Pune, 20th April, 2011.

Dear Members,

Many of you might have by now come to know that the Central Excise Inspectors' Association alongwith the Superintendents' Association are going in for an agitational programme with separate charter of demands. In the previous message dated 20.03.2011 on the blog, the activities of the Joint Action Committee was brought to the notice of the Members. In this background a meeting of the Leaders of all Associations was convened by Com.Koushik Roy, Secretary General of the Inspectors Association at New Delhi on the 05th April,2011. The President and other representatives participated in the meeting with an open mind.

In the meeting the proposal of the agitational programme was discussed and a consensus could not be reached for various reasons. The main reason was that the notice for the agitational programme was to be issued separately by the individual Associations, which would have undermined the Joint Action Committee. Though the leaders requested the Inspectors' Association and the Superintendents' Association to come on board of the Joint Action Committee and then go for the agitational programme, it was not agreed upon. Therefore, the leaders of this Association decided to not participate in the agitational programme at this juncture, in the manner it was proposed to us.

At the outset, I would like to state that this Association still has an open mind to go in for an sustained agitational programme, with a specific charter of demand under the banner of the Joint Action Committee, which alone can show the true and full strength of the Officers and cadres of the Department. While extending our best wishes and moral support the respective Associations in all their endeavour including the proposed agitational programme, which commences from today, we sincerely hope that they would come under the common umbrella, in the near future.

with regards,

Thomas Mony,

Secretary General