A day after the Centre deferred February 1 rollout of the e-way bill in the wake of ‘technological glitches’ , transporters urged the Centre to fix all issues before introducing the measure.
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Lakhs of trucks were stranded across the country and many companies and truckers were not aware of the decision.
The e-way bill portal had crashed on Thursday leaving transporters waiting in vain for hours to generate the bills.
Finance Secretary told PTI the measure would be reintroduced in the “next few weeks” after the system was fully ready.
What is e-way bill ?
E-Way Bill is an electronic way bill for movement of goods which can be generated on the e-Way Bill Portal.
Transport of goods of more than Rs 50,000 in value cannot be made by a registered person without an e-way bill.
E-way bill can also be generated or cancelled through SMS.
When an e-way bill is generated a unique e-way bill number (EBN) is allocated and is available to the supplier, recipient, and the transporter.
An ‘e-way bill’ system offers the technological framework to track intra-state as well as inter-state movements of goods of value exceeding Rs 50,000, for sales beyond 10 km in the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.
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