Intra-State e-way bills:phase 3 to start Apr. 25

‘Over 1.84 cr. inter-State bills generated’

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council announced the third phase of the roll-out of the e-way bill system for intra-State movement of goods.

The system would become applicable for Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Puducherry from April 25, according to a statement from the Centre on Monday.

While the system is applicable across the country for inter-State transport of goods, it is so far applicable for intra-State transport in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. “Till April 22, 2018, more than 1.84 crore e-way bills have been successfully generated which includes more than 22 lakh e-waybills for the intra-state movement of goods,” the government said in a statement.

‘Single system’

“With the roll-out of the e-way bill system in these States/union territory, it is expected that trade and industry will be further facilitated insofar as the transport of goods is concerned, thereby eventually paving the way for a single e-way bill system,” it added.

Unofficial data showed Gujarat topped the list in the number of such bills generated since April 1, when the system was rolled out across India.