The government on Tuesday formed a high-level panel led by Shanta Bahadur Shrestha, director general of the Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI), to control revenue leakage by looking into complaints regarding growing cases of smuggling of goods.
“The panel will initiate its works immediately. It will also issue on the spot instructions in the course of field inspections to control revenue leakage,” reads a press statement issued by the Ministry of Finance.
Other members of the High-level Revenue Leakage Control Team are Chudamani Sharma, joint secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Parshu Ram Khatri and Deputy Inspector General of Armed Police Force Sushil Kumar Shrestha. Ananda Raj Dhakal, deputy director general of Department of Customs, is the member secretary of the committee.
A special meeting on revenue leakage chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari decided to form the five-member panel.
Revenue Secretary Krishna Hari Baskota, Home Secretary Dr Gobinda Kusum, Inspector General of Police Ramesh Chand Thakuri, Inspector General of Armed Police Force Sanat Basnet and senior officials from Department of Customs, DRI and In-land Revenue Department were also present in the meeting.
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