Ranjha (Banke), March 22: Nepalgunj Customs Office has collected only about 52 percent of the target revenue in the first eight months of the current fiscal year.
Out of the annual target of Rs 24.54 billion for the current fiscal year 2082/83, only Rs 12.75 billion or 51.97 percent of the target has been collected in eight months till mid-Falgun, shared Janardan Poudel, Chief of Nepalgunj Customs Office.
According to him, there is a challenge to collect 48 percent of the revenue in the remaining four months to meet the target. The Customs Office has failed to collect revenue as per the monthly target so far.
In the months of Shrawan, Bhadra, Asoj, Kartik, Mangsir, Poush and Magh of the current fiscal year, only 74, 69, 87, 72, 83, 83 and 88 percent of the target have been collected. In the last fiscal year 2081/82, Nepalgunj Customs collected 74.64 percent of the target revenue, while in the previous fiscal year 2080/81, it collected 63.35 percent.
Although it was expected that the customs revenue would increase due to an increase in imports and exports after the operation of the integrated check post at Jamunahana on the Nepal-India border, the target has not been met.
