BREAKING NEWS.......GAZETTE NOTIFICATION PUBLISSHED FOR ALL CITs

Today the Gazette notifications for all the four orders dated 22nd October 2014 were published in the Gazette of India. The four notifications consists of 398 pages (Hindi&English).

The four orders are,
1. Pr.CCIT/CCITs jurisdiction
2. Pr.CIT/CITs jurisdiction
3. CCIT(Exemptions) jurisdiction
4. Pr.CCIT/CCIT(Intl Taxn) jurisdicitons.

With this the role of at the Board level regarding jurisdiction is completed. Now only the Pr.CIT/CIT have pass their individual Notification for their Ranges/Circles/Wards.
All these orders/notifications are being done with effeictive date of 15th November 2014.
The official copy of the above notificaitons could be find in the Officala site of www.egazette.nic.in

The same can be also downloaded from the following link......
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR GAZETTE NOTIFICATION COPY(398 PAGES)

NOTIFICATION FOR PR.CCIT/CCITs RELEASED WITH EFFECITVE DATE OF 15TH NOV.

The Board has passed the order U/s. 120 on 22nd October 2014 specifying the jurisdiction of Pr.CCIT/CCITs of all the regions. In the order it is stated the effective date of notification would be 15th November 2014. Also it is expected the notification by the Board with jurisdictions of all the CITs ( which consists of 750 pages) are expected in a week and the respective CITs will pass Notification U/s.120 classifying the jurisdiction of his charge Ranges and circles/wards with effective date of 15th November 2014.

CLICK HERE FOR COPY OF JURISDICTION ORDER U/S.120 FOR PR.CCIT/CCIT/PR.CIT/CITs.

EFFECTIVE DATE ANNOUNCED AS 15TH NOVEMBER 2014

It is learnt the Board has issued a communication to all the CCAs regarding notification of jurisdiction after getting approval from Ministry of Law in the last week. In the letter it is stated the effective date of notificaion in all the regions should be 15th November 2014. Alos it has intimated the Gazette notification number of the notification. It is expected that the notificaiton by the Board with jurisctions of all the CITs in the country  are expected in a week and the respective CITs will pass Notificaito U/s.120 classifying the jurisdiction of his charge Ranges and circles/wards with effective date of 15th November 2014.

JURISDICTION NOTIFICATION SOON

The half baked CR implementatin likely to pass through one more crucial stage of Release of gazette notificaiton for jurisdiciton. It came to know that the draft jurisdiction was approved by the Board. Earlier it was sent for approval of DoLA, they raised some querries, and were complied by the Board after consulting the CCAs.

Now, the release of notification is inevitable. Even some of the charges like Mumbai and Bangalore etc wished to postphone the Notificaiton on some administrative grounds, the Board is inclined to release it and anticipating to gain fruits of CR in this year itself atleast to some extent. As the promotions were already effected in Pr CCIT cadre and in all Group B and C cadres though with excetptions of consenquetial promotions, the Board is keen in completing the Notification process this year itself. The notification exp ected to release in the month of November 2014 with effective date of 1st or 15th November 2014.

Another major event that is going to take place in a couple days which may have impact on effective date of notificaiton, is retirement of our Hon'ble Chairman, CBDT. Mr. KV Chowdhary, the present Chairman is going retire on 31st Oct. It is expected to extend the same Chairman for another 3 months. It is also came to know that he is going to CVC for 2 years term, if it is so, he has to resign to the present post two days before retirement. The matters of Notification and appointment of Chairman are expected finalisation in a couple of days.

BOARD RELEASES CORREGENDUM ON SCHEME OF DISTRIBUTION OF POSTS

The CBDT today isssued a corregendum to the Pr.DGIT(HRD)s DO letter dtd 4-4-2014 regarding scheme of distributiohn posts under CR plan of IT dept. There are five corrections to the letter dated 4-4-2014. They are:

1 ....regarding redisgantion of DGIT(Inv) of AP and Kerala as Hyderabad and Kochi respectively.

2.....regarding posts at NADT

3..... regarding rectificaiton of typographical error in bifurcation of posts of NS/LDC/Driver

4..... regarding rectificaiton of typographical error in bifurcation of posts of TA/Steno/Driver

5..... regarding rectificaiton of typographical error in bifurcation of posts of NS/LDC/Driver

6..... regarding rectificaiton of typographical error in additional vacancies to be filled through DR quota(ITI/TA/Steno GR-II)

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FM will have review meeting with all Pr CCIT/CCIT/DGITs on 30th October 2014. It will a full day (9.30 am to 4.30 pm) meeting on budget collectiona and later an interactio with the Board members.

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FM TO REVIEW BUDGET COLLECITONS AND OTHER ISSUES

Finance Minister will hold a review meeting on Budget Collection for FY 2014-15 and other topics sometime during the last week of October, 2014.  Date for meeting has been solicited and shall be communicated shortly.

In the meantime a long list of reports consiting of 7 tables is being called for from all CCsIT. The tables includes columns regarding budget collections upto 20th October 2014 along with minor, major head wise and previous year collections also TDS collections and strategies taken.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

The Secretariat of the ITEF had its meeting, as scheduled, on 14.10.2014. The secretariat discussed the agenda items and the gist of the decisions is given below circular.

CLICK HERE FOR ITEF CIRCULAR DATED 15-10-2014

Agenda item No. 1. Immediate steps to finalise the All India seniority list of ITOs by issuing guideline and deadline to resolve inter-se seniority issue.

The Official side informed that the issue is linked to the implementation of DOPT Office Memorandum issued on the basis of Supreme Court Judgement in the case of Union Vs. NR Parmar.  Board has referred the matter raised by the JCA for implementing the same in all cadres, to the DoPT.  The reference from the DoPT is awaited and the deadline fixed for completion of the revision will not be insisted till then.      

Item No. 2. Speedy approval of Jurisdiction proposals pending with the CBDT for immediate initiation of departmental functions for FY 2014-15.

The staff side requested for notification of jurisdiction as on one side the promoted Officials are kept idle and on other side the existing assessment units are struggling with heavy work load. The staff side demanded posting of officers kept as OSD to assessment units with concomitant jurisdiction. The Chairman informed that the Jurisdiction proposals have been approved and some issues of technical nature have been referred to Ministry of Law for their opinion.  Since the new pattern is admixture of existing and new scheme, any adhoc method will bring only difficulties and informed to wait till the opinion of the Law Ministry is received.  

Item No. 3. Immediate steps for approval of RRs of Group B & C for filling up of posts of RY 2014-15 and discussion on the amendments of IRS Recruitment Rules.

The staff side pointed out that due to the delay in the approval of the RRs by the DoPT, DPC Meetings and promotions are held up and demanded executive instructions on the lines of the proposed RRs submitted to the DoPT as done during the years 2001-02 and 2002-03 during last cadre restructuring.  The Official side informed that the matter is being pursued with the DoPT and requested to wait for another month viz. till 15.11.2014.  The official side also assured the matter will be reviewed on 17^th Nov. 2014 for considering the alternative methods.   In the case of IRS Recruitment Rules the Chairman directed the official side  and staff side to sit together and sort out the gray areas.                                                              `

Item No. 4.  Steps to get the approval of the long pending following schemes from IFU/DoE (6 air conditioners per Range: Laptop to Inspectors, Laptops to AOs/Ps, Replacement of Old Laptops, Mobile handsets to all etc).

The Official side informed that the the clearance of approval of 6 air conditioners from DoE is expected shortly.  The IFU has cleared the proposal for laptop to Inspectors and the same will be sent to the DoE for approval.  For other issues the CIT(C&S) shall pursue the matters with the Secretary (E) and JS,IFU  for expeditious clearance.

Item No. 5. Constitution of a committee to consider amendments to the Transfer & Posting Policy for Group A Officers considering unique problems of promotee Officers.

The Chairman favoured written suggestions from ITGOA in this regard to be considered by the Board for incorporation than constituting a committee for this purpose.      

Item No.6. Discussion on the effective date of DCIT promotion to 2009/2010 Barch DCsIT and retrospective effect of promotion from 1^st  January  for 2006/2007 Batch DCsIT.  Also discuss the issue of regularisation of adhoc JCIT for 2001 Batch retrospectively.

After hearing the representatives the Chairman desired the officials to start the process for holding DPC before 1.1.2015 for 2009 & 2010 batch Officers.  The official side informed that reference has been made to Law Ministry for giving effect of promotion to 2006 and 2007 batch officers from retrospective date.  The Chairman desired immediate initiation of process for regularisation of Adhoc JCsIT.  

Item No. 7. Resolution of issue of promotion orders in Directorate( Delhi Charge ) and diversion of 1633 posts out of West Bengal Charge.

The Official side informed that on the issue of Promotion orders of Directorates, the Chairman had one round of discussion with the DG(HRD) DG (Admn) and ITEF.  The contentious issue is with regard to the promotions of 48 persons.  A meeting will be held with JCA next week to find out a solution. With regard to the Diversion of posts out of West Bengal Charge, the Committee will be reconstituted with the JS (Admn) as the Chairman with mandate of completing the process within one month.      

Item No. 8. Proposal for increasing local travel reimbursement to Inspectors and Notice Servers.

It was informed that the Proposal put up with justification to the Board will be approved soon and the same will be submitted to IFU for its approval.     

Item No. 9.  Advance increment to Sr. Tax Assistants and Stgrs on passing Departmental Examination.

The Official side informed that proposal with further inputs is being put up to the Board for further action.                  

JCA LETTER TO CBDT ON PARMAR GUIDELINES

The GSs of ITEF  and ITGOA aka Conveners of the JCA have issued a letter dtd 29th Sept 2014, to the Chairman, CBDT requesting for amending the Advisory issued by the Board on 29th Sept. This quick response of the JCA was result of the uproar from all the quarters. While the Parmar implementation is smoothly going in all the regions though with some difficulties like data availability and doubts dates of actual seniority etc, the recent Board letter given some good clarifications and data on the issues. But, in the same letter the Board as usually raked up new issue with 'only for inspectors'.

The employees under the rule of CBDT are already being suffered losses of career progression and financial benefits due to various stands and instructions issued by the Board in earlier cases of Recruitment Rules and in the instant issue forcing the employees to seek legal redresal. The Cadre Restructure implementation processes like consequential promotions, recruitment rules and jurisdiction matters are still pending for finalisation. 

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR BOARD LETTER DTD 29-9-2014

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR JCA LETTER DTD 29-9-2014