JCA woke up from hibernation : Demonstration on 9th March

Central JCA woke up again ! Lunch Hour Demonstration on 9th March !
The old game of agitation is going to start again and obviously it will be "intensified" after the peak time of March so that it can in no way cause any inconvenience to CBDT. Let us see how many of the members come out spontaneously to take part in the agitation. But as the AGT is approaching ahead, so many of them may not dare to oppose the local leadership in public ! 
'.........it is decided by the Central JCA, in its meeting on 02‐03‐2016 at New Delhi, to send a resolution to the Revenue Secretary, GOI, and the Chairman, CBDT, from a Lunch Hour Demonstration on 09th March, 2016 in front of office of all Pr.CCsIT. We will also collect Mass Signature from all members of the JCA which, along with the Resolution, will be sent to the Revenue Secretary, GOI, through proper channel within one month from 09‐03‐2016.   
A charter of demand is annexed hereunder on which immediate attention of the Board is required.    CHARTER OF DEMANDS    
A. To give effect to the promotions in the cadre of ACIT for 3(three) vacancy years within 31‐03‐2016.
 B. To send strong recommendation to the Implementation Cell of the 7th CPC to revise the pay of Income Tax Officer, AO, PS, Inspector and Tax Assistant, as demanded by the JCA. 
C. To ensure immediate Notification of pending RR of ITO/AO/PS/ITI/EA. 
D. To re‐allocate the posts of Inspectors to deficient charges (where stagnation is acute), as proposed by ITEF, to remove such stagnation and to withdraw the order of Diversion of 1633 posts from West Bengal & Sikkim Charge.
 E. To replace the old Laptops and to provide new Laptops to AO & PS and Inspectors. To provide Mobile handset to all officials under the scheme of 1% incentive for infrastructure development. 
F. To improve the Infrastructural facilities in the Department, provision for ample space to the employees with air‐conditioning facility, provision for adequate residential accommodation according to the norms fixed by CPWD.  
 G. To regularize the Casual Workers against the MTS posts sanctioned in the cadre restructuring. H. To modify the existing RR of MTS. Recruitment of MTS to be done directly by the Department or through the Employment Exchange as done by the Postal Department.'
Click here to view the full circular dated 04.03.2016

ITGOA Circular dated 03.03.2016

ITO to ACIT promotion : Reality Soon ? 
Click here for the letter to Rev. Secy. dtd. 03.03.16
"The promotion from ITO to ACIT for the R.Y. 2014‐15 requires to be held immediately. All out efforts are being made to complete the process immediately. The CHQ appealed to all its members vide Circular No. 01, dated 25‐01‐2016, to be restrained from asking for the stay on DPC in the Court of Law, but some of our members choose otherwise. The ITGOA impressed the CBDT that as recasting of seniority after the implementation of NRP Judgment would take some more time, as evident from the status of correct implementation of the Advisory issued by the CBDT in various charges, and as the Hon’ble FM, GOI, had approved the promotion of all ITOS upto 2003‐04 by the 31‐03‐2016, the promotion in the cadre of ACIT for the R.Y.s 2014‐15, 2015‐16 & 2016‐17 is to be held on the basis of the existing Seniority List subject to any revision of seniority as per the implementation of NRP verdict of the Hon’ble Supreme Court. The Hon’ble Revenue Secretary, GOI, was also appraised of the issue by the Central JCA, vide its letter dated 03‐02‐2016 (the copy of the letter is attached herewith), requesting him to intervene and impress upon the UPSC for speedy disposal of all the 3(three) DPCs within the timeline fixed by the Hon’ble FM, GOI.             In the mean time, the CAT, Pr. Bench, directed to intimate the Court before any step towards promotion from ITO to ACIT and accordingly, the CBDT has filed an affidavit before the Hon’ble Bench. Moreover, the UPSC had forwarded a final deficiency list in regard to the proposal of R.Y. 2014‐15 to the CBDT. As almost all the deficiencies are to be replied by the CBDT itself and the concerned Sections/Directorates are working on it, 7(seven) deficient APARs (as attached along with) are yet to be collected from 4 regions which are being forwarded to the respective Pr. CCsIT and the Presidents/General Secretaries of ITGOA in those regions are putting all efforts to complete the deficiencies and send it to the CBDT.  But unfortunately, as the corrected APARs in these 7(seven) cases are sent to the CBDT by post only instead of special messenger, we tend to lose some precious days/time before submitting the same to the UPSC.    
 The promotion from ITO to ACIT for the R.Y. 2015‐16 has to be done immediately and as per the request of the CHQ, the Chairman, CBDT, had directed the DIT (PP, PR & OL) to prepare the grading of the officers in the consideration zone of the said proposal. But after many efforts, 38 deficiencies still exist which are required to be removed to prepare the proposal for DPC of R.Y. 2015‐16 (the list, as updated on 02‐03‐2016, is attached herewith). All the Units are requested to remove the deficiencies immediately to help to prepare the proposal for the DPC."
Click here for the full circular

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".