Profile The Central Excise & Customs Commissionerate is responsible for collection of Union Excise duties on the manufactured goods and Customs duties on goods imported into the country. The Central Excise & Customs Commissionerate is responsible for collection of Union Excise duties on the manufactured goods and Customs duties on goods imported into the country. These duties form the biggest source of tax revenue for the Central Government and the Central Excise duties form the single largest source of Government revenue. The Department of Central Excise and Customs comes under the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. The apex body of the Department is the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), which comprises of six members and is headed by the Chairman. Administratively, the entire country is divided into Commissionerate of Central Excise and Customs. Each Commissionerate has a well defined jurisdiction and is headed by a Commissioner: * Chief Commissioner, Customs and Central Excise, Pune. * The Commissioner, Central Excise, Pune-I, Pune-II & Pune-III  Commissionerate. * The Commissioner , Customs, Pune Commissionerate. * The Commissioner Appeals, Pune-I, Pune-II & Pune-III The Pune-II Commissionerate started functioning since 1997, after bifurcation of Pune Commissionerate. The area of Pune-II Commissionerate consists of 5 districts of Maharashtra, namely                      1) Satara 2) Sangli 3) Kolhapur 4) Ratnagiri 5) Sindhudurg. The major commodities of Pune-II Commissionerate are Sugar, Cement, PVC, Tobacco & Iron & steel. Major units in Pune –II Commissionerate are Sugar factories, Finolex Industries Ltd. Birla Cement, Narmada Cement, & Usha Ispat. Pune-II Commissionerate has been reorganized and w.e.f. 01.11.2002,Solapur Division has been merged with Pune-III Commissionerate. Kolhapur Division has been reorganized as Kolhapur-I & Kolhapur-II Division. Similarly Sangli Division has been reorganized and bifurcated in Sangli  and Ichalkaranji Division.  At present there are 6 Divisions in Pune-II Commissionerate  namely  Satara, Ichalkaranji, Sangli, Kolhapur-I, Kolhapur-II & Ratnagiri Divisions. Ranges of Pune-II Commissionerate-                                                                                         Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ratnagiri Ratnagiri Sawantwadi Lote-I Lote-II Chiplun   Kolhapur-I Kolhapur Hatkanangle Panchaganga       Kolhapur-II Gadhinglaj GokulShirgaon Karveer Panhala     Satara Satara-I Satara-II Shirwal Phaltan Karad-I/II Satara-III Ichalkaranji Ichalkarannji-I Ikj-II Ikj-II IKJ-III IKJ-IV  IKJ-V  Sangli Sangli Miraj-I Miraj-II Islampur