Inauguration of new campus of Nacin today

Defence Minister Arun Jaitely will formally inaugurate the new campus of National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (Nacin), at 9 am on Monday in Bengaluru. The building is located near HMT school, Jalahalli.

Nacin was established in Bengaluru in 2002 for training officers of Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax posted in the states of Karnataka and Kerala. The new campus is built at a cost of Rs 49 crore. It is meant for training officers of Central Board of Excise and Customs besides officers of the VAT department in new GST regime.

The new complex, equipped with good infrastructure, has six AC lecture halls and a residential hostel. The complex is constructed by NBCC, a public sector undertaking. It is designed in an environmental-friendly way and is equipped with solar power generation, biodegradable waste management system.  It has a sewage treatment plant where no electricity is used for treating waste water, a technique developed by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), the note said.