CBEC on 18-5-2012 has allotted seven  Probationers of 62nd Batch of Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central Excise) Group ‘A’ as Assistant Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise to Hyderabad Zone. The following are the names.

1. M.Chetana

2. Kalyana Revella

3. N.Sailaja Kumari

4. N.Priyanka

5. Shiv Narayan

6. A.Venkatesham

7. N.Balram

   Hope with this allotment the acute vacancy position in AC /DC cadre in Hyderabad Zone will be mitigated to a large extent.

BUT WHEN ARE PROMOTIONS FROM SUPERINTENDENT CADRE TO AC CADRE GOING TO BE GIVEN. IT HAS BEEN AGES SINCE WE HAVE SEEN A PROMOTION ORDER FROM SUPDT CADRE TO AC CADRE IN CBEC. AND IN THE MEANTIME OFFICERS ARE RETIRING AS SUPDTS ONLY, AFTER PUTTING IN A SERVICE OF 35 TO 38 YEARS WITH SINGLE PROMOTION IN THEIR CHEQUERED CAREER OUT WHICH 18 TO 20 YEARS AS SUPDT,   EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ELIGIBLE TO BE PROMOTED AS AC.

Andhra Pradesh Government has requested the Government of India to  set up a Bench of CESTAT( Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal) in Hyderabad.

At present the appeals of tax payers located in Andhra Pradesh are heard by CESTAT Bench located in Bangalore resulting in inconvenience not only to assessees but also to the lawyers who have to travel all the way to Bangalore. Almost 45 per cent of litigation pending in Bangalore Bench pertains to AP as it is hub of STP, SEZ & EOUs.

Andhra Pradesh’s Information Technology and Communications Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah has written a communication to Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in this regard.

Setting up a full- fledged Bench of CESTAT in Hyderabad may take even 2 years as the Members and office staff for the Bench will be required to be hired by the Government and the recruitment process itself takes almost 2 years. Government  has not been able to fill even the existing vacancies of Members in existing Benches even after selection of some new Technical Members by the Selection Committee . The interviews for the post of new Judicial Members have already been completed. Even the Members posted in Bangalore Bench are due to retire shortly and it may also stop functioning.

AIT suggests that a Circuit Bench of CESTAT may be constituted immediately which may sit for 2 months in Hyderabad. If there is shortage of Members; retired President/Members of CESTAT can be hired on contract basis as most of the retired Members and even retired President are interested in coming back to CESTAT. A Retired President of CESTAT has even filed a petition in High Court for appointing him as a Member in CESTAT. They can also be engaged for visiting Hyderabad for searching suitable location for Circuit Bench as several visits are required for finalising the location.

Allindiantaxes

Congratulations to G.Sashank, S/o Sri G.Rambabu, Inspector of CE, Hyderabad-IV Comm'te for securing All India 14th Rank in Open Category in IIT-JEE-2012

A great achievement indeed!. Keep it up Sashank. You have made your parents and our Department very proud. May God bless you!

I. Allotment/transfers to Hyderabad International Airport:

                Hyderabad International Airport has a sanctioned strength of 60 Inspectors out of which 75% has to be filled up through Hyderabad CCA strength and the remaining 25% from outside. At present only 30 Inspectors are working with a vacancy of 30 Inspectors which is alarming and disurbing to run such an ever growing Airport. International flights have also commenced from Vizag Airport. In the recent past very few officers have applied for selection in Hyderabad Airport thus forcing the administration to run Customs work with such a huge deficit in working strength.

               Out of 30 working strength in Inspector cadre in Airport, atleast 10 officers have completed their tenure and are on extended term. To fill up the vacancies on a temporary/priority basis administration is likely to post five to ten officers from the present DR quota. Allotment in Hyderabad Zone to around 40 DR Inspectors who have completed their training is likely to be given and out of them around five to ten officers are likely to be posted to Airport.

             Since the response to calling for applications/willinginess for selection and posting in Aipport is poor, administrtation has decided to allot more number of Inspectors to Hyderabad-II Commissionerate in this AGT and out of the working strength of Hyderabad-II Comm'te, Inspectors will be posted to the Aiprort on transfer basis. Hereafter no willingness to work in the Airport will be called for and officers from Hyderabad-II Comm'te only will be posted to the Airport on transfer basis after arriving at some modalities/criteria for such transfers.

           This is a stop-gap arrangment till Cadre Restructuring takes place  after which a comprehensive policy for postings to the entire Customs postings i.e. Airport, ICD, Air Cargo etc. will be evolved.

II. MACP-I and II Orders:

     Vigilance clearance along with seniority confirmation has not yet  been received from all the Commissionerates of Hyderabad and Vizag Zone despite several reminders by way of DO letters issued by Commissioner-II for issuance of MACP-I and MACP-II orders for the period ending September,2012. Yesterday we have met and requested the administration to expedite these orders as some of the MACP-II eligible officers who will be granted GP-5400 and thus become entitled for travel through Airllines have already made arrangements for all India LTC  in this month. Non-granting of MACP-II in time to these officers will force them to travel through traines except in cases of North East/J&K tours.

III. Review of IZT/ICT Transfer Policy:

     The present IZT/ICT Transfer Policy for Inspector Cadre which was framed  in the year 2008 is due for review in the year 2013. Chief Commisisoner, Hyderabad, it is learnt, would like to review and evolve a new policy well in advance in this year itself for effecting it from 2013 AGT. After receipt of letter from the administration for our views/opinion, we will be calling for a General Body meeting  of our cadre to elicit views/susggestions of the cadre before we can submit our views/suggestions to the administration.  However, it is preferable to evolve a new transfer policy after CR is implemented.

COC meeting for ICT/Moffussil transfers of Inspectors in Hyderabad Zone has been completed on 15-5-2012. Exemption from Mofussil postings on Educational Grounds of Children has been withdrawn from this year onwards. Exemption from Mofussil postings only on extreme medical grounds is being considered.

Cut off date for completion of four years in a Commissionerate has not yet been decided and it is likely to be either 1st or 30th June.

Commissionerate-wise postings orders to Direct Recruit Inspectors  numbering around 40 who have been allotted to Hyderabad Zone will be issued today or tomorrow.

1. ICT/Mofussil Transfers of Inspectors within Hyderabad Zone:

     Committee of Commissioners Meeting for ICT/Mofussil transfers of Inspectors within Hyderabad Zone is being held today 3.30 pm in HQRS Office. It is learnt that ICT/Moffussil transfers will be issued by next week.

2. IZT transfers:

       COC meeting for IZT transfers of Inspectors from Vizag Zone to Hyderrabad Zone has already been completed. It is learnt that only four applications of  Inspectors from Vizag Zone to Hyderabad have been cleared in the COC meeting. IZT orders are expected by this Friday.

Promotion Orders vide Est. Order (GO) No. 22/2012, 23/2012 and 24/2012 all dated 11-5-2012 for promotion to Supdt Cadre in Hyderabad CCA have been issued today.

Twenty Three officers in open, one officer each in SC and ST quota  have been promoted along with regularisation of previous ad-hoc officers.

Click below for copies of orders.

 http://www.scribd.com/doc/93224864/Promotion-Orders-1

http://www.scribd.com/doc/93225315/Promotion-Order-2

http://www.scribd.com/doc/93225408/Promotion-and-Regular-is-at-Ion-Order

        It is learnt that the DPC file for promotion to Superintendent Cadre has been taken  to Vizag zone  today for getting approval of the nominated member/s from Vizag Zone for the DPC i.e. Commissioner/s of the Vizag Zone.  It is expected that the DPC file will be reaching Hyderabad this evening and promotion orders in all probability are likely to be issued tomorrow i.e. 11-5-2012.

        This practise of getting approval, which has been discontinued of late, of the nominated member/s of Vizag Zone has been revived with this DPC. Anyway all is well that ends well. Once this process of DPC is completed and yearly plan is drawn, promotions against retirement or consequential vacancies can be issued on a monthly basis henceforth till February,2013.

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