7th CPC Departmental Demands -

RESOLUTION

The Income Tax Employees and Promotee Officers throughout the country are dissatisfied with the 7^th CPC recommendation not only on issues pertaining to common demands of Central Government Employees in general but on the matter concerning the assigned Pay Structure of certain categories/ grades in Income Tax Department.

The meeting appeals to the Chairperson to take up the revision of pay of the following categories with the Government and effect revision thereof to set right the wrong recommendation made by the 7^th CPC.

Income Tax Officers: Before the 7^th CPC the JCA had represented that the Income Tax Officers who are assigned more ardours and onerous responsibility than the Accounts Officers of IA & AD must be provided with parity in the Pay Scale i.e. they may be assigned with the same Pay presently given to the Accounts Officers of IA & AD, if not more. The legitimate and reasonable demand for parity, despite being genuine and tenable, was rejected by the 7^th CPC without discussing the merit of the demand. We therefore appeal that Income Tax Officers may be assigned the replacement scale recommended by the 7^th CPC to Accounts Officers of IA & AD i.e. replacement scale of Grade pay of Rs 5400/- in PB-2. 

Administrative Officer/Private Secretary:  The JCA had represented that the initial grades in the AO & PS cadres are to be assigned with the replacement scale of Grade Pay of Rs 5400/- in PB-2 and pay-parity must be maintained across the Departments. Though the Commission agreed to our logic while the matter was subjected to discussion in various meetings, the report of the CPC speaks otherwise without assigning any reason.  We therefore appeal that the AO & PS cadres may be assigned the replacement scale of Grade pay of Rs 5400/- in PB-2 and pay-parity may be maintained in various grades of these cadres across the Departments.

Inspectors of Income Tax: The Government, after the 6^th CPC recommendation was accepted, had passed an elaborate speaking order that had brought about parity in the Pay Scale of the Inspectors of Income Tax, CBI and IB. This parity continued till date. Now the 7^th CPC has again resorted to disturb the parity by providing higher Pay Scale for Inspectors of IB and CBI, assigning replacement scale of Grade Pay of Rs 4800/- while the Inspectors of Income Tax are assigned with the replacement scale of Grade Pay 4600/-. This is a gross injustice and must be set right by assigning the same replacement scale provided to Inspectors of CBI and IB (replacement pay of Grade Pay of Rs 4800/-) to Inspectors of Income Tax.

Tax Assistant: They are recruited by SSC on the basis of graduate level examination, the Auditors/Accountant in the IA &AD are also recruited in the same manner. They had the parity all along with UDCs and Accountants (now TA and Auditor/ Accountant). It was through the Government’s executive fiat that the pay Scale of Auditor/ Accountant were revise by assigning them the Grade Pay of Rs. 2800/- instead of 2400/-. We appealed to the 7^th CPC to remove this anomaly. The 7^th CPC has stated that there had been no parity in the past between the UDCs and Auditor/ Accountant which is contrary to fact. The Tax Assistant has therefore to be paid in the replacement scale of Grade pay of Rs 2800/-.