SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has been appointed as convenor of reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) for boosting real estate sector under GST regime.
This was stated by the Office of the Goods and Services Tax Council, in an official statement issued non Wednesday.
Sawant was recently appointed by the State as permanent member of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council and attended the 53rd GST Council meeting in Delhi.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, Gujarat Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai and Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal are the members of GoM.
Sawant has been appointed as the permanent member of the GST Council for Goa, replacing Minister Mauvin Godinho, who had been the State representative on the council since 2017.
A communiqué by the Department of Finance on June 14 to the Joint Secretary (Goods & Services Tax Council Secretariat) in New Delhi mentions the CM’s nomination for GST Council.
“The Government of Goa has decided that Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister/Finance Minister shall be the permanent member on GST Council for the State of Goa in term of the clause 2(1) (iii) of the Procedure and Conduct of Business Regulation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council. The CM will be attending all the forthcoming GST Council meetings,” read the order signed by Under Secretary Finance Pranab Bhat.
Godinho represented Goa in his interactions with the GST Council’s chairperson, the Union Finance Minister and other members unlike other states where Finance Ministers are State representatives.
