Dear friends and comrades,
From various parts of the country, our members and office bearers at unit levels have sought the details of participation of Superintendents all over India in the Demands Day observed on 28.02.2018.
Accordingly, it is ascertained that all the 22 units which have given their letters/declaration of support to this AIB had conducted the Demands Day on 28.02.2018 in a very successful manner. Select photos were already posted in the previous post. Some more received later have been posted above.
These 22 units are (as per alphabetical order): Aurangabad, Bhopal, Chandigargh (Entire Punjab, Haryana, J&K), Chennai, Chhattishgarh (Raipur), Coimbatore, Goa, Gujarat (Surat & Daman), Jabalpur, Jaipur (Entire Rajasthan), Karnataka, Kerala, Kolkatta (Entire West Bengal, Sikkim & Andaman & Nicobar) Madurai, Malwa (Indore and Ujjain), Mumbai, Nashik, Pune, Salem, Tirunelveli, Trichirapalli and Vidharba (Nagpur).
Apart from the above 22 Units, the Superintendents of Odissa Unit also participated in the Demands Day, though they are yet to take an official stand regarding supporting our AIB.
In all the above units, Superintendents wore Black Badges and lunch hour demonstrations were held at all Headquarters Offices in these places. The other cadres of Group C to promotee Group A also participated in these agitations.
The only two places where Demands Day was observed but where Superintendents did not participate were Lucknow and Andhra Pradesh and Telengana. Though the other cadres in these units participated in the Demands Day as per the COC call, our office bearers of these units there could not participate because they had just recently taken office after elections and had not yet ascertained opinion of their members regarding supporting our AIB or not.
In Kolkata, though a faction had been creating rumors all over India using Whatsapp as if they were in big number there and in spite of their repeated assertions that their leader Sh. Ravi Malik had not given any call for the agitations and therefore members should not join the agitations, the Superintendents in these three states under the Kolkatta Unit, participated massively in the Demands Day. Only 14 out of the entire strength of Superintendents of 1200 are said to have REFUSED TO WEAR THE BLACK BADGES.
The protests in Mumbai gained wide media coverage in spite of other important events in Mumbai on the same day.
In some of the remote places where the Black Badges could not be distributed in time, the Superintendents had taken print out of the same and wore them on that day.
Even in formations where two or three officers were working, Demands Day was observed by them by wearing Black Badges.
In most of the Units, the Office Bearers had hardly to do any mobilization for this phase of the agitation. In fact in many parts of the country, the members were only insistent that the call should not be withdrawn at the eleventh hour as had happened in the past.
Members have been very eager to launch the next step in the agitations. The COC is to meet this month and decide on the next course of action.
The members all over India, by their massive participation in the above Demands day, in spite of the letter of the Board threatening action and in spite of repeated declarations by the previous SG (who claims to be the SG even now) that he had not given any call for such protests, have demonstrated which is the legitimate All India Body representing the Superintendents of Central Excise in the CBEC. This is more than any submission of DDO Certificates, support letters etc. This is the real recognition – from the members.
Further, 9 other All India Associations and their cadres have also recognized us by participating along with us in the Co Ordination Committee and in the Demands Day. They are the two Associations representing the Havaldars (in Central Excise and Customs), 3 Ministerial Associations (1 of Central Excise & Service Tax and 2 of Customs), Drivers Federation, All India Central Excise Inspectors Association, Appraisers Association and the IRS (IDT) OA representing the promotee IRS Officers.
Thus all the Associations in the CBEC representing the Group C, Group B (Gazetted and Non-Gazetted) and Promotee IRS (with the exception of only the Preventive Services Federation) have shown their faith in our organization. This is because, they know that our members are strongly with us, at the ground level. That is the real recognition – from all other cadres in the CBEC.
With the intelligence agencies at their command, the CBEC could not have missed these points. If they continue to give the illegitimate claimants the liberty of representing on behalf of our cadre, then that would clearly indicate vested interests at play.
Long live Association and the spirit to safe guard our legitimate rights.
