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TAMIL NADU CIRCLE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ONLINE SUCCESSFULLY..

Tamil Nadu Circle has also held its Circle Executive Committee Meeting virtually on 27-10-2020 most successfully. The meeting started at 1015hrs and continued upto 1800hrs and almost all the District Secretaries and Circle Office Bearers participated.

Com.C K Narasimhan, Circle President presided over the meeting. Rich tributes were offered to those passed away during the intervening period, including Coms. Manual Paulraj, District Secretary, Madurai, Com.Radhakrishnan, District Secretary, Karaikudi and Com.D Gopalan, District Secretary, Tirunelveli. Com.M Selvaraj, Asst Circle Secretary welcomed the participants.

Inaugurating the CEC, Com.K G Jayaraj, General Secretary dealt on the current national developments of passing the Farmer Amendment Bill and 3 labour codes replacing the 46 labour laws in a most undemocratic manner, intended to suit the interests of Corporates . The atrocities against the minorities and Dalits are increasing day by day and not a single day passes without rape and murder of minor girls, particularly in UP. Modi government has completely failed to address the post Covid-19 pandemic situation which has rendered lakhs of workers jobless and no real relief extended to them. The privatisation spree of PSUs is continuing unabated which warranted the workers of Ordnance Factories to decide for a three days strike, though postponed temporarily. It is under this situation that the Central Trade Unions and Independet Federations have given a clarion call of a country wide Strike on 26th November, 2020, putting forward the demands of all sections, including pensioners. AIBDPA has already declared its support and solidarity. General Secretary also explained the present position with regard to the important issues of denial of medical facilities to BSNL retirees and Pension Revision. Even after successful conduct of Standing Dharna on 19th August, 2020, the CMD , BSNL is continuing his arrogant and discriminatory stand without allotting fund to clear the pending medical bills, payment of medical allowances and one time subscription paid to CGHS. Regarding pension revision due from 01-01-2017, we have to continue our efforts, though some of the pensioners organisations have approached CAT, New Delhi for legal remedy and the outcome being unpredicatable. CHQ will take a decision for another phased program of agitation at the appropriate time. Meanwhile BSNLEU has decided for a phased program of agitation culminating in a Strike in November, 2020 demanding immediate launching of 4G services by BSNL, Pay Revision and Pension Revision and AIBDPA is committed to support and participate. General Secretary also answered the queries raised in the meeting.

Com. Babu Radhakrishnan, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU and Com.Vinodkumar, Circle Secretary, BSNL CCWF greeted the CEC meeting.

Com.N.Kuppusamy, Circle Secretary presented the report on activities and Com Nataraja, Treasurer briefed on the financial position. All the District Secretaries and most of the Circle Office Bearers participated in the discussion. Summing up the discussion, Com.S. Mohandoss, CHQ Vice President spoke on the tasks to be undertaken for the advancement of the organisation. Com.K.Pankajavalli, CHQ Asst Treasurer though present could not address the meeting due to some technical snag. The decisions of the meeting , based on the discussions and speeches of General Secretary and CHQ Vice President, were presented by Com.N Kuppusamy, Circle Secretary and approved.

Tamil Nadu Circle is known for its systematic functioning and taking up the issues of the pensioners in right earnest. CHQ heartily congratulates Tamil Nadu Circle Branch for holding the CEC meeting online in compliance of CHQ directive.

DUE DATE FOR FILING INCOME TAX RETURN EXTENDED TO 31-12-2020

Ministry of Finance

Extension of due date of furnishing of Income Tax Returns and Audit Reports

Posted On: 24 OCT 2020 2:27PM by PIB Delhi
 

In view of the challenges faced by taxpayers in meeting the statutory and regulatory compliances due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Government brought the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation of Certain Provisions) Ordinance, 2020 (‘the Ordinance’) on 31st March, 2020 which, inter alia, extended various time limits. The Ordinance has since been replaced by the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Act.

The Government issued a Notification on 24thJune, 2020 under the Ordinance which, inter alia, extended the  due date for all Income Tax Returns for the FY 2019-20 (AY 2020-21) to 30th November, 2020. Hence, the returns of income which were required to be filed by 31st July, 2020 and 31st October, 2020 are required to be filed by 30th November, 2020. Consequently, the date for furnishing various audit reports including tax audit report under the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) has also been extended to 31st October, 2020.

In order to provide more time to taxpayers for furnishing of Income Tax Returns, it has been decided to further extend the due date for furnishing of Income-Tax Returns as under:

(A)       The due date for furnishing of Income Tax Returns for the taxpayers (including their partners) who are required to get their accounts audited [for whom the due date (i.e. before the extension by the said notification) as per the Act is 31st October, 2020] has been extended to 31st January, 2021.

(B)   The due date for furnishing of Income Tax Returns for the taxpayers who are required to furnish report in respect of international/specified domestic transactions [for whom the due date (i.e. before the extension by the said notification) as per the Act is 30th November, 2020] has been extended to 31st January, 2021.

(C)      The due date for furnishing of Income Tax Returns for the other taxpayers [for whom the due date (i.e. before the extension by the said notification) as per the Act was 31st July, 2020] has been extended to 31st December, 2020.

 

Consequently, the date for furnishing of various audit reports under the Act including tax audit report and report in respect of international/specified domestic transaction has also been extended to 31st December, 2020.

Further, in order to provide relief to small and middle class taxpayers, the said notification dated 24th June, 2020 had also extended the due date for payment of self-assessment tax for the taxpayers whose self-assessment tax liability is up to Rs. 1 lakh. Accordingly, the due date for payment of self-assessment tax for the taxpayers who are not required to get their accounts audited was extended from 31st July, 2020 to 30th November, 2020 and for the auditable cases, this due date was extended from 31st October, 2020 to 30th November, 2020.

In order to provide relief for the second time to small and middle class taxpayers in the matter of payment of self-assessment tax, the due date for payment of self-assessment tax date is hereby again being extended. Accordingly, the due date for payment of self-assessment tax for taxpayers whose self-assessment tax liability is up to Rs. 1 lakh has been extended to 31st January, 2021 for the taxpayers mentioned in para 3(A) and para 3(B) and to 31st December, 2020 for the taxpayers mentioned in para 3(C).

The necessary notification in this regard shall be issued in due course.

U P(W) CIRCLE HELD CIRCLE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING ONLINE.

UP (W) Circle has won the distinction of holding the first virtual meeting of the Circle Executive Committee on 25-10-2020.

The meeting started with paying rich tribute to the founder Circle Secretary, Com.Abdul Rashid. Com.K G Jayaraj, General Secretary inaugurated the meeting with a brief speech as the meeting was scheduled to conclude within one hour. General Secretary focused on the important issues of denial of medical facilities to the retirees in a cruel and discriminatory manner by the BSNL management and Pension Revision. He assured that decision for another phased progrm of agitation will be taken in due course. Com.S S Maurya, Circle Secretary presented the report and Com.R V Singh, Treasurer briefed on the financial position. 

Com.Mohammed Israil, Circle President controlled the proceedings. In the discussion, Comrades expressed strong resentment against the continuing denial of medical facilities.

CHQ congratulates UP(W) Circle for holding the CEC meeting online.

 NCCPA Writes to Hon’ble Finance Minister seeking Festival Grant or Advance to Pensioners and Family Pensioners!

NATIONAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS.
13-C Feroze Shah Road,
New Delhi.110 001

 

Dated: 24/10/2020

To

 

Ms.Nirmala Seetharaman

Hon’ble Finance Minister,

Govt. of India, North Block,

New Delho. 110 001.

 

Dear Madam,

                                         Sub: Request for festival grant or advance.

 

As you are aware the Pandemic Covid 19 is spreading  unabated, contrary to our expectation.  Since both the preventive and curative remedies are yet to be in operation, the situation is likely to get worsened in the days to come.  The number of people already affected and the number of persons died in our country due to the disease are alarming.  Most of the deaths are reported to be of persons beyond the age of 60.

Life is made more difficult for the Pensioners and Family Pensioners as their physical movement is restricted and that financially they are suffering more than many others. In this situation, we have seen a welcome move that the Government of India has relaxed the condition as a one-time measure and granted Festival Advance to the Government Employees. Even though it is a recoverable advance, the liquid cash at the hands of employees is no doubt will be of enormous assistance to them.

The Pensioners and Family Pensioners, are placed in a very difficult situation due to the denial of the dearness relief which is to continue up-to 1st July, 2021.  The financial burden has increased due to the inflation and phenomenal price rise on essential food items. Considering the dire situation in which the pensioner community is placed,  we request that the Central Government may consider a one-time grant of  Rs.20,000/- to all Pensioners and Family Pensioners. If the Government finds it difficult to bear this additional financial burden, we request the Government might consider taking into account the fact that the coming months are festival months in our country and grant of one-time recoverable advance of Rs.20,000/- to Pensioners and Rs.10,000/- to Family Pensioners through the Banks or POSB, where they receive the Pension and Family Pension. The Banks and POSBs may be asked to recover the amount in 10 monthly instalments.   This Advance should be in addition to any loans the Pensioners and Family Pensioners received from Banks in the past. The Pensioners and Family Pensioners will feel much relieved at this time of financial and mental stress.

The Government may consider our proposals quickly and render invaluable relief to the community of Pensioners and Family Pensioners.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,

Sd/-
(K.K.N.Kutty)
Secretary General

CHANGE IN BASE YEAR OF CPI FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS- ANOTHER ANTI-WORKER MEASURE OF MODI GOVERNMENT. WE ARE REPRODUCING THE PRESS RELEASE OF CITU IN THIS REGARD.

THE BASE YEAR CHANGE FOR CONSUMERS PRICE INDEX FOR-INDUSTRIAL WORKER A DESIGN TO MANIPULATE THE REALITY OF PRICE MOVEMENT.

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions expresses serious concern over the change in the base year of consumer Price Index for the industrial workers (CPI-IW) from 2001 to 2016 announced by the BJP Govt through its Labour Minister, arrogantly ignoring all the questions raised and suggestions made by all the trade unions in the country through their joint letter dated 25th August 2020.

Entire exercise made by the Labour Bureau functioning under Ministry of Labour on this matter has been thoroughly arbitrary, deliberately designed to suppress the real impact of the price rise of essential items for human survival and also to deprive the workers of their entitlement for legitimate DA. The Labour Bureau deliberately ignored the very fact that even in the midst of economic slowdown, the prices of essential items, food items in particular always remain on the rise and did not hesitate to arbitrarily as well as drastically reduce the weight assigned to food items in the standard consumption basket from 46.2% to 39% for the purpose of computation of consumer price index. Minister’s statement justifying this arbitrary reduction as change in the consumption pattern of the working people away from food item is absolutely ridiculous and  cruel inhuman joke; this is done when the average consumption expenditure marked a sharp decline with the rural consumption expenditure falling by more than 9 per cent as per CSO estimate (suppressed by the Modi Govt); and also when in global hunger index, India has been ranked as low at 94 out of 107 nations under survey below Bangaladesh and Pakistan.

Manipulation by the Govt with a dubious intent does not end here. It is also done in the linking factor for converting the numbers of 2016 to 2001 series equivalent to suppress the impact of actual price rise. Two previous changes of base year witnessed a higher linking factor of 4.93 (1960 to 1982 -22 years gap) and 4.63 (1982 to 2001—19 years gap); now a 16 years gap (2001 to 2016) entailed a linking factor of only 2.88 (62% reduction for difference in 3 years in gap.). Can fraud go further ?

Then the choice of base year in 2016 is also designed for manipulation to suppress the impact of price rise. Originally till July 2020, exercise was being done with the idea of 2013-14 as the base year. Changing it to 2016 is an afterthought by the Modi regime as the same year, the notorious demoetisation was undertaken affecting negatively the price-level of the items in standard consumption basket for CPI-IW owing to virtual collapse of the economic operation in the country in the last quarter of 2016. This change is also done with the purpose of suppressing the real impact of price rise.     

The employers’ oranisations have long been demanding upon the Govt to freeze the variable DA payment to workers as a relief to them during the period of economic slowdown. Govt has now responded to that demand of their capitalist bosses through backdoor. The present exercise of changing base year of CPI-IW to 2016  with all its components, some of which are mentioned here, is meant for that at the cost of the working people.

CITU  denounces such anti-worker pro corp.orate step by the BJP Govt and calls upon the workers and unions to protest and oppose the nefarious design to loot the workers and the people for the benefit of the corporate class.   March forward for making the Countrywide General Strike on 26th November 2020 a massive success.

AIBDPA FOUNDATION DAY- AN INSPIRATIONAL AND ENCOURAGING MESSAGE FROM AIPRPA.

AIBDPA FOUNDAION DAY- AN INSPIRATIONAL AND ENCOURAGING MESSAGE FROM AIPRPA.
AIBDPA Foundation Day.!
We greet this class conscious organisation of Pensioners.
It is the 12th Foundation day and 11th Anniversart Day of AIBDPA. It was formed on 21-10-2009 as a class conscious pensioners association of BSNL and DOT. This is vital because amidst the variety of mushroom organisations without class consciousness, AIBDPA has been born with a class bias in favour of working class.
AIBDPA is not a paper organisation; but an organization to go to streets for agitation on need. AIBDPA is not an organization divorced from the trade unions but always stands with the trade unions movement.AIBDPA is not an organization believe in isolated functioning; but believe in joint platform under NCCPA. AIBDPA is not blind to world realities; but is proud to be part of international movement of pensioners under TUI(P&R) founded by WFTU,as neo liberal policies attack pensioners universally.
AIPRPA( All India Postal & RMS Pensioners Association) greets AIBDPA on this day and wishes that AIBDPA scale many more summits.!
K.Ragavendran, GS, AIPRPA
CHQ thanks AIPRPA and its General Secretary, Com.K Ragavendran for this great gesture. Of course AIBDPA and AIPRPA have so many similarities and work in tandem.