On the eve of Republic Day in 2023, 29 employees of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC), Department of Revenue, have received presidential awards.
Each year, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs’ officers and staff are given consideration for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates and Medals for “Exceptionally Meritorious Service rendered at the Risk of Life” and for “Specially Distinguished Record of Service” on the basis of their attaining and maintaining excellence in the performance of their duties. On the night before Republic Day, these honours are announced.
For the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates and Medals for “Specially Distinguished Record of Service,” 29 officers and employees have been chosen this year.
These officers were chosen based on their consistently excellent and faultless performance in their specialised fields of service. This year’s honorees include officers who have consistently served the department in a variety of capacities over the years, including those holding the positions of Principal Chief Commissioner, Commissioner, Additional Director General, Director, Additional Director, Joint Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, Chief Accounts Officer, Superintendent, Senior Intelligence Officer, Inspector, and Lower Division Clerk.
The list of officers who have been chosen to receive the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates and Medal for “Specially Distinguished Record of Service” on the occasion of Republic Day in 2023 is shown below, along with their designation and current location of posting:
- Smt. Ranjana Jha, Principal Chief Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax, Bengaluru Zone;
- Shri Vivek Prasad, Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax, Gautam Budh Nagar;
- Shri Prabhjeet Singh Gulati, Additional Director General, Directorate General of Vigilance (Headquarters), New Delhi;
- Shri Vinayak Chandra Gupta, Additional Director General, Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, New Delhi;
- Dr. N. Gandhi Kumar, Director (State Taxes), Revenue (Headquarters), Department of Revenue, New Delhi;
- Shri Kotraswamy Maregoudra, Additional Director (HRM-I), Directorate General of Human Resource Development, New Delhi;
- Shri Anand Yeshawant Gokhale, Joint Commissioner, Central Goods and Services Tax (Audit-I), Mumbai;
- Shri Ajay Kumar Beniwal, Assistant Director, Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management, New Delhi;
- Shri Biranchi Narayan Mishra, Assistant Commissioner (Postal Appraising Section), Import-II Commissionerate, Mumbai Zone-I;
- Ms. A. Geetha Devanand, Chief Accounts Officer, National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes & Narcotics, Bangalore;
- Shri J. Fredrick Sarguru Doss, Superintendent, Central Goods and Services Tax, Coimbatore, Chennai Zone;
- Smt. M. Shanthi, Superintendent, Directorate General of Vigilance, South Zonal Unit, Chennai;
- Smt. Nadiya Naim Shaikh, Superintendent, Central Goods and Services Tax, Belapur, Mumbai Zone;
- Shri Gaikwad Nitin Vinayakrao, Superintendent, Chief Commissioner’s Office, Central Goods and Services Tax, Pune Zone;
- Shri Prashant Arvind Rohanekar, Superintendent, Central Goods and Services Tax, Pune-I, Pune Zone;
- Shri Prakash Musaliyath, Superintendent, Customs Preventive Division, Calicut, Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate, Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram Zone;
- Shri Romeo Lawrence Albuquerque, Superintendent, National Customs Targeting Centre, Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management, Mumbai;
- Shri A. Murali, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Chennai Zonal Unit;
- Shri Joffee Jose, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Cochin Zonal Unit;
- Shri R. Govindan, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence, Chennai Zonal Unit;
- Shri Ravinder Yadav, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Delhi Zonal Unit;
- Shri Riwaj Dorjay, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence, Guwahati Zonal Unit;
- Shri Sanjay Kumar, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Delhi Zonal Unit;
- Shri Shailesh Vasavan Nair, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Mumbai Zonal Unit;
- Shri Shriram K. Nelli, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Bangalore Zonal Unit;
- Shri Siddhartha Chakrabarti, Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Kolkata Zonal Unit;
- Shri Suresh D. P., Senior Intelligence Officer, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Bangalore Zonal Unit;
- Shri V. Mahendran, Inspector, Office of the Principal Commissioner, CGST Coimbatore, Chennai Zone;
- Shri Naveen Kumar, Lower Division Clerk, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (Headquarters), New Delhi.
