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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.1: Minutes 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.
1. Regarding organize Circle Conference – it is
resolved that Circle Conference
should be organised within the province of the concerned Circles and recurrence
of holding conference in a luxurious manner and cultural programme are held
without hurting the aesthetic sense of anybody and well within the normally
accepted realm of a trade union organization.
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
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CIRCLES
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PARTICIPATION FOR 13TH
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PARTICIPATION FOR 14TH
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AP
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40
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BENGAL
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40
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BIHAR
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25
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DELHI
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50
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500
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GUJRAT
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40
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KERALA
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10
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KARNATAKA
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40
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MP
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50
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MUMBAI
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40
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NAGPUR
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20
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NER
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10
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NWR
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50
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150
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ODISHA
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25
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PUNE
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20
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RAJASTHAN
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25
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100
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TN
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40
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UP(EAST)
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25
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75
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UP(WEST
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50
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150
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TOTAL
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200
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1375
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