Transferred Officers not Relieved - Board Serious!!!!!
BOARD instructions are disobeyed with boringly routine regularity by the field officers and with equal routine regularity Board has been expressing its displeasure and promising to initiate action, taking a serious view of this blatant disobedience.
Recently, the CBEC had issued transfer orders of Additional Commissioners/Joint Commissioners and asked the cadre controlling officers to relieve the transferred officers by 08.06.2011 and the Chief Commissioners were requested to send compliance report by 10.06.2011.
Many Chief Commissioners did not send any compliance report. Many of them who did, reported that in many cases, the transferred officers were not relieved.
As usual, Board has viewed non-compliance of its orders very seriously. Matter ends there!
But why are transferred officers not relieved? Many of them have grievances that their transfer orders are against norms, due to clerical mistakes and they have genuine reasons to be retained or given a better posting. Shouldn't the Board give them a hearing and consider their representations, before forcing them to leave their posts in less than a week from the date of the order? This will only force the officers to approach the CAT for some relief, even temporarily, causing a lot of mental agony and expenditure. WE are told that even SDRs in CESTAT who slogged it out vociferously fighting the best legal brains, to defend the Department, have been posted to unwanted places, sending a strong message that the Department does not believe in encouraging talent, hard work and commitment.
Why can't transfers be done to the satisfaction of the maximum possible number of officers? Today it is exactly the opposite.