DCCAA elects new office bearers and managing committee

November 23, 2017: The Delhi Customs Clearing Agents Association (DCCAA) has re- elected PS Atree as its president as it chose new office bearers and managing committee members for the year 2017-19.

Puneet Jain will take on the role of vice president, while Gurvinder Singh and Bhim Singh Jain will take charge as secretary and joint secretary respectively. Harjit Singh will be the treasurer.

Managing Committee Members are Anil Kumar Chand, Deepak Kumar Verma, Devendra Singh Bhadoria, Jogesh Sethi, Kuldeep, Ram Naresh Yadav, Satya Pal Singh and Vaneet Aggarwal.

During its first meeting at DCCAA office at Jhandewalan Extension in New Delhi, the new managing committee of the association held discussions on several issues, which would be the focus areas for 2017-19. “We will focus more on transparency, awareness on various issues, trends in customs clearing business and skill development. To raise the industry issues with an objective for desired solutions DCCAA will be represented in all related fora,” informed Atree.

Currently DCCAA has 952 members and the new committee has set a target to increase the membership strength up to 1500 during 2017-19 tenure. “We will work for awareness programmes round the year and assist equipping our members to comply with new trends and requirements, especially regarding technology and digitization,” added Puneet Jain. In addition, for the first time the association will also appoint a legal firm for benefit and support to its members.

Atree highly appreciated the efforts taken by the Indian government on ease of doing business by adopting various industry friendly steps viz Single Window Customs Clearance, DPD, AEO, advance customs clearance, reduced dwell time, GST, e-sanchit etc. “We will inform our members with all updates on those initiatives on day to day basis for the greater interest of the industry,” Jain shared.