Over 21,000 register for e-way bill

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 19

The GST Network today said taxpayers and transporters have shown an enthusiastic response to the introduction of e-way bill with as many as 21,756 new registrations received by e-way bill portal on Wednesday, the first day of opening registrations.

The number of e-way bills generated on Wednesday by all the registrants together stood at 1.67 lakh.

The implementation of the nationwide e-way bill mechanism under GST regime was assigned by GSTN to the National Informatics Centre (NIC). Separate infrastructure for e-way bills under the new GST regime has been put in place by National Informatics Centre, with a capacity to process 40 lakh e-way bills per day.