Promotion from AC to DC - CBEC does not have ACRs of 278 officers
THE Board is planning to promote Assistant Commissioners in the Customs and Central Excise Department to the grade of Deputy Commissioners. In the normal course an Assistant Commissioner is promoted as Deputy Commissioner on completing four years as Assistant Commissioner. But this time around the hitch is that the Board does not have the Annual Confidential reports of 278 officers who are to be considered for promotion. For most of the officers, the ACRs from 2002 are not available! And quite a few of them are retiring this year!
Now what can you say about a Board which does not have the reports about its officers from the year 2002? The reports are to be given latest by May every year. What was the Board doing for eight years when it did not have the ACRs of its Assistant Commissioners for eight long years?
Now the Board has asked the Chief Commissioners to furnish the missing ACRs to the Board latest by 21st May. Board's communication is dated 17 th May (yesterday) and it may not even reach the CCs by 21st May. How will they find out the officers, find out who wrote their reports and who reviewed them and compile all the information and send it to the Board?
The 278 officers in the list can be sure that they cannot be considered for promotion in the near future!
These reports are to be written by Commissioners and reviewed by Chief Commissioners. Why these senior officers should not be taken to task for not writing the ACRs of their subordinate officers? And should these ACs suffer for want of ACRs over which they have no control?
CBEC F. No. A – 32012/30/2009 – Ad.II Dated May 17 2010.