22/2023-2024

Aizawl the 26th April 2023: Shri Yogendra Garg, Chief Commissioner of CGST, CEX & Customs,Guwahati Zone  and his team met Governor Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati at Raj Bhavan this afternoon.

Shri.Yogendra Garg apprised the Hon'ble Governor his purpose of visiting the State and also reported his findings after his inspection.He then briefed the Governor about the current state of Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in the state. He suggested some measures and improvements are needs to be introduced.

Shri.Yogendra Garg pointed out that the compliance of GST were below the standards in the state, particularly among the local contractors. He insisted that there is still a lack of awareness among large sections of people and benefits of GST, amongst others.

Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati and the Commissioner further discussed the measures needed to be introduced in the state for improving the state GST. In this connection, proper training for GST officials of the state by the central government and conducting more outreach education programme were suggested as the immediate requirements. During this interaction, Export Processing Zones (EPZ),Special Economic zones(SEZ), the need for improving working conditions for employee,measures needed for boosting the productivity of the state and other important topics were also discussed at length.