Don't Leave HQ without Permission - CBDT Chairman tells Commissioners
IN an Office Memorandum issued on 12th August 2014, the CBDT Chairman, K.V.Chowdary has observed,
It has been noticed that some of senior officers of the rank of Commissioner and above are leaving headquarters without prior permission of their immediate Controlling Officers. Some visit CBDT without such prior permission. Some of the officers do not apply for leave and/or permission to leave Headquarters. Such practices are undesirable and amount to misconduct. They need to be dealt with sternly.
Pr. CCIT/CCsIT may please exercise due control in this regard.
This kind of indiscipline and setting a bad example by senior officers of the level of Commissioners is unfortunately an unquestioned fact in the Revenue Boards. If such practices amount to misconduct as stated by the Chairman, why the officers indulging in such misconduct are not punished and why should the Board entertain such truants?
And why should a Commissioner level officer loiter on the verandas of North Block for a meeting with a Board Member or Chairman? Obviously he has a problem which he hopes the Board would solve. Why can't the Board be a little more compassionate to senior officers like Commissioners? Just because you have become a Board Member, you don't have the right to ill treat your senior officers who are powerful bosses in the field. Or is that the reason?