Turant Customs – Turant Suvidha Kendra and other Initiatives for Contactless Customs

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....de and streamline procedures, particularly to overcome the scourge of Covid-19, following initiative Are being implementing in the system w.e.f 6th July 2020. 2. Under its flagship 'Turant Customs' programme aimed at providing a 'Faceless, Contactless and Paperless' Customs administration, Board has recently introduced a number of initiatives that leverage technology in order to enhance the efficiency in the Customs clearance processes thereby leading tospeedy clearances, transparency in decision making, ease of doing business and very importantly, reduce physical contact in the prevailing pandemic situation. These initiatives include, amongst others, automated clearances of Bills of Entry, digitisation of Customs documents, paperless cl....

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....by Customs officers at Assessment and Customs Compliance Verification (CCV) stages would normally be based on the documents uploaded in the e-Sanchit, not requiring physical submission of documents. However, if in any exceptional situation the physical submission of documents is required by Customs, for defacement or validation, such submission would be made only at the TSKs. (ii) Documents requiring verification during examination for validation with goods would continue to be done during examination, as at present. (iii) One or more TSKs may be set up for the convenience of the trade. (iv) Suitable procedures are to be devised for handling & safe keeping of the documents produced at TSKs. Ideally these documents....

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....ctronically submit the Passbook copy or Bank Authorisation letter through e- Sanchit. The exporters would also have access to a Dashboard to view the status of approval and acceptance at PFMS, for quick rectification at their end. The detailed step-by-step guide is available on the ICEGATE portal at https://www.icegate.gov.in/Download/Bank_Account_Management_Advisory.pdf. 5.1.3. The Principal Commissioner/Commissioner of Customs is advised to ensure that the concerned Customs officer completes the approval process for registration/updation of the Authorised Dealer (AD) Code and Bank Account(s) details in ICES within the same working day of receiving the applications, if all requirements are submitted in ICEGATE. Further, if any def....