Income Tax Gazetted
Officers Association
Karnataka & Goa Unit, 1st
Floor , C.R. Bldg. Annex, Queen’s Road Bangalore-1
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Minutes of EC meeting
held on 22-08-2012
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Members present
Sl no
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Name
|
Post
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Contact
number
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1
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Sri
Shashidhar Shet, ITO
|
President
|
9448660614
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2
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Sri
K.A.Jamadar, JCIT
|
Vice
President
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9241342225
|
3
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Sri
K.R.Narayana, ACIT
|
General
Secretary
|
8762300942
|
4
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Sri Narayana Sharma ITO
|
Additional Secretary
|
8762300250
|
5
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Smt.
M.Devaki, ITO
|
Assistant
Secretary
|
8762300944
|
6
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Sri
H.K.Rajkumar, ITO
|
Treasurer
|
8762300553
|
7
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Sri
P.Suresh Rao, ACIT
|
EC
Member
|
9448793358
|
8
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Smt
V. Umarani , ITO
|
EC
Member
|
8762300157
|
9
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Sri
Subbarao Gururaj, ITO
|
EC
Member
|
9448730997
|
10
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Sri K.E.Rajan
ITO
|
EC
Member
|
9448444481
|
11
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Sri
Shivarudraiah Swamy ITO
|
EC
Member
|
8762301447
|
12
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Sri
Christopher Manohar AO
|
EC
Member
|
8762300554
|
13
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Smt B.V.Latha
P S
|
EC
Member
|
8762300243
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14
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Sri
K.V.N.Guptha
|
Hon.
Auditor
|
9845080582
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The meeting
commenced at 6 PM with Com President in the chair. Initiating the discussions Com President thanked all JCA members in general and ITGOA members in particular for their whole hearted
involvement in the JCA agitation and making it very effective. After that,
he requested General Secretary to brief
the EC about the way the agitation progressed and the central JCA’s decision to suspend the agitation.
Central JCA decision to suspend the agitation:
General
Secretary informed the EC that starting from 12th July, all
agitation programmes were fully
implemented with total co-operation of the members. There were stray incidents of pressure applied
on members for submission of reports and they were tackled effectively with the
cooperation of JCA partners. He thanked the office bearers and EC members of ITEF and ITGOA for their total involvement during the entire course
of agitation. As regards suspension of agitation by Central
JCA, he read out JCA circular dated
17-08-2012 and ITGOA circular dated 18-08-2012 which explained the
circumstances under which agitation was suspended. He
brought to notice of EC, the contents of e-mail received from Com S.Srinivas,
ITO Mangalore and Com Srinivas Khanna, ITO Bangalore expressing strong
reservations about the manner in which
the agitation was suspended and his(GS) replies to them. The views expressed by
Com. Marenna, JCIT Regional secretary Gulbarga, Belgaum region and
SMSs received from Davangere region members were also brought to the
notice of the EC.
As regards
the question- Whether the units were consulted before suspending the
agitation? he replied that there was no such consultation. He only got wind
of it when Com Jayadevan, Joint
Secretary CHQ ITGOA called him around 7.30 AM on 17th to inform that
Central JCA is scheduled to meet that day to take a decision on agitation. He also informed the EC about the telephone
call he made to All India President and Treasurer expressing reservation about
total suspension of agitation. Both the leaders have informed that :
1. The
Chairperson had called the JCA leaders on 16th for discussions and
positive attitudes were displayed and JCA was requested to withdraw agitation. By
the same evening a committee was setup to negotiate with JCA.
2. To
create conducive atmosphere for negotiation, agitation was suspended, reserving
the right to revive it at any time, if sincere efforts are not made to resolve
the charter of demands .
The EC
discussed view of JCA leaders at national level. While deciding unanimously to
follow the central JCA decision, it was decided to convey the following views
of the Karnataka & Goa unit.
1. The
state units should have been consulted before taking a final decision
2. In
order to respond to positive attitude of CBDT chairperson and to create
conducive atmosphere for negotiations, it would have been sufficient to relax
the agitation partially instead of suspending it totally for an indefinite period.
3. Calling
for agitations frequently and suspending them abruptly will erode the image of
the associations and demoralize the members. Hence such things should be
avoided in future.
4. While
deciding to suspend the agitation, we should have insisted that JCA comrades
will not submit reports for which due dates have already elapsed. In the absence of any such decision this time,
members are subjected to untold pressure
to submit all reports within no time.
Local JCA
decision not allow outsourcing persons
from 1-08-2012:
The GS drew
attention of EC to the following :
·
EC decision on 06-06-2012, not to
allow outsourcing persons in view of the
serious refund irregularities reported in the department.
·
The subsequent discussions with ITEF
and the Local JCA decisions not to allow outsourcing persons from 01-08-2012.
·
The position about the complaints lodged with local
police.
·
Handing over of one case to CBI by
the Administration.
·
The present plight of officers who exhibited high level of sincerity by absorbing all
pressures of higher ups, working overtime
to complete huge work load of processing and now how they are left in lurch
by passing remarks “your codes are involved and you have to take responsibility”
The views
expressed by Belgaum region to permit outsourcing persons and Gulbarga region views not to allow them were
considered by EC. The difficulties faced
by the field officers were discussed at length.
The trauma faced by the officers affected by irregular refunds were taken
note of. After detailed discussions the
EC arrived at following decisions:
1. In
view of the fact that the responsibility is thrust on the officers whose code
was used, in case of such irregularities,
and since ITEF comrades have promised full cooperation in data entry and
processing related works, it is unanimously decided to continue the ban on
allowing outsourcing persons to work in our offices by reaffirming its decision dated 06-06-2012 and Local
JCA decision dated 14-06-2012.
2. Since
oficers handling salary cases have huge
work load of paper returns, special
arrangement should be made for extending
cooperation to such officers by our own departmental personnel in consultation
with JCA partner and Administration.
3. In
order to enable members to handle the responsibility more effectively, the administration should
be requested to conduct focused training on a war footing.
4. Wherever
the officers do not have staff to do data entry, the administration should be requested
not to exert pressure for return processing. Instead administration should be
requested to ensure equitable distribution of work and available human and
other resources.
Review DPC for Adhoc ITOs of 2005 batch:
The GS
informed that the administration has indicated that if review DPC is done, some
of the retired comrades will be put to disadvantage in terms of pay and
increments. The EC felt that GP will not
be affected since it was granted only on completion of 4 years from their
regularization i.e. 9-1-2007. As regards
increment related issues, the GS was directed to discuss the matter in detail
with the administration and report to EC
for taking suitable decision.
The
meeting concluded at 8.15 PM.
As approved by the President
Sd/-
K.R.Narayana
General Secretary
ITGOA,
Karnataka & Goa
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