Income tax officers meet MoS Personnel; seeks timely promotion

A group of income tax officers today met Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh seeking relaxation in rules to get due career benefits.
In a memorandum submitted to the Minister, a delegation of Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre) officers of 2008 batch claimed that, as per the existing rules the only method of recruitment to the Junior Administrative Grade (JAG) level posts in their service is by promotion.
The 2008 batch officers were placed in Senior Time-Scale (STS) on January 1, 2013, whereby they would be completing five years of regular service on January 1, 2018.
"The memorandum sought relaxation for promotion so that they could achieve the higher grade with effect from April 1, 2017," a press release issued by Personnel Ministry said.

In this regard, the memorandum sought to bring to the notice that the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has been granting relaxation to eligible service officers of IRS in STS scale from 2002 to 2007 batches for promotion to higher JAG level. Therefore, the same precedence can be followed in their case also, it said.
The members of the delegation conveyed to the Minister that initially, a proposal for them was sent by the Department of Revenue to DoPT, but it was returned with certain queries.
However, now, when the proposal has been re-submitted after addressing the queries, they requested the DoPT to take a kind view and agree to the proposal, the release said.

Singh said that the DoPT will try to work out as to what can be done in the case, under rules and referred their case to the concerned officers in the Personnel Ministry.