Letter dtd. 17.05.2012 to CC, C.Ex., Ahmedabad

  ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE AND CUSTOMS GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS : RAJKOT UNIT

ALL INDIA CENTRAL EXCISE INSPECTORS ASSOCIATION

:  RAJKOT  BRANCH  :

F.No.AICEIA/RJT/MAY/2012.                                         Date :  17-05-2012

To,

The Chief Commissioner,

Central Excise,

Ahmedabad.

Respected sir,

            Your kind attention is invited to this Association’s letter dated 15.05.2012 and the letter F.No.II/03-05/CCO/2012 dated 16^th May, 2012 issued by the Joint Commissioner(CCO), Central Excise, Ahmedabad.

            Vide above letter, the Joint Commissioner(CCO) has circulated revised list of Superintendents and Inspectors who are likely to be posted to Customs formations. On comparison of the list with the list circulated vide letter dated 27^th April, 2012, it appears that names of some of the officers have been omitted and in order to offset them, the names of some of the officers, which did not figure in the first list circulated on 27^th April, 2012, have been included.

            In light of the above, it is presumed that names of the officers supposedly having credentials under cloud have been omitted and they have been debarred from performing their duties under Customs formations.

            As per existing instruction, the officers under cloud/vigilance are not considered for deputation posts and apart from that, they are not being given any sensitive charge. However, it is to submit that posting to Customs formations cannot be compared with deputation posts. There are number of non-sensitive posts located at various Customs formations and these officers can be accommodated at these non sensitive places. Moreover, there is no provision in the existing policy that officers under vigilance/cloud shall not be considered for Customs charge. In past also, there are number of  cases where the officers from Rajkot sector were posted to Customs charge and they were given non-sensitive charge within customs formation. It appears that this unjust view is taken to insulate some of the officers of Ahmedabad Sector. Much exercise is being done just to favour Ahmedabad Sector officers, resulting in delay of orders.

            Under these circumstances, it is requested to include the names of officers under cloud/vigilance in the list of Superintendents and Inspectors likely to be posted to Customs charge.

            Apart from the above, this Association   submit following few points for posting officers to Ahmedabad sector

1.     Central Excise Commissionerate, Rajkot is the prominent revenue generator in the Ahmedabad zone and bears the maximum work load. Revenue, workload and distant formations need maximum number of officers to manage the Commissionerate. Whereas Ahmedabad-i/ii/iii Commissionerate do not come in parity and minimum staff is required to run these Commissionerates. Therefore proportionate working strength of this Commissionerate may be increased.

2.     Efforts may please be made in order to post the officers whose dossiers have been forwarded to the Cadre Controlling Commissionerate i.e. Central Excise, Vadodara and they may be posted to Ahmedabad zone in lieu of the officers being repatriated from Customs formations as majority of them have worked at 2-3 stations during their posting under Customs formations.

3.     Wiling officer may be posted to Ahmedabad Sector as per existing policy (Central Excise) wherein officers are posted from one Sector to another Sector for a period of one year.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

(G.K. Jhala) Secretary Superintendent Association

(P.P. Thakar) Vice President Inspector’s  Association

Copy submitted to :

1.                 The Member (P&V), Central Board of Excise & Customs, New Delhi.

2.                 The Commissioner, Central Excise, Rajkot.