Presidential Awards to 37 Officers of the
Customs, Central Excise and ED
This year a record 37 officials of the
Customs & Central Excise and Enforcement Directorate have been selected for
grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for ‘Specially
distinguished record of service’. Every year, the officers from these departments
are considered for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for
‘exceptionally meritorious service rendered at the risk of life’ and for
Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for ‘specially distinguished
record of service’ on their achieving and maintaining excellence in the
discharge of their duties. These awards are announced on the eve of Republic
Day.
These officers have been selected on
the basis of their exemplary and flawless performances in the field of service.
The awardees selected this year represent various cadres viz;
Commissioner , Directors, Superintendents, Inspectors and Drivers who have been
consistently committed to the department in various fields like the prevention
of smuggling of goods and Narcotics Drugs , Detecting Tax evasion , Detection
of Foreign Exchange Violations and Money Laundering cases by booking / arresting
the offenders and seizing the smuggled goods etc. Besides, many awardees have
shown brilliance and given commendable performance in other fields as varied as
achieving revenue mobilization, development of software for automation at
Central Excise formations, streamlining Business Processes for reducing
litigations , preparing GST (Goods and Service Tax) Model, effectively
defending cases in the Tribunals and High Courts, preparing informative web
sites for revenue officers, writing books on subjects relating to Service Tax,
drafting Constitution Amendment Bill for GST, providing consultancy services to
Customs authorities of developing nations, as well as deft handling of
administrative work .
The list of officers, along with their
designation and their present place of posting, who have been selected for
grant of the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for Specially distinguished record of service, on the occasion
of Republic Day, 2013 is given below:
Commissioners:
1.
Shri Atul Dikshit, Additional Director
General, Directorate of Systems, New Delhi.
Additional
Commissioners/Additional Directors / Joint Commissioners/ Joint Directors:
2. Shri
Mannem Raghu Rami Reddy, Additional Commissioner, Commissionerate of Service Tax – I, Mumbai.
3. Shri Ganesh Dutt Lohani, Director, Legal
Wing, Central Board of Excise & Customs, New Delhi.
4. Shri
Sunil Kumar Sinha, Director, Judicial & Review
Wing, Central Board of Excise & Customs, New Delhi.
5. Shri Rajesh Kumar
Mishra, Additional Commissioner, Commissionerate of
Central Excise, Jaipur – I, Jaipur.
6. Mrs. Limatula Yaden, Additional
Commissioner, on deputation as Director to the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, New Delhi.
Deputy
Directors / Deputy Commissioners / Assistant Directors / Assistant
Commissioners:
7. Shri Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, Deputy Commissioner, working as Officer on Special
Duty, Drawback Wing, Central Board of Excise & Customs, New Delhi.
8. Shri Vinod Kumar Agarwal, Deputy
Commissioner / working as Officer on Special Duty, Drawback Wing, Central Board
of Excise & Customs, New Delhi.
9. Shri Ashwini Kumar, Deputy Director, Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence, Mumbai Zonal Unit, Mumbai.
10. Shri Jagat Singh Tonk, Deputy
Commissioner, Commissionerate of Customs
(Preventive), New Delhi.
11. Shri Jaswant Kumar Higgins, Assistant Commissioner, Inland
Container Depot, Loni, Commissionerate
of Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax, Ghaziabad, Meerut Zone.
Appraisers/
Superintendents/Senior Intelligence Officers/ Enforcement Officers:
12. Shri Narm Deshwar
Azad, Superintendent, Regional Training Institute, National Academy of Customs
Excise & Narcotics (NACEN), New Delhi.
13. Shri
Somnath Chaudhary, Senior
Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Ahmedabad Zonal Unit, Ahmedabad.
14. Shri
Diwakar Shrikrishna Mehta,
Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai Zonal Unit, Mumbai.
15. Shri
Anil Kumar Sinha, Superintendent, Directorate General
of Systems, New Delhi.
16. Shri A. Jebastin, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of
Revenue Intelligence, Chennai Zonal Unit, Chennai .
17. Shri
Satya Bir Singh, Senior
Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (Hqrs.), New Delhi.
18. Shri Ashutosh Nivsarkar,
Superintendent, Commissionerate of Central Excise,
Indore.
19. Shri
Rakesh Gupta, Senior Intelligence Officer,
Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence, Delhi Zonal
Unit, New Delhi.
20. Shri
Pawan Kumar, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate
General of Central Excise Intelligence, Delhi Zonal
Unit, New Delhi.
21. Shri P. Muralidharan, Superintendent, Large Taxpayers Unit,
Bengaluru.
22. Shri
K. S. S. Janardhana Rao,
Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Central Excise
Intelligence, Regional Unit, Hyderabad.
23. Shri
Sarwan Singh, Senior Intelligence Officer,
Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (Hqrs.),
New Delhi.
24. Shri
Tashi Tshering Wangdi, Superintendent (OPS), Directorate of Logistics,
working in Anti- Smuggling Unit, Central Board of Excise & Customs, New
Delhi.
25. Shri M. N. Thyagaraj, Enforcement Officer, Directorate of Enforcement,
Bengaluru Zonal Office, Bengaluru.
Private
Secretary:
26. Ms. G. P. Padma Sundari, Private Secretary, Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence, Bengaluru Zonal Unit, Bengaluru.
Inspectors/Intelligence
Officers//Deputy Office Superintendent:
27. Shri Nukala Bala Subrahmanyam,
Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Hyderabad Regional
Unit, Hyderabad.
28. Shri Vedantham Srinivas, Inspector,
Customs and Central Excise, Office of the Additional Director General (Audit),
Hyderabad Zonal Unit, Hyderabad.
29. Shri Rajeev Kumar Sadana, Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence (Hqrs.), New Delhi.
30. Shri Inderjit Singh Sahni,
Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (Hqrs.),
New Delhi.
31. Shri Sandip Das, Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence, Kolkata Zonal Unit, Kolkata.
32. Shri S. Varadharajan, Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence, Mumbai Zonal Unit, Mumbai.
33. Shri Vinod Kumar Sharma, Intelligence Officer, Directorate
General of Central Excise Intelligence, Delhi Zonal
Unit, New Delhi.
34. Shri Ajitkumar Karthikeyan,
Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence,
Regional Unit, Pune.
35. Shri Purshottam Das Lalwani, Deputy
Office Superintendent, Commissionerate of Central
Excise, Jaipur – I, Jaipur.
36. Shri Ajaya Kumar K. P., Intelligence Officer, Directorate
General of Central Excise Intelligence, Regional Unit, Kochi.
Drivers:
37. Shri Virender Singh Negi, Driver Grade
– II, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (Hqrs.),
New Delhi.
[Source: PIB
(MoF) Press Release dated 24 January 2013]