SATYAGRAHA
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All the unit Secretaries are requested to submit notice(s) to the respective Chief Commissioner(s)/ Commissioner(s) enclosing the notice served by SG to FM. Regional Office Bearers and Unit Office Bearers are requested to conduct meeting(s) at different places of their jurisdiction to motivate our members to participate in the agitation to be held on 04.09.13 and try to make it a grand success. Press release should also be made by all Units before and after the agitation to be conducted on 04.09.13. All the unit Secretaries are requested to appeal all other local Associations to join with us in the agitation to be conducted on 04.09.13 , they are free to add their charter of demands pertaining to local issues along with our demands also . |
The All India Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers , the organization representing about 11,800 Gazetted Executive Officers of the Central Excise, Customs and Service Tax Department,
has embarked upon an agitation programme from 25/09/2012, demanding
immediate approval of Cadre Restructuring proposal of CBEC without any
cut as cleared by the Honourable Finance Minister and Department of
Expenditure, implementation of Apex Court Order dated 03.08.11
retrospectively as per judgement, granting of GP-5400 in PB-3 to the
grade of Superintendent of Central Excise w.e.f 01.01.2006 ,
introduction of in situ scheme to remove stagnation etc.. The department
is already facing acute shortage of manpower both at the staff and
officers level, especially at the cutting edge level i.e. Assistant
Commissioners who are playing a very crucial role in revenue collection.
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Near about 8000 nos. of Superintendents have
completed 30 year of services as Inspectors and Superintendents
combinedly at present and waiting for their promotion to Gr-A. The
Inspectors who are joining in the department as direct recruit are
retiring by getting one promotion to the grade of Superintendent in
their service career. Whereas those similar placed employees who are
joining in Income Tax department or in CSS or as Examiner in Customs are
getting almost 5 to 6 promotions in their service career, While 1992
batch Examiners are being promoted to the grade of Asst. Commissioner,
the 1975 batch Inspectors are still Superintendents and are being forced
to work under the 1992 batch of Examiners who are quite juniors to
them in service. The parity is the basic concept of our Constitution,
parity in promotion is required to be maintained amongst the similar
placed employees of same department, but till date the Govt. of India
have not initiated any action to maintain parity in promotion amongst
the Examiners/Preventive Officers and Inspectors of CBEC . The
educational qualification, mode of recruitment and Grade Pay for these
post are similar. The Examiner, Preventive Officers and Inspectors are
being recruited by the same examination conducted by Staff Selection
Commission.
Recently the Honourable Apex Court have decided for
revision of recruitment Rules and making regularization of pending adhoc
promotions since 97 on the basis of such new recruitment rules, but
Govt. of India made contempt of the said order dated 03.08.11 by not
regularizing the pending adhoc promotions on the basis of said new
amended /revised recruitment rules retrospectively. Whereas in past in a
similar occasion Govt made adhoc regularization with retrospective
effect to allow benefits to the officers of the Customs wing. Major
revenue of Govt. of India are being collected through CBEC. Inspectors
and Superintendents are basically responsible for collection of such
major revenue. But these officers are not being awarded at least two
promotions in their service career and are not being granted with
appropriate pay as has been granted to similar placed employees of
Central Govt.
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Considering the utter frustration of
Superintendents who are languishing without any promotion for around
18/20 years and being forced to work under their natural juniors by 17
years, AIACEGEO had served a notice dated 22.07.13, on the Finance
Minister of India informing
that the Satyagraha programme would be revived with bearing of black
badges and observing lunch hour Shantigoshthis (peaceful meetings)
before the offices of the respective Commissioners & Chief
Commissioners by our members on 04.09.13 throughout India, if nothing
positive happens in respect of the charter of demands and other staff
grievances. As the Govt. failed to approve the CR proposals of
CBEC at an early date and redressed all the genuine demands, AIACEGEO
is constrained to adopt the agitation with
bearing of black badges and observing lunch hour Shantigoshthis
(peaceful meetings) before the offices of the respective Commissioners
& Chief Commissioners by all its members on 04.09.13 throughout
India.
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The Gazetted Executive Officers posted in entire 124 Commissionerates have confirmed their participation in the strike action. The strike is organized by the All India Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers, New Delhi on the basis of the strike notice served on 22.07.13 to Finance Minister of India for a settlement of the 10 Point charter of demands.. The Gazetted Executive Officers of throughout the country are mainly agitated over the delay in approval of Cadre Restructuring proposals of Central Board of Excise and Customs and cleared by the Honourable Finance Minister & Department of Expenditure since long. It is required to approve Cadre Restructuring in every 5 years but only one cadre restructurings was approved during 2002 by Central Government for this old Department . There are near about 12000 Gazetted Executive Officers working in Central Excise, Service Tax and Customs Department but all most all of these Gazetted Executive Officers are retiring without getting promotion to Gr-A posts. The reason of such acute stagnation is mainly attributed for non conducting of Cadre Restructuring within the time frame prescribed by Central Government. The Gazetted Executive Officers known as Superintendent of Central Excise are retiring after getting only one promotion in their service career on account of decades long acute stagnation. They are deprived of the appropriate pay scale/pay band & grade pay. They are facing the worst career prospects and working conditions. The employee grievance redressal mechanism has totally failed as the administration has no interest to redress the staff grievances. The Gazetted Executive Officers of Central Excise are forced to work under the extreme juniors of Customs belonging to the same cadre. The cadre restructuring is pending with the government for last 7 years. The concerned authorities are taking nothing seriously in relation of any of the issues. In view the above, the Association is forced to decide to revive the agitational programme .
As regards the CR proposal of CBEC--the CBEC originally proposed for total sanction strength of 4896 nos.for AC/DC posts(including the existing sanctioned strength) under the ongoing cadre restructuring but subsequently it was reduced to 3600 by the earlier Finance Minister and MOS (DOPT ) jointly. However, it was enhanced to around 4600 again by the current Finance Minister due to tremondous pressre from AIACEGEO. The meeting of COS is going
to be held on 27.08.13 but everybody in the corridors of power of CBEC
is worried only about the stature of the group ‘A’ IRS officers paying
the least heed to the stature of group ‘B’ Central Excise Executive
Officers. In reality the present proposal of restructuring is a
one-point program of granting early promotions to all direct recruitee
IRS officers and create more nos of HAG+ and Apex level posts for IRS
cadre. In the present CR, some of the IRS officers will get two
or three promotions in a sequence. Whereas the direct recruite
Inspectors will get one promotion in their entire service careers.
Inspectors & Superintendents despite their honesty and dedication to duty, are being suffered a lot during their service career from the hands of stubborn and egoistic IRS officers without marching ahead to lowest rung of Gr-A posts. It is known to every one that these IRS officers are famous to harass their subordinates .
The MOS( DOPT) has agreed to Sh. Punia, the Chairman of SC Commission, to consider the proposal devising specific measures to address the problem of stagnation of the Central Excise Superintendents & Inspectors, if referred to DOPT. Whereas Secretary DOPT inisited for consideration of sanctioned strentgh of 3600posts of AC/DC as cleaed by MOS(DOPT) and then FM jointly.The CENGO INDIA expects that no compromise is made to the posts of AC/DC this time by the CBEC during the forthcoming CRC meeting to protect the stature & interests of the IRS officers. Alongwith, it is also expected that a proposal of parity with the best placed common entry counterparts (duly removing the regional disparity in promotions) would be mooted under consultation with the Association by the CBEC on the lines of parity being granted to group ‘A’ officers with their best placed counterparts. If the matter is not taken seriously, there is every possibility of the members being badly agitated who are already retiring with single promotion in the career in comparison to 5/6 promotions of their counterparts. As far as the ongoing cadre restructuring is concerned, only 500 (300 AC+200 DC) additional posts of AC/DC have been proposed on permanent basis, the rest of the additional posts being proposed on temporary basis.. As far as the permanent posts are concerned, it means that there would be no increase in the number of promotional posts meant for group ‘B’ Central Excise officers. Only 1% of these officers are able to enter junior group ‘A’ at the fag end of the career and the same will also continue (vis-a-vis increase of posts at lower executive levels) in future without any opportunity of reaching higher PB4 levels like other common entry counterparts as a result of ongoing cadre restructuring despite of the DOPT guidelines that the cadre restructuring should mean to mitigate the stagnation of the stagnated employees. This shows the mind set-up of our IRS authorities to keep our officers retiring after single promotion by not allowing them even to enter the junior group ‘A’ whereas these IRS authorities have proposed upto 9 promotions for themselves. It is very unfortunate that our authorities are least interested in the career progression of group ‘B’ serving officers while every care is being taken for the stature of IRS officers who have even not taken birth.
It is worth to mention that the DOPT Minister as well as the Chairman of SC Commission and the Member of Parliament Sh. Jafar Ali Naqvi alongwith other VIP’s have already shown their agony regarding the career progression of group ‘B’ Central Excise Executive officers but our own CBEC seems to be least concerned regarding this. After restructuring, the dirct recruitee IRS officers and Examiners/Appraisers will get fast and premature promotions and the sense of responsibility will be eroded rapidly. All the IRS officers are very jubilant and no one is bothered about work and output.
The present RESTRUCTURING of the Income-tax Department is a wonderful episode. Much of the elite people are wondering, as to how the top officers of the Department succeeded in making a fool of the Political Masters and IAS Secretaries in getting their approval and sanction for the restructuring. The ITGOA feels that they have been cheated by the top officers of the Department, and therefore they have already started agitation aginst the approval of present CR. In the last week of May, 2013 the Cabinet has approved new restructuring of the Income tax department. This restructuring has already created chaos and this will not cultivate a sense of honesty, dedication to duty, responsibility and public service.
In the other hands much of the elite people are wondering, as to how the top officers of the CBEC are unable to succeed in making convince the Political Masters and IAS Secretaries like CBDT in
getting their approval and sanction for the restructuring of CBEC to
remove the stagnation existed in the subordinate cadres particularly in
the cadres of Inspector and Superintendent. In the last CR only 586
nos.of Gr-A posts were sanctioned for CBEC where as around 1400 nos.GR-A posts were sanctioned for CBDT for which
one Inspector of Income Tax can easily get promotion up to the cadre of
Commissioner , where as one Inspector of Central Excise can not join in
lowest rung of Gr-A posts in his service career due to less sanction of Gr-A posts for CBEC and faulty HR policy of CBEC. Because of such faulty HR policy of CBEC, ITGOA has stated recently that CBEC is Inspector
oriented deprtment and CBDT is officer oriented department. Parity is
the basic concept of the Constitution of India. Parity in promotion is
required to be maintained along with the similar placed employees. CBEC
has never adopted any policy to award promotion to the cadre of
Inspector of Central Excise either at par with Inspector of Income Tax
or at par with Examiner of Customs. The CBEC has also not adopted any
policy for removal of regional disparity in promotion as existed within
the cadre of Inspector of Central Excise. The Inspector raj has already
been abolished hence like CBDT, CBEC should be officers oriented
department. In the meeting of COS to be held on 27.08.13 it is requied
to clear by them to all
the posts as approved by FM and it is required to implement the CR at
one stage, other wise the level of stagnation as existed in the cadres
of Inspector and Superintendent will be increased further. Hence in a precaustionary messure, it is highly required to observe the proposed Satyagraha programme on 04.09.13. Therefore CENGO INDIA appeals to all the employees of Central Excise, Customs and Service Tax Department to join in the agitation to be conducted on 04.09.13 by AIACEGEO and try to make it a grand success. The Satyagraha may be continued by
AIACEGEO in the form of gatherings before the residences of higher
authorities, mass casual leaves, strike etc. after its revival on
04.09.13, if the concerned authorities show no seriousness to devise the
measures for our officers to grant them parity with their common entry
counterparts. In this connection a notice has 
The MOS( DOPT) has agreed to Sh. Punia, the Chairman of SC Commission, to consider the proposal devising specific measures to address the problem of stagnation of the Central Excise Superintendents & Inspectors, if referred to DOPT. Whereas Secretary DOPT inisited for consideration of sanctioned strentgh of 3600posts of AC/DC as cleaed by MOS(DOPT) and then FM jointly.The CENGO INDIA expects that no compromise is made to the posts of AC/DC this time by the CBEC during the forthcoming CRC meeting to protect the stature & interests of the IRS officers. Alongwith, it is also expected that a proposal of parity with the best placed common entry counterparts (duly removing the regional disparity in promotions) would be mooted under consultation with the Association by the CBEC on the lines of parity being granted to group ‘A’ officers with their best placed counterparts. If the matter is not taken seriously, there is every possibility of the members being badly agitated who are already retiring with single promotion in the career in comparison to 5/6 promotions of their counterparts. As far as the ongoing cadre restructuring is concerned, only 500 (300 AC+200 DC) additional posts of AC/DC have been proposed on permanent basis, the rest of the additional posts being proposed on temporary basis.. As far as the permanent posts are concerned, it means that there would be no increase in the number of promotional posts meant for group ‘B’ Central Excise officers. Only 1% of these officers are able to enter junior group ‘A’ at the fag end of the career and the same will also continue (vis-a-vis increase of posts at lower executive levels) in future without any opportunity of reaching higher PB4 levels like other common entry counterparts as a result of ongoing cadre restructuring despite of the DOPT guidelines that the cadre restructuring should mean to mitigate the stagnation of the stagnated employees. This shows the mind set-up of our IRS authorities to keep our officers retiring after single promotion by not allowing them even to enter the junior group ‘A’ whereas these IRS authorities have proposed upto 9 promotions for themselves. It is very unfortunate that our authorities are least interested in the career progression of group ‘B’ serving officers while every care is being taken for the stature of IRS officers who have even not taken birth.
It is worth to mention that the DOPT Minister as well as the Chairman of SC Commission and the Member of Parliament Sh. Jafar Ali Naqvi alongwith other VIP’s have already shown their agony regarding the career progression of group ‘B’ Central Excise Executive officers but our own CBEC seems to be least concerned regarding this. After restructuring, the dirct recruitee IRS officers and Examiners/Appraisers will get fast and premature promotions and the sense of responsibility will be eroded rapidly. All the IRS officers are very jubilant and no one is bothered about work and output.
The present RESTRUCTURING of the Income-tax Department is a wonderful episode. Much of the elite people are wondering, as to how the top officers of the Department succeeded in making a fool of the Political Masters and IAS Secretaries in getting their approval and sanction for the restructuring. The ITGOA feels that they have been cheated by the top officers of the Department, and therefore they have already started agitation aginst the approval of present CR. In the last week of May, 2013 the Cabinet has approved new restructuring of the Income tax department. This restructuring has already created chaos and this will not cultivate a sense of honesty, dedication to duty, responsibility and public service.
already been served to Chairperson of CBEC on 16.08.13 by SG , which has alreadybeen posted in
CENGO INDIA blog post for perusal of our members.
