What is Sanctity of CBEC Transfer orders?
ON 7th June 2012, the Board issued a transfer order of 60 Joint/Addl Commissioners.
The Order clearly stipulated, "All the officers mentioned above must be relieved immediately and they must join at their new place of posting on or before 22.06.2012, under intimation to the Board. No representations whatsoever shall be entertained before the officers join at their new places of posting."
On 28th September 2012, the Board issued another transfer order of 14 Joint/Addl Commissioners.
This order also clearly stipulates, "All the officers mentioned above must be relieved immediately and they must join at their new place of posting on or before 12.10.2012, under intimation to the Board. No representations whatsoever shall be entertained before the officers join at their new places of posting."
This second transfer order contains the names of five officers who figured in the first transfer order also. And all five of them have been retained in their original place of posting.
Apparently these officers did not join at the new place as directed by CBEC and contrary to what CBEC preaches in all the transfer orders, their representations were considered before they joined their new places of posting. Where were these officers for the last three months?
So, everybody knows that the Board is not serious when it says that a transferred officer has to be relieved by a particular date and that their representations will not be considered before they join.
It is not doubted even remotely that these officers deserve to be retained in their existing posts; they all surely have genuine reasons. But what about the officers who obeyed the Board and joined at the new places? They are condemned, for no fault, other than respect for the Board! Will they not learn a lesson?
Why should the Board lose its credibility by lofty declarations that transferred officers have to join at the new place and that representations will not be considered? Why can't they simply say that the transfer orders are provisional and subject to changes as are unavoidable and officers are invited to submit their representations and use all pressure tactics latest by...