latest submission on the revision of ratio issue ~ All India Central Excise Inspectors' Association

ALL INDIA CENTRAL EXCISE INSPECTORS’ ASSOCIATION

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Ref. No. AICIEA/CBEC/173/2011 16.10.2011

Ms. Praveen Mahajan, Member (P&V)

Central Board of Excise & Customs,

Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance,

North Block, New Delhi.

Madam,

Sub: amendments proposed in the Customs & Central Excise Group A Services Recruitment Rules… comments regarding

Reference is invited to the amendments proposed in the Customs & Central Excise Group A Services Recruitment Rules proposed by the Board. We would like to express our following reservations/suggestions in this regard.

The amendment proposes to revise the ratio of promotion to Grade VI of the service to 13:1:2. While welcoming the change, we wish to point out that unless the ratio is converted into a quota as in a post based roster, a drastic reduction in the representation of officers from the Central Excise stream would ensue, owing to the fact that a Central Excise promotee, in most cases retires within one to two years of induction in to the Group A service and the vacancies would be apportioned to other cadres also. Bringing in such a mechanism is imperative to give effect to the direction of the Apex Court that proportionate ‘representation’ for the three streams is to be ensured.
The march over done by the Customs streams over the years due to the unfair advantage in ratio has created large scale disparities in the matter of promotion of Central Excise Officers vis-à-vis Customs. As a measure to bring in some sort of parity, at the time of implementation of cadre restructuring, the vacancies in the grade of Assistant Commissioners should be filled up by length of Service in Group B by relaxing the provisions of Rule 18, in exercise of the powers under Rule 34.
The percentage of Direct Recruitment in Group ‘A’ should be reduced to 25% as in the case of Indian Postal Service in order to give more promotional opportunities from Group-‘B’ to Group ‘A’ cadre. It may please be recalled that during the 18^th January 2011 meeting called by the Chairman for consulting with the Associations on Cadre Restructuring, on this particular demand it was assured that it would be considered separately by delinking from cadre restructuring. Though it was not included in the Draft RR, we hope that this issue will be resolved while finalising the RR s.