Do not post Customs officers to GST on promotion

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF CGST EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Chief Advisor S.K. PATIL	President ANUBHUTI CHATTERJEE	Secretary General R. MANIMOHAN
National Council Members IRS (IDT) OA :     Varsha Kolhatkar,  B.A.Chakravarthi, Anand Jagtiani, Biju Paul AIACEGEO   :      Sanjay Srinivasan,  Tirthankar Pyne, Shishir Agnihotri, K.G. Ajit Kumar,                                Virender Singh Thakur. AICEIA          :      P.P.Gupta, Laxman Chaurasia, Manoj Kumar Yadav, Kumar Rahul,                              Mahesh Kumar Kaler.

Ref. No. 05/2018                                                                                                   Date: 07.12.2018

To

The Chairman,

        Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs,

North Block, New Delhi.

Respected Sir,

Sub:  Posting of Customs Officers to GST on promotion– reg.

The issue of disparity in promotions between Central Excise and Customs in the CBIC has been a cause of constant conflict and heart burn for the adversely affected Inspector born cadres of Central Excise for very many years.

                   Even the Board’s own decision of 1996 to merge the base cadres of Inspectors of Central Excise, Preventive Officers and Examiners, where all these officers are recruited through a single SSC Exam, has not been implemented even after passage of more than 2 decades.  In the meanwhile, the disparity has only increased, giving room to more and more disgruntlement and disillusionment for these adversely affected cadres.

            It is reported that, of late many officers from the Customs side are being posted to the GST on promotion.  While on one hand this would readily point out to Customs persons getting a higher ratio in promotions against the specific guidelines by the Hon’ble Supreme Court, it also creates disquiet in the field when the supervisory officer is a junior within the department itself, recruited through a subsequent process of recruitment in a common exam.

Hence this Federation demands that no officer from the Customs side may be posted to the CGST side on promotion since they are far juniors to their counterparts in the CGST.  It is also demanded that all those who already stand posted in the CGST side should be moved out to the Customs urgently to avoid further disquiet in the field.

We hope you will kindly give suitable instructions to the concerned in this regard.

                                                                                                              Yours truly,

                                                                  

                                                                                                           (R. Manimohan)

Secretary General

Copy for information to The DG, DGHRM, CBIC, New Delhi.