DRI -ends justify means - Founding Day Function Today - FM attends
DIRECTORATE of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) is celebrating its Founding Day Function today. The Finance Minister is the Chief Guest. MoS JD Seelam and Chairperson of CBEC Praveen Mahajan, apart from a large number of senior retired officers of DRI will grace the occasion.
In the note proposing the creation of DRI, the then Finance Secretary noted:
The essential features of the proposed organization are: -
1. It is designed to collect and collate information and to strike swiftly;
2. It is officer-intensive and the ministerial staff has been kept at a minimum;
3. Although small, it is a high-powered organization so that it can issue instructions to Collectors and can command the confidence and respect of the other State and Central organizations with which it has necessarily to deal in order to become effective;
4. It will consist of selected officers, that is, those who by temperament and experience, are equipped to do this specialized kind of work;
5. It will have no routine job of its own in the sense that it is required to collect a certain amount of revenue. It will have complete liberty to act on 'hunches' and only the ends will justify the means it adopts. [third degree?]
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence was thus constituted on 4th December 1957, for dealing exclusively with the work relating to the collection and study of information on smuggling activities and the deployment of all anti-smuggling resources at the all India level, besides arranging training for the intelligence and Investigation officers of the Custom Houses and Central Excise Collectorates deployed on similar work.
The Founding Day actually falls on December 04, but maybe they could not hold the function on that day due to elections in Delhi - so they are holding it today.
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