Flays Centre for holding up state’s GST payment
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, Oct 3
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday demanded more resources for states to facilitate their overall development. He urged the Centre to resolve GST issues at the earliest to ensure that states did not suffer because of delayed release of payments.
Pointing to numerous amendments introduced to the GST Act, the CM said it appeared that the Centre had not thought through the new tax system before implementing it.
Punjab had been repeatedly raising the issue of delayed GST payment with the Centre, but had got nothing except deadlines, he added, flaying the Centre for holding up states’ share under GST.
Addressing a session “Union of States” at India Economic Summit here, and talking informally to mediapersons later, Capt Amarinder expressed concern over the dwindling financial assistance to states from the Centre.
He observed that at one point, the distribution of funds used to be in the ratio of 90:10, which now had gone down drastically. He cited the example of the post-matric scholarship for SC students, which Delhi was earlier sponsoring, but from which the Centre was planning to pull out. The CM said he had taken up this issue with the Centre.
