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Circular No.  661/52/2002 - CX
11th September, 2002

F.No. 137/8/2001-CX4
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise and Customs 

 Sub.:  Distribution of work amongst various sections of the CBEC

                It has been observed that though there is a clear cut distribution of work between the various Sections of the Board, the Commissioners do not follow these guidelines and matters relating to one Section are referred to another Section thereby causing confusion and delay.  This is particularly so in respect of TRU.  Since TRU is flooded with a number of references on technical matters from the Commissioners, they are not able to devote adequate time and resources to their assigned items of work. 

2.             I am, therefore, directed to enclose herewith the detailed distribution of work amongst the various Technical Sections of the Board.   This distribution of work has been extracted from the “Induction Material, Notes on the Functioning of the Various Divisions”, issued by the Internal Work Study Unit of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, and updated. 

3.             Henceforth it should be ensured that all references made to the Board on technical matters always indicate the  Policy Section  to which the matter relates so that the issue can be dealt with expeditiously.  

4.             Receipt of this Circular may kindly be acknowledged indicating the date of its receipt in your office. 

5.             Hindi version will follow.

Copy to JS(TRU), JS(CUS), JS(DBK), JS(Legal), JS(Review), Commr(PAC), DIR(CX1&4), DIR(TRU), DIR(CX3&9), DIR(CX6&8), DIR(CUS), DIR(DBK), DIR(PAC), DIR(ICD), DIR(AS), DIR(Review) and DIR(Legal) for  ensuring that the work is dealt with strictly as per the distribution norms. One Section may consult another for their views or reaction but the primary work will be handled by the Sections as per the distribution norms.

1. CX-I SECTION 

List of Subjects:- 

1.                  Tariff Classification of the following items; 

Section I               Animal Products

            Chapter 2         Meat and edible meat offal.

            Chapter 3         Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates.

            Chapter 4         Dairy products; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere

                                     specified or included.

            Chapter 5         Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included.           

Section II             Vegetable Products

            Chapter 7         Edible vegetable and roots and tubers.

            Chapter 8         Edible fruit nuts; peel if citrus or melons.

            Chapter 9         Coffee, tea and spices

            Chapter 11       Products of the Milling industry; Malt; starches; insulin; wheat gluten

            Chapter 13       Lac; gums; resins and other vegetable saps and extracts.

            Chapter 14       Vegetable plating materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included               

           

Section IV                  Prepared Foodstuffs; Beverages and Vinegar

            Chapter 16       Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic  invertebrates.

            Chapter 17       Sugar and sugar confectionery.

            Chapter 18       Cocoa and Cocoa preparations.

            Chapter 19       Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastry cooks` products.

            Chapter 20       Preparations of vegetables, fruit; nuts or other parts of plants.

            Chapter 21        Miscellaneous edible preparations.

            Chapter 22       Beverages, vinegar and spirits.

Chapter 23       Residues and wastes from the food industries, prepared animal fodder.,

 

Section XI                  Textile and Textile Articles

Chapter 50       Silk

            Chapter 51       Wool; fine or coarse animal hair.

            Chapter 52       Cotton..

            Chapter 53       Other vegetable textile fibres, paper yarn, woven fabrics of swuch yarns.

            Chapter 54       Man-made filaments.

            Chapter 55       Man-made staple fibres.

            Chapter 56       Wadding, felt and non-wovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables articles thereof.

            Chapter 57       Carpets and other textile floor coverings.

            Chapter 58       Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics lace; embroidery.

            Chapter 59       Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of suitable for industrial use.

            Chapter 60       Knitted or crocheated fabrics.

            Chapter 61       Articles of apparel and clothing accessories of knitted or crocheated.           

            Chapter 62       Articles of apparel and clothing accessories not knitted or crocheated.

            Chapter 63       Other made up textile articles. 

Section XVIII             Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical Or Surgical Instruments and Apparatus, Clocks and Watches; Musical Instruments; Parts and Accessories thereof.

Chapter 90       Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical Or Surgical Instruments

                       and apparatus; Parts and accessories thereof.

Chapter 91       Clocks and watches and parts thereof.

Chapter 92       Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles. 

Section XIX                Arms and Ammunition; parts and accessories thereof.

            Chapter 93       Arms and Ammunition; parts and accessories thereof. 

Section XX                 Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles.

            Chapter 94       Furnitures, bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushion and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and

                                   lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sings. illuminated name-plates and the like; 

                                   prefabricated buildings.

Chapter 95       Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof.

Chapter 96       Miscellaneous manufactured articles.

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2.                  Legislative work [other than Finance Bill and the work entrusted to Commissioner (Leg & Judl)]

3.                  Amendments to the Central Excise Act and Interpretation of the Central Excise Act.

4.                  Valuation under Section 4/4A of the Central Excise Act.

5.                  All complaints, representations and Parliament Questions relating to the above items of work

6.                  Work relating to convening and coordination of South Zone Tariff Conference.

7.                  Work relating to 11C notifications and adhoc-exemption orders under section 5A(2) in respect of commodities dealt   

                     with by the Section

8.                  Organising Board meetings. 

Section Officer Under Secretary Director Member (CX)
Sh. Rajpal
(US-in situ)
Tel: 3092395
I.Com: 334
Ms. Suraksha Katiyar

Tel: 3092829
I.Com: 281
Sh. A.K. Prasad

Tel: 3092812
I.Com: 304
Sh. A.K. Singh

Tel: 3094788
I.Com: 262

                                                                                         2. CX-3 Section

List of Subjects:

1. Tariff  Classification in respect of the following goods :-
 

Description of goods

Chapter

a) Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats;  animal or vegetable waxes. 15
b) Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes. 24
c) Salt; sulphur; clay and stone; plastering materials; lime and cement. 25
d) Ores, slag and ash. 26
e) Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; Mineral waxesl. 27
f) Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, or rare earth metals of radio active elements or isotopes. 28
g) Organic chemicals. 29
h) Pharmaceutical products 30
i) Fertilizers. 31
j) Tanning and dying extracts, tanning and their derivatives; dyes; paints and varnishes, putty, fillers and other mastics; inks. 32
k) Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetics. 33
l) Soap, organic surface-active agents washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modeling pastes, dental waxes and dental preparations with a basis of plaster 34
m) Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes.  35
n) Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations. 36
o) Photographic or cinematographic goods. 37
p) Miscellaneous chemical products 38
q) Plastics and articles thereof. 39
r) Rubber and articles thereof. 40
s) Leather 41
t) Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods; hand bags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut). 42
u) Manufacturers of furskins and artificial fur.  43
v) Wood and articles of wood  44
w) Cork and articles of cork  45
x) Manufacturers of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wicker- work. 46
2. Refund  of duty on petrol to Diplomats .
3. Work relating to convening and coordination of North Zone Tariff Conference.
4. General procedure relating to holding of Tariff Conference.
5. Work relating to Section 11C of C.E & Salt Act, 1944 and Rule 5A(2) of C.E. Act 1944 in respect of goods mentioned at item (1) above.
6. Work relating to Medicinal and Toilet Preparation (Excise Duties) Act, 1955.
7. All complaints, representations and Parliament Question relating to the above.

 

Section Officer Under Secretary Director (CX.3 &9) Member (CX)
Sh. S.K. Gandhi  
Tel: 3092534
I.Com: 291

Tel: 3092351
I.C. 365
Sh. S.L.Meena 
Tel: 3097931
I.Com: 274
Sh. A. K. Singh
Tel: 3094788
I.Com: 262

                                        

3. CX - 4 Section 

List of Subject;

I. Tariff Classification in respect of the following Tariff items:-  
 

Items

Chapter No.
1. Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic materials; waste and scrap of paper of paperboard 47
2. Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp or of paperboard  48
3. Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry, manuscripts, typescripts and plants. 49
4. Footwear, gaiters and the parts of such articles. 64
5. Head-gear and parts thereof. 65
6. Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops parts  thereof. 66
7. Artificial flowers; articles of human hair.  67
8. Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos mica or similar material  68
9. Ceramic products. 69
10. Glass and glassware  70
11. Natural or cultural pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin. 71
12. Iron and steel 72
13. Articles of iron or steel. 73
14. Copper and articles thereof 74
15. Nickel and articles thereof. 75
16. Aluminum and articles thereof. 76
17. Lead and articles thereof. 78
18. Zinc and articles thereof. 79
19. Tin and articles thereof. 80
20. Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof 81
21. Tools, implements, cutlery, spoon and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal. 82
22. Miscellaneous articles of base metal. 83
23. Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof. 84
24. Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles. 85
25. Railway of tramway locomotives, rolling-stocks and parts thereof; railway or Tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical traffic Signalling equipment of all kinds 86
26. Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stocks, and parts and accessories Thereof.  87
27. Aircraft; spacecrafts and parts  thereof.  88
28. Ships, boats and floating structures. 89
II.

Work relating to framing of procedure for assessment and collection of Service Tax and other matter relating thereto, including exemptions, both general and ad-hoc under Section 93(1)/ 93(2) of the Finance Act, 1994.

III.

Fixing targets for Service Tax collections.
IV. Work relating to 11C notification and granting ad-hoc exemption under section 5A(2) from payment of Central Excise duty in respect of goods covered by (I) above.
V. Work relating to granting of permission for sale of vehicles purchased in India by Diplomats etc.
VI. All Complaints, representations and Parliament Questions relating to the above items of work.

 

Section Officer  Under Secretary Director (CX.4) Member (CX)
Sh. Lalit Kumar
Tel: 3092395
 
Ms. Suraksha Katiyar 
Tel: 3092829
I.Com: 281
Sh. A.K. Parsed
Tel: 3092812
I.Com: 304
Sh. A.K. Singh
Tel: 3094788
I.Com: 262

                                                                    

5. CX- 6 Section 

List of Subject:-

1. Amendments to Central Excise Rules and interpretation thereof (excepting matters relating to Modvat, Cenvat, Proforma Credit and sampling)
2. Procedures relating to Assessment, Internal Audit, Preventive Control, Exports, Licencing and Bonds, Delegation of powers, overtime fees and Budget and pre-Budget day clearances, prosecution, adjudication, Rewards under Central Excise Act and all other matters not covered by CX-8 Section.
3. Amendments to the Basic Excise Manual, the Audit Manual, the Preventive Manual and the S.R.P. Hand book.
4. Policy concerning anti-evasion, prosecution, approval of action plan of Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, submission of periodical reports and returns concerning preventive work etc.
5. All complaints, representations and Parliament Questions relating to the above items of work.
Section Officer  Under Secretary Director (CX.6) Member (CX)
Sh. R.K.Bhoria
Tel: 3092843
I.Com:346
Sh. M.G.Thamizh Valavan
Tel:3092829
I.Com:208 
Sh. S.M. Bhatnagar
Tel: 3093874
I.Com: 227
Sh. A.K. Singh
Tel: 3094788
I.Com: 262

 6. CX-7 Section ( located in Jeevan Deep Building) 

List of subject :- 

1.                  Draft Audit Paras/Audit Paras on Central Excise.

2.                  C&AG Reports on Central Excise

3.                  Public Accounts Committee Reports  and Tours on Central Excise

4.                  Financial sanction of expenses on tours of PAC relating to Central Excise Paras

5.                  Coordination with Monitoring Cell for Central Excise paras

6.                  Policy relating to what files or records are to be made available to C&AG/CERA.

 

 Under Secretary        Director (CX.7)        Commissioner(PAC)                        Member (CX)

   Sh. Sandeep Puri           Sh. Ram Tirath              V.K.Sharma                       Sh. A.K.Singh

  Tel:  3360813                  Tel: 3360581               Tel: 3341072                       Tel:3094788

    I.Com 253                     I.Com: 205                       I.C. 202                            I.Com:262 

 

7. CX- 8 Section 

List of subject:-

1.                  Amendment to Central Excise Rules and interpretation thereof on matters relating to Modvat, Cenvat, set off and sampling.

2.                  Procedure relating to collection of cesses(except handloom cess).

3.                  Procedure relating to Modvat, Cenvat, set off, warehousing and sampling.

4.                  Matters relating to Departmentalised Accounting System.

5.                  Monitoring of performance of Commissionerates in Key Result Areas of work( adjudication, realization of arrears of revenue, disposal of call book and provisional assessment cases)

6.                  All matters relating to refund and rebate of Central Excise duties.

7.                  All Complaints, representations and Parliament Questions relating to the above.

 

Section Officer         Under Secretary                Director (CX)           Member (CX)

Sh. B.B. Mukherjee     Sh. V.M.Jain                     Sh. S.M.Bhatnagar         Sh. A.K.Singh

Tel: 3092534               Tel:3092357                         Tel:3093874            Tel:3094788

I.Com:391                   I.Com 365                              I.Com: 227                I.Com:262
 

8. CX- 8A/Legal Cell 

List of subject: -

(a)          Engagement/ appointment of Counsels/ Special Public Prosecutor; Settlement of

             their fees/ terms and conditions and related works.  References received from MPs/  

            VIPs  and Ministers relating to above mentioned cases.

(b)         Reimbursement of legal expenses to non-gazetted employees under CBEC.

(c)          Monitoring of disposal of appeals by Commissioner(Appeals).

(d)        All Court cases in Supreme Court (other than those arising out of CEGAT orders)

(e)        Reports & Returns relating to Central Excise Court cases and revenue involvement.

(f)        Examination of proposals received under Kar Vivad Samadhan Scheme.

(g)        Parliament Questions & other miscellaneous matters relating to the above items of

            work. 

 

Senior Analyst          Under Secretary        Director                  Jt. Secretary                Member(L&J ) 

Sh.Sampath                K.S.Sharma              Ameeta Suri              Lakhinder Singh             Mahendra Prasad   

Tel 3093164                3092643                      3092349                       3092747                    3094828

I.C. 239                                                          353                             224                               335

 

9. CX - 9 Section 

List of Subject: -

1.                  Coordination of work in the Central Excise, Technical wing.

2.                  Customs and Central Excise Advisory Council.

3.                  Regional Advisory Committees.

4.                  Commissioners Conferences and other Departmental Conferences

5.                   Compilation of material for President’s address, Annual Report of the Ministry, Finance Commission and Estimates Committee.

6.                  Tour notes of Finance Secretary, Chairman and Members of the CBEC.

7.                  Tour notes of Heads of Departments under CBEC.

8.                  Monthly Admn. Reports from Commissioners of Central Excise.

9.                  Reports and Returns from the Director of Inspection and Audit (Customs and Central  Excise)

10.              Reports and Returns from the Directorate of Statistics and Intelligence (including code numbers and other miscellaneous references regarding statistics.)

11.              Arrears of Revenue.

12.              Write-off and remissions.

13.              Special procedures relating to Export of Excisable goods to Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and other Countries.

14.              Matters relating to the Administrative Reforms Commission.

15.              Tax Credit Excise Duty Scheme.

16.              Any other work of a miscellaneous nature not specifically allotted to any other Section.

17.              All Complaints, representations and Parliament Question relating to above items of work.

18.              Excise Revenue arrears against companies.

19.              Deferment of arrears of revenues against sick industrial units.

20.              Brief for the Economic Editors` Conferences.

21.              Excise Relief Scheme. 

Section Officer      Under Secretary                 Director                            Member (CX)

Sh. Sunil Garg          Sh. R.K.Kirtania               Sh. S.L.Meena                         Sh. A. K. Singh                 

Tel: 3094162              Tel:  3093476                  Tel: 3094793                            Tel:3094788

 I.Com:249                  I.Com   217                    I.Com  274                                I.Com: 262
 

            10. Tax Research Unit(TRU) 

List of Subjects: 

  1. All request from trade and recommendations from other Departments of the Governments seeking general exemption from Customs and Central Excise duties.

  2. Issue of notifications under Section 5A(1) of the Central Excise Act,1944 and under Section 25(1) of the Customs Act,1962.

  3. Issue of notifications under Section 5A(i)  of the Central Excise Act and under Section 25(i) of the Customs Act to clarify the scope and applicability of exemption notifications.

  4. Reviewing of the above notifications.

  5. Formulation of policy for taxation of each commodity.

  6. Notification of any process amounting to manufacture under section 2(f) of the Central Excise Act.

  7. Formulation of policy regarding MRP based valuation.

  8. Policy on inclusion of new services under Service Tax net.

  9. Formulation of annual budget proposals.

  10. Work relating to Finance Bill.

  11. Work relating to other legislation for changing rate of Customs &Excise Duties.

  12. Pre and post-budget market enquiries, and on the spot studies regarding effect of budget proposals on prices, production, consumption etc.

  13. Formulation of commodity wise budget estimates (after collection of data from departmental and extra-departmental sources) and monitoring of the same at regular intervals.

  14. Fixing of revenue targets.

  15. All work relating to levy of Anti-dumping duties/safeguard duties.

  16. International Agreements – their tariff related work.

  17. Parliament Questions relating to the above items of work.

 

Under Secretary

Director/D.S.

J.S.(TRU)

Chairman/Member(Budget)

Sh. Amitabh Kumar Tel:3093075 I.Com 343

Sh. Sanjeev Sachdeva Tel:3092236 I.Com:295

Sh. Gautam Ray Tel:3092687 I.ComS:360

Sh.M.K. Zutshi

   Tel: 3092849

    I.C. 355

Sh. Suresh Kumar Tel:3094806 I.Com 340

Shri Alok Shukla Tel: 3092753 I.Com:349

 

 

Sh. Ataur Rehman Tel:30994693 I.Com 340

Shri Gautam Bhattacharya  Tel:3092634 I.Com:386

 

 

Sh. S.M. Tata

Tele:3093075 I.ComS: 261

Dr. Vijay P. Goel

Tel: 3093361 I.Com:245

 

 

Sh.G.D. Lohani Tel: 3094819 I..Com:397

 

 

 

Sh. Vivek Prasad Tel:3093075 I.Com:340

 

 

 

Sh. Aman Kumar Singh Tel:3094693 SI.Com:340

 

 

 

Sh. D.K. Pandey Tel: 3094973 I.Com:344

 

 

 

Ms. Kanchana V. Ghosh Tel:3094973 I.Com:344

 

 

 

 11 .Customs – III Section 

List of subjects:- 

1.      Monitoring the performance of the field formations of Customs: Review of Monthly Technical Reports and revenue trends; Arrears of Customs duty; performance in the identified key areas of work such as adjudication, provisional assessment, refund, drawback, audit objections etc.

2.      WTO/WCO issues relating to Rules of Origin.

3.      All policy issues concerning management of hazardous waste including framing of guidelines on import/testing of dangerous/hazardous chemicals

4.      Co-ordination of all work in the Customs Wing.

5.      Annual Report, Annual Action Plan, periodical reports and returns, and any other miscellaneous matter.

6.      Monitoring/ Review of CRCL performance; infrastructure and equipment requirements of CRCL, etc.

7.      Co-ordination and monitoring of work connected with Draft Audit Paras/Action Taken Notes (DAPs/ATNs) and reports of C&AG and PAC; follow up action with C&AG/ Monitoring Cell.

8.      Reports regarding trade statistics/DTRs; liaison with DGFT on progress in submission of DTRs by the field formation of Customs.

9.      Prohibition s and Restrictions under Section 11 of the Customs Act,1962 ( including importability of books, periodicals, publications etc.)

10.  Arrears of Customs duty.

11.  Co-ordination of work on behalf of the Customs Wing (compilations of statements of pending VIP references, Parliamentary Assurances, implementation of Annual Action Plan, other periodical returns, reports of various Committees).

12.  Co-ordination and monitoring of work relating to complaints / grievances from the trade citing specific instances (other than general issues)

13.  Co-ordination of work regarding Estimates Committee and other Committees of Parliament, their study tours and the related work. 

14.  Reports and returns regarding Trade Statistics

15.  All miscellaneous matters concerning Customs that concern more than only one particular Section

16.  Parliament Questions relating to the above items of work and Parliament Question requiring information from two or more sections in Customs wing. 

Section Officer           Under Secretary        Director (Customs)      Member (Cus/EP)

Sh.N. Acharya             Sh.D.S. Garbyal           Sh.P.K. Mohanty             Dr. U.K. Sen          

Tel. No.3093147         Tel.No.3094610          Tel.No.3093908              Tel.No.3092417     

I.Com.305                    I.Com.374                   I.Com.275                        I.Com.207

 

12. Customs - IV Section

List of Subjects;- 

1.                  Procedure regarding clearance of goods at Ports/ Airports/ICDs.

2.                  Procedure regarding disposal of Customs Refund Cases at all Customs Houses and Central Excise Commissionerates.

3.                  Transhipment of goods.

4.                  Inland Container Depots, Container Freight Stations-Appointment of and procedures relating to Containerisation.

5.                  Coastal Trade including procedure and regulation under Chapter XII of the Customs Act, 1962

6.                  Delegation of powers of Adjudication of Customs Officers.

7.                  Imports of goods through courier mode.

8.                  Implementation of Kyoto Convention

9.                  Standardisation of Customs Forms.

10.              Appointment of Officers under the Customs Act,1962

11.              Re-importation of goods of Indian origin under Section 20 of the Customs Act,1962

12.              Quality Control on export commodities.

13.              Complaints of delay in clearance of goods or sanction of refunds at ports/Air Cargo Complex, ICDs/CFSs/Post Offices etc.

14.              Customs privileges and exemption for

(a)    the President of India and the Governors of States;

(b)   Diplomatic Corps.

(c)    UN and Specialised Agencies like UNDP, UNICEF, FAO etc.

(d)   League of Arab States Mission and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Afro-Asian Rural Reconstruction Organisation, US AID Mission and Ford Foundation.

(e)    Foreign Experts coming under Bilateral Technical Cooperation Agreements with Government  of India.

(f)     Agencies Co-coordinating grant of aid on behalf of foreign countries (such as OECF, Japan; GTZ, Germany; CIDA, Canada etc.

(g)    I.F.S. Officers and other category of officers on deputation to foreign Governments.

15.              Sale /Disposal of duty free goods/ cars by privileged persons.

16.              Matters concerning Customs and Central Excise Advisory Council

17.              Customs Advisory Committee and Port Advisory Committee.

18.              The work relating to meetings of various Standing Committees, such as,

·    High Powered Committee on Reduction of Transaction Cost chaired by the Secretary (R)

·    Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee for setting up of ICDs/CFSs

·    Standing Committee on Promotion of Exports (Scope) – Shipping, chaired by Additional Secretary (Infra), Ministry of Commerce

·    Standing Committee on Promotion of Exports (Scope) – Air, chaired by Additional Secretary (Infra), Ministry of Commerce

·    Export Promotion Board chaired by Cabinet Secretary

19.              Monitoring of disposal of unclaimed goods.

20.              Returns, Statistics, Reports, Miscellaneous items and Parliament Questions relating to the above subjects.

 

Section Officer      Under Secretary       Director (Customs)    Member(Cus & EP)

Sh. B.S. Samkaria                                      Sh.P.K. Mohanty            Dr. U.K. Sen

Tel: 3094025                                             Tel. No.3093908            Tel.No.3092417

I.Com.220                                                I.Com.275                       I.Com.207 

 

13. Customs-V 

List of Subjects: - 

1.                  All matters concerning Ad-hoc Exemption under Section 25(2) of the Customs Act, 1962 including formulation of ad-hoc exemption policy.

2.                  Valuation under Customs Act, 1962 including fixation of tariff values

3.                  Fixation of Exchange rates for foreign currencies.

4.                  Parliament Questions relating to the above items of work. 

Section Officer      Under Secretary             Director               Member (Cus/EP)

R.P.Singh                   N.J.Kumaresh           S.K.Sinha                Dr. U.K.Sen

                                                                  3093380                     3092417

I.C. 361                       229                            290                              207

 

14. Customs-VI

List of Subjects: - 

1.                  Supreme Court cases pertaining to Customs.

2.                  Baggage Rules, Transfer of Residence Rules, Tourist Baggage Rules.

3.                  Customs facilities and protocol for VIPs at International Airports.

4.                  Customs procedures for clearance of passengers at Airports.

5.                  Integrity Management at the Airports – Handling complaints against the staff and officers of Customs posted at the international Airports.

6.                  Policy relating to import of gold and silver, import of fire arms, etc.

7.                  Customs House Agents Licensing Regulations.

8.                  Port Trust Act, Arms Act, Antiquities Act and other allied Acts.

9.                  Write off/ abandonment of claims with regard to irrecoverable duties and penalties and fines.

10.              Parliament Questions, VIP references relating to the above subjects, Reports and Statements relating to above matters. 

    Under Secretary                Director (Customs)             Member (Cus/EP)

  Sh. D.S. Garbyal                    Sh. P.K. Mohanty                    Dr. U.K. Sen

   Tel.No.3094610                   Tel.No.3093908                       Tel. No.3092417

    I.Com. 374                          I.Com.275                                I.Com.207 

 

15. Land Customs Section (located in Jeevan Deep Building) 

List of Subjects:

1.                  Warehousing.

2.                  Imports and Exports through post.

3.                  Bonds and Guarantees.

4.                  All Policy matters, trade agreements and transit arrangements relating to Afghanistan, China (Tibet Autonomous Region), Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

5.                  Appointment and declaration of Land Customs Stations, Ports & Airports under the Customs Act, 1962.

6.                  Grant of special permission for landing of aircrafts on international flights at places other than notified airports.

7.                  Matters concerning cess.

8.                  Carnet/Triptyque for tourist vehicles.

9.                  Parliament Question, Draft Audit Paras, PAC matters an other work connected with aforesaid items. 

Section Officer           Under Secretary             Director                Member (Cus/EP)

Prem Lata Kaushik        N.K.Sinha(OSD)              S.K.Sinha                Dr U.K.Sen

Tel: 3360473                  3360473                         3093380                    3092417

I.C. 239                             230                                290                         207
 

16. Customs Tariff Unit

List of Subject: - 

1.                  Classification of goods imported and exported for the purpose of assessment to duty, interpretation of exemption notifications, and issue of Tariff Advices and instructions relating thereto.

2.                  Customs Tariff and any Legislative and other preparatory work relating to its updating.

3.                  Conference of Commissioners of Customs on Tariffs and Allied matters.

4.         Legislative work relating to administration and levy of anti-dumping, counter vailing   and Safeguard duties; all WTO matters relating to these subjects. 

1.                  Work relating to Harmonised Systems Committee of WCO.

2.                  Project Imports

7.         Parliament Questions, Draft Audit Paragraphs, Audit Reports and Public Accounts Committee Reports relating to excess/ short levy of customs duty arising out of disputes in classification. 

Senior Technical Officer          Director (Customs)                        Member (Cust/EP)

K.M.Ravichandran                      Sh. P.K. Mohanty                            Dr. U.K. Sen

Tel No.309 3859                         Tel.No.3093908                              Tel. No.3092417

 I.Com.362                                 I.Com.275                                       I.Com.207

 

17. Foreign Travel Tax (F.T.T.) 

List of Subject: - 

1.                  Foreign Travel Tax and Inland Air Travel Tax.

2.                  Following Export Promotion Schemes and work related thereto ( both Customs and Central Excise).

(i)         100% Export Oriented Units .

(ii)               Free Trade Zones, Export Processing Zones and Special Economic Zones

(iii)             Special Jewellery Complexes and Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Schemes.

(iv)             Software Technology Park and Electronic Hardware Technology Park Schemes.

3.                  Issue of exemption notifications relating to the above schemes (both Customs and Central E     xcise).

4.         All Parliament Questions, Draft Audit Paras, PAC matters and all reports and returns, statistics and miscellaneous items concerning above subjects.

5.         Meetings of FIPB, BOA, IMSC etc.

6.         All matters relating to enforcement aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), particularly with regard to border measures. 

 S.T.O.(FTT)                         Director (Customs)                            Member (Cus/EP)

   C.P. Goyal                               Sh. P.K. Mohanty                             Dr. U.K. Sen

Tel.No.3093859                           Tel.No.3093908                                Tel. No.3092417

 I.Com.362                                       I.Com.275                                     I.Com.207

 

18. Drawback Directorate  ( located in Jeevan Deep Building) 

List of Subject:-

1.                  All matters concerning Drawback under the Customs Act, 1962.

2.                  Duty exemption against Advance Licences, DEPB (Duty Entitlement Passbook Scheme), Special Imprest Licences (Deemed export), capital goods export promotion licenes (EPCG), DFRC (Duty Free Replenishment Certificate),

3.                  Issue of exemption notifications relating to the above schemes

4.                  Ccoordination with Ministry of Commerce regarding the above schemes.

5.                  Drawback u/s 74 of the Customs Act.

6.                  Parliament Question, Draft Audit Paras, PAC matters, Returns, Statistics, Reports, Miscellaneous items on the above Subjects. 

Under Secretary        Director                      Joint Secretary       Member (Cus&E.P.)

Alok Jha                  Prashant Kumar               S.S.Renjhen             Dr. U.K.Sen

Tel 3360813                3361491                            3341079                    3092417

I.C.253                         208                                    203                           207

 

19. Anti-Smuggling Unit 

List of Subjects: -

1.                  Complaints from MPs/ Ministers/Public regarding grievances concerning searches, seizures, arrests etc., under the Customs Act.

2.                  Representation form trade association/ Chambers of Commerce regarding facilities in compliance of the provisions of Chapter IV-A and IV-B concerning notified and specified goods etc.

3.                  Analysis and evaluation of Monthly reports from Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise, and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence regarding trends in smuggling and the anti-smuggling measures.

4.                  Analysis and evaluation of reports from our foreign sources regarding smuggling activities.

5.                  To handle Parliament Question regarding anti-smuggling matters.

6.                  Preparation of material on anti-smuggling matters concerning Estimates Committee, Consultative Committee and Public Accounts Committee etc.

7.                  Preparation of briefs for various conferences/meeting on anti-smuggling.

8.                  Policy and Analysis on the disposal of confiscated goods.

9.                  Analysis of monthly reports (Master Reports) received from various Commissionerates.

10.              Examination of offering of comments for various important matters such as creation of Special Courts for the trial and economic offences, delegation of Customs Powers to Police Officers etc.

11.              Analysis and Evaluation of anti-smuggling measures in the context of the intelligence and the preventive arrangements.

12.              To deal with reference regarding anti-smuggling matters received from other Section / Department/ Ministers.

13.              Purchase of boats, launches., X-ray machines and other anti-smuggling equipments

14.              Supply of arms ammunition.

15.              Supply replacement of vehicles and equipments.

16.              Framing of reward policy ( for Customs, Central Excise and Narcotics cases).

17.              References on allotment of confiscated weapons.

18.              References/representations relating to rewards on the Customs side 

Junior Analyst       Under Secretary           Director          Chairman/Member (AS)

 Rajeev Jauhari                                             K.K.Jha                       M.K.Zutshi

Tel: 3092181               3093021                     3094476                        3092849

I.C. 215                          389                           269                              355 

 

20. Judicial Cell

List of Subject:- 

1.                  Scrutiny of orders-in original passed by all the Commissioners/AddI. Commissioners of Customs/ Central Excise for taking action u/s 35E(I) of the Central Excise & Salt Act 1944 and Section 129D(I) of the Customs Act, 1962.

2.                  Scrutiny of the order-in-appeal passed by all the Commissioners of Customs/Central Excise (Appeals) with a view to exercising overal supervision and administrative control over the Commissioners  (Appeals)

3.                  Scrutiny of the orders passed by all the Special and Regional Benches of the Tribunal.

4.                  Filing of appeals/SLPs to Supreme Court against the CEGAT`s order in appropriate cases and following up such appeals/SLPs.

5.                  Defending the appeals filed by parties in Supreme Court against the Tribunal Orders.

6.                  Briefing the Advocates; handling appeals in Supreme Court and  presence of responsible officers at the time of hearing in the Supreme Court.

7.                  Follow up action where judgements of CEGAT are accepted.

8.                  Issue of implemental or other instructions.

9.                  Initiating remedial action, legislative or otherwise.

10.              Monitoring of the work of Departmental Representative posted in Tribunal.

11.              Concept of unjust enrichment in the matter of refund of Central Excise and Customs duties and related matters.

12.              Settlement of disputes between one Govt. department and another and one Govt. department and public sector undertaking.(COD matters) 

Section Officer       Under Secy           Director(Review)                Jt. Secy.               Member (L&J)

Ramphal                                                 Sungita Sharma             Nisha Malhotra           Mahendra Prasad

Tel: 3092498             3092656                     3094028                         3092262                   3094828

I.C. 760                       759                            294                                319                          335  

21.International Customs Division (ICD)

List of Subject: - 

1.                  Work relating to the World Customs Organisation including WCO Region for Asia and Pacific (Work relating to Harmonised System Committee of WCO dealing with tariff is dealt by Tariff Unit) and deputation of officers to WCO

2.                  Agreements and MOUs for mutual administrative assistance in customs matters with other foreign governments.

3.                  Regional Free Trade Agreements, Preferential Trade Agreements and Joint Trade Commissions with foreign governments: Indo Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, SAARC etc. not specifically assigned to Land Customs Section – Formulation and interpretation of rules of origin and procedures etc. (Matters concerning grant of tariff concessions under these agreements will be handled by TRU)

4.                  Work relating to international conventions/international organizations not elsewhere assigned to any other division of CBEC

5.                  ATA Carnet on Fairs and Exhibitions, policy formulation and requests for extension of export period and sale of goods.

6.                  Organising International Customs Training Events

7.                  Correspondence with Customs Officers in Indian Missions abroad on matters of customs policy

8.                  All Correspondence with foreign Customs Administrations.

9.                  Processing of Nominations for deputation of officers to attend trainings/seminars on Customs matters in foreign countries.

10.              World Trade Organisation [ other than issues relating to Rules of Origin ]

11.              Parliament Question/VIP references relating to the above subjects. Reports and Statements relating to above matters. 

     Director (ICD)                 Joint Secretary(Customs)                   Member (Cust/EP)

S.K.Sinha                                   P.C.Jha                                              Dr. U.K.Sen

Tel: 3093380                             3092978                                                3092417

I.C. 290                                      380                                                         207                                              

 

Dated 29.8.2002 

Sub: Work distribution in the Board 

Please find enclosed the work distribution of different sections of CBEC. This is based on Ministry’s Induction material brought out by the IWSU in 1999. As decided by the Board it is proposed to circulate this to the field formations so that references from the field are sent to the correct section. Please check up the work allotment of your section(s). It may need some amendment/updation to make it more focused. Please also indicate the names, telephone numbers and intercom numbers of the Section Officers, Under Secretaries, DS/Directors, JS and Members in the relevant portions. Please initial the list after carrying out corrections and send it to the undersigned by hand. 

(A.K.Prasad)

Secretary(CBEC)

 

JS(TRU)

DIR(AS)

DIR(ICD)

DIR(CUS)

DIR(PAC)

DIR(DBK)

DIR(L)

DIR(CX6&8)

DIR(CX3&9)

DS(REVIEW)