Capital starts two-week mandatory GST training programme for officers
The Delhi Government’s Trade and Taxes Department has launched a comprehensive two-week training programme for GST officers and employees, running from June 15 to June 26, with three sessions scheduled each day. The training covered everything from the fundamentals of tax administration to investigation techniques and digital tools, in collaboration with the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced on Tuesday.
The Chief Minister said tax administration today extends well beyond revenue collection and has become an integrated system involving technology, law, investigation, analysis, and public service, making regular capacity building essential for officers.
The training programme covers a wide range of subject areas. Participants will receive instruction on the fundamentals of GST, taxation and tax collection, supply of goods and services, time and place of supply, valuation, and classification of goods and services. The curriculum also includes Input Tax Credit, registration, tax invoices, credit and debit notes, returns, the composition scheme, e-way bills, tax payments, assessment, audit, refunds, works contracts, job work, and input service distributors.
Officers will also receive practical training on the GST Network covering return filing, registration, amendments, cancellation, restoration, back-office operations, helpdesk functions, and grievance redressal mechanisms.
Officers will be trained in intelligence gathering, investigations, interrogation, recording statements, examination of witnesses, inspection, search operations, arrests, detention of goods and vehicles, seizure, release procedures, disposal of offences, and the use of digital investigation tools.
Officers will also be familiarised with relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, India’s newer criminal law codes. Additional training will cover the preparation of panchnamas, recording of statements, demand and recovery procedures, drafting of show cause notices, appeals, revisions, advance rulings, case disposal, and procedures for handling matters before the High Court and the Supreme Court.
The Chief Minister said the programme offers officers an important opportunity to familiarise themselves with the latest legal provisions, judicial decisions, technological platforms, and departmental best practices, and urged participants to actively engage in training sessions, case studies, discussions, and practical exercises.
