KATHMANDU: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Bishnu Prasad Poudel, pledged to promote IT employment in the overall infrastructure of customs administration.
He said this at a program on the occasion of the 71st International Customs Day in Kathmandu on Thursday.
He said customs employees better know about sector-wise challenges and possible ways for solutions.
He urged them to perform honestly. Calling on the customs staff to deliver without leaving room for public grievances, the Finance Minister drew the attention of the customs administration towards the prompt requirements to promote legal trade and control revenue leakage.
The Minister took time to say that the government adopted a policy of zero-tolerance against corruption and reflected it in its actions.
He directed employees concerned to mandatorily contribute to checking revenue leakage.
He echoed the need to advancing the customs administration by making it paperless, based on cashless transactions and systematic so that service seekers need not be physically present at the customs offices to take services.
Trade facilitation, revenue collection and protection of social interests are the major responsibilities of the customs administrations, he said, urging the people concerned to focus on revenue leakage from illegal trade and smuggling of goods.
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