All eyes on meeting with Revenue Secretary today

Everybody is looking forward for the outcome of meeting of JCA with Revenue Secretary today. The meeting concluded some time ago. It is reported from sources that R.S. has been very positive about clearing promotion from ITO to ACIT in a large scale. Details are still awaited. Stay tuned for more update on this issue.
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Under pressure from members, JCA to continue agitation

Under pressure from members from every corner of the country, JCA decided to continue the ongoing agitation and threatens to intensify it if at least some of the demands are not addressed properly.
In a letter addressed to Chairperson CBDT, JCA informs the following.
"In this connection, we are directed by the members of JCA to convey to you that if the actual number of vacancies taking into account the Assistant and Deputy Commissioners together are not computed, steps are not taken to address the stagnation in the ITO cadre, regularization of eligible casual/daily rated workers and relaxation of recruitment rules are not ordered, the issue of providing adequate infrastructure is not addressed, we will be constrained to intensify the agitation further."
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Agitation scaled down, most likely to be withdrawn

As anticipated, JCA leaders are the first to blink. The proposed dharna on 28.10.15 in front of the residence of Chairperson, CBDT has been withdrawn. Regarding ongoing agitation, decision is pending still now and to be decided today afternoon.
CBDT informed by a letter yesterday that 180 promotions to the post of ACIT for panel year 2014-15 to be submitted today to UPSC.
Similar exercise for 180 more posts to be done for the panel year 2015-16 has been commenced and to be submitted to UPSC shortly.
A meeting with Revenue Secretary and JCA to be held on 3rd November to address the issues relating to stagnation of ITOs.
No reference has been made regarding the other issues of the five point charter of demands in the said letter.
It is evident with the developments stated above, nothing could have been achieved so far. CBDT was always ready to effect promotion in the tune of 180 per panel year and they did not commit anything more. No other demands have been addressed yet. Still the leadership took this opportunity to escape and probably going to suspend the agitation.
The view of the leadership is expressed below :
" The meeting decided to postpone the Dharna programme to be held in front of the residence of the Chairperson on 28.10.2015 and the meeting was adjourned to 27.10.2015 without taking any further decision. It is felt that to create a conducive atmosphere to negotiate with the Revenue Secretary, GOI, in the issue of determining the correct vacancy calculations in the cadre of ACIT for the R.Y.s 2013-14 to 2015-16 and removing stagnation in the cadre of ITO created due to less number of posts sanctioned in ACIT cadre in the CRC, 2013, it may perhaps be necessary to scale down the ongoing agitation by partial suspension till the meeting scheduled on 03.11.2015."
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JCA to decide the fate of ongoing agitation tomorrow - 26/10/2015

Consequent upon the request from CBDT to withdraw the ongoing agitation to facilitate the intervention of the Revenue Secretary, JCA will meet tomorrow to decide future course of action.
Members are insisting to continue the agitation unless it yields some fruitful result especially when CBDT is on back foot for the subdued tax collection this year. Present dispute with employees is certainly put them into an embarrassing situation before the Government.
In the other hand, leaders are worried whether to take it as an escape route to suspend the agitation. 
Will the intervention of Revenue Secretary bring any thing positive ? The West Bengal leadership must have a bitter experience about that ! They can recall the memories of cadre restructuring. West Bengal leaders met the then Revenue Secretary regarding post allocation. Despite positive assurance nothing was offered later and in addition 1633 posts diverted from West Bengal charge.
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Outcome of meeting of Chairperson with JCA on 20.10.2015

A meeting held with Chairperson on 20th Oct'15 regarding the ongoing agitation. The minutes published by HRD available on ITGOA website. The salient features of the meeting is detailed below.
1. Regarding ITO to ACIT promotion - CBDT discussed the issue with Revenue Secretary. He desired a total scenario of career prospects in all cadres including ITO which will be presented before him shortly and thereafter CBDT will try to arrange a meeting of JCA with Revenue Secy within first week of Nov. Revenue Secy. desired immediate withdrawal of agitation , on which JCA wanted time to discuss.
On the other issues, no significant development or concrete assurance was made available from the board.
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