40 Officers of CBEC bag Presidential Award
By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, JAN 23, 2017: EVERY year, the Officers of the Board of Customs & Central Excise, Department of Revenue are considered for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for 'exceptionally meritorious service rendered at the risk of life' and for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for 'specially distinguished record of service' on their achieving and maintaining excellence in the discharge of their duties. These awards are announced on the eve of Republic Day.
This year, forty (40) officers have been selected for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for 'Specially distinguished record of service'.
These officers have been selected on the basis of their exemplary and flawless performance in their respective field of services over the years. The awardees selected this year include the officers working as Principal Commissioners/Commissioners; Directors/ Additional Directors/ Additional Commissioners / Joint Commissioners; Deputy/ Assistant Commissioners; Superintendents/ Senior Intelligence Officers; Senior Private Secretary; Administrative Officer; Inspectors/ Intelligence Officers; Driver and Head Havaldar, who have been consistently committed to the department in various fields.
The aforesaid officer's performance in various fields includes the prevention of smuggling of contraband and Narcotics Drugs, detection of tax evasion in Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax, detection of trade based money laundering, detection of foreign exchange violations and streamlining enforcement procedures etc. in the department. Besides, many awardees have shown their brilliance and given laudable performance in other fields as varied as tax policy, revenue mobilization, development of software for automation of Customs, Central Excise and Service tax formations, reducing litigations and dispute resolution, effective defence of cases in the Tribunals and High Courts, capacity building and training, as well as skilful handling of administrative work .
The list of officers, along with their designation and their present place of posting, who have been selected for grant of the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for 'Specially distinguished record of service', on the occasion of Republic Day, 2017 is as per the below notification.
(See NOTIFICATION NO 06/2017-Cus.,(N.T.))