Najib Shah Appointed CBEC Chairman

New Delhi: Senior IRS officer Najib Shah was today appointed as Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), apex body on Indirect Taxes.

Najib Shah was today appointed as CBEC Chairman.

The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved the appointment of Shah as Chairman, CBEC, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training said.

Shah, a 1979 batch officer of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), has been working as Member in the board since May this year.

Shah, who had also been Director General of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), was also acting Chairman of the board after retirement of Kaushal Srivastava, about three months back.

Shah will have tenure till March 11, 2017, when he attains the age of superannuation–60 years.

The CBEC consists of a chairperson and maximum of six members. At present, Shah’s wife Neerja, V S Krishnan, Vanaja N Sarna, Ram Tirath and Ananya Ray are working as other members.

JAC OF CBEC

The constituent Association of Joint Action Committee (JAC) in CBEC met on 04^th Oct, 2015 in C.R. Building, New Delhi.  A review was undertaken to assess the developments on each of the demands placed by the JAC before the Board.  It was noted with concern that nothing much has happened since then although Board has issued a Minutes of the meeting held with the Hon’ble Chairman on 21.07.2015, the Minutes did not have any specific commitment.  It was unanimously decided to press for settlement of pending demands.  Some associations were of the view that the JAC should embark  on agitational programme to press for our demands.  Some others opined that we should prepare our organization and in the meanwhile negotiate with the Board to achieve in a time bound manner.  After threadbare discussions, JAC submitted a representation urging Board to take appropriate action with reference to our demands within a specific time frame (Representations of the Minutes is linked herewith).