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Road to success of e-way bill is likely to be a long and bumpy one

Some of the transporters were not open on April 1, the day the e-way bill was rolled out

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The e-way bill portal collapsed on the very first day of its introduction on February 1, when only 480,000 bills were generated. To avoid a repeat, the load has been increased to 7.5 million this time

Somesh Jha Rudrapur (Uttarakhand)
A journey with a trucker has brought home the point that a road to success of e-way bill is long and bumpy. If one thought that there would be no checking once e-way bill kicks in, he must have been doing a wishful thinking. So far as queues on check posts are concerned, those have no longer been there since July when the goods and services tax (GST) was rolled out.
 
In fact, some of the transporters did not open their shops on April one. Since financial year 2017-18 ended just a day before and April 1 being a

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