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NDTV
21 hours ago
- Business
- NDTV
Government Extends Top Tax Authority CBDT Chairman's Tenure By A Year
New Delhi: The government has extended the tenure of Ravi Agrawal as the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) by another year. The CBDT is the apex policymaking body of the Income Tax Department, and its chairman and members are senior Indian Revenue Service officers. "The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved re-appointment of Ravi Agrawal, IRS as Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes on contract basis, for a period of one year with effect from July 1, 2025 till June 30, 2026 or until further orders, whichever is earlier," the government order stated. The re-appointment will be on the usual terms and conditions applicable to re-employed Central government officers, in relaxation of the Recruitment Rules. Agarwal, a 1988 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer from the income tax cadre, had succeeded Nitin Gupta, 1986 batch IRS officer, in June 2024 as Chairman of the CBDT. He was serving as a member of the CBDT (Administration) from July 2023 before his appointment as chairman. The CBDT is headed by a chairman and can have six members who are in the rank of special secretary. Meanwhile, CBDT has asked all the principal chief commissioners of Income Tax to exercise effective supervision over their assessing officers and make sure that questions sent by them to a taxpayer are justified, and that irrelevant queries are completely avoided. The apex body has directed Income Tax Department officials to ensure due application of mind while issuing notices for scrutiny and assessment of a taxpayer's return, emphasising that all queries should be relevant and specific. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman earlier this week asked income-tax officials to ensure that tax compliance processes are made simpler, more transparent and taxpayer-friendly. The Finance Minister also directed all principal chief commissioners of income tax to prioritise and accelerate the disposal of disputed tax demands that are currently pending before the faceless appellate authorities, the finance ministry said in a statement. About 577,000 appeals were pending at the start of the current fiscal year. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is targeting to address more than 225,000 appeals in FY 2025-26 involving over Rs 10 lakh crore of disputed demand. The Finance Minister highlighted that prompt and time-bound disposal of taxpayer grievances is essential for ensuring responsive governance.
The Hindu
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
Joint Action Committee seeks amendment to recruitment rules in Puducherry
The Joint Action Committee of Puducherry Electricity Department Engineer and Employees Welfare Association has urged the Puducherry Government to amend the Recruitment Rules for redesignated posts of employees belonging to various cadres in the Department and ratify them at the earliest. A spokesperson of JAC said over 2,000 employees were left in the lurch since the revised Recruitment Rules were yet to be framed. Though the posts have been redesignated, the employees were yet to receive promotion and wage hike. Workers attached to the JAC will picket the office of the Secretary to Government (Electricity) and the Puducherry Electricity Department on July 3 to highlight their grievances. The JAC said in a statement the protest was necessitated by the department's failure to address several workers' grievances that was degrading the efficiency of the power sector. The JAC has also demanded that the ad hoc posts of engineers and workers working in the department should be regularised and the benefits of the Central Pay Commission be immediately passed on to employees.
Hindustan Times
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
CAT refuses to stay deputation of college lecturers in Chandigarh from Punjab, Haryana
In a significant order, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has declined to grant a stay on the deputa-tion of lecturers from Punjab and Haryana to colleges in Chandigarh. The tribunal stated, 'At present, no case of stay is made out restraining the respondents from going ahead vis-a-vis filling up of vacant post on deputation (under deputation quota).' The CAT further noted that the applicants fear the UT education department might use this as a pretext to removeindividuals recruited on a contract basis under the direct quota. Arvind Moudgill, senior standing counsel for the UT administration, said the administration was well within its rights to fill up posts by deputation as provided in the Recruitment Rules. As many as 36 lecturers, posted in various colleges in Chandigarh, had moved the tribunal, seeking stay on filling up seats under the deputation quota by the UT education department. The petition stated, 'The ends of justice will be met if the UT education department is directed not to dispense with the services of the applicants by another set of contractual employees unless they have some disqualification qua their continuation.' It was prayed that the applicants be given protection for not replacing them with another set of contractual employees. The lecturers had moved the tribunal, seeking directions to cancel the UT orders, dated December 14, 2023, and December 4, 2024, vide which the administration had called for names of lecturers from states of Punjab and Haryana on deputation. The petitioners also prayed that they should be granted extension in service and their salary should be released. The senior standing counsel argued that the salaries had already been released and as far as deputation was concerned, the administration was well within its rights. UT also argued that deputation was a mode as per which recruitment can be filled as per Recruitment Rules. It was also argued by the administration that the rules to fill posts on deputation have not been challenged.
