Business Reporter :
NADT inaugurates orientation programme “Uttarayan-2024” for newly promoted ACsIT
INAUGURATING a seven week
long training for the newly promoted ACsIT here at National
Academy of Direct Taxes
(NADT) on Wednesday, Reena
Jha Tripathi, Principal Chief
Commissioner of Income-Tax,
Pune, said the officers must
develop the skills and abilities
to work in digital environment.
She also focused the importance of peer learning in an
environment where the
trainees have an opportunity
to interact with each other and
learn from their peers.
Reena Jha Tripathi was the
chief guest of the function. 131
newly promoted Assistant
Commissioners of Income Tax
(ACsIT) are currently undergoing training at NADT.
Further, Reena Jha Tripathi
in her address recalled that the
orientation programme for
newly promoted Assistant
Commissioners of Income-Tax
was conceptualized during
2007. She further stated that the
promoted Assistant
Commissioners of Income-tax
play an important role in the
Income Tax Department.
Therefore, a structural change
in training programme was
necessitated particularly keeping in view the changing
dynamics, structural changes
in the department
and in changing economic
environments.
At the outset, Anand Baiwar,
Director General, NADT, welcomed the chief guest and congratulated all the participants
of Uttarayan 2024 for their welldeserved promotion. He stated that Uttarayan for newly
promoted Group “A” IRS officers is one of the most important training programmes conducted by NADT. He stated that
the curriculum and structure
of the Orientation Programme
have been planned with a view
to enhancing the domain
knowledge and functional skills
of the trainees, while reinforcing the required behavioural
skills, thereby following a competency driven approach for
capacity development as mandated by ‘Mission Karmayogi.’
The Course Director of
Orientation Programme,
Uttarayan-2024 presented the
batch profile. The batch comprises of 131 officers including
38 lady officers. It represents
19 States and 3 Union territories. The largest contingent of
trainees was from Maharashtra,
with significant representation
from West Bengal, Bihar &
Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala,
Tamil Nadu. The batch comprises 95 graduates, 34 postgraduates and 3 MBAs. The
average work experience of the
batch is 28 years. The proceedings concluded with a formal vote of thanks.