INSA CGST (Inspectors, Supdts and ACs from CGST)

The President of AIACEGEO has kept his word and upheld the spirit of Unity of the Association by notifying the convention at Chennai. Perhaps to avoid inconvenience to the units, he has declared it on the very same dates that Mr. Ravi malik proposed to have at Gandhidhiam. While, the notice for Convention at Gandhidham was clearly unconstitutional because, the person who notified it had ceased to be an Office bearer, as discussed in our previous blog posts and having lost the confidence of the President and the membership, naturally, if a unified Association has to continue, the President had to step in.  That he has done. Further, many Units have been raising the fundamental issue regarding making the entire decision making process at the AIB level, based on the paid up membership strength, instead of based on strength of formations. It had clearly been stated at the last meeting at Delhi, reiterating only what was stated during the AEC meeting at Kolkatta. T

The story of the pay scale parity By R. Manimohan There has been a criticism that the present AICEIA, which was resurrected in the 2003 Convention of the AIFCEEOA (herein after referred to as AIF) at Kolkata, was the cause for not getting the pay parity for Inspectors of Central Excise with the Inspectors of CBI with effect from 01/01/1996 (and consequently the pay of Superintendents of Central Excise). As a person who was associated with the developments in the case from 1994, I feel that the record has to be kept straight, for the sake of knowledge of those unaware of the same or even if someone had forgotten the track of events.  Here is the time line: 1994-95: The Indore Association had approached the CAT Jabalpur demanding parity of pay scale for Inspectors of Central Excise with the pay scale of Inspector of CBI, IB, Andaman & Nicobar and Delhi Police, which had been upgraded with effect from 01/01/1986 as per an executive instruction. Com. Rudra Mani

The above letter has been issued by the President of AIACEGEO, Shri. R. Chandramouli, calling for Units to suggest venue and dates for holding the Convention of the Association at an early date.  This letter was not prompted by the resolution dated 8.4.2017 passed by certain units at Chennai, alone, but various developments that have overtaken this Association, for more than 2 years now. It started with the ignoring of the President by the Secretary General during several important meetings and non consultation with him and various other office bearers when important decisions pertaining to the cadre had been taken either unilaterally or at the behest of certain vested interests within the Association or even from outside the Association. The promotion of Shri. Ravi Malik as Assistant Commissioner and becoming ineligible to continue as Office bearer is only the last straw on the camel’s back to break the Constitutional machinery of the Association. The just precedi

The above letter from the Superintendents’ Association’s Pune Unit, speaks about the miserable levels to which our cadre and community has been driven to. This disgrace of being forced to do the duty of a Postman/Courier/Notice Server, by Officers who are having magisterial powers, to summon, examine and record evidence, is the direct fallout of having aligned with the DR IRS Association to save the CBEC.  The architect of that flawed strategy is none other than Mr. Ravi Malik, who in spite of protests from within the organisation as well as from other sister organisations, found it fit and expedient to go with them and sign on dotted lines as prescribed by them, only with one agenda in mind and lips – to get DPC to ACs conducted. The pound of flesh for having delivered that great demand is now being extracted by the further humiliation of a community and cadre, putting the departments’ image and fundamentals to an irreparable loss. Any organisation becomes strong only

 Let us go into the basic concept of Recognition for an Association.            Right to Association is a Fundamental Right.  It need not be granted by anyone else.            But Administration has been provided by a mechanism to identify the real representative of a cadre, by virtue of the Recognition of Association Rules, 1993 (RSA Rules).             These Rules have been promulgated to ensure that the actual representative of a cadre alone is heard by the Administration and not a person or group of persons, as per the Administration’s choice, in an arbitrary manner.          Now, the onus to decide on the representative actually shifts to the members.  It is for them to decide who their actual representative is.            Thus, real recognition of an Association or a group of Office bearers lies in the hands of the members, whom they are to represent.            If without establishing, this fundamental requirement or rather the fundamental