Compilation of information
under section 4 (1) (b) of the
Right to Information Act, 2005
(No. 22 of 2005)
1. Directorate General of Inspection
2.
Directorate of Publicity and Public Relations
3.
Directorate General of Export Promotion
4. Central
Revenues Control Laboratory
5.
Directorate General of Safeguards
6.
Directorate of Organisation and Personnel Management
7.
Directorate of Housing and Welfare
8.
Directorate of Legal Affairs
9.
Directorate General of Systems & Data Management
10.
Directorate General of Valuation
11.
Directorate General of Audit
12.
Directorate of Logistics
13. Chief
Departmental Representative (CESTAT)
14.
Directorate General of Service Tax
15.
Directorate General of Vigilance
16. National
Academy of Customs, Excise & Narcotics
17.
Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence
Directorate
General of inspection
customs and central excise
d-block, i.P. bhawan, new delhi-110002
Section,4. (1) (b) (i) The particulars of its
organization, functions and duties:
This
Directorate was constituted in 1939, as part of the Board office for conducting
periodical inspections and for advising the Board on technical questions and on
standarisation of Organisation and procedure in the Custom Houses and the
Central Excise Collectorates. It was separated from the Board on 1st April,
1946 and given the status of an Attached office.
This
Directorate does not exercise any statutory powers under the Customs Act or the
Central Excise Act, as it is not recognized as an authority for the purposes of
those Acts. It mainly comprises of five Regional Units (North Regional
Unit/Central Regional Unit/West Regional Unit/South Regional Unit/East Regional
Unit), Customs Wing (Hqrs.), Central Excise wing (Hqrs.), Administrative Wing
& Nepal/Bhutan Refund Wing, Under the immediate supervisory control of the
Director General, and performs following functions, as approved by Central
Board of Excise and Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
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To
study the working of the Customs, Central Excise and Narcotics Departmental
machinery throughout the country. |
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To
suggest measures for improvement of its efficiency and rectification of
important defects in it through inspection and by laying down procedures for
smooth functioning. |
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To
carry out inspection to determine whether the working of the field formations
are as per Customs and Central Excise Procedures, and to make recommendations
in respect to the Procedural flaws, if any noticed. |
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To
suggest measures for improvement in functioning of the field formations. |
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To
function as nodal agency of Central Board of Exicse and Customs for
implementing various works relating to Hindi (Rajbhasha) in the field
formations and to coordinate with Grah Mantralya (Rajbhasha Vibhag) |
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To
hold examinations for Custom House Agents under Custom House Agents Licensing
Regulations, 2004. |
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To attend to the work pertaining
to Nepal and Bhutan Rebate Claims |
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Preparation of manuals under the
Customs and Central Excise Law and Procedure |
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To
conduct special studies as entrusted by CBEC. |
(ii)
Powers & duties of the officers and employees:
No
specific powers have been given to the offices under the Directorate General.
Director
General (Inspection) is the Head of the Department having all India jurisdiction.
He is supervising and contorolling the functions of all the Regional Units
located at Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and Hyderabad. Each Regional Unit is
headed by one Addl. Director General who is the Head of the Department. At the
Headquaters office, the ADG (Hqrs. and Admn.) has been delegated the powers of
Head of the Department. Director General (Inspection) is the Cadre Controlling
authority of Group B,C and D Staff for the Directorate General of Inspection,
DG(Vigilance), DG(Housing and Welfare), DG(Export Promotion), office of the
CDR, Directorate of legal Affairs, DG(Audit), DG(Safeguards) and Directorate of
Organization and Personal Management.
All
ADGs are assisted by Addl. Directors / Jt. Direcotors / Dy. Directors and
Asstt. Directors.
(iii) The
procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
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The
inspection teams are responsible to carry out inspections as per the check
list |
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The
inspection notes are drawn and sent to the concerned Commissionerates for
compliance. |
With
regard to administrative matters, proposals/actions to be taken are processed
at the Section level and put up to Jt. Director (admn.) and finally approved by
ADG(Admn.) under overall supervision and control of Director General.
(iv)
The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions:
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Inspections
are carried out as per the inspection programme in respect of each
commissionerate |
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For
implementation of Official Language Policy, an inspection programme is
also drawn for conducting of inspections and the same is circulated to all
the Zones/Commissionerates under CBEC. Annual programme for implementation
of Official Language Policy has also been circulated to the Commissionerates/Directorates
for achieving the targets as fixed by Department of Official Language, Grah
Mantralaya for the year 2005-06. |
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Administrative
matters are attended to as per the rules and regulations. |
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals & records held by it or under its
control for being used by the employees for discharging its functions:
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The Central Excise Act 1944, The
Customs Act 1962, The Central Excise Manual, The Customs Manual and Various
allied Acts, rules and regulations alongwith Exim Polices and procedures are
followed during inspections. |
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Notification No. 40/2001-CE(NT)
dated 26.6.2001 in respect of Nepal and Notification No. 46/2001-CE(NT)
dated 26.6.2001 in respect of Bhutan rebate of Central Excise duty |
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CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964 |
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CC Appellate Rules, 1965 |
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Delegation of Financial Powers,
1978 |
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
The
Directorate is not entrusted with the execution or implementation of any
statutory rules or regulations pertainnig to Customs and Central Excise Law and
procedure or under any Allied Acts. However, the records of the inspection
reports and Manuals prepared by the Directorates are translated in Hindi and
available in the Headquarters office. Files related to the day-to-day
administration, Nepal and Bhutan refunds are also available in the office.
(vii)
The particualars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof
Not
applicable to this Direcotorate
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the Minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
No Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies are formed in this Directorate
General.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes
Not
applicable to this Directorate
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
Not
applicable to this Directorate
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it reduced in an
electronic form
The
following information is available in electronic form
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The
details of monthly remuneration alongwith the admissible allowances being
paid to the officers and staff; |
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Monthly Technical Reports |
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Data pertaining to Nepal and
Bhutan refunds |
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Service particulars of officers
and staff |
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information Officers
:
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
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Such other information as may be prescribed -
NIL
Directorate
of Publicity & Public Relations,
Customs & Central Excise,
I.P. Estate, C.R. Building, New Delhi - 110 002
Section,4 (1) (b) (i) The particulars of the
organization, functions and duties
Directorate
of Publicity and Public Relations was established in the year 1979 as an
attached office to Central Board of Excise and Customs, Deptt. of Revenue,
Ministry of Finance. The Hqrs. Office of the Directorate is situated at Central
Revenue Building, I.P. Estate, New Delhi. The Commissioner is the head of the
Directorate. Besides Commissioner, there are two Addl./Jt. Commissioners and
three Asstt. Commissioners along with subordinate staff. This Directorate has
got no Zonal/Branch Office.
This
Directorate is primarily responsible firstly for publicity campaigns concerning
public awareness of Service Tax, Central Excise and Customs and for this
purpose all the available media including print media, electronic media and
Internet are used. The second important assignment of this Directorate is to
maintain public relations.
The
Commissioner of this Directorate is also a nodal Officer for implementation of
Citizen’s Charter and Public Grievances.
(ii)
The powers and duties of officers and employees
The
Officers working in this Directorate are discharging their duties as entrusted
by CBEC. Besides the functions mention at S.No. (1) above, this Directorate is
also responsible for publication, inter-alia, of Central Excise Tariff and
Custom Tariff.
commissioner, is the Head of the
Department and overall in-charge of this Directorate having all administrative
and financial Powers. Jt. Commissioner, Administration assists the Commissioner
and supervises work of staff posted in this Directorate.
Group ‘b’and ‘c’ staff carry out the
work pertaining to their respective sections as well as any work assigned to
them by their superiors from time to time.
(iii)
The procedure followed in the decision-making process including channels of
supervision and accountability
Among
the officers posted in the Directorate, Commissioner represents as the Head of
the Directorate and takes final decisions on all important issues. Two
Addl./Jt. Commissioners and three Asstt. Commissioners assist the Commissioner
in carrying out the entire work of the Directorate and supervise the work and
performance of the subordinate staff.
(iv)
The norms set for the discharge of its functions.
No
norms have been prescribed for functioning of this Directorate. However,
publication of Central Excise and Custom Tariffs, and other periodicals
are carried out by this Directorate. Further, this Directorate also publishes
Notifications & Circulars issued by CBEC on day to day basis as well as
disseminating the Notifications & Circulars on the same very day as
statutorily required. The Directorate is also discharging functions as desired
by Board.
(v)
The rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by it or under
it control or used by its employees for discharging it functions
The
following are the rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records
primarily used by the Officers of this Directorate for discharging their day to
day functions:
(a) Central Civil Services (Classification, Control
and Appeal) Rules, 1965.
(b) Central Civil Services
(Conduct) Rules, 1964.
(c) Delegation of Financial
Powers Rules, 1978.
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
This
Directorate is not concered with execution or implementation of statutory rules
and regulations pertaining to other Customs & Central Excise Law.
Accordingly, no such records or documents are maintained or kept under control.
(vii)
The particulars of any arrangement that exists of Consultation with, or
representation by, the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation therof
This
Directorate does not formulate any policy. However, various policies formulated
by the Ministry of Finance/CBCE are circulated to the field formations and
trade for information and implementation. This Directorate is using print and
electronic media and internet for advertisement of various policies and
informations relating to Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax.
(viii)
A statement of the Board, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as it part or for the purpose of its advice,
and as to whether meetings of those boards, councils, committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meeting are accessible
for public
Not
relevant to this Directorate.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes.
Not
Applicable to this Directorate
(xiii)
Particulars of recipient of concession, permits or authorizations granted by it
Not
Applicable to this Directorate
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it, reduced in
an electronic form
(a)
Details of the Salaries paid to employees of the Directorate.
(b)
Data relating to the publications of Hand Book for the employees of CBEC
(c)
Day to day updating of Customs & Central Excise Tariff.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
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Such other information as may be prescribed -
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Directorate General of Export Promotion,
Customs & Central Excise,
Hotel Janpath, 1st floor, New Delhi - 110 001
Section,4 (1) (b) (i) The particulars of its organization, functions and duties:
(i) The charter of functions and duties assigned to this Directorate General are as under :
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Work
relating to the following Export Promotion Schemes (both Customs and Central
Excise).
(i) 100 % Export Oriented Units. (ii) Special Economic Zones (including work relating to erstwhile free Trade Zones and Export Processing Zones). (iii) Special Jewellery Complexes and Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Schemes. (iv)
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Monitoring of the Export Promotion Schemes as at Item No. (1.), analysis of periodical reports/ returns / statistics, and legislative work relating to the above schemes (both Customs and Central Excise). |
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Meeting of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), Boards of Approval (BOA) for EOU/ SEZ, Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee (IMSC) in the Department of Information Technology etc., meetings with DGFT/Ministry of Commerce on matters relating to above Export Promotion Schemes and interaction with Trade including Export Promotion Councils. |
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Act as a central consultative body with the trade and other stakeholders (Trade Associations and Chambers of Commerce such as FIEO, Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations of India, Air Cargo Agents Association of India, National Association of Container Freight Stations, Export Promotion Councils, Indian Ports Association, etc.) and suggest changes in Customs clearance procedures with a view to facilitate international trade, wherever necessary. |
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Review Customs trade facilitation measures from time to time with a view to evaluate their efficacy and suggest further improvements |
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Study the best international practices concerning Customs clearance procedures for their adoption |
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Over-see and analyze the dwell time for clearance of import / export cargo at various major ports, airports, ICDs, etc. and, as appropriate, make recommendations relating to clearance procedures followed by Customs and other agencies, with a view to reduce dwell time. |
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Review the trade facilitation initiatives of the Custom Houses and other field formation e.g. - Review the working of the Drawback Committees/ Regional Advisory Committees/ EDI Committee/ Watch Dog Committees, etc. in the various customs field formations for any modification in law and procedures - Monitor the maintenance and updating of the websites of the Customs Commissionerates / Customs Houses. |
For performing the above functions, DGEP is empowered to seek and obtain information from all customs field formations. DGEP’s function would be limited to policy level issues and it would not address individual grievances relating to customs Trade facilitation (like delays in assessment of Bill of Entry, grant of refund, etc.).
Where the issue under consideration also impinges on the functioning of other wings such as the Directorate of Systems, Directorate General of Inspection, Directorate of Drawback or the relevant sections of the Board’s office, DGEP will function in consultation with these relevant Sections/ Directorates. In all such matters DGEP would function as a coordinator to address the issue(s) at hand.
ii) The powers and duties of its officers and employees:
No specific power under any Act has been given to the officers under this Directorate General. With respect to the duties, the variuos functions as enumerated above are to be carried out by seeking various information, data, reports from the field formations under CBEC, industry and other available sources.
(iii) The procedure followed in the decision making process:
The hierarchy of the organization is as follows:
DG - ADG - Additional Director - Assistant Director - Sr. Intelligence Officer - Intelligence Officer.
With regard to Administrative matters proposals/action to be taken are processed at the section level and put up to Assistant Director - Additional Director and finally approved by Additional Director General, under overall supervision and control of Director General.
With regard to functions other than Administration the issues/decisions are initially processed by I.O./SIO and put up to D.G. for approval through Assistant Director - Additioal Director - Additional Director General.
(iv) The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions:
This Directorate is analyzing the duty foregone statements received from field formations and Directorate of Data Management and submitting comprehensive report to the Board. The norms set are that the analysis and the data should be accurate and brief.
This Directorate General is also entrusted with the function of attending to grievances of genuine exporters. The officers should be prompt in attending the genuine grievances.
The norms set at various levels are to collect authentic data and analyze the same correctly.
(v) The rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by it or under its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions:
Customs Act 1962, Central Excise & Salt Act 1944 and related other allied Acts, Rules and Regulations along with Foreign Trade Policy 2002 - 2007.
(vi) Statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its control:
(i) Day to day administration related files for running the office;
(ii) Files related to specific issues on export promotion measures, Export Promotions Schemes, Meetings with various Export Promotion bodies and councils, analysis of duty forgone etc.
(vii) The particulars of any arrangements that exists for consultation with or representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of its policy or implementation thereof.
Any general public, trade Export Promotion Councils can visit the office during the working days and during the working hours and obtain any information from this office on the related issues.
(viii) Statement of the boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise, and as to whether meetings of those boards, councils, committees and other bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible for public.
No boards, councils, committees and other bodies are formed under this Directorate General.
(ix) Directory of its offices and employees
This information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x) Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi) Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii) Manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes:
Not applicable
(xiii) Particualars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by it:
Not applicable
(xiv) Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it, reduced in an electronic form:
The data on duty foregone under various Export Promotion Schemes received form various field formations have been stored in the hard disc.
(xv) The particulars of facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information Officers :
Please see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii) Such other information as may be prescribed -
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Control Laboratory,
hill side road, pusa, i.a.r.i.,
New Delhi - 110 012.
Section,4
(1) (b) (i) The particulars of its organization, functions and duties:
Chemcial Laboratories of Central Revenues Control Laboratory are attached to
the Customs House/Central Excise Commissionerates. These are headed by Joint
Director Chemical Examiner Gr.I/Chemical Examiner Gr.II/Assistant Chemical
Examiner. In common with the other sections of the Commissioners, Laboratories
are under the administrative control of the Commissionerates except the Central
Revenues Control Laboratory, New Delhi which is under the administrative
control of Director (Revenue laboratory). New Delhi. Whole organisation
is under direct control of Central Board of Excise & Customs name and
location of various chemical laboratries of Central Revenues Control Laboratory
are as under:
1. Customs
House Laboratory, New Delhi.
2. Jawahar
Custom House Laboratory, Nhava Seva
3. Custom House
Laboratory, Mumbai
4. Custom House
Laboratory, Kolkata
5. Custom House
Laboratory, Chennai
6. Custom House
Laboratory Sahar Airport Mumbai
7. Custom House
Laboratory, Goa
8. Custom House
Laboratory, Vishakhapatnam
9. Custom House
Laboratory, Kandla
10. Custom House
laboratory, Tuticorin
11. Custom House
Laboratory, Cochin
12. Custom & Central
Excise Laby Vadodara.
13. Central Excise, Laby.
Refincry, Barauni
14. Central Excise Laby,
Refinery Digboi
15. Central Excise (HPCL)
Laby, Mumbai
16.
Central Excise (HPCL) Laby, Vishakhapatnam
Functions of Chemical Laboratories
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To
analyse the samples sent to them by the Revenue Authorities of Customs &
Central Excise for the purpose of classification under Customs Tariff.
Central Excise Tariff. Export Import Trade Counsel Policies and Drawback
purposes. |
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To
furnish Technical opinion to the Central Board of Excise & Customs and
its field formation with regard to classification, duty aspects on various
goods etc. |
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To Provide technical support to
Opium & Alkaloid Factories for production of Export Opium |
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To analyse and certification of
Export Opium |
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To
Analyse of Narcotic Drug & Psychotropic Substances and Prescursor
Chemicals etc. |
(ii)
Powers and duties of officers and employees posted at Central Revenues Control
Laboratory, New Delhi.
Director (Revenue Laboratories): Director (Revenue
Laboratories) is the technical and administrative head of the organisation. He
is cadre controlling authority of the Group ‘‘B” ‘‘C’’ & ‘‘D’’ Officers.
Director (Revenue Laboratories) is also appealate authority in respect of
disputes if any arisen in testing matters
Joint Director: To assist the
Director (Revenue Laboratories) in respect of technical & Administrative
matters
Chemical Examiner Gr.I: To assist the Joint
Director and Director (Revenue Laboratories) in day to day technical
administrative works. Issue the test report under his signature
Chemical Examiner Gr. II: To assist Director,
Joint Director and Chemical Examiner GrI in day to day technical and
administrative matters. Issue the test report under his signature
Assistant Chemical Examiner: Assistant Chemical
Examiner supervise the works of Chemical Assistants and analyse the typical
samples. Assistant Chemical Examiner’s assist the Chemical Examiners in test
report formation. They also provide the referencing works to the Chemical
Examiners and guide the Chemical Assistant in their work.
Chemical Assistant Gr. I: Analysis of samples.
Administrative Assistant Gr. II: Analysis of Samples
Administrative Officer: To supervise the work
of Establishment, Administration & Account Section
All
the other officers and staff to assist in discharge of the above duties in the
administrative & establishment work.
(iii)
Procedures followed in decision making process including channels of
supervisions & accountability: Various Rules & Procedures laid down for
Central Govt functions are followed in decision making process of
administration where as in technical matter various applicable rules for
analysis of various commodities are being followed, the functions of various
posts have
been defined under part (ii) Each offical is accountable for the duty assigned
to him/her.
(iv) Norms set
by the laboratory for the discharge of its functions: Various technical
functions are discharged by laboratory as per the departmental manual for
chemical laboratories.
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by laboratory or
under its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions: Procedure given in
Manual of Revenue Laboratories is followed for receipt/analysis and issue of
test reports.
(vi) A
statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
Laboratories
have broadly two types of documents
Controlled
Documents:
–
Record of samples received dispatched
– Copy
of test reports
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Record of issued test reports, tests, opinions etc.
– Administrative files,
Purchase document etc.
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All file of Administration, Service Books. ACR dossiers of employees etc.
Uncontrolled Documents:
Technical Literature Books Journals, Standard operative
procedures work instructions etc issued by Standard writing institutions i.e.
is, iso. bs. astm. aoac. etc
(vii) The
particualars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or representation
by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of its policy or
implementation thereof
Not applicable
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the Minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
Not applicable
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the CRCL separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the CRCL separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the CRCL separately.
(xii) The manner of execution of subsidy
programmes, including the amounts allocated and the details of beneficiaries of
such programmes
Laboratory
gets permit to obtain excise duty free alcohol from State Excise Department.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
Not Applicable.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it reduced in an
electronic form
Not
yet generated as laboratories has no infrastructure for it/specific staff for
the purpose.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the CRCL separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
NIL
Directorate
General of safeguards
customs & central Excise
bhai vir singh sadan, gole market, New Delhi - 110 001
Section,4. (1) (b) (i) The particulars of its
organization, functions and duties:
The Directorate
General of Safeguards under the Ministry of Finance. Department of Revenue has
been created to conduct investigations for imposition of Safeguard Duty
Specific Safeguard Duty as specified under Section 8B & 8C of the Customs
Tariff Act, 1975 and the rules made there under the make recommendations for the
same vide the findings of Directorate General to Government of India.
(ii)
Powers & duties of the officers and employees:
Director General of
Safeguards is the proper officer empowered and appointed to investigate the
existence of “serious injury” “market disruption”/ “threat of serious injury”
“threat of market disruption to domestic industry as consequence of increased
import of an article into India. To identify the article liable for
Safeguard duty to submit the findings provisional or otherwise to the Central
Government as to the “serious injury” “market disruption”/ “threat of serious
injury” “threat of market disruption to domestic industry consequent upon
increased import of an article from any country; and to recommend (a) the
amount of duty which if levied would be adequate to remove the injury market
disruption or threat of injury threat of market disruption to the domestic
industry; (b) the duration of levy of safeguard duty which if levied would be
adequate to remove the injury to the domestic industry; (c) to except such
quantity of any article when imported from any country or territory into India,
from payment of the whole or part of the safeguard duty leviable thereon, and
to review the need for continuance of safeguard duty.
(iii)
The procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
The procedure to be
followed regarding safeguard matters have been provided under Rule 4 to 7 of
the Customs Tariff (identification and assessment of Safeguard Duty) Rules,
1997 and Customs Tariff (Transitional Products Specific Safeguard Duty) Rules
2002, according to which Director General of Safeguards can initiate safeguard
investigation on an application filed by the domestic industries or on the suo-motto
information of the Comissioner of Customs, give notice of initiation to all
interested parties to file their response, hold public hearing and formulate
his findings and recommend the imposition of Safeguard duty or not to
Government of India. Safeguard Duty Rules and China Specific Rules have been
framed under Section 8B & 8C of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975.
(iv)
The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions:
Findings and the
recommendations of Director General of Safeguards are to be made within 240
days of mitiation by the Directorate General of Safeguards.
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals & records held by it or under its
control for being used by the employees for discharging its functions:
Safeguard Rules have
been framed under Section 8B and 8C of the Customs Tariff Act, called as
Customs Tariff (Identification and Assessment of Safeguard Duty) Rules, 1997
and Customs Tariff (Transitional Products Specific Safeguard Duty) Rules, 2002.
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
(1) Application of
domestic industry, (2) Notice of initiation and responses received from various
interested parties in the said context (3) Notice of Public hearing and written
submission made during or subsequent to public hearing. (4) Findings and
recommendations of Director General Safeguards. Certain confidential
proprietary documents are also filed by the interested parties before Director
General Safeguards, which cannot be made public. However its non-confidential
version is made available to all interested parties. (5) A public file
mandatorly maintained by Director General’s office containing all documents
pertaining to an investigation except confidential proprietary information is
accessible to all interested parties. The Notice of initiation and
findings/recommendations of the Director General are duly published and
notified in Government of India Gazette, which are available to the public.
Additionally all the details of such documents etc. are also made available on
the web site of the Directorate General of Safeguards.
(vii)
The particualars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof
A public hearing is
mandatorily held in all safeguard investigations.
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the Minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
There is a Standing
Board on Safeguard Duty constituted by Government of India comprising of the
following Secretaries viz. Secreatry (Commerce) (Revenue) (Industrial Policy
and Promotions)/(Agriculture and Co-operation)/(ER). Ministry of External
Affairs and Secretary of the Concerned Department dealing with the product for
which Sareguard Duty protection has been sought to consider the recommendations
of Director General of Safeguard. The proceedings of the Standing Board of
Safeguard are not open to the public.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes
Not applicable.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
Not applicable.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it reduced in an
electronic form
Details of information about Directorate General of Safeguards are available at
web-site namely
http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/safeguards/intro.html
(xv) The particulars of facilities available to citizens for
obtaining information, including the working hours of a library or reading
room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
NIL
Directorate
of Organisation & Personnel Management,
Customs & Central Excise,
412-A, deep shikha building,
rajendra place, New Delhi - 110 008
4. (1) (b) (i) Particulars of Organisation,
functions & duties
Directorate
of Organisation & Personnel Management is headed by Commissioner. Its
office is located in the 4th floor, Deepshikha Building, Rajendra Place, New
Delhi. Functions of dopm include looking after the functions relating to method
studies, work measurement and staffing besides management services including
manpower planning for the Customs, Central Excise, Service Tax & narcotics
formations.
(ii)
Powers & duties of its officers and employees
dopm
acts as an advisor to cbEC in areas of human resources management.
(iii)
Procedure followed in decision-making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
dopm
is only an advisory body that advises the Board on the matters related to human
resources management in the Department. As such, work profile of this does not
require any major decision-making. Whatever small decision-making is done in
this Directorate, it is, basically restricted only to day-to-day functioning of
the Directorate. In such matters, decisions are mostly taken at the level of
Dy./Assistant Commissioner (Administration). Some decisions having greater
importance are, however, taken at the level of Additional/Joint Commissioner
(Administration) also. The matters related to human resources management of the
Department referred by the Ministry to this Directorate for advice or comments
are put up to Commissioner, who finalizes such advice/comments.
(iv)
Norms set by the Directorate for discharge of its functions
No
norms as such are fixed. However, efforts are made to dispose of the receipts
as early as needed as per the importance of the issue involved.
(v)
The rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by it or under
its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions
No
rules, regulations, instructions & manuals have been prescribed with regard
to the functions performed by this Directorate. However, information about
sanctioned and working staff strength in the field formations under cbec is
compiled in this Directorate on the basis of the feedback received from such
field formations.
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
No
specific documents are required to be held by this Directorate, since it is
only an advisory body that assists cbec in its functions related to human
resources management of the field formations. Only the information related to
sanctioned and working staff strength of the field formations and data relating
to service profiles of irs (c&ce) officers are being compiled for
departmental use on the basis of information provided by the field formations.
(vii)
The particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by, the member of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof
Nil.
This Directorate is not required to deal with public with regard to its functions,
since these functions primarily relate to compilation of data for in house
analysis and other related purposes.
(viii)
A statement of the boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advice,
and as to whether meetings of those boards, councils, committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
Functions
of this Directorate do not require constitution of such boards, councils,
committees and other bodies. Hence, information is NIL.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidiary programmes, including the amounts
allocated and the details of such programmes
Not Applicable
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
Not
Applicable
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it reduced in an
electronic form
No information is available with or held by this Directorate in an electronic
form.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
NIL
DIRECTORATE
GENERAL OF HOUSING AND WELFARE,
CUSTOMS & CENTRAL EXCISE,
‘D’ BLOCK, I.P. ESTATE, NEW DELHI - 110 002
Section,4. (1) (b) (i) The particulars of its
organization, functions and duties:
The Directorate of
Housing & Welfare was set up vide Ministry’s F. No. A-11019/34/2002-AD IV
dated 27-06-2002 with its headquarter at Delhi under the supervisory control of
a Commissioner. This Directorate is functioning as a liaison agency on all
housing and welfare matters of cbec and its field formations. It is pertinent
to mention that no public dealing is handled by this Directorate.
Functions &
duties of the Directorate:
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To
monitor and co-ordinate with the Central Board of Excise &
Customs/Ministry and field formations regarding housing projects |
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To
help and assist field formations in framing the project proposals and in
implementation of approved projects |
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To co-ordinate with the field
formations with regard to problems of encorachment and abandoned properties |
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To devise procedures for
accounting and documentation system |
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To keep the field formations
informed about the various schemes and facilities available |
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To co-ordinate with the Ministry
on welfare measures related to officers and staff under cbec |
(ii)
Powers & duties of the officers and employees:
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All
cases pertaining to purchase of land and ready built flats and for granting administrative
approval and expenditure sanction for the same are handled by the
Directorate. |
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All
cases of purchase of ready built office and residential accommodation from
private as well as Government agencies are being handled by Directorate of Housing.
After examination and scrutiny of the proposals, the same will be forwarded
to the Ministry for obtaining the approval of Finance Wing. |
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Cases
relating to construction of office building involving expenditure more than
Rs two crores and of residential accommodation through CPWD are handled by
the Directorate |
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An
inventory of accommodation, office and residential, available with the
department at all levels is being prepared |
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Detailed
policy papers on setting up of various welfare measures for the Departmental
officers |
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Examination
of proposals regarding hiring of office/office-cum-residence accommodation
and godown accommodation in respect of the attached and subordinate offices |
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Examination
of proposals regarding construction/purchase/hiring of guest houses, transit
accommodation |
(iii) The
procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
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All
Housing Projects received from field formations of CBEC are being examined as
per existing instructions/guidelines and after scrutiny the same are being
forwarded to the Ministry for administrative approval and expenditure
sanction |
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All
matters relating to infrastructure including purchase of land and ready built
buildings/flats are routed through this Directorate to the Ministry. |
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The
Directorate is functioning as a liaison between the Ministry and field
formations of CBEC |
(iv)
The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions:
All proposals regarding housing projects, hiring of office accommodation,
construction of departmental buildings are scrutinized and after detailed
examination of all the requisite information, the same are forwarded to the
Ministry for administrative approval.
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals & records held by it or under its
control for being used by the employees for discharging its functions:
The proposals for construction of office and residential complex are processed
on Merit and the construction work is through CPWD.
- Scrutiny of housing proposal
received from field formations under CBEC
- Drawing of construction programmes
for the Department and their implementation
- Scrutiny of proposals regarding
acquisition of land for construction of Departmental buildings
- Examination of proposals regarding
hiring of office accommodation, purchase of ready built buildings, repairs of
departmental building and minor works etc.
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
As the Directorate is a liaison between the Ministry and its field formations,
no document of any public interest is handled by the Directorate.
(vii)
The particualars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof
This point is not applicable to the Directorate as no public dealing is
handled.
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the Minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
This point is not applicable to the Directorate as no public dealing is
handled.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes
This point is not applicable to the Directorate as no public dealing is
handled.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
This point is not applicable to Directorate as no public dealing is handled.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it reduced in an
electronic form
This point is not applicable to the Directorate as no public dealing is
handled.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
NIL
Cetral board of excise &
customs
4th floor,
rajendra bhawan, 210, deen dayal upadhyay marg,
New Delhi - 110 002
Section,4. (1) (b) (i). The Particulars of
its Organisation, functions and duties:
The
Directorate of Legal Affairs (DLA) was set up vide Ministry’s circular F. No.
A-11019/31/2001-Ad.IV dated the 27th June 2002 with its headquarters at New
Delhi under the supervisory control of a Commissioner rank officer. the
functions of the Directorate have been enumerated in the said circular and are
summarized as under:
(i) The Directorate
shall be the nodal agency to monitor the legal and judicial work of CBEC and
its field formations;
(ii) The Directorate will
work in close co-ordination with CBEC, CDR’s office, Law Ministry, Directorate
of Systems, Chief Commissioners, Central Agency Section of the Supreme Court of
India, Senior Law officers, Government Counsels, etc.
(iii) It will also maintain and
monitor the database on the cases decided by or pending with the CEGAT, CAT,
High courts and the Supreme Court;
(iv) To intimate the field
formations about important decisions of the Supreme Court and High courts which
are accepted by the Department in consultations with the various nodal Ministries;
(v) The Directorate
shall recommend and maintain panels of standing Counsels/Panel Counsels for
various High Courts and also keep an approved panel of eminent lawyers well
versed with the customs and Central Excise Laws and other administrative
matters who may be engaged by the Department for handling important cases.
(ii)
The powers and duties of officers and employees:
Powers
to the officers as available under the Central Excise Act, Customs Act and
Service Tax Act are available to the officers of the Directorate of Legal
Affairs. With respect to the duties, the various functions as enumerated as S.
No. (I) above are required to be carried out by the officers of the Directorate
by keeping close co-ordination with CBEC, Law Ministry, Directorate of Systems,
Chief Commissioners, Central Agency Section of the Supreme Court of India,
Senior Law officers, Government Counsels in High Courts and Central
Administrative Tribunal CDR’s office, CESTAT. Registry, field formations etc.
The officers of the Directorate are also monitoring the cases pending in
Supreme Court, High Courts, CESTAT and CAT. The Directorate is also maintaining
and monitoring the database of the cases decided by or pending with the Supreme
Court; High Courts, CESTAT and CAT.
(iii) The
procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
The
procedure followed in the decision making process is as under:
Commissioner-Additional/Joint
Commissioner-Deputy/Assistant Commissioner-Superintendent-Inspector.
With
regard to the Administrative matter-proposals are processed at the section
level and put up to the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner-Additional/Joint
Commissioner and finally approved by the Commissioner.
With
regard to the functions other than the Administrative matter-proposals are
processed at the Inspector/Superintendent level and put up to the
Deputy/Assistant Commissioner-Additional/Joint Commissioner and finally
approved by the Commissioner.
(iv)
The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions:
The
Directorate of Legal Affiars is the nodal agency to monitor the legal and
judicial work of CBEC and its field formations. Accordingly DLA is required to
work in close co-ordination with the Legal & Judicial Sections of CBEC. The
Directorate is checking the cases likely to be listed before the Supreme Court
on daily and weekly basis and taking follow up action accordingly.
DLA
is also maintaining and monitoring the legal and judicial database for CBEC on
the cases pertaining to CESTAT, CAT; High Courts and the Supreme Court.
The
Directorate has also been entrusted with the work relating to compilation of
various monthly and quarterly reports relating to the cases pending in various
Courts and tribunals on behalf of CBEC.
In
view of the nature of work undertaken by the Directorate of Legal Affairs, the
norms are fixed in such a way so as to reduce the number of cases pending
before various appellate fora by proper liaisoning with the Board’s office,
counsels and field formations. Similarly, other main objective is to collect
and maintain the authentic database of all the cases for proper monitoring.
(v)
The rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by it or under
its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions:
Central
Excise Act, Customs Act, Service Tax Act and various other related and allied
Acts, Foreign Trade Policy, Rules and Regulations, instructions issued from
time to time by CBEC, etc., are used by the officers and staff of the
Directorate of Legal Affairs.
(vi)
Statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
(iii)
Day to day administration related files for running the Directorate;
(iv)
Correspondence files related to specific court cases.
It
may also be mentioned here that since the Directorate is the nodal agency to
monitor the legal and judicial work of CBEC and its field formations, the
Directorate handles no document of any public interest.
(vii)
The particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implmentation thereof.
Members
of the public may visit the office on working days and may submit their
representations, suggestions, etc., if any, for consideration.
(viii)
Statement of the boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those boards, councils, committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public.
No
Boards, Councils, Committees etc., have been formed in this Directorate.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
Manner of exeuction of subsidy programmers, including the amounts allocated and
the details of beneficiaries of such programmes:
Not
applicable.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it:
Not
applicable.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it, reduced in
an electronic form:
Computerized
database of the cases pending before Supreme Court is available with the
Directorate.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
NIL
DIRECTORATE
GENERAL OF SYSTEMS & DATA MANAGEMENT
4th and 5th Floors, Hotel Samrat, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi – 110021.
Section,4(1)(b)(i) Particulars of its
organization, functions and duties
The
Directorate of Systems was established in the year 1997 as an attached office
of the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) under the Department of
Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. This Directorate was
upgraded to the Directorate General of Systems in December 2002. The
headquarters of this Directorate are situated at Hotel Samrat, 4th and 5th
Floors, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi – 110021.
This
Directorate is headed by Director General (Systems & Data Management)
assisted by three Additional Director Genrals at the headquarters. (Southern
Zone), headed by a Joint Director.
The
DG (Systems & Data Management) has been entrusted with the implementation
of the projects related to Information & Communication Technology. It has
initiated a number of projects aimed at harnessing Information &
Communication Technology (ICT) in achieving the objectives of Customs and
Central Excise administration. These projects are of far reaching consequence
and will alter in a fundamental way, the manner in which the department
delivers its services. The duties and responsibilities of the Directorate the
enumerated below:
Directorate
of Systems
(a) is responsible
for the design, development, programming, testing, implementation and
maintenance of Customs and Central Excise automated systems, and for overseeing
and managing the projects sanctioned by CBEC related to IT.
(b) is responsible
for the management of all Centrally deployed Customs and Central Excise
computer facilities, hardware, software, data communications.
(c) in the automated
environment, acts as a point of reference and validation concerning procedural
changes in Customs and Central Excise, in addition to being a resource centre
on business process issues.
(d) is responsible for
identifying and evaluating new technologies for application to automated
systems within the department.
(e) is responsible for
developing and maintaining all policy and subsequently, on the implementation
of centralized systems, the operational aspects of the Department’s Computer
Security.
(f) establishes
requirements for computer-to-computer interfaces between the department and
various trading partners and government agencies.
(g) respresents
Customs and Central Excise on matters related to automated processing and
systems development.
(h) implements information
resource and data management.
Directorate of Data Management
The
main functions of Directorate of Data Management is to collect and analyze
statistics relating to Central Excise & Customs and to render technical
advice to the Central Board of Excise & Customs from statistical
standpoint. Apart form providing statistical input to Central Board of
Excise & Customs, the Directorate is also entrusted with the job of brining
out the important publications viz. (I) Central Excise formations at a Glance,
(II) Central Excise-An Abstract of Statistics, (IV) Customs At a Glance and (V)
Customs Formations at a Glaance. Besides providing information for mointoring
of revenue collection by various Central Excise & Customs Commissionerates,
information collected and complied by this Directorate helps Ministry of
Finance in framing fiscal policy and taking necessary corrective steps for augmenting
revenue collection through the instrument of Union Budget each year and through
several Notifications issued from time to time as an ongoing exercise.
(ii)
Powers and Duties of its officers and employees:
The officers working in the DGS&DM enjoy all the powers vested upon them by
the Customs & Central Excise laws. However, this Directorate being an
attached office of the CBEC, the powers for implementing Government policies as
well as laws relating to Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax are not
exercised, as this work is assigned to the field formations and
anti-smuggling/anti-evasion units under CBEC. The duties of the officers of the
Directorate are as enumerated at (i) above.
(iii)
Procedure followed in the decision-making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability:
A Organization chart indicating the hierarchy of decision-making in the
Directorate General of Systems and Data Management is as under:
Director General—ADG System & ADG Data Management—Addl/Jt.
Directors—Dy./Asstt. Directors—CSO.
(iv)
Norms set by the DGS & DM for the discharge of its functions:
The norms for different computerization projects relates to implementation of
new projects, maintenance of the existing projects and researching on the
future projects. Further, the DGS & DM is committed to the norms and
objectives laid down in the Citizens’ Charter and the CBEC Vision Documents,
details of the which may be had from CBEC’s website http://www.cbec.gov.in
(v)
Rules, Regulations, Instructions, manuals and records held by the DGS&DM or
under its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions.
The mandate of the Directorate of Systems is to harness Information Technology
to streamline processes and clearance procedure under the Customs, Central
Excise and Service Tax Laws. Instructions, Circulars and Public Notices to this
end are isssued by CBEC and field formations based on the recommendations of
this Directorate. The DGS&DM is also responsible for dissemination of
information relating to Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax Laws, CBEC
rules, regulations and procedure, travel related information and jurisdicational
field offices through electronic media. To this end, it maintains CBEC’s
corporate website http://www.cbec.gov.in which contains all
the above information updated on a regular basis. This web site also hosts
downloadable forms, FAQs and search facility. In addition, for the benefit of
its clients using the e-commerce infrastructure there is the gateway ‘ICEGATE’
for filing electronic documents and checking document status etc, and there is
an e-commerce website
http://www.cbec.gov.in which disseminates
information related to electronic message formats, procedures to be
followed for electronic interchange, code directories used in e-commerce
transactions, helpdesk and online chat facilities and facility for filing
electronic documents on a 24 × 7 basis. These websites also provide the
software for preparing electronic documents in a freely downloadable format.
Electronic filing of Central Excise & Service Tax returns has been enabled
through the http://www.cbec.gov.in web site.
CBEC has also been licensed by the Controller of Certifying Authorities to act
as a digital certifying authority under the provisions of the Information
Technology Act, 2000 to issue digital certificates of Class 3 (providing for
the highest assurance on the subscriber’s identify). This facility called iCert
has also been set up and operated by DGS&DM and maintains a repository of
all subscribers to whom certificates have been issued. Information
relating to iCert may be viewed at http://www.cbec.gov.in
The Directorate of Data Management collects, analyses and submits statistical
information relating to Customs & Central Excise for MIS and brings out
certain publications of the CBEC.
(vi)
Statement of categories of documents that are held by DGS&DM or under its
control
(i) Comprehensive
information on Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax laws and procedures
maintained at the http://www.cbec.gov.in web site.
(ii) Information
relating to the procedure for transacting business electronically with CBEC
maintained at the http://www.cbec.gov.in web site.
(iii)
Respository of digital certificate subscribers held in the iCert facility .
(iv) Revenue
statistics maintained by the Directorate of Data Management.
(vii)
Particulars of any arrangements that exists for consultation with and
representation by members of the public in relation to the formulation of its
policies and implementation thereof
(i) As
Systems Directorate is actively involved in business process reengineering, it
as an ongoing dialogue with stakeholders such as Industry Associations,
Customes House Agents, export promotion councils, trade bodies, financial
institutions, airlines, shipping lines, custodians such as Airports Authority
of India, Port Trusts, Container Corporation of India, CWC and other warehouse
operators. These meetings are organized under the aegis of the concerned
stakeholder or the jurisdictional Customs/ Central Excise formation (open
house) or other government bodies such as DGFT on a regular basis.
(ii) Document
tracking facility for electronically filed Customs documents is available at
the http://www.icegate.gov.in web site and in the form of telephonic inquiry
system (IVRS), touch screen kiosks and outsourced service centers in the Cusom
Houses. Online chat facility and 24 × 7 helpdesk is also available at the
Icegate facility.
(iii)
DGS&DM follows an extensive policy of consultation with the IT industry in
order to deploy suitable systems to maintain very high service standards.
(iv) This
Directorate is planning to deploy an automated courier clearance system in a
public private partnership model in association with the Express Industry
Council of India (EICI).
(v) General
comments, suggestions and queries can be posted by any members of the
public on the http://www.cbec.gov.in web site.
(viii)
Statement of the boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advice
and as to whether meetings of those boards, councils, committees and other
bodies are open to the public or whether the minutes of such meetings are
accessible for the public.
(i) The
Export Promotion Board headed by the Cabinet Secretary monitors the progress of
computerization in CBEC.
(ii) A
high level Empowered Committee headed by the Advisor to Hon'ble Finance
Minister and comprising Revenue Secretary, Expenditure Secretary and prominent
representatives from the IT industry has been set up for granting approvals to
IT related projects in CBEC and the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and
meets on a monthly basis.
(iii)
National E-governance Action Plan (NEGAP) of the Government of India
has identified CBEC's IT projects as mission mode projects and is monitoring
them.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
Manner of execution of subside programmes including the amounts allocated and
details of beneficiaries of such programmes.
Not
applicable since DGS&DM is not executing any subsidy programmes.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it.
Not applicable since no such concessions, permits or authorizations are granted
by DGS&DM.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to it or held by it, reduced
in an electronic form.
(a) Comprehensive
information on Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax laws and procedures
maintanined at the http://www.cbec.gov.in web site.
(b)
Information on transacting business electronically with Customs maintained at http://www.icegate.gov.in
web site.
(c) Information
on electronic filing in Central Excise & Service Tax available at http://www.exciseandservicetax.nic.in
(d) Repository
of digital certificate subscirbers maintained at the icert facility. This
information is required to be kept secret by Certifying authorities operating
under the IT Act, 2000 and cannot be disclosed to members of the public.
(e) Directorate
of Data Management is maintaining commodity-wise revenue of Customs, Central
Excise & service-wise revenue of Service Tax in electronic form.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
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DIRECTORATE
GENERAL OF VALUATION
customs & Central Excise
new custom house, annexe building,
7th floor, ballard estate, mumbai - 400 001
Section,4. (1) (b) (i). Particulars of the
organization, fuctions and duties
The
Directorate of Valuation (DOV) was established in the year 1997 as an attached
office of the Central Boarde of Excise and Customs under the Department of
Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. The Directorate was upgraded
to Directorate General of Valuation (DGOV) in December 2002. The headqurter of
the Directorate is situated at New Custom House, Annexe Bldg, Ballard estate,
Mumbai. The Directorate is headed by the Director General assisted by the
Commissioner and three Additional/Joint Commissioners at the Headquarters
office. There are two zonal units functioning at Delhi (Northern Zone) and
Chennai (Southern zone) each headed by a Joint Commissioner. The Directorate is
neither a Public dealing office nor a field formation. The functions and
responsibilities of the Directorate are enumerated below:
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Assisting
and advicing the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) In Policy
matters concerning Customs and Central Excise Valuation; |
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Developing
valuation tools (including databases) and best practices for the effective
and uniform application of Valuation laws: |
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Monitoring valuation trends of
sensitive commodities and taking corrective action; |
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Providing
guidance and advice to field formations on valuation questions and for
checking undervaluation/overvaluation of imported or export goods so as to
prevent leakage of Customs and Central Excise revenue; |
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Carrying
out valuation inspections at Customs stations and Central Excise
Commissionerates to ensure that the valuation law and procedures are
effectively & uniformly applied; |
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Co-ordinating
Customs valuation matters with relevant international organizations and other
sources abroad. |
(ii)
Powers and duties of the officers and employees
The
officers working in the DGOV enjoy all the powers vested under the Customs and
Central Excise law. However, being an attached office of the CBEC, the powers
for implementation of the government policies as well as the law concerning
Customs & Central Excise are not exercised as this work is assigned to the
field formations under CBEC (Commissionerates). The duties of the officers of
the Directorate are same as that of the organization as described above at (i)
above.
(iii)
Procedure followed in the decision making process including channels of
supervision and accountability.
The
organisation is headed by Director General assisted by the Commissioner and
three Additional/Joint Commissioners and Assistant Commissioner in the
Headquarters office for taking decisions and performing the functions of the
Directorate.
(iv)
Norms set by the DGOV for the discharge of its functions.
The
DGOV is an attached office functioning under the Central Board of Excise and
Customs (CBEC), hereinafter refered to as the Board. The norms, if any, have to
be set by the Board. Hence, no norms as such have been set by the DGOV.
However, the DGOV carries out its work under its mandate earnestly.
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records held by the DGOV or under
its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions
Rules
on Customs and Central Excise Valuation are notified by the Government from
time to time. Instructions and Circulars on Valuation policies are issued by
the Central Board of Excise and Customs. Some of these are based on
recommendations of the DGOV. The DGOV compiles data and information on prevalent
prices of various dutiable commodities in national as well as international
markets and disseminates to field formations. The Directorate also maintains
various databases such as National Import Data Base, Export Commodity Data Base
and Special Valuation Data Base which are used by the departmental officers in
the field formations in their day to day work. The Directorate also issues
Valuation Alerts on the basis of its studies for the guidance of field
formations.
(vi)
Statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
controls
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(a) |
A
National Import Data Base (NIDB) comprising details of imported goods duly
analysed by a software to workout certain valuation related parameters. The
NIDB is made available to the Customs Stations across the country for
reference by departmental officers as a valuation tool in the assessment of
imported goods. |
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(b) |
Central
Registry Data Base (CRD) comprising cases decided by Customs Stations
(Special Valuation Branches) in the valuation of goods imported from related
parties. |
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(c) |
Export
Commodity Data Base (ECDB) comprising details of commodities exported duly
analysed by a software for export values and used by field officers as a tool
in export valuation work. |
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(d) |
Valuation
Bulletins published every month and distributed to departmental officers. It
mainly contains news items on commodity price movements and international
price details. |
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(e) |
DGOV
website which provides comprehensive information on valuation related
matters. |
(vii)
Particulars of any arrangement, that exist for consultation with, or
representation by, the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or Implementation thereof
The
DGOV does not formulate policies but only advises the Central Board of Excise
and Customs on policy matters. The DGOV does not directly interact with the
public or trade on such matters.
(viii)
Statement of the boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise
and as to whether meetings of those boards, councils, committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
No
such boards, councils, committees or other bodies are required to be
constituted as far as the DGOV is concerned since it does not have any direct
interaction with the public or trade.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
Manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated and
the details of beneficiaries of such programmes;
Not applicable DGOV is not executing any subsidy programmes.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it;
Not applicable since no such concessions, permits or authorizations are granted
by the DGOV.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it, reduced in
an electronic form;
The following are available in electronic form [see item (vi)] above.
(a) National Import Data Base
(b) Central Registry Data Base
(c) Export Commodity Data Base
(d) DGOV Website
These are however for the use of departmental offices only and not available to
trade or public. However, certain areas of information on the website are
freely accessible.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
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Directorate General of Audit
Customs & Central Excise
room no. 172, c. r. building, i.p. estate, new delhi
Section,4. (1) (b) (i) The particulars of its
organization, functions and duties:
Directorate General of Audit has its
Headquarter located in Delhi, headed by Director General (Audit) with seven
zonal units headed by Addl. Director Generals under its ambit. The primary
function of this Directorate is to monitor audit of units paying Central Excise
and Service Tax in the jurisdiction of variuos Central Excise and Service Tax
Commissionerates all over India. The preformance of Central Excise and Service
Tax Commissionerates is ranked on the basis of their annual performance by
conducting quality assurance review.
(ii)
Powers & duties of the officers and employees:
The
duties of the officers working in the Driectorate of Audit involves monitoring
Central Excise and Service Tax (Audit) and also to grade the Central Excise and
Service Tax Commissionerates on the basis of their performance and quality of
audit undertaken.
(iii) The
procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
The
work done by the Directorate is more of a team work due to spartan staff being
posted in the Headquarter and the Zones. Because of the flat organizational
structure, there is full supervision and control over the work being done.
(iv)
The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions:
In
general the norms under which the Department functions are specified in the
Citizens Charter and Missions Statement. The norms for evaluating the quality
of audit work being done and the performance of respective Commissionerates is
based on the following 6 parameters percentage of units audited to scheduled,
percentage of detection made vis-a-vis all India detection, detection per
audit, percentage of recovery vis a vis all India recover, recovery per audit
and percentage of recovery to detection. These norms are being used for ranking
of the Central Excise and Service Tax Commissionerates on all India basis.
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals & records held by it or under its
control for being used by the employees for discharging its functions:
The
provision of Central Excise Act and Central Excise Manual and Service Tax Act
are the primary Rules and Regulations for discharge of audit responsibilities.
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
The
work of this Directorate involves monitoring and co-ordination on the basis of
audit reports sent by Central Excise and Service Tax Commissionerate from all
over India. On the basis of these reports their Audit performance is being
monitored. No original records like Bills of Entries or Shipping Bills or
documents are being scrutinized or generated by this Directorate.
(vii)
The particualars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof
The
functioning of this Directorate does not involve any Public Dealing.
Co-ordination and Monitoring is being carried out with Central Excise and
Service Tax Commissionerates directly.
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the Minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
No
statutory Board or Committee has been constituted as the same is not necessary.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes
No
subsidy programme is being executed by this Directorate and hence information
may be treated as NIL.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
No
concession or permit is being granted by this Directorate and hence the
information may be treated as NIL.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it reduced in an
electronic form
The
information pertaining to the role and performance of this Directorate is
presently not available in electronic form. As a part of the ongoing ADB
Project, a separate web site for DG(Audit) is proposed to be started.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
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Directorate General of Logistics
Customs & Central Excise
4th
Floor, LOK NAYAK BHAWAN, KHAN MARKET, NEW DELHI - 110 003
Sections,4.
(1) (b) (i) The particulars of its organization, functions and duties:
The Directorate of Logistics was set up vide
Ministry's letter F.No. A-11019/40/79-Ad-IV dated 23.6.1979 by re-organization
of the Directorate of Anti-smuggling, Directorate of Communication and Directorate
of Marine to co-ordinate all the activities related to
anit-smuggling(Logistics) under the Central Board of Excise and Customs. This
Directorate has its headquarters at New Delhi and is under the supervisory
control of a Commissioner rank officer. This Directorate has three divisions as
under :-
A Anti-smuggling Division
B. Communication Division
C. Marine Division
The
function of these three Divisions of this Directorate have been enumerated in
the said circular and are summarized as under :-
(A) ANTI-SMUGGLING DIVISION
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(a) |
Assessment
of the needs of Anti-Smuggling Equipment (including arm & ammunitions) of
field formation, formulation of proposals for their purchase, obtaining of
sanctions from the Ministry and acquisition, installation/distribution of the
same. |
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(b) |
Monitoring
of the stocks of seized, confiscated and ripe for disposal goods with the
Commissionerates. |
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(c) |
Inspection
and stocks taking of the anti-smuggling equipment and stocks of seized,
confiscated and ripe for disposal goods in the anti-smuggling wings of the
Commissionerates/Custom Houses. |
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(e) |
Maintenance
of statistical data bank relating to Investigations, Adjudications, Rewards,
Prosecutions stocks and disposal of goods and prepration of monthly Performance
Indicators bulletin. |
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(f) |
Loaning of seized/confiscated arms
to departmental officers. |
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(g) |
Acquisition and deployment of
Sniffer dogs. |
(B) COMMUNICATION DIVISION
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(a) |
To
plan and formula to wireless communication proposals for Customs Preventive Commissionerates
and obtaining sanctions from the Ministry for acquisition of wireless
equipment. |
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(b) |
Distribution of wireless
equipments amongst the Commissionerates and monitoring wireless traffic
passed over the wireless networks. |
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(c) |
Providing support for the
maintenance and repair of wireless equipments in the Commissionerates and
Inspection thereof, and training of telecommunication staff. |
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(d) |
Coordination with regional command
Security Committees under Ministry of Defence in the matters relating to
breaches of communication security. |
(C) MARINE DIVISION
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(a) |
Examining proposals for
appropriation/condemnation of vessels received from maritime Commissionerates
and extending technical support. |
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(b) |
Procurement and supply of
technical and general sea stores through Central Stores Yard, Mumbai. |
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(c) |
Overall supervision and control
over the four workshops for repair of the vessels. |
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(d) |
Maintaining statistical data
pertaining to crafts and crew. |
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(e) |
Recruitment of trained and
disciplined technical personnel for operating vessels, workshops and Central
Stores Yard. |
Apart
from the above said functions pertaining to Anti-smuggling Communication and
Marine Division, this Directorate has been entrusted with the work of maintenance
of Customs & Central Excise Welfare Fund, Performance Award Fund and
Special Equipement Fund. With a view to providing financial assistance for
various schemes for the promotion to staff welfare and for acquisition of
Anti-smuggling equipments of specified nature within the shortest possible time
and for the purpose of providing assistance for the welfare of community at
large including removal of difficulites caused by natural calamities like
Floods, Earthquake, Droughts etc..
(ii)
The powers and duties of officers and employees :
The
powers of the officer are as available under Circular No. F.No.
11019/40/79-Ad-IV dated 23rd June 1979, Govt. of India, Ministry of Finance,
Department of Revenue. With respect to the duties, the various functions as
enumerated at Sl. No. (1) above are required to be carried out by the officers
of this Directorate in cordination with CBEC, Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence, Directorate of Systems, All Chief Commissioners and Commissioners
of Customs and the Regional Units of this Directorate.
(iii)
The procedure followed in the decision making process :
The procedure followed in the decision making process wingwise as per hierarchy
of the organisation is as under:-
(i)
Anti-smuggling Division: Commissioner—Additional Commissioner—Joint
Commissioner—Assistant
Commissioner—Superintendent.
(ii) Communication Division:
Commissioner—Joint Director—Deputy Director—Assistant Director—Superintendent—
(iii) Marine Division:
Commissioner—Additional Director—Marine Officer
With
regard to the Administrative matters - proposals are processed at the section
level and put up to the Assistant Commissioner- Additional/Joint Commissioenr
and finally approved by the Commissioner.
With
regard to the anti-smuggling proposal are processed at the Superintendent level
and put up to Assistant Commissioner/ Joint Commissioner/ Additional
Commissioner/ Commissioner and then through DG(DRI) submitted to the CBEC
(where so ever required) finally approval by the Commissioner.
(iv)
The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions :
The
Directorate of Logistics is a nodal agency to monitor the work of
Anti-smuggling Division, Communication Division, Marine Division and
maintenance of Customs & Central Excise Welfare Fund, Performance Award
Fund and Special Equipment Fund. Accordingly, the Directorate of Logistics is
required to work in close co-ordination with the Central Board of Excise &
Customs, all Chief Commissioner of Customs (preventive) and Chief Commissioner
and Commissioner of Customs including DGDRI.
The
Directorate is assessing the requirement of the field formations for
anti-smuggling, Communication and Marine (Logistics) from time to time and then
processing it to take follow up action accordingly.
This
Directorate is also processing all the applications received from the officers
in various field formations of CBEC for financial assistance from Welfare Fund
and Performance Award Fund on day to day basis. This Directorate has also been
entrusted with the work relating to the compilation of statistical information
regarding receipt and disposal of seized, confiscated goods and preparation of
Monthly Bulletin and other returns/reports for field formations. This
Directorate is also required to carry out inspections in the different field
formations under CBEC.
In
view of the nature of work undertaken by the Directorate of Logistic the norms
are fixed in such a way to process the requirements of the field formations for
Anti-smuggling (Logistics) in time and also to process all the applications
received for financial assistance from Welfare Fund, Performance Award Fund and
Special Equipment Fund on day to day basis.
(v)
The rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by it or under
its control or used by the employees for discharging its functions.
(i)
Rules governing the administration of the Customs & Central Excise Welfare
Fund, Performance Award Fund and Special Equipment Fund for acquisitions of
Anti-smuggling Equipment.
(ii)
Rules & Regulations Instructions issued from time to time by the DOPT of
CBEC from time to time are used by the officers and staff of this Directorate.
(vi)
Statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control :-
(i)
Day to day administration related files for running the Directorate;
(ii)
Correspondence related to Anti-smuggling equipment and other logistics items.
(iii) All the files related
to the grant of financial assistance from Welfare Fund and Performance Award
Fund.
(iv) All the files
pertaining to the Marine and Communication wings of this Directorate received
from the above said wings.
It
may also mention that this Directorate is the nodal agency to monitor the
requirements pertaining to Anti-smuggling Division, Communication Division and
Marine Division in close co-ordination with the field formations. This
Directorate handles no documents of any public interest except the various
purchases of anti-smuggling equipment, such as x-ray machines, Vessels etc. as
per approval of the Ministry and as per laid down procedures.
(vii)
The particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the member of the public or implementation thereof.
This
Directorate does staff functions for the Central Board of Excise & Customs
inter-alia in the matter of procurement of Anti-smuggling equipments for field
formations. As such 'Public' in relations to this office are the ‘‘Field
formations’’ of CBEC. Proposals by this office are invariably initiated after
receipt of requirements/proposals from them. In other cases also the field
formations are consulted regarding the proposals.
(viii)
Statement of the boards, council, committees and other bodies
consisting of two or more persons constituted as its part for the purpose
of its advise, and as to whether meetings of those boards, councils, comittees
and other bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meetings are
accessible for public.
The minutes of the meeting of the Governing Body on grant of financial
assistance from Welfare Fund and Performance Award Fund are meant only for
departmental employees and they are not of any use to the public and the above
said Governing Body meetings are not accessible to the public.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This information
has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
Manner of execution of subsidy programmers, including the amounts allocated and
the details of beneficiaries of such programmes :
Not applicable
(xiii) Particulars of
recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by it:
Not applicable
(xiv) Details in
respect of the information, available to or held by it, reduced in an
electronic form:
Computerized record of the applications received and grant of financial
assistance to employees from the Welfare fund and performance award fund is
available in an electronic form.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the working
hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
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Office of the chief departmental Representative
customs, Excise and service tax,
appellate tribunal, west block, no.2, wing no. 2, (first floor)
r.k. puram, New Delhi - 110 066
Section,4. (1) (b) (i) & (ii)The
particulars of its organization, functions and duties:
The office of Chief Departmental
Representative is located at R.K. Puram, New Delhi and has its regional offices
at Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata, which are headed by Joint Chief
Departmental Representatives. The functions of the CDR’s office may be
described as below:
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(i) |
to maintain Co-ordination and
liaison with the Hon’ble President, CESTAT/Registry; |
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(ii) |
to ensure speedly disposal of
appeals involving high revenue stakes, all India ramifications or a vexatious
point of law; |
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(iii) |
to receive the cause list of cases
from the Tribunal registry and distribute the case file among Departmental
Representatives (DRs); |
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(iv) |
to monitor effective, efficient
and forceful presentation of the cases, on behalf of the Revenue, by DRs in
all listed cases before the benches of the CESTAT and to guide them for
better preparation of the cases including on points of law; |
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(v) |
to coordinate with and call for
cross objections, clarifications and confirmations from the Commissionerates
concerned to obtain maximum number of favourable orders of the Hon’ble CESTAT
in favour of Revenue; |
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(Vi) |
to examine legality and propriety
of CESTAT’s orders and to forward RMS to the Board containing grounds for
filing appealsbefore the Hon’ble Supreme Court/High Courts, wherever
required; |
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(vii) |
to attend to the queries of the
Board and to furnish comments/clarifications on the matters as and when
called for by the Board; |
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(viii) |
to exercise administrative control
over DRs and to attend to the matters pertaining to the CDR’s office
including its regional offices at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Banglore; |
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(ix) |
to communicate orders in favour of
Revenue to the Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise and to
intimate inadequacies of Departmental Appeals filed and measures required to
beef-up the success rate of departmental appeals. |
(ii)
Powers & duties of the officers and employees:
The CDR office is not vested with powers to decide the appeals filed before the
CESTAT, which is vested with the Tribunal. CDR is having only administrative
power to sanction expenditure made in respect of his office and to approve
proposals for pruchase of books, Journals, Computer and stationeries, which are
processed by the Jt. CDR (Admn.) before being put up to the CDR.
(iii) The
procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
The
organisation is headed by CDR, Assist by joint CDR, SDR & JDR for
performance duties and functions as per para (1) above.
(iv)
The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions:
As at (i) and (ii) above.
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals & records held by it or under its
control for being used by the employees for discharging its functions:
The Provisions of Chapter VI A (Section 35,35A to 35Q and 36) of the
Central Excise Act, 1944 and Chapter XV (Section 128 to Section 131 C) of
the Customs Act, 1962 and CESTAT (Procedure) Rules, 1982 are followed.
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
The appeal papers filed by the appellants are
order-in-appeal/order-in-original, show cause notice and its relied upon
documents are the documents which are dealt with by this office in addition to
the correspondence made with the Commissioners to call for parawise comments
and replies to queries of the Bench.
(vii)
The particualars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof
Not applicable.
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the Minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
Not applicable.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the CDR separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the CDR separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the CDR separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes
Not applicable.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
Not applicable.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it reduced in an
electronic form
The details of the Final Orders passed by all benches of the CESTAT are
available on website of the CDR www. viewbirdcomputec.com/cdr.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the CDR separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
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Directorate General of Service Tax Mumbai
9th floor, piramal chambers, jijibhoy lane,
lalbaug : parel, mumbai-400012
Section,4. (1) (b) (i) The particulars of its
organization, functions and duties:
The Directorate General of Service Tax is
headed by a Director General. Who is an officer of Indian Revenue Service
(Custom and Central Excise). 1 Additional Director General of the rank of
commissioner/joint Secretary (Central Government), 2 Additional Directors of
the rank of Additional Commissioner (Director rank. of Central
Government) and 4 Deputy/Assistant Directors are posted at office located at
Directorate. 9th Floor, Piramal Chambers, Lalbaug, Parel, Mumbai- 400 012
Functions:
The office of Director General (ServiceTax)
has been formed in the year 1997. It is headed by the Director General
(Service Tax.) The functions of Director General (Service Tax) are:
(i) To
ensure that proper establishment and infrastructure has been created under
different central excise Commissionerate to monitor the collection and
assessment of service tax.
(ii) To
study the staff requirement at field level for proper and effective
implementation of service tax.
(iii) To
study as to how the various service taxes are being implemented in the field
and to suggest measures as may be necessary to increase revenue collection or
to streamline procedures;
(iv) To
undertake study of law and procedures in relation to service tax with a view to
simplify the service tax collection and asssesment and make suggestions
thereon;
(v) To
form a data base regarding the collection of service tax from the date of its
inception in 1994 and to monitor the revenue collection from service tax.;
(vi) To
inspect the service tax cells in the commissionerate to ensure that they are
functioning effectively:
(vii) To
undertake any other functions as assigned by the Board from time to time.
Duties
The officers are performing duties for
discharging the above functions of the Directorate. The work is distributed by
specifying the following major work in the Directorate:-
(i) Compilation
of information especially revenue data;
(ii) Technical
matters relating to study of law and procedures and dealing with references to
and from the Board/Ministry and also field formations-on general service tax
laws and peocedures.
(iii) Service
providers-study of legal implications, references to the Ministry of matters
having all India ramification, clarification of specific nature to field
formations, reply to Association.
(iv) Inspection
of selected service tax formations
(v) Issuing
modus operandi circulars;
(vi) Suggestion
to the Ministry for creating proper establishment and infrastructure for
service tax formations;
(vii)
Administration of the Directorate.
(ii)
Powers & duties of the officers and employees:
same as above-Assiting the Board.
(iii) The
procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
The issues are examined by the Directorate and recommendations are made to the
Board/Ministry with the approval of the Director General. The issues of
specific nature, covered by existing law and circulars/letters of the
Board/Ministry are clarified to the field formatios with the approval of the
Director General. The Directorate functions under the supervision of the Board
and is accountable to the Board.
(iv)
The norms set by it for the discharge of its functions:
Same norms and specified in the Citizen’s Charter and Mission Statement
as annunced by the CBEC are followed.
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals & records held by it or under its
control for being used by the employees for discharging its functions:
The same as prescribed by CBEC. The CBEC web-site is containing details
relating to service tax and this Directorate.
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
References received from the field formations and trade and associations- The
Directorate is not having any public dealing as such.
(vii)
The particualars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof
Same as CBEC. The Directorate is assisting the Board in policy matters, but do
not make any policy decisions on its own. The consultation with the
associations, trade bodies etc. are purely on specific issues and on adhoc
basis (as and when required).
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other
bodies are open to the public, or the Minutes of such meetings are accessible
for public
Not applicable to this Directorate
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes
Not applicable
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
Not applicable
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by it reduced in an
electronic form
The information is already available on cbec web-site : www.cbec.gov.in
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
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DIRECTORATE
GENERAL OF VIGILANCE
Customs & Central Excise. Ist & IInd floor,
Hotel Samrat, Katuliya Marg, Chankyapuri, N. Delhi.
Section,4(1)(b)(i)
Particulars of the Organisation its functions and duties
The organistion
The
Directorate General of Vigilance, Customs and Central Excise is the apex body
under the Central Board of Excise and Customs for the vigilance matters.
The Directorate General interfaces with the Central Vigilance Commission, the
Central Bureau of Investigation, field formations of CBEC who are also having
their Vigilance wings and others in all the matters relating to Vigilance,
preliminary investigation of complaints, obtaining CVC/CVO’s first stage
advice, wherever required, assistance to Ministry in issuance of charge sheets,
monitoring the charge sheet issued by the Disciplinary authorities in the
field, monitoring of progress in inquiry proceedings, processing of enquiry
reports, obtaining CVC/CVO’s second stage advice, wherever required and
communication thereof to Disciplinary authorities and monitoring
compliance/implementation of the advice.
The
Dirctorate General of Vigilance has its headquraters at New Delhi and has four
Zonal Units-North Zonal Unit at New Delhi, West Zonal Unit at Mumbai, East
Zonal Unit at Kolkatta and South Zonal Unit at Chennai. The Directorate General
is headed by the Director General and the Zonal Units are headed by Additional
Director General.
Functions
and duties of the Directorate General
The
functions and duties of the Zonal Units of the Directorate General are mainly
as follows:
(i)
To co-ordinate the work of various vigilance formations in Customs. Excise and
Service Tax Commissionerates.
(ii)
Liaison with CBI.
(iii)
To investigate vigilance complaints received from the public and complaints
forwarded by Headquraters, by the CVC and other Vigilance Organistions.
(iv)
To carry out various preventive vigilance studies for improving the functions
of the field formations of Customs, Excise & Service Tax Commissionerates.
(v)
To carry out preventive checks at sensitive locations to control corruption in
Excise, Customs & Service Tax Commissionerates.
(vi)
To carry out inspection of Vigilance Section of the Commissionerates of Excise,
Customs & Service Tax.
The
functions and duties of the Headquarters of the Directorate General are mainly
as follows:
(i) To
get the various complaints received from public or through CVC and other
formations investigated through the Zonal Units or field formations.
(ii) Processing
of Investigation Reports received from the Zonal Units of the Directorate
General; field formations of CBEC or CBI for obtaining CVC/CVO’s first stage
advice for further action where Gazetted officers under the CBEC are
involved.
(iii)
Liaison with CBEC, CBI, CVC in disciplinary matters.
(iv)
Compliance with the directions of CVC in disciplinary matters.
(v)
To assist the Disciplinary Authority in disciplinary and prosecution matters
relating to Group ‘A’ officers under CBEC in consultation with CVC.
(vi)
To monitor and supervise issuance of Charge Sheets to the officers, conduct
of Inquiries and to process the Inquiry Officer’s report for obtaining
CVC/CVO’s second stage advice.
(vii)
Advising Ministry on matters of Vigilance Clearance in respect of Group ‘A’
officers under CBEC.
(ii)
Powers and duties of its officers and employees
The
duties of the officers and employees of the Directorate General are the same as
mentioned above.
(iii)
The procedure followed in the decision making including channels of supervision
and accountability.
Procedure
followed in Zonal Units
The
main function of the Zonal Units is to investigate the complaints received from
Public or through Hqrs. office/CVC & other vigilance formations. The
complaints are marked to Superintendent or the Assistant/Deputy Commissioner
for investigation and the investigation reports submitted by them are examined
at the level of Joint/Additional Commissioner and thereafter by the Additional
Director General and then submitted to Hqrs. Office with suitable
recommendations.
Procedure
followed in Headquarters/Channels of Accountability:
The
Preliminary Investigation Reports in respect of various complaints received
from the Zonal units, field formations or CBI and the Inquiry Officers Reports
are first examined at the level of Superintendent or Assistant/Deputy
Commissioner, then put up to the Joint/Additional Commissioner and Additional
Director General (Hqrs.) and thereafter to the Director General for obtaining
CVC/CVO’s first or second stage advice. If Group “A” officer is involved the
matter is generally referred to CBEC for concurrence before obtaining CVC
advice. The Headquarters is headed by a Director General who is an officer of
the rank of a Chief Commissioner and he is assisted by an Addl. Director
General under whom work the Jt. Commissioners who are assisted by the
Deputy/Asstt. Commissioners and Superintendents and in general all the matters
are examined/processed through this hierarchy.
(iv)
The Norms set by it for the discharge of its functions
The
Citizen’s Charter issued by the CBEC provides that the complaints will be
promptly acknowledged and final replies will be provided within 30 working days
of their receipt. Any complaint or grievance can also be taken up with the
Public Grievance Committee headed by the Commissioner and/or the Zonal
Grievance Committee headed by the Chief Commissoner.
(v)
The rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records held by it or under its
control or used by its employees for discharging the functions.
The
Vigilance Manual of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), the CCS (Conduct)
Rules, 1964, the CCS (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules 1965, CCS
(Pension) Rules, 1972 and the various instructions issued by the Government of
India and the CVC relating to Vigilance matters are the rules/ manuals used by
the Directorate General of Vigilance for discharging its functions.
(vi)
Statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
Apart
from file opening register, complaint registers, DGV/CVO Advice Register
maintained in the Directorate General, records relating to various
complaints/Inquiry Reports are maintained in the Directorate General of
Vigilance.
(vii)
The particulars of any arrangements that exists for consultation with or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof.
Regional
Advisory Committees, Public Grievances Committees, Watch Dog Committees are
working in the various field formations of the CBEC.
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies Consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part of for the purposes of its advice,
and as to whether meeting of those boards, Councils, committees and other
bodies are open to public or the minutes of such meetings are accessible for
public.
As
in para (vii) above.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes.
This
para is Not Applicable to the Directorate General.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permit or authorizations granted by
it.
This
para is not applicable to the Directorate General.
(xiv)
Details in respect of information available to or held by it, reduced in an
electronic form.
Nil
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by the Directorate separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
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NATIONAL
ACADEMY OF CUSTOMS, EXCISE & NARCOTICS
NACEN COMPLEX, SECTOR-29, FARIDABAD-121008
Section,4(1)(b)(i)
Particulars of Organization, Functions and Duties.
The
National Academy of Customs Excise & Narcotics at Faridabad is the apex
training institute for the Central Excise, Customs and Narcotics Department of
India. It started as a training school from a small building at Daryaganj. Old
Delhi in 1969 and then shifted to Hauz Khas in South Delhi. Later, it operated
from the premises of Pushpa Bhavan till 1996 and has been functional at the
present 23-acre lush green complex at Faridabad. Since then a recent
addition has been the new administrative block that is equipped with 5 lecture
halls having state of the art audio-visual equipments and teaching aids. The
new block also has a well equipped fully computerized library, a large
auditorium, conference rooms, e-learning center, computer lab and an
amphitheatre. The Academy has a Center of Excellence headed by an Additional
Director General to undertake research in areas relating to indirect taxes.
Besides the Academy have three hostels and a VIP guesthouse. The rooms are
equipped with all the modern amenities. The Academy also has excellent sport
facilities that include a swimming pool, gymnasium, billiards room, squash
courts basketball. lawn tennis and other outdoor games. The Director General is
overall in charge of all the training functions in the department. There are 9
Regional Training Centers at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta. Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad,
Vadodra, Hazaribagh and Kanpur that cater to the training of the Group B and
Group C officers. NACEN, Faridabad is basically responsible for the training of
the Group A probationers of the IC & CES. In cadre training & training
on specialized topics like Service Tax, VAT. Valuation, Audit, Enforcement for
the group A officers. These courses on specialized topics are need based and
oriented towards capacity building of the officers of the Department.
NACEN
has also taken over the training in many of the new areas Notable amongst them
is the pioneering effort in the field of environmental crimes. NACEN has
entered an MOU with UNEP to train the Customs officers in India and the
Asia-Pacific region on the smuggling of Ozone Depleting Substances. NACEN has been
conducting such workshops all over the country and abroad for the last three
years. This has shown results in the field with increase in the number of
seizures of these substances all over the country.
NACEN
has also been recognized as the Regional Center of the World Customs
Organization. With this NACEN will start training Customs officers of the
Asia-Pacific Region under the aegis of the WCO. NACEN is also actively involved
in the development of synergy on various capacity building issues with the US
Customs. Asian Development Bank, Customs Organizations of SAARC countries etc.
At
NACEN the main emphasis on training is to improve the knowledge base. Provide
managerial skills and develop positive attitude of the officers of the
Department. This emphasis is reflected in the training of the Group A
probationers that is spread over 18 months and includes not only classroom
sessions on various topics but field visits. attachment to field formation and
on the job training. The probationers are given inputs on Customs, Central
Excise, Narcotics, law, audit, administration, accountancy and various other
fields. They also interact with important personalities in various fields.
NACEN is committed to provide quality-training programmes that ensure capacity
building in the Department and contribute towards providing a modern effective
tax administration.
(ii)
Powers and duties of its Officers and Employees
Apart
from the normal administrative and establishment functions and duties carried
out in Central Government Offices, this Academy’s main function is to impart
training to the Officers/staff of Central Board of Excise and Customs and other
agencies on Customs, Central Excise, Service Tax and Narcotics laws and other
related issues. In addition, this Academy also have a Centre of Excellence for
doing research work in the field of Indirect Taxation. Training Calendar for
NACEN Hdqrs. as well as its RTIs are prepared in the beginning of each
financial year containing schedule of various courses planned to be conducted
during the year. These courses are conducted with the help of in-house as well
as out-sourced faculty. Eminent personalities who are experts in their
respective fields are called for delivering lecture to the participants. The
Academy also prepares material which includes law and latest instructions on
various subjects for use by the participants.
(iii) The
procedure followed in the decision making process, including channels of
supervision and accountability
Training
modules are designed as per need and requirements of field formations under
CBEC. In keeping with the changing work environment of Customs and Central
Excise Officers, This Academy has conducted several courses on improving basic
computer knowledge of the officers and staff and almost 100% Computer literacy
has been achieved at Group A, B and C levels of officers in CBEC. NACEN Hdqrs.
and its RTIs have also been conducting courses on Accountancy and Scrutiny of
Financial Records by the Central Excise Officers in EA-2000. Faculty for
delivering lectures is selected very carefully after ascertaining their field experience
and competence. There is a system of feedback from the participants at the end
of each module on the relevance of the subject and to assess the faculty. This
feedback is always considered and taken into account while designing the new
modules on the subject and selection of faculty. Decision on selection of
faculty is taken at DG level.
An
officer in the grade of Additional/Joint Director is designated as Course
Director for each course conducted by NACEN and RTIs. Officers in the rank of
Assistant Director/Deputy Director. Superintendent and Inspector assist the
Course Director in organising the course. The courses are conducted under the
overall supervision of Director General.
(iv)
Norms set by it for the discharge of its functions
Norms
are specified in Citizen’s Charter and Mission Statement. Depending upon the
requirements of the field formations, norms are set for conducting maximum
number of courses in a year at NACEN Hdqrs. and its RTIs and accordingly.
Training Calendars are finalized.
(v)
Rules, regulations, instructions, manuals & records held by it or under its
control for being used by the employees for discharging its functions:
The
training is conducted on the basis of rules, regulations, instructions, manuals
etc. published by the Board.
(vi)
A statement of the categories of documents that are held by it or under its
control
Material
of training on different subjects for various level of officers including
Probationers, and of Departmental Examinations for different grade of Officers
and Staff.
(vii)
The particualars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or
representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of
its policy or implementation thereof
There
is no public dealing in the Academy.
(viii)
A statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies consisting of
two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advise,
and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other bodies
are open to the public, or the Minutes of such meetings are accessible for
public
A
Training Steering Committee has been set up by the CBEC to provide strategic
advice and guidance to the Department on all training matters. The Committee is
headed by a Member, CBEC and consists of DG, NACEN, Chief Commissioners Customs
and Central Excise and officers of the rank of Commissioners as Members.
Meetings of Training Steering Committee are not open to public.
(ix)
Directory of its offices and employees
This
information has been notified by NACEN separately.
(x)
Monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including
the system of compensation as provided in its regulations
This
information has been notified by NACEN separately.
(xi)
Budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all
plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made
This
information has been notified by NACEN separately.
(xii)
The manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated
and the details of beneficiaries of such programmes
Not Applicable.
(xiii)
Particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by
it
Not Applicable.
(xiv)
Details in respect of the information, available to or held by It, reduced in
an electronic form
All
the general information about the NACEN and its RTIs are available on Internet
on the official website of the Academy (www.nacen.ernet.in). Details of the
courses planned and telephone numbers of the officers posted in NACEN and at
various RTIs are also available on the website.
(xv) The particulars of
facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the
working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use.
This
information has been notified by NACEN separately.
(xvi) Names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information
Officers :
Please
see the list of CPIOs provided separately at http://www.cbec.gov.in/cae/info-act/cpio-capio/cpio-capio-idx.htm
(xvii)
Such other information as may be prescribed -
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