CBEC Commissioner Promotion - UPSC says ‘NO' to Ad hoc Promotions
THE present CBEC Chairman is very committed to Staff Welfare, but his best efforts always don't bring in the results he and his staff would like. There are nearly 50 vacancies of Commissioners in the Customs and Excise Department and the CBEC had moved in quickly and tried with all sincerity to fill up those posts. But in the last decade or so, promotions in the department were purely ad hoc due to several cases pending in various benches of the CAT. The seniority lists are in serious dispute at all levels from AC to CC.
Now, it is understood that the UPSC has shot down this adhochism and refused to hold DPC for promotion to the cadre of Commissioner.
Now the Department is stuck. When will they be able to finalise all the seniority lists and give regular promotions? And if by some quirk of fate, the cadre review gets through, there will be a large number of promotions in all cadres, but with UPSC not agreeing for ad hoc promotions, the officers of the department eagerly waiting for that much sought after promotion, have to do a little more waiting.