Senior bureaucrat Badri Narain Sharma was on Tuesday appointed as the chairman of the national anti-profiteering authority under the GST regime, according to an official order. Sharma, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, is at present additional secretary in the department of revenue.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved his appointment to the post in the rank and pay of secretary to the GoI , the order by the ministry of personnel said. The Union Cabinet had on November 16 approved setting up of the 5-member authority, mandated to ensure that the benefits of GST rate reduction is passed on to consumers.
As per the structure of the anti-profiteering mechanism in the GST regime, complaints of local nature will be first sent to the state-level screening committee, while those of national level will be marked for the standing committee. If the complaints have merit, the respective committees would refer the cases for further investigation to the Directorate General of Safeguards.