In a lunch-hour demonstration held by some members of the association at various places across the country, the employees' body asked the Centre to immediately fill all vacant positions of their cadre failing which would have adverse impact on the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST).
There is a resentment in the entire Group B, C and promotee Group A officers of the Central Board of Direct Tax (CBDT) and Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). All matters relating to pay commission and career prospects of these employees are unresolved for decades, the All India Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers said.
"Departmental Promotion Committee (meetings) for promotions of these officers are not being held timely. CBEC is behind by three years in the matter of promotions for the post of Assistant Commissioner despite of 1,766 vacant posts being in hand and officers are forced to retire every month without promotion.
"No need to say that this process of keeping vacancies unfilled would certainly have adverse effect on implementation of GST," said the association, which claims to represent about 1.65 lakh tax personnel across the country.
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"Their pay anomalies are unsettled for decades. Inspectors and superintendents of central excise, customs and service tax, income tax inspectors & officers have not been granted the pay scale at par with the counterparts of CBI, IB etc. Despite of the admittance by the government and also despite of court orders.
It has demanded that the pay anomaly and career-related discrepancies are addressed by the Centre on immediate basis.
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