Over 1.7 lakh e-way bills generated on launch day; real load test today

NEW DELHI: Over 1.71 lakh inter-state e-way bill have been generated on the day of nationwide launch today, with experts saying that the real test of the portal will be tomorrow.

Beginning today, businesses and transporters have to produce before a GST inspector e-way bill for moving goods worth over Rs 50,000 from one state to another.

A total of 10,96,905 taxpayers have registered on e-way bill portal till date. Further 19,796 transporters, who are not registered under GST, have enrolled themselves on the e-way bill portal, the finance ministry said in a statement.

“1,71,503 e-way bills have been successfully generated on the portal from 00:00 hours till 17:00 hrs of 1st April, 2018,” the Ministry said. (AGENCIES)