Reorganisation of CBEC Field offices - Confusion starts TODAY
CBEC seems to have decided to go ahead with its massive overhaul of field offices with effect from today. Spend the next few days searching for your Central Excise/Service Tax offices, their addresses and the officers.
The Department hardly has any Inspector now - all the inspectors have become superintendents and all the superintendents remain there. You can't move around in Central Excise offices without dashing into a few superintendents.
Nearly 200 Commissioner level offices have been created without a single officer for them. Yesterday the Board issued a jurisdiction order for 247 Commissioners most of whom will hold additional charge of about 200 offices. And strange things happen - the Bhopal Appellate Commissioner will work from Raipur and hold additional charge of Bhubaneswar. ADG NACEN, Kanpur will have additional charge of Kolkata and Shillong.
At least 200 Additional Commissioners should get promotion to fill these posts, but Board is not able to promote a few Superintendents. But they have created all these offices to confuse the assessees. Why this hurry? Why can't this be done in a more organised way?
CBEC Office Order no. 189/2014, Dated: October 14, 2014