Aayakar Sewa Kendras in nine more cities soon 

By the end of this fiscal, income tax payers will be able to get all their problems relating to filing of returns and obtaining of refunds, among others, addressed at nine more help centres. The income tax department has decided to set up help centres at 12 cities, including Kolkata, Coimbatore and Surat,to address the problems of tax payers. At present, help centres exist at three places in the country.The centres, called Aayakar Sewa Kendras, are currently located in Pune, Chandigarh and Kochi. We are planning to extend Aayakar Sewa Kendras to 12 cities, including Ludhiana, Kolkata and Indore, in the current fiscal, a finance ministry official said. The centres would also be set up at Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Surat, Ahmedabad, Udaipur and Coimbatore.

Economic times, New Delhi, 02-06-2010.