[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, (i)] 

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 

MINISTRY OF FINANCE 

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 

CENTRAL BOARD OF EXCISE AND CUSTOMS

New Delhi 25 March, 2008

NOTIFICATION No.31/2008-Customs (N.T.)

        G.S.R.  (E)- In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (c) of section 11H of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, having regard to the vulnerability to smuggling of the area mentioned in the Schedule hereto annexed, hereby specifies the said area as specified area for the purposes of the said Act.  

      SCHEDULE 

        The inland area, fifty kilometres in width, from India’s land border with Bangladesh falling within the territories of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram.  

[F.No. 394/86/2006-Cus (AS)/Pt.I]  

(Milind R.Lanjewar)

Under Secretary to the Government of India.