New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the newly constructed office-cum-residential complex of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) at Cuttack through videoconferencing, Wednesday.
ITAT president Justice PP Bhat said that the Prime Minister will inaugurate a state-of-the-art office-cum-residential complex of ITAT at Cuttack at 4:30pm Wednesday and the inaugural function will be virtually attended by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Union Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Petroleum, Natural Gas and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Chief Justice and Judges of Orissa High Court, among others.
Justice Bhatt said that the ITAT, Cuttack has been functioning from rented premises since 1970 and has jurisdiction for appeals arising from Odisha.
“The inauguration of this complex will help Cuttack Bench of ITAT imparting justice to the needy. With the e-Court facility provided in the new building with good connectivity facility, the Cuttack Bench will be able to hear and dispose of even the appeals pending with other benches in the Kolkata Zone which are presently non-functional such as Ranchi, Patna and Guwahati,” Justice Bhat said.
The ITAT president also said that an e-Coffee Table Book on ITAT along with an e-Book on ‘Reforms in Direct Taxes since 2014’, will also be released on the occasion.
According to the Law ministry, the newly-built office-cum-residential complex of ITAT, Cuttack is spread over an area of 1.60 acres of land allotted by the state government free of cost in the year 2015. The total built-up area of the office complex is 1938 sq mtrs over 3 floors including, inter alia, the spacious court room, ultra-modern record room, well-equipped chambers for the Members of the Bench, library room, well-equipped modern conference hall, with sufficient space for the litigants, bar room for Lawyers and Chartered Accountants, the ministry said.