Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings to All

 Dear Member and Friends,

Merry Christmas and season Greetings to all my members and friends. May the festive season also bring cheer to the cadre in the form of career progression and much anticipated promotions to the seniors. I wish that the new year begins with a bang and good news on DPC and promotions to many officers.

I am guarded in my optimism, as much is going on behind doors than visible to the naked eye.  As everybody knows the Hyderabad Stay is vacated but much has been spoken in conversation about the Interim Order in CAT, Mumbai. It appears to all that the Coast is clear but is it for the CBIC?  is the moot question only they can answer.

They also have been guarded in their utterances from the former buoyant approach in the past few months, god knows what has changed ?.  However, some of the issues pointed out by this Association has remained unresolved and we have been making efforts to make headway in getting justice for a larger number of officers. One such effort has been for a delegation of AIASCT to meet the Revenue Secretary to put across our issues and convey the need for 3000 additional posts of ACs in the ensuing CR.

The meeting with the Revenue Secretary has been positive in bringing across the deep rooted stagnation to his notice and the fact that nothing much has been done by the powers to be, to mitigate the issues. The Hon'ble Revenue Secretary was of the firm opinion that at least there should be three promotions in ones career. That's definitely  one step forward, lets see how far it will go?  Here, I should thank whole Heartedly the super approach of the Honorable Member of Parliament Shri, Tiruchi Siva who is a five time MP, and a much well read scholar who personally took the delegation of AIASCT  to the Revenue Secretary realising the long standing injustice meted out to the cadre. . We should be much indebted to him for his approach of taking up the issue whole heartedly and in a unhinged manner with a resolve to find a resolution. Rarely we can find such parliamentarians and the credit for finding one goes to the Coimbatore Unit and Com. Mani Mohan.

Will it? Wont it? before the end of the Year is something only future will answer. Yes there could be hurdles but can we cross them, do we have the tenacity to cross them? As long as there is injustice there will be litigations let us be clear about it,  the history should have taught us that much.  So the future will definitely grade us based on our choices. 

The way forward in the coming year would definitely be challenging and arduous if things go south on cadre restructuring, I call upon the cadre to be proactive to the calls of Association for a forward march on the issues and if need be stronger positioning. ": One Nation , One Tax is fine,  why only one promotion?"   should be our one liner.  So much to be done, so much to be achieved, so little done is how I would like to take a bow on this year and look forward to a horizon of light, prosperity and all goodness of the year to come.

Hope is the craziest dream, dream it, nurture it and let it blossom to reality one day.

Merry Christmas and seasons Greetings to all.

Jai Hind.

Yours truly

M.A. Jithendra

Secretary General

AIASCT