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Atithi@Indian Customs Mobile Application

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Atithi@IndianCustomsMobile Application

1. Atithi@Indian Customs is a mobile app developed by Directorate General of Systems, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, Government of India, as a platform to globally facilitate and enable the arriving international passengers to declare their dutiable baggage goods, make Indian Customs Declaration and Currency Declaration before their arrival at Red Channel of international airports of India.

2. The name of the Mobile Application is based on the Ancient Indian tradition of welcoming the guests as god i.e. ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’. In the same spirit, the application has been created to welcome and facilitate the bonafide passengers arriving in India. All travellers, including Indian residents & Foreign nationals, arriving in India by air from across the globe can use the Atithi@Indian Customs application.

3. The application is made available on Android (via Google Play Store) as well as iOS (via Apple App Store) platforms and will allow passengers to streamline the customs processes at airports and enhance transparency, integrate the mobile app declaration of passenger & transmit the data to e-Baggage Receipt (eBR) application launched recently at the red channel of all international airports in India, so as to make the customs clearancesfaster and reduce the time spent by passengers at red channel significantly.

4. All travellers to India are encouraged to use the Atithi@Indian Customs Application. For more information please visit: http://www.cbic.gov.in/htdocs-cbec/Atithi/atithi.

Caracas
12.12.2019