Seminar on e-Governance
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 04, 2012:
A training cum workshop on online requisition of declaration forms C, F and H prescribed under the Sales Tax Act, 1956 in e-CST module of VatSoft was held at Nirmala Hotel, Thangal Bazar today.
The workshop was organised by the department of Taxes, Government of Manipur in an attempt to train the officers, dealers and other public.
Mention may be made here that e-governance has been launched in different departments in different states of India including Andhra Pradesh, Tamil nadu, etc.
Among the North Eastern States the e-governance has been started in Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya and recently in Manipur.
The introduction of e-CST will reduce the problems of waiting in long queues, travelling long Districtnces for paying taxes and importantly will save time.
Method of filling the forms was demonstrated during the workshop.
A lively interaction programme, where queries and questions were fielded by the resource persons, marked the training cum workshop programme.
The software for e-CST module is developed by NIC Karnataka and Manipur while the official website is www.
manipurvat.gov.in.
e-CST will come effective from November 1 and the offline issue of forms will be closed on September 30 with a validity period till October 31.