The Central Executive
Committee Meeting of the AICEIA was
convened at Ahmedabad on 25th and 26th September 2015. The meeting was
inaugurated by the Chief Guest Justice S. G. Shah, Sitting Judge of Ahmadabad
High Court and Sri Uma Shankar, Commissioner (Appeals) was the Guest of Honour.
The open session was addressed by the guests.
Closed Session of the
meeting was started with the opening speech by the President followed by the
presentation of Minutes of Kolkata CEC, Action Taken Report of the Secretary General
and Audited Accounts. The delegates presented their views on the ATR
submitted by the Secretary General and the same was reported back by the
Secretary General. The house accepted the minutes of the Kolkata CEC along
with the ATR and Accounts. The President announced closure of business session
on 25th September and asked the House to resume on 26th
of September for further discussions and resolutions.
The business session of the
second day i.e., 26th of September started with sponsoring of
resolutions by the Circle/ Branches and thereafter acceptance of the
resolutions by the House.
All the important issues
related to cadre were discussed and resolutions were adopted in the
meeting. The important issues which
dominated the meeting were Stagnation, Regional Disparities in promotions of
Group-B Central Excise executive officers, All India Seniority for Inspectors, Non-reduction
of Residency Period of Inspectors for
promotion to the grade of
Superintendent, ICT, futility of Control Room duties and redundancy of Uniform
in the service etc. After discussion and detailed deliberations, the
following resolutions were passed by the House:-
1. All
India Seniority List of Inspector of Central Excise should be framed as demanded
by the Association.
2. Non-reduction
of Residency Period for promotion to the grade of Superintendent until the All India Seniority List has been
prepared for Inspectors of Central Excise .
3. Most
of the zones are now headed by the Officers of Special Secretary Rank, the centralized welfare fund at DGHRD needs to
be decentralized to CCAs for easy & fast reimbursement
from Welfare Fund.
4. Implementation
of N.R. Parmar case's Supreme Court Judgement in all the Zones and review of old DPCs.
5.
Limited departmental Examination for promotion
6.
Multi Tasking Staffs for Ranges and Divisions' office and
H.Q.
7. There
should be sufficient Residential Government accommodation & Guest House/Transit Hostels
8.
Non-implementation of Biometric Attendance System.
9.
There should only one year tenure for Inspectors at Airports
10. Consideration
of pending ICT applications and there should be clearly defined policy of ICT.
11. Annual
Health Checkups for Inspectors in line of the guidelines of same for Group-A Officers
12.
Provisions of Crèches at Office building
13.
Special recruitment drive to fill the vacant posts of Inspectors
in SC/ST categories
14. Parliamentary
Committee on Grievances to be approached by the National Body of AICEIA for redressal of long pending
demands
15.
Abolishment of Uniforms, Protocol and Control Room duty
16.
Proper training for Inspectors
17.
Pay parity of Promotee Inspectors with Direct recruit
Inspectors
18.
Proper Infrastructure for Official work
19. Various
demands including leave encashment facility on yearly basis, at
least five MACPs in the entire service
period based on pay in promotional hierarchy, Children's education Allowance may be given upto
the Graduation etc. and proper follow up with 7th
CPC
20. Timely
follow up model calendar for DPC and fixation of responsibilities in case of delay
21. Proposal
to define the duties & responsibilities of Inspectors' post GST
22. Creation
of one Service Tax Commissionerate & one Customs Commissionerate under Shillong Zone with separate full working
and sanctioned strength
23.
Pay parity from 01.01.1986
24.
Health Insurance scheme from Welfare Fund of CBEC
25.
Modification in ACES for reduction of manual reports
26.
Vigorous persuasion of legal cases
27.
Speedy disposal of long pending vigilance cases
28. Participation in the indefinite strike slated from
23.11.2015, called by the National JCA
29. Physical
Control on Cigarette units should be
replaced with the Compounded levy system
Apart from the above, the following organizational issues
were discussed and decisions were taken:-
1.
Clearance of dues by Branches/Circles on priority basis
2.
Submission of DDO certificates by the Branches/Circles (who have
not submitted yet), to the national body for the year 2014-15 & 2015-16
3.
Anti-organization activities by the Joint Secretary (West Zone). The House decided to seek the explanation
from him.
4.
Co-opting the Office Bearer:- The post of the Joint Secretary
(North Zone) was vacant due to the promotion of the office bearer. During the meeting, a proposal was submitted to the House for co-opting Com.
Alok Kumar Shukla of Meerut Branch for the vacant post. Further, Com. Rakesh
Kumar Mishra of Bhubaneshwar Branch proposed the name of Com. Bhoopindra
Singh, GS, Delhi Branch for the vacant
post of J.S. (NZ) and sought election.
However, there was no provision of election but for the purpose of clarity
it was decided to conduct direct election for the post. Com. Alok Kumar Shukla won the election with
a huge margin and elected as the J.S.
(NZ) for the remaining period of the present body.
5.
Com. S. K. Gangte put the proposal for organizing next CEC Meeting
at Shillong Branch of AICEIA, which was unanimously accepted and welcomed by
all.
The CEC meeting concluded with
the Vote of Thanks by the Host Unit.
