Grant of Presidential Awards to the Officers of the Customs & Central Excise and Directorate of Enforcement on the eve of Republic Day, 2015

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  atthe risk oflife’ and for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for ‘specially distinguishedrecord of service’ ontheir achieving and maintaining excellence in the  discharge of their  duties. These awards are announced onthe eve of Republic Day.

            This year, 40 officers have been selected for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificatefor ‘Specially distinguished record of service’.

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/Directors/Additional Commissioners/Additional Directors, Deputy Directors, Superintendents/Slos, Assistant, Chief Accounts Officer, Sr. Private Secretary, Inspector, Driver 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 beenselected for grant of the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for ‘Specially distinguished   record of service’, on the occasion of Republic Day, 2015 is given below:

COMMISSIONERS

    1.          Dr. Awdhesh Kumar Singh, Commissioner, Large Tax Payers Unit,Chennai.

    2.           Shri Alok Chopra, Commissioner, Central Excise, Thane-II.

DIRECTORS/ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONERS/ADDITIONAL DIRECTORS/DEPUTY DIRECTORS

3.        Shri Rajesh Nandan Srivastava, Director, Narcotics  Control, Department of Revenue,

Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi.

4.           Shri Dheeraj Rastogi, Additional Commissioner, Service Tax Audit, Commissionerate,       Delhi.

5.        Shri Shafat Ahmad Usmani, Additional Director, DRI Hyderabad Zonal Unit, Hyderabad.

6.             Shri Chalamalla Venkat Reddy, Additional Director of Systems, Directorate     General of Systems, Chennai.

7.            Smt. Sudha Koka, Additional Commissioner, Service Tax, Audit, Commissionerate, Bangalore.

8.            Shri Shailesh Kumar, Additional Director, DRI (Hqrs), New Delhi.

9.            Shri Pankaj Kumar Singh, Additional Commissioner, First Secretary (Economic), Embassy of India, Kathmandu, Nepal.

10.       Shri Giridhar Gopalkrishna Pai, Director, Tax Research Unit, CBEC, North Block, New Delhi.

11.        Shri V. Nagendra Rao, Joint Commissioner, Commissionerate ofCustoms  (Chennai-11),

Chennai.

12.       Shri Ravindra Singh Bhati, Deputy Director, DRI, Mumbai Zonal Unit, Nhava Sheva

Regional Unit, Mumbai.

13.       Dr. Sudesh Kumar Sheoran, Deputy Director, DGCE1 (Hqrs), NewDelhi.

14.        Shri Jitendra Pal Singh, Assistant Director, Directorate of Enforcement (Hqrs), New Delhi.

15.       Shri Leo John Ilango, Assistant Commissioner, Directorate General ofVigilance,   SZU, Chennai.

16.       Shri Rajendrakumar Shantilal Raithatha, Assistant Commissioner, Commissionerate  of

Cennal Excise and Customs, Rajkot, Ahmedabad Zone.

17.       Shri Manoj Kumar, Assistant Director, Directorate of Enforcement,Eastern Region, Kolkata.

SUPERINTENDENTS/SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

18.        Shri Dipankar Baneijee, Superintendent, CenDal Bureau of Narcotics,Kolkata.

19.        Shri Shrikant Patankar, Senior fntelligence Officer, DGCEI, RegionalUnit, Indore.

20.        Shri A. Jagannadha Prasad, Superintendent, Central Excise & Customs (Anti-Evasion), Tirupati Commissionerate,Tirupati.

21.        Shri Rajesh Sharma, Superintendent, Customs (Preventive)Commissionerate, Delhi.

22.        Shri Rajendra Singh L Pathak, Superintendent, Commissionerate of Central Excise  & Customs (Ahmadabad-I),  Ahmedabad.

23.        Shri R. Ravichandran, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI (Hqrs), NewDelhi.

24.        Shri Prcm Chand Jain, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI, Zonal Unit, Ahmedabad.

25.         Shri Suman Kumar Gangopadhyay, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI, Kolkata Zonal  Unit, Kolkata.

26.        Shri Krishnakumar B. Menon, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI, Mumbai Zonal Unit, Mumbai.

27.        Shri Gavin Jude D’Mello, Superintendent, Division-Ill,Commissionerate of Service  Tax, (Mumbai-I), Mumbai.

28.        Shri Mahesh Chowdhary, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI, ZonalUnit, Ahmedabad.

29.        Shri Vitobh Shetty, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI, Regional Unit,Goa.

30.         Shri Sunil Joshi, Senior Intelligence Officer, DGCEI (Hqrs), NewDelhi.

31.        Shri B. Shridhar, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI, Bangalore ZonalUnit, Bangalore.

32.         Shri Nagendra Kumar Jha, Superintendent (Anti-Evasion), Service Tax Commissionerate, Delhi-11.

33.        Shri N.S. Dev, Superintendent, Commissionerate of Customs, Cochin.

34.         Shri Sunil Shankar Yadav, Superintendent, Service Tax Cell, Satara Division, Kolhapur Commissionerate, Kolhapur.

35.        Shri Sandeep Thapliyal, Superintendent, Commissionerate of Central Excise & Customs, Meerut.

36.                   Shri Shailendra Rammanohar Singh, Senior Intelligence Officer, DRI, Mumbai Zonal Unit, Mumbai.

INSPECTOR

37.        Shri Rideep Hazarika, Inspector, Tax Recovery Cell, Customs Division, Customs (Prey.)Commissionerate, Guwahati.

ASSISTANT CHIEF ACCOUNT OFFICER/SR. PRIVATE SECRETARY

38.        Shri Kotekar Sheik Abdul Kareem, Assistant Chief Accounts Officer, Commissionerate ofCustoms, Mangalore.

39.                  Smt. K. Savithri, Senior Private Secretary to Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, Chennai Zone.

DRIVER

40.        Shri Jagbir Singh Pundir, Driver GR-I, DRI (Hqrs.), New Delhi.