As it is well known that the income tax department has allowed Aadhaar card holders to use the biometric id number in lieu of the Permanent Account Number (PAN). But as per new provision of Income Tax, fine of Rs. 10,000 may be levied in case of wrong Aadhar Number. As per the latest amendments in the Finance Bill 2019, not only allowed people to use Aadhaar in lieu of PAN but also introduced a penalty for giving a false Aadhaar number. However, the new penalty rules are applicable only in cases where you are using Aadhaar in lieu of PAN and where quoting PAN is mandatory according to the income tax department rules. It is well known that although Aadhaar is issued by the Unique Identity Authority of India, yet the fine is not imposed by UIDAI but by the income tax department. Under Section 272B of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the department can impose a penalty in case of default in complying with provisions relating to PAN, i.e., failure to obtain, quote, or authenticate PAN.
Struggle is still going for the merger of Dearness Allowance with pay. In this line of action, AIRF (All India Railwaymens Federation) wrote a letter to the Secretary(Exp.), Ministry of Finance putting pressure on government to merge DA with Pay.
Read the contents of the letter of AIRF as below:
" On the persistent forceful demand of the Central Government
employees, including Railwaymen, successive Central Pay Commissions were
appointed by the Government of India with a view to improve upon wage structure
and to grant parity with other employees of the Public Sector Undertakings in
the wake of market inflation and price hike of essential commodities. These Pay
Commissions, while recommending revised pay structure, have also recommended
grant of Dearness Allowance on the basis of increase in the Price Index.
The very purpose of compensating the pay with payment of
Dearness Allowance is being defeated because of unbridled inflationary pressure
on the economy and the consequent steep rise in the price of essential
commodities. This has resulted in erosion of the value of the wage, remarkably
beyond tolerable limit, as a consequence of which, payment of Dearness
Allowance has failed to compensate devaluation of pay.
While Dearness Allowance was merged with the pay on crossing
the percentage beyond 50% during V CPC as the actual value of wage devaluated
because of market hike to compensate eroded value of the wages besides payment
of Dearness Allowance, but this time Dearness Allowance, which has already gone
beyond 80% w.e,f. 1st July, 2013, is yet to be merged with the pay.
It would, therefore, be quite appropriate and in the fitness
of the thing that Dearness Allowance is merged with the pay for all purposes to
compensate the erosion in the wage in the wake of market inflation and steep
price hike of essential commodities which are posing serious constraints in the
livelihood of the Govern employees in general and the low-paid employees in
particular."
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