INSA CGST (Inspectors, Supdts and ACs from CGST)

A Whatsapp message is under circulation as below: “DPC : During informal meeting with Office Bearers of AIASCT at Bengaluru during this week, Chairman and Member ( P & A) spelt out their mind that, they are determined to complete the DPC exercise on a fast track basis. They are fully cognisant of the regional disparities within C Ex Cadre and also disparity with Customs Officers. However, now is not the time to rectify all these legacy errors. Time will solve them. Task on hand is to complete the DPC before end of October. Let's all hope for a Mega Deepavali Gift.” The message does not indicate the person or from which source it is gathered. However, the glee with which it announces that nothing would be done now and a Deepavgali Gift could be expected would enable one to guess the source of the message. In the previous blog PRESS HERE FOR THE BLOG  I had outlined the reason for a momentous decision of the CEC of the AIASCT remaining un-executed. Some persons who went through

          The cadres of Inspectors and Superintendents have lost another historic opportunity this August.      When the Draft All India Seniority List was issued by the CBIC, as anticipated, it evidenced the gapping zonal inequalities. I had circulated the message below, to the cadre: "THE MIRROR OF MISMANAGEMENT AND DISCRIMINATION ' At long last, the CBIC issued the draft All India Seniority list for Superintendents of Central Excise and CGST with effect from 1.1.2007 to 31.12.2011 on 28.07.2022. As anticipated, the Board has not carried out any of the Court judgments in respect of fixation of inter-se seniority in rem. Hence, the injustice for the cadre continues to be perpetuated, in the name of an RR which is grossly unconstitutional for the reasons we will be seeing in the coming paras. The NR Parmar judgment of the Apex Court which was to be implemented in all zones without discrimination as per the judgment of the Madras High Court judgment in P. Bharathan case has not

    In the earlier blog, I had left it open to analyse where we went wrong, leading to the miserable plight of the cadre. One opinion that came in reply from a member was ‘lack of unity’.   It is indeed a reason.   But when we analyse the history of any society or nations or for that matter other organisations in the Central Government itself, nowhere we will be able to see a case of 100% unity.   It is not possible.   There will always be vested interests.   Even in the greatest of freedom struggles, including a very vast many Indians, it could be seen that it was not a 100% unity that brought success.   There were elements inimical to the movement, within and without, there were supporters of the British Raj, among our own elite, there were different shades of opinions regarding how the movement should be taken forward, whether right, left or centre, there were pressure groups having their own grouse against the majority movement, and in spite of all that, if the movement could

  Last week in a retirement party, one of our former Association Office Bearers, Com. N.S. Rajagopal had openly expressed his frustration over the stagnation, as the reason for his opting for VRS, two years before he was due to retire.   His speech went viral.   It is reproduced for the benefit of those who have not yet come across the same.   VRS Speech by Com. N.S. Rajagopal What of course he did not say was that, while he joined the department with great hopes, he had already learnt COBOL language and was working as a Computer Programmer for two years at Bangalore.   That was in 1988.   One could very well imagine to what heights he could have gone, if he had continued in the same field – because in 1988 a Computer programmer with Cobalt knowledge would not have been just another person.   I know him personally.   In respect of religious belief or concept of God, he is a non-believer.   Yet, in the course of his speech, he said that the only ‘sin’ he committed was to tick th

  AIASCT stands recognised. It has taken more than 4 years for the process to be completed.  The first set of DDO Certificates in the name of AIACEGEO had been submitted in January 2018.  Then after protracted correspondence, meetings, etc, the Board decided that unless both claimants using the name of AIACEGEO come together, recognition could not be renewed in that name and hence both parties have to come with two different names to enable verification of their membership strength, based on which alone the renewal can be granted.  This decision was on 3.12.2020.  On the very night, our CEC had met online and adopted a new name AIASCT and also a Constitution and communicated it to the Board on 4.12.2020 and sought renewal of recognition in the new name.  Fresh DDO certificates were obtained in that new name and submitted to the Board.  The Board thereafter took its own time to verify and re-verify these DDO Certificates and has at last granted renewal of recognition of the Association

  The Republic is essentially a Constitutional State.  While the Independence Day becomes an occasion to remember the great sacrifices our earlier generations had to undergo to get rid of the foreign yoke, the Republic Day is an occasion to remember the pangs of setting up the constitutional frame work which guarantees us protection, freedom and dignity in life. On this occasion, we remember the great souls who created this frame work, even though it might be called as an evolution from the previous administrative set up, but by enshrining some sacred rights and mechanisms of checks and balances to ensure that these rights are allowed to be exercised. This administrative set up is being run by highly qualified minds that are selected through various methods.   Some by election, some by examination, some by nominations, etc.   These highly evolved minds are that are responsible to ensure that the constitutional frame work is protected. But, there were some greater minds that had refused

  There is a video doing the rounds in Face book.   A Labrador is seen seated between a young man and an old man.   The young man takes away the TV remote from the elder.   The lab snatches it from the young man and gives it to the old man.   When the young man again tries to snatch it back from the old man, the lab gets all over the young man and thwarts his move.   The vide could have been shot with a script.   All those featured in it would perhaps be actors.   But there is another video showing the reaction of a monkey in the face of discrimination. The experiment found on you tube is by one Frans de Waal called the ‘fairness experiment’.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo See the angry reaction of the monkey which is given cucumber when the other one is given grapes, for the same stones in exchange. Do humans react like this? Having been on an evolutionary hierarchy we ought to be. The answer lies in the ‘Ultimatum Game’. In this test, two sets of people are s

  ( Sanjay Srinivasan 21.02.1970 - 12.01.2022 ) Sanjay’s departure has been so sudden that words refuse to come out to express anything about him.   Right from the morning of Wednesday (12.01.2022) when I came to know about the devastating news, I have been trying to put my thoughts into words.  Whenever I attempted,  I felt like Sanjay coming near me and saying with his sweet smile, ‘for what?’.   (‘Edhukku?’, he would have told in Tamil) That was his typical quintessence.   He would not say a word which has no relevance or would not be understood by the others.   And for that reason, his words carried weight and substance. Yet, I could feel some deep pain which I put in the Face book on Friday. What pains had you carried in your heart Sanjay That it gave way without even a notice. What pains you carried about the cadre, What pains you carried about your colleagues, What pains you carried over the deplorable spot we are in, Over your words not understood, over our effo