ISSUE 6 VO LU ME 3 YEAR J U L Y 2 0 11 NADTree INSIDE THE ISSUE: Pg. 1: 64th Batch Academics 64th Batch : Events and Activities Academic Sessions This month witnessed the continuing of post-OJT-I formal classes that recommenced on 23.05.2011. The sessions included greater emphases on the core areas of Direct Tax Statutes, Accounting and Business Laws. The professors from the NALSAR University of Law conducted classes on the Hindu Law, the Indian Partnership Act and the Indian Evidence Act. Sessions on Provisions of Search covered through the Search and Seizure Manual, Exemptions and Trusts, the Procedure of Assessment, deductions under Chapter VI-A, Income from Business and Profession and improving Drafting Skills in Hindi were conducted by the faculty members of the NADT. popular with the Officer Trainees have been enhanced in scope and intensity. Similar workshops were conducted by the in-house faculty members at the NADT. Information technology Workshops leading to the familiarization with ITD applications were begun by the AD (Systems) with a view to preparing well for the 2nd Module. These were also complemented by sessions on Quantitative, Computational and Statistical Methods. The principal short and medium-term objective is to prepare them for the 1st Departmental Examinations in August, 2011. External Visits An ecology-awareness trip was organized to the Pachmarhi hill station from 24th – 26th of June, 2011. Despite the monsoonal rains, the Officer Trainees grasped the Leading Chartered Accountants from Lead Institute, opportunity and habituated themselves to the thrills of Nagpur a point-agency for the ICAI conducted work- trekking, hill-climbing, rain-dwelling, etc. and greatly shops on Computation of Income, Set Off and Carry For- enjoyed the verdant landscapes, the waterfalls and ward of Losses and Advanced Accounting. These being Pg1: External Visits Pg 2: Evaluation Exercises Pg 2 : Inservice Training Pg. 3: At DTRTI Licknow Pg. 3: At DTRTI Mumbai Pg. 4: At DTRTI Chennai Volume 3 Issue 7 Page 2 Panchmarhi Trip and Activities at the Academy cascades, the misty heights and the temples and monuments from antiquity. The trip ingrained in them the virtues of leadership, initiative, diligence, painstaking effort, attention to detail, logistics management, creative problem solving, team skills, etc. It wonderfully brought closer the Officer Trainees of the Batch amongst themselves as well as with the faculty members, who also participated with their families. Co-curriculum and Evaluation Exercises Book Review and Inspiration Exercises were carried out in line with the new evaluation scheme (NSIA, 2011).The quality of effort, involvement and output in all of these has been uniformly high. The month saw the submissions of the Special Activity Record Forms that were designed and is to be universally used by all Clubs, Activity Nodes and Committees. All the ‘Event Activities’ and ‘Continuing Activities’ organized by the various clubs were entered. These details will be used to enter scores in the evaluation scoresheets of NSIA, 2011. The activities include the website http:// sites.google.com/site/ astroirs by the Astronomy Club that deals with topical issues of contemporaneity and Continuing Orphanage Visits by the Social Welfare Club and the launching of various welfare schemes for children including providing food, purchases of books, games etc are posted on them. Group emailing to exchange information and share wisdom in different areas are continuing. A new project in the offing is developing an interactive link (leading to a web-function) on the new NADT website through which leave applications, tests, discussions, registrations for events, etc, can be carried out, monitored and processed in real time. The specially constituted Committee of Officer Trainees that is searching out artefacts and old records has completed its excavations under the guidance of Dr. V. K. Singh, Addl. Director (Faculty) in charge of libraries. This will modernize and help preserve the NADT Archives. Classification and digitization for preservation will commence soon. Various Sports and Games events amongst the Officer Trainees under the aegis of the Sports Club have commenced titled ‘AHA (Aim High Always)’. The Extra Mural Club has been busy organizing birthdays of Officer Trainees and Faculty Members. Evening gettogethers were hosted by a few newly-married Officer Trainees and their spouses to which the Director General (Training) and Faculty Members were invited. Inservice Training Programme A course for Newly Promoted ACITs titles ‘Role Recognition, Appreciation and Orientation’ , inaugurated by Shri G GShukla,DG,NADT was scheduled at NADT from 6.6.2011 to 15.7.2011.Its purpose was the seamless integration of the Newly Promoted ACITs in the system so that their domain expertise can be profitably used. The Computer and ICT Education Club initiative ‘Project Sanghadak’ Computer Awareness and Proficiency Classes continue to be conducted in the Computer Lab in Nalanda Hostel. This club also provides daily computer tips over group email to educate those lacking background in computers, which complement the teaching sessions The course was designed to provide them maximum exposure to NADT and thus the ethos, vision and Activities of the Reading Club continue in full swing mission of the department. There were 29 particiand the books purchased are being read and reread. The pants to the course. Sessions on various topics such notice boards, both physical and electronic, are being as Theory of Taxation, Analysis of financial stateupdated daily. Various items of interest and education ments and Drafting of penalty orders etc were held. Volume 3 Issue 7 Page 3 DTRTI NEWS DTRTI Lucknow Several courses were conducted at DTRTI Lucknow in the month of June. A Seminar on Judicial Matters (06.06.2011) was conducted for senior officers. It was addressed by Shri R K Tiwari, DGIT(L&R) Delhi and Sh R.K. Gupta CIT. Issues affecting the judicial work in the department and their possible solutions were discussed. This day long course was well appreciated by the participants . innovative course was designed keeping in view the training deficit in these areas. The course was addressed by an eclectic mix of very reputed officers who gave unmatched training as indicated by the feedback received from the participants. Sh Swatantra Kumar, CCIT XIII Mumbai and Sh V.K. Pandey, DIT (Inv.) - II, Mumbai addressed the participants. The course was very well received and will be repeated in August,2011. A second course entitled Sharpening the Cutting Edge –A Bouquet Course on developing Investigation skills, framing quality Assessment Orders and handling Audit Objections (27.06.2011 to 29.06.2011) was organized for Assessing Officers. This A Course on ITD Application and Computer Software (28.06.2011 to 01.07.2011) was organized to train the participants in the ITD software and general computer skills. The presence of Sh Anindya Mukherjee, DD, Systems, NADT added value to the training. DTRTI Mumbai During the month of June, a 40 days Orientation Course for Newly Promoted ITOs was conducted at DTRTI, Mumbai for the ITOs of Maharashtra Region. The course is being organized in two batches. The first batch that had commenced on 18th April,2011, continued till 14.6.2011. The second batch of the same course commenced on 20.6.2011 and it is in progress. The course was designed to empower the newly promoted ITOs with theoretical and practical knowledge of IT Law, Accounts, Allied Acts and Investigation Techniques, so that they can do their work effectively in the field. In the valediction function of the first batch, the feed back was encouraging and the participants suggested that the duration of the training should be increased. The session by the Hon. Member (IT),CBDT, Smt. Hardeep Shrivastav on Preventive vigilance in the second batch was an added privilege for the participants of the aforesaid course. An enthusiastic and positive response was received from the participants Volume 3 Issue 7 Page 4 for the special course conducted during the month, to familiarize the Retiring Gazetted Officers with the issues related to their retirement and to improve their confidence during their post retirement life. During the month, two batches of Refresher Course for Inspectors on Accounts were also conducted. These courses were designed primarily on examination of accounts and financial statements for the benefit of inspectors. A practical session on computerized accounts on tally was well-accepted by the participants. Hindi Karyashala was also conducted for the officials of DTRTI, Mumbai, in which officers of the Official Language Division took sessions, including a practical session on the use of computer for typing official letters in Hindi. DTRTI Chennai A 40 day Orientation Programme for the Newly Promoted Income Tax Officers was successfully concluded and was marked by a valediction on 17.06.2011 . The Chief Guest, Shri. Ravindran, CCIT-IV, Chennai, encouraged the participants to enjoy whatever work they do, which would lead to commitment and better results for themselves and the entire organization. The participants were very appreciative of the visit to the ITAT, mock court session and program at Pegasus Institute of Excellence. During the feed back one of the newly promoted ITOs made an impromptu speech summing up the course with the statement that earlier he was apprehensive but now he felt confident of facing the challenges that assessment would present. A three day Rajbhasha Karyalaya organized from 21.06.2011 to 23.06.2011, was inaugurated by Shri. Mahendra Singh,CIT-III , Rajbhasha Adhikari, who enthused the participants to use the Official Language by starting with half steps like making bilingual file noting. Shri Arvind Yadav, AD(OL),NADT also motivated the participants to learn Hindi. The programme was a grand success as the participants learnt to converse and type simple sentences in Hindi, make order sheet notings and draft simple letters. To, The NADTree Team. Editorial Committee Aastha, Malvika, Ridhima, Sangram Sanyam (Officer Trainees,64th Batch of IRS) Managing Editor R Ravichandran Additional Director General-II . Editorial Advisors N Jayasankar Additional Director (Faculty) Sanjay Joseph Deputy Director (Faculty), For any Correspondence /Queries, kindly contact Dr Vinay Kumar Singh, Additional Director ( Library), National Academy of Direct Taxes, Chhindwara Road, Nagpur -440030. Tele-fax 0712-2584350; E mail– newsletter@nadt.gov.in (Printed by the Printing & Publication Unit, NADT, Nagpur for the National Academy of Direct Taxes, Nagpur)