INCOME
TAX PENSIONERS FEDERATION.
A2/95 RAJOURI GARDEN
MANISHINATH BHAWAN
NEW DELHI. 110 027.
Website: itpfchq.blogspot.com.
Dated: 21st June, 2019.
Dear Comrades,
As per the notice
issued on 17th May, 2019, the National Secretariat met at New Delhi
on 20th.06.2019. the meeting was
chaired by Com. Umesh Mehta, President, ITPF.
The meeting commenced its deliberations at 11.30 AM and was concluded at
2.30 PM. We give hereunder the decisions on each items of agenda discussed
Agenda Item No,1
Review of implementation of the decision of the last meeting held at
Chennai in December, 2018.
Notional Fixation of pay for
Inspectors and Officers: Please see mention elsewhere in this circular letter. CGHS issues. The minutes of the discussions we had with
the Secretary health has been placed on the website. Health insurance. The meeting decided to
study the scheme introduced by the Government of Kerala for their employees and
pensioners. Membership: All efforts are to be taken by the units to expand
the membership and substantially increase the same before we meet at the next
conference. Widening subscription base of the journal, finance of the
ITPF and the next conference
are discussed and the minutes of the same are depicted elsewhere in this
circular.
Agenda Item No. 2.
47th meeting of the National Council JCM.
The Secretary General presented the crux
of the discussions at the meeting. The
Staff Side letter and the minutes are placed on the website.
Agenda Item No.3
CGHS matters.
The minutes of the discussion with
the Secretary, Health and the new items introduced in the agenda are placed on
the website. Kindly see the same in the
next issue of our journal. .
Agenda Item No. 4.
Organisational: Registration
The Registrar’s office has written to
the Director Ministry of Consumer affairs for certain clarification, copy of
which has been given to us. The Sectt. will pursue the matter and will obtain
the registration thereafter. It has been decided that the Secretary General and
President will try to visit all units before the conference. They will give priority to the State of Bihar,
North West Region and Pune where the units have not started functioning.
Agenda Item No. 5.
Finance.
Com. Badola, Finance Secretary
submitted a due-paid statement indicating the dues from each unit. The meeting decided to request the units to
clear the subscription amount before 31st Jul, 2019. It was also decided that the ITPF must pay
Rs. 15,000 as donation to NCCPA towards attending the TUI Congress at Bogota,
Columbia as its share. This has been distributed amongst the units @
Rs. 1000 per unit. All are requested to
kindly clear the dues immediately. The
ITPF Chq has remitted the subscription due to NCCPA upto and including for the year 2018-19.
Agenda Item No. 6.
All India Conference.
The meeting accepted the proposal of
the Baroda unit to host the next conference at Baroda. It was also decided to bring out a souvenir
to commemorate the occasion. Com.
Shanthi Kumar will be the chairman of the committee. It will have one member from each unit. The committee will get in touch with all
concerned to procure as many advertisements as possible so that the Conference
will be able to be conducted smoothly as also provide some financial base for
the organisation in future. They will contact the Office bearers of ITEF and ITGOA both at the CHQ and at the States. Com. Secretary General and Com. President
will try to visit all major units before
the conference for this purpose. The Conference will be held in two days. On the first day, the inaugural session will
commence in the afternoon It will be
followed by the National Executive Committee meeting. Next day the business session will be
held. It is expected to be concluded on
the second day. The accommodation will
be for two nights. Whoever wants to overstay,
must intimate the host unit. The host
unit will make some alternate arrangements, of course on payment. The food and accommodation for the two nights
will be provided by the host units. The
meeting also decided that every unit may be allotted 4 delegates including the
Central office bearers. I.e. 1+3. Those who wanted to depute more or less
number of delegates must contact the Secretary General immediately.
Agenda Item No. 7.
Journal subscription.
The meeting decided that every unit
must strive to enlist atleast twenty additional subscribers and remit the
amount at the rate of Rs. 72 per copy per year to the Assistant Treasurer,
NCCPA before 30th November, 2019.
They can requisition the copies
to be delivered at the respective residential addresses or in a bulk at the
office address of the Unit.
Agenda Item No. 8.
Mumbai high Court case on notional pay.
In the absence of the
representatives from Karnataka, the meeting could not be presented with a clear
picture of the status of the court case at Mumbai High Court in the matter of
grant of notional pay with effect from 1.1.1996 for the Inspectors and Income tax
Offices, whose scale of pay had been revised in 2004. However, the meeting was fortunate enough to
have the presence of Com. Amitaba Dey, Secretary General ITGOA who could brief
the house of the present state of affairs in the case. After listening to Com. Dey, the house
decided that the Karnataka Comrades could be requested to pursue the same. Besides, the Secretary General was also
asked to explore the possibility of filing another case on the same issue
before the Principal Bench of the Tribunal in association with the ITEF and
ITGOA (CHQ)
Agenda Item No. 9.
Any other matter.
The meeting noted that the following
units had been able to procure accommodation to house the office of the
respective organisations at Baroda, Mumbai, Delhi, Bengal, Assam, Tamilnadu, AP
& Telengana and Karnataka. Others are requested to take immediate steps
to obtain the same as it would help to run the units properly.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
