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Circular No.11/2018-21                                               Dated, 20thFebruary, 2019

Central Working Committee Meeting at Delhi on 16th February, 2019
and Decisions

The Central Working Committee meeting was held at Civic Centre, Delhi as scheduled on 16th February, 2019.  The Delhi Circle of ITEF made arrangements for accommodating the CWC members. The hospitality and committed team work of the members of the Delhi Circle was salutable.

Com. Ravindran B Nair, President, hoisted the ITEF flag in presence of Com. K K N Kutty, Com. Ashok Kr. Kanojia, all CWC members, observers and  leaders of Delhi Circle at 10.30 AM followed by the delegate session.

Com. Anand Singh Rawat, General Secretary, ITEF Delhi Circle welcomed senior leaders of ITEF and the all members/observers of Central of Working Committee  present in the session. One-minute silence was observed as a mark of respect in memory of those Soldiers who passed away recently on militant attack in Jammu & Kashmir.         

           Com. K K N Kutty, President, Confederation of CG Employees and Workers addressed the meeting and congratulated the house for the effective manner in which the ITEF had participated in the two days strike on 8th and 9th January 2019.  He reported about the developments about participation of employees of other Central Govt. Departments in the strike specially in the Postal Department all over India. He also reported about the decision taken in the last meeting of the NJCA and endorsed by the Confederation regarding future course of Action. The NJCA has decided to organize a Dharna on 13th March 2019 at Jantar Mantar only for the demands of scrapping NPS and to organize dharna programme of NJCA leaders on 28th March 2019 for continuance of JCM functioning. He stressed upon the strengthening of the organization. He said that the most important thing to be debated and discussed in the Central Working Committee is the Cadre Restructuing which is on the offing and also said that Cadre Restructuring is not only meant for increasing the numbers of employees but we have to be very careful about the stagnation in various circles and proliferating the career prospects of everyone in the department. 
After the inaugural speech of Com.K K N Kutty, the President called the House into order and extended warm welcome to all members present in this House.  All the Circles were represented in the CWC meeting except Pune
Agenda No.1Minutes of the last CWC meeting held on 1-2nd October, 2018 at Goa,  was placed before the CWC which was approved unanimously.
Agenda Nos. 2 & 3 were taken together:  Discussion on pending issues on the Departmental & Organisational matters:  A Status Report on Agitation of the JCA on 5 points charter of demands was submitted before the House. During the  agitation programme the Chairman and Member(Admn) CBDT assured to look into the demands raised by the JCA. Amongst the five issues two issues were resolved i.e. the Cadre Restructuring Committee was formed and the finalization of Recruitment Rules of Inspectors and Executive Assistant was kept in hold. But the relaxation in residency period for promotion to the posts of Sr.Tax Assistant, Tax Assistant ans Steno Gr.II (erstwhile) and regularization of payment of Casual Workers from wages fund directly was still pending in HRD. After discussion in the meeting of Central JCA on 7th February, 2019, it was decided to embark on agitational programmes from 1st March 2019 again if there is no positive outcome before 28th February, 2019.  The House fully endorsed the decision of the Central JCA.

The Secretary General briefly stated about the present position of other pending demands. The Departmental Anomaly Committee accepted the demand for pay parity of Inspector of Revenue Deptt. with the Inspector of IB/CBI drawing grade pay of Rs.4800 and the proposal is sent to the Department of Expenditure for approval. The Deptt. Of Expenditure has referred it to the DoPT recently. Regarding the issues of advance increments the Deptt. of Expenditure has sent back the file to the CBDT with their views to refer for the DoPT again. The proposal given by ITEF on Inter Charge Transfer is still pending with the CBDT. 

 

The review of the strike of 8th and 9th January 2019 has already been stated in detail by Com. K K N Kutty.  The strike was cent percent throughout our Department.  The enthusiasm shown by the new employees who joined after 2004 was remarkable. Though, some problems had faced by the leaders of Gujrat, Bihar and West Bengal circles, after overcoming the situation they were fully successful in ensuring the participation of their members in the two days strike. The ITGOA leaderships and members of Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and West Bengal were fully supported and the leaderships of ITGOA of other regions were supported the strike.
Regarding NPS movement in our Department it has been decided to organize a mass convention demanding to scrap NPS at Civic Centre, New Delhi on 14th March 2019 at 10 AM.  The Circle wise numbers of quota belongs to NPS is given below.  All Circle Secretaries are requested to start campaign programme for this convention and ensure participation of NPS members as per quota fixed. It is also  requested that all Circles who are yet to hold the convention should be organized NPS convention prior to the All India Convention at New Delhi.
In the organizational issue, the House also resolved following two issues placed by the Secretary General on behalf of the Secretariat.

3. Presently there is no representative from UP(East) Circle in the Secretariat after promotion of Com. J P Singh as ITO and filling up of that vacant post is not possible immediately. From the House it was resolved that in extraordinary circumstances and for better functioning of the organization we will nominate one representative from UP(East) Circle for functioning as a Assistant Secretary.
The Resolution was passed by the House unanimously.
Agenda Item No. 4 : Finalization of proposal regarding Cadre Restructuring & Review 2018 of the Department : Com. Secretary General informed the house about the discussions held in first & second meeting of the committee in detail. He proposed the nomination of ITEF for sub-committees formed by the Cadre Restructuring & Review Committee for approval of the House.
1.   Sub-committee for data collection                  -        Com. C P Tokas
2.   Sub-committee for identification of new
virtual and changing role of the department  -        Com. M S Vengatesan

3.   Sub-committee to analyse statistical data
Collected from “Google Forum”                       -        Com.Subrata Mukherjee
4.   Sub-committee to frame the questionnaire
for carrying out the survey                             -        Com.Rajesh Gupta
5.   Sub-committee for covering issues relating
to IRS cadre                                                    -        Com. Yashwant Purohit
6.   Sub-committee for issues relating to EDP cadre -    Com. Rajinder Meena
7.   Sub-committee for issues relating to non-      -        Com. Ajay Tiwari
Executive IRS cadre
8.   Sub-committee for attached Directorates       -        Com. Madhusudhan
9.   Sub-committee on International Taxation &
Transfer Pricing                                              -        Com. Usha Bonepalli
10.Sub-committee on investigation and intelligence
Workforce                                                       -        Com. Vinod

The House unanimously accepted the proposal of Com. Secretary General. He requested that the preliminary proposal like change of cadre structure has to be discussed in detail.  The proposal made by the CRR committee of ITEF was circulated to the Circles well in advance for discussion and deliberation.  The preliminary proposal on cadre review and restructuring of the Department 2018 was briefed and requested the house to deliberate on the structure as proposed by the committee.  There is stagnation in many of the Circles which has to overcome.  He requested the House to place the concrete views on particular points. All the circles (one comrade from each Circle) participated in the discussion and placed their views and discussed on other issues.


After threadbare discussion the proposal was unanimously accepted after modification of few proposals, which is given as under:

1.              The main function of the department i.e. the assessment function has to be further strengthened as the scrutiny is presently pegged down to less than 1%.  This alone will enable the department to do its primary function of arresting the generation and proliferation of black income.
2.              To carry out the newly assigned functions like benami transactions, black money act, sufficient number of manpower is to be demanded.  
3.              The verification and analysis of the information, department is receiving through various sources especially after computerisation being very huge is presently an unattended area. The quantification of the personnel required to do this job has to be done and accordingly manpower increased.
4.              Certain functions presently carried out by certain cadres in the department have become redundant viz. Staff Car Drivers, Notice Servers, Lower Division Clerks etc.  These posts will no longer be required.  Since it will face extinction over the years, it is necessary that the present incumbents of these posts are migrated to other cadres by way of upgradation to the Cadres with GP of Rs.2400.
5.              A serious suggestion that came up for consideration was the creation of the intermediary post between MTS and TA in the level equivalent to grade pay of Rs. 2400/- with the nomenclature of Office Assistant and accordingly the TA will have to be placed in the level equivalent to grade pay of Rs.2800/- (akin to Jr. Accountants in I&AD).
6.              The present cadre strength of Sr.Tax Assistants and Office Superintendents are in the GP of Rs.4200.  Since both the posts are in the same pay level and taking into account the need for larger supervisory staff, upgradation of these posts (present OS) as AO Grade III in the GP of Rs.4600 has to be suggested.
7.              It is noticed that the need for the cadre of Tax Assistants has dwindled and simultaneously the requirement of Sr.Tax Assistants have increased.  Therefore, a swapping of this cadre has become necessary.
8.              In the emerging scenario it is apprehended that the Multi Tasking Staff may not have sufficient avenue for career progression and therefore the direct recruitment element in Tax Assistant cadre has to be removed.  Consequently, the direct recruitment induction in the Sr. Tax Assistant post will have to be introduced (as suggested in the CRC 2009). 
9.              Taking into account the changes effected in the process of completion of scrutiny assessment, the meeting felt that the Stenographer Gr.I (GP of  Rs.4200) and Gr.II (GP of Rs.2400)  be merged and the nomenclature of combined cadre will be only Stenographer and they shall be the feeder cadre for the post of PS.
10.           It is also decided that for smooth carrier progression of Stenographer, a new post will be created asPr.PS (GP of Rs.6600).
11.           In order to ensure that the menace of outsourcing is totally abolished, the suggestion will be made to resort to regional recruitment for MTS& TA.
12.           It was noticed that the creation of Directorates which was resorted to by the last cadre review committee to improve the career prospects of IRS officers has created imbalanced cadre system below the level of Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax across the charge.  It is also noticed that none of the newly created Directorates have been able to address the assigned tasks to them effectively.  While the reversal of the decision might cause certain problems the Committee has said that the creation of new posts for new functions must be integrated with the Commissionerates in charge of assessment functions in each State.
13.           It is also recognised that there is no uniformity in the career progression in different charges and vary widely.  It was therefore decided that stagnation must be a great criterion while creating/distributing posts.
14.           It is also decided in the meeting that the Income Tax Employees Federation must have a significant say in evolving the policy of the distribution of the posts across the Circles.
15.           The meeting noted that the creation of CIT(Admn) under the Pr.CCIT has only created hurdles and has become a cause for delay affecting the non-gazetted employees in particular.  The institution of CIT(Admn) has to be withdrawn.

Agenda item No.5: Any other matter with permission of the chair :  From the Chair, it was requested to pay all dues, Renewal Fees, Aaayakar, Building Fund, Organisation Fund (Rs.25000 after circle conference) and Legal Fund within this month positively. The CWC members were raised certain other issues which is to be looked into and will take necessary action by the CHQ.

As there were no other issues to be discussed, Com. Ashok Mann, President ITEF Delhi Circle proposed vote of thanks to all the CWC members for attending and making the CWC Meeting a grand success.  He expressed his sincere gratitude to ITEF CHQ. for giving a chance to hold the CWC meeting at Delhiand he thanked to all members of Delhi Circle for for making the Meeting a memorable one.

         The President of the meeting thanked the House for their presence and active participation in the proceedings and declared the meeting as closed.

With greetings,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Yours fraternally,
                                               
(RUPAK SARKAR)

                                                                             Secretary General







CIRCLES
PARTICIPATION FOR 13TH
PARTICIPATION FOR 14TH



AP

40
BENGAL

40
BIHAR

25
DELHI
50
500
GUJRAT

40
KERALA

10
KARNATAKA

40
MP

50
MUMBAI

40
NAGPUR

20
NER

10
NWR
50
150
ODISHA

25
PUNE

20
RAJASTHAN
25
100
TN

40
UP(EAST)
25
75
UP(WEST
50
150
TOTAL
200
1375




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