Department has promoted ITOs in ad hoc basis from the year 2016 onwards. At that time ACITs were promoted on ad hoc basis and the consequential vacancies arose was also filled in by giving ad hoc promotions.
Later on the ACIT promotion was regularized and the ITOs were also regularized but in most of the regions including West Bengal & Sikkim, the vacancy year and date of regularization of ITOs were not mentioned in the order. ITOs are eligible for non functional upgradation to Level 9 of the revised pay matrix after four years of regular service in the grade. They also become eligible for higher transport allowance and better travel entitlement in LTC and daily allowance in official tours with this upgradation. But due to lack of clarity in the effective date of regularization deprives the ITOs the due benefit even after serving six years as ITO.
Some regions like AP & Telengana, Tamilnadu & Pondicherry and Delhi has issued regularization order of ITOs giving effect the date of promotion of adhoc ITOs as the date of regularization and they are are subject to be eligible for the upgradation with retrospective effect.
But many regions including West Bengal & Sikkim did not do this exercise till date leading to resentment among the ITOs who have been suffering financial loss despite of serving the department for 4 to 6 long years as Income Tax Officer.
This blog could procure two such regularization order of Delhi region which are being uploaded for information.
There must be an uniform policy regarding this regularization on Pan India basis and CBDT must issue appropriate instruction in this regard,
