Setting up of Turant Suvidha Kendra (TSK) for faceless assessment - Customs - Standing Order No. 06/2020

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS ICD-GRFL, G.T.ROAD, SAHNEWAL, LUDHIANA C. No. VIII-CUS/HQ/LDWED1-Section/PN-SOPs/87/2015/ Pt-l Dated: 16.07.2020 Standing Order No. 06/2020 Subject: - Setting up of Turant Suvidha Kendra (TSK) for faceless assessment- reg Attention of all the officers of ICDs/CFSs of Customs Commissionerate, Ludhiana is invited to CBIC Circular No. 32/2020-Customs dated 06.07.2020 wherein the Board has directed for setting up of Turant Suvidha Kendra (TSK) by 15.07.2020 for carrying out functions mentioned in Para 5 of Circular No. 28/2020-Customs dated 05.06.2020. Also refer to Ludhiana Customs Public Notice No. 34/2020 dated 16.07.2020. 2. TSKs have been set up in all the ICDs/CFSs of Customs Commissionerate, Ludhiana with effect from 15.07.2020. This step is being taken in advance of the pan-India rollout of Faceless Assessment, which would be done in phases to be announced soon. T SK would be a dedicated cell manned by Customs officer to cater to functions and roles mentioned below: 3. The roles and responsibilities of various officers posted at TSKs are as follows: 3.1 Deputy/Assistant Commissioner: a) Accept Bond or Bank Guarantee (BG) in respect of import of goods including import related to Export promotion schemes; b) Carry out any other verification that may be referred by Assessment Groups; c) Defacing/debiting of documents/permits licenses, wherever required; d) Other functions determined by the Commissioner to facilitate trade. 3.2 Superintendent/Appraisers: a) Acceptance and cancellation of Bond and BG. b) Act as supervisory head of the TSK cell. c) Any Other function assigned by the Commissioner from time to time. 3.3 Inspector/Tax Assistant: a) Scrutiny and verification of Bond/BG for acceptance by DC/AC. b) Carry out physical verification of documents referred by Assessment Group. c) Any other function assigned by the Commissioner from time to time. a) Scrutiny of documents referred by Assessment Group. b) Maintaining the Bond and Bank Guarantee Registers. c) Safe custody of original BG accepted by Superintendent/Appraisers and Deputy/Assistant Commissioner of TSK. d) Verification of seals and signature of Country oforigin certificate uploaded in e-Sanchit. e) Debiting/Defacing of original physical documents uploaded in e-Sanchit. f) Carry out any other verification that may be referred by the faceless Assessment Group. g) Numbering, handling and safe keeping of documents retained at TSK. h) Scanning of all documents accepted/verified/defaced/debited with cross reference of Bill of Entry No. and date. i) Any other function assigned by the Commissioner from time to time. 4. The following procedure is prescribed for T SK officers: 4.1 Bond/BG: a) The TA will receive and enter the details of the Bond/BG in the register and will forward to the Superintendent/Appraiser TSK. b) The Bond/BG will be verified and scrutinized by the Superintendent/Appraiser, TSK and will forward to Inspector/TA for generation of Job Number in ICES System. c) After generation of Job Number, the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner, T SK will accept the Bond/BG on hard copy and also in the ICES system. d) In accepting bonds, it shall be the responsibility of the AC/DC in charge of TSK to make sure that the legal text and format of the Bond is in order, for instance, that an unequivocal auto-renewal clause is incorporated therein. e) With regard to Warehousing Bond, the original bonds shall be forwarded by TA, TSK to the Bond Section on daily basis for further necessary action. f) T A, TSK shall keep Bonds other than Warehousing Bonds in their safe custody. g) TA, TSK shall ensure safe custody of the BG. 4.2 Other Documents: a) All documents received in TSK shall be acknowledged. b) Physical copies shall be verified/ debited/ defaced/ accepted only in respect of the documents uploaded in e-Sanchit. c) Physical copy of documents which are required to be retained by Customs shall be kept in T SK in safe custody. d) Physical copies are seen by T SK officer only for those documents where verification/ submission/defacement/debiting are required, like Country of Origin Certificate. e) Assessment Group/ RMS Facilitation officers shall verify the documents uploaded in e- Sanchit for the purpose of assessment or CCV or OOC. f) T SK officer shall select such document in the System to see what has been uploaded by the importer in e-Sanchit and mark it as verified/ defaced/ debited in System under the new role TSK OFF after verifying and defacing/debiting the original paper copy. g) Once in the database of the System, the verification/ defacement/debiting confirmation will be available to Assessment/ RMS Facilitation Centre/ OOC officer. h) After completing the due process in respect of the documents received, a scanned copy of the documents shall be kept by the TSK officers with cross reference of the Bill of Entry No. and date. 5. Further in order to ensure a smooth transition towards faceless appraisement, single continuity bonds may only be accepted after the roll out of faceless appraisement at Ludhiana Customs. (A.S. Ranga) Commissioner