{"id":26355,"date":"2017-05-25T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=26355"},"modified":"2017-05-25T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:00:51","slug":"new-members-central-board-excise-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/new-members-central-board-excise-customs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Members of the Central Board of Excise and Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who have been recently appointed as the new members of Central Board of Excise and Customs?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) R K Mahajan and Mahender Singh<br \/>\n(b) Ajit Seth and Kaushal Singh<br \/>\n(c) Ajeet Kumar Shrivastav and Shabri Bhattshali<br \/>\n(d) Rajendra Kumar and VN Sarna<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Senior bureaucrats R K Mahajan and Mahender Singh were appointed as members in the Central Board of Excise and Customs on May 09, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Mahajan is the director general of Central Excise Intelligence and Mr. Singh is the director general (audit).<\/li>\n<li>The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved their appointment as members in CBEC.<\/li>\n<li>CBEC, the apex policy-making body for indirect taxes, has only two members &#8212; Ananya Ray and S Ramesh &#8212; against the sanctioned strength of six.<\/li>\n<li>With the appointment of Mahajan and Singh, only two posts are left to be filled up.<\/li>\n<li>Senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Vanaja N Sarna is the CBEC&#8217;s chairperson.<\/li>\n<li>Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) is a part of the Department of Revenue under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It deals with the tasks of formulation of policy concerning levy and collection of Customs &amp; Central Excise duties and Service Tax, prevention of smuggling and administration of matters relating to Customs, Central Excise, Service Tax and Narcotics to the extent under CBEC&#8217;s purview.<\/li>\n<li>The Board is the administrative authority for its subordinate organizations, including Custom Houses, Central Excise and Service Tax Commissionerates and the Central Revenues Control Laboratory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/gst-r-k-mahajan-mahender-singh-appointed-cbec-members-117050900344_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/gst-r-k-mahajan-mahender-singh-appointed-cbec-members-117050900344_1.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbec.gov.in\/htdocs-cbec\/whoweare\/whoweare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.cbec.gov.in\/htdocs-cbec\/whoweare\/whoweare<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who have been recently appointed as the new members of Central Board of Excise and Customs? (a) R K Mahajan and Mahender Singh (b) Ajit Seth and Kaushal Singh (c) Ajeet Kumar Shrivastav and Shabri Bhattshali (d) Rajendra Kumar and VN Sarna Ans: (a) Senior bureaucrats R K Mahajan and Mahender Singh were appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-26355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}