Transfer Orders - Disobedient Officers - CBEC is Again Angry
WHEN the Board transfers officers of the rank of Assistant Commissioner to Commissioner, it is not always that the officers obediently go and join at the new place of posting. Many of them who are not happy with the wisdom of the Board, hang on to their places and try through various sources for retention or a better posting. And in many cases, the Board obliges!
Now, the CBEC notes that many of the officers transferred in 2012 are not relieved and still continue in their old posting. What does the Board do in such situations? IT TAKES A SERIOUS VIEW. And the Board had been consistently taking a serious view for nearly half a century. The officers know that the serious view of the Board is a big joke and they laugh it off.
In its latest taking a serious view, the CBEC has requested the Chief Commissioners to ensure that the transfer orders of the Board are implemented by 14th September 2012 positively and compliance reported to Board. Otherwise, the Board shall be constrained to initiate disciplinary action against defaulting officers/controlling officers. Every officer knows this is an empty threat.
If the Board is really serious, let them suspend one disobedient officer and his controlling officer and keep them without a posting for a year - the whole system will fall in place. These empty threats will not work - everybody knows the Board can't be serious.
At the same time, the Board should understand the agony of the transferred officers - some of them might have genuine reasons and Board should consider those cases sympathetically. Perhaps, after every transfer, Board should give 15 days time to the officer to represent against his transfer and give a reasonable reasoned order on his transfer and then insist that he should be relieved immediately.
The general perception among the officers is that the Board is very unfair, cruel and not interested in the welfare of the officers and that transfers are highly influenced by political and other considerations. The other day a senior officer told me that great injustice was done to him by transferring him even though he was not due for a transfer, though his new posting was a very good one. I asked him what a very good posting was - "You know”, he laughed it off!
CBEC F. No. C-50/65/2012 - Ad.II Dated: September 08, 2012