I.T. offices to remain open on 29th & 30th March

In order to boost the revenue collection and to meet the deficit of Rs 50,204 Crores, CBDT asks all offices to show commitment to work on a 24X7 basis for the remaining days of this fiscal. In a video conference held today, it also barred all officers starting from Assessing Officers to CCITs to leave headquarter upto 31.03.2014. All Income Tax offices will be kept open on 29,30 and 31st march.
View the details of video conference 
In the other hand, regarding cadre review, nothing reliable information could be gathered so far. ITEF, Delhi circle, who was on the news for calling and postponing agitation, remained silent till now. It is gathered from unconfirmed sources that the proposed meeting with Revenue Secretary on 19.03.2014 got cancelled. No more details are available right now. Let's wait and watch the next move.....

ITEF Delhi suspends agitation following assurance from Member (P&V)

Meeting with Revenue Secretary today (19.03.2014)
The proposed agitation from 19.03.14 by ITEF, Delhi circle has been postponed. As per information available with us, Member (P&V) discussed the matter with ITEF Delhi circle today (18/03) and informed that an official meeting with Revenue Secretary with CBDT is fixed on tomorrow, the 19th March. She also stated that CBDT is on  all out effort to implement the cadre review at the earliest. Following her request to postpone the agitation till the outcome of the meeting with Revenue Secy., tomorrow, ITEF Delhi is temporarily holding back the agitation. 
It seems that tomorrow, the 19th March may be crucial and some positive outcome is expected very soon.

CBDT asked CCIT(CCA)s to fix seniority as per recent DOPT O.M.

In stead of issuing any definite and detailed guideline regarding implementation of Apex court order regarding inter se seniority between direct recruit and promotees, CBDT merely forwarded the DOPT O.M. dated 4th March 2014 and asked to initiate immediate necessary action.
This letter wass issued on 13.03.2014 and marked as "most immediate".
Click here to view CBDT letter dated 13.03.2014
(Link courtesy : ITEF website)
Click here to view DOPT O.M. dated 04.03.2014 
It may be remembered that this was predicted in this blog on 11.03.2014 that CBDT to issue instruction regarding seniority issue soon.

ITEF Delhi circle decided to agitate from 19.03.2014

ITEF Delhi Circle set a deadline of 19th March 2014 for issuance of notification regarding allocation of posts. They decided to walkout on 19th March at 12 noon and organize mass dharna on 20th and 21st March. It has also been decided to intensify the agitation from 22nd if no positive development takes place.
Sudden activity from the association leaders may be significant in this point of time when the notification is expected at any time, and it may be a face saving attempt ! 

Status of cadre review

It is known to everybody that CR file has been sent to F.M. via Revenue Secy. about two weeks ago. After that there is no official status update. The associations are either in dark or they don't want to share anything publicly. It is learnt from sources that F.M. has approved the CR file and it is now on the way to return to CBDT. It is also learnt that official implementation order is likely to be issued within this week itself. CBDT is also going to issue a guideline for implementation of DOPT order dated 4th March regarding inter se seniority with reference to the clarification obtained by Dept. of Legal Affairs (DOLA), which was obtained last week.
It may kindly be remembered that the status update reg CR mentioned above is not authenticated by any official source. As we are being flooded with queries from the viewers, whatever information could be gathered, published above. Please do not take it for granted and wait for next update.