GST Council may consider pan-India rollout of biometric-based authentication for registration: CBIC

New Delhi: The GST Council may take up a proposal to make biometric-based Aadhaar authentication mandatory pan-India for suspicious persons, seeking GST registration, CBIC chief Sanjay Kumar Agarwal said on Friday. Currently, two states -- Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh -- and the Union Territory of Puducherry have launched Aadhaar authentication of taxpayers on a pilot basis. "That is giving enc…