Chairman CBEC Assures No Hold Ups of Drawback to Exporters

DEA organized 23rd Edition of Drawback Clearance Drive in collaboration with the Customs Department. The delegation met Najib Shah, Chairman - CBEC in his North Block Chamber, New Delhi on August 17, 2015 and Member-Customs, A.K. Kaushal, CBEC; and Rajiv Talwar, Jt. Secretary-DBK.

DEA delegation was represented by Tilak Raj Manaktala, President; Ms. Nikita Agarwal & Mr. Anil Varma, Vice Presidents; and General Secretaries, Mr. Satish Rakyan & Mr. Subodh Jain and other Office Bearers .

The issue of stoppage of release of DBK funds at different ports usually in the last quarter of the financial year; But during 2014-15, the drawback disbursals stopped the end of 2nd Quarter of Financial Year ( 30th September 2014) with actual release in April-May 2015. Chairman after deliberations assured DEA team that in future Department will not freeze the Payments anytime during the Financial Year.

The President also pointed out the reasons for the old carry over pendency because of the non-filing of EGM or mis-match of EGM details/stuffing; with the result, the large number of claims have been settled by the department arbitrarily at ‘ 0 0 ‘ and the cases as per the prevailing computer system, have gone into ‘History’. All such cases have to be necessarily retrieved and settled through the manual procedure; which requires large number of documents taking 1-3 years for the settlement.

The President pleaded for simplification of the system, so as to enable to recall the data from the history to cut down the workload and the valuable time of the department and exporters as well. This problem was well taken by the department: And assured ‘NO SHUT OUTS’ from the system in future, thus avoiding unnecessary workload both for Department and the exporters.