Grant of Presidential Awards to the Officers of the Customs Central Excise and Directorate of Enforcement on the EVE of Republic Day, 2014
This year, 40 officers of the Customs & Central Excise Department have been selected for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for ‘Specially distinguished record of service’.
Every year, the officers of the Customs & Central Excise Department 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.
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 Commissioners/Additional Director Generals/Joint Secretary, Additional Commissioners/Additional Directors, Superintendents/SIOs, Assistant Chief Accounts Officer/Administrative Officer, Inspectors/IOs, Senior Tax Assistant, Driver/Hawaldar 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 contrabands and Narcotics Drugs, detection of tax evasion and trade based money laundering, detection of foreign exchange violations by booking / arresting the offenders and seizing the smuggled goods upgradation of anti-smuggling equipments and streamlining enforcement procedures etc in the department. Besides, many awardees have shown their brilliance and given commendable performance in other fields as varied as revenue mobilization, development of software for automation at Customs, Central Excise and Service tax formations, reducing litigations, international Conventions and Protocol relating to Trade Facilitation and enforcement, dispute resolution, effective defence of cases in the Tribunals and High Courts, preparing informative web sites for revenue officers as well as deft 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, 2014 is given below:
COMMISSIONERS/ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR GENERALS/JOINT SECRETARY
1. Shri Pranab Kumar Das, Commissioner (RI&I), Anti-Smuggling Unit, Central Board of Excise and Customs, New Delhi
2. Shri R.D. Negi, Commissioner, Central Excise, Jaipur-II Commissionerate, Jaipur
3. Shri Rajiv Talwar, Joint Secretary, Drawback Wing, Central Board of Excise and Customs, New Delhi
4. Shri Satish Kumar Agrawal, Commissioner, Central Excise, Delhi-II Commissionerate, New Delhi
5. Shri Surjit Bhujabal, Additional Director General, DGCEI, Zonal Unit, Bengaluru
6. Smt. R. Bhagya Devi, Commissioner, Central Excise, Chennai-III Commissionerate, Chennai
ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONERS/ADDITIONAL DIRECTORS
7. Shri Sanjay Mangal, Additional Commissioner, Central Excise, Rohtak Commissionerate, Rohtak
8. Shri Vijay Singh Chauhan, Director, FMO, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi
9. Shri Shubhchintan, Additional Commissioner, Delhi Customs Zone, Chief Commissioner Unit, New Delhi
10. Shri Yashwant Lal Mahawar, Additional Director, DGCEI Hqrs., New Delhi
11. Shri J.M. Kennedy, Director (Tax Research Unit), Central Board of Excise and Customs, New Delhi
12. Shri K. Balaji Majumdar, Additional Director, DRI, Zonal Unit, Chennai
13. Shri Ganga Singh Karki, Additional Director, DRI Hqrs., New Delhi
SUPERINTENDENTS / SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS/ ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
14. Shri Debaprasad Ghanti, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI, Kolkata Zonal Unit, Kolkata
15. Shri Virender Kumar Sethi, Superintendent, O/o Chief Commissioner of Customs, Delhi Zone, New Delhi
16. Shri S. Shyam Sundar Rao, Superintendent, Large Tax Payer Unit, Bengaluru
17. Shri J. Hariharan, Superintendent, Directorate General of Vigilance, South Zonal Unit, Chennai
18. Smt. S.A. Saradha, Superintendent., Directorate General of Systems & Data Management, Chennai
19. Shri Vibhav Shankar Pandey, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI Hqrs., New Delhi
20. Shri Dhoom Singh Chauhan, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI Hqrs., New Delhi
21. Shri Sanjay Kumar Bansal, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI Hqrs., New Delhi
22. Shri Saikrishna B Hatangadi, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI, Zonal Unit, Mumbai
23. Shri Asharam Meena, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI, Regional Unit, Vapi
24. Shri Tassine Sultan, Superintendent (on deputation as Assistant Director), Financial Intelligence Unit-India, New Delhi
25. Smt. K. Geetha, Superintendent (on deputation as Additional Assistant Director), DGHRD, New Delhi
26. Shri Ramesh Chander Bhardwaj, Superintendent, ICD, Tughlakabad, New Delhi
27. Shri Chittari Vijay Kumar S. Varma, Superintendent., Central Excise, CCO, Pune Zone, Pune
28. Shri Neeraj Agrawal, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI Hqrs., New Delhi
29. Smt. Sabrina Cano, Superintendent, Office of the Commissioner(AR), CESTAT, Bengaluru
30. Shri Chandra Narayan Mishra, Superintendent, NACEN, Regional Training Institute, Kanpur
31. Shri Raju P. Amlani, Enforcement Officer (on deputation as Junior Analyst), Department of Revenue, New Delhi
ASSISTANT CHIEF ACCOUNT OFFICER/ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
32. Shri Ramesh Gangadhar Noolvi, Assistant Chief Accounts Officer/Administrative Officer, Central Excise Commissionerate, Mangalore
INSPECTORS/INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS/ STA
33. Shri Sreekant Purohit, Intelligence Officer, DGCEI, Regional Unit, Raipur
34. Shri Jayant Prabhakar Nair, Intelligence Officer, DRI, Zonal Unit, Mumbai
35. Shri Umeshchand Rameshchand Gupta, Intelligence Officer, DGCEI, Hqrs., New Delhi
36. Shri Vijay V. Chary, Intelligence Officer, DRI, Zonal Unit, Mumbai
37. Shri Shivendra Satyarthi, Intelligence Officer, DRI, Sub-Regional Unit, Muzaffarpur, Lucknow Zonal Unit
38. Shri Kanchan Sil, Senior Tax Assistant, Commissioner of Customs (Port), Kolkata
DRIVER/HAWALDAR
39. Shri Shiv Kumar Sharma, Driver, Grade I, DRI Hqrs., New Delhi
40. Shri Anil Kumar, Hawaldar, DRI Hqrs., New Delhi
Hello GREAT Friends
Heartily Congretulations to all above said 40 GREATS FRIENDS.
KEEP IT UP
Mahen A Thakkar
Advocate
Gujarat High court.
Ahmedabad