Telephone Bonanza for Taxmen : Blackberry/Broadband/3g Data card for Officers, Free mobile connections for all.

Flash News : According to our source, the scheme is likely to be inaugurated on 23rd November 2010 and sim cards will be distributed among staff members immediately after the ceremony, on 23rd itself. 


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As usual lion’s share to be enjoyed by officers.

Income Tax Dept is introducing “Project Tarang” which will provide Blackberry Handsets to CCIT and CITs, Broadband connections in the residence of Group A officers, 3G Data Card for officers who got Laptop earlier, and mobile connections to all employees including officers.

The scheme is made with BSNL/MTNL as service provider.

Salient Features of this project :

1.                  All calls made from BSNL/MTNL mobile/landline to BSNL/MTNL mobile/landline will be free on all India basis without any STD and Roaming charges.

2.                  3G datacard with 5GB free download per month.

3.                  On every mobile connection, there will be 400 minute free calls to other service provider.

4.                  SMS to BSNL/MTNL will be free.

5.                  On every landline connection there will be 300 free calls to other service provider’s mobile/landline.

6.                  Broadband Connections will be of unlimited data usage.

In excess of the limit mentioned above charges will be borne by the employee.

It is clearly visible from the above features that the majority of the privileges will be enjoyed by the officers of the department as usual. It may be mentioned that they have earlier got laptop each without offering anything for the majority portion of employees and the operational vehicles are being used as personal property of the officers without any protest from the service association.

It is to be see whether the ITEF, the one and only service association for non gazetted employees will take it granted or not as they have done in the earlier occasion {At the time of distributing laptops to officers depriving the  common employees who were mainly responsible for achieving the target collecton}.

Source :  Letter of Directorate of Infrastructure F No. DIT[Inf]/BSNL/2010-11/1206 Dated 01.11.2010 to all CCITs.
Total No of Connections

S.No.	Charge	Mobile	Bkack Berry	3GData	Broad .band	Land line. office	Res
1	Gujarath	3550	60	650	340	1340	370
2	Karnataka	2340	42	435	240	900	270
3	MP	1600	20	280	150	590	170
4	Orissa	640	13	130	75	260	90
5	NW. Region.	2960	46	545	275	1040	310
6	Tamilnadu	2330	51	690	390	1250	440
7	Kerala	1145	15	215	120	440	140
8	Delhi	4415	132	780	480	1740	540
9	N.E. Region	930	7	180	95	350	110
10	AP	2400	36	410	210	830	230
11	Rajasthan	1500	28	320	170	620	190
12	Western UP	2080	28	330	160	670	180
13	West Bengal	5835	55	820	430	1860	480
14	Eastern UP	1310	23	200	75	260	90
15	Mumbai	6500	120	1030	565	2240	620
16	Bihar	1320	17	240	145	490	160
17	Pune	2500	35	400	215	845	235
18	Vidharba	750	11	150	85	275	90
Total		44105	739	7805	4220	16000	4

Income Tax Dept. Exam postponed again, will commence from 29.11.2010. Last Date of application extended.

On account of unforeseen circumstances, the Departmental Examination 2010 for ITOs/ITIs/Ministerial Staff has been rescheduled. The said examination is now slated to commence from 29th November 2010 and will end on 8th December 2010.


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Download the Order for extension of Last Date of receipt of application