CBDT Acquires Administrative Powers - Work of Ad Sections Transferred to HRD Directorate
IN a rare administrative shake-up, the CBDT has acquired all administrative powers under its direct control. The two most powerful Boards in India CBEC and CBDT, responsible for collecting Lakhs of Crores of taxes, work in strange conditions. There is a Revenue Secretary under whom there is the Department of Revenue Head Quarters under an Additional Secretary and there are the two Statutory Boards, CBEC and CBDT, whose Members and Chairmen are Special Secretaries to the Government of India. In the Boards, there are various administrative sections headed by a Joint Secretary, Administration. The staff in the administrative section are from the Central Secretariat and are not strictly under the control of the Board as they belong to a different service.
Now all this is going to change in the CBDT-all the administrative work is transferred to the Directorate of Income Tax, Human Resource Development, to rationalize and ensure unambiguous functional responsibility. The Directorate has only officers from the Income Tax Department and the Board will have unambiguous control over them. Some of the subjects transferred to the Directorate are, Processing of Postings and Transfers, Deputation / assignments outside cadre in India and abroad,Promotions to the grade of Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Commissioner of Income Tax, and Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Creation of posts ... virtually the entire administration.
This is a giant leap for functional autonomy for the Board and now they should get a Budget and power to spend money.
The Board wants the concerned sections to physically transfer records relating to these functions to the Directorate of HRD. Obviously those sections will be really concerned-that their fiefdom has just been pulled from under their feet.
Why CBEC has not done this?