In Haryana, the Goods and Service Tax (GST) registration of all Government departments will start from July 25.
The Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) of all departments have been directed to get themselves registered under GST, said Chief Secretary DS Dhesi, while presiding over the first meeting of Committee constituted to monitor the implementation of GST.
The State Government has decided to depute Administrative Secretaries on duty to review the implementation of GST in all districts.
Also, 12 sectoral groups have been formed for the implementation of GST which includes banking, financial services and insurance, telecom, information technology, information technology enabled services and e-commerce, travel, tourism, transport and logistics, textiles and handicrafts, auto sector and MSME, services, big infrastructure, drug, pharmaceuticals and food processing, mining, plywood and Brick Kiln Owners (BKOs) and warehousing. Also, officers have been nominated for these sectoral groups.
During the meeting, it was informed that so far 2,07,838 dealers have successfully enrolled under GST migration and by July 31, 100 per cent dealers would be enrolled. For the migration of pending dealers, directions have been issued to Excise and Taxation Officers of all districts.
Apart from this, 16,495 applications have been received for registration and 12,897 have been generated through GSTIN.
In order to sensitise the stakeholders, GST awareness campaigns, refresher training on GST and GSTN modules and seminars were organised in all districts. Besides this, workshop was conducted for all government departments, boards and corporations and seminar was organised for Cabinet Ministers, MlAs, Administrative Secretaries and Heads of Departments.
Those present in the meeting included Additional Chief Secretary, Finance and Planning Department, P Raghavendra Rao, Additional Chief Secretary, Excise and Taxation Department, Sanjeev Kaushal, Excise and Taxation Commissioner Shyamal Misra and other senior officers.