The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the empanelment of 92 officers of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Taxes) for promotion to the grade of Commissioner of Customs & Indirect Taxes (Level 14 of the Pay Matrix) for the panel year 2026, as per an official order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on 31 December 2025.
The empanelment will take effect from the date of assumption of charge of the post and will remain valid until further orders. The approvals were granted on proposals received from the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
The empanelment follows recommendations made by the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) and vetted at the highest level by the ACC, chaired by the Prime Minister.
List of Officers Empanelled for Promotion (Main Panel – 2026)
The following officers have been empanelled for promotion to Commissioner of Customs & Indirect Taxes (Level 14):
- Vivek Gupta
- Neeraj Choubey
- Kumar Aseem Vaibhav
- Pranjal Singh
- Abhishek Chauhan
- Hemlata Rai
- Balbir Singh Mangat
- Niranjan C.C.
- Rajeswari R. Nair
- Shailendra Kumar Deshmukh
- Deepak Kumar
- Rashmi Mishra
- Ravneet Singh Khurana
- Raghavendra Pal Singh
- Dipin Singla
- Satish Kumar
- Raghu Kiran B.
- Rohit Dwivedi
- Anish Muraleedharan
- Siba Prasad Panda
- Naresh Neelapala
- Bejoy John
- Varinder Kaur
- Atul Singh
- Sameer Kumar Jha
- Manish Kumar
- Kunal Kashyap
- Ujwala Arun Bhagwat
- B. G. Krishnan
- Devesh Gupta
- Raghvendra Singh
- Ashutosh
- Saroj Samaiya
- Rohit Singla
- Rajesh Kothari
- Vipul Gupta
- Rajesh Kumar
- Shaifali G. Singh
- Suven Das Gupta
- Vishal Pratap Singh
- Vidyut Vikash
- Manvesh Kumar
- Manish Kumar Jha
- Aman Garg
- P. Gopa Kumar
- Vishwajeet Singh
- Mayank Sharma
- Anoop Kumar Sharma
- Anirudha Suresh Kulkarni
- C. Thiyagarajan
- Prabhakar Kumar
- Paras Mal Sankhla
- Shaukat Ali
- Rajiv Shankar
- Subodh Singh
- Mahesh Chand Bhardwaj
- Pawan Kumar Khetan
- Lakshmikantha D.
- Manish Kulhary
- Manoj Kumar
- Kshitendra Verma
- Amit Fakkad Ghawate
- Ravindra Kumar
- Nimba Ram
- Jakir Husain
- R. Gopalsamy
- Mahendra Kumar Sharma
- Nem Singh
- Michael Achom
- Venkatesh S.
- Abilash K. Sreenivasan
- Amol Madhukar Ket
- Debjit Banerjee
- Dinesh Kumar Bisen
- V. Pandiraja
- Aneish P. Rajan
- Komathi K.
- Neelesh Rautkar
- Samaya Murali T.
- K. Kalpana
- Vinod Kumar
- Leo John Ilango
- Rashmi G.
- Tapan Kumar
- Tejaskumar Giradharlal Rathod
- Sridevi Taritla
- Balakrishna S.
- Dasari Balaiah
- Braj Lal Meena
- Alok Sharma
- Vinay Kumar Arya
- Gopal Krishna Pati
Extended Panel for Vacancy Substitution
An Extended Panel has also been approved to fill vacancies arising due to deputation or retirement during the vacancy year 2026:
- Sachin Gusia
- Pradhuman Badariprasad Meena
- Nitin Wapa
- Dev Prakash Bamanavat
- Chongneithem Changsan
- Lienmuong S Gangte
- K. C. Nagaraja Naik
- Sunder Lal
- Pankaj Kumar Singh
- N. S. Parthasarathy
- Prashant Kumar Jha
- Niraj Dubey
- N. Sankaranaryanan
- Sanjay Prasad
Sealed Cover Procedure Invoked
The ACC has directed that the DPC recommendations for two officers namely Manvatkar Vijay Janrao and Deepak Sharma be kept in “sealed cover” for the panel year 2026, a procedure invoked when disciplinary or vigilance proceedings are pending.
Their cases will be reconsidered upon conclusion of the relevant proceedings.
