Govt to organise workshops on GST across India

The Indian government has taken a decision to organise workshops to make the people aware about Goods and Services Tax (GST). The Centre and states have been organising GST awareness campaigns through workshops all across the country to spread awareness on GST. They are being conducted in a town hall format by the field formations of CBEC.

The Power Point presentations and resource material for the workshop have been provided by National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN), said Santosh Kumar Gangwar, minister of state for finance in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.

All field formations are involved in conducting these workshops, and even though a city-wise record is not maintained, an online portal has been especially created by the Directorate General of Systems, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) for online reporting of awareness campaigns all over India. The website, apart from capturing data of the events held, also provides information to the public on upcoming events (date and place) for their convenience.

A typical GST Awareness workshop is conducted for half a day (about 3 hours). A total of 5,198 workshops have been held till date (28.07.2017) all over India in almost all cities. These workshops were started in a structured manner from last week of March 2017, added Gangwar.

Numerous senior officers of CBEC, Commercial Taxes Department and officers trained by NACIN are conducting these workshops.