F.No. AICEIA/RJT/1/2008 Date: 25.05.2010
To,
The Chief Commissioner,
Central Excise Ahmedabad Zone,
Ahmedabad.
Sir,
The annual general transfer orders in the grade of Inspectors (Inter Commissionerate Transfers) of Rajkot Sector have been issued by Chief Commissioner Office on 24.05.2010. There is a feeling of distress and disappointment amongst the members of the association as the policy framed by the Chief Commissioner office has not been followed by the administration in some cases. Hence this association would like to put up following points/ grievances for your kind consideration.
Sir, your kind attention is invited to the present position of officers of Rajkot Commissionerate posted to Bhavnagar Commissionerate. During the restructuring of jurisdiction, bifurcation of the Rajkot Commissionerate which was carried out in the year 2001-02, two Central Excise Commissionerates viz. Bhavnagar and Rajkot came into existence. Due to carving of new Bhavnagar Commissionerate, there occurred an inevitable staffing imbalance and an consensus was arrived at, at the relevant time that the deficiency in the ministerial staff in respect of Bhavnagar Commissionerate would be filled by the Rajkot Commissionerate and the deficiency in the executive cadre would be would be filled up by Ahmedabad Sector and accordingly the orders were issued. This practice was discontinued from the year 2004-05 onwards and only the Inspectors of Rajkot Commissionerate are being posted to Bhavnagar Commissionerate. These officers posted to Bhavnagar Commissionerate are to be repatriated as per the transfer policy.
During the annual general transfer order issued in June-2008 and promotion order from ministerial cadre to executive cadre in May-2008 4 officers of Rajkot Commissionerate were posted to Bhavnagar Commissionerate. These officers have completed 2 years of tenure in Bhavnagar Commissionerate. However these officers were not repatriated to their parent Commissionerate as per the transfer policy. These officers have also given representations but administration has not considered their grounds as genuine and did not consider their requests.
At the time of the annual general transfer order issued in May-2009, 11 officers whose parent Commissionerate is Rajkot Commissionerate, on repatriation from Customs Preventive Commissionerate Jamnagar were posted to Bhavnagar Commissionerate. All these officers are due for repatriation to their parent Commissionerate but they have not been transferred to Rajkot Commissionerate in this AGT.
At present we do not have specific cadre of Custom officers. The Central Excise officers of Rajkot Commissionerate and Bhavnagar Commissionerate are sent on transfer basis to man Customs formation. After completion of their tenure of 4years in Customs Preventive Commissionerate Jamnagar the officers are to be repatriated to their respective parent Commissionerate. However from the annual general transfer order issued in May -2009, the officers after completion of their tenure in Customs Preventive Commissionerate Jamnagar are being transferred to Central Excise Commissionerate Bhavnagar. Transfer of these officers from Bhavnagar Commissionerate to Rajkot Commissionerate has not been done in this Annual General Transfer. In all they have completed 5 years of tenure out of their parent Commissionerate.
It is sincerely requested to consider the above request and issue suitable orders for the transfer of the above officers to their parent Commissionerate taking into consideration the guidelines framed under transfer policy particularly in respect of offices posted to Bhavnagar Commissionerate. Sir, the members of this Association would be greatly indebted to your Honour if the above concerns are looked in to favorably.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours faithfully,
(Dilip J. Pandya)
Secretary
Copy to :
1. The Commissioner, Central Excise, Rajkot.
2. The Commissioner, Central Excise, Bhavnagar.
3. The Commissioner, Customs (Preventive), Jamnagar
4. The Secretary General, All India Central Excise Inspectors' Association, Kolkata.
