Every year, the officers and staff of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs are considered for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates and Medals for “Exceptionally Meritorious Service rendered at the Risk of Life” and 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, 29 officers/staff have been selected for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates and Medals for “Specially Distinguished Record of Service”.

These officers have been selected on the basis of their exemplary and flawless performance in their respective fields of services over the years. The awardees selected this year include officers working as Principal Chief Commissioner, Commissioner, Additional Director General, Director, Additional Director, Joint Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, Chief Accounts Officer, Superintendent, Senior Intelligence Officer, Inspector and Lower Division Clerk, who have been consistently serving the department in various fields over the years.

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 Certificates and Medal for “Specially Distinguished Record of Service”, on the occasion of Republic Day, 2023 is given below:

1. Smt. Ranjana Jha, Principal Chief Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax, Bengaluru Zone;
2. Shri Vivek Prasad, Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax, Gautam Budh Nagar;
3. Shri Prabhjeet Singh Gulati, Additional Director General, Directorate General of Vigilance (Headquarters), New Delhi;
4. Shri Vinayak Chandra Gupta, Additional Director General, Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, New Delhi;
5. Dr. N. Gandhi Kumar, Director (State Taxes), Revenue (Headquarters), Department of Revenue, New Delhi;
6. Shri Kotraswamy Maregoudra, Additional Director (HRM-I), Directorate General of Human Resource Development, New Delhi;
7. Shri Anand Yeshawant Gokhale, Joint Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax (Audit-I), Mumbai;
8. Shri Ajay Kumar Beniwal, Assistant Director, Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management, New Delhi;
9. Shri Biranchi Narayan Mishra, Assistant Commissioner (Postal Appraising Section), Import-II Commissionerate, Mumbai Zone-I;
10. Ms. A. Geetha Devanand, Chief Accounts Officer, National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes & Narcotics, Bangalore;
11. Shri J. Fredrick Sarguru Doss, Superintendent, Central Goods and Services Tax, Coimbatore, Chennai Zone;
12. Smt. M. Shanthi, Superintendent, Directorate General of Vigilance, South Zonal Unit, Chennai;
13. Smt. Nadiya Naim Shaikh, Superintendent, Central Goods and Services Tax, Belapur, Mumbai Zone;
14. Shri Gaikwad Nitin Vinayakrao, Superintendent, Chief Commissioner’s Office, Central Goods and Services Tax, Pune Zone;
15. Shri Prashant Arvind Rohanekar, Superintendent, Central Goods and Services Tax, Pune-I, Pune Zone;
16. Shri Prakash Musaliyath, Superintendent, Customs Preventive Division, Calicut, Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate, Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram Zone;
17. Shri Romeo Lawrence Albuquerque, Superintendent, National Customs Targeting Centre, Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management, Mumbai;
18. Shri A. Murali, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Chennai Zonal Unit;
19. Shri Joffee Jose, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Cochin Zonal Unit;
20. Shri R. Govindan, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence, Chennai Zonal Unit;
21. Shri Ravinder Yadav, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Delhi Zonal Unit;
22. Shri Riwaj Dorjay, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence, Guwahati Zonal Unit;
23. Shri Sanjay Kumar, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Delhi Zonal Unit;
24. Shri Shailesh Vasavan Nair, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai Zonal Unit;
25. Shri Shriram K. Nelli, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Bangalore Zonal Unit;
26. Shri Siddhartha Chakrabarti, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Kolkata Zonal Unit;
27. Shri Suresh D. P., Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Bangalore Zonal Unit;
28. Shri V. Mahendran, Inspector, Office of the Principal Commissioner, CGST Coimbatore, Chennai Zone;
29. Shri Naveen Kumar, Lower Division Clerk, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (Headquarters), New Delhi.

Presidential Award of Appreciation recognizes CBIC personnel for specially distinguished record of service and exemplary performance. The release announces selection of 29 Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs officers and staff for the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates and Medals in the category of Specially Distinguished Record of Service, chosen for sustained exemplary and flawless performance; the recognised personnel span senior management and field grades and are listed by name, designation and present posting.