A new electronic system to clear consignments, Risk Management System (RMS), will be introduced at the Ahmedabad Customs house from Thursday. Chief commissioner of Customs for Gujarat zone, Ajit Kumar, said this here on Wednesday.
While addressing mediapersons during a curtain raiser on the occasion, Kumar said, “With the computer based scrutiny of documents, the present practice of routine assessment, concurrent audit and examination of all Bills of Entry (BoE) will be discontinued, thereby enabling the department to enhance level of facilitation and speed up the process of cargo clearance without compromising the interest of revenue.”
Additional director general, directorate of systems (customs and excise) B Bhattacharya, who gave a power point presentation on the RMS said, “The Ahmedabad commissionerate is the sixth such in the country to install an RMS system for clearance of consignments. With an automated customs clearance by RMS, the average clearance time, which is presently 46 hours, will be just two hours. In the initial stage, the system will be made operational for imports in groups 1 to 6.”
The objective of RMS is to strive for an optimum balance between facilitation and enforcement.
The RMS will reduce the burden of routine assessments, making the officer devote more time to transaction that requires closer scrutiny. Apart from reducing the dwelling time, the RMS will also reduce transaction cost for compliant importers and they will be able to obtain the accessed copies of their bills and challan within a short span of time.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
While addressing mediapersons during a curtain raiser on the occasion, Kumar said, “With the computer based scrutiny of documents, the present practice of routine assessment, concurrent audit and examination of all Bills of Entry (BoE) will be discontinued, thereby enabling the department to enhance level of facilitation and speed up the process of cargo clearance without compromising the interest of revenue.”
Additional director general, directorate of systems (customs and excise) B Bhattacharya, who gave a power point presentation on the RMS said, “The Ahmedabad commissionerate is the sixth such in the country to install an RMS system for clearance of consignments. With an automated customs clearance by RMS, the average clearance time, which is presently 46 hours, will be just two hours. In the initial stage, the system will be made operational for imports in groups 1 to 6.”
The objective of RMS is to strive for an optimum balance between facilitation and enforcement.
The RMS will reduce the burden of routine assessments, making the officer devote more time to transaction that requires closer scrutiny. Apart from reducing the dwelling time, the RMS will also reduce transaction cost for compliant importers and they will be able to obtain the accessed copies of their bills and challan within a short span of time.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com