Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha Monday held a review meeting to take stock of implementation of the GST. The Cabinet Secretary asked secretaries of various departments to give their feedback on the rollout of GST.
Mr. Sinha asked every Secretary to take-up the responsibility of addressing the GST related issues of their respective stakeholders, trade and industry. He asked them to contact and coordinate with the State Government officers of their Department to ensure smooth implementation of GST.
He also asked them to make their GST Cell and Nodal Officers fully equipped to deal with any situation and fully assist their respective stakeholders in post GST situation.
The Cabinet Secretary asked all the departments to ensure that there is no shortage of products and commodities especially consumer items dealt by the respective ministry and department in order to keep the prices under check.
Mr. Sinha asked all the relevant information relating to GST concerning their ministries and departments including GST rates on their respective websites.
Mr Sinha said, each department and ministry should ensure that benefits of GST are passed on to the consumers by traders and retailers.
The Cabinet Secretary asked all the departments that various machines used by dealers, retailers for computerized billing should be calibrated at the earliest as per the new GST rates. He asked this exercise shall be completed in a time bound manner without delay.
Our correspondent reports, it was also decided that a weekly review meeting will be held to keep a close watch on post GST situation. Earlier, the secretaries of different departments updated about the queries received from the traders and other stakeholders after GST roll-out.
The Cabinet Secretary asked them to get more detailed feedback and in depth details from field from their respective stakeholders, officers and consumers at large after GST implementation.
Apart from Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia, the meeting saw participation from about 20 secretaries from key
departments. All the top brass of CBEC were also present in the meeting.