Implementation of Indian Customs EDI System 1.5 (ICES 1.5) at Customs (Import and General) New Custom House, New Delhi under CBEC’s IT Consolidation Project regarding.

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....s (Import and General), New Custom House, New Delhi. 1. Currently, ICES operations at Customs (Import and General) are being implemented on a standalone system on which LAN based connectivity has been provided to concerned Customs officer, Service Centre and Punjab National Bank and Custodian. The System is being managed by officials from the National Informatics Centre. 2. As part of the implementation of CBECs IT Consolidation Project, the EDI operations at Customs (Import and General), New Custom House, New Delhi will be migrated to ICES 1.5, an enhanced /modified version of the application software currently operational. This software, developed by NIC, would be implemented at CBEC's National Data Centre, Delhi. The System integrator ....

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....orters. The details of message exchange formats for filing Bills of Entry/Shipping Bills are available at ICEGATE website http://www.icegate.gov.in/ICES1.5.htm. The CHAs/Importers may use their own software for filing Bills of Entry in ICEGATE in prescribed message exchange formats. The free download version of RES Package is also available on ICES website at http://ices.nic.in/ICES/Home.aspx after registration. Airlines and Consol Agent 5. The Airlines/Consol Agents should file IGM/Consol Manifest only through ICEGATE. The acknowledgement for filing IGM and Consol Manifest would reach the registered e-mail address of the Airlines/Consol Agents. The message exchange formats for filing EGM are given on ICEGATE Website http://www.icegate.go....

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....at the site. In case the documents are filed through ICEGATE, then specified amount is required to be paid to the Service Centre Operator towards the stationary and services. d) It may be noted that since the documents numbers are to be assigned by the Central Server at a National level, once other ICES 1.5 sites are operational, all documents numbers e.g. for Bills of Entry, Shipping Bills. EGMs, Challans, would not be in a continuous series for each location. e) The duty payment challans would now be provided to the Punjab National Bank (PNB) through electronic messaging and the bank in turn would electronically confirm payment details to ICES 1.5 System. The Designated Bank is advised that the Desk Manager handling challans should ensu....

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....mitted to the ICES 1.0 shall not be accepted as filed on system after migration as the same shall be required to be filed again through ICEGATE. h) For Service Centre operation it may be noted that all documents entered in the Service Centre and pending for submission must be submitted prior to 25.11.2010 failing which these would have to be reentered after migration of the ICES operations to data centre. For instance if for a BE a job has been entered and not submitted prior to 25.11.2010 it would have to be entered after migration of operation to the data centre. i) The specification for EDI messages for Bill of Entry and Shipping Bills for users filing documents through internet are available on the ICEGATE website: http://wwww.icegate....

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.... Time Activites Remarks 25.11.2010 after 6 P.M. To stop Submission of documents in EDI through Service Centre & ICEGATE (Job submission by 4 pm) - 26.11.2010 upto 2.00 P.M. Officers to process & clear documents as far as possible in EDI pending at various stages. EDI Operation would be available for processing only and no new submission shall be permitted. 27.11.2010 onwards till Site goes live Manual submission and processing of documents. 27.11.2010 & 28.11.2010 Migration of data from Server at NCH to Central Server 29.11.2010 ICES 1.5 Goes live. Subject to successful migration of data. c) Punjab National Bank is advised that Desk Manager handling challans should ensure that the challans accepted on 25.11.2010 by the cash ....