Bhubaneswar: Odisha-born Indian Revenue Services (IRS) officer Surjit Bhujabal has been appointed as Director General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), an apex intelligence organization functioning under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
He is the first Odia officer to be entrusted with the task of collection, collation and dissemination of intelligence relating to evasion of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and duties of Central Excise and Service Tax on an all India basis.
The DGGI is the apex body for manifold tasks of tackling the menace of duty evasion. It develops intelligence, especially in new areas of tax evasion through its intelligence network across the country and disseminates such information, by issuing Modus Operandi Circulars and Alert Circulars to sensitize the field formations about the latest trends in duty evasion.
Surjit Bhujabal is the son of former Chief Secretary RK Bhujabal and the son-in-law of Retd IGP Kulamani Deo.
