F. No. AICEIA/Mumbai/Misc/2015
Mumbai, the 08thAugust, 2015
To,
The Joint Commissioner of Customs (P),
R&I (Administration),
New Custom House,
Mumbai.
Sir,
Sub:- Joint Consultative Machinery
(JCM) Meeting-reg.
Please
refer to your letter F. No. SD/INT/ADMN/I/61/2006-R&I dated 06.08.2015 on the above subject.
In
this connection, it is to inform you that a letter is given to the Additional
Commissioner of Customs (P), M&P Wing, Mumbai under F. No. AICEIA/Mumbai/TPP/2015
dated 05.06.2015 enumerating the below mentioned point and a reminder was also
submitted on dated 07.07.2015.
It is submitted that the strength of
M&P Wing had been reduced from 158
to 106 after CR and further the working strength was still reduced to 80. As
such, the officers of M&P Wing are facing huge difficulties in
performing regular duties and the additional work as mentioned below which can
easily be done away with. As such the below mentioned points are converted to
agenda points:-
1) Control Room Duty:-There is shortage of Inspectors in M&P Wing (80 working
strength). The day control room duty is conducted by the officers of different
Sections sitting in Everest House. The staff strength of each section has been
reduced from earlier strength and in majority of the sections there is only one
inspector. The inspector on Day CRO duty, the sections work of the individual
officer’s gets accumulated and they have to clear it on the following
days. The work of day CRO officer is as
below:-
a)
To attend the some phone calls
regarding miscellaneous inquiry,
b)
handing over keys of vehicles,
c)
issuance of Arms, if required.
It is to mention that with
regards attending of phone calls can be handled even by a Hawaldar. The
issuance of arms which is once or twice in a year (i.e. the statistic of last
two to three years) can be handled by the section in-charge of arms and
ammunition. As regards vehicles, the same can be handled by MTO/PRO Superintendent. In view of the above, it is only the
wastage of man power by deputing Inspector as CRO in day
time, whereas the hawaldar/Sepoy are enough
for day control room duty and in case of
any difficulty/emergency, P.R.O/M.T.O. can co-ordinate/manage the
situation.
2) Special NRP duty:- Special NRP duty is conducted by M&P Wing, Mumbai on even
days of every month. We cover the area of jurisdiction of R&I Wing during
Special Night Road Patrolling (NRP). This special NRP was allotted to M&P
Wing as there was not enough staff in R&I Wing. Now the strength of M&P
Wing has been further reduced to 80 (working strength). Therefore, it is
requested that R&I Wing may be
directed to conduct special NRP duty which are part of their duty.
3) Special Holidays duty:- In addition to Control Room duty, the officers
i.e. Superintendents and Inspectors are also deputed for Special CRO duties on
holidays. Both of them sit in control room for performing the duties. Both of
them perform the duties as mentioned in point 1 (a) to 1 (c). it is to submit
that if the officers are required in emergency on holidays, they can be called by
contacting them on mobile phone. The contact no. of all the officers is
available in office record. Therefore, it is requested to discontinue the special holiday duty.
4) Working strength of
Inspectors:- At present, the working strength of inspector
is 80. Inspectors are facing heavy work load. It is requested that working strength of inspector should be
maintained as per sanction strength i.e. 106.
Yours
sincerely,
Sd/-
(ABHISHEK SINGH)
General
Secretary
AICEIA, Mumbai Circle
