Profile of Pr. DG Trg

Smt. Asha Agarwal, the Pr. Director General Training, NADT, Nagpur belongs to the 1983 batch of Indian Revenue Service. She also holds the additional charge of Pr. Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Vidarbha.

In the Department, Smt. Asha Agarwal has long years of experience in Assessment, Investigation, Audit, ITAT, TDS, and Administration Divisions and she has served at various places across India including Meerut, Jodhpur, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Mumbai and Nagpur. During her previous stint at Nagpur, she was handling charges of Pr. Commissioner of Income Tax, Nagpur and Pr. Director of Income Tax Investigation , Vidarbha. Before taking over the current assignment, she was posted as the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Ahmedabad.

Smt. Asha Agarwal has received numerous excellence awards for her outstanding contribution in the areas of widening of tax base and recovery of demand. Some of exemplary recovery actions undertaken under her guidance include auction of standing crops, recovery of taxes from tax defaulters settled abroad and auction of immovable properties within two months of identification. Under her supervision, recovery of more than Rs. 100 crores was affected in state of Gujarat itself by focusing on unexplored areas such as companies under liquidation having fixed deposits in banks and thereby she has been instrumental in recovery of taxes to the tune of Rs. 1,000 crores.

Under the guidance of Smt. Asha Agarwal as Pr. CCIT, Nagpur region, some remarkable achievements of the I.T Department are the auction of 18 properties worth several crores of rupees belonging to the tax defaulters as also auction of seized jewellery worth lakhs of rupees for recovery of demand. Also, during the year more than 150 prosecutions have been launched as a deterrent measure for delinquent assesses.