RELAXATION OF RECRUITMENT RULES FOR THE POST OF INSPECTOR

Board has issued letter under F.No.A.320211/ 03/2015-Ad.III A dated 20th Oct, 2015 for the proposal for one time relaxation in Recruitment Rules for the posts of Inspector (Central Excise), Inspector (preventive Officer) and Inspector (Examiner) in the Central Board of Excise & Customs and circulated the same for seeking the comments from all stakeholders.  The comments should be reached to the Board Office within a period of 15 days from the date of issue of this communication. Board's above letter total 06 pages (Linked herewith also) are given below:

Visit to Delhi on 16th October 2015

Dear Comrades,

      Myself along with Shri Ram Lalit, Assistant Secretary General (additional charge of Liaison Secretary) and Shri Prabhakar Kr. Singh, member of Kolkata zonal Committee, had a visit to Delhi and met honourable (Member P&V), CBEC. Appointment was sought from honourable Minister of State for Finance, the Revenue Secretary and the Chairman, CBEC (Click here to see our appointment letter & appointment letter). However, honourable Member (P&V), wanted to have a discussion with this association on the issues mentioned in the appointment letter.

      During the discussion, leaders apprised her of the agony and resentment resulted amongst the members of the association after publication of the Recruitment Rules (RRs) of Executive Assistant on 28^th September 2015. It was also brought to her notice that no discussion was held with this association before finalisation of the said RR. A submission (Click here to see our submission Page-1 & Page-2) was handed over to her from this side and all the points were narrated to her. It was demanded, that the RR should be repealed. After giving a patient hearing, she agreed, in principle, that it would have adverse effect on the present Tax Assistants (TA) and suggested for sending their representation through respective Chief Commissioners and suggested that the representations by all the effected Tax Assistants be submitted to Board through respective Chief Commissioner.

    On giving promotion to the vacant pre cadre restructured post, she reiterated that the Board letter dated 17 September 2015 clearly states that the pre restructured posts would be filled up only as per the guidelines of RR of those posts.

     On relaxation issue, she asserted that the files are on the move and regarding promotion to the grade of CAO, she reiterated that the work is going on in full swing to give it effect at the earliest.

    A Model representation is being prepared and placed here in our next message for facilitation of instant representation by all effected TAs.   

Yours Comradely,

Sd/-

(Sankar Kumar Saha)

Secretary General

MESSAGE OF DELHI VISIT FROM 04.10.15 TO 06.10.15

 Dear Comrades,

This is in continuation of our earlier message date 09.10.2015.

The constituent Association of Joint Action Committee (JAC) in CBEC met on 04^th Oct, 2015 in C.R. Building, New Delhi.  A review was undertaken to assess the developments on each of the demands placed by the JAC before the Board.  It was noted with concern that nothing much has happened since then although Board has issued a Minutes of the meeting held with the Hon’ble Chairman on 21.07.2015, the Minutes did not have any specific commitment.  It was unanimously decided to press for settlement of pending demands.  Some associations were of the view that the JAC should embark  on agitational programme to press for our demands.  Some others opined that we should prepare our organization and in the meanwhile negotiate with the Board to achieve in a time bound manner.  After threadbare discussions, JAC submitted a representation urging Board to take appropriate action with reference to our demands within a specific time frame (Representations of the Minutes is linked herewith).

   The leaders of the Association remained busy on 5^th and 6^th Oct, 2015, meeting with Senior Officers in the Board Office in connection with our various demands Shri Shankar Kr. Saha, Secretary General, Shri Ram Lalit, Assistant Secretary General (additional charge as Liaison Secretary), Shri Vikash Kr. Gupta, Organizing Secretary, Shri Indramohan (Liaison Secretary of Ahmedabad Unit) and Shri Prosenjit Pandey (General Secretary of West Bengal Unit) and Shri Anil Yerne.

                The leadership of the association met Member (P&V) on 5^th Oct, 15 on the important issues Linked herewith.  It was informed that Board will now conduct the review DPC as well as DPC for promotion to Chief Accounts Officer (CAO).  We impressed upon them to conduct the same in a time bound manner as the same is already delayed by miles.  The association expressed its deep concern over the negative impact of the impending Recruitment Rules of Executive Assistant (EA) and Inspector.  It was pointed out that the report of the 7^th CPC is epected any time and the Recruitment Rules would have to be reviewed after that.  Hence, it is not appropriate to issue new Recruitment Rules at this juncture (Click to see our submission).  It was also stressed to fill up vacancies on the basis of existing Recruitment Rules, even by granting relaxation to the eligibility conditions.

   This association also requested to issue a general instructions to all the field formations to give promotions to those officers who have passed the departmental even after 50 years of age as has been done in Delhi on the basis of judgement of Hon’ble High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh (Click to see our submission). 

   The association had its executive Committee meeting on 6^th Oct, 2015.  Decision of which has already been placed in my earlier message.  The Minutes of which is linked herewith.

    It was also decided to hold a special meeting in the month of December, 2015. Bhopal Zone has given the initial concurrence to hold the meeting.

Yours Comradely,

                                                                                                                                                            Sd/-

                (Ashim Pramanick)

          President

MESSAGE

Dear Comrades,

The Leadership of this Association undertook a visit to New Delhi from 04.10.15 to 06.10.15.  We attended the meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), convened to review the progress of the action taken by the JAC on various issues. The executive committee of this association also met on 05.10.15 & 06.10.15.  The Minutes of both the meetings are being placed in due course.

  The leadership had meetings with Member (P&V) and other Senior Officers of Ad.IIA, Ad.IIIA/B Sections.  All necessary efforts have been put in to realize benefits on the basis of the RRs in operation before new RRs are implemented.  The relaxation of the RRs (in operations) has been stressed upon and the file is learnt to be under active consideration.  Besides, efforts have also been made to disentangle the problems with CAO DPC.  Other related issues have also been taken up.  Detailed reporting is being made in our next report.

  The executive committee decided to nominate Shri Shankar Kumar Saha, Assistant Secretary General to officiate as Secretary General in view of the fact that Mr. Samdani Khan, Secretary General has been promoted to the post of Inspector.  Shri Ram Lalit, AGS has also been given the additional charge of Liaison Secretary.  They have been advised to take necessary steps to address the problems of the Ministerial Cadre.  It was also decided to conduct a special meeting in December, 2015 along with all federating units.

Yours Comradely,

Sd/-

(Ashim Pramanick)

President

Happy Gandhi Jayanti - 2nd October, 2015

Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated on 2nd October every year as the Birth Day of Mahatma Gandhi, “Father of the Nation”. Gandhi Jayanti is a National Holiday Festival celebrated in India.