Description :
Customs
Parveen Talha, Competent
Authority and Administrator for Forfeiture of Property points out there is
"job variety" in this service. You could be dealing with customs, excise or
narcotics related matters. What is more "being a uniformed service there is
glamour attached to it". She comments "the service has given me confidence
and tremendous opportunities for growth". Custom Officers are not only
posted in important coastal and border towns or in towns with international
airports, they can be posted anywhere.
Your probation will be
either in Madras, Bombay, Calcutta or Delhi and in the Junior and Senior
scales you will be designated Assistant Commissioner of Customs. As Deputy
Commissioner in the JAG you will move to much bigger towns. In this grade of
JAG you could later become Additional Commissioner of Customs.
Central Excise
Your probation will be in
Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay or Madras and you will be posted in industrial
townships to begin with and then in big cities. In the Junior Scale you
could serve as Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise. You can hold the
latter rank in the Senior scale also. In the JAG you could be a Deputy or
Additional Commissioner of Central Excise. Commissioners of Customs and
Central Excise are officers in the Senior Administrative Grade. They wield
enormous power and the jurisdiction of each normally extends over several
states.
Chief Commissioners of
Customs and Central Excise are placed in the next higher grade which is
similar to that of Additional Secretaries.
After that you can aspire
to become a member of the Central Board of Excise and Customs and later even
its Chairman. While both IRS and IC and CES Officers upto the rank of
Assistant Commissioner are officially entitled to a substantial share of all
the concealed wealth they locate and seize during their raids, the latter
have traditionally received much bigger awards of this kind from the
government.
The Central Bureau of
Narcotics is located in Gwalior and headed by a Commissioner. Senior
positions in the narcotics department are held by officers of the IC and
CES. |