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Central Excise to augment its staff strength to meet challenges

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Department will need 20,000 more employees in the next five years

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Swami Sukhabodhananda (left); R.K. Singla (second from left), Commissioner, Central Excise Bangalore-1; Heera Radhakrishnan, Chief Commissioner, Customs; and Subhash Chander, Chief Commissioner, Central Excise, Bangalore Zone, at the inauguration of Central Excise Day celebrations in Bangalore on Monday.

BANGALORE: The Central Excise Department will need 15,000 to 20,000 more employees in the next five years in the country to be in a position to meet the challenges of the future tax collection, especially with the emergence of the special economic zones (SEZ), Chief Commissioner of Central Excise Bangalore Zone Subhash Chander has said.

He was speaking at the Central Excise Day organised by the department here on Monday.

Mr. Subhash Chander said the SEZs had a different type of accounting system. The system of tax calculation and tax collection from SEZs needed to be highly proficient. The department was now looking at augmenting as well as re-orienting its human resource towards preparing it for meeting new challenges.

Mr. Chander said the department had already started training its personnel for the introduction of General Sales Tax (GST) in 2010.

The department also honoured some of the top taxpayers in the Bangalore zone on the occasion.

Later as part of the Central Excise Day, Swami Sukhabodananda gave a lecture. Chief Commissioner of Customs Heera Radhakrishnan was present.

According to statistics provided by the department, tax collection in Bangalore zone for 2006-07 was Rs. 3,618 crore and Rs. 3,062 crore for 2007-08 (up to January 2008) against the target of Rs. 4,160 crore.

The revenue from service tax in Bangalore zone for 2006-07 was Rs. 2,107 crore and for 2007-08 (up to January 2008) it was Rs. 2,400 crore against the target of Rs. 3,245 crore. The Bangalore Central Excise Zone had the country’s first “large tax units.” It earned Rs. 775 crore in 2006-07 and Rs. 695 crore in 2007-08 (up to January 2008) against the target of Rs. 880 crore.

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