Six more states to roll out intra-state e-way bill

New Delhi April 18 (IANS) Six more states -- Bihar Jharkhand Haryana Himachal Pradesh Tripura and Uttarakhand -- will roll out intra-State e-way bills from Friday an official statement said on Wednesday.

With this the total number of states implementing e-way bills for intra-state movement of goods would rise to 12.

Earlier encouraged by the success of its inter-state implementation the e-Way bill system for intra-state movement of goods was implemented for Uttar Pradesh Gujarat Andhra Pradesh Telangana and Kerala from April 15.

In Karnataka it was implemented along with nationwide inter-state implementation on April 1.

"E-way bills are getting generated successfully. Till April 17 more than 1.33 crore e-way bills have been successfully generated which include more than six lakh e-way bills which have been generated for intra-atate movement of goods from April 15 to 17 " the statement said.

"It is hereby informed that e-bay bill system for intra-state movement of goods would be implemented from April 20 in Bihar Jharkhand Haryana Himachal Pradesh Tripura and Uttarakhand " it added.

The government said that with the roll-out of e-way bill system in these states trade and industry is expected to be further facilitated in terms of transport of goods thereby eventually paving the way for a nation-wide single e-way bill system.

Under the GST regime an e-way bill needs to be generated and carried for movement of all goods valued at over Rs 50 000.

--IANS
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