Smooth rollout of e-Way Bill system on April 1

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New Delhi : As per decision of the GST Council, e-Way Bill system became mandatory from April 1, 2018,  for all inter-state movement of goods. The implementation of the nationwide e-Way Bill mechanism under GST regime is being done by GSTN in association with the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and is being run on portal namely https://ewaybillgst.gov.in.

Heralding a paradigm shift in movement of goods from one state to another, trial run for e-way bills under the current GST regime was started on January 16, 2018, for the entire country.

A total of 10,96,905 tax-payers have registered on e-Way Bill Portal till date. Further 19,796 transporters, who are not registered under GST, have enrolled themselves on the e-Way Bill Portal. Altogether 1,71,503 e-waybills were successfully generated on the portal from 00:00 hours till 5 pm on April 1, 2018, according to a PIB release.

To answer queries of tax-payers and transporters, the Central helpdesk of GST has made special arrangements with 100 agents exclusively dedicated to answer queries related to e-way bills.

E-way Bill can be generated through various modes like Web (Online), Android App, SMS, using Bulk Upload Tool and API based site to site integration etc. Consolidated e-way Bill can be generated by transporters for vehicle carrying multiple consignments. Transporters can create multiple Sub-Users and allocate roles to them. This way large transporters can declare their various offices as sub-users.

There is a provision for cancellation of e-way Bill within 24 hours by the person who has generated the e-way Bill. The recipient can also reject the e-way Bill within validity period of e-way bill or 72 hours of generation of the e-way bill by the consignor whichever is earlier.