Pune, the 13th February, 2012
Dear members,
On behalf of all the Administrative Officers & Deputy Office
Superintendents of our cadre, this Association has all along been taking
up the cause of their pay parity issues with the Board and other
concerned Departments with nothing much to gain.
In the preliminary discussions with the Board officials, the
Association was given to understand that any issue relating to pay
matters would not form a part of the Cadre Restructuring proposal. All
the Executive Office bearers of our Association had from day one
insisted for a four tier Ministerial hierarchy which would be in
consonance to the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations and considering
the fact that the Department i.e. CBEC has embarked upon Cadre
Restructuring, in the overall interest of the cadre, this Association
had submitted a self explanatory proposal to the Board to consider
creation of posts in the Ministerial hierarchy.
However, nothing positive has come up even though several other
Central Government Departments like Income Tax, Indian Meteorological
Department, Department of Atomic Energy, Geological Survey of India etc., have upgraded the post of
existing posts of Administrative Officers thereby granting justice to
their Ministerial officers. Non-upgradation of the existing posts of
Administrative Officers and Deputy Office Superintendents in CBEC would
mean that these cadres would stand to loose permanently in future and
Ministerial Officers will not be able to claim parity with their
counterparts if silence is still maintained on this front.
Equally annoying is the fact that the date for DPC for promotion to the grade of Chief
Accounts Officer has not yet been fixed by UPSC. It is time and again
being informed that discrepancies are being pointed out by UPSC and the
Board is communicating in turn to the various field formations seeking
reports and compliances, which have not yet been complied with fully.
Ironical is the situation, for information needs to be sent by members
of our cadre and incase Inspectors/ Superintendents are manning the
Confidential /Vigilance sections of the respective Commissionerates, the
Ministerial officers sensitive to the issue can follow up issues locally
and get the needful done. Hon'ble Member(P&V) has assured that the
said issue shall be put to rest soon.
Other vital issue which is of concern to the cadre is related to
the ad-hoc promotions being granted to Administrative Officers and their
names not being included in the seniority list of Administrative
Officers. This issue was discussed at length with the Hon'ble
Member(P&V) who has assured that the Board's instruction shall be
superceded with fresh instructions, thereby facilitating regular
promotions to the grade of Administrative Officers resulting in their names being
included in the seniority list.
Filing and follow up of Early Hearing Petition in the Hon'ble
Supreme Court on seniority cases and implementation of Hon'ble Andhra
Pradesh High Court judgment too were in the agenda for discussion. The
nature of duties with regard to all posts in the Ministerial cadre was
also discussed at length.
The corridors of North Block was full of rumors that the
Cadre Restructuring of CBEC has gone through. None of the Staff
Associations were being informed of the queries raised by DOP&T, nor
was there any amount of transparency in the entire matter. Aggrieved
with such developments, all the Associations i.e.
Inspector/ Ministerial/ Group 'C' Central Excise and Customs assembled
together, deliberated upon the issues of concern with regard to their
respective cadres and finally resolved to issue a Notice of Agitation to
all concerned authorities seeking timely action on the earlier common
submissions made on 25.01.2011 by the Joint Action Committee. A copy of the resolution passed in the JAC and the programme of action decided, alongwith the notices served can be accessed by clicking here.
The respective zonal units are requested to serve a copy of the notice of agitation to the respective cadre controlling Chief Commissioners and endorse a copy of the same to the undersigned for information.Through this message, the Association solicits 100% support from
each and every member of the Ministerial cadre without which support the
pending demands shall never be met with. Its my personal experience
that Ministerial officers in the grade of Administrative Officers and
Deputy Office Superintendents seldom support such an agitational move as
they treat themselves to be the administrators, but in the instant
situation, if the support is not 100% then the All India
Association will not take any blame in the ruining of the Ministerial
Cadre, which is likely to take place in the given situation and format
we are placed in. The least Administrative Officers can do is to
provide the DDO certificates to the Association to furnish the same in
the Board for renewal of recognition prior to 28.02.2012.
Hoping to receive cent percent support to the call given by the
Joint Action Committee and expecting that the Ministerial Cadre is able to hold its hierarchical structure with pride and due importance, I remain,
Yours sincerely,
Thomas Mony
Secretary General
