Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Monday addreꦜss Revenue Intelligence officers at the DRI foundation day event in the nat🐭ional capital.
The Dir🌼ectorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) is celebrating 💯its 65th Founding Day on December 5-6 this year, a finance ministry statement said on Sunday.
A meeting of the 'Regional Customs Enforce🐭ment Meeting (RCEM)' for effectively engaging with partner Customs organisations and international agencies like the World Customs Organisation (WCO) and Interpol for enforcement-related issues would also be organised during the event.
This year, 22 Customs administrations covering the Asia-Pacific region along with WCO, Interpol, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and R✱egional Intelligence Liaison Office – Asia Pacific (RIL🦹O AP) have been invited to the event.
Sitharaman will🥃 inaugurate the 2-day event along with Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, the statement said.
The 'Smuggling in India Report 2021-22' w༺ould be released by Sitharaman on this occasion. The report br🍌ings together the trends in the field of anti-smuggling and commercial fraud and DRI's performance and experience over the last financial year, it added.
DRI is the intelligence and enforcement agency on anti-smuggling matters under the aegis of the Central Board of Indirect 🅷taxes & Customs (CBIC).
DRI came into existence on December 4, 1957, and is headquartered in New Delhi. It has 12 zonal units, 35 r🐓egional units, and 15 sub-regional units, with a working strength of about 800 officials.
