GREAT EXPECTATIONS...

The office bearers and members of CESA, Mumbai, are very delighted at the appointment of Shri Najib Shah as the Chairman of the CBEC, New Delhi.

It is certainly a gift by the Government in the Vigilance Awareness Week and a step in the right direction towards good governance by posting an excellent administrator at the helm of CBEC.

CESA, Mumbai, hopes & prays to the Almighty to grant courage & strength to the CBEC Chairman to function freely and judiciously and to deliver his best to the Department, its staff and the trade.

CESA, Mumbai hopes that the following long pending issues will be addressed in earnest :-

a)       Holding of DPC for filling up 1442 vacant posts in Grp-A.

b)         Amendment of RRs.

c)      Getting the cabinet sanction for temporary 2118 posts in Grp-A for a period of 5 years, for clearing the stagnation in the C.Ex. feeder cadre and also for regional parity. It is very dis-heartening to note that direct recruit C.Excise Inspectors of the 1984 batch (now Supdt.) are working under / reporting to direct recruit Customs POs of the 92 batch (now Asst. Commr.). Comparison with the Customs Examiners are even worse.

d)     Infrastructure issues, including ACES equipment & connectivity.

e)         Abiding by the court & CAT rulings in the anomaly in MACP – an Asst. Commr. joins with JTS scale of GP 5400 reaches upto 80,000 while a direct recruit Inspector joins at 4800 and retires in PB3-GP 5400. This is gross injustice and it is hoped that the Hon’ble Chairman will intervene in the matter and will resolve the same at the earliest.

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