CBEC Cadre Review - Gathering Dust in DOPT
HUNDREDS, if not thousands of officers in the Customs and Excise Department are eagerly waiting for that much elusive cadre review and resultant promotions. They hope, wish, pray and publicise that they are going to get a promotion any day. Some of them expressed their anger at us for not carrying a letter written by a Board Member to the field about getting ready for the big event and detailing about the number of posts from Sepoy to Chief Commissioner and Principal Chief Commissioner.
But the fact is that while the CBEC is ready and had been answering all the queries from DOPT at lightning speed, the file is unfortunately gathering dust in DOPT. Though DOPT is sitting on the file for nearly four months now, there seems to be no hurry there to clear this file. It is unfortunate that a file that had been cleared by so many committees and Expenditure Department and the FM himself is crying for attention of some babu in DOPT. The babus who delay files of others for no good reason are in for a surprise when their file is delayed by another babu – for the same reason – no good reason.
And to add to the agony, it is understood that CBDT is yet to answer all the queries raised by DOPT.