Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed officials to stick to the implementation timeline of GST rollout by April 1. In a review meeting held on Wednesday evening, Modi told the officials to keep the time line of all aspects of GST preparedness, including the aspects of IT, establishment and infrastructure.
The meeting was attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and top brass of PMO and Finance Ministry.
“In order to ensure that there is no slippage on date of implementation of GST from 1st April, 2017, the Prime Minister reviewed the progress made on various steps needed for the rollout of GST relating to preparation of Model GST laws and rules to be framed, establishment of IT infrastructure for both Centre and States, training of officers of Central and State Governments and outreach for awareness of trade and industry,” said PMO in a statement.
“The Prime Minister directed that all steps must be completed much before 1st April, 2017. The Prime Minister observed that GST Council would need to have intensive meetings to be able to make timely recommendations relating to its mandate provided in Article 279A including making recommendations relating to Model GST laws, GST rates, goods and services that may be subjected to or exempted from GST,” said PMO.