Departmental Update

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Here are some recent updates.
JCA has withdrawn the agitation programme following some developments like JCIT promotion, ACIT upgradation etc. 
Promotion order for JCIT released. 183 officers promoted as JCIT.  Order
As many as 164 ACITs upgraded to DCIT on officiating basis. Order
Board awarded 8 Grace Marks to all candidates for Ministerial Paper 4 exam. The results are being published in each zone.

Cadre Review and Restructuring process initiated

Much awaited cadre review and restructuring process in Income Tax Dept. initiated by CBDT.  A 15 member committee with representatives of three recognized service associations is formed to submit a detailed report for reorganization of this department.
A time frame of three months has been set for this exercise but as per the past experience, it usually takes at least two years to finalize the report for consideration in different levels and  finally gets through cabinet approval.
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JCA revives agitation : No search and survey from December

JCA revived it's routine agitation once again.  JCA calls for non participation of search and survey (including TDS, Inspection and Recovery) operations to protest against apathy of CBDT, on 5 point charter of demand.
This call will be effective from 1st December 2018.

Inspectors' and ITO's Exam 2018 : Result published

Click here for Result of Departmental Examination-2018 for ITIs

Click here for Result of Departmental Examination-2018 for ITOs

Ministerial Examination 2018 : Grace Mark may be awarded in Paper IV

Amid protest from every corner throughout the country, Department finally agreed to consider the issue before publication of the result of Ministerial Examination 2018. It may be recalled that in the last examination, Question No 1 (50 Marks and a mandatory question) was dramatically changed from the conventional and exactly copied from ICAI website and was totally out of syllabus and very difficult in the level of the examinees.
Now the Directorate asked all CCIT(CCA)s to analysis pass percentage of this year with comparison to four previous years and the compiled data is to be used to consider awarding grace marks in this paper.