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FM Nirmala Sitharaman busy, GST Council meet pushed back to Saturday

The meeting, which was to be held through a video conferencing, had a single agenda to boost production of electric vehicles

Nirmala Sitharaman
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman | PTI photo

Dilasha Seth New Delhi
The GST Council meeting, which would have taken up the issue of slashing of tax rates for electric vehicles, was on Thursday rescheduled for Saturday.
 
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the chairman of the Council, was busy with the ongoing Parliament session, officials said.  The meeting, which was to be held through a video conferencing, had a single agenda to boost production of electric vehicles (EVs). The agenda included reduction in GST rate from 12 per cent to 5 per cent for electric vehicles and from 18 per cent to 12 per cent for their chargers. It was also

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