IT Income Tax, Customs, Excise IRS Officers Pay Hike unrest: Sixth Pay Commission

There comes another set of news from the Sixth Pay Commission. It is from the Income Tax IT & Customs Department:

The government is already finding it difficult to cope with the burden of Sixth pay Commission Recommendations and pacify all segments of government employees. However, unrest is growing among various government departments. The latest one to add to the list of dissatifieds are the Income Tax IT department employees and the Customs and Excise Employees. The defence forces are already up in arms against the government.
All this is courtesy to the Sixth Pay Commission Recommendations, where there are cases where the government sector employee salary has gone way up compared that his/her counterpart in the private sector. Wikipedia on Sixth Pay Commission News
The issue also sttributes the the problems of anomalies in the Promotions of officers of Income Tax IT department employees and the Customs and Excise department.

As per the news, Thousands of customs officials struck work on Tuesday and took to the streets against the delay in their promotions, in what can set back government's already difficult task to realise the revenue target.

Customs and central excise officials from across the country gathered at Jantar Mantar in the Capital on Tuesday, to march up to barricades raised at Parliament Street police station.

The protest comes even as income tax officials, another revenue gathering arm, have already resorted to a `go slow' to insist on removal of pay anomalies and for better prospects of promotion.

Officials of the income tax department, are also up in arms against the same issues.

Sources said revenue secretary P V Bhide has called a meeting of all 18 chief commissioners of I-T at North Block on Wednesday to deliberate on the slowdown in the tax collection. With a few CBDT members having already raised the issue of discontentment in the rank and file over the pay anomalies and its impact on the tax mop up, the revenue department boss is likely to address the matter.

The discontentment over the `alleged' raw deal from the 6th pay commission is not only restricted to the IRS Indian Revenue Services cadre officers, but spread even to the ranks of inspectors, superintendents and promotee assistant commissioners who feel they have been ignored. The lower rungs feel discriminated even from their top bosses in the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) and CBDT.