Government defers compulsory E-way bill application, trial to continue

With the E-way bill generation platform facing technical glitches, the Government on Thursday said it is extending the trial period for e-way bill. However, the government has not clarified how long the trial will run.

"In view of difficulties faced by the trade in generating e-way bill due to initial tech glitches, it has been decided to extend the trial phase for generation of e-way bill, both for inter and intra-State movement of goods. It shall be made compulsory from a date to be announced," said a Governmnet tweet.


E-way bill became mandatory from today (February 1, 2018) but throughout the day there have reports of the platform crashing. Some companies have complained that moving goods had come to a complete standstill.

The trial period of E-way bill had started on January 15.