SHILLONG, Feb 2 (NNN) : North East region will soon have sophisticated Electronic Data Interaction (EDI) so as to quicken the trading process.
Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise (North East Region) D D Ingti announced this today in Shillong.
The sophisticated Electronic Data Interaction (EDI) will be introduced in the land customs station (LCS) located in the North eastern region.
Speaking at a function to to commemorate International Customs Day and the golden jubilee of the Customs Act,1962 in Shillong on Thursday, Ingti said that the sophisticated
gadgets will be introduced soon to quicken the trading process between the neighboring countries.
Even as he pointed out that at the absence of infrastructure, electricity and IT equipments to introduce the EDI in the region, D.D Ingti was however apt that the introduction of the EDI will fasten all process related to import and export from the North eastern region with the neighboring countries.
The Chief Commissioner of Customs` assurances came along with an outlook to make the North eastern region as a transit trading point with the South Asian countries and the Middle East.
Moreover, even as the central customs and excise looks forward to the plan initiatives to transform the north eastern region, Ingti was apt in
pointing on the importance to have increase connectivity between the institutions and the people.
“People to people and institutions to institutions linkages are catalysts to ensure lawful flow of goods, to efficiently fight fraudsters and improve local people economy and generation of revenue”, stated D.D Ingti.
Commissioner of Customs, B Thamar said that the inflow of goods through the LCS has made the department to cope up with the pressing demands to open more LCS in the region. “Besides economic security, it’s the contribution to the local populace sustenance that made them to demand for opening of more LCS”, stated Thamar.
The customs chief assured to look into the demands in view of the growing volume of trade from the Land Customs Station (LCS), but they were amused that supposedly two international trade and transit centers in Assam have failed to live up to the expected level. They are the Inland container depot at Amingoan and the Lokpriya Bordoloi Airport in Guwahati. Going by the scale of the customs, the results are even less than satisfactory.