AGT 2020 Representation

Verification of Taxpayers based on various DGARM Reports

F.No. Ref. No. AIACEGEO/Deptt.Comm./01/2020                                    Dated : 13.07.2020

 

To

Hon’ble Chief Commissioner,

CGST and Central Excise,

Vadodara Zone.

 

Sir,

            Subject : Verification of Taxpayers based on various DGARM Reports – reg.

 

            It is respectfully submitted that our member officers are under immense for carrying out verification of the DGARM reports on top priority, for which, they are required to physically visit the premises. While your goodself is aware that Covid-19 cases are rapidly growing in Surat and most of the areas of South Gujarat, where our member officers are visiting for verification have already been declared as containment zones. It may not be out of place to mention that there are no beds available in all the major Covid care hospitals/Centres located in Surat. In such a situation compelling our member officers to visit the premises located in containment zones is akin to pushing them against the wall of death.

 

2.         In view of the above, your honour is requested to kindly discontinue such physical verifications considering the life-threatening situation in Surat and South Gujarat for the time being till the situation improves. Our member officers and their families shall always remain grateful to your honour for such act of kindness.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

(M. S. Prabhat)

General Secretary

 

Copy for information and needful action to :

1.      The Principal Director General, Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management, New Delhi.

2.      The Commissioner, CGST and Central Excise, Surat/Daman.

3.      The Secretary General, AIACEGEO with request to take up the matter with Board.

Surat CGST various issues

F.No. Ref. No. AIACEGEO/Deptt.Comm./01/2020                                     Dated : 07.07.2020

 

To

The Hon’ble Commissioner,

CGST & Central Excise,

Surat

 

Sir,

           

                        Subject : Representation of association on various issues  – reg.

 

            We are thankful to your honour for heeding to our grievances during our meeting on 06.07.2020 wherein we inter alia made representations on the following issues, which are reiterated as under for ready reference and needful action please :

 

1.      Issue of Roster for attendance : It was brought to your kind notice that considering rapid increase in number of covid-19 cases in Gujarat specially in Surat/Vapi/ Valsad, attendance of 100% staff everyday is posing severe threat to the officers and their families. Moresoever , when our department is heading towards e-office, faceless/contactless works, roster for attendance of officers may kindy be got issued in line with the guidelines of MHA and MoHFW. Your goodself had assured for issuance of roster for attendance accordingly.

 

2.      Shifting of all Divisions to GST Bhavan : In this regard, our letter dated 30.06.2020 may kindly be referred. We again submitted that only one division may kindly be got shifted at each floor as per original plan. Moreover, even after shifting one division out of two divisions from headquarters building, there will be enough space in headquarters building. Hence, it is reiterated that the shifting plan may kindly be modified to the original shifting plan of only four divisions i.e. Division II, III, IV and V only.

 

3.      Hiring of new office premises for Valsad : In this connection, our letter dated 29.06.2020 may kindly be referred. Your goodself appreciated the proposal and directed us to take up this matter with the Divisional Deputy Commissioner to send proposal for hiring of new office premises accordingly.

 

4.      Restricting preventive /recovery duties in the hot zones : It was assured by your goodself that necessary kits such as mask, face-shields, gloves, sanitisers will be provided to the officers deputed for such duties but it is reiterated that in such a situation when covid-19 cases are rapidly shooting, preventive/recovery duties may kindly be put on hold and visits to hot zones by our officers may kindly be stopped considering health constraints  of our officers and their families.

 

5.      Annual General Transfer 2020 : We had earnestly requested to kindly put on hold all station changes except mutual transfer cases/willingness requests as also requested from hon’ble Chief Commissioner through our letter dated 02.07.2020. Your goodself was kind enough to assure us of no big scale transfer orders. It is reiterated to consider requests of all the officers sympathetically so that minimum disturbance occurs to them.

 

 

 

            In addition to above, various other general issues such as providing of masks, sanitisers etc. to the officers and staff, constituting covid team of officers etc. were also discussed and your goodself was kind enough to appreciate our concerns and assured for all possible measures.

 

            In view of the above, it is once again requested to kindly look into the above matters personally. It is also submitted that JCM of the associations has not been conducted for a long time, which may kindly be conducted periodically and its minutes may also be released so as to ensure active redressal system with regard to grievances of our members.

 

                                    Thanking you. With regards.

Yours faithfully,

 

 

(M.S. PRABHAT)

General Secretary

 

            Copy to the Deputy Commissioner, CGST and Central Excise, Division-Valsad with respect to para 3 with request to kindly get the proposal for shifting of Division office to a new building submitted accordingly.

 

 

Sanction of reward in Surat

To

The Hon’ble Commissioner,

CGST & Central Excise,

Surat

 

Sir,

 

            Subject : Sanction of rewards to Officers and in Preventive/Recovery cases  – reg.

 

            It is respectfully submitted that during last two years, there has not been any sanction of reward to the officers and even no committee for considering the reward cases has been constituted in Surat Commissionerate. While our member officers are doing their best and a good number of preventive cases were booked by them resulting into recovery of huge government revenue. To boost their morale, it is expected that benefits of reward schemes may be extended to them periodically.

 

2.         In view of the above, it is requested that committee for considering eligibility for reward schemes and processing reward files may kindly be constituted at the earliest and suitable rewards may kindly be sanctioned to the eligible officers.

 

                                    Thanking you. With regards.

Yours faithfully,

 

 

(M.S. PRABHAT)

General Secretary

 

Copy with similar request to the Commissioner of CGST and Central Excise, Surat-Audit.

 

 

GPF A/c transfer representation

To

The Hon’ble Controller of Accounts,

CBIC, West Zone, Mumbai

9^th Floor, New Customs House,

Balard Estate, Mumbai – 400001

 

Sir,

 

            Subject : Problems faced by the officers in transfer of their GPF account balance on                                     their transfer from one PAO to another PAO – reg.

 

            It is respectfully submitted that as per the existing practices (before GPF A/c is aligned with PFMS), the officers covered under GPF, on being transferred from one location to another falling under different PAO, have to submit an application to their previous PAO through current PAO to get their GPF Account balance transferred to their new account and on every such transfer a new GPF account is opened. Due to such cumbersome process, transfer of GPF balance amount is very often held up, sometimes due to not applying by the concerned officer and many a times due to delay on the part of PAOs.

 

2.         Whereas, every transfer order/relieving order and joining reports are invariably endorsed & forwarded to the PAOs and salaries of the concerned officers are released by the PAO accordingly,  there appears technically no need of a separate representation for transfer of GPF balance amount in the new GPF account. In fact, this is required to be got done on the basis of Last Pay Certificate itself. Even though, our officers are facing difficulty in transfer of their GPF balance amounts even after making representations to this effect.

 

3.         In view of the above, your goodself is requested to kindly impart necessary guidance in this regard to the PAO, CGST & Customs, Surat/Vapi /Vadodara/Ahmedabad/ Rajkot/ Gandhidham/Bhavnagar/Jamnagar accordingly to take up all the cases of already transferred out officers and to release their GPF Contribution amount available with them to their present PAO for depositing the same in their current GPF account as per PFMS.

 

                                    Thanking you. With regards.

Yours faithfully,

 

 

(M.S. PRABHAT)

General Secretary

 

 

            Copy with similar request to the PAO, CGST & Customs, Surat/Vapi /Vadodara/Ahmedabad /Rajkot/ Gandhidham/Bhavnagar/Jamnagar.

AGT 2020 Representation

To

The Chief Commissioner (CCA),

CGST and Central Excise,

Vadodara Zone, Vadodara.

 

Sir,

            Subject : Annual General Transfers-2020 – regarding

 

            Your goodself is well aware that corona pandemic and its fatality are growing by leaps and bounds and straightening of the curves is yet unpredictable. We are living in a state of mental depression due to such vulnerable situation. In such circumstances, our member officers are apprehensive of their likely displacements due to Annual General Transfers. At the same time, many officers who are already displaced and are working far away from their family/home are also worried about well-being of their family and wish to get united with their families in such a situation. Accordingly, mutual transfers based on the basis of representations of the affected officers will serve the purpose of AGT for the year 2020.

 

2.         Any mass displacements in such a situation would result into several problems such as unavailability of mode of transportation, food and lodging issues as hotels/restaurants are already closed, unavailability of rented accommodation as no landlord would rent his home to any outsider and God forbid, if situation persists, displaced officers and their families may even have to face quarantine at their new locations. In addition to above, with already announced measures to curb government expenses, TTA grants are also not expected to be released smoothly.

 

3.         It is respectfully submitted that your honour may please take a sympathetic view on the above concerns of our member officers and may kindly be pleased to replace “AGT Policy” with “Employee Welfare Policy” this year and kindly consider all the grounds of officers including illness of self, ailing parents/spouse, no other male family member in the house, working spouse, deaf & dumb ward, co-morbidities, near retirement, children studying 10^th/10+2 etc. and kindly accommodate maximum officers to their choice of station to the extent possible. With faceless, contactless and paperless work culture being developed and with introduction of e-office it would be a morale booster to our member officers and by considering their request for posting at the place/station of their choice in such a situation, your goodself will be encouraging the officers to generate maximum output of their quality work.

 

4.         Sir, tough situations demand great decisions. Having faith in your leadership, we once again respectfully submit before your honour to kindly order for an AGT with minimum displacement by sympathetically considering all the representations on merit by transferring only willing officers this year. We hope, your goodself will set a precedent by doing so and we shall ever remain obliged for such immense act of kindness. Thanking you. With regards.

Yours faithfully,

 

 

(M.S. PRABHAT)

General Secretary

Request for not calling for avoidable/routine reports on holidays

To

The Chief Commissioner (CCA),

CGST and Central Excise,

Vadodara Zone, Vadodara.

 

Sir,

            Subject : Request for not calling for avoidable/routine reports on holidays – reg.

 

            Covid-19 pandemic has completely changed the work-culture in government offices and we are heading towards contactless and paperless functioning. With sudden outbreak in number of corona positive cases throughout Gujarat, we are thankful to your goodself for allowing the officers to work from home/office on roaster basis, which has been a big relief to our members and they have diligently been working even during lockdown period.

 

2.         However, it is respectfully submitted that reports/routine works are very often being called from our members even on weekends/holidays, which puts negative impact on family life and personal well-being of our members who are sincere enough to avoid any reminders from higher ups and who consider directions of their superior officers seriously. In a depressing situation as is today due to Covid-19 pandemic, family and children deserve attention of their parents and even the officers deserves some free personal moments at least on declared holidays to maintain their mental health.

 

3.         In view of the above, it is earnestly requested that considering personal well being and family life of the officers, reports of routine matter may kindly be avoided to be called from the officers on weekends and closed holidays.

 

                                    Thanking you. With regards.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

 

(M.S. PRABHAT)

General Secretary

 

 

Copy to :

 

1.      The Commissioner, CGST Surat/Surat Audit/Daman.

2.      The Secretary General, AIACEGEO (All India Body)