New Delhi: With the approval of the Competent Authority, benches have been officially allotted to the 83 appointed Technical and Judicial Members of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT). This step follows the formal launch of GSTAT by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 24 September 2025, marking a key milestone in strengthening the GST dispute resolution framework in India.
Technical Members (Centre)
The following Technical Members representing the Centre have been allotted benches across various cities –
- Ajay Dixit – Patna
- Alok Chopra – Lucknow
- Amand Shah – Dehradun
- Ashish Varma – Prayagraj
- Bijoy Bihari Mohapatra – Ranchi
- Bijoy Kumar Kar – Kolkata
- Duvvuri Krishna Srinivas – Hyderabad
- Hir Bhagat Negi – Shimla
- J. Michael Kennedy – Mumbai
- Jogiranjan Panigrahi – Guwahati
- Kishori Lal – Rajkot
- M. Mathew Jolly – Coimbatore
- Nirmal Kumar Soren – Pune
- Pradeep Kumar Goel – Chandigarh
- Pramod Kumar – Jammu
- Pramod Kumar Singh – Ahmedabad
- Rajiv Kapoor – Delhi
- Raju Ahuja – Bhopal
- Ram Niwas – Jodhpur
- Ramamoorthi Sriram – Ernakulam
- Ranjan Kumar Sahoo – Cuttack
- Sandeep Kumar – Gurugram
- Satish Kumar Agrawal – Raipur
- Shaik Khader Rahman – Chennai
- Sudha Koka – Bengaluru
- Sungita Sharma – Ghaziabad
- Sunil Kumar Das – Nagpur
- Sunil Kumar Sinha – Jaipur
- Technical Members (State)
- The State-level Technical Members are posted as follows:
- Ananjai Kumar Rai – Varanasi
- Arvind Kumar – Lucknow
- Bhausaheb Vishram Borhade – Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
- David Thomas Alvaris – Mumbai
- Prallhad Shrikrishna Paranjape – Thane
- Vivek Kumar – Agra
Judicial Members
The Judicial Members of GSTAT and their posting locations include:
- A. P. Ravi – Hyderabad
- Ajai Kumar Srivastava – Shimla
- Ajeet Singh – Agra
- Arun Kumar Singal – Delhi
- Atul Madhukar Kurhekar – Mumbai
- Bhaskar Reddy Vemireddy – Vijayawada
- Dharnendra Kumar Rana – Mumbai
- Griesh Kumar Vaish – Chennai
- Gunvantlal Manchanddas Patel – Ahmedabad
- H. G. Nagarathna – Bengaluru
- Hemant Bajaj – Jaipur
- Jaishree Ahuja – Jodhpur
- Jatinder Pal Singh – Chandigarh
- Jitendra Kumar Singh – Jammu
- Mahtab Ahmad – Prayagraj
- Manoj Kumar Sinha – Patna
- Manoj Shankar – Patna
- Narendra Bahadur Yadav – Varanasi
- Narendra Kumar – Lucknow
- Naresh Katyal – Dehradun
- Neelkunth Sahay – Kolkata
- Prabhakaran P. M. – Bengaluru
- Pradeep Kumar Vyas – Raipur
- Pramod Kumar Rai – Rajkot
- Praveen Kumar Jain – Chennai
- Rajeev Purushottam Pande – Nagpur
- Rajesh Jain – Dehradun
- Rajkumar Sharma – Jodhpur
- Rakesh Syal – Gurugram
- Ramesh Nair – Thane
- Roopesh Chandra Varshney – Bhopal
- Sanjay Kumar Aggarwal – Delhi
- Sanjay Kumar Chandhariyavi – Ghaziabad
- Sanjaykumar Dwivedi – Surat
- Santosh Kumar Srivastava – Lucknow
- Satya Gopal Chattopadhyay – Kolkata
- Shailaja Shashikant Sawant – Ahmedabad
- Shridhar Mahadeo Bhosale – Pune
- Somnath Ganguli – Guwahati
- Srikanth Venkatraman – Bengaluru
- Subramanya Viswanatha Rayap – Ernakulam
- Suchismita Misra – Cuttack
- Suman Jain – Jalandhar
- Sunil Kumar Singh – Kolkata
- Sushil Kumar Sharma – Hyderabad
- Tushsar Kanti Satapathy – Ranchi
- Upendra Kumar Singh – Bhopal
- Vimal Kumar Sapra – Hisar
- Vishesh Sharma – Jaipur
Significance of Bench Allotment
The allotment of benches to 83 members of GSTAT is a major step toward operationalizing the tribunal. With members deployed across multiple regions, GSTAT is poised to streamline dispute resolution under the GST regime, improve taxpayer grievance redressal, and enhance efficiency in adjudicating GST-related matters across India.
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