Cadre Review in Income Tax - Dissatisfied ITOs meet FM
THE Income Tax Officers Association had a 40 minute meeting with the Finance Minister to apprise him of the injustice in the CRC-2013 to career prospects of ITOs. Earlier they had enlisted the support of about 50 MPs and 10 Union Ministers.
The FM told them that Direct Recruitment Quota cannot be diverted to Promotion quota as this will lead to plethora of litigations which will be never ending.
The Association in a Circular has brought out certain interesting facts:
1. It is unlikely that 204 posts at the level of Commissioners of Income-tax are filled up at one go due to the fact that supporting staff will not be available immediately.
2. Even if, 204 posts of CIT are filled at one go, the consequential vacancies at the level of Addl/JCIT including 322 new posts of CRC, totalling to 527 will not be filled up as eligible number of Deputy Commissioners with minimum 8 years of service are not available.
3. At present there are already about 300 regular vacancies of Addl./JCIT due to non availability of eligible officers.