Centre Designates 22 GSTAT Judicial Members As Vice Presidents For State Benches
Manu Sharma
24 March 2026 6:49 PM IST
The Ministry of Finance has designated Judicial Members of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) as Vice Presidents for State GSTAT Benches across India, in exercise of powers under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.
The Office Order No. 01/2026, dated 23 March 2026 states: “The President of India… is pleased to designate the following Judicial Members of GSTAT as Vice Presidents of their respective state benches.”
Under the order, Vice Presidents have been appointed for multiple State Benches as follows:
- Manoj Shankar - Bihar
- Sanjay Kumar Aggarwal - Delhi
- Rakesh Syal - Haryana
- Ajai Kumar Srivastava - Himachal Pradesh
- Jitendra Kumar Singh - Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh
- Tushar Kanti Satapathy - Jharkhand
- Suman Jain - Punjab and Chandigarh
- Vishesh Sharma - Rajasthan
- Sanjay Kumar Chandaniyavi - Uttar Pradesh
- Naresh Katyal - Uttarakhand
- Satya Gopal Chattopadhyay - West Bengal, Sikkim and Andaman & Nicobar Islands
- Somnath Ganguli - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura
- Bhaskar Reddy Vemireddy - Andhra Pradesh
- Pradeep Kumar Vyas - Chhattisgarh
- Gunvantlal Manchanddas Patel - Gujarat and Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
- H G Nagarathna - Karnataka
- Subramanya Viswanatha Rayap - Kerala and Lakshadweep
- Roopesh Chandra Varshney - Madhya Pradesh
- Rajeev Purushottam Pande - Maharashtra and Goa
- Suchismita Misra - Odisha
- Praveen Kumar Jain - Tamil Nadu and Puducherry
- Sushil Kumar Sharma - Telangana
The designations are based on Section 109(7) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, which deals with the constitution and functioning of the GST Appellate Tribunal, including appointment of members and their roles.