Notice for agitation

To
Sri P.C.Jha,
The Chairman,
Central Board of Excise and Customs,
North Block,New Delhi.

Sir,

Sub: Notice for agitation

The Inspectors of Central Excise are highly aggrieved by the inaction of the Ministry of Finance in resolving the legitimate demands made in respect of the following points.

1. The non rectification of anomaly in the pay scale consequent to the merger of 3 pay scales by the CCS (RP) Rules, 2008 thereby placing the feeder cadre of Senior Tax Assistant and the promotional cadre of Inspector in the same grade pay.

2. The denial of notional fixation with effect from 01.01.1996 in the pre-revised scale of Rs. 6500-10500/-. The scale was granted on 21.04.04 in order to restore historical parity of pay scales with Inspectors of CBI & IB.

3. To review the clarification issued by DOE to CBEC denying the non-functional grade pay of Rs. 5400/- after 4 years of service in the grade pay of Rs. 4800/- to ACP recipient Inspectors.

4. Lack of initiatives to remove acute stagnation of the cadre of Inspector of Central Excise and for non inclusion of Inspector cadre organization in the restructuring committee.

5. Non - inclusion of Inspector cadre organization in the Anomaly committee. The Central Executive Committee meeting of this Association held on 3rd & 4th of July at Chandigarh has decided to embark on an agitation programme from the 15th of July 2009 as per the enclosed schedule.

We request you to take the initiative for an early redress of the issues raised.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

(Kousik Roy)

Secretary General

Encl: Agitation programme

1.Lunch Hour Demonstration in front of Chief Commissioner’s/ Commissioner’s offices through out the country, that should start from 15th July and it will be observed on every Wednesday in every head quarters for one month.

2. 25th to 28th of August wearing of Black Badges and Lunch hour Dharna in front the above mentioned Offices.

3. Memorandum is to be submitted on 28th in front of All chief commissioners for onward transmission to the Ministry.

4. Sending of post cards to Cabinet Secretary and Finance Minister on 9th of September.

5. Lunch our demonstrations will continue on every week followed by massive poster campaign with the mention of a probable strike action.

6. Pay boycott on 30th of September.

(Kousik Roy)

Secretary General

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ON RTI

We had sought for the following information under the RTI from the Ministry of Expenditure.

a) The name of the Departments that have submitted proposals for up gradation of pay scales of posts in the pre-revised pay scale of 6500-10500 based on Clause (ii) of Section 1 of Part B or Part C of the First Schedule to the Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 and the name of the posts for which proposals have been made.

b) Copies of the proposals submitted by the Departments as stated in (a) above may be provided.

c) The extracts of the note sheets of files in which the proposals referred to in (a) above were processed/ is being processed by the Department of Expenditure may be provided.

d) The copies of the queries made/ reply given to the Departments concerned in respect of the proposals referred to in (a) above may be provided.

The CPIO rejected the application by stating that it is not feasible to trace out the formation unless the name of the department and the file no. is specified. In the 1st Appeal, it was informed that the Department received 24 proposals from 17 ministries and they asked the applicant to specify the name of the Department in respect of which the information is sought.

The second appeal filed came up before the Central Information Commission on 24.06.2009. The President and Secretary General appeared for the hearing. We argued that the Department has withheld the information and Commission ordered the Department to fix a date and make available the 24 files and allow the applicant to peruse and to take copies. The written order is awaited.