Union Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman to inaugurate EDI enablement at Land Customs Stations of North East and also preside over handing over ceremony of seized antiquities by Customs to ASI tomorrow

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman will inaugurate Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) facility at the Land Customs Stations of the North Eastern Regions through virtual mode for enhancing ease of doing business and facilitating regional trade, from New Delhi, tomorrow.

Thereafter, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) would conduct a ceremony for handing over Customs-seized antiquities to Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in presence of the Union Finance Minister.  A total of 101 antiquities shall be handed over to different zonal units of ASI at 7 locations across the country viz. Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Delhi, Guwahati, Mumbai and Pune.