E-way bill limit in Chhattisgarh: notified goods only
Chhattisgarh does not require an e-way bill for every intra-state movement. The requirement attaches to notified categories of goods above ₹50,000, so whether you need one turns on what is in the consignment before it turns on how much it is worth. The position comes from Notification No. F-10-31/2018/CT/V (46) dated 19 June 2018. Chhattisgarh does not require an e-way bill for every intra-state movement. It requires one above ₹50,000 for a notified list of goods, so the first question is whether your goods are on that list, not what the consignment is worth.
Frequently asked questions
What is the e-way bill limit in Chhattisgarh?
It depends on the goods, not only on the value. Chhattisgarh requires an intra-state e-way bill above ₹50,000 for notified categories of goods; movement of anything outside those categories needs no bill at any value. Check the notified list before you check the price.
Do I need an e-way bill for ₹40,000 from Raipur to Bilaspur?
Only if the goods are on Chhattisgarh's notified list, and even then not at this value: ₹40,000 is below ₹50,000. Carry the invoice either way.
What if the same consignment goes from Raipur to Madhya Pradesh instead?
That one needs an e-way bill. Crossing into Madhya Pradesh makes it an inter-state movement, and inter-state movement is tested at ₹50,000 regardless of which state it started in or what that state's own intra-state threshold is. This is the mistake state thresholds cause most often: the state figure is remembered as if it were national, when it only governs movement that never leaves Chhattisgarh.
Which goods are exempt in Chhattisgarh?
Chhattisgarh does not require an e-way bill for every intra-state movement. It requires one above ₹50,000 for a notified list of goods, so the first question is whether your goods are on that list, not what the consignment is worth. The exemption is separate from the value threshold rather than part of it, so the question for an exempt category is what the notification says about that category, not what the consignment is worth. Confirm against the notification before relying on it at a check post.
How many days of validity does a Chhattisgarh consignment get?
Validity is national rather than state-specific, so a bill for goods moving from Raipur to Bilaspur follows the same rule as anywhere else: one day for up to 200 km and one additional day for every 200 km or part of it, counted from generation and expiring at midnight of the day after generation. Over-dimensional cargo, and multimodal shipments with at least one leg by ship, get one day per 20 km. The distance that counts is the PIN-to-PIN distance the portal computes between the dispatch and destination PIN codes — not the road distance the transporter quotes — so a route that looks like two days on the highway can still be billed as three.
What value does Chhattisgarh test — the invoice total or the taxable value?
The consignment value declared on the invoice, bill of supply or delivery challan, including CGST, SGST, IGST and cess. Where one invoice covers both taxable and exempt goods, the exempt line comes out of the figure. For a Chhattisgarh movement the number to compare against the threshold is therefore the document total, not the taxable value alone and not what the goods would fetch if resold — and because it is a document test, it is the figure a check-post officer reads off the paperwork rather than the one in your head.
Does the GST state code matter for a Chhattisgarh consignment?
Chhattisgarh is GST state code 22, the first two digits of every GSTIN issued there. It matters because the code on the supplier's GSTIN has to match the place of supply for the tax split to be right, and a mismatch is one of the things that turns a routine check-post stop into a longer one.