Innovation by Tax Bureaucrats: CBDT so far issues certificates of appreciation to 23 lakh taxpayers for “contribution towards nation building”

Taxpayers' Lounge

IN AN innovative way to incentivize honest tax payers, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) now issues certificates of appreciation — in the third round it has recently issued certificates to nearly 3.74 lakh tax payers, with the total number of such certificates now standing over 23 lakh. But whose idea was it? And who's eligible to receive those certificates of appreciation by the direct tax board? To receive a certificate of the platinum category, one needs to…

Idea Boxes in corridors and beyond; but where is the blueprint for implementation?

Cab secy Seth and Principal secy to PM Misra

MoS in the ministry of personnel and PMO Jitendra Singh informed Rajya Sabha last week that the government's personnel department DoPT had installed ‘Idea Boxes’ to solicit ‘out of the box’ solution from government employees, as a part of its Innovation Action Plan. Also, while interacting with the union secretaries during the last two months, prime minister Narendra Modi demanded bright and innovate ideas from the babus. Further, PM on Saturday…

A GoI site takes you to a Yoga directory or a pet care service. Innovative, but are those info authentic?

Aiding senior citizens

IF YOU have an innovative idea for improving the performance of Ministry X or Y, there is hardly a way you can reach out to the men who matter there. But, for department of pensions and pensioners’ welfare which comes under the personnel ministry of the government, there is an official channel through which you can place your innovative ideas. In Pensioners’ Portal (http://www.pensionersportal.gov.in/innovation/innovation.asp), there is a form where…

There is hunger for reforms & reinvention in govt: Cabinet Secretary Seth

CAN government bodies change their very DNA so that they habitually innovate and continually improve their performance without having to be pushed from outside? In a government newsletter, India's top bureaucrat and cabinet secretary Ajit K Seth concedes that there are many more miles to go before the government achieves the vision  of David Osborne, father of the term “reinvention”. In the July edition of the quarterly newsletter called,...