Specific safeguard appointment: Director General designated to administer transitional product-specific safeguard duties under customs rules. The Central Government, exercising powers under the Customs Tariff (Transitional Product Specific Safeguard Duty) Rules, 2002, appoints Shri Lakhinder Singh, Director General (Safeguard), as Director General (Specific Safeguard) to administer the product-specific safeguard mechanism, and supersedes the earlier notification appointing the relevant officer, without affecting prior actions or omissions.