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Mangalore Customs Commissionerate earns revenue of Rs. 600.35 crore

Staff Correspondent

One per cent of the revenue for the development of the commissionerate

MANGALORE: The Mangalore Customs Commissionerate has earned a revenue of Rs. 600.35 crore during 2006-07 against the target of Rs. 590 crore, John Joseph, Customs Commissioner, said here on Thursday.

Addressing presspersons, he said that since the commissionerate had surpassed the target, the Government had sanctioned one per cent of the revenue collected over and above the target towards the development of the commissionerate. It would be used for the development of facilities at the office.

Though the revenue target for 2007-08 was yet to be fixed, the commisisonerate had estimated that it could collect Rs. 660.55 crore, Dr. Joseph said.

He said that during 2005-06 the commissionerate had collected revenue of Rs. 650.44 crore against the target of Rs. 500 crore.

Dr. Joseph said that in the last financial year the Commissionerate had destroyed 3,100 kg of ganja plants valued at Rs. 13.95 lakh. As a preventive measure regular road patrolling and sea patrolling were conducted to check smuggling.

In the 2007-08 budget, the Centre has imposed a duty of Rs. 300 per tonne on export of iron ore and concentrates of all kinds, which is expected to fetch a revenue of Rs. 108 crore.

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