CBDT Chairman P C Mody get a year's extension; ACC admits Prabhash Shankar as a new member within

New Delhi, August 29: Escaping the scheduled retirement on August 31, CBDT Chairman P C Mody has been awarded with an extended year of reappointment approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by PM Narendra Modi on Thursday.

 

 

A 1982-batch Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre) officer, Mody, took over as the Central Board of Direct Taxation chief in February. He was to retire on August 31.

 

The ACC in an another order has appointed 1983-batch IRS officer Prabhash Shankar as a new member in the CBDT, the other members, being P K Dash, Akhilesh Ranjan and Neena Kumar.

 

While Dash and Kumar are holding additional charges apart from their regular duties, the CBDT chairman is holding the charge of investigations in an additional capacity. The CBDT is headed by a chairman and can have a maximum of six members. It frames policy for the Income-Tax Department.