Make NACEN a Premier Institution – IRS Assn
THE IRS (Cus & Excise) Association has represented to the Board to augment NACEN with resources to meet the increased mandate of training under the new National Training Policy 2012 and the National Drug Policy. In course of time the department will have to train 30000 more officers (12000 vacancies and 18000 new posts created by Cadre Restructuring) in due course apart from the existing employees. Hence the Association requested that NACEN, Faridabad and the 9 RTIs be provided with all the manpower required and sufficient funds. The proposal to build a new campus to train large batches of IRS (C&CE) Probationers should also be expedited.
It is really unfortunate that the premier academy, which is recognised as a Centre of Excellence, is starving for funds. Somehow the Board has no money for important wings like NACEN and CESTAT!
The IRS Association has made several other requests to the Board:
1. New Transfer Policy on par with Income Tax and not to make transfers till the Policy is in place.
2. The Association has sent representations along with list of officers at Commissioner level working for more than 3 years in both sensitive and non sensitive charges. Nothing substantial was done and hence rotation may be done in the same stations immediately.
3. Splitting DG-HRD in to DG-HRM and DG-Infrastructure.
4. Senior Time Scale to 2009 Batch.
5. Filling up of vacancies at JC/ADC level.
6. Empanelment of 1987 batches onwards as JS.
7. Expeditious implementation of Cadre restructuring:
8. Holding of DPCs for promotion to Chief Commissioner.
9. Transparency in dealing with deputation requests.
And they have a very special request. Their President is posted in Kolkata. The Association has passed a resolution in February 2013 urging the Board and FM to transfer the President back to NCR-Delhi, but obviously nobody cares.
Is the Board totally insensitive to staff grievances? Is Delhi reserved only for a coterie who will spend their entire service in Delhi and around and will not allow anybody else to come in – including the President of their Association? The submissions made by the Association appear to be fair and genuine and should have been acceded to in the normal course, without even a representation from the Association.
But why is the Board not able to do anything for the staff? There is a tremendous amount of animosity against the Board Members among all the employees, who feel that Board Members having reached the top are not bothered about the lower level officers.
Just yesterday, I met a 2004 batch IRS officer who was deeply frustrated that she is not yet promoted as Joint Commissioner. Standing smiling near her was a 1993 Superintendent who is still a Superintendent!