CONVENTION TO BE HELD AT HYDERABAD

Dear friends and comrades,

The Convention/General Body of the All India Association is to be held at Hyderabad on 23rd and 24th of October 2021. CLICK HERE for the notice for the Convention. All our units from across the country are expected to participate. All members are requested to send their feed back on what next is to be done in respect of achieving our demands, what every member is prepared to do, etc, through appropriate resolutions in their respective units and send them through their Unit Office Bearers and delegates attending the above conference.

The few more units which have not yet joined us are welcome to join our Association during the Convention. Let us remember that even the small number keeping away from the Association is used as an excuse by the administration to give an impression that the cadre is divided.

All those who know the events of the past 4 1/2 years know that we have submitted the DDO certificates, more than even that is mandatorily required, not once, but twice, for renewal of recognition. But, the very first time we submitted in 2018, the CBIC started toying with the idea of withdrawing recognition, on the grounds that there is a dispute regarding who is the real 'owner' for the name of this Association.

Even after they themselves came to a conclusion that the so called rival claimant was ineligible to be even a member, let alone an SG of this Association, consequent to his promotion, they still continued with the theory of two claims. Then in 2020 they withdrew the recognition requiring both to come under two different names and submit DDOs in such new names.

The so called rival has neither changed name nor submitted any documents. We on the other hand have changed name, adopted a new Constitution CLICK HERE FOR OUR NEW CONSTITUTION and submitted DDO Certificates evidencing 41% membership where only 35% is required mandatorily. Even after we have submitted these documents in June 2021 (our Unit Office bearers have taken a lot of risk for this during the pandemic) till date, the CBIC does not want to settle the issue.

Reason is obvious.

The hand full of units who are still not in the mainstream should ponder over this attitude of the administration and understand how inimical it is to our cadre interests.

We hope that these units will definitely act accordingly.

with fraternal greetings,

R. Manimohan,

Secretary General

AISL with effect from 1.1.2007 and implementation of NR Parmar in rem

Dear friends and comrades,

We are all well aware that the All India Seniority List for the post of Superintendents of Central Excise is not issued with effect from 1.1.2007. At every given opportunity, we have been insisting upon the Board and DGHRD that the draft of this AISL has to be issued and finalised at the earliest if the DPC for the vacant posts of ACs is to be done.

But, till date the AISL has not been issued.

Hence, we have issued another letter to the Board on this requirement. Click here for the copy of the said letter

With the issue of promotion of 8 petitioners in the P. Bharathan Case, vide Order No. 105/2021 and 106/2021, on 1st September 2021, the fact that N.R. Parmar is applicable even for those appointed before 1986 has been established. 

Thus, not only for all others in the PB CAT, New Delhi, in Harsh Kakkar case, but also for every one else covered by the said interpretation, the revision of seniority is due in terms of N.R.Parmar. We have in fact already filed a Contempt petition before the Hon'ble High Court of Madras in the matter. In the meanwhile, since the DoPT has clarified that the effect of the Meghachandra Singh case overruling N.R.Parmar would take effect only from 19.11.2019, all members who are entitled for a revision of Seniority in terms of N.R.Parmar may make a representation, as advised by our Advocate. Please down load the draft letter for getting the seniority revised as per NR Parmar and submit it to the administration with necessary additions and modifications.

The fact that the seniority of these 8 persons had to be revised and that they had to be granted retrospective effect promotion with effect from 2017, clearly shows how the members had been mislead all along saying that the case was baseless. That our Association had been used to fight against these individuals itself is a tragedy. The administration has not been trying to settle issues on the merits, rather taking them as a question of ego or prestige.

But for members of our cadre, more than ego or prestige, it is the question of living over the disgrace of serving under juniors.

Until the Board is able to settle this primary anomaly in cadre management, the discontentment and litigation on such issues cannot be contained.

Hence, we hope that the Board will be compelled to take a proper view of the issue, if all members file their requests in the format provided above.

With fraternal greetings,

R.Manimohan,

Secretary General