Kerala has urged the Centre to urgently ‘‘re-examine’‘ the changes made in the modalities in the imposition of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on essential commodities such as rice, wheat and pulses pointing out that it will have a negative impact on the family budgets of a vast section of the population.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sought his urgent intervention to ensure that the common man was not put to further hardship at a juncture when high inflation rates were prevailing.
The decision of the 47th meeting of the GST Council is that when commodities such as food grains, flour, pulses and cereals are ''pre-packaged and labelled'', they will become liable for GST.
