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 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.
This year, 40 officers have been selected for grant
of Presidential Award of
Appreciation Certificate for ‘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 been selected
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
of Customs (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), New Delhi.
14.
Shri Jitendra Pal Singh, Assistant
Director, Directorate of Enforcement
(Hqrs), New Delhi.
15. Shri Leo John Ilango, Assistant Commissioner, Directorate General of Vigilance, 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, Regional
Unit, 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), New Delhi.
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, Zonal Unit, Ahmedabad.
29.
Shri Vitobh Shetty, Senior Intelligence Officer,
DGCEI, Regional Unit, Goa.
30.
Shri Sunil Joshi, Senior
Intelligence Officer, DGCEI (Hqrs), New Delhi.
31.
Shri B. Shridhar, Senior
Intelligence Officer, DRI, Bangalore Zonal Unit, 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 of Customs,
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.
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MJPS/KA