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Bharat Bill Payment Operating Unit inaugurated at GST Suvidha Provider workshop

| | May 29, 2017, at 10:00 pm
New Delhi, May 29 (IBNS): Common Services Centers are proposed to act as a GST Suvidha Provider, Union Minister for Electronics & IT and Law Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad said while inaugurating workshop in New Delhi on Monday.

The workshop will train the top performing Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) and the state level representatives of Common Services Centers (CSC) SPV for enabling implementation of GST scheme especially in rural India through CSC.

CSCs have been identified to facilitate the roll out of GST especially in rural India.

CSCs will help merchants’ registration, filing returns and support them in fulfilling various requirements under GST. They will mobilize, conduct training and create advocacy of GST implementation across the country.

The minister appreciated the efforts of the enterprising VLEs in providing key services to the grassroots.

A VLE is a CSC operator. 

He said, "The Village Level Entrepreneurs are Rapid Action Force for Digital India. I hope they will truly be the harbingers of digital revolution in India and enable us to create digitally and financially inclusive society. India does not want to miss the digital revolution and, in fact, aims to become the leader of the revolution and CSCs will lead us in this endeavor."

He said VLEs are important component of government’s strategy to provide all services at village level and the day is not far off when even private entrepreneurs would approach CSCs for reaching the unreached customers.

Talking about employment potential of the initiative, he said at present 2,50,000 CSCs are employing nearly 10 lakh persons. The number is likely to touch 25 lakh mark in the near future as more services from both private and public sectors are put in their basket.

The Minister said, “GST means one nation, one tax. The GST Suvidha Provider service that is being rolled out today is a big opportunity for VLEs.”

He hoped that the VLEs would rise to the occasion and help the government in reaching out to the merchants.

He said, “CSC is a big army in this country. For the Prime Minister Housing Scheme, the Union government has received 4.5 lakh applications for housing through CSC. I have suggested to Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, that CSCs should do the work of verification of e-Sanad certificates. Apart from this, CSCs will help to provide legal services to the poor.”

He added, “I always say that companies should use the vast network of CSCs. In the Digital era, the role of CSCs is tremendous. Today, two crore people have downloaded BHIM App. CSCs should make it popular in their community. In the digital economy, the demand of CSCs’ services will become tremendous. Every VLEs should train one woman from tribal and backward communities.”

The Minister also inaugurated the Bharat Bill Payment Operating Unit service through CSCs.

Bharat Bill Payment Operating Unit is an authorized operational unit working as per the standards set by BBPS.

BBPOUs will onboard billers, aggregators and payment gateways to handle bill payments through different delivery channels.

While welcoming the participants to the workshop Dinesh Tyagi, CEO, CSC SPV said, “GST is a revolutionary reform in this country. The role of GST Service Provider is to mobilse merchants, advocacy, capacity building and solving the problems through CSCs. GST is a challenging task. This work is on the shoulders of our VLEs. GST is very important as well as a great business for our VLEs. It will also enhance the credibility of VLEs in their community.”

On the occasion, a book on GST was also launched by Minister and other dignitaries.

The event was also attended by Sanjeev Mittal, Joint Secretary-MeitY, Krishnan Dharamarajan, ED- CDFI, Navneet Khurana, Dy Commissioner – GST and Col. Pankaj from GSTN among others.


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