CBEC issues CR notification along with Communication forming various Committees.

CBEC has issued CR notification vide  F.No. 11019/08/2013-AD.IV, dt. 18-12-2013 along with instructions for implementation of CR by forming Six Committees for preparing, overseeing and implementing the CR.

 Some details of the CR Notification and Committees are as follows:

 With this CR total staff strength of CBEC has gone up by 18067 from 66808 to 84875.

2)      New vacancies arising due to additional regular posts approved for creation in JTS as well as chain vacancies in JTS arising due to promotions against additional posts created at higher level will be filled in IRS (Customs and &CE) Recruitment Rules,2012 i.e. on the basis of 50:50 (DR and Promotions) in the new ratio of 13:2:1.

3)      The new 2118 temporary JTS AC posts are created for five years from the date of notification i.e. 18-12-2013. These new posts will be filled totally from the internal promotions from the three feeder cadres i.e. Superintendent of Central Excise, Superintendent (Customs) and Appraiser in the revised ratio. However, the promotions against these vacancies shall not entail further promotion to any level beyond JTS. In other words, officers promoted as AC in the PB-3 scale of Rs.15600-39100 with GP of 5400 (JTS)  against these temporary posts will not be eligible for promotion as DCs in the PB-3 15600-39100 scale with GP of 6600 (STS).  

4)     Formation wise distribution of the posts at various levels will be issued separately. Let us see whether  the Superintendent posts are reduced from  80 to 50 in CE Commissionerates. We also need to get clarification on the SS of Superintendents in land Customs Commissionerates like Hyderabad.

5)      Following is the increase in cadre strength after CR:

1.      Principal Chief Commissioner (New Cadre with Apex scale)   14

2.      Chief Commissioner/DG  (New Cadre with HAG scale                                38

3.      Chief Commissioner (Present CC redesignated as Principal Commissioner) 53

4.      Commissioner-45

5.      ADCs-339

6.      JCs-339

7.      DCs-200

8.      ACs (Regular) in JTS grade 300

9.      ACs JTS Temporary – 2118

10.  Superintendent – Three cadres – 5160

11.  Inspectors – three cadres – 5040.

II. Committees:

 Six Committees have been formed.

I.                   Core Committee    -  Time six months

II.                Committee for conducting DPCs -  Time six months

III.             Committee for operational issues  – Two months

IV.             Committee on Recruitment Rules for various grades – One month

V.                Committee on Technical Matters – 1 month

VI.             Committee on infrastructure – Four months.

SG says that the Board is planning to conduct DPCs for promotions from Supdt cadre to ACs cadre first and at the earliest and that after this DPCs only, promotions will be conducted from Inspector Cadre to Supdt cadre.

It seems all the Chief Commissioners have already prepared draft notifications for notifying new Commissioners/Zones. These draft Notifications will have to be sent to the Board and after approval from the Board all the formations will be notified by the respective CCs.

Conservatively and  most optimistically CR should be put in place by March,2014. Lets hope for the best.

With Best Regards- Jaipal Singh.