Passengers returning to India need to fill luggage declaration form along with arrival card. This is new rule under custom baggage declaration regulation. Custom department issued a circular no.5/2014 dated 27 February 2014. Full circular is as under.
Attention is invited to Customs Baggage Declaration Regulation, 2013 notified vide Notification No 90/2013-Cus (N.T.) dated 29.08.2013 subsequently amended vide Notification No. 133/2013-Cus. (N.T.) dated 30.12.2013 and Notification No. 10/2014-Cus (N.T.) dated 10.02.2014. The Customs Baggage Declaration Regulations, 2013 will come into force with effect from 1.03.2014.
2. Under the Customs Baggage Declaration Regulations 2013 all incoming international passengers will be required to declare the content of their baggage in the Indian Customs Declarations Form prescribed in the regulation. Therefore the declaration relating to Customs purposes by incoming passengers in arrival card notified by MHA hitherto done by passengers will be dispensed with. In other words, the incoming passengers will have to fill up the form notified under Customs Baggage Declaration Regulations 2013 independent of the form prescribed by the MHA. Ministry of Home Affairs has decided that arrival (disembarkation) card of MHA would be given to foreign nationals only.
3. Directorate of Publicity and Public Relations, New Delhi has been requested to print the Indian Customs Declarations Forms and distribute the same to all Commissioners of Customs having jurisdiction over the airports. The Indian Customs Declarations Forms may also be handed over to concerned airlines for distributing the same among the passengers.
4. Board desires that the Commissioners of Customs should sensitize field formations working at airports so that this arrangement should not disrupt passenger facilitation at the airports.
5. Wide publicity may be given at the airports and suitable public notice be issued for guidance of staff.
6. Difficulty, if any, may be brought to the notice of the Board immediately.
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smugglers will have immunity this will be used to harass genuine passengers only as is being done by all departments genuine tax payers are harassed and corrupt crooks being let free through contacts??????
ReplyDeleteFULLY AGREE WITH U.
DeleteThe CROOKS supposedly handling the SCREENING of ARRIVAL PASSENGERS just would like to lick their THUMBS in delight the moment any PASSENGER erroneously fails to declare or makes a mistake in the declaration. The JOB of these CROOKED OFFICERS is to just refrain from BAGGAGE HANDLING and leave the PASSENGER to commit a MISTAKE...and then RAKE in the MOOLAH by way of BRIBES and PENALTIES at the AIRPORTS.
The whole purpose of this exercise seems moot to me. One does not expect a smuggler to list out the prohibited items in his declaration HaHaHa
ReplyDeleteSo now, the poor custom staff who faced unfair hardships due to tax & duties reforms, are given some respite and will finally be allowed to charge genuine bribes from cruel passengers who dare to visit their motherland. Why not? Every one in India deserves a fair treatment. In fact, government should pass a constitutional amendment that every time a new bill of reforms is passed, it will be mandatory for the sitting government to open up alternate channels to at least protect poor government servants' total income as well as harassing powers.
ReplyDeleteGuptaji
DeleteOn the contrary RAGA wants an ANTI-CORRUPTION ORDINANCE to be passed without delay lest the "poor" Govt.SErvants LEAVE their GOVT.jobs and join Private Sector and one of the ANTI-GRAFT Provisions is NO RIGHT of ANY POLICEMAN or COURT to TRY the so-far CORRUPT GOVT.SERVANTS simply becoz they have helped build the KANGRESS CAPITAL these 10 years