Payment of taxes, fees, duty to be made online
Shillong: The Commissioner of Taxes, Meghalaya, on Wednesday informed that from June 1 onwards, Government Receipt Accounting System (GRAS) will be enabled for payment of taxes, fees, duty which includes professional tax, central sales tax, tax on petrol and diesel, trade tax (vat), Meghalaya passenger and goods tax, electricity duty, entertainment tax, Meghalaya tax on luxury, and fees-archery. The service can be accessed from the website megepayment.gov.in and the link can also be accessed from the Taxation Department website meggst.gov.in. Public can login to the website megepayment.gov.in either directly or by going through the link given in the Taxation Department website.
Congress block unit expresses gratitude to voters
Shillong: On behalf of the North Shillong Block Congress Committee, it would like to thank each and every office bearers of the block and different units for their tiring efforts and hard work to bring more voters to support Congress MP Vincent H. Pala in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha election which led to his grand success.
Workshop on pest management
SHILLONG: A one-day National Workshop on ‘Management of Fall Armyworm in the Maize Production’ was organized jointly by ICAR-RC-NEH Region, Meghalaya and ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research (IIMR), Ludhiana, Punjab, on Tuesday at Umiam. The workshop was organised to address the farmer’s requirement for management of Fall Armyworm (FAW)—a pest that was reported in Meghalaya from West Jaintia Hills in May and covered almost all the districts in very short span of time. Aiban Swer, Director, Meghalaya Basin Development Authority, in his inaugural address, appreciated the initiative of ICAR, Research Complex and IIMR to bring all the stakeholders together in order to create the preparedness to tackle the menace of FAW at the state-level. He also requested state officials, ATMA, KVK scientists, and farmers to work together in ICAR collaboration to tackle the FAW. A technical bulletin on maize production technology in Meghalaya was also released during the workshop.
