I-T dept may not go for review of judgement on Vodafone case

The Income Tax department may not go in for filing a review petition on the Supreme Court's judgement on the Vodafone taxation case. 

Top sources in the department said that a ten-member "core committee", which has been specially constituted, will go into the details of the order. 

ITGOA elected office bearers for 2012 - 2014

In the BGM held at Mumbai from 18 to 20th January 2012, following Office Bearers have been elected to perform there duty for the next two years.

President	A.Sitarama Rao
Vice-President	S.N.Bhadra
Vice-President	Rajiv Puri
Secretary General	Rajesh D Menon
Additional Secretary	Raj Singh Meel
Joint Secretary	Diwakar Singh
Joint Secretary	V.M.Jayadevan
Assistant Secretary	Basawanand
Assistant Secretary	Sathish Bhalla
Treasurer	N.V.Anantharaman Iyer
Auditor	C.K.Singh
Zonal Secretary (North)	J.B.Singh
Zonal Secretary (East)	Amitava Dey
Zonal Secretary (West)	Ravi Shankar
Zonal Secretary (South)	K.E.Rajan
Zonal Secretary (Central)	Krishnakumar

Inspector/P.S/A.O likely to get minimum fixation as 13,860 w.e.f 01.01.2006

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ITO to ACIT Adhoc promotion : Vigilance Clearance sought by CBDT

In order to proceed with more than 400 Ad hoc promotion in the grade of ACIT, CBDT has urgently sought vigilance clearance for the ITOs who are in the consideration zone for promotion. Significantly, CBDT has officially confirmed that the vacant post of ACIT is above 400.
Who are in the consideration zone ?
Sl No. 1360 to 1828 for Gen.
Sl No. 1666 to 2467 for SC
Sl No. 1807 to 2200 for ST 
[as per the CBDT letter] [A large number of persons in between have been retired, so the list is so long]
The vigilance clearance is to be submitted by 13th January by the DGIT[Vigilance]
So, certainly the ball is rolling.
View the CBDT Letter Dated 10th January 2012
Download Latest ITO Seniority List here

ITGOA suspends agitation, ITO to ACIT promotion may be done shortly

With assurance from CBDT that they will finalize the matter of ad hoc promotion to ACIT after getting approval from law ministry within 20th january,2012, ITGOA has temporarily withdrawn the ongoing agitation.
Meanwhile CBDT has asked for ACRs/APARs for the ITOs particularly who may be considered for promotion to the cadre of ACITs positively within 9th January. It indicates that the ball is certainly rolling.
Though there are rumors in the air about the clearance of Cadre review proposal from DOPT, nothing could be confirmed from the official source yet.
View the letter of CBDT asking ACRs/APARs