With the purchases made for the world’s largest community kitchen at the Golden Temple coming under various slabs of the new GST since its inception in July 2017, the SGPC had to bear an extra burden of Rs 2 crore till date. Fumed over the Union Government’s insensitive attitude towards “langar sewa” (community kitchen), a socio-religious activity of the Sikhs from the time of the first Sikh Guru, Nanak Dev, SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal has slammed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for giving misleading statements about sparing the community food from the ambit of the GST. The SGPC has sought an appointment with Jaitley to apprise him of the facts and figures. Longowal termed it as an irresponsible behaviour on the part of Jaitley to give vague statements that were far away from reality. “If his statement of GST exemption was true he should issue the notification in this regard. We haven’t received any official communication. We have been paying tax since its implementation. I inte...
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