ITGOA maintains total silence on ITO to ACIT promotion

The blog is being flooded with queries from our viewers regarding any progress of ITO to ACIT promotion. JCA, who was making all out (!) agitation on this issue a few months back has become totally silent on this issue. Last communication to the members were made by ITGOA way back on 2nd February. No update regarding meeting scheduled with Chairman, CBDT is provided till date. Naturally members, particularly the 2014-15 DPC aspirants are totally frustrated. A few of them has already retired and some more to follow. As there is no alternative to choose from, they are compelled to be with the present leadership.
As information gathered from different sources, ITGOA is more interested for DPC for the year 2015-16 than 2014-15 for the reason known best to them.
As per sources, UPSC again asked certain clarification regarding 2014-15 batch which has been provided by CBDT a couple of days back. It is expected that date of DPC ,may be fixed within the first week of March 2016 for 2014-15. If there is any more obstacle found to get UPSC nod, CBDT may proceed for Ad Hoc promotion.
We again want to clarify that information provided above is gathered from sources and could not be authenticated by any means. 

What about those 1633 posts ?

Viewers may remember that 1633 posts of Gr B and Gr C cadres were ordered to be be transferred out from West Bengal charge. After a massive hue and cry from that region Board maintained status quo and formed one after another committee to look into the justification of this. JCA, West Bengal observed a number of demonstrations/ sit in dharnas against it. The current position about the matter has never been stated by association.
As per sources, the high power committee suggested in favour of the decision of phasing out posts from this region.
Will JCA West Bengal inform the members about the progress or any future agitation ?

Departmental website hacked by suspected Pak based group

New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) Suspected Pakistan-based groups have hacked the official web portal of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) belonging to the Income Tax department.

Officials said the website--http://www.irsofficersonline.gov.in-- was hacked early Saturday and it has been rendered inaccessible since then.

They said messages were posted on the link like "Pakistan Zindabad" and "we are team Pak cyber attacker".

Suspension of agitation to be continued for indefinite period

Central JCA on it's meeting on 31st January 2016 decided to continue the suspension of agitation "for some more time making way for the CBDT for final settlement of both these issues."
The issues are notification of RR and ITO to ACIT promotion.
Click here for the full communication
General members of ITGOA and ITEF are fed up with this routine agitation game every year. It usually starts at the lean period with stoppage of statistical reports, then intensifies with non participation in search/surveys, occasional one day strike and finally withdrawn without achieving anything. It may be noticed that JCA never call for any agitation/non cooperation during Jan to March as it may hamper some corrupt officer / officials' personal vested interest. CBDT feels comfortable as this game does not affect collection an any way as in the crucial hours of the last quarter, there is absolute peace in the department.
We will look forward for further agitation (!) , probably after April/May 2016.

ITGOA Circular dated 25.01.2016

At last ITGOA took the pain to inform the members about the situation. The division of ITGOA could not be kept under cover and the leadership had to  admit it.
"But it has to be pointed out that the same tune and texture of harmony has not been prevailing among the entire cross‐section of its members across the country, at least in the issue of implementation of NRP Judgment and the promotions in the cadre of ACIT"
Regarding promotion from ITO to ACIT :

ITGOA committee analyzed NRP implementation, forms committee to examine Rajiv Mohan case

NRP implementation in Gujarat region
A detailed note on revised seniority list of Gujarat after NRP implementation has been prepared by the entrusted committee of ITGOA. In this report committee observed wrong and improper implementation of NRP judgement in Gujarat region.As per the report, "excess promotion at least to the extent of 47 (192‐145) have been wrongly done in the review DPC for the vacancy year 2000‐2001." in Gujarat region.
Click here for the report
Rajiv Mohan Committee
"The 43rd BGM, Guwahati, had decided to form a separate Committee to study the effect of ‘Rajiv Mohan case’ in the seniority of the officers in the cadre of Inspectors of Income Tax. The house also unanimously decided to nominate Com. Amitava Dey, Vice President, CHQ, as the Chairman of the said Committee. The job was primarily allotted to the Committee formed to supervise the speedy and uniform implementation of NRP Judgement across all 18 regions, headed by Com. V.M. Jayadevan. Adhering to the decision of the BGM, a new Committee is formed under the Chairmanship of Com. Amitava Dey, Vice President, CHQ, to study the effect of ‘Rajiv Mohan case’ in the seniority of the officers in the cadre of Inspectors of Income Tax and submit a report to the CHQ. The other members of the committee will be decided by the Chairman of the Committee in consultation with the Units. "
Click here for details

No agitation but JCA begs for Personnel Grievance Redressal Committee meeting

Now JCA begs in front of Member (P&V), CBDT to convene PGRC meeting to redress the problems. The meeting which is scheduled once in every month but did not take place in the last seven months. The importance of the said meeting can be easily understood by this.
JCA also took the pain to suggest the agenda items for the desired meeting. The same old historic grievances like laptops, increase of petrol allowances, phasing out of 1633 posts from WB region etc. have been suggested for discussion alongwith the burning issue of ITO to ACIT promotion.
Let us see whether CBDT consider the meeting at all !
Click here for the letter of JCA

ITO to ACIT : CBDT directs Pr CCIT, Ahmedabad to take legal course to remove obstacles for DPC

CBDT directed Pr CCIT Ahmedabad to file caveat in respective CAT / High Court against any possible stay in the DPC process for the promotion from ITO to ACIT for the year 2014-15.

Click here for details

Adhoc JCITs regularized , RR for T.A.,Staff Car driver & N.S. notified

As many as 112 JCITs, who were promoted on ad hoc basis, regularized vide CBDT order dated 31.12.2015.
Click here for the order
New Recruitment Rule for the post of T.A., Staff Car Driver and Notice Server officially notified.
Click here for Recruitment Rule for T.A.
Click here for Recruitment Rule for Staff Car Driver
Click here for Recruitment Rule for Notice Server

Now ITGOA forms committee to supervise NRP implementation

The Committee formed to supervise speedy and uniform implementation of NRP Judgement across all 18 regions and study the effect of ‘Rajiv Mohan case’ in the seniority of the officers in the cadre of Inspectors of Income Tax.
Mr. V.M.Jayadevan, Zonal Secretary, (South Zone) nominated as Chairman of the said committee.
"The BGM, Guwahati had decided to form a Committee to supervise speedy and uniform implementation of NRP Judgement across all 18 regions and study the effect of Rajiv Mohan case in the seniority of the officers in the cadre of Inspectors of Income Tax. The house unanimously decided to nominate you as the Chairman of the said Committee. The other members, as decided by the house, were Com. Shyamkumar, Com. Chandramouli and Com. Vijander Kumar. You were also authorized by the house to include any other member of ITGOA in the Committee, if you feel so. The Committee was requested to take the Zonal Secretaries of 5(five) regions into confidence to supervise the job in all the regions and also to visit various regions to remove bottlenecks in the implementation of NRP Judgment, if required, and the cost of such visits will be borne by the CHQ. All the Units of ITGOA are requested to cooperate with the Committee. Though the BGM did not specify any time-limit for completion of the job, the Committee is requested to submit a the status report regarding the uniform implementation of NRP across the regions and a study report of the effect of ‘Rajiv Mohan case’ in the seniority of the officers in the cadre of Inspectors of Income Tax to the CHQ as early as possible." 
View the ITGOA CHQ Communication
Click here to view the newly elected ITGOA CHQ

Email id and phone number made mandatory in all communication to taxpayer

"....Revenue Secretary has directed that henceforth any notice/letter/communication issued by any officer under Department of Revenue; including CBDT, its directorates and field formations; to the tax payers, members of public should invariably contain mention of email address and office phone numbers, of the officers signing such, communications/notice/letters for facilitating tax payers' electronic interface with the Department.
All are requested to kindly ensure that the above directions are strictly followed...."
Click here for the communcation

ITGOA kept central committee unchanged

In the BGM at Guwahati, ITGOA members elected the existing committee unanimously.
Due to the amazing performance of the existing office bearers, all units opted to continue with the existing committee. No election took place. 
Hope the tremendous achievements of ITGOA in the last two years will be repeated in the next two years.

Download judgement copy of CAT Ernakulam bench

A copy of judgement of CAT, Ernakulam Bench has been procured and being published for the viewers for interpretation and discussion.
Click here for judgement dated 15.12.2015

Advance increment for passing ITI Exam : benefit extended to O.S. & Steno Gr-I

CBDT extended the benefit of granting two advance increments to Office Supdt.s and Steno Grade - I for passing dept. exam of Income Tax Inspectors.
Vide the earlier order, Sr. T.A.s and Steno Gr-II have been benefited and a lot of representations have been forwarded to CBDT to grant the same to O.S. etc. 
The order has been issued on 15.12.2015.
Click here for the order

Ernakulam CAT pronounced judgement

Ernaculam CAT has directed to allow promotion on the basis of revised seniority list of Kerala charge. Copy of order could not be procured yet. It means promotion from ITO to ACIT is going to be delayed. All regions have to revise their seniority list and only then all India seniority list can be revised. The leaders could have anticipated it earlier. When revised seniority lists have been prepared as per NRP in all cadres, why it would not be applicable to ITOs ? ITGOA never tried to revise the list as many of them will loose seniority and some may face demotion too. 
The fate of promotion even for the vacancy year 2014-15 remains uncertain.

JCA circular makes it clear : No promotion this year (No agitation too)

In the recent circular of JCA it is now clear that no promotion from ITO to ACIT is going to take place this year.
"The earlier proposal for the DPC of 180 promotions was called back and the fresh proposal of 200 vacancies for RY 2014-15 had been sent to the UPSC by the CBDT on 10-12-2015."
"  It was proposed that 200 promotions may be done in each of the R.Y.s 2014-15 & 2015-16 and the rest in the R.Y. 2016-17, for a total of around 650 vacancies required for the purpose. It was also proposed that all the three DPCs would be held before 31-03-2015. The Hon’ble Finance Minister approved the Proposal on 02-12-2015."
No development in the Ernakulam CAT case, even the promotion of RY 2014-15 is still uncertain.
            "" The order of the Hon’ble CAT, Ernakulam is reserved since 11-11-2015. At the instance of Central JCA, the CBDT is pursuing the Court for disposal of the order early. The ITGOA, Kerala Unit is also putting its best efforts in the matter. The UPSC is not in a position to announce the date of DPC for RY 2014-15 before the stay in promotion is vacated by the CAT, Ernakulam."
Still no agitation till 31.12.2015 ( Probably no more !)
"The Central JCA convened its meeting on 10-12-2015 at New Delhi and took stock of the situation. Taking into consideration the positive developments on the demands from the side of the CBDT, it was decided to take a final call on the suspended agitational programme once the order regarding relaxation of RRs are notified and response of the CBDT is known on other pending issues and accordingly it was decided to suspend the agitation upto 31^st December, 2015"
Click here for the full text of the circular dated 12.12.2015

ITEF broke silence : "NO AGITATION IN NEAR FUTURE"

The Secretariat meeting of the ITEF (CHQ) was held on 11.12.2015 under the President ship of Com. Ashok Kumar Kanojia at 11.30 am at Manishinath Bhavan, Rajouri Garden,  New Delhi.

Agenda No.1: Review of the suspended agitational programme as per call of the Central JCA:  The President and Secretary General informed the latest developments regarding five points charter of demands.

i)                    ITO to ACIT promotions: The proposal to promote all eligible persons promoted as ITOs till April, 2004 to the cadre of ACIT vide DPCs of R.Y.s 2014-15, 2015-16 & 2016-17 was made by the CBDT for a total of around 650 vacancies required for the purpose. It was also proposed that 200 promotions to be done in each of the R.Y.s 2014-15 & 2015-16 and the rest in the R.Y. 2016-17. It was also proposed that all the three DPCs would be held before 31-03-2016. The Hon’ble FM approved the proposal on 02-12-2015.

Will the agitation be relaunched ?

After two weeks, nothing seems to be positive regarding charter of demands. JCA (read ITGOA because the other sleeping partner has nothing to say of it's own) could not achieve anything. Rumours in the air that even the 180 promotions for the R.Y. 2014-15 is still uncertain. Better not to discuss about 2015-16 and 2016-17.
As per JCA's letter to the Chairman dated 1.12.2015, the stay order of Ernakulam CAT was still in force on that day. While the case was heard on 11.11.15 and judgement kept reserved, what compelled  JCA to pursue it after 20 days ? Nobody to answer,
ITGOA seems to be busy with preparation of BGM, scheduled in Guwahati later this month. As per sources the promotion process may be stalled citing pendency of NRP implementation all over the country in the case of ITOs. One region in Western India has completed this exercise and wants the promotion on revised all India seniority list which may be beneficial for them. This issue may be a deciding factor in the coming election of ITGOA central committee.
JCA to meet tomorrow (10/12) to decide further course of action.
Click here for notice of the meeting.
Let's see whether JCA decides to relaunch it's agitation (which must loose it's shine after long interval) or keep on dilatory tactics like before.

Dept Exam for ITO and ITI 2015 : Result published

Click the respective link below for result

                                      ITI Normal of New Pattern 2015 Result

                                      ITI Partially Qualified 2015

                                      ITI Betterment New Pattern Result 2015

                                                         ITI Betterment Old 2015

ITO Normal of New Pattern 2015 Result 
                                         ITO Partially Qualified 2015

ITO Betterment New Pattern Result 2015

ITO Betterment Old Pattern Result 2015

JCA asked CBDT to get Ernakulam CAT stay order vacated

In a letter written to Chairperson, CBDT on 1st December, JCA asked immediate intervention of CBDT to get the stay of Ernakulam CAT vacated to ensure DPC for the promotion of ITO to ACIT. 
The verdict of the above mentioned case kept reserved. As per the letter, CBDT must ensure of early pronouncement of CAT order or move High Court to get the stay vacated.
As per the letter, CBDT forwarded proposal of promotion of all ITOs promoted till 2003-04 to Revenue Secretary.
Click here to view the letter

CBDT offered one time relaxation for promotion to Sr T.A

CBDT issued order for one time relaxation in the recruitment rules for promotion to the post of Sr. T.A from Tax Assistants for the vacancy year 2016-17.
Vide this O.M., a relaxation from 3 years to 2 years in the regular service rendered will be considered as eligibility criteria for promotion to the post of Sr. T.A. for the vacancy year 2016-17.
Click here for the O.M.