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F.No.GEN/EDI/Misc/21/2020-EDI-O/o COMMR-CUS-EXP-ZONE-I-MUMBAI-Part(1)

Date: 08.07.2021

PUBLIC NOTICE NO- YH 2021

DIN: 2021047F 000423172

Subject: Disaster Recovery (DR) Drill planned from 9°- 11" July 2021.

Kind attention of all the Importers, Exporters, Custom Brokers and all other stake holders is invited to CBIC Advisory No. 18/2021 dated 06.07.2021 issued by Directorate General of Systems, ICES on the above mentioned subject. In this regard all are hereby informed that Directorate General of Systems, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) would be conducting a Disaster Recovery Drill from 20:00 Hours on 9tn July 2021 to 12:00 Hours on 11th July, 2021. In this respect, 10th July, 2021 will be a normal working day for ICES and all the functionalities will be available from the respective DR location.

2. Document filing at Service Centers and through RES would be stopped at 20:00 Hours on Qtn July 2021, to facilitate switchover from DC, Delhi (the Primary site) to DR, Chennai (Disaster Recovery site). You are advised to ensure that work on ICES application at your location is stopped / completed on service center application by 20:00 hours on 9th July 2021. This is important to ensure that activities related to DR drill are completed within expected timelines. ICES application is expected to be available from DR site between 10:00 Hours and 19:00 hours on 10th July 2021 (Saturday).

3. In this regard following may be noted:

1. System Managers are advised to be available at site during this activity.

2. In case of any problems, the matters must be brought to the notice of S| SPOCs mentioned in Table 1 below.

3. Since this would be a normal working day for your site, officers (covering complete work flow of ICES application) should be present as normal on 10tn July, 2021 from 10:00 hours till 18:00 Hours for carrying out transactions in ICES application from DR site.

4. System Manager (SM) of the location may also ensure the availability of Service Centre operators.

5. System managers of sites which are working on O9tn July, 2021 are requested to ensure the network connectivity with the help of Resident Engineer deployed at the site.

6. SM must ensure the presence of at least one officer handling RMS charge.

7. Instructions for Transaction Processing:

8. Transaction processing should be done as on a normal day.

9. Officers must take stock of their respective queues in the ICES application after finishing their work on Qt July, 2021 (Friday) before the application is stopped at 20:00 hours. The same officers must again take stock of their respective queues on Saturday before starting the work. Any differences must be recorded and reported to SI SPOC’s listed in Table-1 below.

10. The transactions carried out during this exercise on 10th July, 2021 would be live transactions (as is on a normal working day). These transactions will be processed at the DR, Chennai (Disaster recovery site) directly and will then be replicated to the DC, Delhi (Primary location). Hence, transactions carried out on 10th July,2021 between10:00 hours till 19:00 hours should be rechecked on a random basis on 11t) July, 2021 after the application is switched back to DC, Delhi (Primary location). Anomalies, if any, may be noted and reported to SI SPOCs listed in Table-1 below.

11. All System Managers must keep in touch with the designated SI personnel (whose contact details are mentioned below) and report any difficulty in processing.

12. Resident Engineers (REs) have been asked to be present at the respective sites on10th July 2021. System Managers may coordinate with REs at their sites for any network related problems. It may be ensured that network equipment (such as switches, routers etc.) are NOT switched off on the night of 9tn July, 2021 as it will hamper the network testing prior to the drill.

Table 1: Contact Details of SI SPOC are provided below: E-mail ID Contact No. Sunny.kumar?CS@icegate.gov.in | 8237400898 SI ICES Manoj.Kumartcs@icegate.gov.in | 9811864988Not Applicable

6. In case of any issues, please escalate to the following departmental officers:

E-mail ID Contact No. Rohit Khare, DD, SI Rohit1.Khare@icegate.qov.in +91-88608-39850 2 Dr. Sreeju Surendran, | Sreeju.Surendran@icegate.gov.in | +91-99477-62516 DD, ICES

5. The Public Notice should be considered as Standing Order for the purpose of officers and staff of department.

(MANISH MANI TIWA “a Commissioner of Customs, Export, Mumbai Customs Zone-I

Copy to:

1. The Principal Chief Commissioner of Customs, Mumbai Zone-1.

2. All The Commissioner of Customs, NCH, Mumbai Zone-!

3. AC/DC, EDI for uploading on NCH website immediately.

4. BCBA —-For information and circulation among their members.

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