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1.3 crore e-Way Bills generated till yesterday; Six more States going for intra-state option

Published: Apr 18, 2018

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, APRIL 18, 2018: AS per the decision of the GST Council, six more States are scheduled to introduce e-Way Bill system for Intra-State trade from Friday. Such a system has already been introduced in some of the States like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.  E-Way Bills are getting generated successfully and till April 17, 2018 more than one crore thirty three lakh e-Way Bills have been successfully generated which includes more than six lakh e-Way Bills which have been generated for intra-State movement of goods from 15th to 17th of April, 2018.

The States which are going to roll it out from Friday are: Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura and Uttarakhand.
 
With the roll-out of e-Way Bill system in these States, 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 nation-wide single e-Way Bill system. Trade and industry and transporters located in these States may obtain registration/ enrolment on e-Way Bill portal namely https://www.ewaybillgst.gov.in at the earliest without waiting for the last date.