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

New Delhi April 23 (IANS) The central government on Monday said that five more states -- Arunachal Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Meghalaya Sikkim and Puducherry -- will roll out intra-state e-way bills from Wednesday.

According to a Ministry of Finance statement with the latest addition the total number of states implementing e-way bills for intra-state movement of goods will rise to 17.

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 and till April 22 2018 more than 1.84 crore e-Way Bills have been successfully generated which includes more than 22 lakh e-way bills for intra-state movement of goods " the statement said.

The government said that with the roll-out of the 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 nationwide 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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