The Central Excise and Service Tax Commissionerate, Jamshedpur on Friday got its new building. A well equipped new state-of-the-art building with over 105 rooms (offices) was inaugurated on the Outer Circle Road in Bistupur.
Sheo Narayan Singh, chief commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax, Ranchi zone inaugurated the four-storeyed building covering 8,000 sqmts on a four-acre land. Several senior officials of the Jamshedpur Commissionerate including P K Katiyar, commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax, Jamshedpur and tax payers were present on the occasion.
So far the Central Excise and Service Tax Commissionerate was operating from a rented premises in Baradwari. “We are really happy today. It’s a memorable occasion that now we have our own building and premises which will not only streamline our operation but will also help in organising workshops , seminars and awareness programmes for tax payers in regular intervals,” said Singh after inaugurating the new building.
The new building has four floors which will house offices of five different divisions of Central Excise and Service Tax. The five divisions were earlier operating from Telco, Adityapur, Circuit House Area, Gamharia and Bistupur. All the five divisions have been merged into the new building. However, another division ( Division I) will continue to function independently from an office in Bistupur. The Jamshedpur commissionerate has six divisions.
Superintendent of Central Excise and Service Tax S K Choudhary informed that around `18.63 crore was spent in the building project. Apart from offices the new building has a conference room and a guest house facility with spacious parking facility for two and four wheelers.