The GST council had decided on a staggered rollout of
intra-state e-way bill starting from 15 April with 5
states -- Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana and Kerala.
Thereafter 6 more states -- Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Tripura -- joined in
from 20 April.
Since the roll out of e-way bill for inter-state
movement of goods from 1 April and intra-state from 15
April, more than 1.84 crore such bills have been
generated till Sunday.
Kumar said the maximum number of e-way bills are
generated on the portal in the second half of the day,
particularly between 1600-1900 hours -- accounting for
one-third of the total generation of such bills during
the day.
The maximum number of e-way bills (both inter and intra
state) generated has touched 12 lakh on 21 April.
"So far the e-way bill portal is going on smoothly. The
system has been designed to take load of generation of
75 lakh e-way bills during a day. The system has lot
more capacity to take load that what is being generated
as of date," Kumar said.
Touted as an anti-evasion measure and would help boost
tax collections by clamping down on trade that currently
happens on cash basis, the e-way bill provision of the
goods and services tax (GST) was first introduced on 1
February.
However, its implementation was put on hold after the
system developed glitches in generating permits. With
several states also starting to generate intra-state
e-way bills on the portal, the system developed a snag.
Since then, the platform has been made more robust so
that it can handle load of as many as 75 lakh
inter-state e-way bills daily without any glitch.
Source::: First Post,
dated 23/04/2018.