Interview for COIN Posting for IRS Officers
THE Other side of the COIN:
COIN is another sleuth organisation, little known outside a small coterie in the Customs Department. This is the Customs Overseas Intelligence Network known as COIN, mostly filled with former DRI officers. These COIN officers work in foreign countries for Indian Customs.
COIN is a prestigious and highly prosperous posting for the ex DRI officers. An officer of the level of Additional Commissioner would get a monthly salary of about three lakhs of rupees, mostly tax-free with a lot of other allowances thrown in plus the attraction of working in a foreign country in the Indian Embassy.
The CBEC has decided to hold an interview at 11.00 AM on 12.12.2015 (Saturday) of the IRS (C&CE) officers for the posts of First Secretary in COIN Units at Hong Kong, Dubai, London, Moscow and Kathmandu and for the post of Second Secretary at Brussels. The Board has called 15 Additional Commissioners for five posts of First Secretary.