KARACHI: The up-gradation process of PCA-Module in Web-Based One Customs (WeBOC), an automated system, has not yet completed after passing adequate time of around two months, it is learnt here.
Sources informed Customs Today that the Directorate General of Post Clearance Audit (PCA), with the assistance of Directorate General of Reforms and Automation, had completed 50 percent automated process of the PCA module last month, after which no significant move has been made in this regard.
Sources disclosed that the Directorate General of Post Clearance Audit, following the directives of Director Gul Rehman, had initiated the data up-gradation process a month ago. The PCA has completed half of its work and is seeking up-gradation of the entire data from 2009. Sources added that the PCA has made around 4,500 tax evasion cases from 2009 to 2015.
“The process in order to switch the entire data of those aforementioned years is indeed an uphill task, however; the hurdles in the up-gradation of automated PCA module is regrettable,” sources added.
To a query, the sources revealed that the officials concerned of Reforms and Automation would complete the entire task by the end of current fiscal year.
It is pertinent to mention here that the authorities concerned of the Directorate of Post Clearance Audit-PCA and Directorate of Reforms and Automation, both have decided to provide online (automated) access to the Directorate of PCA in order to carry out its working efficiently.
Later, a meeting was held in this regard at the Office of the Director-Directorate of Reforms and Automation in which Director General of Directorate General PCA Junaid Akram and other authorities concerned participated.
During the meeting, it was decided that the Directorate R&A would formulate a PCA-module through which entire details of the cases formed by the Directorate would be transferred from manual to automation in order to enhance the performance of the directorate and improve the revenue recovery through automated system installed at DG-PCA.
