Rule 5 - Future maintenance of the Service - Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise ) Group ‘A’ Rules, 2016

5. Future maintenance of the Service. - (1) The vacancies in any of the grades specified in Schedule I shall be filled in the manner as hereinafter provided in this rule. (2) Fifty per cent of the vacancies in Grade VIII (Junior Time Scale) i.e. Assistant Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise shall be filled by direct recruitment on the basis of the results of the Examination conducted by the Commission in the manner specified in Schedule II. (3) Fifty per cent of the vacancies in Grade VIII (Junior Time Scale) i.e. Assistant Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise shall be filled by promotion from amongst the Group B officers in the Central Excise, Customs and Narcotics Department, who have completed two years of regular service in any of the following feeder cadres, namely:- (i) Superintendents of Central Excise in the Central Excise Department and District Opium Officer or Intelligence Officers or Superintendents (Executive) in the Narcotics Department; (ii) Superintendents of Customs (Preventive) in the Customs Department; and (iii) Appraisers of Customs in the Customs Department. NOTE: For the purpose of making promotion from Group B to Group A , from amongst the categories of officers mentioned in clause (i) of sub-rule 3, a combined eligibility list of Superintendents of Central Excise and District Opium Officers of Intelligence Officers or Superintendent (Executive) in the Narcotics Department shall be prepared with reference to the date of completion by the officers of the prescribed qualifying service in the respective grade or post. (4) (a)The vacancies to be filled by promotion shall be filled out of the three Group B categories of the officers mentioned in sub-clauses (i), (ii) and sub-clause (iii) of sub-rule 3 of rule 5 in the ratio of 13:2:1 respectively for each bunch of sixteen vacancies. (b) Out of sixteen vacancies, the first thirteen vacancies shall be filled from amongst the officers referred to in sub-clause (i) of sub-rule (3), the 14th and 15th vacancies shall be filled from amongst the officers referred to in sub-clause (ii) of the said sub-rule (3) and the 16th vacancy shall be filled from amongst the officers referred to in sub-clause (iii) of sub-rule (3). (5) The appointments in the Service to Grade VII (Senior Time Scale) i.e. Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise and above shall be made by promotion form amongst the officers in the next lower grade with the minimum qualifying service as specified in column (4) of Schedule III. (6) (a) The promotion of officers, except to the Junior Administrative Grade (Non-Functional Selection Grade) shall be made by selection on the basis of the recommendations of the Departmental Promotion Committee constituted in accordance with Schedule IV. (b) The placement to the Junior Administrative Grade (Non-Functional Selection Grade) shall be on seniority basis subject to fitness or suitability based on the recommendation of the Departmental Promotion Committee specified in column (3) of Schedule IV.