Ravi Shankar Prasad urges traders to join GST platform

Prasad says India has 6 crore traders but only 85 lakh of them have registered with the GST

Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad addresses a press conference on the achievements of the Ministry during 3 years of NDA Government, in New Delhi
Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jul 18 2017 | 9:42 PM IST
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today urged traders to board the Goods and Services Tax (GST) platform which entered 18th day of it's introduction.

The country has six crore traders but only 85 lakh of them have registered with the GST, Prasad said here at an outreach programme.

The union minister of law and justice and electronic & IT congratulated the opposition for the making GST possible but declined to comment on Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's criticism of the new tax regime.

In the meeting, textiles and small traders expressed apprehension about the GST and Prasad tried to allay their fears.
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First Published: Jul 18 2017 | 9:35 PM IST

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