Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, Nov 15, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Friday, Nov 15, 2002 |
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Excise and Customs Major reshuffle in Customs, Excise depts Raja Simhan T.E.
CHENNAI, Nov. 14 THE Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has carried out a major all-India reshuffle in the top level of the Customs and Central Excise department. The largest reshuffle in recent time includes promotion, transfer and posting of officers in the grade of Chief Commissioner and Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise. According to sources, 175 officers have been promoted to the grade of Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise. Further, on a regular basis 29 officials have been promoted to the grade of Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise. The sources said the "massive" exercise was pending for a long time. In the reshuffle, the CBEC has created two separate Customs (Sea) Commissionerate for export and import. In Chennai Customs, for instance, Mr B.S.V. Murthy, Additional Commissioner, has been promoted as Commissioner of Customs, Chennai Port (Export), while Dr J. Sridharan, who was Commissioner of Customs (Port), has been made Commissioner of Customs, Chennai Port (Import). The bifurcation was to ease the pressure on the Commissioner who looked after both import and export, said the sources. In export, Mr Murthy would be in charge of appraising groups dealing with various export promotion schemes, docks, customs freight station, refunds, export documentation, duty drawback and disposal, retail shop and auction. In the import front, Dr Sridharan would take care of laboratory, postal appraising department, bonds/bonds inspection unit, revenue recovery unit, manifest clearance, sea (unaccompanied baggage), internal audit department and preventive and connected sector. Another feature in the reshuffle is the creation of a separate Commissionerate (Preventive), which deals with issues like smuggling and duty remittance. In Chennai, Mr K. Parsuraman has been promoted to Chief Commissioner, Chennai, Customs (Preventive), and Mr Anant Ram to that post in Delhi. The members of the shipping fraternity are quite happy with the bifurcation of export and import commisionerate. "The Commissioner has been under tremendous work pressure handling all the areas. The bifurcation will help us to deal separately on major import and export issues," said a member. Further, a separate Preventive Commissionerate would help speed up the process concerning duty-related issues, he added. Some of the newly promoted Chief Commssioners include Mr T.R. Rustagi, Customs, Chennai, Mr S.R. Surya Prasad Central Excise, Chennai, Mr Subrata Basu, Customs, Mumbai-I, Mr Joseph Dominic, Customs, Mumbai-II, Mr Chander Sen, Customs, Mumbai-III, Mr Nisha Malhotra, Central Excise, Delhi, and Mr Ramesh Ramachandra, Customs, Delhi.
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