Edited by Deepali Verma
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Palasamudram in Andhra Pradesh’s Sri Satyasai district on January 16 and carry out the inauguration of the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) institute.
Modi is expected to reach Andhra Pradesh around afternoon on January 16 to participate in the scheduled programmes. The Prime Minister will be performing pooja and darshan at Veerbhadra Temple in Lepakshi village in the Sri Satyasai district and will further hear the verses from the Ranganatha Ramayana that is written in Telugu.
PM Modi is visiting Lepakshi that holds a unique and special place in Ramayana. This visit falls at a time that is just 6 days before the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the grand Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya.
The visit to Lepakshi is scheduled right after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Kalaram Temple in Nashik, where he offered his prayers and heard the verses relating to ‘Ayodhya aagman’ of Lord Ram from Ramayan in Marathi.
PM Modi schedule:
Close to 3:30 pm, PM Modi is scheduled to reach Palasamudram and inaugurate the new campus of the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes & Narcotics (NACIN). Once through with the inauguration, the Prime Minister will visit the first floor of NACIN to check out the Antiquities Smuggling Centre, Narcotics Study Centre and Wildlife Crime Detection Centre.
Following this, PM Modi will visit the ground floor to oversee the X-Ray and Baggage Screening Centre,after a visit to the academic block to plant some saplings and engage in interaction with construction workers.
The Prime Minister will be presenting an accreditation certificate to NACIN while delivering an address. The Officer Trainees of the 74th and 75th batch of the Indian Revenue Service (Custom & Indirect Taxes) will be interacting with PM Modi as well as officer trainees of the Royal Civil Service of Bhutan. The release of a book titled ‘Flora of Palasamudram’ is also schedu;ed.
About National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes & Narcotics (NACIN)
In an attempt to realise the Prime Minister’s vision of improving governance through Civil Service Capacity Building, the new state-of-the-art campus of the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) at Palasamudram, Sri Sathya Sai District, Andhra Pradesh was born into conception and subsequently, constructed. Spread over an area of 500 acres, the academy is the top institution of the Government of India for capacity building dealing with the field of Indirect Taxation including the Customs, Central Excise and Goods and Services Tax and Narcotics Control Administration. The national-level world-class training institute will be used to train the officials of Indian Revenue Service (Custom & Indirect Taxes) as well as to the central allied services, state governments & partner nations.
NACIN has its focus on the use of new age technologies such as Augmented & Virtual Reality, Block-chain as well as Artificial Intelligence and other emerging Technologies for training and capacity building.
