Circle Inspectors of Excise of Excise Circle Offices

Circle Inspectors are the controlling authority of the Excise Circle Office and the Supervisory controlling officer of the Range officers within the Circle. Their territorial jurisdiction extends to the revenue taluks. Their main duties and functions include:

• To be Abkari officers under their respective jurisdiction for the purpose of detection, registration, investigation and charge sheeting of Abkari cases.
• They are also authorized to book, register, investigate and charge sheet cases under the NDPS Act.
• They are responsible for marking of trees for drawing toddy and collection of revenue under the Tree Tax Rules
• Primarily responsible for the collection of Abkari Revenue.
• Supervision and overall control of the functioning of Excise Range Offices in their respective jurisdictions.
• They are empowered to exercise all the powers and to discharge all the duties conferred and imposed on Abkari officers under Sections 31,32,34,35,38,39,53 &59 of the Abkari Act I of 1077 within their respective jurisdiction.

Circle Inspectors of Excise of Enforcement & Anti Narcotic Special Squads

They are also Abkari officers under their respective jurisdiction for the purpose of detection and investigation of cases under Abkari Act and NDPS Act. Their territorial jurisdiction extends to the revenue district of which the Excise Enforcement and Anti Narcotic Special Squads are formed coterminous with. Their main duties are enforcement of the Abkari Act, NDPS Act & Rules. These officers act under the directions of the Deputy Excise Commissioners and the superior officers.
They are empowered to exercise all the powers and to discharge all the duties conferred and imposed on Abkari officers under Sections 31,32,34,35,38,39,53 &59 of the Abkari Act I of 1077 within their respective jurisdiction

Circle Inspectors Attached to Distilleries, Breweries, Licensed Manufatories, Bonded ware houses etc.

They are Abkari officers within the licensed premises in which they are appointed. They ensure proper collection of Abkari or other revenue payable under the Abkari Act, M & TP Act, NDPS Act etc, and to issue permits for the movement of liquor, intoxicating drugs or other substances regulated by the Acts and check their abuse. They shall supervise and exercise control over all the activities of the licensed premises concerned.

Managers

Managers in Excise Department are officers in the rank of Circle Inspectors of Excise. Their main task is to assist the Deputy Commissioners of Excise of the Zones and the Asst. Excise Commissioners of the Divisions in the administrative work of the respective officers.  they are the custodians of records in Zonal offices and Excise Division offices.

Superientents

Superintendents in the department are officers in charge of a section in the Commissionerate of Excise or in the office of the Addl. Excise Commissioner. They may be either being a Circle Inspector of Excise or a section officer from the Government Secretariat working on deputation. Their main function is to scrutinise the files and forward the same with notes/suggestions to the officers concerned for taking decisions.