NACEN Launches Website
CBEC Chairman, Mr. V. Sridhar inaugurated the new website of the National Academy of Customs, Excise & Narcotics ( NACEN ) - www.nacen.gov.in .
NACEN informs that:-
The website has all standard features of the websites of other top Academies of India like the information about the facilities of NACEN, Probationer's Gallery, Information about the Faculty, Picture Galleries etc . However, the website has many unique features, which are available usually on the websites of academic institutions like IITs and IIMs .
The unique feature of the website includes News and Updates, Announcements (allows the download of the notifications/correspondences by NACEN), Online Registration of Departmental Officers and Guest Faculty, Online availability of the Training Schedules at NACEN with the facility to give willingness for the training program online, provision for uploading of Articles and provision for the download of important study materials.
The visitors can submit their feedback to NACEN online using the Feedback feature of this website. Their feedback shall be used to make NACEN a true center of excellence for imparting the knowledge of indirect taxation to the world.
We wish the site all the best.
Though we do not wish to criticize something which has just been launched, certain deficiencies cannot be ignored.
++ The site will not open in Firefox but opens in Internet Explorer.
++ The ‘Galleries' contain just one irrelevant picture.
++ There is no content in the “Centre of Excellence”!
++ And there is no content in the “ RTI Act”
Strangely the Syllabus offers some good jokes.
The Central Excise ( No.2 ) Rules, 2002
is part of the syllabus. It is really a mystery as to how the distinguished faculty of the premier centre of excellence can teach a non–existing law. And the Central Excise Rules, 2002 is not a part of the syllabus.
The CBEC Excise Manual of Supplementary Instructions for New Excise Procedures as on 01.09.2001 is another subject in the syllabus. But NACEN seems to be ignorant of the fact this latest manual is as on 01.03.2005 – even after four and a half years of the revised manual, NACEN is about eight years behind. And they produce the future leaders of this department!
Launching a website is rather easy – the problem is maintaining and updating it. Almost all Commissionerates and directorates of CBEC have their websites but they are now graveyards proclaiming their glorious past existence.
Even NACEN had a website a few years ago. God knows what happened to that.
NACEN is a premier world class academy and it is essential that its website is accurate and up to date.
We hope the authorities keep this in mind and ensure that the website is properly maintained and updated – otherwise it will be a matter of shame for us in the international circles.
Log on to www.nacen.gov.in and send your feedback and watch for the response. [In Internet Explorer only]