CTG customs house operations were affected by labour shortage

Jasim Uddin Haroon

back from Chittagong

Of workers of the country's premier Customs House - Chittagong Customs House (CCH) - is worrying that their activity.

CCH is the country of the largest customs house sales result. It gathers more than a third of the result of NBR (National Board of revenue).

Shortages of CCH is compromising the country's sectors earn export, as are customs officers unable to speed up measures at their jobs.

The lack of revenue officials is also Miss Declaration of goods and shipping contraband items through Chittagong Port.

Chittagong Port 55 billion-dollar import-export trade is the largest seaport and goal of the country.

Exporters have long critically compared to the Customs Department for process not enough staff in a timely manner have the documents were brought or be removed.

Approval of the labour shortage in the Customs Department, said CCH officials, that this is encouraging, various types of counterfeit in export and import trade.

Muztoba Ali, additional Commissioner of CCH, said the VU: "The labour shortage in the Customs Department is the highest ever in history."

Mr Ali also said: "my device (export section) is missing at least 50 percent Assistant revenue officers (formerly inspectors and experts)."

He said that his Department has made appeals to the Government for immediate halt to the required manpower to overcome the problem of delays in the largest Customs House.

The setting of both blue and some legal position remained exposed to white collar employees in the Customs Department since 1982.

But it was limited officials, under the quota of athletes, in particular preventive officers (now is revenue Assistant), in the last three decades.

A forwarding company - interlink logistics and distribution - said that previously there would they take the documentation just under three hours for were, but now it is three to four times more time.

"The reason that is given to us, that the Department not sufficient staff," said the CEO of the services of the company Badrul Hoque Chowdhury.

Nasir Uddin Chowdhury, first Vice President of Bangladesh garments manufacturers & exporters Association (BGMEA), the VU said: "the Customs officers ensures round - clock work, but our exports will take much time to the full procedures due to lack of private depots as well as the port officials."

Mr. Nasir said, for lack of a sufficient number of customs officials, covered wagons with export goods must wait private repositories for hours on that.

CCH earned TK 203,7 billion as duties and various types of taxes in the fiscal year (FY) 2010-11. The NBR has set a goal of mobilising TK-220 billion for the CCH for 2011-2012.

Source: thefinancialexpress-bd.com

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