DRI Full Form- Directorate of Revenue Intelligence

What is a DRI? The full form of DRI is the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. 

An intelligence organization in India is called the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). It is the top intelligence, investigation, and operations agency in India for combating smuggling. 

Officers from the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), who are assigned to the Directorate's several zonal units and to Indian embassies overseas as members of the Customs Overseas Intelligence Network, oversee the organization. 

A Director General with the status of Special Secretary to the Government of India is in charge of it. By prohibiting the blatant smuggling of contraband like weapons, gold, drugs, counterfeit Indian currency notes, antiquities, wildlife, and environmental products, the agency seeks to protect India's economic and national security. 

Roles and Responsibilities of DRI

• The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs oversees the DRI of India, which is the premier anti-smuggling organization.
• It is in charge of identifying and stopping the smuggling of illegal goods, such as drugs, illegal international trade in wildlife, and ecologically sensitive products. It also has to deal with business frauds pertaining to foreign commerce and customs duty avoidance.
• By explicitly prohibiting the smuggling of illegal goods, including weapons, gold, drugs, counterfeit Indian currency notes, antiquities, wildlife, and environmental items, it seeks to protect India's economic and national security.
• Additionally, DRI aims to stop the spread of money laundering through commerce, commercial fraud, and black money.
• Along with more than 50 additional acts, including the WMD Act, the Arms Act, and the NDPS Act, it implements the Customs Act's prohibitions.
• The National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention of the Cabinet Secretariat, the Task Force on Shell Companies, the Special Investigation Team on Black Money, the Multi-Agency Center (MAC) on National Security, the Ministry of Home Affairs/NIA's special wings on Left Wing Extremism Financing, and numerous inter-ministerial committees on Terror Financing, Fake Indian Currency Notes, Coastal Security, etc. are among the other organizations that DRI is involved in.