are also in touch with Board to get the amended RRs for Administrative Officer, at the earliest.

            AICESTMOA wishes all its members and their families a very happy ‘Independence day’.

            Jaihind.
         
                                                                                                        -sd-
                                                                                              (Sankar Kr. Saha)
                                                                                              Secretary General

Message from Secretary General

Dear Comrades,

            In continuation to my earlier report of Delhi visit, I would like to share the details of discussion held in the meeting with Shri Jayant Sinha, honourable Minister of State for Finance, in presence of Member (Admin) and Joint Secretary (Admin). Of course, the meeting was an outcome of our efforts to get an appointment with the Hon’ble Minister, highlighting the disparity between CBEC and CBDT (Request letter Pg1, Pg2, Pg 3).

            At the outset, the Minister extended us a warm welcome. After the introduction, our president initiated the discussion by projecting the difference in pay structure in the grade of Administrative officers and had a rigorous parley to make him understand that CBEC has never shown much interest to increase the grade pay of AO to Rs. 4800/-, neither any serious attempt was made to replicate the hierarchical structure of CBDT. We adduced the copies of all our submissions, to different officials of Board and Pay Commission, in front of him to make him realize our legitimate demands. The Member (Admin) stated that all our demands have already been forwarded to Empowered Committee of 7^th Pay Commission. However, it was not clarified as to whether our demands have been seconded by our Board. It was also pointed out that obtaining the approval of the Cabinet to restructure the Administrative Wing on par with CBDT could be difficult. However, on our repeated submissions, Minister advised the Board to liaise with CBDT on this front.  Subsequently, another submission has been made with the Minister to pursue the issue of Pay Scale even further (Submission Pg 1, Pg 2).

            As regards to disparity of promotional aspects of CBEC and CBDT our presentation was equally strong as we argued with, starting from DoPT guidelines for framing of RR to the different RRs that are being followed in these two Boards. We projected the conditions of present Tax Assistants and conveyed him that there would be none to give option of joining CBEC, if the RR of EA is not amended. We also submitted the papers to show as to how CBDT continues to give promotion to STA, even relaxing the qualifying service from three years to two years. To make him understand the clear disparity, we put forward the RRs of TA of two Boards (Submission Pg 1, Pg 2)

            The Hon’ble minister appreciated that there was disparity in both pay structure and promotional aspects between two Boards and advised our Board to sort out the reasons of discrepancies. The meeting lasted about 40 minutes and ended in cordiality.

            Meanwhile, I would like to inform you that the effort on the part of the Association to address the problems through legal path, simultaneously, is expected to yield some result.  Some TAs of Delhi zone have come together to file a case, for amendment of EA RR, to CAT Principal Bench. They have already appointed the lawyers and prepared the case file.  

            Brief on other issues:

(i)            The proposal for review DPC as well as promotional DPC for promotion to Chief Accounts Officer has been sent to UPSC and we hope to get positive news in a few days.

(ii)       It is learnt that the file on One Time Relaxation for promotion to the grade of Inspector has been returned to the section. It is presumed that Member (Admin) has raised some queries. There appears to be not much of a movement on this front. However, we continue to strive for the same (Submission).

(iii)         We have also written letter to fill up the additional posts, created through cadre restructuring in all grades (Submission Pg 1, Pg 2)

            Regarding our participation in the strike call given by the NJCA, we would support the move morally and involve ourselves in some activities, protesting the Pay Commission report, after giving due notice to the Board. Such programmes will be intimated in due course of time. The leadership is continuously vetting our next steps keeping in mind our meeting with the Minister.

       It is understood that constant persuasion with Board is required to get the updates/result from the Board. The financial condition of the association is in a bad shape as there has been no subscription amount deposited in the national bank account, except by Bihar & Jharkhand Zone. It is not possible for Kolkata and Chandigarh zone alone to always provide fund to meet the expenses for office bearers to move to Delhi whenever required. In fact no further move is possible if the other zones keep quiet in this respect. The DDO’s Certificate (Annexure-II) for submission with the Board, is also required from each zone for renewal of recognition, which will be due in early 2017.  A separate circular is being issued on this front.  The official bank account of this association has been transferred from Pune to Kolkata and it is made operative. The association activities in some parts of the country are bare minimum or nil, at the moment. It is reiterated that a strong zonal association can take up the zonal issues with the respective CCA vigorously.

                  Thanking you.

                                                                                                              Yours comradely,
                                                                                                                       -sd-
                                                                                                          (Sankar Kumar Saha)
                                                                                                             Secretary General

REPORT OF OUR DELHI VISIT ON 19.05.2016 & 20.05.2016

Dear Comrades,

                     Shri Ramlalit, Assistant Secretary General and I have been to Delhi on 19th and 20th May, 2016.  We visited all concerned offices to find out the status of the pending issues.  20th morning, we had a meeting with Member (Admin.), in presence of JS (Admin.), DS and US.  Here is the gist of the following issues:

1.  CAO PROMOTION:

     

     The file of CAO promotion is being put up for sending the proposals to UPSC.

2. SENIORITY LIST OF AO:

   Updated Seniority List of Administrative Officers, onwards 2008 to 2014 is now ready, barring two small things which are being sorted out and they have been contacted. 

3. RELAXATION OF RR:

   On the matter of One Time Relaxation of existing Recruitment Rules the Board will intimate the status of relaxation of RRs of each grades.

4.  PUBLICATION OF AMENDED RR OF AO:

    It is learnt that the new amended Recruitment Rules of Administrative Officer is under process.

5.  WITHDRAWAL/AMENDMENT OF RR OF EA:

    On the issue of withdrawal/amendment of new Recruitment Rules for the post Executive Assistant, we have to write to Board to bring out the lapse on the part of Board and DoPT.  

6.  PARITY OF PAY & CADRE STRUCTURE WITH CBDT:

    We have to submit afresh letter to the Board with full justification for granting pay parity and identical cadre structure with that of CBDT.

7.  COUNTING THE LENGTH OF SERVICE SPENT IN THE GRADE OF SEPOY:

    On the issue of counting the length of service spent in the grade of Sepoy for promotion to the post of Tax Assistant, the file has got approved from DOPT and the order to that effect will be published soon.

8. CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONAL VACANCIES FOR PROMOTION CREATED THROUGH CADRE RESTRUCTURE:

    On the subject issue of consideration of additional vacancies for promotion with existing RR, created through Cadre Restructuring, it is learnt that presently the file is lying with JS.

    We will soon submit the papers to the Board as required and the submissions will be published in this Blog, as and when the same are done. In the Meanwhile, an ad-hoc committee of Delhi Unit has been formed and they are in touch with lawyers for withdrawal/amendment of the RR of EA.

Yours Comradely,

26.05.2016

(Sankar Kumar Saha)

Secretary General

REPORT OF OUR DELHI VISIT FROM 04.04.2016 TO 07.04.2016

Dear Comrades,

     

    In continuation to my earlier message, I would like to share the following about my visit to Delhi, along with Shri Ashim Pramanick, President, and Shri Ram Lalit, Liaison Secretary during 05^th Apr 2016 to 07^th Apr 2016.

DPC for CAO promotion:    Commendable work has been done by Shri V Guru Kumar and Shri P Reddy of Hyderabad unit to sort out pending VC/IC cases by communicating to different zones and brought down the number of pending cases to around 40. Presently, the pending cases are mostly from Lucknow and Bhubaneshwar zone. We have interacted with our leaders there, who have been putting all out efforts to forward the documents. Hope the file for conducting DPC will be put up soon.

One time Relaxation / promotion to AO, Inspector: The RRs for the post of AO is on the pipeline and the draft RR is already put up in the CBEC website (Click Here to see). The qualifying service for the promotion is kept as five years and for which the total service in the grade pay of Rs. 4200/- is kept as we demanded.

   During our conversation with Joint Secretary (Admin) and Deputy Secretary (Ad-IIIA), it reveals that doubts are not clear on the issue of One Time Relaxation in the post of Inspector. We had detail discussion with the present Deputy Secretary, regarding One time Relaxation to the posts of AO, Inspector, STA & TA, who has assumed charge in December 2015, on this issue. We tried to convince him as to why one time relaxation is required for these posts. The file for OTR of inspector is presently on his table.

    Both the JS(A) and the DS have inclined to the fact that the posts created as a result of cadre restructuring may be filled up with the existing RRs as is being done in the case of direct recruitment. A submission to this effect has been done for issuing clarification against the Board’s order dated 17.9.2015, so that the promotion can be given in different zones and the scan copy of our submission dated 06.04.2016 is posted below:

Withdrawal/Amendment of RR of EA: Our demand for withdrawal of RR for EA is not being entertained by the Board and they held the DoPT responsible, for not accepting the saving clause. It is understood, that we need to go to the higher official and accordingly putting the submission to MoS, Finance. The affected TAs may have to go to CAT to have their legitimate rights to have protection from the new RR. Discussions were held with the members of Delhi unit on this front and it is felt that we need to have a strong Delhi zonal association for this purpose. Some members have come forward to form the unit with all ministerial officers, which would take shape very soon, it is believed.

Counting of length of service rendered in the post of Sepoy for LDC/TA promotion: The counting of service rendered as Sepoy, before merger of the posts of Sepoy and Havaldar, are being considered by the Board as demanded by us. The file, learnt to have been sent to DoPT. We are hopeful of getting the positive result in near future.

Similar pay structure with CBDT and HQ Organisation:  As you are aware that a CoC has been formed with all the associations of CBDT and CBEC to have better and similar pay structure with HQ organisation and CBDT and also to materialize the demand of this cadre to the 7^th Pay Commission. Our President is in constant touch with the CoC leadership to move ahead with it.

    Looking forward for your cooperation and support in future days. We need to strengthen ourselves to fight for our right. 

Yours Comradely,

22.04.16

(Sankar Kumar Saha)

Secretary General

MESSAGE OF DELHI VISIT FROM 05.04.2016 TO 07.04.2016

MESSAGE 

Dear Comrades,

          The President and myself had been to Delhi during the last week.  We were joined by Shri Ram Lalit, Liaison Secretary at Delhi.  We took stalk of the status of various issues and pursued them at the concerned levels of CBEC.  The issues are as under:

1.    Much delayed promotion to Chief Accounts Officer (CAO).

2.    One Time Relaxation for promotion to Administrative Officer, Inspector & Senior Tax Assistant.

3.    Promotion against newly created posts on the basis of the existing Recruitment Rules.

4.    Counting of the length of service of Sepoy as qualifying service in the post of Havaldar for the purpose of promotion of LDC to the post of TA.

5.    Notification of the Recruitment Rules of Executive Assistant (EA) at variance with that of CBDT.

6.    Recruitment Rules and Seniority List of Administrative Officer.

7.    Revision of Pay and assignment of up-graded Pay structure in the wake of implementation of 7^th Pay Commission.

The developments on certain issues were positive, whereas, on certain other issues it was not so bright.  We followed up everything and met the Senior Officers to expedite them.  Details are being placed in our subsequent message.

On organizational front we decided to firm up our ties with CoC.  Though we could not take part in the CoC meeting held on 28.03.2016 for an unavoidable reasons, our President was in constant touch with the CoC leadership.  It was felt that issues relating to up-gradation of Pay can be better pursued from a bigger platform like CoC  (Minutes of the CoC meeting held on 28.03.2016 is linked herewith).

We also finally took a call to go for judicial redressal on the disparity of the Recruitment Rules of Executive Assistant with that of CBDT.  Shri Ram Lalit along with some Comrades of Delhi Unit will finalize the netegrity in due time and as early as possible.

I am sure that you will be keen to know on the developments to your career advancement.  But right now I don’t have the finished product for you on my way back from Delhi.  But we will take all practicable and possible steps.

     Looking forward to interact you through my next message.  

Yours Comradely,

                   11.04.16

(Sankar Kumar Saha)

Secretary General

MESSAGE

Dear Comrades,

This is in continuation to my earlier message today, in view of Board's recent letter dated 20th Oct, 2015 for proposal of relaxation of Recruitment Rules of Inspector  (Linked herewith), the Model representation is being modified.  Please get the modified representation shortly in our next message.

Yours comradely,

Sd/-

(Sankar Kumar Saha)

Secretary General

MESSAGE

Dear Comrades,

        We have been undergoing tremendous pressure due to shortage of manpower and increasing workload. The issue of new Recruitment Rules (RR) of Executive Assistant (EA) has demoralized our members.However, we have to make our maximum possible efforts to get our justifiable rights. At this juncture, the most important requirement is to be united and stand together. We hope, together we will be able to overcome the obstacles, that comes on our way to success!

      The festive season has arrived and all our members are definitely engaged to celebrate the festivals in full gaiety and fervour with their family members.

   We heartily wish all members, of this association, and their families, the happiness and all the very best. 

Kind Attention below ! ! ! !   Kind Attention below ! ! ! ! !

A draft application for repeal/amendment of RR of EA is linked herewith (CLICK here to DOWNLOAD) for the affected members. The underlined portion should be filled up as applicable to individual member. Copy of the application may be forwarded to Secretary AICESTMOA, by e-mail thorough Zonal Secretary.  It may be noted here that this draft application is mere a model representation, so anyone can change the representation as per their own thought. An advance copy of the representation may also be sent to the Hon'ble Member (P&V),CBEC directly.

Yours comradely,

Sd/-

(Sankar Kumar Saha)

Secretary General