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Passengers can soon use app to pay customs duty at IGI

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Android app ready reckoner on rules, has duty calculator, works offline
Soon the passengers coming to Delhi from international destinations can pay the customs duty and fill the customs form and declare costly items through their mobile phone.Customs, which has recently launched a mobile-based application to inform people about all Indian customs rules including those related to import of pets and goods, will add these services in the app.
The main reason behind developing such an application was inaccessibility of customs-related information to common people with ease. “The mobile app’ Indian customs – guide to travelers, has been developed by Sandeep Rawal, who is joint director in regional training institute. The app contains details of baggage rules and entitlement of passengers,” said a customs official.
The application, developed in easy-to-understand format, gives in detail information about customs rules for Indians and foreigners. The application also has duty calculator. “Every passenger is allowed to bring baggage on the basis of three parameters - age, number of days stayed abroad and the port of embarkation. On giving the answers to these three questions by clicking yes/no option the passenger will know the specific allowance available to him. Moreover, it gives the list of prohibited goods and some procedural aspects of frequently asked goods,” the official added.
The contact details of various airports are also available in the app. In future customs will add facilities of filling the customs declaration form, payment of duty and issuance of online export certificate through the app.
“Once installed, the app can work in offline mode which means during the journey, when passengers are not allowed to use mobile network, they can still check rules through the app. We have changed the format of customs declaration, form and whenever we decide to make any more changes, we can simply update the app,” the official further said.
Apart from asking basic questions such as countries visited in last six days and total value of dutiable goods being imported, customs has put nine questions in category called ‘Are you bringing the following items into India?’ in the customs form. In those nine questions, passenger has to declare if he/she is carrying gold jewellery, gold bar, meat products, satellite phone and Indian or foreign currency.
Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 8th Feb. 2016

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