Precisely 1,264 steel cupboards occupy the corridors of the seven-storeyed Aayakar Bhavan — headquarters to the income tax department at Marine Lines in Mumbai. Add to this unwieldy files with the fabled red tape on them, depressingly old furniture and the contrast couldnt be more startling.
For a building that collects 40% of the income tax in the country, it looks hopelessly shoddy.
Its a shame. My son refuses to come to any income tax office as he finds such places humiliating, said a leading CA, whose son just joined his firm. Why blame him? With 4,000 employees, it has only one visitors room. The rest have to make do with chairs allotted to peons.
From this weekend though, things are expected to change. The building is preparing for a facelift. To start with, the cupboards will be moved into basement.
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