Ref :
CESA/78/2014
Date :30.10.2014
Ms. J.M. Shanti
Sundaram
Hon’ble Chairperson,
Central Board of Excise
& Customs,
New Delhi
Ms Joy Kumari Chander
Hon’ble Member
(P&V),
Central Excise &
Customs,
New Delhi.
Respected
Madam,
Sub: -
Promotion of Superintendents of Central
Excise to the grade of
Assistant
Commissioners – reg.
CESA
Mumbai place on record its sincere thanks to the Chair person and her team
which showed concern towards the promotion, vide Esstt. Order no.: 192/2014 dt
22.10.2014 and a touching message of our Chair-person in CBEC site to one and
all who extended their contribution, towards the starving cadre, shows the
present Board really takes concern towards this stagnated Cadre.
Hardly,
have we found such officers in the CBEC who take so much pain for the lower
officers. Earlier, when the Mumbai III
Central Excise Inspectors Association along with our All India Office Bearers
of the Federation, brought to the notice of Shri.B. K. Agarwal the then Member (P. & V.) the plight of many officers who
were suspended but their suspension was not revoked even after years, passed
immediate instructions and monitored on phone that all such cases are reviewed
and suspension were revoked. Similarly, Shri. V. K. Malhotra, in the same
capacity took initiative and released 130 posts of upgraded Superintendents. These tasks were performed in the last week of
their tenure.
We found the same spirit in the
present Chairperson, who by issuing late night promotion order No. 192/2014
dated 22.10.2014, gave a real Diwali gift is given to the Superintendent of
Central Excise & Customs, the most stagnated cadre in the department,
discriminated in all respect not only in service but even after retirement. These
officers will all feel elated when they find their name in promotion list on
the Diwali morning. It is a surprise also for those who are due to retire in
next the two months and were hearing about promotion since several years.
Madam,
while placing our gratitude towards this act of kindness, we bring to your kind
notice our concern also in this regard. It
is our humble submission that, before demitting office with great
satisfaction, you did something for this neglected cadre of Inspector and
Superintendents of Central
Excise, but for your herculean effort, the task will be incomplete, if the
following is not done to safeguard the interest of this cadre:
1. It is observed that in the past orders
of promotions were issued in the ratio of 6:2:1,
in which the share of Superintendents Central Excise out of 9 posts is fixed as
6. Though the share appears to be large, the actual number promoted compared to
the actual staff strength, is peanuts.
Even these 6 posts offered to the officers who are lucky to touch this
golden line retire in few years and the vacancy so arising is again subjected
to same allocation in 6:2:1. This is against the spirit for which the ratio is
worked out to give proper representation to all the feeding cadre and give a
chain impact to remove stagnation.
2. In
the present order, around 55 officers who got promotion by the aforesaid order will
be retiring in the months of October to December 2014. From January 2015 to October 2015 another 274
are due to retire. Thus total 329
officers will retire in just one year.
Now
if these posts are subjected once again for allocation in same ratio, then the
Central Excise officers will be the loser as compared to Customs
Superintendents and Appraiser promotees, as well as direct recruits, as they
have more number of years so they remain in office.
3.
It is therefore CESA’s request that a
panel be kept ready to fill the vacant post arising due to retirement of
Central Excise officers from Central Excise side, so that a chain impact be
maintained and the stagnation will be removed.
4. By this mechanism we may achieve the
parity in promotion in all the three steams and at lower level also. This is
one of the term of reference of CR, as was in the last two CRs, but could not
be achieved as the above mechanism is not been adopted and post not been filled
timely.
5. As per the DPC guide lines of DOPT
also, a panel has to be kept ready for the entire year on the basis of
anticipated vacancies and orders of promotion to fill up the vacant posts has
to be issued on time so that no post should remain vacant even for a single
day.
CESA
therefore, request to consider the above and issue suitable directives to DGHRD
and other concerned also to do the needful and implement the above suggestions.
This will go a long way to give relief to the stagnated cadre and motivate
officers also to do the work.
Thanking
you,
Yours
sincerely,
A. K. Sasmal
General Secretary
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