The Hindu Business Line : I-T staff to boycott special counters

THE Joint Council of Action (JCA) formed by the Income-Tax Employees' Federation and the Income-Tax Gazetted Services Federation (ITGSF) has decided to boycott the special receipt counters of the department on July 31.

The charter of demands by the JCA includes promotion of all LDCs as tax assistants, after giving them the requisite training, rescind all orders issued by the board in contravention of instructions dated June 4 and July 19, 2001 (for filling up all the vacancies), promote DCs as joint commissioners on the basis of the existing seniority list, effect transfer of ACs as per the general principles agreed upon by the board and the federation in March 2002 and finalise the recruitment and examination rules and duty list in consultation with the federations.

As per the action programme adopted by the JCA, there will be no assessment work in AST (software package) system and no centralised mass processing of returns through computer. It will also stop all kinds of outsourcing resorted to by the administration.

Mr R. Dasgupta, Secretary-General of ITGSF, told Business Line that the cadre restructuring, which was part of the Cabinet-approved an overall scheme of restructuring of the department, should have been completed within four months of the date of notification, that is, by January 2001.

Commenting on the genesis of the agitation programme launched by all employees and officers of the I-T department, who comprise 97 per cent of its workforce, he said while vacancies had been filled up at the top level in February 2001, at the middle and bottom levels, it was yet to be completed owing to the "indifferent attitude of the CBDT, which was implementing the scheme''.

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