Circular No. 20 from CHQ

INCOME TAX  EMPLOYEES  FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,

New Delhi. 110 027.

Cir. No. 20/itef/12-15                                                                               Dated: 03.04.2013.

Dear Comrades,

United action against indiscreet attitude of Govt. towards our Demands-

You are aware and have been part of a serious struggle that we have waged during the last one year starting from a massive March to Parliament in July 2012, one day token strike on 12.12.2012 and two days strike on 20^th and 21^st February, 2013, by the Central Government Employees under Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers. The struggle was necessitated due to the insensate attitude of the Government towards their demands, among other things setting up of VII Central Pay Commission and withdrawal of PFRDA Bill.  Instead of responding to the just demands of its employees sympathetically, the Government while answering a question in parliament in the Budget session stated that setting up of the 7^th Central Pay Commission for effecting wage revision of central Government employees is not presently under its consideration. We are familiar with these types of statements and stand taken by the Governments of the day when such demand was raised in 1993 and 2003 for setting up of V and VI CPCs.  But the Government had to give in before our struggles on all the occasions.   If the aforesaid action programmes were carried out under the auspices of the Confederation,  the struggle will now be on a wider platform, jointly by the Railway Employees, Defence Employees and Central Govt. employees.  The three organisations have now joined together in demanding the setting up of the VII-CPC and withdrawal of the PFRDA Bill and called upon all affiliated organisations and employees to hold a Protest Demonstration in front of all Offices/places on 29^thApril, 2013.  All the Circles may direct their Branches to carry out the programme either jointly with the affiliates of the Railway and Defence Association or under the banner of Confederation on that date.  Copy of the Confederation and the Joint Statement issued by the All India Railwayman’s Federation, Confederation and All India Defence Employees Federation is attached hereunder.

Cadre Restructuring proposal and present status.

The Cadre Restructuring proposal of the IT Department was submitted to the Cabinet in the second week of March after getting the same back from the Group of Secretaries.  It is learnt that the Cabinet had referred the proposal to a Group of Ministers for their final screening and the report of the GOM is likely to be submitted to the cabinet by the second week of April, 2013.

Addl. Marks for Wrong Answers in ITO Exam and ITI Exam- 2012.

Please refer to our Cir. No. 16/12-15/Dated: 22^nd February, 2012 wherein we have informed you the outcome of the discussion in the quarterly Review meeting with the Chairperson on the above matter.  Based on the finding of the Expert Committee that the claim of the ITEF regarding wrong answer in ITO Exam Paper I was correct, the Board has now approved additional 1 mark each to those 5 questions.  This additional mark will be available to all the candidates who attempted those questions.  It hais also been approved by the Board to award additional mark in the Paper IV of the ITI Examination 2012 where the  answer key was wrongly setup.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

(KP Rajagopal)

Secretary General.