Published in:
The Indian Express
Pubished on:
7 Dec 2016
In order to improve ‘ease of doing business’ in the country, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) to cut down the examination of consignments at ports to just 10 per cent of the present value through “risk-based criteria”.
“CBEC will follow up with the heads of all agencies (port regulators, airport terminal operators, etc) to address the issue of bringing down number of consignments for examination to 10 per cent through risk-based criteria,” said the minutes of the meeting chaired by Nripendra Mishra, principal secretary to PM, on May 7 this year. This meeting was called to review implementation of recommendations for improving “ease of doing business” in India.