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

Presidential Award of Appreciation recognizes specially distinguished service in customs, excise and enforcement across prevention, prosecution and administration. Forty officers of the Customs & Central Excise and Directorate of Enforcement were selected for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates for a specially distinguished record of service on Republic Day 2014. Selection rested on sustained exemplary performance in preventing smuggling and narcotics trafficking, detecting tax evasion and trade based money laundering, uncovering foreign exchange violations, effecting arrests and seizures, upgrading anti smuggling capability, streamlining enforcement procedures, and contributing to revenue mobilization, automation, litigation management, international trade facilitation, dispute resolution and administrative and training functions.