CBEC’s retention orders of Assistant Commissioner/Deputy Commissioners

By Vijay Kumar

The CBEC yesterday issued what it called transfer and posting orders of 42 ACs/Dcs. What in fact it did was to retain many of the officers transferred in the last order. This order once again proves that the CBEC is simply sitting on a large workforce that doesn’t work or are not needed. A classic example is Guntur where there is no Commissioner for the last six years. The fact that this Commissionerate was running rather efficiently without a Commissioner for the last six years is ample proof that there is really no need for a Commissioner there. Why can’t the government abolish that post and many others which are not filled?

Coming back to yesterday’s transfer order, out of the 42 names, 34 are retained in their old stations. The CBEC order says, “All the officers should be relieved immediately”. These are the officers who were not immediately relieved in the last transfer order. Now these 34 officers who are retained in their present stations were posted to places where there were vacancies obviously. Strangely CBEC has not posted anyone to these posts. For example 11 officers posted to Kolkota are retained in their old places. And nobody is posted in their places. So these 11 posts are vacant in Kolkotta. Three officers posted to NACEN, Faridabad are retained which means NACEN will have to do without those three ACs. Three ACs who were posted to Vizag are retained with no substitute posting to Vizag. This means Vizag has to do without the services of three ACs which it will eminently manage to.

AS PER DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE MINISTRY OF FINANCE LETTER NO.(4)E.COORD(I)/2001 DATED 27 MARCH 2001, ANY POST LYING VACANT FOR MORE THAN ONE YEAR IS TREATED AS DEEMED ABOLISHED POST.

Why is the Board not abolishing these posts?