Lok Sabha Question No. 3025 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-15
Subject: e-Way Bill Verification
Ministry: FINANCE
Asked by: Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3025

TO BE ANSWERED ON MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2021/PHALGUNA 24, 1942 (SAKA)

'e-Way Bill Verification'

## 3025. SHRI BHANU PRATAP SINGH VERMA:

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:

- a. the details of e-way bill checking/ verification of goods transport vehicles under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs during the last three years, State-wise;
- b. the amount of revenue received through verification of vehicles during the said period and the  number  of  cases  including  the  amount  involved  for  which  show  cause  notices  were issued;
- c. the number of vehicles owned by the department and the vehicles hired on contract during the last three years and whether all the vehicles are being operated in compliance with all the guidelines  fixed  by  the  Government  of  India/Regional    Transport  Office  along  with  the amount of funds spent on these vehicles; and
- d. the  number  of  vehicles  out  of  the  said  vehicles  deployed  for  e-way  bill  checking  and  the number of commercial vehicles out of the same including the number of vehicles in which GPS system is installed?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR FINANCE

## (SHRI ANURAG THAKUR)

- (a)  &  (b) Sir,  the  details  of  e-way  bill  checking/  verification  of  goods  transport  vehicles  by  formations under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) during the last three years [2017-18 to 2020-21 (Upto February, 2021], State/ UT-wise is as follows:

## [Amount in Rs. Crore]

|   Sr No. | State/UT                          |   Total No. E-way Bill checked |   Total No. of E-way bill fraud detected |   Quantum of evasion detected |   Amount of Tax Recovered |   Amount of Penalty Recovered |   Total No. of SCN(s) issued |   Amount involved in SCN(s) |
|----------|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman & Nicobar Islands         |                              0 |                                        0 |                          0    |                      0    |                          0    |                            0 |                        0    |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh                    |                           3045 |                                        9 |                          0.07 |                      0.07 |                          0.16 |                            5 |                        0.2  |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh                 |                             39 |                                       23 |                          0.09 |                      0.14 |                          0.16 |                            0 |                        0    |
|        4 | Assam                             |                           1851 |                                       51 |                          1.46 |                      0.89 |                          0.86 |                            0 |                        0    |
|        5 | Bihar                             |                           1720 |                                      116 |                          1.5  |                      0.87 |                          1.02 |                           37 |                        3.32 |
|        6 | Chandigarh                        |                              0 |                                        0 |                          0    |                      0    |                          0    |                            0 |                        0    |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh                      |                           3969 |                                      301 |                          4.63 |                      2.45 |                          2.55 |                            0 |                        0    |
|        8 | Daman &Diu and Dadra Nagar Haveli |                           2037 |                                       75 |                          0.26 |                      0.26 |                          0.34 |                            0 |                        0    |
|        9 | Delhi                             |                            708 |                                       44 |                          0.08 |                      0.08 |                          0.29 |                            0 |                        0    |
|       10 | Goa                               |                             91 |                                        1 |                          0.24 |                      0.24 |                          0.24 |                            2 |                        0.24 |
|       11 | Gujarat                           |                         104901 |                                     1438 |                         11.84 |                      9.23 |                         12.13 |                          993 |                       13.52 |
|       12 | Haryana                           |                           3034 |                                      149 |                          1.84 |                      1.61 |                          1.99 |                           52 |                        0.5  |
|       13 | Himachal Pradesh                  |                            883 |                                        1 |                          0    |                      0    |                          0    |                            0 |                        0    |
|       14 | Jammu &Kashmir                    |                            324 |                                        0 |                          0    |                      0    |                          0    |                            0 |                        0    |

|   15 | Jharkhand      |   1475 |   213 |   1.83 |   1.21 |   1.49 |   108 |   2.30 |
|------|----------------|--------|-------|--------|--------|--------|-------|--------|
|   16 | Karnataka      |  63215 |   178 |   5.57 |   5.01 |   2.07 |    20 |   1.51 |
|   17 | Kerala         |   4333 |    90 |   0.74 |   0.16 |   0    |     0 |   0    |
|   18 | Ladakh         |      0 |     0 |   0    |   0    |   0    |     0 |   0    |
|   19 | Lakshadweep    |      0 |     0 |   0    |   0    |   0    |     0 |   0    |
|   20 | Madhya Pradesh |   3414 |   293 |   3.3  |   2.93 |   2.98 |    79 |   1.53 |
|   21 | Maharashtra    |  18184 |   429 |   8.25 |   5.2  |   5.31 |    21 |   2.32 |
|   22 | Manipur        |   1060 |     8 |   0.01 |   0.04 |   0.02 |     0 |   0    |
|   23 | Meghalaya      |    245 |     2 |   0.04 |   0    |   0    |     0 |   0    |
|   24 | Mizoram        |    823 |     9 |   0.03 |   0.01 |   0.03 |     0 |   0    |
|   25 | Nagaland       |   1078 |     2 |   0.03 |   0.03 |   0.04 |     0 |   0    |
|   26 | Odisha         |   4966 |     8 |   0.03 |   0.03 |   0.03 |     1 |   0    |
|   27 | Puducherry     |      0 |     0 |   0    |   0    |   0    |     0 |   0    |
|   28 | Punjab         |   2865 |   166 |   4.84 |   4.7  |   6.08 |    15 |   0.09 |
|   29 | Rajasthan      |  27099 |   622 |   4.61 |   4.45 |   5.36 |   622 |   4.61 |
|   30 | Sikkim         |      0 |     0 |   0    |   0    |   0    |     0 |   0    |
|   31 | Tamil Nadu     |  37734 |   117 |   0.5  |   0.51 |   0.5  |    36 |   0.09 |
|   32 | Telangana      |  26344 |   237 |   1.18 |   0.8  |   1.21 |     0 |   0    |
|   33 | Tripura        |   1134 |    38 |   0.08 |   0.11 |   0.12 |     0 |   0    |
|   34 | Uttar Pradesh  |  16626 |   466 |   7.21 |   3.7  |   4.22 |   404 |  11.22 |
|   35 | Uttarakhand    |    739 |     0 |   0    |   0    |   0    |     0 |   0    |
|   36 | West Bengal    |  17607 |   295 |  16.62 |   6.58 |   3.78 |     3 |   2    |
|   37 | Total          | 351543 |  5381 |  76.85 |  51.31 |  52.98 |  2398 |  43.44 |

- (c) The detail of vehicles owned by Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) and the vehicles hired on contract by CBIC during the last three years is as follows:

## [Amount in Rs. Crore]

| Period                        |   Total No. of Vehicles available CBIC |   Total No. of Department owned Vehicle |   Total No. of Hired/Contracted Vehicle |   Total fund spent on the Vehicles |
|-------------------------------|----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| 2018-19                       |                                   3623 |                                     640 |                                    2983 |                             122.31 |
| 2019-20                       |                                   3927 |                                     640 |                                    3287 |                             144.57 |
| 2020-21 [Upto February, 2021] |                                   3940 |                                     643 |                                    3297 |                             135.87 |

All  the  vehicles  are  being  operated  in  compliance  with  all  the  guidelines  fixed  by  the  Government  of India/Regional Transport Office.

- (d) The detail of vehicles out of the said vehicles deployed for e-way bill checking from time to time and the number of commercial vehicles out of the same including the number of vehicles in which GPS system is installed, is as follows:

| Period                        |   Total number of Vehicles deployed for E-way bill checking |   Number of commercial vehicle |   Number of Vehicles in which GPS is installed |
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| 2018-19                       |                                                         573 |                            450 |                                             49 |
| 2019-20                       |                                                         573 |                            449 |                                             49 |
| 2020-21 [Upto February, 2021] |                                                         555 |                            433 |                                             49 |