Black Badges in Central Excise Day
THE Superintendents of Central Excise were seen in the Central Excise Day function wearing black badges. Ravi Mailk, Secretary General of the All India Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers, informs that they are forced to celebrate it as black badges day due to discriminating and biased attitude of authorities. The reason behind this observance of black badges day was totally apathetic and indifferent attitude of the authorities for last many decades in the matters of promotions, career progression, payment of overdue arrears of pay as recommended by various courts, parity with the counterparts of Enforcement Directorate as recommended by Pay Commission, stoppage of harassment, transparent & impartial transfer/posting policy, creation of separate service as recommended on various occasions by the department, direct promotion to senior group A post like other gazetted officers, change of recruitment rules, filing of long awaited affidavit in the Hon'ble Supreme Court in promotion case, seniority benefit on promotion like many other gazetted officers, reclassification of the post as group A like other counterparts, merger of trifurcated cadre with retrospective effect and promotion on the basis of combined length of service for parity with other counterparts, compensation for undone cadre restructurings due after every three years, time bound promotions to remove acute stagnation, counting of regular service correctly on the lines of group A etc.