TIOL-DDT 2854 · Thursday, 26 May 2016 · story 6 of 7

Customs Baggage Clearance - We feel Ignored Now

AND this must please the CBEC officers.

A very senior bureaucrat told me recently that earlier whenever he returned from a foreign tour he would request friends in the Revenue Service for facilitation at airports and it felt important to cut queues and be escorted out by Customs Officers. But now there is hardly any check and we can simply walk through - the Customs officers don't even bother to look at us. We feel ignored!