Dear Comrades, I have the privilege
to inform that our predecessors Invited at one Dice and Honored by this association
to take their advices and heard them Patiently.
Our erstwhile President and Secretary
General who had truly outstanding have been the contributions made to the organization’s
causes by our predecessors and made this organization very strong and fruitful,
due to their hard work, we have the satisfaction of having achieved in large
measure the objectives they had set for themselves then, and having fulfilled
the promise made to our fraternity. This was a unique and first kind of
experienced that our Hon’ble President Shri A.Satish and Shri K.G.Ajit Kumar
had invited to our erstwhile presidents and Secretary Generals at one dais to
honoured them and share their experience
and also have the valuable suggestions and advise to our members being to
foster transition to a more youthful and even more representative
leadership.
As we bid adieu, it would
only be appropriate that we share here the valuable suggestions and advise of
our predecessors those who had privileged to work for this organizations on the
capacity of erstwhile President and Secretary General. Here I tried re-produced
their lectures and valuable advise which they shared with the our members in
the convention:-
1) Shri Kousik Roy – He worked for this organization more than 5
years. He said that serving the cadre
had been a privilege for him. He spoke about the C.R. and 7th CPC
and advised to our new All India Office Bearers to discharge their duty
honestly and perfectly and represent the cadre demand in a proper manner before
the CBEC.
2) Shri K.P.Manoj – He worked
for this organization as a President. He spoke about the work of the Shri
A.Satish and K.G.Ajit and appreciated their style of work and approach. He
threw light on the regional disparities and stagnation which is very much
prevailing in the Inspectors cadre. He advised to the new committee to work
hard in proper manner and represent/redress the cadre problem properly to the
Revenue Secretary and IRS. He also described the Stagnation in the cadre of
Inspectors and said with a heavy heart that in the whole service our cadre
fellow gets only a single promotion .i.e. in 35 years. He also advised the new
committee to take up the pension issue(PF) very seriously before the government
as they declared that there shall be no PF for Officers(Inspector’s) joined
after the year 2004.
3) Arun Zakaria - He worked for this organization as a President. He
started his activities as an Inspector immediately after joining in 1994. He
shared his first experience about the association when he attended the first
convention & he felt uncomfortable due the egoistic behavior of the Office
Bearers in the key posts. He also said that it was very hard time in those days
to make any representation to the CBEC.
4) Shri R Manimohan, He is now a Superintendent - A rare talent in the Department, and
truly an embodiment of the trinity of virtues of goodness, wisdom and
courage. This lecture, I'm sure, will be an inspiration and source of enlightenment
to all those interested in organizational matters, especially the young men and
women among today's Inspectors, as well as many many others, to be listened to
carefully, understood , imbibed and put into practice. I also hope that the
AICEIA shall in the years to come continue with this Series which we have only
initiated. He said that the in Previous days the body had to be kicked out ,
but in the present situation this body washed their hands within 18months
before completing their tenure, with a pretext that they are Going to get an
Promotion in the CR. In the previous days there was only one Federation which
contained so many cadres and it was very difficult to present the memorandum
before the concerned authorities because in the federation so many cadres were
involved and when tried to represent any matter before the concerned authority
they were hardly given 15minutes of time. Further he told that at that time
members to not interested to hear the grievances but they travelled by flight
to cast their vote in their interested candidate and returned. But in the
present situation it was very happy to see that all the members and office
bearers were very much interested to hear with patience and solved their problems
amicably. He also informed that Kerela was the last unit which was associated
with the AICEIA very lately. He also advised to the new committee to maintain
unity and proper representation before the CBEC, if they smelt any division or
weakness in the association so defiantly they will take advantage of that and
without unity the association will never succeed. He also advised to the new
committee whenever they represent before the concerned authority they should
not repeat the history of the demand and they should only say that the demand
must be solved immediately.
5) Shri Murali Krishna, He joined the department in 1975 and also
worked as a president for AICEIA. He said that after leaving the post of the
Inspectors association as a president he never involved in any other Association
as an office bearer. He also advised to do justice with the members as they
were elected by the member for their welfare and he also advised the office
bearers to discharge their duties honestly and sincerely without availing any
personal benefits.
6) Sri A.Satish, Former President – He advised to new elected
committee members to wrk hard for the development of the Organization and
discharge their duty honestly for the welfare of the cadre.
7) Sri K.G.Ajit, Former Secretary General –
It's time now for a new
Central Committee to take charge of the AICEIA. The XVIIIth Convention
beginning tomorrow in Trivandrum will elect a new Committee, as the
present one steps down with six months of its tenure still remaining, an
important reason for this being to foster transition to a more youthful
and even more representative leadership. I trust delegates to the Convention
will exercise their franchise astutely, with foresight and show
good judgment.
For this Committee, it has
been a great privilege to champion the cadre's causes since December 2012 when
we were elected at the Patna Convention.
We have the satisfaction of
having achieved in large measure the objectives we had set for ourselves then,
and having fulfilled the promise made to our fraternity. It is the
result of the relentless efforts of this Association that the CBEC in its
meeting on 09.04.2014 approved the proposal put forth by the DGHRD that there
should be an All India Seniority for Inspectors of Central Excise. Though the
modalities of the same as envisaged by the Board are not to our satisfaction,
fact remains that it is a historic breakthrough. We have to continue to employ
all our means to ensure that All India Seniority must be ensured for all
Inspectors recruited on the basis of an All India Merit List. Over the
past year and a half this Committee has left no stone unturned to eliminate the
shameful disparities that exist among different Zones in promotions of
C.Ex. Inspectors to Superintendents. This issue has dominated our agenda
throughout our tenure. There is hardly a door which we haven't knocked in
pursuit of solutions to this chronic and extremely vexing problem. From
M(P&V) to DG HRD, successive Chairpersons of the CBEC and Revenue
Secretaries, and also Union Ministers, we have met them all and presented the
issue and proposed just and workable solutions. It remains to be seen how
fruitful our efforts have been when the Cadre Restructuring in CBEC gets
rolled out.
There have been
disappointments too. Lack of discipline shown by some regional units in
approaching and meeting the Board/DGHRD officials directly and
communicating demands divergent from the ones reflected in resolutions of the
AICEIA CEC meetings and Conventions have done great damage to the Association's
overall credibility and severely eroded the influence it had mustered through
protracted and massive efforts. Also we need to be far more responsible
in fulfilling our responsibilities and obligations towards the organisation -
enhancing membership, collection and forwarding of DDO Certificates, timely
collection of membership subscriptions, payment of dues regularly to the
national body, holding of meetings and elections as mandated in our bye-laws,
and the like - much is left to be desired on all these counts in several
Circles/ Branches/Units.
Another area where we
failed miserably was in forging an alliance with the present leadership
of the Association of Central Excise Superintendents. For reasons best known to
them they have been, overtly and covertly, trying to thwart all our efforts to
remove regional disparities in promotions within our cadre, and have also been
viciously opposing our demand for All India seniority for Inspectors.
The coming days, hopefully,
will see some significant improvement in these two aspects of the
organisation's functioning.
We wish all success to the
Committee that will take over from the present one the charge of running the
AICEIA from here on. We also assure them of all support and assistance, should
they require it of us.
Serving the cadre has been
a privilege for each one of us on this Committee, and an experience that
each one of us shall cherish and treasure for the rest of our lives. It
has been a magnificient team effort, with each one contributing his best. Truly
outstanding have been the contributions made to the organisation's causes by
two individuals - our beloved President Com A. Satish and Com. Ashish
Biswas, Treasurer of the AICEIA, both of whom despite personal inconveniences,
devoted time and energy in immense measure and toiled tirelessly to
take the Association forward - the organisation, and I, personally, are hugely
indebted to them.
We also received very
valuable guidance and advice from several past office bearers of the AICEIA. We
are extremely grateful for this, especially to Shri Tirthankar Pyne, Shri R
Manimohan, Shri Arun Zachariah, Shri K P Manoj and Shri Kousik Roy.
I thank every single
Central Excise Inspector in the country, all the National and Regional office
bearers of the AICEIA, and sister organisations in the CBEC for their unstinted
support and all the love they showered on me. I have been truly fortunate in
having been able to travel to many parts of the country and interact with
thousands of our members.
As we bid adieu , it would
only be appropriate that we share here the link to the recording of the
brilliant and enlighteningInaugural Lecture in the AICEIA Annual Lecture
Series on Participatory Governance delivered
at Nagpur on the 25th of January 2014 by our erstwhile President and
Secretary General, Shri R
Manimohan, who is a
Superintendent now - a rare talent in the Department, and truly an embodiment
of the trinity of virtues of goodness, wisdom and courage. This lecture,
I'm sure, will be an inspiration and source of enlightenement to all those
interested in organisational matters, especially the young men and women among
today's Inspectors, as well as many many others, to be listened to carefully,
understood , imbibed and put into practice. I also hope that the AICEIA shall
in the years to come continue with this Series which we have only
initiated.
Farewell, dear Comrades. It has been a wonderful journey together.
Long Live AICEIA !
It was a Pleasure for me to bring the views of all the above
erstwhile Secretary General and President of this organization who served our
Organization with honesty and helped us reach the higher stage where we are now. Thank you all, hope you appreciate my Little
efforts.
With Regards,
Your’s Fraternally ,
(JAIPAL SINGH)
President, AICEIA-Hyd Zone.
Photographs of erstwhile Secretary Generals and Presidents those attended the XVIIIth AICEIA convention at Trivandrum
Photographs of erstwhile Secretary Generals and Presidents those attended the XVIIIth AICEIA convention at Trivandrum
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