AICEIA GUNTUR WISHES YOU A HAPPY

AICEIA GUNTUR WISHES YOU A HAPPY 

GANESH CHATURTHI

 

Updates of the meeting dated 18.08.2017

Updates of the meeting dated 18.08.2017

A meeting was convened at Kalpvriksha, North Block, New Delhi under the chairmanship of the Member (Admin.), CBEC with associations of CBEC on 18.08.2017.  From staff side, Jt. Secretary (Admin.), Commissioner (Co-ordination), Director (Ad-IIB), officers from DGHRD, Ad-III & IV etc. were present.  AICEIA was represented by the undersigned along with Com. Anubhuti Chaterjee, ASG and Com. R. P. Singh, Liaison Secretary.

Before the commencement of the meeting, we had got some inputs that the department has not mentioned all our points in their list of discussion.  We told our apprehension and submitted a letter giving the full details of our points and requested them to bring it on record.

Further, due to paucity of time and keeping in view the big numbers of Associations, the Member (Admin.) requested all the associations to present only 3-4 main agenda points despite the fact that all the associations had many agenda points to discuss.  In the meeting, we presented almost all the points except the points which were already covered by other associations.  Since we had much grave issues in our hand, the Member (Admin.) called us again to discuss the points at 3 PM in his chamber.  In the next meeting, Commissioner (Co-ordination) and the Director (Ad-IIB) were also present.  Meeting was held in very amiable atmosphere and the Member (Admin.) directed the concerned authorities for immediate redressal of the grievances of AICEIA.

The brief of points discussed during the meeting are, as under:-

1. Decimal Presence of Dispute Resolution Mechanism in Field Formation:-

Under this point, we discussed the wrongful conduct of DPC in Vadodara, Adhoc status of Inspectors of Kolkata zone since 2013, MACP issue of Kolkata, Seniority issue of Kanpur/Meerut/Lucknow, JCM issue in Meerut Zone, derogatory remarks by senior officer in respect of Group-B officers in Meerut Zone  etc. were discussed.  On the matter of Vadodara and Adhoc issue of Kolkata, the Member (A) directed the concerned for immediate redressal.  Further, the seniority issue of Kanpur/Meerut/Lucknow need to be raised with complete details and relevant factual position. 

2. Career Prospect of Inspector of Central Excise:-

Under this, we raised the reports of various committee and their non-implementation, which had the capacity to enhance the career prospects of the Inspectors. All India Seniority was also discussed but no commitment made from the chair but told that something has to be done to increase career prospects.  Further, in light of the certain objections and apprehensions of some branches/circles of AICEIA, we sought clarifications from the Board in respect of their letter F. No. C-18012/19/2012-Ad.IIB dated 03.08.2017.  Due to lack of clarity, different zones are interpreting it different way.  As a result, many zones are not accepting ICT applications and some zones are getting confused about the benefits given to ICT applicants.  To avoid this situation, an early clarification was asked.

One report of the "Stagnation Committee" (Stagnation in Promotion from Group "B" to Group "A") has recently been published.  In this context, we requested the Member (A) to take our views and relevant facts on this matter to which we are also one of the stakeholders and he accepted it.

3. Pay Prospect of Inspector of Central Excise:-

A number of times the horizontal pay parity with counterpart in other departments was disturbed and restored. The recent disturbance was made after 7^th CPC where on the basis of wrong postulates the long standing pay parity with Inspector of CBI was disturbed. While in most of the countries employees of Revenue Department enjoy better pay prospects in comparison to counterparts in other Departments, here we are pushed down from parity every time.

There is urgent need for restoration of parity which was disturbed in 7^th CPC on the basis of wrong facts.  The matter was discussed with Board, and they have very little role to play so the same will be raised in with the Anomaly Committee of the 7th CPC.

The following points were also discussed and the Member (Admin.) asked the concerned Authorities to go through the written submission over these points and then necessary steps will be taken on priority basis:-

4. Review of the practices which have outlived it’s utility and continuing in the name of Tradition:-

The matter related to Uniform, Protocol and Control Room were raised and discussed.

5. Delayed DPC/ DSC for promotion and MACP

6. Extension of the benefit of 1% incremental scheme to Group-B Officers

7. Proper Office accommodation and logistics support for optimum utilization of officers

8. Posting of Officers on loan / rotation basis to the Directorates/ Outside Agencies / Government       Departments

9. Provisioning of seats in Private Hospitals in Non-CGHS Cities

10. Issuance of general circular in respect of judicial decisions in Service Matters

MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE BODY MEETING HELD ON 30.07.2017

                    MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE BODY MEETING HELD ON 30.07.2017

        As called for, the executive body meeting of the AICEIA, Guntur branch was held at Hqrs.office, Guntur at 11:00 hrs of this day i.e., 30.07.2017 to elect new Office bearers consequent on transfer of some members/office bearers in the ICT/AGT 2017.  The following Executive Members were transferred during ICT/AGT.

S/Shri/Smt

B.Naveen Raju, President                                                    (Transferred to Hyderabad)

Y.Santosh Sunil, JCM Member, CPC Hqrs., VJA                (Transferred to KKD Port)

Devender Singh, Unit Secretary, GNT Divn.(Transferred to Anti Evasion, Hqrs.GNT)

G.S.R.Rajeswari Devi, Unit Secretary VJA              (Transferred to Amaravathi Divn.)

P.Rajeswari, Unit Treasurer, Eluru                         (Transferred to CPC, Vijayawada)

M.Pradeep Gautham, Unit Secretary CPC, VJA                       (Transferred to KP Port)

N.V.G.Krishna, Treasurer CPC, VJA                                   (Transferred to Hyderabad)

G.Hema Venunath, Unit Sec./Treasurer KKD Port        (Transferred to CPC Hqrs Vja)

The following Executive Members attended the meeting.

Name of the Exe.member         Post held

B.Naveen Raju                          President

R.P.P.Kumar                             General Secretary

K.Ravi Kumar                           Vice President

V.Sriram                                   Vice President

A.Suresh                                   Vice President

V.V.Krishna Prasad                   Joint Secretary

K.Pradeepkumar Panda             Joint Secretary

Sk.Shabbir Ahmed                     Joint Secretary

Devender Singh                         Unit Secretary, Guntur Division 

R.V.N.V.Prasada Rao                Unit Secretary & Treasurer (Service Tax Divn., Vja)

Ch.Venkateswara Rao                Unit Secretary, Hqrs.Guntur

K.Srinivasa Rao                         Unit Treasurer, Hqrs.Guntur

G.Hema Venunadh                    Unit Secretary (Kakinada)

          The quorum was formed with the members present to conduct the office.  At the outset, the General Secretary, AICEIA, Guntur Branch praised the zeal and efforts of the President Shri Naveen Raju, for rendering precious service to AICEIA, Guntur Branch.  General Secretary invited him to chair the meeting and took permission for proceeding with the agenda. He thanked all the members for their contribution in collecting membership subscriptions and thanked the Unit Secretaries for pursuing the issue with DDOs and for submitting DDO certificates, which were forwarded to the Secretary General.

          In view of the transfer of members, the General Secretary advised that the vacancies shall be filled by the Executive Committee, when it meets first after the posts become vacant.  The event started at 11.30 hrs and concluded at around 15:00hrs The following the new office bearers were elected.

Sl. No.	Name of the Post	Name of the Member S/Shri/Smt	Mobile Number
1	President	K.Ravi Kumar	9849657752
2	Vice President	B.Sukumar	9908687301
3	JCM Member (CPC Hqrs. Vijayawada)	G.Hema Venunadh	9908543743
4	Unit Secretary,  Guntur Division	Ch.Eswar Rao	9848834299
5	Unit Secretary, Vijayawada Division	B.Anitha	9866385536
6	Treasurer, Vijayawada Division	B.Lakshman Rao	9493245170
7	Unit Secretary, Amaravathi Division	G.S.R.Rajeswari Devi	9491383402
8	Unit Treasurer, Amaravathi Division	R.V.N.V.Prasada Rao	9440723545
9	Unit Treasurer, Eluru Division	Jitendra Kumar Soni	7382980913
10	Unit Secretary, CPC Hqrs., VJA	P.Rajeswari	8812230861
11	Unit Treasurer, CPC Hqrs., VJA	B.L.Chandrasekhara Reddy	9866015102
12	Unit Secretary, KKD Port	Y.Santosh Sunil	9440338633

          Consequent on rolling out of GST, Nellore Sub-Commissionerate was formed under the jurisdiction of Guntur GST Commissionerate.  Hence it was proposed to visit Nellore Sub-Commissionerate during August, 2017 and to request the Inspectors of Nellore Sub-Commissionerate to join with the Association to strengthen AICEIA Guntur Branch. 

          Meeting was concluded with vote of thanks.    

Guntur Branch Participated in CEC Meeting of AICEIA at Dehradun

Dear Comrades,
Central Executive Committee (CEC) Meeting of All India Central Excise Inspector's Association (AICEIA) was held at Dehradun on 14th and 15th of April, 2017. Minutes of meeting (Biennail Convention) held at Shillong were ratified by the house.  Action Taken Report (ATR) and Statement of Accounts were presented by Comrade Abhishek Kamal, Secretary General, AICEIA.

Comrade V.V.Krishna Prasad, Joint Secretary and R.P.P.Kumar, General Secretary of Guntur Branch of AICEIA represented our Branch. Points were sponsored by our branch as suggested and submitted by our members.
Some of the main issues discussed at CEC were:-

• Role of Inspectors in GST Regime, as there is no mention of proper role of Inspectors in the proposed GST Law
• Uniform implementation of the Judgement in the case of Union of India vs N R Parmar to re-fix the seniority
• Finalisation of Recruitment Rule for the post of Superintendent
• One time relaxation to fill all the vacant post of Superintendent before rolling out of GST
• Implementation of All India Seniority of Central Excise Inspectors
• Uniform Policy on Inter Zonal Transfer (IZT)
• Well defined ICT Policy without loss of seniority in accordance with DOP&T OM
• Bunching of pay as per the instructions contained in Seventh Pay Commission Report and Department of Expenditure's OM dt.07.09.2016
• Abolition of Uniform, Protocol & Control Room Duties

Details of the resolution passed will soon be available on www.aiceia.blogspot.com

As proposed by the National Body and passed by the house, the next CEC meeting has been converted to Convention and will be hosted by Mumbai Branch of AICEIA and the dates will be announced by the end of May.

Comredly yours,

R.P.P.Kumar,
General Secretary
AICEIA - Guntur Branch

AGITATION PROGRAMME FOR OUR GENUINE DEMANDS

AGITATION PROGRAMME FOR OUR GENUINE DEMANDS

All members of All India Central Excise Inspectors' Association and the members of all constituent Associations of Joint Action Committee (under CBEC) are requested to observe following programmes for better career prospects in ensuing GST regime:-

1. Lunch hour demonstration on 10.02.2017
2. Mass Casual Leave on 17.02.2017

AICEIA is not part of the Steering Committee, formed in Delhi today i.e., 25.01.2017.

AICEIA is not part of the Steering Committee, formed in Delhi today i.e., 25.01.2017.

Dear Comrades,

Today on 25.01.2017, a meeting was held in Delhi at 11:00 Hrs at C. R. Building, New Delhi, which was termed as the “Meeting of Steering Committee of Associations of CBEC on GST, comprising of IRS Association, Supdt. Association, Inspectors’ Association and Ministerial Officers’ Association of Central Excise”.  The meeting was attended by some of the members of the said committee, mostly of Delhi Units.  Surprisingly as a good sign, first time the IRS (C&CE) Association officially participated in any such joint forum.   

In this context, at first we want to make it clear that AICEIA is not part of this Steering Committee.  However, as a token of solidarity, Delhi Circle of AICEIA participated in the meeting as joint movement is the need of hour, when the department is at risk.  We appreciate the resolutions taken locally at Delhi meeting as a ground work but at the same time we make it clear that this resolution is not in consonance with the letter of AICEIA, submitted yesterday.  As the view of the national bodies of all the constituents are not reflected in this resolution, we feel it will not be justifiable to go with this resolutions, if we expect a Pan-India impact.  Further, after seeing the resolutions, we failed to find any logic and impact of Central Excise formations boycotting the International Customs Day Celebration.  It shows that the resolution is a bit tilted one.  Hence, the decisions/resolutions made in the said meeting does not hold any importance to AICEIA.  Therefore, the decisions of observing (i) No Customs Day Celebration on 27th January at any place, and (ii) Observing Black Day by wearing Black Badges on 30th January on Martyr’s  Day is not binding on the members of the AICEIA, posted across the country. 

 As we found that one of the joint conveners of the  first Steering Committee (on GST) Meeting held at Utpad Shulk Bhawan, Bandra Kurla Complex on 01/10/2016 also attended the said meeting today at New Delhi, we expected a minimum courtesy from his side to inform other two joint conveners.  Surprisingly, he did not inform.  However, we again expect that the meeting of all principal office bearers of the national body of all the Associations of Central Excise will be held at the earliest and a strong resolution may be adopted and sent to the higher forums.  Being the representative of the largest workforce of CBEC, AICEIA is committed to fight for the justice in ensuing GST regime on its own.  Further, it also ensures its members as well as the entire CBEC fraternity that we will work hard to make a successful joint action committee with other organizations too and achieve the desired results. 

AICEIA is making all the efforts to safeguard the interest of the cadre as well as the department in the ensuing regime of GST.   We are in the process of finalizing our course of action and the suggestions have been sought. We will take appropriate decisions and intimate the cadre shortly, so that there will be unanimity and consensus in the decisions and force in the action.

Yours fraternally,

Sd/-

Abhishek Kamal

SG, AICEIA

Letter to the Union Finance Minister

Letter to the Union Finance Minister

F. No. AICEIA/GST/2017/4                                                         Date:24.01.2017                                

To

Sh. Arun Jaitley,

Union Minister of Finance,

Govt. of India

       &

Chairman,

GST Council, New Delhi.

Sir,

          Subject: GST the biggest revolution in Indirect Tax Administration – suggestions reg.

At very onset, we the Inspectors’ of the Central Excise put it straight before your good office that entire Cadre is apprehensive yet appreciative and ready for being part of the biggest ever revolution in the Indirect Tax Administration of the Country.

A tax administration, we understand, is as good as it reflects on the ground. It is at the ‘cutting edge’ level, the administration is seen and assessed by the very citizen/ taxpayers. The day to day provision of service or lack of it determines how government will be perceived. The surveys made by the independent agencies acknowledge the fact that the lower executive formation of Central Board of Excise & Customs are working with positive attitude.

In this long walk to GST regime, we tried to submit our views & concerns for smooth transition several times through our CBEC administration, but every time the ground level sentiments were diverted with the comment that everything is in liquid state and unless it takes some shape it is not possible to talk on administrative part.

After the 9^th meeting of the GST Council on 16.01.2017, which placed the GST implementation in an advanced stage, we find it as our moral responsibility to put before you the aspects which need consideration while implementing GST. For convenience these aspects are classified in following three categories:- 

a) Issues related to the Assessees:- Entire Tax Administration is based on the entities which are being assessed. The decision dividing the Taxpayers’ base in asymmetric cross sections both vertically as well as horizontally creates confusion and inconvenience among the Taxpayers, who expected GST to provide a simplified Tax compliance mechanism. Though actual parameters to effect such distribution is yet to be divulged, the business entities are anxious, with multi-location units fearing the fact that their one business            vertical may fall under Central Control whereas the other may fall under State Control, due to this random distribution.

b) Issues related to the Union of India: - We are proud to have the unique Federal Structure, where co-existence and togetherness is the key. The very purpose of GST implementation in our Country was to provide a better Fiscal Health to the Union and States as the unified system will minimize the revenue leakage.

There is an impression in general that this very purpose was lost midway due to conflict on control between the Central & the State Governments.

           

Sir, it is felt that in the quest to control, the GST Council missed the elementary point of Development Economics, where division of land reduces its productivity while division of labour increases it.      If the duties and responsibilities of Tax Administration are divided between the Centre and States instead of             Taxpayers base the administration will be more cohesive and firm. Even this cross administration will   minimize the chances of Revenue Leakage.

In the Global Scenario, the economic health of the country is the strongest parameter of gradation. For making India a dominating power centre of the world, we need a strong Fiscal position which is possible only when some controls are centralized and major policies don’t get blocked due to regional aspirations.

c) The Executers of transition:- The employees of Revenue Departments be it Central or State, are the primary carrier of transition and the success of the new regime mostly depends on their contribution. But, non-communications are creating panic among these parts of Administration regarding their role and position in the new regime. The Inspectors of Central Excise are the most stagnated Cadre working under the Government of India and despite this fact they work hard and discharge their duty with full integrity which results in Revenue Collection more than targeted. In such a situation if the question of job security comes even as rumor, it is sufficient to de-motivate and demoralize the Cadre and adversely affect the transition.

Above points of concerns are needed to be considered for successful GST implementation. We know that raising concerns is not our only responsibility; rather suggesting way outs for consideration also lies on us. As a responsible service association, which desires success of Government Policies, we propose following points for consideration:-

1) Instead of dividing the Taxpayers’ Base, functional verticals be divided between the Centre & the States. It may be done in a manner, where all core verticals like Registration, Assessment & Dispute Resolution etc. are put under state domain and all peripheral verticals like Audit & Enforcement, Automation, Taxpayers’ Service & Vigilance and Training etc. are kept with the Central. The dispute resolution function should be kept with the Centre, as the adjudication pattern in Commercial Taxes of the states is somewhat different from what we follow and would be in GST.

2) Apprehension in field formations as to their role in new regime be taken seriously and requisite policies may be framed, wherever necessary, in consultation with the staff association

3) There should be parity in duty, responsibility, position & career prospects of the counterparts of the Centre and State GST.

4) Inspector of Central Excise should be given with role in GSTN module.

5) Levy of IGST should be kept under Central Control to safeguard the federal structure.

Sir, we solicit an early action to ensure that already agitated, stressed Central workforce are soothed and also request your good office to give us an opportunity to be heard in person, so that the above submissions can substantially be placed before you.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

Abhishek Kamal

Secretary General