CIRCULAR NO.5

 INCOME TAX EMPLOYEES FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan

A2/95 Rajourigarden

New Delhi-110027.

Circular No. 5                                                                        Dated: 16.06.2015.

Dear Comrades,

The 4th meeting of Personnel Grievance Redressal Committee (PGRC) at apex level was held on 10.6.2015 under the Chairmanship of Member (P&V) CBDT. The gist of discussions held in the meeting is appended below;

(i) Regarding the promotion from ITO to ACIT for the R.Y 2013-14, 2014-15 & 2015-16, it was informed by the Chairman of the meeting that process for finalisation of vacancies for the aforesaid R.Y.s are being carried out and likely to take some more time. It was assured that the vacancy calculation will be completed at the earliest.

(ii) For filling up of posts of Inspectors lying vacant for want of eligible candidates, necessary instruction will be issued to all the Pr.CCITs and instruction for filling up of the posts by promotion for R.Y 2015-16 uniformly by all the charges will be issued shortly.

(iii) For Re-allocation of posts of Inspectors to deficient charges (where stagnation is acute) as proposed by ITEF, it was informed that the exercise of re allocation of the post of inspector will be taken up at the appropriate time.

(iii)  Regarding notification of Recruitment Rules of Gr. B & C employees, it was informed to the representatives of JCA that the Recruitment Rules for the Group C employees will be notified within a period of one month (i.e. MTS & TA). As regards recruitment rules for Group B Gazetted and Non-Gazetted cadres, the draft RR was sent to DOPT for approval. The Recruitment Rules of Departmental Canteen staffs are ready and will be notified within a period of three weeks time.

(iv)  The CBDT in principle acknowledged the problem of huge vacancies in some of the charges due to all India Recruitment in Group-C Cadre. They are in principle in favour of Zonal/Regional Recruitment but since it involves policy matters for recruitment process of Government of India hence it required to be dealt separately for which necessary action will be undertaken.

(v) The official side informed that the laptops for Inspectors were approved in full board meeting. The matter was remitted to the technical team for purchase of laptops and accordingly orders will be issued shortly. For mobile hand set to all the employees it was informed that a policy will be framed and a proposal will be submitted to the concerned authorities for approval.

(vi)  For enhancement of Local Travel Expenses to Inspectors and Notice Servers necessary proposal was sent to the IFU for approval. The approval is still awaited.

(vii) Regarding improvement of infrastructure in the Department the it was informed that the general instruction in this regard has already been issued to all the Pr.CCITs. It was also informed that the problem of particular charge may be brought to the notice of Board for intervention.

(viii) It was informed to the Chairman of the meeting that at present there was no uniformity as regards holding of placements committee for transfer and posting of Group-B & C employees. It was further highlighted that the Board has issued various instructions in this regard in the past and accordingly requested to issue a fresh uniform guideline in this respect. It was assured that after causing discussion with the Chairperson the same will be acted upon.

(ix) Regarding the erstwhile Group-D employees aged more than 50 years may be  considered for promotion to the higher grade by relaxing the Computer Skill Test, the official side informed that since the issue is being raised for the first time hence the same is required some time for examination. The matter will be examined and referred to the Chairperson for decision.

(x) For merger of Staff Car Drivers with the main stream cadres as one time relaxation, it was informed that the DOPT has rejected the proposal. It was highlighted in the meeting that this proposal has already been considered and recommended to include SCD as feeder cadre for promotion to the cadre of T.A/N.S by the Recruitment Rules Committee. At present the majority of the staff car drivers are sitting idle without staff car. After brief discussion it was decided that a fresh note will be submitted again in this respect.

(xi) It was informed that the issue of providing DATA Card to all Inspectors & Gazetted Officers is being taken up with the BSNL after cadre restructuring of the Department alongwith enhancement of mobile SIM card/Land line etc.

The issue of providing  RSA Token alongwith User Id, Passwords to all employees including TROs enabling them access to the Departmental Network according to their job profiles, it was informed that the same was considered in the newly introduced ITBA (Income Tax Bussiness Application) application. Accordingly, RSA tokens will be issued in the phased manner to all the officials.

For improvement of Bandwidth speed for Deptt. network at all Offices specially in Mofussil offices the official side has informed that the steps has already being taken to improve the Bandwidth speed for Data Network of the Department in the March, 2015. However in case of any specific problems the same may brought to the notice of the DIT(System), New Delhi through the respective CIT(CO & Admn.) for necessary upgradation.

(xii)  To simplify the Syllabus of the Departmental Exam and the candidates who are left with only one paper in the Departmental examination to get qualified will be considered sympathetically and the grace marks will be given to the extent required to qualify the paper.  As regards the grace marks it was informed that already 7(seven) marks are available to all the candidates.

(xiii) For regular training to all employees at various levels, it was assured that necessary instructions will be issued to all the Pr. CCIT in this regard.

(xiv) For payment to Casual Labours in pursuance of judgement of the Honab’le Principal CAT’s judgement for almost last two and half years and the Honab’le Principal CAT’s judgement it was informed that the matter will be discussed with the concerned authorities and decision will be taken accordingly.

(xv) Regarding ensuing skill test of relaxed standard Stenographers, the proposal of the staff side for proper training and sufficient time before skill test will be examined and a direction will be communicated shortly.