Good Morning friends.
Extended
Executive Committee meeting of the association was held on 19th
January 2017 at CR building, New Delhi. Office bearers of national body and
various zonal bodies and their representatives were present. The meeting was chaired
by Shri Ashim Pramanick, President of All India Federation. In his inaugural
speech, he reiterated that the renewal of recognition of all India federation
is to be done on priority and without renewal of recognition; it would be
difficult to pursue the issues with Board. Secretary General briefed the
present status of all the issues and the exact demands of the association. Leaders
present in the meeting agreed that the association should be strengthened and
all the zones should be brought in the purview of the association. It was
agreed that the signed annexure of respective DDO should be forwarded to
organizing Secretary/Secretary General and the subscriptions of each zone
should be deposited to the bank account of Federation by the end of February.
All the pending issues with Board and future
course of action were discussed. The leaders present in the meeting expressed
their views on the issues and narrated the problems of their respective zone.
It was opined that, we may have to consider the agitational programmes, if the
Board continues to turn deaf ears to our legitimate demands. The option of
going to CAT to remove the lacunae of recently published Recruitment Rules (RRs)
of Inspector was also accepted, as last option, if Board does not give any
favourable decision to the present stakeholders. The decision of joining other
joint platforms like Joint Action Committee (JAC) and CoC in Department of
Revenue has been endorsed in the meeting.
The meeting ended with a cordial note after
giving thanks to the chair.
Joint Action Committee (JAC) in CBEC called an urgent
meeting in CR Building, New Delhi on 03.02.2017. Shri Ram Lalit, Asst Sec Gen
attended the meeting along with office bearers of Delhi zone. The meeting was chaired
by Sh. S.K. Bansal, Secretary General, IRS (C&CE) Association. All the common
issues were discussed, the minutes of which is given separately.
This
association wrote numerous letters to honourable Chairman and Member (Admin) of
CBEC to grant appointment to the office bearers to sort out the pending issues.
In our letter dated 04/02/2017, we
conveyed our decision to boycott Central Excise day celebration if we were not
heard before 10th Feb 2017. A meeting was convened by honourable
Member (Admin) scheduled on 10th February 2017 to discuss on all
pending issues. Accordingly, Secretary General, Asst. Secretary General and
Organising Secretary had been to Delhi to attend the meeting. The meeting was
chaired by Honourable Joint Secretary (Admin) due to last moment change in the
schedule of Member (Admin). However, it was conveyed that Madam would meet us
again in the following week.
The
minutes of the meeting, with Joint Secretary on 10th Feb, has been
published but some of the important discussion took place in the meeting has
not been reflected. The gist of the meeting on each issue is placed below:
Sepoy service counting with
effect from 01.01.2006 :
It
was informed that the order will be published on next working day with the date
of effect from 29.8.2008 i.e. the date of notification of VI Central Pay
Commission, as per instruction of DoPT. The order has already been issued.
Recruitment Rules (RRs) of
E.A.
:
Board
is in the view that the RRs of EA has been prepared as per DoPT guidelines and was cleared
by DoPT, UPSC and Law Ministry, so the amendment of RRs is difficult. We
further demanded to fill the 40% direct vacancy quota by promotion as no
recruitment has taken place since publication of new RRs on 28.9.2015. It was
agreed by the chair and instructed the officers to examine it and also to put
the proposal for one time relaxation.
Recruitment Rules (RRs) of Inspector :
It
was informed that the comments were not sought because the proposal for
amendment of RRs of Inspector has gone through DoPT, well before 31.12.2015,
(date of DoPT guidelines for seeking comments). We brought the fact to the
notice of the chair that since LDCE concept is not clear (who shall conduct,
who is eligible, qualifying service, % of vacancies of DR quota etc.), the RRs
is incomplete and it should be put on hold till the issue is settled and the
promotion should be given on the basis of old RRs. The chair instructed to
place the file with all the details and also to look into the relaxation
aspect.
Recruitment Rules (RRs) of A.O. :
We
have brought the fact to the notice of chair that even after completion of nine
months since the comments were sought from the stakeholders, the RRs of AO has
not been published and as a result, promotions are held up in various zones. We
also demanded that till such time i.e. publication of new RRs, an instruction
may be passed on the same line of new RRs (considering five years service in
the same grade pay as qualifying service) so that the huge vacancies in the
post can be filled up. It was also brought to the notice that such instruction
was passed during the creation of post of Tax Assistant in 1987 and the RRs was
published in 1996. The concerned officer sought one month time to finalize it
or else the ‘issue of executive instruction’ may be considered.
All India Seniority List of
A.O.
:
We
expressed our concern on the fact that the CAO DPC for about 200 vacant posts
is held up due to the delay in finalization of A.I.S.L. of A.O. from 2009
onwards. The officer present from the O/o the DGHRD informed that the process
of finalization is held up due to non receipt of desired information from a
couple of zones. Hon’ble Joint Secretary (A) instructed the officers to put the
issue on priority and to give him a regular feed back. It was also informed
that since regularisation of ad hoc promotion of AOs was not granted uniformly
across the zones, Board is trying to sort out the tangle. He also requested the
association to contact the respective zones to forward the desired information
at the earliest.
Interview for promotion to
Gr. B and Gr. C posts :
The
interview for promotion to Gr. B and Gr. C posts have been abolished w.e.f.
01.01.2016, vide Board order. However, in some zones, interview was being
conducted while giving promotion on the basis of old RRs. A fresh clear
instruction on this aspect is demanded. Chair agreed and directed the concerned
officer to issue a fresh instruction at the earliest.
Instruction for conducting Pending
DPC for all grades :
It
was requested to issue the instruction for conducting DPC in all grades
wherever DPC is held up for the want of RRs or any reason. It was assured that
another letter will be issued on the same line as it was done on 02.8.2016.
The
Office bearers also attended the meeting with honourable Finance Minister of
India on 10th Feb 2017, along with JAC leaders, where besides GST
related issues, the HR issues were discussed and we raised our concern about
the disparity exists between CBEC and CBDT in respect of Promotional Prospect
and Pay structures. Honourable Minister assured to look into each issue and
expressed his concern.
Another
meeting with Honourable Member (A) was held on 14th Feb 2017 at her
chamber. Shri Ram Lalit, Asst. Sec. Gen. attended the meeting along with office
bearers of All India Customs Ministerial Officers’ federation and the pending
issues were discussed again in the meeting. It was expressed that regular
meeting on pending issues will be held with recognised associations and updates
will be provided. Minutes of the meeting is awaited.
It
is once again requested to all the zonal leaders to collect the annexures of
their respective zones and forward it by the end of this month for initiating
the process of renewal of recognition.
Yours Comradely
Secretary General
