CBDT/CBEC Chairmen to have minimum one year service
The President has amended the Central Board of Direct Taxes (Chairman and Members) Recruitment Rules, 2006 and the Central Board of Excise and Customs (Chairman and Members) Recruitment Rules, 2006 to make it mandatory that a Member of the Boards appointed as Chairman has a minimum of one year service left. During the last couple of years, we had seen the CBDT being headed by chairmen for one month, three months and such short periods.
Even one year period is too short for the post of Chairman. It should be made a tenure post and once you appoint somebody there, he should have at least a tenure of three years. Frequent changes at the top will rattle the bottom.