INCOMETAX PENSIONERS FEDERATION.
ManishinathBhawan,
A/2/95 Rajouri Garden.
New Delhi. 110 027.
Website: itpfchq.blogspot.com
Email: itpfchq@gmail.com
Dear Comrade,
The
National Sectt. meeting of the ITPF was held at Hyderbad as per the decision
taken at Kolkata on 16th April,2018. Contrary to the expectation,
the attendance at the meeting was not at all encouraging. The arrangements made
by the host unit, AP and Telengana Incometax Pensioners association was
excellent. The comfort of the delegates
had been supreme in the mind and that was visible in every aspect of the
arrangement. Every State had bee given a
vehicle so as to have free mobility. The
transport committee had made arrangements to pick up the delegates from the Railway
Station/Airport and drop them comfortably.
Prior to the commencement of the
meeting, the host unit had
arranged a general meeting of the members of the AP and Telengana I.T.
Pensioners association, which was well attended.
The
sectt. meeting was held at the IT. Auditorium located at the I.T. tower. The meeting commenced at 3.00PM under the
chairmanship of Com.Umeh Mehta. Brief of the discussions and decisions taken on each of the agenda
item is given hereunder:-
1. Registration:
Com.S.K.Sharma
detailed the crux of the interaction he
had with the registration authorities.
He informed the house the Govt. has devised a new format for the
application of the societies which has federal set up and all India
character. He will place the new format
at the website. It was also decided for
the sake of convenience and easy communication, a whatsup group will be
formulated which will consist only the members of the Sectt. No other postings
other than the matters related to ITPF
will be placed in the said whatsup.
Com.S.K.Sharma will create group and administer the same. It was felt
that such a group in the whatsup will facilitate the communication amongst the members of the National Sectt.
2.
MACP scheme
The latest
Supreme Court decision indicating that
the scheme must be applied from
1.1.2006 was discussed at length. The
following decisions were taken
(a) The
number of beneficiaries of the supreme court decision, if it is universally applied.
(b) Whether
they will be prepared to contribute financially towards the cost of
litigation
(c) A
detailed circular will be issued by the ITPF CHQ to enable the members to
understand the implication of the supreme court decision.
(d) Both
ITEF and NCCPA will be contacted for exploring the ways and means of filing a
common petition before the Principal Bench of the CAT.
3.
Organisational.
The conclusion after deliberation was that there had been not much
progress after the last NE meeting at Kolkata. For making the State Unit
vibrant and to improve the
Inter communication between the State/CHQ Sectt and the members, the
following decisions were taken:
(a) The
State Unit/regional/branches will meet once in a month on a pre determined date
to enable the members to assemble and interact. This is already happening in
many States The experience in this regard of the Bengal,
Baroda, AP and Chennai Units is very
good.
(b) Many
members expressed that the decision taken at the last meeting at Kolkata which
makes it mandatory to meet in the National Sectt/National Executive once in
three months would be a financial burden and must be reviewed. After some discussions, it was agreed that the
duration could be once in six months alternatively for the meeting of the
Sectt. and National Executive.
(c) The State Units whenever they meet will inform
the National Sectt. So, that, occasionally such meeting could be attended
either by the Secretary General or the President.
(d) The
next meeting of the National Executive will be at Chennai. The Tamilnadu Unit
will finalise a date in the month of October/November as per their convenience
taking into account the pooja holidays and diwali festival. If they finalise the date it will help the outstation
comrades to book their journey tickets comparatively cheap and plan their
participation accordingly.
(e) Com.S.K.Sharma
will be in full responsibility for getting registration formalities completed
by then.
(f) The
meeting noted that the next conference of the ITPF has already become due and the same should be convened in the first
quarter of 2019. The next meeting of the NE must decide upon the venue. A financial committee under the Chairmanship
of Com. Shantikumar, Vice President is decided to be set up. He will
co-opt other members in the committee. It was also decided to bring out a
souvenir to commemorate the occasion of
the next conference.
4.
Finance:
In the absence of Com.C.M.Badola, who could not attend he
meeting due to some pressing domestic difficulties the statement of accounts had
not been submitted. The Secretary General informed the house that there is
small balance in the account, even though no cash has been withdrawn for
expenses. Without some accumulation of
funds, the activities to expand the base of the organisation would not be
possible. It was, therefore, decided
that the units which are hosting the organisational meet, might try to save
some funds and remit the same to the CHQ
to enable the accumulation of funds.
The Secretary General and the President
must visit and seek the help of the office bearers of ITEF in organising
pensioners in Bihar, North West Region, Pune , so that presence of the representatives of these
units could be ensured at the next NE meeting.
5.
Journal subscription.
Com.Secretary General narrated
the difficulties faced by the NCCPA in bringing out the bulletin. Unless the subscriber base is widened, the
financial problems would not be possible to be sorted out. The Kolkata meeting had decided that Com.
Burman will be the intermediary between the ITPF Unit and the NCCPA in so far as the journal subscription is
concerned. He has been requested to put
out the bank account of Bengal Unit so that the members/state unit can directly
remit the requisite amount of subscription to them and they will in turn remit the same to NCCPA
and keep track of the delivery of the journal to the subscribers, the
intimation of its expiry and other
details.
6.
Accommodation:
All State Units will make
formal request to the respective Administrative heads to provide accommodation
to the Pensioner Associations. In case
they encounter any difficulty in the matter, they might inform the CHQ .
Com.Secretary General was asked to take
up the matter of allotting guest house facility to the pensioners with the Chairman, CBDT.
7.
Problems discussed.
(a) Conducting
pension adalats. The State Units will
write to the Principal CCITs to conduct the adalats as per the directive of the
DOPT.
(b) Most
of the Units are yet to provide the date in respect of the beneficiaries of
Option NO.1. This is required to take
up the matter with the NCCPA.
(c) Revision
of Pension. As per the SMS replies
received by the CHQ. It is found that
the revision has taken place in almost
all places but payment has not been
effected due to the delay on the part of the Banks. The problem is persisting mostly in connection with the State Bank of India. The Secretary General will write to the SBI
Pension Unit in this regard,if data is provided by the State Units.
(d) The
State Units may make it a practice to open
the Pension room and ensure presence of
office bearers on the last day of the month
so that they may be able to participate in the farewell function of the
comrades, who retire on that day and approach them to be the members of the
Association. They can help out the retirining personnel to ensure that all dues
are paid to them by the Administration.
(e) In
order to cement the fraternity amongst the pensioners, State/Region/Branch etc.
kindly explore the possibility of conducting tour programmes for short
durations.
(f) On
15th July , all State Units might convene a meeting of the Pensioner
members to help them out to file the return of income .
(g) It
was decided that the CHQ should take up the matter concerning the exemption of
pension from the purview of Income tax with the Government and prepare a note as to how
the present taxation policy in the matter is untenable.
(h) CGHS issues.
Many members who took part in the discussions pointed out various difficulties faced by the
pensioners in getting health care facilities from the CGHS. It was decided that
the following State Units will prepare a note concerning the deficiencies ,
problems and difficulties faced by their members from the CGHS so that the CHQ
can consolidate the same and prepare a comprehensive note for discussion with
the Health Secretary. The State units
are requested to send the note by 31.7.2018.
1.
Chennai.
2.
Hyderabad
3.
Bangalore
4.
Trivandrum
5.
MumbAI
6.
Ahamedabad,/Baroda
7.
Jaipur,
8.
Kanpur/Meerut/Lucknow
9.
Bhopal
10.
Kolkata
11.
Guwahati.
The meeting was concluded at 6.30PM Both the CHQ and the State
Units who were present at the meeting profusely thanked the host unit for the
excellent arrangements done by them for
conducting a memorable meeting. Com. President, in his concluding remarks reiterated the necessity of making
the CHQ financially viable to play its rightful role in the expansion of the
organisation.
With
greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
Sd/
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
