India, Aug. 11 -- A Parliamentary committee on Monday asked the revenue department to "ascertain the ground reality" by taking up with the concerned State Governments on instances of state police, commercial tax departments and highway authorities continuing to operate physical check-posts, causing avoidable inconvenience to the movement of goods.

The standing committee on Finance's 'Action Taken Report' of the revenue department, tabled in the Lok Sabha, emphasised that unauthorised physical check-posts and routine vehicle interceptions defeat the core premise of Goods and Services Tax (GST) as a seamless, barrier-free national market.

The committee pulled up the revenue department for not "explicitly mentioning" whether follow-up acti...