The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Bhubaneswar Branch celebrated the 68th CA Day here on Saturday coinciding with the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the country.
To make the day a memorable one, various activities and programmes were held here.
The celebrations started with a mini marathon named ‘go green’ organised to and fro the ICAI premises to Kalinga Stadium.
Then, a Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was held in adjacent areas of the institute.
Besides, a blood donation camp in association with the Ama Odisha and a tree plantation programme were also organised.
In the evening, a panel discussion on the GST was held where Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram, MP Dr Prasanna Kumar Patasani, State Finance Minister Sashi Bhusan Behera, MlA Priyadarshi Mishra and MlA CA Saroj Kumar Samal participated as guests.
The Sailotech, a Visakhapatnam-based software company, demonstrated about its new platform named XatTax, which would ensure a GST ready eco-system and provide 100 per cent safe and secured transactions.
Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Odisha Saswat Mishra, IAS, journalist Dillip Satapathy, ICAI Branch Chairman CA Rashmi Ranjan Mishra, Secretary CA Sugyan Kumar Sahoo, for Chairman CA Rajib Sekhar Sahoo and CA Arun Kumar Sabat in the panel discussion.
A nationwide telecast of address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on GST rollout was made live.