Proposed points for Inspector’s Inter-Zonal Transfer Policy And  Inter Commissionerate Transfer

Policy

I. INSPECTORS INTER-ZONAL TRANSFER POLICY – 2015

Following are the proposed points for Inter Zonal Transfer Policy in the cadre of Inspectors.

A      From Hyderabad Zone to Vizag Zone:

(a)   Parity of vacancy position in the cadre of inspectors will be maintained in Hyderabad and Vizag Zones in the ratio of sanctioned strengths. For this purpose, the officers on deputation will be counted on the strength of the zone from where they have gone on deputation.

(b)   On promotion to the cadre of Inspectors, the officers will be retained in the respective Zones till AGT. All officers from Hyderabad Zone on promotion will be transferred to Vizag Zone for a normal tenure of two years which will be treated as completed on 30th June for the purpose of AGT. Period of unauthorized leave including extraordinary leave, if any, will be excluded, for calculating the normal tenure of stay in Vizag Zone. On completion of the tenure, as the case may be, the officer will be transferred back to Hyderabad Zone during AGT or even before two years subject to availability of vacancies.

(c)    Direct Recruit (DR) Inspectors will be posted to Vizag Zone to the extent it is necessary to maintain the parity in vacancies in the two zones. "A list of available DR inspectors recruited and who may join from now onwards will be drawn as per their seniority and the officers will be posted alternately to Hyderabad Zone and Vizag Zone in the ratio of vacancies in the two zones. While doing so, request for posting to Vizag Zone will be generally considered.

(d)   In situations where the DR inspectors as at (c) above are not available and there is no possibility for promotion as at (b) above, officers who have never worked earlier in Vizag Zone will be transferred in order of their zonal seniority for two years to Vizag Zone to maintain the parity in vacancy. Thereafter, if necessary, the long-standing (i.e. zonal seniority)officers of Hyderabad Zone will be transferred to Vizag Zone for a period of two years so as to maintain the parity in vacancy in the two zones. For this purpose, a roster for such seniority will be maintained. Transfers under this clause (d) will be resorted to in the case of administrative exigencies only.

(e)    The officers of Hyderabad Zone transferred to Vizag Zone may be transferred back to Hyderabad Zone prematurely in extreme compassionate grounds including medical exigencies.

(f)     The officers who are prematurely transferred back to Hyderabad on the ground of extreme compassionate grounds including medical exigencies will be liable for transfer back to Vizag Zone in the next AGT or when the compassionate ground including the medical exigencies no more exists so as to complete their residual tenure in Vizag Zone if the tenure residual tenure is more than one year.

(g)   Officers, who during their tenure in Vizag Zone proceed on deputation or are posted to RGIA, will be, on completion of the deputation/RGIA posting posted again in Vizag Zone so as to complete their residual tenure but not less than one year in Vizag Zone.

B       From Vizag Zone to Hyderabad Zone:

(a)   Officers who joined in the cadre of Inspector and worked minimum tenure of six years in the cadre of inspector in Vizag

Zone may apply for transfer to Hyderabad Zone. Such request will be generally considered against available vacancies except where the request is not acceptable on administrative grounds or exigencies. On such transfer, the officers will be placed at the bottom of Hyderabad Zonal seniority of long-standing of officers as on the date of joining. The condition of the said six years may be waived or reduced in the case of extreme compassionate ground including medical exigencies.

(b)   Request for transfer from Vizag Zone to Hyderabad Zone will be generally considered at the time of AGT except in the case of extreme compassionate ground including medical exigencies.

C      Exemptions:

(a)     Officers retiring within two years will not be transferred from Hyderabad Zone to Vizag Zone except where there is a request from the individual. The cut-off date for calculating the period of 2 years will be 30th June of the AGT year.

(b)     Request from single parent from Hyderabad zone for retention in Hyderabad Zone on the ground of Child studying in class X and XII or equivalent will be considered and on such retention the officer will be assigned a table job.

(c)     DOPT guidelines on transfer and postings on spouse ground will be followed as far as possible keeping in view the availability of vacancies. Officers retained in Hyderabad Zone on this ground will be assigned a table job for two years from the date of such retention.

(d)    Officers or their any dependent family suffering from chronic disease (Cancer, HIV, TB) will be exempted from Vizag

Zone as long as treatment continues. Officers who have undergone ‘Open Heart Surgery / Angioplasty’ will be exempted from Vizag Zone for a period of two years after surgery. Officers retained in Hyderabad Zone on this ground will be assigned a table job from the date of such retention.

Inspectors ICT Policy, Hyderabad, 2015 :Following are the proposed points for Transfer Policy in the cadre of Inspectors of Hyderabad Zone.

1. INTER COMMISSIONERATE TRANSFER:

(a)         After reorganization of Field formation of Hyderabad Zone, Commissionerates are divided into Central Excise Commissionerates and Specialised Commissionerates for the purpose of the transfer policy.

Central Excise Commissionerates : Hyderabad - I, Hyderabad-II, Hyderabad –III, Hyderabad –IV Commissionerate.

Specialised Commissionerates : Audit, Service Tax, Customs Commissionertes and posting of officers on rotation basis to Directorates.

(b) The tenure of stay in each Commissionerate will be two years.

(c ) Sensitive / Field postings are :Anti-Evasion / P&I Section,Audit Group (including CAAP),Maritime,Customs formations,Refund / Rebate in Divisions as identified by the Commissioner,Service Tax Groups / Ranges as identified by the Commissioner,Ranges of Central Excise (Except               R.C.Puram, Sanathnagar- I Range and other Ranges as identified by the Commissioner)

Customs Commissionerate :(i)           In the beginning, willing officers who have never worked in Customs will be considered for posting to Customs Commissionerate according to their seniority and fitness. For this purpose, working in Customs for less than six months will not be considered as worked in Customs.(ii)         The officers will be rotated after completion of tenure of one year in Hqrs. of Customs Commissionerate to ICD, CFS and Air Cargo and vice–versa.(iii)       Posting to Rajiv Gandhi international Airport will be two years.(iv)       Any unfilled vacancies at RGIA either against 75% or 25% quota may be filled up from the willing officers of any other Commissionerates who have worked in Customs but not worked at RGIA, after due screening.(v)         In case of non willing or not eligible officers, Inspectors will be posted according to their seniority and fitness.

Central Excise/Directorates/ Specialised Commissionerates :

(i)                The officers may generally be rotated From Central Excise Commissionerate to Specialised Commissionerate after completion of two years.

(ii)              The normal rotation of officers will be from Directorates to Hyderabad-I, Hyderabad -I to Service Tax, Service Tax to Hyderabad-II, Hyderabad –II to Hyderabad-III, Hyderabad –III to Audit, Audit to Hyderabad-IV Commissionerate and from Hyderabad –IV to Directorates or Hyderabad –I Commissionerate as the case may be, if no willing officers are available for rotation posting to Directorates.

Directorates > Hyd I > Service Tax > Hyd II > Hyd III > Audit > Hyd IV > Directorates

(iii)             The officers on completion of the Customs Posting will be posted to the same Commissionerate from where he has been relieved for Customs posting so as to complete his residual tenure in the same Commissionerate. If the residual tenure is less than one year, he will be posted to the next Commissionerate as per the sequence above.(iv)            To maintain the parity of working strength of inspectors among Commissionerate of Hyderabad Zone, Inspectors may be posted to the next chain Commissionerate depending on the available vacancies.(v)              Officers of Hyderabad Zone on repatriation from Vizag Zone will be generally allotted to the same Commissionerate in Hyderabad Zone where from he has been relived for Vizag Zone so as to complete their residual tenure but not less than one year in the same Commissionerate depending on the availability of vacancies.2  Mofussil postings:(a)               Mofussil postings available in Hyderabad Zone will be filled by the Direct Recruits at the time of their joining in Hyderabad Zone subject to vacancies available for a period of two years.

(b)              In situations where the DR inspectors as at (a) above are not available and there is no possibility of new DRs inspectors, officers may be placed for Mufussil postings in reverse order of seniority of their date of joining  in Hyderabad Zone.  (c)           Officers returning from Mofussil postings will resume their Commissionerate cycle of posting at the point from where they had left.3   Tenure of the posting:(a)               Tenure for both field job and table job will be generally two years.  This, however, will be subject to the availability of vacancies and administrative requirement.(b)               For counting the period of posting/rotation, the cut-off date will be 30th June of the AGT year.(c)               Under Mofussil posting, an officer can avail the facility of reduced tenure of one year in respect of Sirpurkagaznagar range & Bhadarachalam Range and in that case he/she will be given table job for the remaining tenure at Hyderabad.

4.       This Transfer Policy, 2015 will be subject to review in the year 2020 or on GST, whichever is earlier.

All India Central Excise Inspectors’

AssociationRepresenting the Inspectors of Central Excise throughout India. (RECOGNISED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF FINANCE, VIDE CBEC F.NO. 12017/1/2004-Ad.IV dated 27.05.2013

HYDERABAD BRANCH                                        Dated :31.12.2014

ToThe Chief Commissioner,Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax,Hyderabad Zone,Hyderabad.

Madam,

Sub: Submission of points for Transfer Policy in the cadre of Inspectors-Regarding.

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It is humbly submitted to the benign Chief Commissioner that no transfer policy is in existence post restructuring in the cadre of inspectors. Therefore, points for formulating a draft transfer Policy for Inter Zonal and Inter Commissionerate is prepared after seeking views/ opinions of the officers of the cadre and the same is submitted with due regards for kind consideration.

2.    It is submitted that most of the points mentioned in the Inter Zonal Transfer Policy are similar to that of the previous Transfer Policy.

3.     Keeping in view that Specialised Commissionerates

(Viz. Customs, Audit) are having more field postings, this Association has proposed points for the Inter Commissionerate Transfer Policy with a rotation period of two years in each of the Commissionerates / Directorates of Hyderabad Zone to ensure fair working opportunity to all and minimize the representations / grievances of the individuals before the administration.

4.     After cadre restructuring, most of the senior inspectors got promoted as Superintendents and there is an acute paucity of senior Inspectors having put in 8 to 10 years of service. On an average each Commissionerate is having working strength of 7 to 8 Senior Inspectors only. Vital sections like Tribunal, Legal, Review, Adjudication, EDP, Anti-evasion, Statistics involve heavy work load and the issues are time bound. There are instances where the existing senior inspectors have raised to the occasion and successfully carrying out the duties of two to three Sections / Sectors to the utmost satisfaction of the administration. At this stage, services of senior inspectors are required more at Hyderabad.  It is also not out of place to submit that quite a large number of representations seeking exemption from posting to Mouffousil are submitted on various grounds every year during AGT to avoid shifting /dislocation. In such a difficult scenario and to resolve such issues both for the officials and for administration, it is proposed by the Association that the new direct recruit inspectors who are allotted to Hyderabad zone may be considered for posting to Mouffousil at the time of joining for a period of two years only.

5.        It is requested that the proposal of the Association may kindly be accepted and in case, any point of the

proposed transfer policy is not conceded to, the Association may please be given an opportunity to discuss the issue in detail.

Thanking you Madam,

Yours faithfully,

Encl: Points for transfer policy(SUDESH SINHA)

PRESIDENT

Copy submitted to the Commissioner, Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax, Hyderabad –I Commissionerate.