<h1>GST implementation: ICoAS to provide costing expertise across departments for efficient execution of projects and schemes.</h1> ICoAS officers were urged to support GST implementation and to be deployed across Ministries to supply costing expertise for cost effective execution of projects and schemes, including pricing, cost reduction, cost benefit analysis and appraisal of capital projects; senior officials linked this role to fiscal consolidation via improved subsidy targeting and reallocation of resources to infrastructure.