To, 
All Office Bearers, AIB, AICEIA/
President/General Secretary, All Circles, Branches, AICEIA/
All Members, AICEIA.

Subject:    Formation of various Executive Committees under All India Body, AICEIA to look after various Service Matters related to the Cadre -Reg.

             The AICEIA is now standing on a crucial juncture of its time. It is having several long pending issues as well as new issues arising in respect of Inspectors posted across India. The COVID pandemic has also made the situation more critical. The AICEIA in its last convention held in February 2020 had a detailed discussion regarding strategically addressing these issues and a need of forming different dedicated issue-based committees were felt.

In connection to the above, below mentioned Executive Committees are hereby formed with immediate effect under the All India Body (AIB), AICEIA to look after various Service Matters related to the Cadre. The Committees comprise of office bearers of AIB, office bearers of all Circles/Branches and also highly dedicated general Members across different parts of India. They will be assigned their work according to their interest / willingness / capacity / past experiences etc., irrespective of their designation in the Association.

Broad Scope of Work for all Committees:

(i)                 All committees will prepare necessary working paper/draft plan in coordination with the President/GS of all Circles/Branches and the All India Body to find the solution of the assigned issues and submit those documents to the President/Secretary General of the All India Body.

(ii)               Overall planning and execution of work in respect of the prevailing issues.

(iii)             Keep in touch with all the Circles/Branches on regular basis and gather information in respect of the prevailing issues.

(iv)             Receive suggestions/grievances relating to the prevailing issues from the Circles/Branches/Members from all over India and bring them to the knowledge of the Association (AIB).

(v)               Provide guidelines to the members/aggrieved members of the cadre related to the prevailing issues after issuance of the same from the AIB and play role of Coordinating Heads between the AIB and the Members for the prevailing issues.

(vi)             Any other work allotted time to time.

Details of the Committees:

1. Cadre Restructuring Committee:

It is a well-known fact that our cadre is facing acute stagnation since decades. We normally get only one promotion throughout a long span of 30-35 years of Govt. service. The condition of this cadre can be changed by the following non-exhaustive measures:

(i)                 By changing Administrative structure and establishment of CBIC as the Income Tax Department with limited departmental exams. Efficiency of any organization is also depends upon their administrative structure. In GST regime, new administrative structure of CBIC will also increase indirect tax collection and ultimately increase the growth of Nation.

(ii)               At least 5 functional & time bound promotions.

(iii)             All India seniority of Inspectors.

Scope of Work:

Overall planning and execution of work for the betterment of the cadre in upcoming Cadre Restructuring to ensure at least 5 functional time bound promotions or by changing the administrative structure of CBIC as in the Income Tax department and also to ensure All India seniority of Inspectors.

To monitor all the developments in the process of upcoming cadre restructuring and to make action plan for liaising with Public Representatives and other higher authorities to make them aware of the undemocratic process adopted by DGHRD to formulate the Cadre restructuring proposal by ignoring the interest of the department as representation of any Service Associations has not been given in Cadre Restructuring Committee, which is also provided in the Article 43 of Indian Constitution. Also make aware of our cadre about the importance of the upcoming Cadre Restructuring in GST by organizing various program and seminar.

Committee Head: Sh. Sushant Tyagi, GS, Pune Circle.

Coordinator: Sh. Abhijat Srivastava, GS, AICEIA, Lucknow Circle.

Members:

(i)                 Sh. Naveen, JS, West Zone, AIB

(ii)               Sh. Santosh Kumar, GS, Kolkata Circle.

(iii)             Sh. Bhaskarnath, GS, Kerala Circle

(iv)             Sh. Prabodh S Nair, President, Kerala Circle

(v)               Sh. Chirantan Roy, JS, East Zone, AIB

2. ICT/IZT (Inter Commissionerate Transfer) Committee:

This is most alarming issue between our young members. Administration has arbitrarily imposed ban on Inter Commissionerate Transfers. In past decades, they have arbitrarily imposed and released ban on ICT several times according to their own will/interest, irrespective to welfare of this large cadre. This is a matter of grief that all other cadres under CBIC are getting ICT, but this cadre have banned, which leads a big suspicion. This arbitrary ban on ICT is also against the Central Govt. policy and guidelines which have been issued vide various OMs for the candidates having grounds at point no. (i) to (vii) mentioned in below para. This ban is also unnatural, unhuman, depressing and ultimately creating adverse mental health between the young members. Only because of ban imposed on ICT, some members have resigned from service and some are in verge of resigning.

Scope of Work:

Overall planning and execution of work for unconditional lifting of ban on Inter Commissionerate transfer. There may be some grounds for ICT/IZT given as under:

(i)                 Spouse Ground.

(ii)               Staff having mentally retreated Children.

(iii)             Physical Handicapped.

(iv)             SC/ST candidate.

(v)               Extreme Medical Ground.

(vi)             Extreme Compassionate Ground.

(vii)           Unmarried lady officer.

The said Committee will examine the above said all grounds and prepare detailed report. The Committee will prepare all folders/drafts/applications/ in respect ICT/IZT as and when required by the AIB. The Committee will also prepare all possible draft policies for lifting of ban from ICT/IZT and device strategy to implement those policies. ICT will be open for all candidates irrespective to any grounds, category, caste, gender, religion or class.

Committee Head: Sh. Chirantan Roy, JS, East Zone, AIB

Coordinator: Sh. Sushant Tyagi, GS, Pune Circle.

Members:

(i)           Sh. Manoj Kumar Yadav, ASG, AIB

(ii)          Sh. Shekhar Suman, JS, South Zone.

(iii)        Sh. Sunil Nagar, Kerala Circle.

(iv)         Sh. S K Nausad Rahman, AICEIA, WB Circle.

(v)          Sh. Atul Nandurkar, GS, Coimbatore Branch.

(vi)         Sh. Tarun Sharma, OS, WB Circle.

(vii)       Sh. Chandan Yadav, GS, Nagpur Circle.

(viii)     Sh. Pankaj Das, Odisha Circle

3. Uniform Committee:

There was no legal provision for wearing Khaki Uniform in the era of Central Excise and also department have no legal backing in this era of GST. Department have no policy, guidelines, dress code for bearing of Khaki Uniform by its officers. Also they have no public purpose / public interest for the same. And ultimately they have no guideline / public purpose for control room duty, guard of honour, Republic day or Independence Day parade, PRO, escort to higher officers, unofficial/unordered protocol duties for higher officers. In the guise of this illegal uniform, all these malpractices are being performed in various zone, which is also illegal and against the spirit of public service.

This illegal Khaki Uniform is big hurdle in the progress of our carrier prospects. Some people think that being a uniformed officer we have no authority to protest before the Administration for our genuine service matters but this type thinking is false because we all are governed by same RSA rules as other Central Govt. employees like as Income Tax and Indian Railways etc.

This illegal Khaki Uniform is also a big reason of internal corruption in the department which decreases performance of indirect tax collection and ultimately decreases the growth of the Nation.

Scope of Work:

Overall planning and execution of work for the issues related to illegal Khaki Uniform. Appraisal to the National Body, with the issues and grievances of the Cadre, related to Khaki Uniform. Seek legal opinion and prepare all related document/draft.

In recent past, It is also come to notice of AIB that in some Zones, Administration are using illegal Vigilance tools to enforce illegal Khaki Uniform against the office bearers/ members of local Association for the purpose of humiliation, harassment and to suppress their voice. Therefore, the Uniform Committee will keep vigil on the said instances if occurs in future and report immediately to the AIB.

Committee Head: Sh. Naveen, JS, West Zone, AIB.

Coordinator: Sh. Abhijat Srivastava, GS, Lucknow Circle.

Members:

(i)           Sh. Alok Shukla, OS, AIB.

(ii)         Sh. Anshu Sharma, VP, Central Zone, AIB.

(iii)       Sh. Pankaj Kumar, Treasurer, AIB.

(iv)       Sh. K.K. Kushwaha, President, Lucknow Circle.

4. Infrastructure Committee:

Our performance of indirect tax collection is directly proportionate to stronger Infrastructures. For the purpose of doing the official work smoothly and effectively, there is an urgent need of strong and smooth infrastructure. If infrastructure of department is weak, then tax collection will automatically go down.

(i)                 IT Infrastructure: Proper computer, Printer, Scanner, Fax, Photocopier, Pen Drive & Antivirus is the backbone of any office for commencement of official work.

(ii)               Furniture: Proper sitting arrangement for staff and visitors is as well as necessary for any office.

(iii)             Official Vehicles: Office vehicle is most important infrastructure for any executive Govt. staff. Being an executive officer, Inspectors have more use of official vehicle irrespective to any other cadre of CBIC. In GST regime most of the field work has been assigned to Inspectors. Official vehicle has been used by our cadre for official work like as service of any type of letter/notice/SCN, physical verification of premises, anti-evasion activities and for e-way bill checking etc.

(iv)             Non-skilled/skilled contingent: In present scenario, department is facing shortage of staff in all Group B, C and D cadre. In this situation contract basis non-skilled/skilled contingent staff will be helping hand for executive staff.

(v)               Proper sitting office space: Dignified and proper sitting space increase the work efficiency of staff and ultimately increase dignity of that Govt. office. 

Scope of Work:

This Committee shall be vested with the work of monitoring all Infrastructure works running or proposed. This committee will mainly work on below mentioned points:

(i)        IT Infrastructure: Committee will inquire from all Circles/Branches for the same and in case of any major discrepancy will call the report.

(ii)         Furniture: Committee will inquire from all Circles/Branches for the same and in case of any major discrepancy will call the report.

(iii)       Office Vehicles: To maintain a transparent administration, committee will pursue from all Circles/Branches for installation of navigation device in all official vehicles and also filling of log book by its navigation device only in their respective areas. This rule is also binding for all contract basis Govt. vehicles as per Vehicle Policy, 2019 issued by the DGHRD and also by RTO Act.

(iv)       Skilled / Non-skilled contingent: Committee will pursue from all Circles/Branches for demand of contract basis skilled contingent staff. All sections of the Commissionerates and Range offices should be provided one skilled contingent and one non skilled contingent. Committee will also pursue that proper duty chart and attendance chart of contract basis skilled / non-skilled contingent staff should be made by the respective administration.

(v)         Proper sitting office space: Committee will pursue from all Circles/Branches for dignified and proper sitting space. The committee will also pursue that distribution of office space should be done as per DGHRD norms only irrespective of any Cadre / Group and anomalies in the same should be reported.  Sitting arrangement for the inspectors should be properly covered by boundary wall and must not be in open cubical space.  

Committee Head: Sh. Gopinath N., WP, AIB.

Coordinator: Sh. Abhijat Srivastava, GS, AICEIA, Lucknow Circle.

Members:

(i)                 Sh. Shekhar Suman, JS, South Zone

(ii)               Sh. K.K. Kushwaha, President, Lucknow Circle.

(iii)             Sh. Ramesh Prasad, GS, Ahmedabad Branch.

(iv)             Sh. Shivam Shyal, GS, Chandigarh Circle.

5. Pay Anomaly Committee:

Scope of Work: This committee will look after the pay matters of our cadre. The pay anomaly between CBIC Inspector, CBI Inspectors & IB Inspectors arises during 7^th CPC. Committee will work for removal of this anomaly. Overall planning and execution of work for Pay anomaly of cadre and work allotted time to time.

Committee Head: Sh. Debayan Dasgupta, LS, AIB.

Coordinator: Sh. Chandan Kumar Singh, VP, EastZone, AIB.

Members:

(i)     Sh. Deepesh G, VP, South Zone, AIB.

(ii)   Sh. K. Bala Murli Krishna, GS, Madurai Branch.

(iii) Sh. Chirantan Roy, JS, East Zone, AIB

6. IT/Media/Multimedia Cell:

Communication between the stakeholders is a necessary factor for success of any organization/institution.

Scope of Work:

Work related to implementation of E-Office in each & every office under CBIC. Implementation of E-Office is essential for proper work distribution between the employees, to ensure high transparency in official work, to wipe out corruption from the department and for time bound disposal of work to facilitate the taxpayers.

Overall planning and execution of work for better and seamless communication by using all IT modes between all office bearers and members of the Association from all over India.

Creation of database containing contact number, e-mail id, address etc. of all Circles/Branches (all office bearers) and AIB office bearers.

Creation and maintenance of all types of online and social media handles for posting regular updates on day to day activities of AICEIA, such as creation of online website and/or creation of mobile app for connecting members from all over India for quick and online grievance filing, membership augmentation and related redressal. Updating of the online portals on regular basis.

Maintaining continuous relation with the main stream Print Media/ Electronic Media/Online Media. Creation of promotional Newsletters, Magazine, press release and other materials of AICEIA.

Committee Head: Sh. Chirantan Roy, JS, East Zone, AIB.

Coordinator: Sh. Tarun Sharma, OS, WB Circle.

Members:

(i)                 Sh. Akshat Mittal, Odisha Circle.

(ii)               Sh. Davinder Goyal, Coimbatore Circle.

(iii)             Sh. Subash Chand, Surat Circle

(iv)             Sh. Hanish Rathi, Pune Circle.

7. Membership drive Committee:

Association means alliance of persons with common interest. Success of any organization depends upon its root level SANGATHAN.

Scope of work:

Pursue for 100% membership, DDO deductions, DDO certificate, 1/3 remittance of membership fee to AIB for each and every member from all Circles / Branches. Ensure timely periodical elections in all Circles / Branches and create new Circles/Branches in the Zones/Commissionerates where AICEIA not exist, with coordination to zonal Vice President / Joint Secretary of AIB. Committee will also ensure for monthly meeting within all Circles/ Branches.

Committee Head: Samiran Goswami, OS, AIB.

Coordinator: Sh. Anshu Sharma, VP, Central Zone, AIB.

Members:

(i)                 Debayan Dasgupta, LS, AIB.

(ii)               Sh. Naveen, JS, West Zone, AIB.

(iii)             Sh. Tarun Sharma, OS, WB Circle.

(iv)             Sh. Nitin Goyal, Treasurer, Odisha Circle

8. Legal Cell:

Scope of work:

Analyze all issues from legal side. Seek special legal advice from law experts and lawyers in various matters of AICEIA and make draft write/OA for the same and submit to respective Committee/Circle/ Branch after prior approval of AIB, AICEIA.

To coordinate with the office bearers / members of all Circles/Branches about illegal actions taken by the Administrative against them, if any, and seek legal advice/remedy for the same.

Committee Head: Sh. Manoj Kr. Yadav, ASG, AICEIA.

Coordinator: Sh. S K Nausad Rahman.

Members:

(i)                 Sh. Alok Shukla, OS, AIB.

(ii)               Anshu Sharma, VP, Central Zone, AIB

9. Health Care Committee:

Scope of Work: The Committee vested with work of dispersal of new updates and welfare schemes to the members. The Committee shall be in touch with all the zones on regular basis and gather information on any severe issues pertaining to Health Care of the Members. To receive grievances relating to Health Care from the members and bring it immediately in the knowledge of the Association. Overall planning and execution of work for betterment of health schemes and work allotted time to time.

Committee Head: Sh. Deepesh G, VP, South Zone, AICEIA.

Coordinator: Sh. Atul Nandurkar, GS, Coimbatore Branch

Members:

(i)                 Sh. Prabodh S Nair, President, Kerala Circle

(ii)               Sh. Samir Acharjee, President, WB Circle

(iii)             Sh. Chirantan Roy, JS, East Zone, AIB

Work allocation between Committee personals:

Committee Head:

(i)                 Call the reports of above said pertaining issues from Circles/Branches in writing, examine the same and submit final report to the AIB.

(ii)               Overall planning and execution of work to resolve the pertaining issue.

(iii)             Execution of ideas on ground level.

(iv)             Division of work between the members of the committee as per their capacity/interest/past experience.

(v)               Extend help and support to the SG/President to represent the issue at higher level.

Coordinator:

(i)                 Build coordination between the Committee Heads, Committee members, Office bearers (AIB) and also all members of Association from all over India.

(ii)               Overall preparation of logistics for execution of work.

(iii)             Seeking legal opinion on the pertaining issue.

(iv)             Be in touch with all the zones on regular basis and to receive grievances/suggestions relating to pertaining issue from the members and bring it immediately in the knowledge of the Association (AIB).

Members:

As allotted by the Committee Head of the respective committee.

President and Secretary General of All India Body will be the ex-officio members of all above mentioned committees.

All the Committees are hereby designated for internal communication within the Association only. They will only give written/oral report to SG/President for the pertaining issues and the SG/President will take necessary action accordingly.

Review of work of all Executive Committees and also all Committee Personals will be done on monthly basis by the SG/President and a written progress report for all issues will be issued accordingly.

(Anubhuti Chettarjee)

Secretary General

                                                                                                                All India Central Excise Inspectors’ Association