Abbreviation NACEN Website www.nacen.gov.in | Location Faridabad, Haryana | |
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Key people Mr.P K Dash, Director General Parent organisation Central Board of Excise and Customs, Ministry of Finance (India) | ||
The National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) is the apex institute of Government of India for capacity building of civil servants in the field of indirect taxation, particularly the areas of customs, central excise, service tax and narcotics control administration. Located at Faridabad, near India's capital New Delhi, the Academy is operated under the aegis of the Central Board of Excise and Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
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The Academy's flagship programme is the training of officers of the indirect taxation branch Indian Revenue Service, better known as IRS (Customs & Central Excise). These officer trainees, also known as direct recruits, are selected through the Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.
Overview
Over the last two decades, NACEN along with its nine regional training institutes, has been conducting the professional training programme for officer trainees of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central Excise). Starting in the last week of December each year, after the three-month long Foundation Course at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, the professional training programme involves over eighteen months of class room and on-the job-training. Officer trainees are trained in the administration of customs, excise and service taxes through a combination of class room sessions and visits to departmental locations across the length and breadth of the country. In addition, sensitisation to the working of other stakeholders is built through short training modules with organisations such as Wildlife institute of India, Indian Coast Guard , Indian Navy, central Bureau of Narcotics, National Police Academy, National Industrial Security Academy, BSF, ITBP.
Apart from training of the Group A direct recruits, NACEN and its regional training institutes also conduct induction training for its Group B (both Gazetted and Non-Gazetted) and Group C officers of the service. In-service training programs are organised for officers of Government of India across several departments in the field of customs, central excise, service Tax, drug laws, green customs, cyber security, anti-money laundering, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Fake Indian Currency Notes, Ozone Depleting Substances, Intellectual Property Rights, among other subjects. These enable the field officers to develop requisite skills for keeping pace with the current international developments and the changing tax administration scenario in the country. The Academy also conducts Mid-Career Training Programs for officers of the India Revenue Service (Customs & Central Excise) at the transition to specific milestones of their tenure.
NACEN is the World Customs Organization's Regional Training Centre for Asia Pacific. Also, as a recognised centre for capacity building, NACEN conducts programs in the field of environment protection in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Program and modules for training on drug law enforcement with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Government of India has entrusted NACEN the responsibility of knowledge exchange, experience sharing and training with various countries of the world.
Organisation
NACEN functions under the administrative control of the Central Board of Excise & Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. NACEN is headed by a Director General, who is a senior civil servant of India, belonging to the India Revenue Service who is of the rank of Additional Secretary to Government of India. The Director General is assisted by Additional Director Generals, Additional Directors, Deputy Directors and Assistant Directors.
Facilities
The Academy at Faridabad is equipped with all facilities required by a training institute of its standing. These include hostels for officer trainees, guest house for visiting faculty, lecture rooms, conference halls, auditorium, amphitheatre, library, mess, computer labs, swimming pool, gymnasium, sports facilities, post office, ATM and residential quarters for academy faculty and staff.
The new NACEN complex is expected to come up in Hindupur, Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The Foundation Stone for the same was laid at the proposed site by Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Shri N.Chandrababu Naidu in April 2015.