UP govt favours GST cut on Covid items to facilitate patients: State FM

The panel looked into Covid-19 vaccines, drugs, and medicines for Covid-19 treatment and testing kits for coronavirus detection.

The Uttar Pradesh government is in favour of reduction of GST on Covid-19 essential items and hopes to bring back its tax collections to pre-pandemic levels on the back of improved economic activity, the state’s finance minister Suresh Kumar Khanna said today.

He also said that the state is in full preparedness for any third wave of Covid-19-19 but will never resort to hiking taxes to raise resources for fighting the pandemic.

"The moment experts predicted that a third Covid-19 wave may hit the country, the UP government has started making arrangements for 50 isolation and 50 ICU beds, and