Lalitpur, Aug 11: Finance
Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara Thursday directed the employee at the
Department of Customs to work with high morale and integrity in order to
achieve the target set by the government.
The government has given the
revenue target of Rs. 246 billion to the Customs.
Inaugurating a two-day seminar
on Customs Management here, he said, “If there are any challenges to the smooth
operation of the customs, they will be addressed but we need to make the
customs more effective.”
FM Mahara urged the participants
to find the way to customs reform and formulate future plans.
Speaking on a different note, he
said that the first priority of the government was to implement the
constitution and federalism.
Secretary of revenue at the
Ministry of Finance Rajan Khanal said that the customs were the major source of
revenue collection.
“Trade facilitation should be
the priority at the customs. The government is implementing digital technology
to make the customs operations more efficient and effective,” he said.
Director general of the Department, Shishir
Kumar Dhungana expressed his commitment to meet the customs revenue target.
He informed that the single
window for trade facilitation was under tendering process and would be
implement by 2018.
“Last year we installed IP
camera at 13 customs offices which has enabled us to monitor the activities
there from the central office of the Department and Ministry of Finance. We
have given priority to the development of infrastructure related to the customs
and trade facilitation,” he said.
Dhungana said that the
Department was expediting the digitization process of customs offices.
It had started the Automated
System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA) as piloting from Mechi Customs Offices in the
last fiscal year, and it will be expanded to 10 customs offices this year.
According to Dhungana, the
seminar would discuss on eight thematic areas related to the customs and
diagnose the challenges as well as find solutions to them.
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