Comrades,
Happy Dussehra!
During the last month a lot of
activities took place which I shall share with you.
We have been demanding parity in pay
structure and promotional prospects with CBDT and other Hq organisation for
quite some time. We still have many pending issues
like insertion of protection clause in EA RR, counting of Sepoy service, finalisation of AO RR, relaxation on RRs, publication of seniority list of AOs from 2009 onwards etc. We
have been asking for an appointment with Member (Admin) for last one month but
not granted to. The third letter with requesting an appointment has been sent
on 06th October (Letter1, 2). We understand that Board officials are
quite busy with the work of implementation of GST, but resolving these issues
are no way less important than that in view of our association. We have been
constantly pursuing to get the result.
Recently, the Co-ordinating
Committee (CoC) of Department of Revenue has been formed, in which all the associations
of CBEC and CBDT have joined hands together to raise the demands of their
members to the appropriate authority. A meeting of CoC was held at NACEN,
Kolkata on 24th September 2016, where the representatives of
individual association brought forward their demands, to be raised through CoC.
We have demanded to include two vital issues, inter alia, in the Charter of
Demands of the Memorandum, to be submitted to hon'ble Finance Minister of India - (i) to bring in identical
pay structure & promotional hierarchy in Admin wing of CBEC, CBDT and Hq
organisation (ii) to finalise/rectify the RRs (including EA RR and TA RR of
CBEC) after taking into account the suggestions/views of Recognised
associations. The memorandum is almost finalized and it will be placed in the
blog after submission to honourable Finance Minister and other Board officials.
CoC has decided to take up some agitational programmes in the month of
November, December and January if no positive response is obtained from other
end. The programmes will be intimated in due course of time.
It is believed that Goods and
Services Tax (GST) will very soon replace the present system of indirect taxes
(Central Excise & Service Tax). However, to protect the interest of employees of CBEC, a
steering committee, consisting of the representatives of all recognised
associations, has been formed which met in Mumbai on 17th September
and 01st October this year. A letter was submitted to honourable
Finance Minister of India on 08th October 2016, to apprise him of
the effect of implementation of GST on the present workforce of CBEC and also
requesting him to take the recognised associations into confidence before
taking any major decisions on some matters. The letter can be read in
‘cengoindia’ blog. A meeting is now convened by the
CBEC with all the associations of the steering committee, on 13th
October 2016, under the chairpersonship of Member (Admin). This association,
being the part of the steering committee, attends all the meetings by its
office bearers/representatives.
President and I have been in Mumbai and visited the
office of the Mumbai Commissionerate at Church Gate, Mumbai on 30th
September 2016. A warm welcome was arranged by the office bearers of the
Maharashtra Zonal Unit. During the visit, we called on the honourable Chief
Commissioner, Additional Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner and had a
courteous talk with all of them. We had a meeting with the members of the zone
in the conference hall, which lasted for about two hours.
The Bihar & Jharkhand Unit has
planned to arrange the Eastern Regional convention/meeting of the association
which is scheduled to be held on 22nd October, 2016 at Auditorium of
Central Revenue Building, Patna. The President and General Secretary of the
Zone have invited all the office bearers of national body and members of other
zones to be present in the meeting. Participating members may contact Shri
Vivek Kumar, president of B & J Unit (Mob. No. 08051572455). (Link)
Looking forward to the co-operation
of all the members in future days.
Long live AICESTMOA. Jai Hind.
-sd-
(Sankar
Kumar Saha)
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| Meeting on GST in Mumbai on 01st Oct |
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| Meeting on GST in Mumbai on 01st Oct |
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| Meeting on GST in Mumbai on 17th Sep |
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