CBEC is no better
Disobedience of the Board is not confined to CBDT; CBEC is no better. On 16 th August 2008, Saturday – a holiday for the CBEC, the Board issued a transfer order of 11 Joint Commissioners/ Additional Commissioners. What was the urgent need for issuing this order on a Saturday, especially when the whole of Government of India was on a vacation with three holidays?
The order stipulates that Shrikant Patil who was under orders of transfer from DGICCE to Hyderabad Central Excise and D.K.Srivastava who was under transfer to DGICCE are to be retained in their respective positions till 31.12.2008 and have to be relieved on 1.1.2009. But both these officers have already joined in their new posts, that is, Mr. Patil has joined Central Excise and Mr. Srivastava has joined DGICCE . Now are they supposed to join back their old postings – and that too just for about four months! Should the Board issue a transfer order for such ad-hoc arrangement? And what is the great need for two officers posted in the same city to continue in the same post for four more months? At whose request this has been done? Is there some vested interest? Transfer orders are really getting murkier.
Sometime back when an officer was transferred, there was a strong pressure from the trade to retain the officer. The Chairman was surprised that this officer was so popular with the trade and asked the trade representatives why they wanted his retention. He was told that the officer had been already paid advance of the next two quarterly hafta and if a new officer is posted, they will have to pay again!
CBEC OFFICE ORDER NO.195/2008 Dated the 16th August, 2008