About Us

We are an enforcement agency working under the aegis of Central Board of Excise and Customs, Ministry of Finance Government of India. The Customs and Central Excise Commissionerate, Nagpur is the department responsible for collecting the indirect taxes over entire Vidarbha region of Maharashtra State (India).

The Commissionerate is headed by a Commissioner who is assisted by Additional Commissioner (P & V) and Additional Commissioner (Service Tax & Preventive) , 1 Deputy Commissioner, 10 Assistant Commissioner, 40 Superintendents and 200 Inspectors, who comprise the executive cadre of the Department.

The Nagpur Commissionerate was carved out of the erstwhile Bombay Commissionerate with effect from 10.10.1952, having jurisdiction over the then Central Provinces and Berar Regions. At that time, the present Vidarbha region used to be part of the former Central Provinces & Berar. The Headquarters of the new Commissionerate was located at Nagpur.

It is interesting to note that before creation of the new Commissionerate, the Central Excise work of the entire region was under the charge of Assistant Commissioner having Divisional Headquarters Office at Betul. The then Commissionerate at that time was having jurisdiction over the entire area presently comprising of States of Maharashtra, Gujrat, and Madhya Pradesh. Even after re-organisation of States and the creation of states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra the jurisdiction of Nagpur Commissionerate continued to comprise of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and entire Madhya Pradesh.

The jurisdiction set-up of this Commissionerate which used to comprise of Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha region was re-organised with the creation of a separate Commissionerate for Madhya Pradesh having its headquarters at Indore with effect from 01.04.1977. and the jurisdiction of Nagpur Commissionerate was restricted to Vidarbha region only comprising of districts of Nagpur, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Akola, Buldhana, Amravati, Yawatmal, Wardha, and Gondia.

At present the Nagpur Commissionerate comprises of five divisions namely

Nagpur - I Division with Headquarters at Nagpur.

Nagpur - II Division with Headquarters at Nagpur.

Amravati Division with Hqrs. at Amravati.

Bhandara Division with Hqrs. at Bhandara.

Chandrapur Division with Hqrs. at Chandrapur.