RTOs protest over delay in their promotion

Staff at the Regional Tax Offices (RTOs) of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) have urged Chairman FBR to take notice of not holding even a single meeting of Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) for promotion of IROs (BS-16) to Assistant Commissioner IR (ACIR) although sizeable number of promotion quota vacancies of ACIR are piling up, rather consumed in direct recruitments for the cadre.
Resultantly, three deserving officers, including two from RTO Faisalabad and one from RTO Sialkot, have retired on 1st of April 2019 and despite their repeated humble requests, the administration wing of FBR did not conduct the meeting of DPC for their due promotion.
It may be noted that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has dozens of meetings of DPCs for various categories of the officers over the last two years. However, there has not been even a single meeting of DPC for promotion of IROs (BS-16) to Assistant Commissioner IR (ACIR).
The unfairness can be judged from the fact that during the intervening periods, a good number of IROs have retired who were fully eligible for promotion and who deserved to be retired in the due scale of BS-17.