CCEA on Wednesday cleared a Rs 2,256 crore IT project Saksham of the Central Board of Excise and Customs, which will help integrate CBEC’s system with the GST network before the rollout in April next year.
The implementation strategy for the project will be to ensure readiness of CBEC’s IT framework by April, 1, 2017, when GST is to be introduced, an official statement read.
“The total project cost involved is Rs 2,256 crore, which will be incurred over seven years,” the statement said, adding that the upgrade of the IT systems will be carried out while keeping the existing taxpayer services running.
Project Saksham will help in implementation of goods and services tax (GST), extension of the Indian Customs Single Window Interface for Facilitating Trade (SWIFT) and other taxpayer-friendly initiatives under Digital India and Ease of Doing Business of CBEC.