National Academy of Customs Indirect Taxes and Narcotics

National Academy of Customs Indirect Taxes and Narcotics
Abbreviation NACIN
Location
Key people
 Mr.P K Dash, Director General
Parent organisation
 Central Board of Excise and Customs, Ministry of Finance (India)
Website www.nacen.gov.in

The National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) formerly known as National Academy of Customs Excise and Narcotics (NACEN)[1] is the apex institute of Government of India for capacity building of civil servants in the field of indirect taxation, particularly the areas of customs, GST, central excise, service tax and narcotics control administration. Located at Faridabad, near India's capital New Delhi, the Academy is operated under the aegis of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs,[2] Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.[3]

The Academy's flagship programme is the training of officers of the indirect taxation branch Indian Revenue Service, better known as IRS (Customs & Indirect Tax) which administers GST, Customs and Narcotics. These officer trainees, also known as direct recruits, are selected through the Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.

Overview

Over the last two decades, NACIN along with its nine regional training institutes, has been conducting the professional training programme for officer trainees of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Tax). Starting in the last week of December each year, after the three-month long Foundation Course at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, the professional training programme involves over eighteen months of class room and on-the job-training. Officer trainees are trained in the administration of customs, Goods and service tax,excise and service taxes through a combination of class room sessions and visits to departmental locations across the length and breadth of the country. In addition, sensitisation to the working of other stakeholders is built through short training modules with organisations such as Wildlife institute of India, Indian Coast Guard , Indian Navy, central Bureau of Narcotics, National Police Academy, National Industrial Security Academy, BSF, ITBP.

Apart from training of the Group A direct recruits, NACIN and its regional training institutes also conduct induction training for its Group B (both Gazetted and Non-Gazetted) and Group C officers of the service. In-service training programs are organised for officers of Government of India across several departments in the field of customs, GST, central excise, service Tax, drug laws, green customs, cyber security, anti-money laundering, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Fake Indian Currency Notes, Ozone Depleting Substances, Intellectual Property Rights, among other subjects. These enable the field officers to develop requisite skills for keeping pace with the current international developments and the changing tax administration scenario in the country. The Academy also conducts Mid-Career Training Programs for officers of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central GST) at the transition to specific milestones of their tenure.

NACIN is the World Customs Organization's Regional Training Centre for Asia Pacific. Also, as a recognised centre for capacity building, NACIN conducts programs in the field of environment protection in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program and modules for training on drug law enforcement with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Government of India has entrusted NACIN the responsibility of knowledge exchange, experience sharing and training with various countries of the world.

Organisation

NACIN functions under the administrative control of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. NACIN is headed by a Director General, who is a senior civil servant of India, belonging to the Indian Revenue Service who is of the rank of Additional Secretary to Government of India. The Director General is assisted by Additional Director Generals, Additional Directors, Deputy Directors and Assistant Directors.

Facilities

The Academy at Faridabad is equipped with all facilities required by a training institute of its standing. These include hostels for officer trainees, guest house for visiting faculty, lecture rooms, conference halls, auditorium, amphitheatre, library, mess, computer labs, swimming pool, gymnasium, sports facilities, post office, ATM and residential quarters for academy faculty and staff.

The new NACIN complex is expected to come up in Hindupur, Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The Foundation Stone for the same was laid at the proposed site by Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Shri N.Chandrababu Naidu in April 2015.[4]

Zonal and Regional Training Institutes

NACIN has its Headquarter at Faridabad, Haryana with Zonal and Regional Training Institutes across the country. [5] The Zonal Campuses are situated at Delhi, Cochin, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata, Patna, Kanpur, Vadodara, Hyderabad, Shillong, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Vishakapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Kanpur, Chandigarh and Jaipur. Each Zonal Campus is headed by an Additional Director General. The Regional Training Institutes are located at Raipur and Ranchi.

Center Of Excellence

NACIN has a Center Of Excellence at New Delhi [6] for research work in the field of Indirect Tax and related areas.


References

  1. ↑ "renaming-NACEN-as-NACIN". Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Home Page of Central Board of Excise and Customs". www.cbec.gov.in. Archived from the original on 2007-05-28. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  3. ↑ "Home: Ministry of Finance, Government of India". finmin.nic.in. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  4. ↑ "Jaitley, CM to lay foundation for NACIN". The Hindu. 2015-04-09. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
  5. ↑ "Home: NACIN" (PDF). /www.nacen.gov.in. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Home: NACIN" (PDF). /www.nacen.gov.in. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
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