Board requests for discipline/obedience from Field

By Vijay Kumar

BY Office Order No.53/2016, dated 10.05.2016, the CBEC transferred 190 Assistant/Deputy Commissioners. It was directed that the transferred officers must join at their new place of posting forthwith but not later than 17.05.2016 under intimation to the Board.

The Chief Commissioners/Directors General concerned were directed to send compliance reports regarding joining of the officers to the Board by 20.05.2016. It was also informed that all representations received till date regarding transfer and posting in the grades of Assistant/Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise stand disposed of and that no representations whatsoever shall be entertained before they join at their new place of posting.

Similarly, by Office Order No. 54/2016, Board transferred 145 Additional/Joint Commissioners with identical directions.

Obeying Board orders is not really a favourite pastime in the field. Everybody knows that the only consequence of disobeying the Board is the Board would view it seriously.

Now, after more than 45 days of the time limit fixed by the Board, it is found that some of the transferred officers are yet to be relieved by the concerned Commissionerates/Directorates.

The Board requests that all the officers who have not been relieved so far may be relieved by 04.07.2016 and compliance report sent by 08.07.2016.

Is there no way the Board can make its officers obey its orders? How long will they go on requesting the subordinate officers to obey?

CBEC F.No.C.50/30/2016-Ad.II., Dated: July 01, 2016