Meeting with Hon’ble Chief Commissioner of Central Excise
& Service Tax, Ahmedabad Zone held on 16.09.2015
Shri Vikas Kumar Gupta,
General Secretary, with Shri Indramohan Chaudhary, Liason Secretary visited the
Chief Commisioner’s office to pursue the status of Appointment sought from
Hon’ble Chief Commissioner on the agenda points submitted vide letter dated
14.09.2015.
As the said office
bearers of the Association went to meet the Sr. P.S. of the Chief Commissioner to
fix the date of appointment only, the office bearers surprised to
know that Hon’ble Chief Commissioner granted instant appointment to the said
office bearers.
Accordingly, we met the
Hon’ble Chief Commissioner in his chamber and apprised the issues to him.
Gist
of the discussions is given as below:
1.
AGT in the grade of Executive Assistant & Tax Assistant :
In
this matter, the Association apprised Hon’ble Chief Commissioner that the Association is not against the rotation/AGT in the grade of Ministerial Officers but it should be carried out on the line of AGT in the grade of Superintendents/Inspectors. Further, it is the
mid-term of financial year and it will create problems related to education of
wards of the members if the station of posting is changed by carrying out such
AGT.
2. Framing of policy for transfer in each grade
of Ministerial Officers :-
In this context, the Association
informed to the CC that in the existing transfer policy framed by the CCO, there
is no comprehensive guidelines on transfer/rotation for each cadre of
Ministerial Officer and there is a need to frame comprehensive guidelines in
the matter which may be applied for entire Ministerial cadre in future.
3. Shortage in the grade of Ministerial
Officers/staff :-
The Association also apprised the Chief
Commissioner about acute shortage of Ministerial Officers in the Zone.
Hon’ble Chief
Commissioner was very kind to give a patient hearing to our problems and wanted
to know the full details and background of our issues. For this he called Deputy
Commissioner (CCO) in his chamber. The meeting lasted for twenty minutes
(approx.).
During the course of meeting Hon'ble Chief Commissioner also wanted to know that which cadres are
covered by this Association and how is the work of Association is going on? The
Association informed all the desired to him.
Further, Hon'ble Chief Commissioner assured to look into the matter
positively.
The meeting concluded
cordially.
Outcome of meeting:-
(i) The Chief Commissioner has assured us that the
proposed AGT will be carried out on the line of AGT in the grade of
Superintendents/Inspectors and only after framing guidelines in this regard.
(ii) Till the time, transfer/posting orders will be
issued for those officers only who requests for the same subject to genuineness
of grounds mentioned in their representations for transfer.
Yours Comradely,
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(Indramohan Choudhary) (Vikas Kumar Gupta)
Liason
Secretary General Secretary