Friday, September 3, 2010

Income Tax employees agitation ends, see what they could achieve

1.       Functioning of CPC. Agreed to go by the agreement between CBDT and JCA.  Further discussion to find solution will be held after 10.09.2010.  Human Resource Directorate will be asked to undertake evaluation of manpower in the Department for the care-taking staff.
2.      (a) Reimbursement of Mobile Phone Charges.  Discussion with BSNL is in progress to implement the scheme approved by the Finance Minister.  May take one more month to implement the scheme.  In any case, the scheme will be operationalised by October, 2010.
(b) Efforts are being taken to justify the requirement of Laptops to other Officers to get the Govt.'s sanction.
(c)Proposal has been sent for financial approval to provide one more computers to each ward/circle and two computers to each range.
3    Publish civil list without any further loss of time. On the lines it was issued till 2006.  Publish seniority list of Group B C & D employees as per board's instructions on an annual basis. It was stated that the DI (HRD) has prepared the Civil list and the same will be submitted to the Board on obtaining the signature of the DG(HRD) who is to resume duty on Ist September, 2010. The Board will take steps to publish the same within a few days time.
4.   The transfer of ACIT/DCIT who has completed 2 years cooling period will be considered at the time of promotion orders of ACIT for 2009-10 are issued.
5.   Framing of Recruitment Rules for the Multi Tasking Staff is in the final stage.  On its approval, the existing vacancies will be filled up .
6.   DPC for ACIT for the year 2009-10 is over the orders will be issued shortly.  Preparation for DPC for the year 2010-11 is in the final stage.  Promotion orders for DCIT will be issued within 10 days.  DPC for the post of JCIT will be held in the second half of September, 2010.
7.   Pay anomaly matter between the Direct recruits and promotes has already been taken up and the same is being pursued with the Dept. of Exp. JCA is to give note on justification of up-gradation of Pay of AO/PS enabling the Board to take up the matter.
8.   As in above
9.   Cadre composition of Group C Staff as suggested by the ITEF requires further clarification and discussion.  The next meeting will take place on 29th of September, 2010.
10. The notification for Deptl. Examination 2010 has been issued incorporating the suggestions of the ITEF.
11. Pending vigilance cases will be disposed off shortly.  JCA to give list of long pending cases.
12. Report of the Cadre Restructuring Committee has been sent to the Secretary, Revenue and discussions have taken place.  Approval of the Revenue Secretary is awaited to pursue the matter with other Govt. Agencies.
Source : ITEF
View the ITGOA version :

The JCA (CHQ) leaders viz. S/Shri B. Shanthi Kumar, Rajesh Menon, R.S. Meel, K.P. Rajgopal, Ashok Salunkhe, Amitava De & K.K.N. Kutty had discussions with Member(P) on 31-08-2010 at 2-00PM on all the issues of the Charter of Demands.  During the discussions, Member (P) had given a detailed account of progress made on the issues appearing in the 12 point charter of demand and gave positive assurances as under :

1. Civil List will be released within one week.

2. Promotions of ITO to ACIT - Orders will be issued by 15/09/2010.  Proposal for 2010-11 is ready and will be submitted immediately after issuing the promotion order of RY 2009-10.

3. Promotions of ACIT to DCIT - Orders will be issued by 15/09/2010.

4. Promotions of DCIT to JCIT - UPSC Chairman, who is presently out of India will be back in office on 13/09/2010 and as per Member (P) the DPC is expected to be held between 20 & 25 September, 2010.

5. Transfer of ACIT/DCIT – The 15 officers of west Bengal and all cases of completion of 2 year cooling off period and compassionate cases will be considered in the posting orders consequent to promotion of ITO to ACIT.

6. The GP of 4800 to AO-III & PS will be taken up with Dept. of Expenditure, on the lines of ITGOA's note justifying the said demand.

7. The issue of LAPTOPs to AO & PS/Sr PS will be positively reconsidered.

8. Revised Examination rules as demanded by ITEF have been issued.  

9. Reimbursement of Mobile Phone charges for all will be operational within a month i.e. expected to begin from 01-10-2010.

10. Vigilance matters pending for long will be expedited and towards this ITGOA's suggestion to appoint Addl. CIT (Inquiry) would also be positively considered.

11. Issue of outsourcing with special reference to CPC and processing of returns will be discussed with JCA in detail, with all factual inputs and an amicable settlement will be arrived at after discussion with Chairman.   

The Member (P) also assured to give minutes of the meeting with above assurances, within a week's time and has proposed a monthly meeting with JCA for discussing all pending issues. Then he also requested the JCA to re-consider the ongoing agitation program in view of the above mentioned progress and assurances on all the issues in the charter of demand. 

Analyzing the entire situation and also considering the opinion of our JCA partners, that we have to give the Board and also our membership, some breathing time and create a congenial atmosphere for enabling the assurances to fructify, it was decided to call-off the ongoing agitation

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