Coordination Committee
of Associations in the CBIC
Constituent
Associations
|
President
|
Secretary General
|
|
IRS (IDT) OA
|
IRS (Indirect Taxes) Officers’
Association
|
Varsha
Kolhatkar
|
B.A. Chakravarthi
|
AIACEGEO
|
All India Assn of CExGazetted Executive
Officers
|
Sanjay Srinivasan
|
R. Manimohan
|
AICAA
|
All India Customs Appraising Association
|
Pritam Dhaiya
|
|
AICEIA
|
All India Central Excise Inspectors’ Assn
|
Rananjay Pratap Singh
|
Anubuti Chatterjee
|
AICESTMOA
|
All India CX&ST Ministerial Officers
Assn
|
Ram Lalit
|
Shankar Kumar Saha
|
AICMOA
|
All India Customs Ministerial Officers
Assn
|
Nalini Balaji
|
Abhijit
Bandyopadhyay
|
AICMEF
|
All India Customs Ministerial Employees
Fdn
|
S. Kaliamurthy
|
Saugata Chakraborty
|
AICCGCOF
|
All India Customs&CExGrC Officers Fdn
|
Vijay J. Gaikwad
|
S. K. Jamal
|
AICGCOF
|
All India Customs GrC Officers Federation
|
B. D. Surve
|
Ashis Chakraborty
|
AICEX&CADF
|
All India CEx& Customs Allied Drivers
Fdn
|
J. M. Patel
|
Sanjay Kumar
|
Address
for correspondence: 6/7 A.T.D Street, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018
Ref. No. FM/01/2018 Date: 09.05.2018
To
Shri.
Arun Jaitley,
Hon’ble
Minister of Finance,
Government
of India,
North
Block, New Delhi - 110001
|
Dr.
Hasmukh Adhia, I.A.S,
Secretary
for Revenue and Finance,
Government
of India,
North
Block, New Delhi - 110001
|
Respected sirs,
Sub:- Long pending demands of
Staff in CBIC – Reg.
At the outset, we thank you and the
GST Council, for having favourably considered our demand put forth in our letter
dated 23.09.2016 (copy enclosed for ease of reference) that the Government
should take over the GSTN. This decision
has substantially protected the interests of the nation in a major way.
2. We would also invite your kind attention
to the resolution which was also communicated vide the above said letter dated
23.09.2016, passed in the meeting of ‘All Staff Associations in Central Board
of Excise and Customs’ on 17.09.2016, indicating the indifferent attitude of
the CBEC (presently CBIC) in dealing with the issues pertaining to the Staff of
the Department. Subsequently, the Direct Recruit IRS Officers’ Association had
also joined us in a meeting held at Mumbai on 01.10.2016 and again at New Delhi
on 03.02.2017.
3. Consequent to the demands raised in the
above meetings, the Hon’ble Finance Minister was gracious enough to have a
meeting with our representatives on 10.02.2017.
Though the Hon’ble Finance Minister had observed during the said meeting
that the acute stagnation of staff at various levels in the department was
deplorable, no tangible action had been initiated by the Board to tackle the
same till date.
4. At the same time, the CBEC (now CBIC) has
exhibited alacrity and urgency in addressing the grievances of Direct Recruit
IRS Officers alone, disregarding the fact that while they have been getting
quick promotions with substantial monetary hikes in their careers, the other
staff in the department did not get even 2 to 3 promotions in their career and
even the paltry number of promotions got by them did not fetch any financial
benefits. On the CGST side as well as on
the Customs side of the CBIC, Drivers have been left to rot; Non-ministerial
staff have not been provided with any scope for progression; Promotional
avenues of the ministerial staff have been blocked; Inspector based cadres from
Group B to Group A promotees have been left stunted and stumped with only one
promotion or at best 2 in their entire career. Even the recommendations of the
Stagnation Committee vide CBEC F. No. C-50/58/2017-Ad II dated 01.08.2017
constituted as per the remarks of the Hon’ble Finance Minister and directions
given by the Respected Revenue Secretary have not been taken to its logical
conclusion.
5. The Board which required and sought the
support and assistance of all the staff of the CBEC for the successful roll out
of the GST, now conveniently, do not even acknowledge the existence of other
cadres in the department, let alone their grievances. The contribution of the
nearly 60,000 strong workforces from Group C to Group A Promotees of the CBIC
have got a raw deal. The weekly letters
issued by the Chairman, CBEC (now CBIC) would vouch for this DR-IRS Centric
attitude of the Board.
6. Against the above back drop, the Staff
Associations of CBEC (now CBIC) decided to collectively put forth the issues
pertaining to all cadres from Group C to promotee Group A in the CBEC and gave
a call to organize lunch hour meetings all over India to list out the long
pending demands. Accordingly, on 01.02.2018, all members of the Constituent
Organisations in this Co-Ordination Committee, in separate meetings held at the
Headquarters Offices and important stations all over India, passed resolutions
on the long pending demands of the cadres.
The same was communicated to the Chairman, CBEC, vide our letter in Ref.
No CBEC/01/2018 dated 26.02.2018. A copy of the same with the charter of demands
is enclosed for kind reference and records.
7. Subsequently as notified to the CBEC vide
letter dated 26.02.2018 cited above, members of all the constituent
organizations in this COC observed ‘DEMANDS DAY’ on 28.02.2018 by wearing black
badges and conducting lunch hour meetings/demonstrations in front of all
Headquarters Offices in the CBEC.
However, till date, even after more than two months from the date of
observance of the above ‘DEMANDS DAY’, the CBEC (the present CBIC) has neither
invited the COC for a discussion on these long pending demands nor
initiated/communicated any action towards mitigating them.
8. In these circumstances, the COC met at
Kolkata on 05.05.2018 and resolved to bring the above apathy of the CBIC to
your personal attention and seek your kind intervention. It was also resolved in the meeting of the COC
on 05.05.2018 that if no action is initiated by the CBIC to discuss with the
COC and settle the demands in the charter, a daylong DHARNA will have to be
conducted in front of all Head Quarters Offices of the CBIC on 20.06.2018, to
call attention to the long pending demands.
9. We therefore request your good self to
kindly intervene in the matter urgently and issue necessary directions to the
CBIC so that they shed their partisan approach on staff matters and treat all
staff issues with equal empathy and settle them at the earliest.
10. We will also be highly obliged if an
appointment could be accorded by the Respected Revenue Secretary to us at an
early and convenient date, to enable us to elaborate on the issues in the
Charter of Demands.
Thanking
you,
Yours
truly,
Encl: (1) Our letter dated 23.09.2016
(2) Our letter dated 26.02.2018 with Charter of
Demands
(R.
Manimohan)
Joint-Convenor
Copy
submitted for information to:
(1) Shri. Ram Lal
Gangwar, Hon’ble MOS for Finance, New Delhi
(2) Shri. Pon.
Radhakrishnan, Hon’ble MOS for Finance, New Delhi.
(3) Smt. Vanaja N.
Sarna, Chairman, CBIC, New Delhi.
(4) Shri. S. Ramesh,
Member (Admn), CBIC, New Delhi.
(R.
Manimohan)
Joint-Convenor
