Dear comrades,

The union cabinet today approved 8% hike in DA of Central Govt. employees and pensioners. Orders are expected soon.

Yours fraternally

GS

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: 17^th April, 2013

Dear Comrades,

        Report of the Committee on Outsourcing and decisions thereon-

The CWC meeting held at Puri on Ist  and 2^nd  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 23^rd 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 10^th 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 15^th May, 2013 to the Central Headquarters.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

(KP Rajagopal)

Secretary General

INCOME TAX  EMPLOYEES  FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,

New Delhi. 110 027.

Cir. No. 20/itef/12-15                                                                               Dated: 03.04.2013.

Dear Comrades,

United action against indiscreet attitude of Govt. towards our Demands-

You are aware and have been part of a serious struggle that we have waged during the last one year starting from a massive March to Parliament in July 2012, one day token strike on 12.12.2012 and two days strike on 20^th and 21^st February, 2013, by the Central Government Employees under Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and Workers. The struggle was necessitated due to the insensate attitude of the Government towards their demands, among other things setting up of VII Central Pay Commission and withdrawal of PFRDA Bill.  Instead of responding to the just demands of its employees sympathetically, the Government while answering a question in parliament in the Budget session stated that setting up of the 7^th Central Pay Commission for effecting wage revision of central Government employees is not presently under its consideration. We are familiar with these types of statements and stand taken by the Governments of the day when such demand was raised in 1993 and 2003 for setting up of V and VI CPCs.  But the Government had to give in before our struggles on all the occasions.   If the aforesaid action programmes were carried out under the auspices of the Confederation,  the struggle will now be on a wider platform, jointly by the Railway Employees, Defence Employees and Central Govt. employees.  The three organisations have now joined together in demanding the setting up of the VII-CPC and withdrawal of the PFRDA Bill and called upon all affiliated organisations and employees to hold a Protest Demonstration in front of all Offices/places on 29^thApril, 2013.  All the Circles may direct their Branches to carry out the programme either jointly with the affiliates of the Railway and Defence Association or under the banner of Confederation on that date.  Copy of the Confederation and the Joint Statement issued by the All India Railwayman’s Federation, Confederation and All India Defence Employees Federation is attached hereunder.

Cadre Restructuring proposal and present status.

The Cadre Restructuring proposal of the IT Department was submitted to the Cabinet in the second week of March after getting the same back from the Group of Secretaries.  It is learnt that the Cabinet had referred the proposal to a Group of Ministers for their final screening and the report of the GOM is likely to be submitted to the cabinet by the second week of April, 2013.

Addl. Marks for Wrong Answers in ITO Exam and ITI Exam- 2012.

Please refer to our Cir. No. 16/12-15/Dated: 22^nd February, 2012 wherein we have informed you the outcome of the discussion in the quarterly Review meeting with the Chairperson on the above matter.  Based on the finding of the Expert Committee that the claim of the ITEF regarding wrong answer in ITO Exam Paper I was correct, the Board has now approved additional 1 mark each to those 5 questions.  This additional mark will be available to all the candidates who attempted those questions.  It hais also been approved by the Board to award additional mark in the Paper IV of the ITI Examination 2012 where the  answer key was wrongly setup.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

(KP Rajagopal)

Secretary General.

INCOME TAX  EMPLOYEES  FEDERATION

Manishinath Bhawan A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,

New Delhi. 110 027.

www.itefcentralhq.org  email: itefcentral@gmail.com.

Telefax. 2510 5324; 2593 7462

Circular No. 19                                                                                                   Dated: 02.04.2013.

Dear Comrade

Supreme Court order in UOI Vs. N.R.Parmar case- Clarifications-

The Central Headquarters have been receiving Stereotyped representations of individual members from various parts of the country mainly from Directly Recruited Inspectors accusing the ITEF being biased against Direct Recruits and requesting for immediate implementation of the above Supreme Court Order. It all started from 28^thMarch, 2013 after the CBDT issued instructions to the Cadre Controlling Authorities to promote personnel from ITI to ITOs based on the panel drawn by the DPCs held in 2012.  From 28^th March, to till date (2.04.2013) 33 stereotyped representations have been received.  During the last two days lengthy and accusing SMSs are also being sent to the CHQ (both to the President and Secretary General) and more than 141 such messages have been received during the last 24 hours.  From the contents of the stereotyped representations and text messages, it is apparent that the members have resorted to such type of protest on a misconceived notion or misinformation being spread by somebody or the stand of ITEF on this matter communicated in Circular No. 14 dated 7.2.2013 after the Central Working Committee Meeting held at Puri, has not been understood in acuity.  It is felt that to remove the discontentment of such members; we must be little more explicit on our stand. Therefore, the content of the above circular in this regard is reproduced and further clarification is given below.

Agenda Item No. 2 (a)

“Upshot of the Supreme Court judgement in the matter of inter-se Seniority between Direct Recruits and Promotees:  The Secretary General informed the house the stand of the Federation taken in the above Sect. Meeting that the Federation is neither against nor in favour of the said judgement as the Government (DOPT and DOL) has to take a final decision on the matter.  The Federation is to get the decision of the Government correctly implemented by the Department and deliver justice to all the members without prejudice to the interest of any member. Further it is also the stand of the Federation that till a final decision is taken by the Government on the Supreme Court Decision, no DPC meeting or promotion should be withheld.  The Federation will take up the issue with the authorities to conduct all DPC Meeting and effect timely promotions”.

Further, the following points are also made here in this context.

1. There is no basis for the charge that the Federation is biased against Direct Recruits- as all its members are Directly Recruited to the Department in one post or other viz. Gr. D (MTS),LDC,NS,TA,ITI etc.
2. The Department (CBDT) is not the final authority to decide the implementation of any order of a High Court or the Hon’ble Supreme Court, as all such verdicts on service matters have to be referred to the DOPT before implementation and the final decision with regard to acceptance or otherwise, is taken by the Government in consultation with the Ministry of Law and Ministry of Personnel.  At the most the Department can implement, being the Verdict of the Supreme Court, only in the case of the appellant/respondent.
3. In case the Government in its wisdom decides to implement the same, it is a wrong notion, that the ratio of the judgement will be applicable only in the case of Inspectors.  Being Supreme Court order, the same will be applicable across all cadres in all the Departments.
4. The DOPT in its interim opinion in the case of promotion to the cadre of ACIT, has conveyed that if the ratio of the Judgement is accepted and implemented, the seniority lists of all cadres have to be revised from the year 1986 which may take years together.  Till then neither functions of the Government nor promotions can be stopped and therefore, regular DPCs can be conducted subject to revision on the basis of the final decision of the Government on the said Judgement.
5. In the light of the above and receiving reports from various circles that either DPCs are not being held or promotions are withheld on the ground of the said Supreme Court Order, even though no such direction was issued by the CBDT, the ITEF took up the matter.  The ITEF is not aware or interested to know whether directly recruited or Promote Inspectors are getting promotions.  Its only interest is to get timely promotion to its members without delaying it for years together.

The Circle General Secretaries are requested to reach out to all such members in particular  to remove their confusion by explaining them the above position either by holding general meeting or circulating the contents of this circular, if possible in regional dialect also.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

(KP Rajagopal)

Secretary General