The National Academy of Direct Taxes, Nagpur, is the Apex Institution for Training the officers and staff of the Income-tax Department in India. The major function of the Academy is to impart induction training to the officers of the Indian Revenue Service recruited directly through the Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. In addition to this, several important in-service courses are being run by the Academy for middle to senior level officers of the Income-tax Department and of other departments, both at Nagpur and at the seven Regional Training Institutes at Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh. For comprehensive training of the ministerial cadre of Income-tax Department, there are Ministerial Staff Training Units located in different parts of India. 

Apart from imparting intensive training in the fields of Taxation, Accountancy, Law and Management to the officers of the Income-tax Department, the Academy's training function travels beyond the personnel of the Income-tax Department. It has been giving training on taxation and management subjects to the senior officers of various other Central Government Departments and also to the nominees of foreign countries under United Nations Development Programme and Colombo Plan. It designs and conducts courses for tax administrators from other countries also. It also runs management programmes under the aegis of the Common wealth Association of Tax Administrators.

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