Lunch Hour meetings on 01.02.2018 as per COC call

ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS (Representing the Superintendents of C.Ex & CGST) [Recognised vide CBEC Letter F. No. B 12017/10/2004-Ad IV A dated 21/01/2008] Secretary General’s Office: 6/7 A.T.D. Street, Race Course Road, Coimbatore – 641018. Email id: aisacbitc@gmail.com & manimohanr66@gmail.com

President Sanjay Srinivasan Vice Presidents:  Prabir Mukhopadhyay Sanjay Kumar  K.S. Kumar P.K. Jaishankar Iyer Ashok Bansal Secretary General  R. Manimohan (09443063989) Asst Secy General  Shishir Agnihotri Joint Secretaries: Kousik Roy D. S. Thakur Malkit Singh  Kalugasala Moorthy Sandip Panvalkar Hemant Ghosal Venkatraman Hegde S.K. Yadav Core Committee: R. Chandramouli Tirthankar Pyne Ajit Kumar K.G. G. Srinath Office Secretary: K.R.Dinesh Kumar

CIRCULAR 1/2018 24.01.2018 Dear Friends and Comrades, The COC of Associations in the CBIC met at C.R. Buildings, New Delhi on 16.01.2018 and decided to conduct lunch hour meetings in all Headquarters Offices, on 01.02.2018 under the banner of the COC to focus the attention of the administration on our long pending demands. The following resolution is to be passed in the said meeting: “The CBEC should urgently settle the long pending demands of the Group C, Group B, Gazetted Group B and Promotee Group A Officers in the CBEC”.  Along with the above resolution, the demands of each cadre, as communicated by the respective AIAs are to be passed as resolution. Another resolution to observe “Demands Day” by wearing Black badges and conducting lunch hour demonstrations on 28.02.2018 should also passed in the said meeting. The above said resolutions have to be submitted to the local authorities under the banner of the COC of the local unit and copy of the same sent by the constituents to their respective AIAs. For the above purpose, wherever local COCs have not been formed, the same may be formed immediately. The following are the demands in the charter from our side: 1)    Fill up all vacancies 2)    Implement decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in M. Subramaniam case with regard to grant of GP 5400 PB-2 in rem. 3)    Get extension of 2118 posts of Temporary ACs and fill them up on the basis of stagnation. 4)    Grant at least 5 promotions to the staff of the CBIC and in parity with their counterparts in the same Ministry in Income Tax and for this purpose get a One Time Relaxation immediately as done in the case of Joint Commissioners of Central Excise. 5)    Conduct regular DCMs and JCMs at the level of the Board, CCs and Commissioners to mitigate the collective grievances at each level speedily and effectively. 6)    Provide Infrastructure including office space and Residential Accommodation as per the minimum Austerity standards. 7)    Publish a Departmental Manual codifying the duties and responsibilities of all cadres. 8)    Dispose vigilance proceedings speedily and fill up all vacant posts by conducting periodical DPCs. 9)    Regularise all Ad-hoc promotions based on the Rules in vogue. 10) Issue revised Recruitment Rules for all cadres in consultation with the concerned Staff Associations immediately. 11) Dispose of Medical claims and request for grants immediately. 12) Stop giving additional charge of Administrative Officers to Executive Officers like Superintendents. 13) Strengthen Departmental Canteens due to long working hours. 14) Fill up quota of Compassionate ground appoints immediately from the pending requests. 15) Regularise the contingents employed in the department. Common format for a Banner will be circulated separately. Kindly ensure that members are reached out andnthe programme is conducted in a grand manner. Yours fraternally, R. Manimohan To All Members through the Unit General Secretaries All Office Bearers of the AIB The Convenors of COC of Organisations in CBIC

WELCOME THE SPRING - DDOs to prove 35% strength submitted to Board

Dear friends and Comrades,

It is a moment of great happiness for all of us that we have been able to submit DDO Certificates to prove 35% membership at the All India Level.

That within 7 months of taking over by this Body in the Chennai Convention, we have been able to collect these is no mean feat.

Especially when many of the units were not functioning, were not having properly elected bodies (within the stipulated period), etc.

Some of the units who have pledged their unequivocal support to us are yet to submit their DDO certificates.  They are requested to do so as soon as possible.

Some of the units have intimated that they will take a decision as to which faction to join after consulting with their members.

These certificates were demanded of our AIB in 2015.  But the units had been weakened at the root level.  Now they are becoming resurgent one by one.

A more emphatic consolidation will enable us to concentrate on grave issues faced by our cadre.

Wishing all our members and their families a pleasant Vasanth Panchami.

Welcome the spring.

Submissions on Pay Anomaly of Superintendents

Dear friends and Comrades,

In the meeting convened by the CBEC under the chairmanship of Member (Admn), we have projected the pay anomaly pertaining to our cadre.  While we are yet to get back the parity with DySP of CBI, we have been further overtaken by the Superintendents of Posts and Section officers in the CSS.

We have also pointed out how the 7th CPC erred in stating that the V CPC found no ground to have parity between our cadres and that of the CBI. 

ANNEXURE-A

CHART SHOWING HISTORIC PAY PARITY OF SUPERINTENDENT CE/ CUS. & ITO OF REVENUE DEPARTMENT

WITH EQUIVALENT CG OFFICERS

NAME OF THE POST	PAY AFTER 3RD CPC IN RS.	PAY AFTER 4TH CPC IN RS.	PAY AFTER 5TH CPC IN RS.	PAY AFTER 6TH CPC IN RS.	PAY AFTER 7TH CPC IN RS.
SUPERINTENDENT OF CENTRAL EXCISE, CUSTOMS, INCOME TAX OFFICER	650-30-740-35-810-35-880-40-1000-40-1200	2000-60-2300-75-3200-100-3500	6500-200-10500 (7500-225-12000 vide DoE OM F.NO. 6/37/98-IC dated 21/4/2004)	GRADE PAY OF 4800 IN PB-2 (5400 IN PB-2 AFTER 4 YEARS OF REGULAR SERVICE)	LEVEL - 8 OF PAY MATRIX (LEVEL - 9 AFTER 4 YEARS OF REGULAR SERVICE)
SUPERINTENDENT OF POST	650-30-740-35-810-35-880-40-1000-40-1200	2000-60-2300-75-3200-100-3500	6500-200-10500 (Placed in 7500-225-12000 by 6th CPC Para 7.6.14)	GRADE PAY OF 4800 IN PB-2 (5400 IN PB-2 AFTER 4 YEARS OF REGULAR SERVICE)	LEVEL - 9
SECTION OFFICER OF CSS	650-30-740-35-810-35-880-40-1000-40-1200	2000-60-2300-75-3200-100-3500	6500-200-10500 (7500-225-12000 vide DOE OM dated 15/9/2006)	GRADE PAY OF 4800 IN PB-2 (5400 IN PB-3 AFTER 4 YEARS OF REGULAR SERVICE)	LEVEL - 9
DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF CBI	650-30-740-35-810-35-880-40-1000-40-1200	2000-60-2300-75-3200-100-3500 (changed to 2200-75-2800-100-4000 vide DOP&T OM No. 245/23/95 Avd-II dated 08/2/1996)	8000-275-13500	5400 IN PB-3	LEVEL-10

ANNEXURE-C

DETAILED COMPARATIVE SYNOPSIS ON THE FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATION OF 7TH CPC
OBSERVATION OF 7TH CPC	VIEW OF AIACEGEO		Remarks
Para 11.8.21 The Commission has noted that the VI CPC had placed Inspector (Posts) at par with Inspectors of CBDT/CBEC. Subsequently the inspectors of CBDT/CBEC were elevated to GP 4600. The Commission has further noted that Inspector (Posts) and Inspectors of CBDT/CBEC are recruited through the same combined graduate level examination. The Commission, therefore, recommends that Inspector (Posts) who are presently in the GP 4200 should be upgraded to GP 4600. With this upgradation, Inspector (Posts) shall come to lie in an identical grade pay as that of their promotion post of Assistant Superintendent of Posts (ASPOs). A higher grade would thus need to be extended to ASPOs. Accordingly, the Commission recommends that the promotional post of ASPOs be placed in the next higher GP 4800 and further, the post of Superintendent (Posts), which is presently in the GP 4800, be moved up to GP 5400 (PB-2)’ Similar anomaly has been created while allowing replacement pay in Level-9 to the Section Officers of CSS from the 6th CPC pay in GP 4800.		The association had demanded restoration of parity of Central Excise Superintendent with the Deputy Superintendent of CBI i.e. replacement scale of Rs.5400/- Grade Pay in PB-3, based on the analogy accepted while the pay scales were revised with effect from 21.04.2004.  But the Commission instead of restoring that parity, broke one more parity that existed between the Superintendent of Central Excise and the Superintendent of Posts by assigning replacement scale of Grade Pay 5400 in PB-2 to the Postal Superintendents, but granting only the replacement scale of Rs. 4800 in P.B 2 for the Superintendents of Central Excise.  The anomaly militates against the position of the 7th CPC itself in Para 11.8.21. placing Inspectors of Post at par with Inspectors in CBEC/ CBDT. The above position is also without taking into consideration the level of responsibilities of the respective cadres.	In para 11.18.61 the 7th CPC states: “It has been demanded that the post of Superintendents and Appraisers may be upgraded from GP 4800 to GP 5400 (PB-3) on the grounds of historical parity between the gazetted executive officers of CBI, IB, Central Police Organisations, Enforcement Directorate, Customs, Income Tax and Central Excise.” In para 11.18.62 the CPC says: “As reflected earlier, the V CPC had specifically noted that no relativity could be established between executive posts in Income Tax and Customs vis-à-vis those existing in CBI/IB.” The above observation is erroneous because the 5th CPC had clearly stated that there was no justification to increase the pay scale of Inspectors/DySPs and recommended that they be brought down to that of that of Inspectors/Supdts of Central Excise. The categories of Officers on both sides were not found on par only with their counterparts of the Central Police Organisations.  But the Government had not brought down the scales of the Officers of CBI and precisely due to that reason the scales of Officers in CBEC and CBDT were revised upwards with effect from 21.04.2004. The 6th CPC had again created the same anomaly.  But instead of settling that anomaly, now the 7th CPC has created a further anomaly by placing comparable officers of Posts and CSS have been placed on Level 9 while Supdts of Central Excise are only on Level 8.

We have joined CCGGOO

Dear Friends and Comrades,

As per the resolution passed in the Mumbai AIEC of our Association, we have formally joined the CCGGOO.

CCGGOO comprised of Organisations representing the Gazetted Officers all over India.  Out of that sizable number belongs to the Railways, CPWD, IA&AD, Income Tax, Postal etc. 

All Units are requested to form regional level co-ordination with the CCGGOO so that it will be of immense help in dealing with issues.

In dealing with common issues at the All India level also, our participation in the CCGGOO is expected to be mutually beneficial.

If we have not been able to co-ordinate with the other organisations all along, it was probably due to the Uniform effect and our notion that we are more equal than them.  But in terms of pay and allowances, working conditions and promotions, we are the worst, we do not deserve to be wasted any further in such mirages.

-R. Manimohan