The existential crisis for the department
Dear Comrades and friends, Wishing you all a very happy Diwali – the day of light, bright and colourful. May the light lead us to better days ahead. Within our department, we face an existential crisis. If it has not been noticed, then this is the moment to grasp it. The former leadership sat over the signals, repeatedly highlighted by persons like Com. Pyne and Com. Mouli that the GST was going to be a huge avalanche for the department and that we as an organisation had to be prepared for it. It fell on deaf ears, until the DR IRS Association got involved. Even then, in spite of almost the entire body present in the Preconvention meeting at Delhi preferring to proceed on our charter, under our own flag, it was compromised and we saw our leader go along with DR IRS and Appraisers, whose interests have never been in unison with ours, through out the history of the department. Now, the ‘ring fencing of Customs’, ‘liquidation of legacy issues in a jiffy’, ‘di...