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LATEST CLARIFICATION ON ACP Vs TIMESCALE

MESSAGE FROM RAVI MALIK SG OF AIACEGEO------------------
Dear friends,

1. The clarification issued on ACP vs time scale offset is attached herewith.

2. CR is with Expenditure. The issue of its early clearance was raised before the Expenditure Minister on 09.05.13 and he assured of doing the needful.

3. The pay arrears since 1986 at par with the Inspectors of CBI & IB case (CWP No. 13471/08) pending in Jabalpur High Court was discussed with the advocate handing over the available relevant documents to him. He opined that we should also intervene in the matter from the side of Superintendents Asn and asked for some more records which will be provided to him accordingly. After studying all the documents/records, he will prepare the case. It was last updated on the High Court site in 08/12.

Love,

Ravi.

E-filing must for salaried taxpayers also with annual income above Rs.5 lakh

Mumbai, May 7, 2013(TNN): The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has widened the scope of e-filing of income tax (I-T ) returns. And one of the changes introduced through a recent notification impacts salaried taxpayers. E-filing of I-T returns is now mandatory for individuals, including salaried taxpayers, earning more than Rs 5 lakh taxable income during the financial year ended March 31, 2013.

Prior to this notification, e-filing was mandatory for individuals having a taxable income of more than Rs 10 lakh. According to sources in theministry of finance, nearly 18 lakh individual taxpayers fall in the Rs 5-10 lakh tax slab, all of whom will now have to file their I-T returns online. Salaried employees have to file their I-T returns for the income earned in FY13 by July 31, 2013.

Salaried taxpayers, however , do not have to obtain a digital signature for e-filing their I-T returns. After having filed online, for verification of the return, a hard copy has to be sent to the central processing unit in Bangalore.

Salaried taxpayers having income from salary, house property and income from other sources such as bank interest can e-file the simple form – Sahaj (ITR1). However, if they report a loss under the head income from house property or winnings from lottery or from betting at a racecourse or even capital gains, then Sahaj form is not applicable and Form ITR2 or another appropriate form needs to be filled in and filed online. A free online filing facility is available at https:// incometaxindiaefiling .gov.in/

“Salaried individuals earning less than Rs 5 lakh and whose saving bank interest income is less than Rs 10,000 in a year will continue to be exempt from filing of their tax return, provided they meet the prescribed conditions. These conditions include that the employer has discharged the entire tax liability through deduction of tax at source and deposited it with the government . If an employee has switched jobs during the year, then this leeway of tax filing exemption is not available,” explained a tax official.

“E-filing of I-T returns also helps speed up the process of granting refunds to taxpayers – the processing is carried out at the central processing unit in Bangalore . The process of e-filing is now simple. If one considers only Form 1, as a sample case, as many as 64 lakh I-T returns were filed during FY 2012-13 . We are equipped to handle the additional e-returns ,” said a finance ministry official.

According to L K Jain, a Mumbai-based chartered accountant , “Small taxpayers who are not computer savvy will now have to seek professional help for filing I-T returns . The plus side is that the tax authorities have assured speedy refunds when e-returns are filed.”

Many chartered accountants said the official website of the tax department which enables e-filing of returns is difficult to access, especially during the peak return filing season.

Through the same notification , the CBDT has also introduced e-filing of tax audit reports, transfer pricing (TP) reports andMinimum Alternate Tax (MAT) certificates . Earlier, while e-filing of I-T returns was mandatory for India Inc, these reports had to be physically filed at the local tax office.

Mukesh Butani, chairperson , BMR Advisors, said, “It is important to ensure that the information technology system has stabilized and there are no hiccups as we have seen with digitization efforts in the past.”

Individuals, including salaried taxpayers, earning more than 5L now have to mandatorily e-file their I-T returns Salaried taxpayers with income less than 5 lakh and bank interest less than 10,000 continue to be exempt from filing I-T returns India Inc can now e-file tax audit report, transfer pricing (TP) report and Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) certificate.

Government employees retired before 2006 will get a revised pension:HC

New Delhi, April 6, 2013(Agencies): The Delhi High Court has held that all government employees who retired before 2006 will get a revised pension according to the Sixth Central Pay Commission.

The Delhi High Court passed the judgement which will provide a huge financial windfall to former government employees.

Rejecting the government’s plea that the pre-2006employees would get the increased pension only from 2012, the court directed the authorities to give retired employees the increased pension from 2006 itself.
The sixth pay commission, which had raised thesalaries of government employees by a significant amount, was implemented in 2006.
The landmark judgment would almost double the pension amount of the government employees, including both Central government and state government employees.
A bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and V Kameswar Rao gave strict directions to the government to give the arrear to the pensioners within two months.
The court said if the government fails to do so, it will have to pay the pending amount to the retired employees at a whopping interest of 9 per cent.
The bench said: “Mandamus is issued to the respondents to re-fix the pension of the petitioners accordingly within a period of two months. In case, the arrears are not paid within a period of two months, it will also carry interest at 9% with effect from 01.03.2013.”
The court was hearing an appeal filed by the Central government challenging the Central Administrative Tribunal’s (CAT) 2009 order which had said that government employees who retired before 2006 were also entitled to the benefits of the sixth pay commission.
The CAT had passed the order on a petition filed by the Central Government Pensioners Association.
While ruling in favour of the employees, the high court bench pointed out that even the government has admitted that employees who retired prior to 2006 deserved revised pension as per the sixth pay commission.
The bench said: “The government of India has tacitly admitted that it was in the wrong and that the tribunal is correct. We conclude by noting that as regards the substance of the view taken by the Tribunal, even the Central Government accepts its correctness, but insists to make the same applicable prospectively.”
The government proposed that those employees who retired before 2006 be given revised pension from 2012 but not 2006 as pleaded by the Central Government Pensioners Association. The court, however, ruled in favour of the employees.
Courtesy- Daily Mail

UPDATE ON CR BY MR RAVI MALIK SECRETARY GENERAL AIACEGEO

Dear friends, good noon.

1.    Cadre restructuring is at present with the Expenditure.

It was sent to Expenditure by the Revenue Secretary

keeping in mind that the Expenditure Secretary would

also be one of the members in the COS and his prior

approval would ease the approval from the COS.

We met the concerned Director in Expenditure

on 03.05.13 and she assured us to do the needful soon.

The matter is also being pursued with the RS and

concerned JS in the Expenditure.

2.    The correspondence made during last 2 months

is also attached herewith.

3.    All of the units are again requested to clear their due

and donate maximum funds to the AIB.

 Love, Ravi.

Restructuring and Removal of Regional Disparities in Promotions

A meeting of National office bearers of the AICEIA was held at New Delhi on 29.04.2013. All issues concerning the cadre were  discussed in detail, especially the developments after the  Patna Convention. The stand that was to be taken by the AICEIA in the meetings with the DGHRD and other Board officials scheduled to be held later  the same  day and on 30.04.2013 was also deliberated upon and decided.

All AICEIA representatives present in Delhi for the meeting of office bearers also participated in the meeting with the DGHRD.  Additional  DG (HRM) and  Additional Director  were also present. Points that emerged during the meeting are  narrated below briefly :

1.      1.  The Cadre Restructuring  file has been sent to Secretary(Expenditure) by the Revenue Secretary, from whom it should go to the DoP&T.

2.      2.  The CBEC proposal is expected to follow the course taken by the CBDT proposal, which is reported to have been approved by the Group of Ministers on 29.04.13,  and now awaits  clearance from the Union Cabinet.

3.      3.  However, even by optimistic estimates, we are still  several months away from  seeing even the  first promotions arising out of the CR exercise. The proposed figures include raising the strength of Gr  B Gazetted Executive from the present 13948 to 19108 , and for Gr  B non- Gazetted Executives- from  20,163 to 25,203.

4.      4. On our repeated and insistent demand that regional disparities in prom otions among Inspectors of Central Excise of different Cadre Control Zones have to be addressed immediately, the CBEC has agreed in principle to take decisive action to do away with regional disparities.

5.      5.  On the methods to be adopted to achieve that end, our Association’s stand is that an exercise of upgradation on the lines of the one undertaken in  1996 be repeated, to promote all Inspectors who have completed 8 years of service,  or at least promote all Inspectors to the level of the junior -most Inspector promoted as Superintendent in any Zone, as on date. The organisational desideratum, however, remains base cadre parity.

6.       6. The DGHRD  had a discussion with the Member(P&V) on the issue on 30.4.13.  After this the  AICEIA office bearers met the DGHRD again.  It is informed that  the  subject file will be put up to the Member  by next week. `

7.       7.The Board now appreciates the fact that an All India Seniority List of Inspectors of Central Excise   is a fait accompli for the period following the Supreme Court judgment dated 09.12.1996 in  the case of Radhey Shyam Singh & Others vs. Union of India & Others.  

8.       8. Action has now been initiated by DGHRD to draw such an All India Seniority List of Inspectors. This is already badly delayed since way back in 1996 itself the Board had taken a  decision to introduce All India Seniority for Inspectors, but  never showed enough resolve to implement it.

9.     9.  The AICEIA shall be keenly pursuing these matters and we should resolve not to rest till we achieve these objectives.

AICEIA CEC – July 27th  and 28th, 2013  

Chandigarh Circle of the AICEIA has informed that arrangements  are underway to host the upcoming meeting of the AICEIA Central Executive Committee at  Shimla on 27^th and 28^th July’13 . All delegates are advised to forthwith make travel arrangements accordingly  to avoid inconvenience later and also to curtail expenses. Notice in this  regard shall be issued shortly.

Source: AICEIA

 

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Govt to extend ‘online’ RTI facility to all central depts

New Delhi, April 23, 2013(PTI): Soon RTI applicants can seek information related to all central ministries or departments here through a web portal.

It is planned to extend RTI online facility to all the Ministries or Departments of Government of India within a month.

The Department of Personnel and Training, which acts as nodal ministry for the implementation of Right to Information Act, has launched — www.rtionline.gov.in — to facilitate e-filing of applications and payment of fees.
“This portal, developed by NIC, is a facility for Indian citizens to online file RTI applications and first appeals and also to make online payment of RTI fees.
“The prescribed fees can be paid through Internet banking of State Bank of India and its associate banks as well as by credit or debit cards of Visa or Master, through the payment gateway of SBI linked to this site,” the DoPT said in an official order.
At present, people can file online applications and appeals for information related to the DoPT only.
“It is planned to extend this facility to all the Ministries or Departments of Government of India within a month,” the orderissued yesterday said.
The Centre’s flagship Right to Information Act, which was enacted in 2005, mandates timely response (within 30 days) tocitizen requests for government information. One has to pay a fee of Rs 10 for seeking information.
The facility, however, will not be extended for field offices, attached or subordinate offices, it said.
The DoPT will also train officials to facilitate easy processing of citizens requests through the transparency law.
At present, the text of an application that can be uploaded at the prescribed column (on the website while filing application) is limited to 500 words only.
In case, an application contains more than 500 words, then it can be uploaded as an attachment.

AIACEGEO- Deferment of Mass Resignation.

Dear friends,

Good evening.

1. Hope that all the office bearers and units would have booked their tickets to attend the AEC meeting to be held at Patna on 25 to 26.05.13. In case of any help, the following officers may kindly be contacted-

                        Sh. B. K. Sinha-09430250270       Sh. V. N. Jha-09431522232

All the Zonal Vice Presidents and Joint Secretaries are requested to kindly convey the dates and venue to all the units under their jurisdiction/zone. Agenda of the meeting will be sent soon. Meanwhile, the host unit is requested to send the desired invitations to all the units and zonal office bearers.

2. One more meeting was held with the Member (P&V) on 18.04.13. Discussions were also held with DG, HRD. The note to be sent to the Cadre Review Committee have now been finalized and be sent to them anytime through the Revenue Secretary. Keeping in view the positive developments in cadre restructuring and maintain positive atmosphere, the mass resignation programme of 30.04.13 is now being deferred. However, it is not the end of the road. Our ultimate aim is parity with common entry counterparts. We may have discussions on agitational programme in the forthcoming AEC meeting.

3. The new sanction strength from AC/DC to Principal CC level has already been communicated to all. The increase (in addition to existing strength) at Superintendent and Inspector level is as follows-

Superintendent level-5160     

Inspector level-5040

4. The stepping up case of seniors in ACPS/MACPS has again been sent to DOPT for general implementation of Supreme Court verdict on it.

Love,

Ravi.

Update by Com.Loknath Mishra on CR file

According to the information received from Com.Loknath Mishra Out of five secretaries , three ( Secretary ( R), Secretary(E) & Chairperson) have cleared the file, Secretary DOPT has partially cleared the file. Further information is awaited.

TA TO STA PROMOTIONS OF HYDERABAD CCA ISSUED

TA to STA Promotions

APAR of govt employee can’t be made public: SC

New Delhi, April 16, 2013(PTI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea for disclosure of the annual confidential reports (ACRs) of public servants under the RTI Act.

Hon’ble Justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya

A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya upheld the Delhi High Court’s order that the annual performance appraisal reports (APARs), previously known as ACRs, of a public servant were personal information and exempted from disclosure under the transparency law. “We find no reason to interfere with the impugned judgement passed by the division bench whereby the order passed by the learned Single Judge of the High Court was affirmed,” the bench said.
The court passed the order on an appeal filed by transparency activist R K Jain’s plea challenging High Court’s order.
Jain had sought setting aside of HC order and issuance of a direction to the Centre to disclose alleged “adverse” remarks in ACR of Jyoti Balasundaram, a member of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) in 2000-01.
Jain had earlier approached the CESTAT’s Central Principal Information Officer, who had refused to “divulge any information on the ground that it was exempted under Section 8(1)(i) of the RTI Act”. The CIC had also declined the plea on the same ground.

Source: Sentimes

LATEST MINUTES OF BOARD MEETING ON REWARD GUIDELINES

further update by com.loknath mishra

COMMITTEE OF SECRETARIES, TO APPROVE THE CR OF CBEC.
1. CABINET SECRETARY-- CHAIRMAN.
2. SECRETARY, DOPT.
3. SECRETARY, EXPENDITURE.
4. SECRETARY, REVENUE.
5. CHAIRPERSON, CBEC.
TODAY CBEC MAY PLACE THE NOTE APPROVED BY FM TO DOPT TO PLACE BEFORE COS.

 

GPF TO ATTRACT 8.7% INTEREST FOR 2013-14

General Provident Fund (GPF) and other similar funds shall carry interest at the rate of 8.7%  per annum for the year 2013-2014- Finance Ministry

(PUBLISHED IN PART I SECTION OF GAZETTE OF INDIA)
F.No.5(1)-B(PD)/2013
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Economic affairs)

New Delhi, the 8th April, 2013

RESOLUTION

It is announced for general information that during the year 2013-2014, accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the General Provident Fund and other similar funds shall carry interest at the rate of 8.7% (Eight point seven per cent) per annum. This rate will be in force during the financial year beginning on 1.4.2013.

The funds concerned are:-
1. The General Provident Fund (Central Services).
2. The Contributory Provident Fund (India).
3. The All India Services Provident Fund.
4. The State Railway Provident Fund.
5. The General Provident Fund (Defence Services).
6. The Indian Ordnance Department Provident Fund.
7. The Indian Ordnance Factories Workmen’s Provident Fund.
8. The Indian Naval Dockyard Workmen’s Provident Fund.
9. The Defence Services Officers Provident Fund.
10. The Armed Forces Personnel Provident Fund.

2. Ordered that the Resolution be published in Gazette of India.

sd/-
(Peeyush Kumar)
Director (Budget)

Source: www.finmin.nic.in

UPDATE BY COM.LOKNATH MISHRA

Existing cadre strength of total GR-A posts ( Organised) in CBEC is at present
2485. FM proposed for 6104 , thus there is an increase of total 3619 posts.
FM accepted the cuts made by DOPT in respect of JC/ADC, Commissioner +/ CC+,
but inrespect of AC/DC (initially Board proposed for 4896, DOPT suggested for 3600)
FM proposed for 4668, thus there is an increase of 3118 posts.
... The most important issue is during the next 5 years the nos of DR
is to be restricated to 150 (2. 5 % of the total cadre strength)
This is applicable to new posts to be created and vacncies
within 5 years of implementation of CR. This is possible
due to calling of agitations continously , deferring these in last movement in a game plan etc.

MESSAGE FROM COM.LOKNATH MISHRA, PRESIDENT AIACEGEO

It is learnt that CR file after cleared from FM will be placed before COS. DOPT
will place such file before COS. We are planning to meet Secretary DOPT. Thereafter
making due consultation with our Units , we will review the agiation on mass resignation. As per requirement to solve the stagnation issue around 7000 posts of AC/DC are required. As per 98 guiedelines around 4800 nos of posts can be the total sanctioned strength of AC/DC ( subject to certain limitation). As per 2008 giudelines ,around 3600 nos. posts can be the total sactioned strength of AC/DC ( without limitaton). However considering the present situation FM cleared for around 4600 nos of posts as the sanctioned strenth of AC/DC with some relaxation. After clearance of CR proposals finally, we will demand immediately for Separate Service, new RR considering the increase of sanctioned strength on implementation of CR and in situ scheme to solve the stagnation issue. We will demand for replacement of MACP to In-situ. The Pay anomalies and NFSG issues are at present subjudice.

FINALLY THE NEWS OF CLEARING CR FILE IS CONFIRMED

FINALLY THE NEWS OF CLEARING THE FILE OF CADRE RESTRUCTURING HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE LEADERS OF BOTH THE ASSOCIATIONS WITHOUT ANY CUTS IN AC/DC POSTS. STILL THE DOUBT CONTINUES ON WHETHER THE POSTS ARE GOING TO BE FILLED BY ONLY PROMOTION OR AS USUAL DIRECT/PROMOTEE RATIO. IN ANY CASE THERE IS A RELIEF TO ALL THE STAGNATING OFFICERS WHO CAN EXPECT THEIR FIRST PROMOTION AND A FEW FOR THEIR SECOND PROMOTION BEFORE THEY RETIRE. IN ANY CASE THOSE OFFICERS WHO ARE POSTED AWAY FROM THEIR HOMETOWN ON PROMOTION CAN EXPECT TO JOIN THEIR FAMILY AFTER IMPLEMENTATION. NOW IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE LEADERS TO SEE THAT THE CBEC IMPLEMENT THE SAME AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE .

GOOD NEWS ON CADRE RESTRUCTURING

NEWS ARE COMING ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT THE FINANCE MINISTER HAS CLEARED THE CADRE RESTRUCTURING FILE WITHOUT ANY CUTS ON AC/DC POSTS. STILL THIS NEEDS CONFIRMATION. SOME OF THE SOURCES SAY THAT FM IS LIKELY TO CLEAR THE FILE TOMORROW IE. ON 12.4.2013 BEFORE PROCEEDING ABROAD. WE HOPE  THE NEWS BECOMES REALITY.