Delinquent Income Tax officers - Concerned CBDT
It is not as if the officers are exactly eager to obey the transfer orders of the Board. Many officers develop a sort of attachment to a place - holy or unholy( the attachment, not the place) and soon become immovable property of the Government and it becomes very difficult to move them. Sometime back we reported the case of a Central Excise officer who was promoted as Chief Commissioner and posted to Hyderabad . He happily continued to work from his former office in Kolkata , until we pointed out that his office happens to be in distant Hyderabad ! Not every transferred officer leaves his previous office and it requires a lot of lifting power to make him move to his new place.
Last week, the CBDT wrote a letter to the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Kolkata with copies to all Chief Commissioners in India about two officers who have been on leave for more than a year. And this fact was not brought to the notice of the Board during the General Transfers. The Board wants the Chief Commissioner to clarify how the work which these officers were supposed to do, was handled, especially when the Chief Commissioner is not empowered to give additional charge beyond 39 days. - were these posts not required?
Board wants Chief Commissioners to bring to the notice of the Board details about such outstanding officers!
CBDT letter F. No. A-35015/62/2007-Ad VI dated 18th December 2007