Cadre Review - CBEC's ambitious Proposals - more than 3500 posts of Assistant Commissioners!
IF the CBEC has its way, every officer officer in the Department from Chief Commissioner to Sepoy is likely to move up the hierarchical ladder. In on 11.11.2010, we reported that the Staff Associations had threatened to go on strike, for the main reason that they were not consulted before the proposals were finalised. On 11th November itself, Board had given a copy of the proposal to each of the associations.
Board has admitted that there is acute stagnation in the cadre of Superintendents. Direct Recruit Inspectors get only one promotion in 35 years of service. This has created a highly demoralised and demotivated workforce. Even the IRS officers take 21 years to reach the level of Commissioner while it is around 17 years in other services.
So they all deserve more promotions. The Board has recommended 18 new posts of Principal Chief Commissioner in the grade of Secretary at Rs. 80,000/- pay! They want 30 more Chief Commissioners, 100 new Commissioner -Gr-1 and 70 more Commissioners. At present they have 593 Additional Commissioners/JCs and now they want 1026-an increase of 433. Now they have 1550 AC/DC posts which they want to increase to 4896 – an additional 3346 posts and they want 250 more Assistant Commissioners to be in reserve!
They want more than 35000 posts to be created and as a sacrifice to the country they are going to abolish 6906 posts. Of these abolished posts, some will be re-created.
If the cadre review gets through, a 1993 batch IRS officer will become Commissioner. All eligible Assistant Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Joint Commissioners will get their next promotion. 1992-93 Superintendents of central Excise and 1995-96 Customs Superintendents will get their promotion. All appraisers with three years of service will get promoted.
The Board proposes creation of a hundred Group -A Stenographers with All India Transfer liability. There are stenographers who have worked all their life in one Commissionerate and at the fag end of his life, if he is made a Group-A Steno, will he like to go to Timbuktu?
The Board has worked the additional cost of cadre review as Rs. 965 Crores only. This takes into account only the salary and not the huge wasteful expenditure each officer costs the country. Where are they going to find rooms to put all these promoted officers in?
Anyway the officers have enough material to discuss about in the next couple of years!!