Waiver from payment of cost recovery charge in respect of ICDs/ CFSs, Seaports, Air Cargo Complexes
ORGANISATIONS requiring the services of Customs Officers for performing various statutory duties are required to pay the costs of these officers. The Department used to create cost recovery posts, especially for this purpose. Issue of waiver from the payment of cost recovery charge in respect of ICDs/ CFSs, Seaports, Air Cargo Complexes, Courier Terminals, Diamond Plazas, etc. was under consideration of the Board for some time.
Now, the CBEC has decided that Chief Commissioner of Customs/Central Excise are authorized: -
(i) to exempt cost recovery charges for eligible facilities for posts that were not sanctioned. The exemption shall be for staff deployed. Excess staff, if any, deployed over and above the staffing norms, shall be withdrawn but without causing dislocation in work;
(ii) exemption from cost recovery charges for eligible facilities for which posts were sanctioned would be for the entire staff sanctioned (for which cost recovery charges were taken) even if it is in excess of the staffing norms fixed subsequently, in 2013; and
(iii) at eligible facilities having both sanctioned and non-sanctioned posts, the exemption of cost recovery charges for non- sanctioned posts would be dealt with as per decision at (i) above and for sanctioned posts, it would be as per decision at (ii) above.
It is only a one time measure. Regular requests for waiver of cost recovery charges would be processed by the Directorate General of Human Resource Development, CBEC.