The Haryana Government has approved the Excise Policy for the year 2022-23 and the State Government has set a target of collecting revenue of Rs. 9,200 crore. Prior to this, an amount Rs. 6,400 crore was collected last year, which has increased to Rs. 7,938 crore this year.
Besides, tye transit slips have been introduced for better control of inter-state movement of liquor and high-security holograms have also been implemented under track and trace system, under which the companies which produce spurious and illicit liquor will be blacklisted in the state. Flow meters and CCTV cameras have been installed at all distilleries and bottling plants in Haryana. There will also be a facility of QR code system under which transparency in the process will be ensured. The officers of the Excise and Taxation Department will be given special training by organizing camps by the UK Government officials. They will provide training as well as share information on GST monitoring with Excise and Taxation officials. Similarly, artificial intelligence tools will be adopted in GST collection.
Haryana, which is smaller than many states in terms of area and population, has been ranked 5th in the entire country in GST collection. He said that this year GST collection has increased by 16 percent, under which the total GST collection has reached Rs. 35,390 crore as compared to Rs. 30,507 crore which was collected last year. He said that Haryana is moving towards self-reliance, so we have set a target of Rs. 40,000 crore for GST collection.
Deputy Chief Dushyant Chautala said that this year the total collection of SGST has been Rs. 15,115 crore which was earlier Rs. 11, 959 crore. To achieve this feat a team of 12 to 15 officers was constituted by the department which was also successful to a great extent in cracking down on GST evasion.
Further, he informed that it is “our dream to take aviation” towards new heights in Haryana, and in this episode, Airspace and Defense policy has been approved in the Haryana Cabinet meeting. Haryana is one of the primary states where work is being done on the innovation of aerospace defense and in this series permission has been given for the production and manufacturing of aerospace defense. He said that under this a target has been set to attract investment of 1 billion USD.