Unauthorized Correspondence with the Administration: Circular Issued by Shri Abhishek Kamal, Secretary General, AICEIA

CIRCULAR

Sub: Unauthorized Correspondence with the Administration: Reg.

It has come to the notice of this Association that some persons are involved in unauthorized correspondences with the administration, misusing the name of AICEIA and misleading its members. Some persons belonging to some Commissionerates (which have no branches of AICEIA) are also posing themselves as the Office-Bearers of the AICEIA and misguiding Inspectors and writing letter to the administration on behalf of the AICEIA.  Some of them, even after their promotion to the grade of Superintendent, indulge in writing letters to the administration.  Inspectors from all across the country are requested to be cautious about these frauds and intimate the undersigned about such incidents. 

For the knowledge of our members, the list of the recognized Circles/Branches/Units of AICEIA, are as follows:  

Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Aurangabad, Bhopal, Chennai, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Delhi, Guntur, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Karnataka, Kerala, Lucknow, Madurai & Tirunelveli, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nasik, Odisha, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Salem, Shillong, Surat, Trichi, Tiupati, Vapi & Daman, Vadodara, Vizag and  West Bengal.   

If anybody poses himself as the Office-Bearer of any Circle/Branch/Unit (other than above mentioned Circles/Branches/Units), the same may be intimated to us.

Further, the points which need urgent attention of all the members, present as well as former, of this Association are as follows:-

1.      No officer who has been promoted to the grade of Superintendent has any authority to write any letter to the administration, if the letter is to be written on behalf of AICEIA or its Branches;

2.      As per Article 24 of the Constitution of AICEIA, the Secretary General is the Chief Executive of the Association and only he has the authority to correspond with the administration. He shall lead all the delegations and shall be its official spokesperson. Only if, he delegates the power to anybody, he may correspond with the administration.

3.      As per Article 31 of the Constitution of AICEIA, the Office-Bearers at Branches/Circles are empowered to exercise the same authority as entrusted to the National Office-Bearers but, limited to their jurisdiction and without prejudice to the provisions of the Constitution of AICEIA.

4.      A combined reading of Article 24 and Article 31 of the Constitution of AICEIA lays down clearly that the General Secretary is the Chief Executive of the Association at Branch/Circle level and only he has the authority to correspond with the administration within the jurisdiction of Branch/Circle/Units. He shall lead all the delegations and shall be the official spokesperson at Branch/Circle/Units level. Only if, the General Secretary delegates the power to anybody, he may correspond with the administration.

5.      If any person indulges in any activity prejudice to the provisions of the Constitution of AICEIA or its interest, necessary action shall be taken as per the provisions of the Constitution of AICEIA, including of course, proposing for Departmental Vigilance Action as well as legal action.

Thanking you,

Yours fraternally,

-Sd/-
Abhishek Kamal
Secretary General

ALL INDIA CENTRAL EXCISE GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION, RAJKOT UNIT

&

:ALL INDIA CENTRAL EXCISE INSPECTORS’ ASSOCIATION, RAJKOT BRANCH:

To,

The Commissioner,

Central Excise,

Kutch.

Sir,

Sub: Draft Transfer Policy for Rajkot Sector: Reg.

Please refer to the letter F. No. II/03-01/CCO/2015 dated 10.03.2015 issued by the Additional Commissioner (CCO), Ahmedabad regarding AGT-2015.

In this regard, the proposed draft Transfer Policy for Rajkot Sector is as follows:

DRAFT TRANSFER POLICY FOR RAJKOT SECTOR

          Joint Meeting of the members of All India Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers’ Association (Rajkot Unit) & All India Central Excise Inspectors’ Association (Rajkot Branch) was held on 09.03.2015 at Central Excise Bhavan, Rajkot wherein the provisions of the existing Central Excise as well as Customs Policies were discussed in detail. It was decided to put forth some addition in the existing Transfer Policy that may be proposed and put up before the administration for consideration.

 Customs: No change proposed in the existing Policy.

Audit Commissionerates:

(i)    In view of the shortage of staff and to maintain the balance between ‘Sensitive’ & ‘Non-Sensitive’ postings, it may be fixed for 02 years;

(ii)   To ensure transparency and accountability, Officers posted in Audit Commissionerates may be rotated within Circles every year;

(iii)   Officers posted in Non-Sensitive Sections of Audit Commissionerate may not be given additional charge of any Circle.

Central Excise:

(i)     The officers repatriated from the Customs may be posted to their parent Commissionerate.   If vacancies are not available at their parent Commissionerate, then, it may be created by shifting the officers as per para 4 of the existing Policy;

(ii)      Officers who are willing to work in deficient Commissionerates, to the   extent possible and subject to availability of vacancy, may be given priority;

(iii)   Tenure of officers posted at deficient Commissionerates may be fixed as one year and on completion of the tenure, they may be repatriated to their parent Commissionerate;

(iv)       If there is shortage of officers for repatriation of officers to their parent Commissionerate, following criteria may be followed:

(1) By posting the officers who have completed station period;

(2) By posting officers on the basis of length of service at related station and in the combined grade;

 (v)    Once the process of AGT is over, the officers joining before the AGT in the category of “newly recruited/promoted” may no longer be considered as “newly recruited/promoted” for subsequent AGT’s.

          It is requested to adhere to the Policy for smooth functioning of the administration.

   Yours faithfully,                                                                Yours faithfully,

     (R. P. Singh)                                                                      (G. K. Jhala)

General Secretary                                                                General Secretary

  AICEIA, Rajkot.                                                               AICEGEO, Rajkot.

Copy submitted to:

(i)                 The Chief Commissioner, Central Excise, Ahmedabad for favour of kind information please.

(ii)              The Chief Commissioner, Customs: Gujarat Zone, Ahmedabad for favour of kind information please.

(iii)            The Commissioner, Central Excise, Rajkot for favour of kind information please.

(iv)             Notice Board.

DRAFT TRANSFER POLICY FOR RAJKOT SECTOR

A joint meeting of the members of All India Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers’ Association (Rajkot Unit) & All India Central Excise Inspectors’ Association (Rajkot Branch) was held on 09.03.2015 at Central Excise Bhavan, Rajkot wherein the provisions of the existing Central Excise as well as Customs Policies were discussed in detail and it was so decided by the members that in view of the creation of new formations in Rajkot Sector, a draft Transfer Policy be prepared and put up before the administration for consideration.

Keeping in view the vast geographical area & peculiar service conditions, Transfer Policy for Rajkot Sector is proposed as herein below:

Customs: No change proposed in the existing Customs Policy.

Central Excise

(i)           Officers who are willing to work in Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate, to the extent possible and subject to availability of vacancy, may be given priority;

(ii)          All those officers working in Kutch/Bhavnagar Commissionerate & willing to be repatriated to their parent Commissionerate may be accommodated, subject to the Transfer Policy under which their transfer was affected. Option regarding willingness may be exercised on one time basis & thereafter, there may be no scope for change of parent Commissionerate in future;

(iii)    To minimize the displacement of officers of Rajkot Sector, Officers coming from outside Rajkot Sector may be posted to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate against the vacancy;

(iv)      If there is shortage of officers, even after the conduct of above exercise, newly recruited/promoted officers may be posted to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate and if the number of newly recruited/promoted officers exceed the number of vacancies, then, the junior most among them may be preferred first for transfer & posting to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate;

(v)           If there is shortage of officers, even after conduct of above exercise, then, all those officers, who have not been transferred on being promoted or recruited since 2009 as per the existing Transfer Policy framed in 2009, may be posted to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate and if their number exceed the number of vacancies, then, the junior most among them may be preferred first for transfer & posting to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate;

(vi)           If there is shortage of officers, even after conduct of above exercise, then, junior most officers in their respective grade, who have not been transferred since 2009, to outside jurisdiction of their parent Commissionerate, may be posted to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate;

(vii)        If there is shortage of officers, even after conduct of above exercise, then, senior most officers in their respective grade, who have not been transferred since 2009, to outside jurisdiction of their parent Commissionerate,  may be posted to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate and if their number exceed the number of vacancies, then, the junior most among them may be preferred first for transfer & posting to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate;

(viii)  For the purposes of transfer & posting under clause (iv), only those officers recruited or promoted between two consecutive AGT’s shall be considered as “Newly Recruited or Promoted” and if deficiency does not arise in the AGT, they may not be considered as “Newly Recruited or Promoted” for the next AGT. No transfers may be effected during mid-term and officers under the aforementioned category may be transferred during AGT to fill up the deficiency.

Audit Commissionerates

(i)             Though the tenure of officers posted to Audit Commissionerates has been proposed to be of 04 years, in view of the shortage of staff and to maintain the balance between ‘Sensitive’ & ‘Non-Sensitive’ postings, it may be fixed for 02 years;

(ii)       To ensure transparency and accountability, Officers posted in Audit Commissionerates may be rotated within Circles every year;

(iii)      Officers posted in Non-Sensitive Sections of Audit Commissionerate may not be given additional charge of any Circle.

General Principles

(i)          Tenure of officers posted to Bhavnagar/Kutch Commissionerate may be of one year except those who have willingly opted posting;

(ii)             Criteria of Sensitive & Non-Sensitive posting may be followed as per the “History of Posting” of the officer concerned and no deviation from the same may be done on formation basis;

(iii)           Officers on transfer may be relieved within 15 days so as to enable them join their new places of postings and in cases of stand relieved, in case of non-relieving, explanation of the higher-ups may be called for, as it violates the principle of hierarchy in the administration;

(iv)           Before starting with the process of AGT-2015, all the transferred officers be relieved;

(v)           Rotation between Central Excise & Service Tax may be done so as to give equal exposure & opportunity to all the officers;

(vi)      Officer on repatriation from Customs/Audit Commissionerate may be transferred and posted to their parent Commissionerate;

(vii)    Tenure of officers for any purpose may be counted as the combined tenure irrespective of grade;

(viii)   Tenure of officers at Commissionerate HQ may be the combined tenure of Audit Commissionerate & Excise Commissionerate;

(ix)      Before issuance of final Orders, due list of all the officers being considered for transfer or rotation in the existing formations be placed on the Notice Board well in advance and a copy of the same may be provided to the recognized Associations;

(x)         No ground for exemption for transfer or rotation may be entertained before the publication of the Due List. Representations may be entertained only after the publication of ‘Due Lists’ & with the consultation of the recognized Associations;

(xi)    Representations, if any, may be disposed of with the time frame as laid down by the Department of Personnel & Training and the outcome thereof, may be brought to the notice of the officer concerned;

(xii)      Exemptions, if any, being considered by the administration may be brought to the notice of the concerned Association before being finalized and the reasons for the same may categorically be mentioned in the Note Sheet;

(xiii)   Any deviation/relaxation on whatever ground from the principles as laid down in the Transfer Policy may be done by the Committee of Commissioners of Rajkot Sector and with the prior written approval of the concerned Chief Commissioner.

     R. P. SINGH                                                                                 G. K. JHALA 

General Secretary                                                                        General Secretary                                                                       

Meeting Regarding AGT-2015 to be held on 09.03.2015 at Central Excise, (HQ) Rajkot: Reg.

General Notice

  

With reference to the subject mentioned herein above, it is to bring to the kind notice of all the respected members of the Association that the undersigned attended a meeting with Shri Uma Shanker, Commissioner, Kutch and member of the Committee formed for AGT-2015 on 04.03.2015 at Ahmedabad.

During the discussion, it transpired that some changes have been proposed by the Ahmedabad Unit and so, this Association has been requested to submit its views regarding the existing Central Excise as well as Customs Policy. Since, new formations like Kutch Commissionerate as well as Audit Commissionerate have been created during Cadre Restructuring, it is necessary to propose changes in the existing Policies like transfer & posting inter & intra Audit Commissionerate, transfer from Rajkot to Gandhidham & vice-versa, transfer from Central Excise to Customs & vice-versa, publication of Due Lists in Central Excise (Rajkot Sector), Exemptions if any, and like that.

It is, therefore, requested that suggestions regarding the same may please be brought to the notice of the undersigned on or before 08.03.2015, so, that the same may be taken up for discussion with the competent authority. All the members of the Executive Committee of this Association as well as respected members are cordially invited to attend the meeting at 18:15 on 09.03.2015 in the Central Excise Bhavan, Rajkot.

With fraternal regards,

                                                                                                                                       

                                          (R. P. Singh)  

        General Secretary