MEA wants IRS Officers – Government @ speed of snail
FOREIGN Secretary Nirupama Rao wrote a letter to Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra on 08.06.2010, which stated,
With the increasing importance of economic diplomacy in the overall foreign policy framework of India, there is a requirement to instill a greater degree of economic and financial expertise at the policy-making level within MEA .
It is felt that officers of the Indian Revenue service and the Indian Customs & Excise Service would fit well into the above roles.
She wanted the Revenue Secretary to send her selected list of meritorious Customs Officers of Deputy Secretary/ Under Secretary level who would like to work under MEA on Deputation.
This important letter reached the Revenue Secretary on 10/06/2010. After it travelled though the Finance Ministry's bureaucratic maze, the CBEC addressed a letter to all the CCs on 23 rd June and asked them to send the application of the willing officers by 5 th July 2010. The Board also requested its website manager to carry this communication in its website. The Board's website promptly carried it on 7.7.2010 – two days after the last date for submitting the applications !.
You can find the communication along with its travel details: click here