Treat the DRs a little better - give them also a special pay
Don't the Departmental Representatives slogging it in the Tribunal benches, with pathetic facilities, fighting valiantly for revenue deserve a better compensation, especially when they see their more clever colleagues in the field having a field day? As Lynn Truss, says in her book, "Eats Shoots and Leaves", while other girls were out getting their necks disfigured by love bites, she was sitting at home learning grammar! The DRs are some of the most hardworking sincere officers of the department and they are the most neglected, ill treated and condemned lot. An assessee appellant in the tribunal will be after his lawyer, constantly supporting him physically and fiscally, but for an appellant Commissioner, the DR is a nuisance. The DRs should get vehicle, secretarial assistance both at home and office, unlimited library and may be a small fee for each case - pay them a token hundred rupees per case for each appearance. After all when others are necking why should they learn grammar?