The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence & Economic Offenses will be formed | 08 Apr 2023

Why in News?

On 6 April 2023, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot approved the proposal regarding the formation of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and Economic Offenses for the prevention of economic crimes in the state and for monitoring the sources of revenue more strongly.

Key Points

• The Nodal and Administrative Department of the Directorate at the state level will be the Finance (Revenue) Department.
• Major functions of the Directorate-
  • The tasks of control, research, investigation and prosecution of economic crimes will be done by the directorate.
  • In this, those who commit illegal occupation of land, fraud or irregularity in real estate, fraud or irregularity in bank, insurance or deposit work, declaring false bankruptcy, formation of fake companies, fraud in the work of government credit societies will be clamped down.
  • In addition, data on revenue leakage in the state will be gathered from various sources, analyzed, and probed. Work-related to monitoring all sources of revenue and preventing tax evasion will also be done.
• One post of Director General/Commissioner, four posts of Additional Director, 10 posts of Joint Director, and 20 posts of Deputy Director will be created in the Directorate. These posts will be filled by deputation.
• It is noteworthy that the Directorate of State Revenue Intelligence is already operational in the state. At the same time, the Directorate of Economic Offenses was announced in the budget 2022-23. Now by combining both, proper use of analytical ability will be possible in the investigation of human resources and crimes.