ISLAMABAD: Awais Agha, Chief Collector, North Region, highlighted the need to focus on customs automation, computerization, facilitation and infrastructure related matters during the collectors’ conference held on Thursday at the Customs House Islamabad.
The Chief Collector North Region chaired collectors’ conference at MCC Islamabad building where all the collectors of the Customs North Region, comprising Model Customs Collectorates Islamabad, Peshawar, Sialkot and Gilgit-Baltistan, participated.
Talking to Customs Today, Additional Collector MCC Islamabad Ishfaque Khan said that the Collector Islamabad updated the Chief Collector about the new developments regarding the NIIA while shortage of customs staff to run the function of the NIIA was also discussed.
Ishfaque Khan said that the Chief Collector North showed his satisfaction over the revenue collection as well as anti-smuggling performance of the MCC Islamabad which was demonstrated during first three quarters (July to March) FY17-18 while chasing of revenue targets under all the heads during the last quarter (April to June) FY17-18 were also discussed.
He further said that the Chief Collector North Region was asked to encourage those staffers and officers who did good work but discouraged those who did against the customs bylaws. The Chief Collector also asked the Collector of North Region to facilitate the business community to get more revenue for the national exchequers.
The Chief Collector asked Collectorate of North Region to evolve a strategy to enhance the performance against the smuggling. The construction of new Customs Houses at Gilgit-Baltistan and Torkham also came under discussion during the collectors’ conference.
