Scant respect for Board's Transfer Orders
IT is not the Laws and Board Circulars only that are disobeyed with consistency in the field, they have no respect for the Board's Transfer Orders also.
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.
On 1.7.2016, Board realized that many of the transferred officers were not relieved. By a letter dated 1.7.2016, Board requested that all the officers, who have not been relieved so far, may be relieved by 04.07.2016 positively and a compliance report be sent to the Board latest by 08.07.2016.
On 26.07.2016, Board finds that 92 of the 190ACs/DCs and63 of the 145 JCs/ADCs transferred in May 2016 are yet to be relived - in spite of the Board's clear directions. In such situations, the Board knows what to do. It views this disobedience seriously. Without mistake, Board has again taken a serious view and requests that all these officers may be relieved immediately and compliance report sent to the board latest by 29.7.2016, failing which Board will constrained to take appropriate action against the defaulting Chief Commissioners . (It could have been better as Board will be constrained, but with too many disobedient officers around, Board cannot be too fussy about language.)
What will happen if the compliance reports are not received by tomorrow? You know the answer; Board will again take a serious view - they have been doing it for a long time.