Customs and Central Excise Superintendents get promotion
GB Panda is a Superintendent of Central Excise. He must have become Superintendent in 1992, a good twenty years ago. He is to retire this month end. Yesterday the Department promoted him on in situ basis - he will continue to sit where he was and retire as an Assistant Commissioner without having any of the powers of Assistant Commissioner being wasted on him! Panda is lucky for he is retiring as an Assistant Commissioner. His good friend who was senior to him retired last month as a Superintendent because the Department could not issue the promotion order last month.
Even when there are clear vacancies and qualified officers readily available, the Department is not able to promote them - and that is HRD in the Department.
How long can you run an organisation with a huge highly talented and totally dissatisfied workforce?