Answer Posted / babu

Standing Committee, Finance in it's Sixty Eighth report:
Laid in Rajya Sabha on
15th April, 2008 & in Lok Sabha on 16th April, 2008
observed the following:-
VII Shortage of Staff
3. In response to member’s query as to whether there is
shortage of staff in the middle level
of hierarchy who are considered eyes and ears of the
Department and whether there is
any correlation with the staff strength and the collection
of revenue, the Secretary,
Department of Revenue during the evidence held on 26th
March, 2008 stated inter alia as
follows:-
“If I might say, there is never any direct co-relation in
this regard. But the fact
remains that we have a problem in the middle levels, and we
have to take care of it. It is
not that they are redundant or not required. It is also not
necessarily co-relatable that
because you have staff you will have better collections.
Collections are a function of
multiplicity of concepts, ideas and improvements that we
have introduced. So, I would not
like to get into a co-relation issue. We are taking
corrective measures to try and address
the shortage problem. It is not our endeavour to fill up
only Class I and Class II vacancies,
and we will take care of the middle level vacancies also”.
3.38 Referring to the raising of the issue by the hon’ble
Committee, with the
Commisionerate of Central Excise Customs, Goa during a
recent study visit to Goa in the
month of January, 2008, the Member (P&A) CBEC during the
oral evidence held on 26
March, 2008 stated inter alia as under:-
“Sir, as the Secretary has already said, we are not trying
to fill up only Group ‘A’ posts
and we are trying to fill up all the posts. Recently, we
have gone to the Staff Selection
Commission to fill up about 3,000 posts of Inspectors and
another 1200 posts of Tax
Assistants. We are waiting for the selection process to be
over and get the dossiers.
Immediately, thereafter we will be appointing them”.
A representative of the Department of Revenue stated in
this connection as follows:-
“Last year, we have got 3,000 and odd personnel. There is a
process downstream also of
getting the Selection Board candidates. We have to check
where they would like to work and
take the post. So, we are at it. We are one of the few
Ministries which have had the advantage
of filling up the posts”.
3. The Commissionerate of Customs and Excise, Goa in a
written submission to the
commission’s query regarding shortage of staff and filling
up of various vacancies in field
formations informed inter alia as under:-
The Cabinet has approved the creation of 4647 post at
various levels in the Central
Board of Excise and Customs as per the break-up given below:
S.No. Designation & Pay scale of the post Number of posts
1. Commissioner (Rs. 18,400-22, 400) 6
2.
Additional Commission/Joint commissioner
[(Rs. 14,300-18,300)/(Rs. 12,000-16,500)]
17
3.
Deputy/Assistant Commissioner [(Rs. 10,000-15,200)/
(Rs. 8,000-13,500)]
135
4. Superintendent [Rs. 7,500-12,000] 1110
5. Administrative Officer [Rs. 6,500-10,500[ 12
6. Private Secretary [Rs. 6,500-10,500] 6
7. Inspector of Central Excise [Rs. 6,500-10,500] 1993
8. Deputy Office Superintendent [Rs. 5,500-9000] 234
9. Senior Tax Assistant [Rs. 5,000-8,000] 58
10. Tax Assistant [Rs. 4,000-6,000] 272
11.
Steno. Grade-1/Grade-II/Grade-III [(Rs. 5,000-8,000)/
(Rs. 4,500-7,000)/(Rs. 4,000-6,000)]
60
12.
Drivers [(Rs. 5,000-8,000)/(Rs. 4, 500-7,000)/(Rs. 4,000-
6,000)/ (Rs. 3,050-4,5000]
18
13. Sepoy [(Rs. 2,750-4,400)/(Rs. 2,610-4000)] 666
14. Peon [Rs. 2,550-3,300] 60
Total 4,647
Besides, the Central Board of Excise and Customs has been
exempted from further
cut in staff strength in Group ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ and ‘D’ posts as
envisaged in Department of Personnel
and Training OM. No. 2/1/8/PIC dated 16.5.2006 and
30.8.2006 for three years i.e. 2006-07 to
2008-09. As such, the vacancies arising in all the grades
during the years 2006-07, 2007-08
and 2008-09 shall be filled up without any reduction of
posts in the direct recruitment quota.
According, the Department is taking suitable steps for
filling up the vacancies arising during
2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 as per the extant Recruitment
Rules”.
Shortage of staff
8. The Committee observe that there has been shortage of
manpower to a large extent
over the years. Shortage of staff is stated to be affecting
the entire collection of tax and
revenue, although the Revenue Secretary held that there can
be no direct co-relation in this
regard. The Committee have been informed that recruitment
of 3000 personnel has taken
place last year who will be appointed on completion of
formalities. It should be ensured that
there is no let up in the collection of revenue on account
of delay in filling up of vacancies.

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