15000 posts abolished in Revenue Boards

By Vijay Kumar

This should have been hot news for the pink press which often lambaste about the oversized babudom. Look at these facts:-

CBEC:

2000 -01 to 2001-02:

2002 – 2006

CBDT:

2000 -2006

This was informed to the Parliament yesterday by the Minister of State for Finance. Great news! that genuine efforts are made to reduce the size of the bureaucracy. But you go to any Income Tax/Central Excise / Customs office; you will find the place fully crowded with officers of all verities and ranks. There are too many Chief Commissioners, Commissioners and other assorted ranks that there is hardly any place for the staff to sit. Two or three officers share a table. Since there is no work for any of them, it really does not matter. An ITO which had one Chief Commissioner and two Commissioners and a few Joint Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners is now ready to collapse with the weight of 6 Chief Commissioners and 15 Commissioners.

But 15,000 posts are abolished. The minister perhaps did not inform how many new posts were created and what were the posts abolished – most probably those of malis and barbers! YES MINISTER