Awards presented by
Shri. S.N.Tripathy,IAS, A.S.& Development Commissioner-MSME-GOI, Mr. Savitur Prasad,
AddlCGDA, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of Indiaand Mr. D.K.Sahu, Chief Editor, VARINDIA
CONFED-ITA receives as the INNOVATIVE
IT ASSOCIATION IN INDIA
PCAIT receives as the MOST ACTIVE
IT ASSOCIATION IN INDIA
TAIT receives as the BEST IT
ASSOCIATIONS IN TECHNOLGY
TRANSFORMATION
IT Association Round Table Conference on Advantage GST
VARINDIA along with FAIITA, a
registered association of channel partners
conducted a joint meet of members of
FAIITA 'Conference on Advantage GST' to
discuss key issues and most importantly the
roadmap to the implementation of GST and
the pitfalls that still persist in it. The heads
of different IT associations from across the
country participated in the session that also
aimed to come up to a consensus of how to
take FAIITA ahead by identifying its flaws
and the ways to rectify them.
Sathya Pramod, Chief Financial Officer –
Tally Solutions took to the stage to discuss
on some of the implications of GST with the
partners and also addressed many of their
raging issues. “If you look at the 20 lakhs
limit (initially it was 10 lakhs) that the Govt.
is talking, even the Pani-puriwalla on the
Delhi street would be making that kind of
money. In all earnest that the Government
tries to implement this law, even that guy
needs to be registered under GST. It is a huge
opportunity in the sense that the government
is expected 80 lakhs return in the very first
month. But I think it should be much more
if it is done in the right manner. The entire
law of GST is based on cascading of taxes.
You all know how VAT was implemented
at all levels of value addition that took place
in the entire product cycle. But like everyone
was saying VAT is not a technology law. The
beauty of GST is that it is a technology-led
law. There is nothing that can be done in GST
without technology – right from registration
to cancellation of registration, everything has
to be done through a computer, which is a big
opportunity for both hardware and software
vendors. There is a lot that needs to be done
before getting where the country expects us
to be. Government has said that it will come
out with a rating system for tax payers but
that can be possible only after 2-3 years.”
The discussion further stated that smaller
companies are the ones that are going to
suffer a bit and so correct measures need to
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Mr.Champak Gurjar, President-FAIITA: Mr. Saket kapoor, General Secretary-FAIITA : Mr.B.HARI, Sr.Vice-President-KOLKATA:
Mr. Alok Gupta,President,PCAIT- DELHI : Mr. Naveen Gupta,Secretary,BITA-PATNA: Mr.Arun Nagraj,President,FITDAKKARNATAKA: Mr.Arun Kumar Dey, V.P(East),FAIITA -BHUBANESWAR : Mr.Manish Goyal,President, MPTCTA-NDORE: Mr. I
Murli Venkatakrishna,President- TelenganaIT Association, Mr.Devesh Rastogi,President-Society For Welfare Of IT Dealers,
UP: Mr.Sushil Kumar,President,JCWA-RANCHI: Mr.Shiva Shankar Singh,Vice President,Allahabad IT Association : Mr.R.
Balsubramanyam,President,CONFED-ITA,Tamilnadu: Mr.Kartikeyan Shanmugasundaram, Past President,CONFED-ITATAMILNADU: Mr.Veera Swamy,President- TCCDA- HYDERABAD: Mr. Naveen Gupta, Organising Secretary-Jammu Computer
Dealers Association: Mr.Gourang Vyas,President, FITAG-GUJRAT: Mr.Mahesh Dubey,President, BITOAA-BHOPAL: Mr.Rajesh
Saboo,President,VCMDWA-NAGPUR: Mr.Liju Raju P,President,AKITDA-KERALA: Mr.Kshitij Kotak, Chairman,ASIRT- MUMBAI
: Mr. Rushab Shah,President-TAIT, Mr.R SRIDHAR,President,AIT-Bangaluru: Mr. Senthil Kumar M,President- CONFED-ITA
:Mr.Sugriv Singh Ranawat,President-Rajasthan Computer Traders Association : Mr. Rohit Kohli,President-UP Computer Dealers
Association (UPCDA): Mr.Gurmeet Singh Juneja,President,UITTA,-Uttarakhand; Mr. Shyam Modi,Chairma-ADCTA-DELHI:
Mr.Pawan Agarwal,IP President-North East Computer Traders Association, Delhi; Mr.Sugriv Singh Ranawat, PresidentRajasthan Computer Traders Association (RCTA)
be taken to safeguard their business interests.
GST will indeed play a key role in bringing
transparency into India's indirect tax regime.
But there are certain modifications expected
to the credit policy on both purchase and
sales of raw materials, semi-finished goods,
software and services. It also hinted at the fact
that there would also be a need to implement
robust IT systems and impart staff training
at all levels.
C R Gurjar, President-FAIITA while
congratulating all members for successfully
getting FAIITA as a registered body
threw some light on some of the actions
that should be taken to steer forward
the association’s activities. Firstly he
asked for opening of a bank accounts
and fund collection, as without funds it
would never be possible to run a nationwide association; Secondly, give more
importance to state associations; Thirdly,
writing to different government agencies
of its willingness to work together as an
uniform body so that problems and issues
can be discussed to bring them to a logical
conclusion. “With introduction of GST,
we have the protect the rights of the small
resellers who might get wiped out if their
interests are not me