Dear
Comrades,
At
the outset, on behalf of the All India Central Excise & Service
Tax Ministerial Officers' Association, I wish all our office
bearers, National/Zonal leaders, members, and the
leaders/members of other sister Associations functioning under
CBEC, A VERY HAPPY DIWALI.
The
office bearers of our All India Association including me and
President Mr.Aashim Pramanick and leaders from some zones met at
Delhi on 5th November 2012. The leaders met the ADG (HRM) at
Rajendra Place, New Delhi around 3pm and discussed all the
issues we have raised on several occasions. The meeting lasted
for more than 1 hour and respected Ms.Renu Jagdev, ADG(HRM) was
very responsive and kind enough to listen to all our genuine
grievances raised during the meeting.
On 6th
November, our All India Association office bearers met the
Hon’ble Member (P&V). She gave a patient hearing to all
our issues. She assured that the DPC for promotion to
the grade of CAO will be given top priority by DGHRD and the
process will be completed at the earliest. Unfortunately the CCR
reports and Service books of many AOs are yet to reach from many
places. We have pointed out that the field formations were asked
to send these before 1st of November 2012 and insisted that a
remainder needs to be sent to expedite the issue. Going by
the assurances of the officers, I am hopeful that the CAO promotions
can be expected at an early date.
Regarding
the proposed merger of DOS & STA, the Hon’ble Member
(P&V) informed that due to strong protest from
our Association the Board is not keen to go ahead with
the proposal. During the last week of October a Board meeting
had taken place and Member(P&V) has objected strongly not to
merge these posts and has insisted that the department needs to
maintain DOS and STA as separate entities. Based on our
submissions/objections on this issue, the CBEC had taken up the
matter before the Department of Expenditure more than once .
However,the same was rejected by them. We have informed the Hon’ble
Member (P&V) that the implementation of Hon'ble CAT,
Kolkatta order on Grade Pay issue only will settle the issue. A
detailed submission was prepared and submitted to DGHRD and the
Hon’ble Member(P&V) on the above issue (Click to view).
Further, the Association raised the issue
related to DPCs to the grade of Administrative Officer . We have
informed the Hon’ble Member (P&V) that various zones, including
the CCA, Delhi which is right under the nose of our board office
had conducted regular DPCs for promotion to the grade of A.O.
DPCs were also conducted in Kolkatta, Jaipur, Indore and
many other places. However, unfortunately Chief Commissioners in
many places are hesitant to conduct DPC against the board's
letter dated 24.06.2012. We pointed out these facts and
also informed the Hon’ble Member (P&V) that the issue was
wrongly interpreted as adhoc appointment instead of adhoc
promotion against regular vacancies before
DoPT. The Association insisted that the field formations may be
informed suitably to conduct the DPC at the earliest atleast on
adhoc basis as it was done right from 2008 onwards. We
requested that the issue related to regularization of Adhoc
AOs may also be taken up with DoPT in appropriate manner and
make amendments in the A.O. Recruitment Rules as suggested by
the Association may be incorporated to solve the problem. (Click to view).
Regarding
the amendment in the Recruitment Rules for the post of
Inspector, this association was informed that the file was
already sent to DoPT for finalization. The qualifying service
for promotion to the grade of Inspector will be 5 years
for STA or 15 years of combined service of TA and STA
(together). Our Association determinedly objected to the amendment
and demanded that suitable clauses may be incorporated to count
the past service of ministerial officers as available in the existing
RR. The ADG (HRM) and the Member (P&V) were provided with the
DoPT guidelines in which it is clearly mentioned that the past
service needs to be included. Our Association was assured by the
ADG (HRM) if the RR file comes back from the DoPT necessary
action will be taken to include suitable clauses to count the
past service rendered by the Ministerial cadre. We have taken up
this issue with DoPT and letters in this regard were
submitted to Shri. Narayanasamy, Hon'ble Minister of State,
DoPT, the Secretary DoPT and the Joint Secretary, DoPT.
The office bearers met the under secretary Shri. R.R. Singh,
DoPT and apprised the issue in detail. (Click to view ).
During
the course of meeting the Association also raised the issue of
non-implementation of the Hon'ble Andhra Pradesh High Court's
order in some of the CCAs and demanded that a compliance report
be obtained from the field formations immediately to ensure that
the Court’s order is implemented throughout the CBEC.
The
issue related to stalled DPCs in Central Zone was taken up
before the Hon'ble Member and informed that due to wrong
interpretation of Hon'ble Jabalpur Bench order, the Chief
Commissioner, Nagpur Zone is not conducting the DPC to the grade
of TA to STA and insisted that necessary instructions be issued
to conduct the DPC at the earliest.
On
the Seniority case issue our Association has requested the
Hon’ble Member to give necessary instructions to file an early
hearing petition before the Hon'ble Supreme Court and settle the
pending issue before the ensuing cadre-restructure. A submission
was made in this regard (Click to view)
And
finally, regarding Cadre-restructure, the ADG(HRM) has explained
that the DoP&T has informed that it will take a decision
only after finalizing the CBDT cadre-restructuring file. We were also
informed that the DoPT has asked not to include any pay related
issues in cadre-restructure. Here the ADG(HRM), has assured that
a separate file will be initiated and sent to DoP&T regarding
the four tier structure as we demanded vide our earlier
representations. We were also asked to submit a fresh
representations based on which a new file will be initiated and
sent to DoP&T concurrence.
Our
Association is making all efforts unitedly, as a team, to settle
the issues at the earliest. Hopefully, the results will follow soon.
WISH
YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY DIWALI.
Regards
Sudharsan
J
Secretary
General.
