INCOME TAX EMPLOYEES FEDERATION
Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,
New Delhi. 110 027.
www.itefcentralhq.org email: itefcentral@gmail.com.
Circular No. 22/2012-15 Dated: 17th April, 2013
Dear Comrades,
Report of the Committee on Outsourcing and decisions thereon-
The CWC meeting held at Puri on Ist and 2nd February, 2013 discussed in length the menace of various types of outsourcing of the work of TA/Sr.TA/Stgr., in the department. As already intimated, the CWC constituted a five member committee to study the various types of outsourcing in the Department by engaging outsiders. The Committee members have done a commendable job by undertaking tour to various charges and submitted its report to the Secretariat based on their extensive study. The Committee’s study revealed an alarming situation in many charges. In the name of data entry work and stenographic assistance, the committee found that various types of engagement of outsiders are resorted to in many charges even without undertaking a study of the requirement of such man power to carry out the functions. The Committee’s report revealed different types of engagement of outsiders, such as engagement by individual Officers/officials, engagement by the Range/Charge heads and engagement through private service providers etc in vogue.
The Committee’s report was discussed in length in the Secretariat Meeting held on 23rd March, 2013 at Bangalore. The Secretariat, considering the seriousness of the menace authorised the Central Headquarters to take the final decision, in consultation with the members of the Committee to stop the outsourcing of above office works. Accordingly, the President, Secretary General and Com. KKN Kutty, Advisory Committee Member met along with the Committee Members Coms. K.R.Jadeja, Rupak Sarkar, Vinod and J.P. Singh, and discussed the matter further on 10th April, 2013 at Chennai. After taking into consideration all aspect, including the depleting work load of Data Entry and Processing due to e-filing, meagre number of scrutiny assessments with AOs, and non-existence of works such as Data entry/processing/scrutiny during the months of April, May and June (since the filing of returns starts only in the month of June), the Central Headquarters has decided to enforce the following measures to stop the outsourcing in a phased manner.
A.1. To stop all outsiders engaged by individual officers/officials, through service providers and in any other form- forthwith (as there is no return receipt/data entry/processing/or scrutiny work during the first quarter of the Financial Year). Also to take the officers into confidence by assuring them to carry out all the Departmental functions by ourselves to avoid personal conflict or disputes.
2 To unleash massive campaign programme to educate members about the consequences of the outsourcing by engaging outsiders.
3 To sensitise the members through campaign programmes and to put all efforts to complete the present work load by ourselves including housekeeping work. (As the number of returns to be filed/processed is likely to come down drastically due to e-filing).
4 The so called Secretarial works of Officers are to be carried out by the available Stenographers and Tax Assistants, as creation of large number of TAs posts with the Computer knowledge was essentially for this purpose viz. helping the Officers in their day to day work on computers.
5 To take stock of the probable workload after the last date of filing of returns; to find out the requirement/shortage of manpower; to ascertain whether the said work load is manageable or not with the available manpower in the Charge; to evolve suggestion/methodology to overcome the man power shortage to manage the present work load and finally to have an understanding at Circle level with the Administration to overcome such situation, if necessary, engaging persons from Employment Exchange/ Ex-Servicemen Societies for clearly specified/limited period.
The CHQ also considered the following suggestions of the Committee and decided to take up the matter with the Central Board of Direct Taxes.
B.
1. To consider inter-charge transfer only when the workload can be managed with the remaining manpower.
2. To impart training to all Direct recruitees upon their induction itself to equip them with the work and functions of the Department.
3 To fill up all vacancies in the Department through regional recruitment to avoid mass requests for inter charge transfers and imbalanced working strength in different charges.
4. To stop contractorisation in CPC for its functions other than Technical & Maintenance of the unit, by posting sufficient No. of TAs, Inspectors and other staff in CPC.
5 To provide RSA token and Desktops with AST to all staff/Inspectors posted in Assessment units.
6 Proper distribution and posting of available staff in all offices especially priority fields.
7 To assign return processing work to Inspectors on a certain income limit basis.
8 To avoid seeking unnecessary statistics by the authorities and all the information available in the systems should be taken from the higher authorities offices itself.
All the Circles, regions, branch leadership are requested to immediately carry out the above decisions A (1 to 5). The Circle General Secretaries are requested to send a report of the progress of implementation of the decisions by 15th May, 2013 to the Central Headquarters.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
(KP Rajagopal)
Secretary General
