The National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) formerly known as National Academy of Customs Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) is the apex civil service training institute of Government of India for capacity building of civil servants in the field of indirect taxation, particularly the areas of customs, GST, central excise, service tax and narcotics control administration. Located at Faridabad, near India's capital New Delhi, the Academy is operated under the aegis of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Training for Group A staff and overseas trainees is conducted at main campus at Faridabad, and the training of the Group B and Group C officers is conducted at various zonal and regional training centres across India. The main campus runs the flagship training programme for the Group A probationers officers of the indirect taxation branch Indian Revenue Service, better known as IRS (Customs & Indirect Tax) which administers GST, Customs and Narcotics. These officer trainees, also known as direct recruits, are selected through the Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. History In 1955, the institute started as a training school in a small building at Daryaganj in Old Delhi, which first relocated to Rajendra Place in Hauz Khas in South Delhi, then to Pushpa Bhawan in Saket in Delhi, finally it relocated to its present 23 acre permanent campus at Faridabad in 1996. Organisation NACIN functions under the administrative control of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. NACIN is headed by a Director General, who is a senior civil servant of India, belonging to the Indian Revenue Service who is of the rank of Additional Secretary to Government of India. The Director General is assisted by Additional Director Generals, Additional Directors, Deputy Directors and Assistant Directors. Main campus at Faridabad Academics and training Courses for MoF officers Over the last two decades, NACIN along with its nine regional training institutes, has been conducting the professional training programme for officer trainees of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Tax). Group A officers Starting in the last week of December each year, after the three-month long Foundation Course at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, the professional training programme involves over eighteen months of class room and on-the job-training. Officer trainees are trained