Dear friends,
Good evening.
"VARY VARY HAPPY NAVRATRAS TO ALL THE MEMBERS & OFFICE BEARERS WITH FAMILY"
1) One more meeting was held with the Cabinet Secretary today. The submissions made to him are posted below for information of our members.
2) The cabinet note in r/o CR has been sent to the FM for approval. After his approval, it will be sent to the Cabinet.
Love,
Ravi Malik.
SG/AIACEGEO
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President: Address for communication: Secretary General:
Lokanath Mishra 240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.) Ravi Malik
Vice Presidents: Sampat Rai, Vatan Kamble (Central); Anurag Chaudhary, Ravi Joshi (North); A. Ravinder Singh, Rajan G. George (South); A. S. Roy, Shubhrangshu Deb (East); P. D. Nimhan, S. K. Jha (West)
Joint Secretaries: Anand Kishore, Laxmi Lal Singhvi (Central); N. N. Lal, R. K. Solanki (North); G. Srinath, S. Chandrasekar (South); Ashwini Majhi, V. N. Jha (East); G. K. Jhala, M. K. Misra (West)
Office Secretary: C.S.Sharma (Mob. 09313885411) Treasurer: N.R.Manda (Mob. 09871483585)
(Recognised by G.O.I., Min. of Fin. vide letter F.No. B. 12017/10/2006-Ad.IV A Dt.21.01.08)
Ref. No. 274/P/13 Dt. 05.10.13
To,
Sh. Ajit Kumar Seth,
The Cabinet Secretary, Govt. of India,
Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi.
Sub: Parity with the best placed counterparts like CSS etc.
Sir,
It is submitted with due regards that our officers are retiring only with single promotion at a PB2 post in the career of 35-40 years after entering the job as Inspector of Central Excise while our counterparts of CSS, CSSS, Rajya Sabha Secretariat, CBDT etc. are easily attaining the PB4 levels after getting 5/6 promotions despite of our officers being the backbone of the government on account of earning the major portion of the government revenues in the course of discharging executive and quasi-judicial duties taking every risk on life of self as well as family on account of interacting with the white collared criminals & hardcore smugglers.
2. The government is adopting every measure to bring parity, whether functional or non-functional, among common entry group ‘A’ officers but no such measures are being taken for group ‘B’ officers. The IRS officers of CBEC got the parity with their common entry counterparts of CBDT in the last cadre restructuring. They are also expected to get parity with other better placed group ‘A’ common entry counterparts in the ongoing cadre restructuring. Every effort is also made to promote group ‘A’ officers of CBEC within qualifying service but no such effort is ever made to promote Central Excise group ‘B’ executive officers in consonance of DOPT guidelines.
3. On account of no efforts being made to bring group ‘B’ common entry counterparts at par, there is huge discriminatory disparity between Central Excise group ‘B’ executive officers and other counterparts. As a result, the counterparts of CSS, Rajya Sabha Secretariat, CBDT etc. are reaching the level of Joint Secretary & Commissioner while Central Excise group ‘B’ executive officers are forced to retire as Superintendent after single promotion only barring 1%. This has made a huge discriminatory difference between their salaries, pension and other pre/post-retirement benefits. The ongoing cadre restructuring of CBEC shall also not be able to undo the continuous discrimination being made to the Central Excise group ‘B’ executive officers. Only less than 2% of them will merely be able to enter into junior group ‘A’ at the fag end of the career on regular basis as a result of ongoing cadre restructuring because the rest of the posts of Asstt. Commissioner (JTS level) have been created on temporary basis for 5 years. Due to the temporary character, the officers promoted against these posts may not get further promotion.
4. In view of the above, it is necessary to take some concrete steps independent of cadre restructuring to bring Central Excise group ‘B’ executive officers at par with their best placed common entry counterparts of CSS etc. The parity (functional or even non-functional) with their common entry counterparts is very well possible by adopting the measures like below-
a) Time bound promotions/scales (time scales after every 7 years for these officers were also recommended by CBEC to 6th CPC vide F.No.A.26017/147 /06-Ad.II.A Dt. 04.01.07 as one of the measures but the same is now being back tracked by CBEC itself).
b) Notional promotions granting batch to batch parity with the best placed common entry counterparts like CSS etc.
c) Creation of supernumerary posts which will be personal to the officer at each level of the promotion and will be abolished with the retirement of the officer.
d) Creation of separate service (it was also recommended by CBEC to 6th CPC vide F.No.A.26017/147 /06-Ad.II.A Dt. 04.01.07 as one of the measures but now it is also being back tracked by the CBEC itself). The draft RR’s for separate service have already been submitted to the CBEC by the Association (enclosed herewith as Annexure-I).
e) Direct promotion to higher post/s (Customs Ministerial officers are being promoted to the post of Customs Appraiser without working even for a single day on the feeder post of Customs Examiner in CBEC. Likewise, our officers may also kindly be granted parity with the best placed common entry counterparts by promoting them directly to the higher posts).
f) In-situ promotions (requiring no creation of posts).
g) Batch to batch functional upgradation at par with the best placed common entry counterparts like CSS etc.
h) Batch to batch non-functional upgradation at par with the best placed common entry counterparts like CSS etc. Also requiring no creation of posts on the precedent of DOPT OM No. AB.14017/64/2008-Estt.(RR) dt. 24.04.09 granting NFU to other group ‘A’ officers at par with IAS.
i) Re-framing the recruitment rules prescribing the qualifying service in consonance of the DOPT OM No. AB-14017/61/2008-Estt.(RR) dt. 24.03.09 without trifurcating the single cadre of Inspector/Superintendent which stipulates the promotion of the grade of Inspector to the grade of Joint Commissioner, Additional Commissioner & Commissioner after completion of 12, 17 & 20 years of service respectively. The validity of this OM was also not questioned by CBEC during the presentation of cadre restructuring proposal on 18.01.11 but they showed their inability to implement it due to the want of the required number of vacancies/posts. In the case of the want of the required number of vacancies/posts (if they are unable to create the same), the officers may kindly be granted in-situ promotions after completion of the prescribed service also requiring no creation of posts independent of cadre restructuring. A little deviation from the above mentioned DOPT guidelines may be understood but the non-implementation of the guidelines at all is never understandable. If they can’t give us the prescribed grade within 20 years, they may grant it to us after completion of 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 or even 30 years (after completion of one & half times of qualifying service based on the precedent of CSS where all the Section Officers were promoted to the post of Under Secretary after completion of one & half times of qualifying service in 1999).
5. Keeping in view the above submissions, it is requested that the due steps may kindly be taken independent of cadre restructuring to devise the specific scheme (by means of functional or non-functional upgradation) for bringing the Central Excise group ‘B’ executive officers at par with their best placed common entry counterparts like CSS etc.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
Encl: As above (Annexure-I, 10 pages)
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
