Mandalika Srinivas is Principal Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, Chennai Zone
The Hindu
CHENNAI
Mandalika Srinivas assumed charge on March 31 as Principal Chief Commissioner of Central Excise and GST, Chennai Zone, covering the jurisdiction of Chennai and Puducherry. Prior to this, he was Chief Commissioner of Customs, Bengaluru.
He had served in various capacities in different formations of Customs, Central Excise and GST at Kochi, Kozhikode, Ballary, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai, according to a statement.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.