GST E-Way Bills: After A Troubled Start, GSTN Readies System To Handle 75 Lakh Transactions Per Day

Two month after postponing the implementation of the e-way bill system due to technological glitches, the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) has prepared the system for issuing 75 lakh e-way bills daily, body’s Chief Executive Officer Prakash Kumar has said in an interview with Mint.

The e-way bill is an electronic documentation tracking the movement of consignments under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.

According to Kumar, the system, which was initially designed to generate 26 lakh e-way bills, has been improved and tested for the number of e-way bills that can be generated per day. The National Informatics Centre, he added, has upgraded its infrastructure to remove technical glitches in the system.

“We have made a lot of changes. NIC (National Informatics Centre) has upgraded the infrastructure. We have tested the system for the number of e-way bills that can be generated. We have prepared the system for 75 lakh e-way bills daily as against 26 lakh before,” he was quoted as saying.

On the roll-out of the e-way bill system, Kumar said that the GSTN has “decided to first start with inter-state e-way bills from 1 April and then move to intra-state later. You cannot estimate intra-state volumes”.

“So that is why we have sought a staggered rollout for intra-state bringing in only 4-5 states in one go,” he told the daily.