Sevottam

SEVOTTAM symbolizes the Government’s intent to move from ‘administration’ mind set to ‘service orientation’ in delivery of public services. It emphasizes the relationship between service provider and service receivers. It is a standardized Services Delivery Excellence Model whose main features are to identify the services provided by the organization, to set norms for each service, to ensure delivery as per norms, to assess quality of delivery on a continuous b.. Full Article

Direct Taxes, now the major resource provider to the Central Government, have grown at an average annual rate of 24 percent in the last five years and have nearly trebled from Rs.1,32,771 crore in financial year 2004-05 to about Rs.3,78,000 crore in financial year 2009-10, increasing its share from 4.1 percent to 6.1 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Full Article

THE FM is going to inaugurate the 26th Annual Conference of Chief Commissioners and Directors General of Income Tax, here tomorrow i.e, 9th June, 2010. The Minister of State for Finance (Revenue), Shri S. S. Palanimanickam, will deliver the valedictory address on 10th June in the two-day conference. Full Article

The General Budget 2010-11 has carried forward the process of reforms in tax administration in the country. The citizen-centric initiative “Sevottam” which was launched as a pilot project at Pune, Kochi and Chandigarh, will be extended to four more cities this year. The centralized processing centre at Bengaluru is now fully functional and processing around 20, 000 tax returns daily. Full Article